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Violent Femmes

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Violent Femmes is an American folk punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active from 1980 to 2009. [1]

83 relations: Add It Up, Add It Up (1981–1993), All Songs Considered, Alternative Songs, Barenaked Ladies, Blaise Garza, Blister in the Sun, BoDeans, Brian Ritchie, Brian Viglione, Cajón, Children of the Revolution (song), Chrissie Hynde, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Colin Hay, Country music, Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song), Demo (music), Dick Parry, Elektra Records, EMusic, Falls Festival, Folk punk, Freak Magnet, Gnarls Barkley, Gone Daddy Gone, Gordon Gano, Gospel music, Guy Hoffman, Hallowed Ground (Violent Femmes album), HuffPost, James Honeyman-Scott, Jerry Harrison, John Zorn, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MONA FOMA, Mushroom Records, Music Industry Online, Music video, New Times (album), NPR, Oil Tasters, Oriental Theatre (Milwaukee), Permanent Record: Live & Otherwise, Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes, Punk rock, Record Store Day, Recording Industry Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America certification, ..., Reprise Records, Rhino Entertainment, Riot Fest, Road crew, Rock!!!!!, Rough Trade Records, Shepherd Express, Sigmund Snopek III, Slash Records, Something's Wrong (album), Sousaphone, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (soundtrack), Steve Mackay, Street performance, Summerfest, Sydney Opera House, T. Rex (band), Talking Heads, The Blind Leading the Naked, The Crow (1994 film), The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Dresden Dolls, The Pretenders, Victor DeLorenzo, Violent Femmes (album), Violent Femmes discography, Viva Wisconsin, We Can Do Anything, Wendy's, Why Do Birds Sing?, Wisconsin, Woodford Folk Festival, 3 (Violent Femmes album). Expand index (33 more) »

Add It Up

"Add It Up" is a song by American rock band Violent Femmes, released on their 1983 debut album Violent Femmes.

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Add It Up (1981–1993)

Add It Up (1981–1993) is a compilation album released by Violent Femmes in 1993.

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All Songs Considered

All Songs Considered is a weekly online multimedia program started in January 2000 by NPR's All Things Considered director Bob Boilen.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian rock band.

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Blaise Garza

Blaise Garrett Garza (born February 10, 1989) is an American actor and musician.

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Blister in the Sun

"Blister in the Sun" is a song by American alternative rock band Violent Femmes, originally released on their 1983 self-titled debut album.

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BoDeans

BoDeans is a rock band formed in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1983.

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Brian Ritchie

Brian Ritchie (born 21 November 1960) is the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes.

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Brian Viglione

Brian Viglione (born May 16, 1979 in Greenville, New Hampshire) is an American drummer best known for his work with The Dresden Dolls and Violent Femmes.

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Cajón

A cajón ("box", "crate" or "drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements such as brushes, mallets, or sticks.

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Children of the Revolution (song)

"Children of the Revolution" is a song by T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan.

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Chrissie Hynde

Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band The Pretenders.

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly referred to as Coachella or the Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.

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Colin Hay

Colin James Hay (29 June 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)

"Crazy" is the debut single by the American soul duo Gnarls Barkley (a group consisting of Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green), taken from their 2006 debut album St. Elsewhere.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Dick Parry

Richard 'Dick' Parry (born 22 December 1942 in Kentford, Suffolk, England) is an English saxophonist.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription.

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Falls Festival

Falls Music & Arts Festival (commonly known as Falls) is a multi-day music festival held annually in Lorne (Victoria), Marion Bay (Tasmania), Yelgun (New South Wales) and Fremantle (Western Australia), Australia over the New Year's Eve and January period.

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Folk punk

Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock.

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Freak Magnet

Freak Magnet is the eighth studio album by Violent Femmes.

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Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo, composed of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse.

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Gone Daddy Gone

"Gone Daddy Gone" is a song written by Gordon Gano and originally recorded by his group Violent Femmes for their 1983 eponymous debut album.

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Gordon Gano

Gordon James Gano (born June 7, 1963) is an American musician.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Guy Hoffman

Guy Hoffman (born May 20, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a drummer and vocalist, formerly of such bands as Oil Tasters, BoDeans, Violent Femmes and Absinthe.

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Hallowed Ground (Violent Femmes album)

Hallowed Ground is the second album by Violent Femmes, released in June 1984.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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James Honeyman-Scott

James "Jimmy" Honeyman-Scott (4 November 1956 – 16 June 1982) was an English rock guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the band The Pretenders.

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Jerry Harrison

Jeremiah Griffin Harrison (born February 21, 1949) is an American songwriter, musician and producer.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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MONA FOMA

MONA FOMA (an acronym for Museum of Old and New Art: Festival Of Music and Art, often further shortened to MOFO) is an annual festival held in January in Hobart, Tasmania, curated by Brian Ritchie bass player from the rock band Violent Femmes.

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Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne.

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Music Industry Online

Music Industry Online (also called MIO) is an online music magazine that has been reporting on the South African music industry since December 1999 when it was known as PC Music.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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New Times (album)

New Times is the sixth studio album released by Violent Femmes in 1994.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Oil Tasters

The Oil Tasters were an early 1980s band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States.

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Oriental Theatre (Milwaukee)

Oriental Theatre is a theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin operated by Milwaukee Film.

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Permanent Record: Live & Otherwise

Permanent Record: Live & Otherwise is a DVD released by Violent Femmes on July 12, 2005.

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Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes

Permanent Record: The Very Best Of is a greatest hits album by the band Violent Femmes.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Record Store Day

Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday every April to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store".

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Riot Fest

Riot Fest (also known as Riot Fest & Carnival) is a multi-day music festival.

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Road crew

The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians or support personnel who travel with a band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians.

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Rock!!!!!

Rock!!!!! is an album released by Violent Femmes in 1995.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Shepherd Express

The Shepherd Express is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Sigmund Snopek III

Sigmund Snopek III (born 1950) is an American musician and composer.

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Slash Records

Slash Records was a record label in Los Angeles, originally specializing in local and punk rock bands.

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Something's Wrong (album)

Something's Wrong is a compilation album of studio recordings and unreleased live tracks by Violent Femmes in 2001.

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Sousaphone

The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba.

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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (soundtrack)

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name.

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Steve Mackay

Steve Mackay (September 25, 1949 – October 10, 2015) was an American tenor saxophonist best known for his membership in the Stooges.

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Street performance

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.

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Summerfest

Summerfest is an annual music festival held at the Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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T. Rex (band)

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

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The Blind Leading the Naked

The Blind Leading the Naked is the third album by Violent Femmes.

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The Crow (1994 film)

The Crow is a 1994 American dark fantasy action film directed by Alex Proyas, written by David J. Schow and John Shirley.

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The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994.

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The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls is an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Pretenders

The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.

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Victor DeLorenzo

Victor DeLorenzo (born October 25, 1954) is an American musician, actor and filmmaker who was the founding drummer for the folk-punk band Violent Femmes.

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Violent Femmes (album)

Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes.

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Violent Femmes discography

This is the discography of Violent Femmes, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based alternative rock group, which consists of eight studio albums, nineteen singles, four live albums and four compilation albums, in addition to a number of miscellaneous appearances on soundtracks and compilations featuring various artists.

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Viva Wisconsin

Viva Wisconsin is a live album by Violent Femmes.

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We Can Do Anything

We Can Do Anything is the ninth studio album by Violent Femmes, that was released March 4, 2016.

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Wendy's

Wendy's is an American international fast food restaurant chain founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio.

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Why Do Birds Sing?

Why Do Birds Sing? is the fifth studio album by Violent Femmes, released on April 30, 1991.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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Woodford Folk Festival

The Woodford Folk Festival is an annual music and cultural festival held near the semi-rural town of Woodford, 72 km north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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3 (Violent Femmes album)

3 (despite the title) is the fourth album by Violent Femmes, released in early 1989.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Femmes

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