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You're Welcome! (Electric Six Album)
''You're Welcome!'' is a double-album by Electric Six with disc one being the band's fifteenth studio album, composed entirely of cover songs (a sequel to their previous covers album ''Mimicry''), and disc two consisting of the live performance given by the band at the Oxford O2 Academy on 22 April 2017. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and self-released directly to the campaign's backers. Production The band launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $30,000 in order to fund the album. It was successful with a total of $77,000 being raised. One specific pledge reward as part of the Kickstarter campaign was to choose a song to be covered on the album. The four songs chosen by fans through this method were "Young Americans" by David Bowie, "Vow" by Garbage, " Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop, "Magic Dance" by David Bowie, "Rasputin" by Boney M., "Seminole Bingo" by Warren Zevon and " Last Night I Had a Dream" by Randy Newman. As stretch goals, the project's backers were giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Six
Electric Six is a six-piece American rock band formed in 1996 in Detroit, Michigan. Their music was described by AllMusic as a combination of garage, disco, punk rock, new wave, and metal. The band achieved recognition in 2003 with the singles "Danger! High Voltage" and "Gay Bar", and have since released 14 studio albums, two rarities albums, and one live album. A live DVD, ''Absolute Treasure'', was released in 2014. The current lineup of the band consists of vocalist Dick Valentine, lead guitarist , keyboardist Tait Nucleus?, rhythm guitarist Da Vé, bassist Rob Lower and drummer Todd Glass. Live drummer Hyperkube Bonanza has filled in for Glass on most tours since 2016. History Formation and the Wildbunch years (1996–2000) The band formed in 1996 and was initially known as The Wildbunch, eventually dropping that name due to pressure from the British group of the same name. Throughout the latter half of the 1990s, they played regularly at the Old Miami and the Gold Dol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |