In January 1983, Graham and Dotson were replaced by guitarist Jim Duckworth (formerly of Tav Falco’s Panther Burns ) and drummer Dee Pop (formerly of the New York band Bush Tetras ). A spare recording session, originally booked for another band, led to the impromptu recording of the Death Party…
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The last release with Oily Records was “One Day” in 1983.
The new album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), included the late 1983 hit ” Union of the Snake ” (with the soprano saxophone solo by Andy Hamilton ). With “Hungry Like the Wolf”, “Rio”, “Save a Prayer” and “Is There Something I Should Know?”, Duran Duran now had five…
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Guitarist and founding member Rick Miller grew up dividing his time between his father’s home and business in Henderson, North Carolina and his mother’s home in southern California. Miller completed an art degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill . The first incarnation of Southern Culture on…
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Influences on Arcade Fire included David Bowie , Talking Heads , Bruce Springsteen , Roxy Music , Radiohead , and U2 . Both the band and their longtime orchestral arranger, Owen Pallett , have drawn inspiration from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ‘s album Dazzle Ships (1983).
The Grapes of Wrath were formed in Kelowna , British Columbia , in 1983 by Chris Hooper, Tom Hooper, and Kevin Kane. All three had been members of the short-lived punk rock band Kill Pigs. They came up with the new band name after looking at a movie guide, though…
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‘Til Tuesday first gained fame six months after its formation when it won Boston ‘s WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 1983. Their original composition ” Love in a Vacuum ” (credited to all members of the group) received a fair amount of airplay on the station, and the group…
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Beginning at a pub show for a no-show band, Soda performed constantly; at their third show, Horacio Martinez, a historic Argentine rock producer and “talent hunter”, heard them and invited them to record for CBS Records .
By 1983, the members of Hüsker Dü wanted to create music outside of the confines and restrictions of hardcore. In an interview with Matter in 1983, Mould told interviewer Steve Albini , “We’re going to try to do something bigger than anything like rock & roll and the whole puny…
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The next album, Over the Edge , issued in 1983 by Trap via Brain Eater Records, was the first Wipers record to gain significant modern rock airplay. It was led by the song, “Romeo”, which had already been released the previous year as a 7″ single by Trap. The band…
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