12 Rounds is a band featuring Atticus Ross and Claudia Sarne. 12 Round's music is a cross between trip-hop and alternative rock. Atticus Ross contributed drums and programming to the trip-hop outfit 12 Rounds. ... Jump to: navigation, search Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by British dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of Englands hip hop and house scenes. ... Jump to: navigation, search The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...

Under the name 12 Rounds With Jesus, a demo of their song Holed appeared on a promotional cassette, titled Past Forward, for the NME magazine. The band, under the shorter name 12 Rounds, would go on to record their debut LP, Jitter Juice (1996), for Polydor. A label from which they were ultimately dropped, during which time original member Kirk Hellie would also leave and eventually go on to start his own project Spectacularly Ugly Music. They went on to spend the summer of 1997 recording an album's worth of material in their basement studio. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails would hear the material and sign them to his label, Nothing Records, on which they released their LP, My Big Hero (1998). The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ... See also: 1995 in music, other events of 1996, 1997 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 16 - Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffetts seaplane, mistaking it for a drug traffickers plane. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search Trent Reznor during The Fragile era. ... Jump to: navigation, search With Teeth album cover Nine Inch Nails (colloquially known as NIN) is a critically and commercially successful American band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor. ... Nothing Records is a vanity label founded by Trent Reznor and John Malm, Jr. ... See also: 1997 in music, other events of 1998, 1999 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events February 15 - Sir Edward Elgars unfinished third symphony, completed by Anthony Payne is performed for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall. ...

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Official website