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Post-rock
Post-rock is a genre of rock music characterized by the use of musical instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using rhythms, harmonies, melodies, timbre, and chord progressions that are not usually found in rock tradition. It is the use of "rock instrumentation" for non-rock purposes....
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Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene. Around 2000 he relocated to New York City and currently resides in Tokyo.
He has released albums of...
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- Jan 18, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Swans
Swans were an American post-punk band active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next...
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- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1997
Stereolab
Stereolab were an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane (guitar/keyboards) and Lætitia Sadier (vocals/keyboards/guitar), both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd. (PiL) are an English musical group formed in 1978 by vocalist John Lydon, guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble.
Rising from the ashes of the pivotal punk rock group the Sex Pistols, PiL branched out to a more experimental...
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- 1978
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1993
Chino Moreno
Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is the lead singer and guitarist in Deftones and Team Sleep.
Moreno was born in Sacramento, California to a Mexican father and a Mexican/Irish/Native American/Chinese...
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- Jun 20, 1973 (age 36 years)
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Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós (English pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡər ˈrɒs/, Icelandic: [ˈsɪːɣʏr ˈrouːs]( listen)) is an Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical, and minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound and lead singer Jónsi Birgisson's...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Aug 1994
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (formerly punctuated Godspeed You Black Emperor! and commonly abbreviated to GYBE) are a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994. They were the first outside act to release their recordings...
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- 1994
A-ha
a-ha is a synthpop/-rock band from Norway, formed in 1982. The group initially rose to fame during the 1980s and has had continued success in the 1990s and 2000s.
a-ha achieved its biggest success with their debut album and single in 1985. Hunting...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten, is a British rock musician and lyricist, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock group Sex Pistols during the 1970s and 2000s, and also as the vocalist of post punk...
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- Jan 31, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Talk Talk
Talk Talk were a British musical group that were active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including; "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in...
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Tortoise
Tortoise is a post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1990.
Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Do Make Say Think
Do Make Say Think is a Canadian instrumental post-rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Their music combines jazz style drums, distorted guitars and wind instruments as well as a prominent use of the bass guitar.
The band formed in 1995 as a recording...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Rachel's
Rachel's is an American band that formed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1991. Former Rodan guitarist, Jason Noble, played music individually and refered to himself as Rachel's but then began collaborating with now core members, violist Christian...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Mew
Mew is a Danish alternative music band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Bassist Johan Wohlert was also a founding member of the band, but left in 2006. Whilst their music may be classified as indie and on...
Add N to
Add N to (X) were a three-piece British band specializing in electronic music performed on analogue synthesizers, formed in London in 1994.
The original band members were Andrew Aveling, Barry Smith (aka Barry 7) and Ann Shenton. Steven Claydon...
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Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2003
Team Sleep
Team Sleep is an American experimental alternative rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno, better known for fronting the Sacramento-based band Deftones.
Team Sleep's music touches on many genres, including dream pop, trip hop, post-hardcore...
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Dou Wei
Dou Wei (simplified Chinese: 窦唯; traditional Chinese: 竇唯; pinyin: Dòu Wéi; born October 14, 1969 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese rock and post-rock musician.
He has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong (born January 3, 1997), born to his ex-wife...
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- Oct 14, 1969 (age 40 years)
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OOIOO
OOIOO (pronounced /ˌoʊˌoʊˌaɪˌoʊˈoʊ/) are an all-female group founded by Boredoms drummer (and sometimes trumpeter and vocalist) Yoshimi P-We.
According to allmusic's Kieran McCarthy "It's next to impossible to describe their sound, because — by...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Archive
Archive are a musical group based in London, England, whose music spans electronica, trip hop and progressive rock.
Archive were formed by Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths in 1994 from the ashes of the UK breakbeat act Genaside II. Together with...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Piano Magic
Piano Magic is a musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England. Their sound has been described as ambient pop, post-rock, indietronica, coldwave, dark wave and ghostrock. While...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López (born September 1, 1975 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is a multi-instrumentalist, writer, film director, songwriter, lead guitarist and producer for the group The Mars Volta, and the former guitarist for the post-hardcore...
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- Sep 1, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Cul de Sac
Cul de Sac are a rock music group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members.
They have been classified by...
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Fly Pan Am
Fly Pan Am, or Le Fly Pan Am, are a Canadian experimental rock band formed in Montreal in 1996. They release their albums through the Montreal-based Constellation Records, producing and collaborating on works with the likes of Godspeed You! Black...
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Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their cinematic, elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1999
Under byen
Under Byen is a Danish band founded in 1995 mainly by Katrine Stochholm and Henriette Sennenvaldt.
Under Byen (Danish for "Below the City") is known for producing their own unorthodox interpretation of rock. They rarely use guitars. Instead their...
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Pram
For other uses, see Pram (disambiguation)
Pram are an experimental band who formed in the Balsall Heath/Moseley area of Birmingham, England in 1990.
Originally from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Rosie Cuckston and Matt Eaton went to school together....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
The American Analog Set
The American Analog Set (sometimes referred to as AmAnSet) is an Austin-based indie rock band. They have released 6 studio albums, on the record labels Emperor Jones and Tiger Style, with their latest (Set Free) on Arts & Crafts.
Formed in 1995, the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Calexico
Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based rock band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while...
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Ratatat
Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer player and producer Evan Mast.
Mike Stroud and Evan Mast first met as Skidmore College students, but they did not work together until they recorded...
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Hope of the States
Hope of the States were an English post rock-influenced indie band from Chichester.
All instruments are as listed in the sleeve notes for the band's second album, Left.
The band formed in 2000, naming themselves after a 1930s paper on the state of...
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Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Aug 30, 2006
Dirty Three
Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis (violin), Mick Turner (electric guitar) and Jim White (drums), originating from Melbourne, Australia. Since the Dirty Three formed in 1992, they have spent a lot of time overseas. Mick...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio (never abbreviated TVotR) is an American band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans through numerous diverse genres, from alternative rock and electro to free jazz and soul. The group has released several EPs...
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- 2001
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Kaki King
Kaki King (born August 24, 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitar player and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
King was born August 24, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia. While King was still a small child, her father encouraged her...
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- Aug 24, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Sofa
Sofa was a Montreal-based band that was active from 1993 to 1997. The group is best remembered for being the first group to release material on post-rock record label Constellation Records; bandmember Ian Ilavsky (later a member of Re: and Thee...
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City of Caterpillar
City of Caterpillar was an American band, from Richmond, Virginia. They released a split with pg. 99, a full length album, and an album-length compilation of their demo and some live tracks.
Their music moves from technical to restrained in a matter...
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Mark Hollis
Mark Hollis (born 4 January 1955 in Tottenham, London, England) is a composer, musician, singer-songwriter. Having achieved considerable success in the 1980s leading the synth pop band Talk Talk, he retired from the music industry after one...
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1955 (age 54 years)
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Isis
Isis is a Los Angeles, California-based band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997. They have borrowed from and helped to evolve a sound pioneered by the likes of Neurosis and Godflesh, creating heavy music consisting of lengthy songs that focus...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
The Go! Team
The Go! Team are an English, Brighton-based sextet. With founder Ian Parton, they have pushed the boundaries of indie rock and garage rock in a unique style, incorporating two drummers and an imitative mixture of 1970s car chase themes, double dutch...
Don Caballero
Don Caballero are a rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are often categorized as math rock, though the band dislikes this label. The group took their name from the character Guy Caballero, portrayed by Joe Flaherty, on the sketch comedy...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Hum
Hum is an alternative rock band from Champaign, Illinois. They have not been consistently active as a recording or touring group since 2000.
The initial line-up of the band formed in 1989, with guitarist Andy Switzky, guitarist Matt Talbott, bassist...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2000
Efterklang
Efterklang is the name of a Danish rock group formed in December 2000.
The name 'Efterklang' comes from the Danish word for remembrance or reverberation. Though it consists of four core members, the group regularly includes three or more members for...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2001
The Mercury Program
The Mercury Program is an American musical group composed of Dave Lebleu on drums, Sander Travisano on bass guitar, Tom Reno on guitar, and Whit Travisano on vibraphone and piano. They are based in Gainesville, FL. The first three members formed a...
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Lætitia Sadier
Lætitia Sadier (born 6 May 1968, sometimes known as Seaya Sadier, or "The Shah" after an Anglophone rendering of the last syllable of her forename) is a French musician best-known as the singer of the influential experimental pop band Stereolab....
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- May 6, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Electrelane
Electrelane were a British alternative rock band, formed in Brighton, England in 1998 by Verity Susman and Emma Gaze. The band comprised Susman, Gaze, Mia Clarke, and Ros Murray. Their music draws from wide range of influences including Neu!,...
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Agalloch
Agalloch is an American metal band formed in 1995 in Portland, Oregon. The band is led by vocalist and guitarist John Haughm and so far have released four limited EPs, three full-length albums, two demos, one split album, and one compilation album....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Oval
Oval is an electronic music group founded in Germany in 1991. The band's original members were Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz, and Frank Metzger, although Oschatz and Metzger left the group in 1995. All three are regarded as pioneers of glitch, a...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Menomena
Menomena (pronounced /mɨˈnɒmɨnə/) is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, made up of Brent Knopf, Justin Harris, and Danny Seim. All members of the band share singing duties and frequently swap instruments while recording....
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Efrim Menuck
Efrim Menuck is a Canadian musician involved in a number of Montreal-based post-rock groups, most notably Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. Menuck is also a frequent record producer, working...
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Instrumental Quarter
Instrumental Quarter is an Italian instrumental post-rock quartet. The quartet's leader, Paride Lanciani, says the members of the group are not permanent members, and he calls the group a "moving group," and that the next record could be recorded...
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Kenna
Kenna Zemedkun (Ge'ez: ኬና ዜሜደኩነ), the Grammy Nominated artist, known professionally as simply Kenna, is an Ethiopian-born American musician. The eldest son of an immigrant family that relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio (and later raised in Virginia Beach...
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Yndi halda
Yndi Halda (pronounced YIN-dee hal-DAR) are a post-rock band from Canterbury, United Kingdom. 'Yndi Halda' is Old Norse for "Enjoy Eternal Bliss", also the name of their self-titled debut. The band's music is characterized by expansive, cinematic...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2001
Pelican
Pelican is a four-piece instrumental band from Chicago, Illinois who have since relocated to Los Angeles. The band is known for its dense combinations of different melodies and extended track lengths. Their distinctive sound draws from stoner rock,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2001
Mono
Mono are a Japanese post-rock band formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto (lead guitar), Yoda (rhythm guitar), Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, piano, glockenspiel), and Yasunori Takada (drum kit, glockenspiel,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Feb 2000
Jón Þór Birgisson
Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson (pronounced [ˈjouːn ˈθouːr ˈpɪrkɪsɔn, ˈjounsɪ] ( listen)) (born April 23, 1975) is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his falsetto...
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- Apr 23, 1975 (age 34 years)
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As Cities Burn
As Cities Burn (often abbreviated as ACB) was a Christian indie rock band[although their earlier material was Post Hardcore]from Mandeville, Louisiana that formed in 2002 and broke up in 2009.
In the late 90's Colin and Cody were in a ska/punk band...
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Margaret Fiedler
Margaret Fiedler McGinnis (born Margaret Fiedler in Chicago, Illinois) is a London-based American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and noted guitarist. She is best-known as a founding member of UK indie groups, Moonshake and Laika and as live...
Mogwai
Mogwai are a Scottish rock band from Glasgow. Formed by Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison in 1995, Mogwai have since become one of the most influential and best known names in post-rock. They typically compose instrumental, sometimes lengthy...
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- 1996
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The Six Parts Seven
The Six Parts Seven was an American post-rock band formerly based in Kent, Ohio. The band was founded in 1995 by brothers Allen and Jay Karpinski (playing guitar and drums, respectively), who had earlier played with Old Hearts Club, a band of...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Dave Krusen
David Krusen (born March 10, 1966 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American musician who is best known for being the original drummer for the American rock band Pearl Jam and for his work on the band's debut album, Ten. Krusen was also a member of the...
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- Mar 10, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Orri Páll Dýrason
Orri Páll Dýrason (born in 4 July 1977) is the drummer for Sigur Rós. He joined the band in 1999, shortly after the recording of the studio album Ágætis byrjun, when the previous drummer, Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson, left the band. He married Lukka...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1977 (age 32 years)
