Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop musical collective formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992. Its members include RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and, until his death in 2004, Ol' Dirty Bastard. Close affiliate Cappadonna later became an official member. They are credited for revitalizing East Coast hip hop and are considered one of the greatest hip hop groups of all time.
She Wants Revenge is an American rock band, based in San Fernando Valley, California. Formed in 2004, the band is a duo of singer and guitarist Justin Warfield and multi-instrumentalist Adam Bravin. Their music has been influenced by post-punk, darkwave and gothic rock. The band has sold more than 300,000 records in the US.
Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2002. The band is composed of guitarist/vocalist Chad Petree, vocalist/bassist/keboardist Carah Faye Charnow, keyboardist/bassist Jeremy Dawson, and drummer Mikey Martin.
Gregori Chad Petree is a musician who is best known as co-lead vocalist and guitarist of American new wave/indie/rock band Shiny Toy Guns. He also contributes music for production libraries such as Killer Tracks.
Carah Faye Charnow is an American singer and songwriter. She is the co-lead vocalist, bassist, and occasional keyboardist of the band Shiny Toy Guns, with whom she received a Grammy nomination. She also fronted the band Versant and has released multiple songs under her own name as a solo artist.
We Are Pilots is the debut studio album by American electronic rock band Shiny Toy Guns. After previously being independently released throughout 2005, it was officially released on October 17, 2006, through Universal Motown in the United States and Mercury Records in the United Kingdom, with liner notes of the album referring to it as "version 3.0". Production, recording, and writing dates back as far as the early 2000s, with several songs being written during founding members Gregori Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson's previous project, Dangerous Insects. Musically, We Are Pilots primarily uses influences of both rock music and electronic music, including elements of alternative rock, indie rock, pop, electropop, post-punk revival and disco, with the band receiving comparisons to The Killers and Franz Ferdinand.
Sisely Dove Treasure is an American singer and dancer, notable for the song "All Around the World" released by Dreamworks Records in July 2003 and appearing in Billboard Magazine's Top 40 Dance charts the same year. "Morning Star", another song off the Punk Debutante album, made top ten on Billboards dance chart. In 2008, she became one of three vocalists for the rock group Shiny Toy Guns. In 2011, she released her solo single, "That You Like." On November 28, a preview video of a new single titled "Million Hands" was released on her official YouTube page. She was born in Long Beach, California and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Justin Evan Warfield is an American musician and hip hop MC. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist of the darkwave duo She Wants Revenge, which formed in 2004.
The LA Weekly Detour Music Festival was a music festival that was held every October in Los Angeles, California. The entire block surrounding Los Angeles City Hall was closed, and three stages were erected for the festival, which lasted from noon to midnight on the day it was held. It was notable for attracting many big-name acts despite its status as a relatively young festival. The festival has been held every October since 2006. The website underwent a large change in July 2008 when the lineup for the third festival was announced. New for the 2008 festival was the BYOB Battle of the Bands competition, which features online voting to pick an unsigned artist to play at the festival in 2008. On August 18, 2009, LA Weekly announced via their website that the festival would not take place in 2009 since it has been put "on hiatus".
"You Are the One" is the second single by rock group Shiny Toy Guns from their album We Are Pilots. This single peaked at #25 on the Alternative Songs chart, at #94 on the UK Singles Chart, and at #23 on the Dance Airplay chart.
Nico Vega is an American indie rock band formed in 2005 in Los Angeles, California, United States. They consist of lead vocalist Aja Volkman, lead guitarist Rich Koehler, drummer Dan Epand, and bassist Michael Peña.
Versant was a Swedish and American band from Vänersborg, Sweden and Newbury Park, California that formed in the summer of 2008. Versant features vocalist Carah Faye Charnow, of the band Shiny Toy Guns, guitarist/keyboardist Daniel Johansson, drummer Richard Ankers, formerly of the band Melody Club, Johan Grettve, and bassist Nicholas Oja. Recently, Versant has announced their relocation from Sweden to California to work on an album.
Mat Devine is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He created and fronted the alternative rock band Kill Hannah. His debut solo album, Gold Blooded, was released in August 2014. He is currently the Head of Music Partnerships at Cameo.
Valleyheart is the third and final studio album from She Wants Revenge. It was first released on 24 May 2011 through their own label Perfect Kiss and Five Seven Music in the United States.
Zsuzsanna Eva Ward is an American singer-songwriter from Roseburg, Oregon. She signed with Hollywood Records to release her debut extended play (EP), Criminal (2012), which preceded the release of her debut studio album, Til the Casket Drops, that same year. Her second studio album, The Storm (2017), peaked atop the Billboard Blues Albums Chart. Her third studio album, Dirty Shine (2023), was released independently, and met with critical acclaim.
III is the third studio album by American indie rock band Shiny Toy Guns. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Five Seven Music. The album features the return of the band's original female vocalist, Carah Faye Charnow. The album spawned three singles: "Waiting Alone", "Fading Listening", and "Somewhere to Hide".
Valleyheart is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge, released February 12, 2013 on Outside Music.
Coyle Girelli is an English recording artist, multi-platinum selling composer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. Formerly frontman of alternative rock bands Your Vegas and The Chevin he released his debut solo album, Love Kills, in 2018. He has written songs for BTS, Daisy the Great, Robin Schulz, Westlife and many others and co-composed songs for the record breaking French musicals Robin des Bois and Les Trois Mousquetaires. His sophomore solo album Funland was released in February 2022 to critical acclaim and his third solo album "Museum Day" released in autumn 2023.
Aja Volkman is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the frontwoman of the indie rock band Nico Vega. She has also released an EP titled Egyptian as a duo with her then husband Dan Reynolds under the moniker Egyptian.
Sabrina Louise Bernstein, better known by her stage name Sizzy Rocket, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. In 2016, she released her debut album, Thrills, and toured the record nationwide as direct support for Kitten. In the same year she started her first independent record label Diet Punk Records, now Lost Chrrry Records. On this new label, Rocket collaborated with The KickDrums to create a punk rock band called Shiny Wet Machine.
