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The Blood Brothers was an experimental post-hardcore/art punk band formed in the Eastside suburbs of Seattle, Washington, USA in 1997. They officially broke up in October 2007 after ten years of being fully active. A blood brother is a male who swears loyalty to another male. ...
Download high resolution version (600x904, 131 KB)The two singers from the Blood Brothers performing live. ...
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Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ...
Art punk is a music genre that is artistic, experimental and avant garde in nature. ...
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Neon Blonde (Dim Mak Records) is a musical group consisting of Johnny Whitney and Mark Gajadhar from The Blood Brothers. ...
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Jaguar Love is a new musical group consisting of Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato from The Blood Brothers and Jason Clark from Pretty Girls Make Graves. ...
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Morgan Henderson was the final bassist for the post hardcore band The Blood Brothers. ...
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Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ...
Art punk is a music genre that is artistic, experimental and avant garde in nature. ...
The Eastside is to the right (east) of Lake Washington. ...
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For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
Origins
Vocalists Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney and drummer Mark Gajadhar formed the band from a previous musical endeavour they were involved with when they were 15 years old. Joining with bassist Morgan Henderson and guitarist Devin Welch the following year, the Blood Brothers was born in August 1997. The band recorded their first 7" record for $200 in a basement the following year. After replacing Welch with guitarist Votolato (who is a year younger than the rest of the band), the current lineup was complete. The band left on their first tour immediately after Votolato graduated from high school.[1] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Johnny Whitney is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Seattle, most well-known for being a vocalist in the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers. ...
Morgan Henderson was the final bassist for the post hardcore band The Blood Brothers. ...
Hiatus and Breakup Music website Punknews.org reported that the band was going on hiatus, though they had initially reported the situation as a breakup.[2] The news story linked to a forum post by Three One G owner Justin Pearson, who was replying to a post about the breakup of Some Girls. He only stated "the blood bros broke up." This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
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Rumors of the disbandment can be traced as far back as July.[3]
The Blood Brothers were expected to make an announcement about their future in early 2008, but instead officially announced the breakup on November 8, 2007: is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| “ | Dear Friends,
After 10 years of making music as The Blood Brothers, we have made the collective decision that our time together has come to an end. We feel extremely fortunate to have spent such a deeply memorable and amazing part of our lives with each other. At this point, however, we feel it's best that our futures move forward on separate paths. We'd like to express our sincerest thanks and gratitude to all the bands we've played with, individuals who have helped us make our records, and fans who have come to our shows and picked up our music throughout the years. Your friendship, support and love hold such a profoundly special place in each of our hearts. We hope that the memories you attach to our music are as fond as those you have given us. Thank you and take care, we'll miss all of you.
Love,
The Blood Brothers[4]
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Style The band has been described as experimental, punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore, among many others, although their true style is a combination of several genres and is harder to pin down. In small circle discussions, the band related that they have influences from the No Wave punk scene of the 1980's. The band makes wide use of post-hardcore vocal styles (such as rapid shifts from singing to high-pitched screaming) and instrumentation (such as abrupt changes in meter and nonstandard chords). The style of guitar playing showcased by Votolato has greatly changed over time, most notably between the heavy, discordant sound of ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn and the minimalist lead lines of Crimes, where the energy of the drums and vocals tends to make up for the lack of thick distortion [1]. Whitney's voice is generally accepted to have evolved from the slurred, venomous drawl on This Adultery Is Ripe to the high-pitched squeals ("like a child being tortured [2]") heard on Crimes, while Blilie's voice has grown more distinctive while maintaining the same low, robust ferocity. The band has cited Botch, Drive Like Jehu, Gang of Four, Angel Hair, Highway 61, True North, and Bootsy Collins among others as influences. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Hardcore punk, now commonly known as hardcore, is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ...
Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ...
No Wave was a short-lived but influential music and art scene that thrived briefly in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk scene there. ...
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn is an album by The Blood Brothers. ...
Botch was a mathcore band from Tacoma, Washington, that formed in 1993 and disbanded in 2002. ...
Drive Like Jehu were an American post-punk/post-hardcore band led by Rick Froberg and John Reis, formed in 1990 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 1995. ...
Gang of Four is an English post-punk group from Leeds. ...
William Bootsy Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a pioneering funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. ...
The Blood Brothers' last album, Young Machetes, was released on October 10, 2006, with Fugazi member Guy Picciotto co-producing it. The band told Alternative Press magazine that of the fifteen songs on Young Machetes, "six of them harken back to our first two records; they're a lot more chaotic and frenetic." Young Machetes is an album by The Blood Brothers which was released October 10, 2006. ...
Fugazi may refer to: an Italian slang term for something that is fake/not authentic. ...
Guy Picciotto (born September 17, 1965) is an American musician from Washington, DC. He is most widely known for his roles as the guitarist and vocalist for the groups Fugazi, and Rites of Spring. ...
Other Projects Several members of the band have been or are currently involved in other projects, including (but not exclusive to) the following: - Johnny Whitney and Mark Gajadhar released an album under the name Neon Blonde shortly before the release of Crimes. An EP was also released earlier in 2005.
- Along with members of The Locust and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jordan Blilie and Cody Votolato formed Head Wound City shortly after the release of Crimes and released a self-titled EP.
- In 2007, Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato joined with Jay Clark (formerly of Pretty Girls Make Graves) to start Jaguar Love. To date, the band has only released a few tracks for streaming on their MySpace page. The tracks can also be purchased at the Crystal City Clothing website.
- Johnny Whitney, along with his wife Amy Carlsen, started a clothing company called Crystal City Clothing. To date, they have produced shirts for Panic! at the Disco, Thursday, and Rocky Votolato. They have also done the majority of merch designs for The Blood Brothers in the past several years.
Neon Blonde (Dim Mak Records) is a musical group consisting of Johnny Whitney and Mark Gajadhar from The Blood Brothers. ...
For other uses, see Locust (disambiguation). ...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy Award-nominated New York City-based rock band. ...
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Pretty Girls Make Graves was an indie rock band, formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths song of the same name[1] (which came from a Jack Kerouac quote). ...
Jaguar Love is a new musical group consisting of Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato from The Blood Brothers and Jason Clark from Pretty Girls Make Graves. ...
Panic! at the Disco is an alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
Thursday is an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that has released four full-length albums. ...
Rocky Votolato was born in rural Texas in 1978, though was raised in the Pacific Northwest. ...
Final Lineup This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...
Morgan Henderson was the final bassist for the post hardcore band The Blood Brothers. ...
A sunburst-colored Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ...
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In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...
Cody Votolato is a musician from Seattle, Washington, most well-known for being the guitarist in the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers. ...
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Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...
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Johnny Whitney is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Seattle, most well-known for being a vocalist in the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers. ...
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Former Members Rumors Laid Waste is an EP by The Blood Brothers. ...
This Adultery Is Ripe is the first album by The Blood Brothers. ...
Discography
Albums This Adultery Is Ripe is the first album by The Blood Brothers. ...
March on Electric Children is the second album by The Blood Brothers. ...
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn is an album by The Blood Brothers. ...
Young Machetes is an album by The Blood Brothers which was released October 10, 2006. ...
EPs Rumors Laid Waste is an EP by The Blood Brothers. ...
Jordan Blilie (left) and Johnny Whitney, the Blood Brothers dual vocalists The Blood Brothers are a rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1997. ...
Singles - "Ambulance vs. Ambulance" (2003)
- "Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck" (2004)
- "Laser Life" (2006)
- "Set Fire To The Face On Fire" (2007)
Ambulance Vs. ...
DVDs Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This Is Circumstantial Evidence is a music DVD released by ThreeOneG on April 20, 2004, featuring videos of live performances by several bands from the label. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Other Appearances This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, with bassist John Deacon joining the following year. ...
Gang of Four is an English post-punk group from Leeds. ...
Jordan Blilie (left) and Johnny Whitney, the Blood Brothers dual vocalists The Blood Brothers are a rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1997. ...
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Family Connections Several members of the band have familial connections to other notable Pacific Northwest-based bands: The Pacific Northwest from space The Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. ...
Rocky Votolato was born in rural Texas in 1978, though was raised in the Pacific Northwest. ...
Waxwing was formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1996 by singer/guitarist Rocky Votolato, drummer Rudy Gajadhar, bassist Andrew Hartley and Cody Votolato (younger brother to Rocky) as a second guitarist. ...
Gatsbys American Dream [sic] is a prolific Seattle-based Indie rock band. ...
Waxwing was formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1996 by singer/guitarist Rocky Votolato, drummer Rudy Gajadhar, bassist Andrew Hartley and Cody Votolato (younger brother to Rocky) as a second guitarist. ...
Hannah Blilie is the drummer of the American bands The Gossip and Shoplifting. ...
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References is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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