The Hiss was an American five piece
rock
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band
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from
Atlanta
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,
Georgia
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, United States.
Career
Adrian Barrera and Todd Galpin set their sights on Georgia after a lackluster music career in their home state of
Florida
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. They soon met up with Ian Franco, Milton Chapman and Johnny Kral and formed The Hiss. In March 2003 their self-produced
single "Triumph" entered the
UK Singles Chart
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.
They have toured the
U.S.
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and
Europe
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with
Jet,
Oasis and
The White Stripes
The White Stripes were an American rock duo from Detroit formed in 1997. The group consisted of Jack White (songwriter, vocals, guitar, piano, and mandolin) and Meg White (drums and vocals). After releasing several singles and three albums wit ...
. Their sound is comparable to
The Stooges
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,
The Velvet Underground
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and
The Rolling Stones
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. They have released two full-length
studio album
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s. Some enhanced copies of the album have two
music video
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s on them. They are heavily influenced by
surrealism and because of this, might be considered
art rock. They released a new LP ''Chocolate Hearts'', all songs written in Atlanta after their
recording studio in
Florida
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's
Key West area was evacuated because of
hurricane
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s. The band split up in November 2008.
In popular culture
*"Back on the Radio" featured in videogames ''
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
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'' and ''
FlatOut''
*"Clever Kicks" featured in videogames ''
NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup'' and ''
Crash 'n' Burn''
Members
Last formation
*Adrian Barrera:
Guitar
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and
vocals
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*Todd Galpin:
Drums
*Milton Chapman:
Keyboards and
organ
*George Reese:
Bass
Former members
*Ian Franco: Guitar
*Johnny Kral: Bass
*Mahjula Bah-Kamara: Bass
Discography
Albums
*''
Panic Movement'' - 2003 -
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is as of 2013 a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest m ...
*''Chocolate Hearts'' - 2007
Singles
*"Triumph" - 2003 -
UK No. 53
*"Clever Kicks" - 2003 - UK No. 49
*"Back On The Radio" - 2003 - UK No. 65
Others
*The song "Cazzy" was featured in a
psychedelic rock compilation album.
*The song "Back On The Radio" was featured in two
video game
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s: ''
Flatout'' and ''
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
''Tony Hawk's Underground 2'' is a skateboarding video game, the sixth entry in the '' Tony Hawk's'' series after ''Tony Hawk's Underground''. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision on October 4, 2004 in the U.S. for the PlayS ...
''.
*The song "Clever Kicks" was featured in the video games: ''
NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup'' and
NASCAR SimRacing.
*The song "Clever Kicks" was featured in the movie: ''
CATWOMAN
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''.
References
External links
The Hiss on MTV
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Alternative rock groups from Georgia (U.S. state)
American garage rock groups
American garage punk groups
American grunge groups
Indie rock musical groups from Georgia (U.S. state)
Musical groups established in 2001
Musical groups disestablished in 2008
Musical groups from Atlanta
Sanctuary Records artists