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Failure was an influential American rock band (often also classified as alternative rock and/or space rock) that was active from 1990 to 1997, during which they recorded and released three critically-acclaimed albums. They are often compared to other hard rock bands from that time that were similarly labeled as "alternative", such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, or Bush, but are distinguished by their meticulous attention to textural sonic detail, inventive use of guitar effects and signal processing, and the overall expansive sound design of their later albums. Although mainstream success narrowly eluded them, they still have many dedicated fans, many of whom are fellow musicians and peers within the music industry. Image File history File links FailureBand. ...
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Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ...
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Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
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Slash Records is a record label. ...
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Replicants was a side project of Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards of Failure; Paul DAmour, formerly of Tool, and Chris Pitman. ...
Ken Andrews, of Failure and Year of the Rabbit, released two solo albums under the name of On. The first was released in the year 2000 on Sony Records and is titled Shifting Skin. The second album, Make Believe, was released through the internet CD seller/manufacturer CD Baby. ...
Year of the Rabbit is an alternative rock band comprised of Ken Andrews (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Tim Dow (drums, background vocals), Jeff Garber (lead guitar, background vocals) and Solomon Synder (bass guitar, background vocals). ...
Autolux are a Los Angeles-based trio comprised of Eugene Goreshter (lead vocals, bass), Greg Edwards (guitar, vocals), and Carla Azar (drums, vocals). ...
A Perfect Circle (often referred to as APC) was an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ...
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Enemy is an American band fronted by guitarist and vocalist Troy Van Leeuwen (also of Queens of the Stone Age), with bassist Eddie Nappi (Handsome, Mark Lanegan Band) and drummer Kelli Scott (Failure). ...
Blinker the Star is a Canadian indie rock band, originally from Pembroke, Ontario. ...
Campfire Girls are a rock band from Los Angeles, California. ...
Veruca Salt is an alternative rock group of the 1990s and 2000s. ...
Ken Andrews, born Kenneth Andrew Doty, is an American musician and producer, based out of Los Angeles, California. ...
Troy Van Leeuwen is an American guitarist who currently plays lap steel guitar, electric guitar, keyboards and sometimes bass in Queens of the Stone Age. ...
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Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ...
For space rocks, see asteroid. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
A music critic is someone who reviews music (including printed music, performances and recorded music) and publishes writing on them in books or journals (or on the internet). ...
An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ...
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Soundgarden was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984. ...
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In music texture is the overall quality of sound of a piece, most often indicated by the number of voices in the music and to the relationship between these voices (see below). ...
Guitar effects are electronic devices that modify the tone, pitch, or sound of an electric guitar. ...
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History
Failure was formed in 1990 by Ken Andrews (vocals/guitars) and Greg Edwards (bass/guitar). Andrews and Edwards met one another through classified ads in Los Angeles, and started recording 4-track demos and playing gigs around LA with drummer Robert Gauss. During 1991, the band made some studio recordings with producer Paul Lani (who had previously worked with Enuff Z'nuff) and engineer Randy Pekich; four of the tracks from those sessions were released by the now-defunct label Sweet Smelling Records on a pair of 7-inch vinyl singles, "Pre-Catastrophe" and "Comfort". Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
Ken Andrews, born Kenneth Andrew Doty, is an American musician and producer, based out of Los Angeles, California. ...
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The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping,popping or using a pick. ...
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A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenience playing by a single drummer. ...
Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
Enuff Znuff is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, led by Donnie Vie (guitar, keyboards and vocals) and Chip Znuff (bass and vocals). ...
Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. ...
A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...
In 1992, Failure signed with Slash Records (an LA-based independent label whose releases were manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. in the United States), and went to Minnesota to record their debut album with notorious producer Steve Albini at Pachyderm Studio that summer. Comfort was released in September 1992, and around this same time, they went on their first of several tours with Tool. Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote. ...
Slash Records is a record label. ...
An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ...
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Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Pasadena, California) is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. ...
The Pachyderm Recording Studio, located in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota southeast of the Twin Cities, is one of the most famous recording studios in Minnesota, perhaps second after Princes Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. ...
Comfort was the first studio album by the American space rock band, Failure. ...
Tool is an American rock band, formed during 1990 in Los Angeles, California, that consists of drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. ...
Both the band and Albini were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort, so when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews and Edwards took on the role of producers themselves. Midway through these sessions, Gauss left the band, so Edwards played some drums himself, until a replacement was found in Kellii Scott. Their second album, Magnified, was released in March 1994; a promotional video (the band's first) was made for the single "Undone", but it received little airtime, if any, on any of the traditional music video outlets. Critics took note of the sonic and musical advances achieved on Magnified, and other more well-known musicians also began singing Failure's praises. That year, they again went on tour with Tool, and during Failure's set each night, Tool guitarist Adam Jones came onstage to play rhythm guitar on the Comfort track "Macaque". Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...
Magnified was the second studio album by the American space rock band, Failure. ...
Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...
A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...
Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965 in Park Ridge, Illinois) is a Grammy Award-winning musician, guitarist and visual artist, best known for his work with the band Tool. ...
Rhythm guitar is a guitar that is primarily used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment for a singer or for other instruments in an ensemble. ...
Anxious to build on the momentum afforded to them by the relative success of Magnified, Andrews, Edwards, and Scott began recording again in 1995, this time in a rented home owned by Lita Ford in the hills just outside of LA. With the band again producing themselves, and Andrews handling the lion's share of the engineering himself, the situation allowed the band to take far more time in recording than they ever had before, and follow their instincts as far as they chose without outside interference. As the recordings neared completion, they received word that their label's distribution deal with Warner had expired and would not be renewed. Since Failure was essentially sidelined while the owners of Slash were trying to negotiate a new distribution deal, the band members kept themselves busy with outside projects: Andrews and Edwards (and friends) recorded an album of covers under the name Replicants; Andrews produced albums for Blinker the Star and Molly McGuire (the Kansas City-based rock band, not the LA-based singer-songwriter); Scott did some session work. Meanwhile, the band continued to "unofficially" shop the record to other labels and industry personnel, while hoping that Warner would step up and release the album. In the spring of 1996, Warner did exactly that, agreeing to keep the Slash imprint one last time for Failure, and Fantastic Planet was released that August. Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, a friend and former bandmate of Scott's, joined Failure around the time of the album's release. The album's first single, "Stuck on You" (an ironically catchy mid-tempo track that metaphorically compares love to a nagging tune stuck in one's head), became a minor alternative-radio hit and achieved light to medium rotation on MTV, but failed to chart significantly. Other songs, such as "Saturday Saviour" and "Pitiful", received some airplay from more adventurous-minded DJs, but no more videos were made for any of the album's tracks, and due to the state of disarray at their label at that time, little effort was put into its promotion. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
Lita Ford (born September 19, 1958) is a glam metal singer and guitarist who achieved popularity during the 1980s. ...
The sidelines is a term commonly used to define the white/colored lines which mark the outer-boundaries of a gaming field. ...
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ...
Replicants was a side project of Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards of Failure; Paul DAmour, formerly of Tool, and Chris Pitman. ...
Blinker the Star is a Canadian indie rock band, originally from Pembroke, Ontario. ...
Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ...
The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
Fantastic Planet is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Failure. ...
Troy Van Leeuwen is an American guitarist who currently plays lap steel guitar, electric guitar, keyboards and sometimes bass in Queens of the Stone Age. ...
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In 1997, the band were asked by friends in the industrial rock band God Lives Underwater to contribute a track for a Depeche Mode tribute album that they were assembling; Failure audaciously chose to cover the 1990 hit "Enjoy the Silence", a worldwide smash and Depeche Mode's best-selling and most well-known single. The members of Depeche Mode were reportedly very pleased with the album, and with the Failure track particularly; Andrew Fletcher said that he actually prefers their cover over his band's original version. That summer, Failure also joined the Lollapalooza tour, during what became the last of that tour's travelling years. They were originally playing the side stage, but were promoted to the main stage to fill in for another band who had dropped out of the tour. For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
God Lives Underwater is an industrial techno rock band from rural Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia) formed in 1993 by band members David Reilly and Jeff Turzo. ...
Depeche Mode are an influential electronic band, who formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. ...
A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of a specific artists songs. ...
Enjoy the Silence is Depeche Modes twenty-fourth UK single, released on February 5, 1990, and the second single from the album Violator. ...
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Lollapalooza is an American music festival featuring rock, alternative rock, hip hop, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. ...
On November 19, 1997, Failure officially announced that they had disbanded, citing personal differences. In 2004, although the band had been inactive for many years, Andrews and Edwards got together to collaborate on a CD/DVD set entitled Golden, which collects demos, outtakes, touring footage, both of the band's videos, and other rare material from the band's active period. Another posthumous compilation, a 2-CD set titled Essentials, was assembled for release in 2006; the first disc contains selected tracks from Failure's three studio albums, and the second disc features the first official CD release of all four songs from their two pre-Slash singles, and the complete demos for Magnified. For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Golden is a CD/DVD release by the American space rock band Failure in 2004. ...
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Discography Image File history File links Failure-Comfort. ...
Comfort was the first studio album by the American space rock band, Failure. ...
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Magnified was the second studio album by the American space rock band, Failure. ...
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Fantastic Planet is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Failure. ...
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Golden is a CD/DVD release by the American space rock band Failure in 2004. ...
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Post-Failure projects Ken Andrews has gone on to become a well-known producer, engineer, and mixer, and has been involved in several different music projects. ON (1999-2002) was more or less a solo project, and was not unlike Failure, in terms of songwriting, but the overall sound was more based on electronics, with less emphasis on guitars and the typical heavy rock sound. Year of the Rabbit (2002-2004) saw Andrews' return to the four-piece rock band format, alongside ON's touring drummer, Tim Dow, and former members of National Skyline and Cupcakes; the harder-rocking sound of YotR is much closer to that of Failure, but the band lost momentum and eventually went on indefinite hiatus after their label, Elektra Records, was ostensibly shut down by its parent company. Throughout all of this, Andrews has become increasingly sought-after for his production and mixing skills, and his résumé has expanded to include work on albums by Pete Yorn, Tenacious D, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Mae, among many others. (Also notable is his participation in the production of "You Know My Name", the theme for the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale, performed by ex-Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell.) Currently, Andrews is performing as a solo artist, as well as collaborating in a self-described "digital band" called Los Angeles Digital Noise Academy, whose loose membership also includes Brad Laner (Medicine), Sharky Laguana (Creeper Lagoon), Charlotte Martin (whom Andrews married in 2005), and others. He has also started a label, Dinosaur Fight Records, which has released his solo album and Martin's, and has announced their intention to release the forthcoming LADNA album, as well. Audio mixing is used in sound recording, audio editing and sound systems to balance the relative volume and frequency content of a number of sound sources. ...
Ken Andrews, of Failure and Year of the Rabbit, released two solo albums under the name of On. The first was released in the year 2000 on Sony Records and is titled Shifting Skin. The second album, Make Believe, was released through the internet CD seller/manufacturer CD Baby. ...
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Year of the Rabbit is an alternative rock band comprised of Ken Andrews (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Tim Dow (drums, background vocals), Jeff Garber (lead guitar, background vocals) and Solomon Synder (bass guitar, background vocals). ...
National Skyline was a band formed by Jeff Dimpsey of Hum to perform a 45-minute long song he had written. ...
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, and today operates under Atlantic Records Group. ...
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Tenacious D, or The D as they are known by their fans,[1] is an American rock band duo composed of musician/actors Kyle Gass and Jack Black. ...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC for short) is an American garage rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. ...
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James Bond theme chronology Die Another Day (2002) You Know My Name (2006) You Know My Name, performed by Chris Cornell, is the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. ...
Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ...
Casino Royale (2006) is the 21st film in the James Bond series and the first to star Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond. ...
Soundgarden was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984. ...
Audioslave was an alternative/hard rock supergroup that consisted of the instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass and back-up vocals) and Brad Wilk (drums), together with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) as their lead singer. ...
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the rock bands Soundgarden (1984-1997) and Audioslave (2001-2007). ...
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Creeper Lagoon is a San Francisco indie rock band originally started by Sharky Laguana as a solo project in 1991. ...
Charlotte Martin - Erin Russell Photography Charlotte Ann Martin is an American singer-songwriter, who performs predominantly on the piano. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Greg Edwards formed the band Autolux in 2000 with vocalist/bassist Eugene Goreshter and drummer Carla Azar. Their self-produced, self-released 2001 EP Demonstration brought them to the attention of legendary producer T Bone Burnett, who used his vanity label DMZ to secure them a contract with Sony BMG Music Entertainment and produced their debut album, Future Perfect, which was released in October 2004 to general critical praise. They were hand-picked by Trent Reznor to open for Nine Inch Nails' North American arena tour in the autumn of 2005, playing bottom of the bill before Queens of the Stone Age. In 2006, they collaborated on a few tracks with the British musical outfit UNKLE, the results of which will be heard on UNKLE's forthcoming third album, War Stories, which is currently slated for a July 2007 release. Meanwhile, Autolux are hoping to have their second album completed and released by summer 2007. Autolux are a Los Angeles-based trio comprised of Eugene Goreshter (lead vocals, bass), Greg Edwards (guitar, vocals), and Carla Azar (drums, vocals). ...
Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
Carla Azar is a drummer from Huntsville, Alabama, USA. T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers. ...
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For the VNV Nation album, see Futureperfect For the writing tense, see Future perfect tense Future Perfect is the debut full-length album by Autolux, released September 21, 2004. ...
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. ...
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UNKLE is a British musical outfit founded in 1994 by school friends James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy. ...
War Stories is the third album from UNKLE. The album is slated for release in Japan on June 20, 2007 Europe and the UK on July 9, 2007, followed by a July 24 release date in North America. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
Kellii Scott joined Blinker the Star after Failure's breakup, and then joined Campfire Girls for their 2003 album, Tell Them Hi. As of 2005, he was playing drums for both Veruca Salt and Enemy. Blinker the Star is a Canadian indie rock band, originally from Pembroke, Ontario. ...
Campfire Girls are a rock band from Los Angeles, California. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Veruca Salt is an alternative rock group of the 1990s and 2000s. ...
Enemy is an American band fronted by guitarist and vocalist Troy Van Leeuwen (also of Queens of the Stone Age), with bassist Eddie Nappi (Handsome, Mark Lanegan Band) and drummer Kelli Scott (Failure). ...
Troy Van Leeuwen first resurfaced in the original lineup of A Perfect Circle, appearing on their debut album, Mer De Noms (2000), and on the subsequent tour. During the sessions for their second album, Van Leeuwen was extended an invitation to join Queens of the Stone Age, which he accepted; he does appear on three tracks on the second APC album, Thirteenth Step (2003), but the included cover of Failure's "The Nurse Who Loved Me" is not one of them. He has remained with QotSA since then, first appearing on record with them on their 2005 album, Lullabies to Paralyze. Also, during this time, Van Leeuwen assembled the band Enemy, a vehicle in which he is the frontman and guitarist; their debut album, Hooray for Dark Matter, was released in October 2005. Troy Van Leeuwen is an American guitarist who currently plays lap steel guitar, electric guitar, keyboards and sometimes bass in Queens of the Stone Age. ...
A Perfect Circle (often referred to as APC) was an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ...
Mer de Noms is the first studio album by the alternative rock band A Perfect Circle. ...
This article is about the American rock band. ...
Thirteenth Step is the second studio album by the American rock band A Perfect Circle. ...
Alternate cover Cover of the LP release Lullabies to Paralyze is the fourth Studio Album by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age and was released on March 21, 2005. ...
Enemy is an American band fronted by guitarist and vocalist Troy Van Leeuwen (also of Queens of the Stone Age), with bassist Eddie Nappi (Handsome, Mark Lanegan Band) and drummer Kelli Scott (Failure). ...
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