Garret Lee
Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including the Cars, U2, R.E.M., the Killers, Robbie Williams, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club, AFI (band), AFI, the Hives, Weezer, One Direction, Silversun Pickups, Editors (band), Editors, Modest Mouse, Lonnie Holley, and Taylor Swift. Biography Lee started as a guitarist for the Dublin garage/punk band Compulsion (band), Compulsion, formerly Thee Amazing Colossal Men then pursued a solo career in the field of electronica after the band's break-up. His first solo work, the EP ''A Dog Named Snuggles'', was released under the name ''Jacknife Lee'' in 1998 by Pussyfoot Records, a label founded by Howie B. Lee released his first album, ''Muy Rico'', in 1998. His second album ''Punk Rock High Roller'' was released in 2001 by Palm Pictures. ''To Hell With You I'll Make My Own People'' was recorded as ''Jack Planck'' for the One Little Indian Records, One Little Indian lab ...
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The Cars
The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek ( rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes (keyboards), and David Robinson ( drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader. The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Robert Palmer, music critic for ''The New York Times'' and ''Rolling Stone'', described the Cars' musical style: "They have taken some important but disparate contemporary trends—punk minimalism, the labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend."Palmer, Robert. "Pop: Cars Merge Styles" ''The New York Times'' August 9, 1978: C17 T ...
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