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Crooked Fingers is the name of a band led by former Archers of Loaf lead singer Eric Bachmann. The band releases albums on Merge Records, and tend to have a rotating lineup. Archers of Loaf were an American indie-rock band. ...
Merge Records is an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ...
History Following the breakup of Archers of Loaf in 1998, Bachmann started work on a solo project that he named Crooked Fingers. The first release of this project, a self-titled release of various songs he had written, was put out by Warm Records in 2000. It was followed shortly after by a second album on Warm, Bring on the Snakes, which brought him some attention.
Following the release of Bring on the Snakes, Crooked Fingers signed to Merge Records, who released his Reservoir Songs EP in 2002, an EP of cover songs by artists such as Neil Diamond and Queen. Red Devil Dawn followed this in 2003, his first full-length for Merge. An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ...
In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. ...
Essential Neil Diamond album cover. ...
Queen is a British rock band that came to popularity during the mid-1970s, amassing an enormous worldwide fanbase that continues to exist to this day. ...
Dignity and Shame was released in 2005, a concept album based around the lives of bullfighter Manote and Lope Sino, a Spanish actress. Bull ring (Plaza de Toros) in Málaga (Spain) It is a ritual spectacle that is usually designated in Spain as an art, for others as a sport, as tallies are kept for the purpose of ranking the bullfighters. ...
Crooked Fingers has toured the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, both as a solo act and with a full band. They were featured on National Public Radio's Morning Becomes Eclectic and on NPR's World Cafe in May of 2005. On the 2005 U.S./Canada Tour, Matt Gentling, former member of Archers of Loaf, played the bass. NPR logo NPR redirects here. ...
Sounds Eclectic is a weekly public radio program hosted by Nic Harcourt that plays a variety of music, often by emerging artists. ...
World Cafe is a two-hour long nationally syndicated radio program that originates from WXPN, a non-commercial radio station on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ...
Discography Crooked Fingers has released a number of albums and EPs on different labels.
Albums Crooked Fingers (2000) is the first proper, full-length album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers. ...
Bring on the Snakes (2001) is the second proper, full-length album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers. ...
Red Devil Dawn (2003) is the third proper, album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers. ...
Dignity and Shame (2005) is the fourth proper album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers. ...
Singles and EPs - "Atchafalyan Death Waltz " (7") - Sub Pop Records - 1999
- "Broken Man" (7") - Red Pig - 1999
- Reservoir Songs EP (CD) - Merge Records - 2002
- "Sleep All Summer" (7") - Eastern Fiction - 2005
- "Red Devil Dawn Demo" (CD) - Released 2005
Sub Pop logo Sub Pop is a record label in Seattle, Washington famous for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, and many other bands from the local scene. ...
Reservoir Songs (2002) is the third proper, EP album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers. ...
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