There are at least five bands called Versus: 1) New York City indie rock favorites Versus evolved from the remnants of Flower, a band led by singer/guitarist Richard Baluyut. In the final months of Flower's existence, the group was joined by vocalist/guitarist Fontaine Toups, who remained with Baluyut in the short-lived Saturnine before the duo formed Versus (borrowing the name from an LP by Mission of Burma) with Baluyut's brother, Ed.
Leeland is a Christian pop and rock band hailing from Baytown, TX. The lead singer, Leeland Mooring, was only 17 during the recording of their debut album. Even though their songs have strong Christian lyrics, their melodically-driven sound also holds appeal for those who don't share their faith. Band members
* Leeland Mooring - Lead vocal, guitars
* Jake Holtz - Bass
* Jack Mooring - Backing vocal, keyboard
* Mike Smith - Drums Former Band members
This Town Needs Guns is a math-indie-rock band originating from Oxford, United Kingdom. They were formed in 2006, and are currently signed to the Big Scary Monsters Recording Company (UK), Sargent House (USA), Rallye (Japan), and Yellow Ghost Records (Australia). Over the years the band's musical style has progressed and changed, although the focal point of their style has been the impressive guitar work of Tim Collis interspersed with solid, and at points highly complex, drumming and sparse, melodic bass.
British quartet Addict's roots go back to childhood friends Mark Aston and James Denham. With Aston singing lead and Denham on bass, the two went through a succession of bands in their hometown of Cambridge. Relocating to London in the early '90s, they added Danish-born guitarist Nikolaj Juel and completed Addict's lineup when drummer Luke Bullen joined in 1995. The band signed to Big Cat/V2 late the following year after tightening up as a live unit. In early 1997, there was the release of a limited-edition EP, which was well-received by the press and earned comparisons to Radiohead.
Ghost Outfit refers to two bands. One is an experimental rock group from around Manchester, England. They formed in their first incarnation in 2006 and sporadically played a few gigs and recorded under different names, until the lineup solidified in 2009. They recorded the Forest Shout EP in September 2009 as a four-piece, and played a few gigs until their guitarist quit. In April 2010 their bassist left the group, and they are now working as a two-piece.
Michael Joseph Keneally (Born December 20, 1961) is an American musician.
Born in Long Island, New York, he moved to San Diego, California at an early age and has been a fixture on the local music scene there since 1985 when he formed the local cult band, Drop Control.
Although a well established musician in his own right, Keneally is probably most well known as former Frank Zappa "stunt guitarist" and a Zappa 1988 tour band member.
One night in a bar in Melbourne I found Dougy, born of Indonesian decent and bearing the trans-atlantic accent of a kid who grew up all over the world, but this isnt some fairytale connection story. He was looking to start a band and thought I looked like a muso. But I wasnt interested in joining another band, so I palmed him off to a friend and thought I was done with it. But you cant fight fate, and I kept running into Dougy around the city, he continued to ask me "Hey, do you want to start a band?".
Hardcore Wednesdays are a unsigned up and coming rock group from West Lothian in Scotland. Definition of Hardcore: An intractable core or nucleus of a society, especially one that is stubbornly resistant to improvement or change.
The Hardcore Wednesdays formed around the tail end of 2008. We had originally set out with little experience playing our instruments. Only jamming away with 4 acoustics. Our lyricist Hardcore Kenny would pen the lyrics. We have since formed into a proper band with one of the guitarists picking up the drums and the other picking up the bass.
Taking cues from Les Savy Fav and the Dismemberment Plan, St. Louis' So Many Dynamos formed in late 2002 and includes Ryan Wasoba (guitar/vocals), Aaron Stovall (keyboard/vocals), Griffin Kay (guitar/vocals), and Clayton Kunstel (drums). Following an EP on Ambivalent Records in summer 2003, So Many Dynamos released its debut full-length, When I Explode (mixed by the Dismemberment Plan's Jason Caddell), in 2004 on Skrocki Records.
McKisko is the name used by Australian singer-songwriter Helen Franzmann. Her first album, 'Glorio' was released in 2009 to national acclaim. She received the Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship for song writing in 2009. She has played with jose gonzales, bon iver, tom cooney and juana molina.