The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons in Manchester in 1989. They were pioneers in bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture. Debut album Exit Planet Dust (1995) has sold a million copies worldwide. After attracting Virgin Records,the duo achieved further success with second album Dig Your Own Hole (1997),which topped the UK charts. In the UK,they have had six No. 1 albums and 13 top-20 singles,including two chart-toppers.
Enter Shikari are a British rock band formed in St Albans,Hertfordshire,England in 1999 by bassist Chris Batten,lead vocalist and keyboardist Rou Reynolds,and drummer Rob Rolfe. In 2003,guitarist Rory Clewlow joined the band to complete its current line-up,and it adopted its current name. In 2006,they performed to a growing fanbase at Download Festival as well as a sold-out concert at the London Astoria. Their debut studio album,Take to the Skies,was released in 2007 and reached number 4 in the Official UK Album Chart,and has since been certified gold in the UK. Their second,Common Dreads,was released in 2009 and debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number 16;while their third,A Flash Flood of Colour,was released in 2012 and debuted on the chart at number 4. Both have since been certified silver in the UK. The band spent a considerable amount of time supporting the latter release through the A Flash Flood of Colour World Tour,before beginning work on a fourth studio album,The Mindsweep,which was released in 2015. Their fifth studio album The Spark was released in 2017. Their sixth album Nothing Is True &Everything Is Possible was released in April 2020.
"Hounds of Love" is a song written,produced and performed by English art rock singer Kate Bush. It is the title track and the third single released from her No. 1 studio album Hounds of Love. The single was released on 24 February 1986,and reached No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart.
"Just" is a single by the English alternative rock band Radiohead,released on 7 August 1995. It is the seventh track on their second album,The Bends (1995). In 2007,NME named "Just" 34th on its list of the "Greatest Indie Anthems Ever". In 2008,it was included in Radiohead:The Best Of. The English producer Mark Ronson released a cover version in February 2008,the fourth single from his album Version.
Hot Chip are an English synthpop band formed in London in 1995. The group consists of multi-instrumentalists Alexis Taylor,Joe Goddard,Al Doyle,Owen Clarke,and Felix Martin. They are occasionally joined by former member Rob Smoughton for live performances and studio recordings. The group primarily produces music in the synth-pop and alternative dance genres,drawing influences from house and disco.
You See Colours is the second studio album by British rock band Delays,released on 6 March 2006 through Rough Trade Records. The band released their debut studio album Faded Seaside Glamour in early 2004;by the year's end,they had composed 40 songs for its follow-up. Because the band's keyboardist Aaron Gilbert lost the only copies of their demos,lead singer Greg Gilbert decided to let the other members contribute to the writing. You See Colours was recorded at studios Real World,Rockfield,and Dustsucker Sound with producer Graham Sutton. Focusing on indie rock and pop songs,You See Colours spotlights Gilbert's vocals.
Cansei de Ser Sexy is the first full-length album by Brazilian indie rock band CSS. It was released on October 9,2005 by Trama in Brazil,where it reportedly sold 5,000 copies and failed to chart. It was released in the United States on July 11,2006 on the Sub Pop label,and in the United Kingdom on January 22,2007 by Sire Records. A limited edition version of the album included a CD-R. The purpose of this was that the buyer could burn a copy of the album onto the CD-R to give to someone else as a gift,paying homage to the effects of digital technology upon the dissemination and popularization of music.
"Knights of Cydonia" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse and is the closing track on their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations. The song's title refers to the Cydonia region of Mars,which gained public attention from the illusion of a rock formation which looked similar to a human face.
"Club Foot" is a song by English indie rock band Kasabian,featured on their 2004 debut album,Kasabian. It was released on 10 May 2004 in the UK. The video of this song,directed by W.I.Z.,is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression of Czechoslovakia. The video also refers to the Soviet government's intervention in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on a banner showing the text in Hungarian,which translates as "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty". The scene with the inspector girl who stands before the tank harks back to the young man who stood in front of the line of tanks in 1989 in Tiananmen Square,which itself has become an icon for resistance.
Ciano is the third album from rock band Brazilian Fresno,released on 2006,through the label of Terapia Records.
"Banquet" is a song from British band Bloc Party's debut album Silent Alarm. Originally released on a double A-side single along with "Staying Fat" in May 2004 by Moshi Moshi Records,it was re-released as a regular single in the United Kingdom by Wichita Recordings on 25 April 2005. It was their first single to chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks where it came in at number 34,and is often credited as their breakthrough single in North America. It was also featured in the song "Bloc Party" on the Fort Minor Mixtape:We Major. It was ranked No. 31 in NME's top 100 tracks of the decade,and was number 54 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of all time. It peaked at No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2011,NME placed it at number 20 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". The song was featured in the 2018/19 video game Life Is Strange 2.
"Standing in the Way of Control" is a single by American indie rock band Gossip from the album of the same name. The remix by Le Tigre was released in 2005,the original was then released as a single in 2006,and was re-released again on February 26,2007. The 2006 issue had climbed up to number 13 on the UK Singles Chart in early 2007 on download sales,but the 2007 re-release was under a new catalogue number,meaning that their six-place climb to number seven on March 4 was listed as a new entry rather than as a climber. But it reached the top spot in the UK Indie Chart for one week.
"Alala" is the second international single by Brazilian indie electroclash band CSS,taken from their debut album Cansei de Ser Sexy.
"Charmer" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon,and is the third single released from their 2007 album Because of the Times. It is the second track on the album.
Does It Offend You,Yeah? are a British dance-punk band from Reading,Berkshire. They played what was to be their final show on 12 December 2015 at the Electric Ballroom,Camden Town. In September 2021,they announced a new album,titled We Do Our Own Stunts.
The two volumes of Uneasy Listening are compilation albums by Finnish band HIM,initially issued separately,and then together.
"Dog Days Are Over" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine from their debut album Lungs (2009). It was originally scheduled for release on 24 November 2008 through Moshi Moshi Records in the UK as the album's second single,but was later pushed back for release on 1 December 2008. A day later on 2 December 2008 the single was released in download and seven-inch vinyl format through IAMSOUND Records in the US. The B-side to the single is a cover of "You Got the Love" by The Source featuring Candi Staton which later was confirmed as a track on their debut album and the band's fifth single. The single reached the top 30 in Canada,Ireland,the United Kingdom,and the United States.
"Dominos" is the first single from The Big Pink's debut album A Brief History of Love. "Dominos" was released as a digital download and on 7" vinyl on September 7,2009,a week before the release of the album. The song was co-produced by the band and record producer Paul Epworth,and mixed by Rich Costey. In their native United Kingdom,the song peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #27 and #10 on the Irish Singles Chart in the Republic of Ireland. The single's B-side,"She's No Sense",features vocals from Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine.
"On Melancholy Hill" is the third single from British virtual band Gorillaz's third studio album,Plastic Beach. The single was released on 12 June 2010.
Let the Road is the debut studio album by English pop band Rixton released on 3 March 2015. The album was released via School Boy Records,Giant Little Man,Mad Love Records and Interscope Records. It was preceded by the release of the UK number-one hit single "Me and My Broken Heart",as well as the second international single,"Wait on Me". The album debuted and peaked at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 32 on the US Billboard 200.
