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The Suburbs (band)

Index The Suburbs (band)

The Suburbs are an alternative punk rock/funk/new wave band from Minneapolis, Minnesota that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. [1]

54 relations: A&M Records, A-side and B-side, Bob Dylan, Bobby Z., Bruce Springsteen, Chan Poling, Chemistry Set: Songs of the Suburbs 1977–1987, Credit in Heaven, Disco, Dream Hog EP, Extended play, First Avenue (nightclub), Funk, Funkytown, High Fidelity Boys - Live 1979, Iggy Pop, In Combo, Jay's Longhorn Bar, Jazz, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Suburbs Have Left The Building, Lipps Inc., Little Man's Gonna Fall, Love Is the Law (Suburbs album), LP record, Mercury Records, Midwestern United States, Minneapolis, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Vikings, New wave music, Nightclub, Paul Westerberg, Phonogram Inc., PolyGram, Prince (musician), Punk rock, Radio, Roseanne, Si Sauvage, Star Tribune, Steven Greenberg (musician), Suburbs (album), Target Corporation, The B-52's, The New Standards, The Revolution (band), The River (Bruce Springsteen album), The Suburbs EP, The Suicide Commandos, ..., Tuxedo, Twin/Tone Records, Viva! Suburbs! Live at First Avenue, 1980s. Expand index (4 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bobby Z.

Robert B. Rivkin (born January 9, 1956), better known by the stage name Bobby Z., is an American musician and record producer, most known as being the original drummer for Prince's band from 1978 to 1986, and as a member of The Revolution.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Chan Poling

Chandler Hall "Chan" Poling (born 1957) is an American musician and composer.

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Chemistry Set: Songs of the Suburbs 1977–1987

Chemistry Set: Songs of the Suburbs 1977–1987 is a compilation album by the American New wave band The Suburbs, released in 2003.

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Credit in Heaven

Credit in Heaven is an album released by the American New wave band The Suburbs, released in 1981.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Dream Hog EP

Dream Hog EP is an EP released by the band The Suburbs.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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First Avenue (nightclub)

First Avenue & 7th St Entry (locally known as The Mainroom and The Entry) are two music venues housed in the same landmark building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funkytown

"Funkytown" is a song by American disco act Lipps Inc. from their debut album Mouth to Mouth (1979).

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High Fidelity Boys - Live 1979

High Fidelity Boys - Live 1979 is a full-length live album by the band The Suburbs recorded between March and October 1979 at Jay's Longhorn in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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In Combo

In Combo is the debut album released by the American New wave band The Suburbs, released in 1980.

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Jay's Longhorn Bar

Jay's Longhorn Bar, most frequently referred to by patrons as The Longhorn, was a nexus of the punk music scene in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, described by music critics as a "legendary" part of the genre's history and a "punk rocker's paradise." One of the earliest clubs in America to regularly book punk, New Wave, and alternative-rock bands, the Longhorn was the only concert stage in Minnesota where touring acts in those genres could regularly perform until the opening of what would become First Avenue in 1980.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Suburbs Have Left The Building

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Suburbs Have Left the Building is a compilation album by the American New wave band The Suburbs that focuses on their releases from 1978 through 1984.

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Lipps Inc.

Lipps Inc. was an American disco and funk group from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Little Man's Gonna Fall

Little Man's Gonna Fall is a single by the band The Suburbs.

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Love Is the Law (Suburbs album)

Love Is the Law is an album by the American New wave band The Suburbs, released in 1984.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a major metropolitan area built around the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in east central Minnesota.

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Minnesota Historical Society

The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution dedicated to preserving the history of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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Paul Westerberg

Paul Harold Westerberg (born December 31, 1959) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s.

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Phonogram Inc.

Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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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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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Roseanne

Roseanne is an American television sitcom starring Roseanne Barr.

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Si Sauvage

Si Sauvage is an album released on both 12" vinyl and CD by the American New wave band The Suburbs, released in 2013.

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Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota.

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Steven Greenberg (musician)

Steven Greenberg (born October 24, 1950 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is a musician, record producer and the owner of the independent October Records label.

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Suburbs (album)

Suburbs is an album by the American New wave band The Suburbs, released in 1986.

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Target Corporation

Target Corporation is the second-largest department store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index.

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The B-52's

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008) are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The New Standards

The New Standards is a minimalist jazz trio formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2005 and composed of Chan Poling (of The Suburbs), John Munson (of The Twilight Hours, Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare and The Flops) and Steve Roehm (of Electropolis, Rhombus and Billy Goat).

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The Revolution (band)

The Revolution is an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota and assembled in 1983 by Prince.

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The River (Bruce Springsteen album)

The River is the fifth studio album by Bruce Springsteen.

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The Suburbs EP

"The Suburbs" is a 9-song EP released by the band The Suburbs.

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The Suicide Commandos

The Suicide Commandos are an American punk rock trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Tuxedo

A tuxedo (American English), or dinner suit (British English), is a semi-formal three or two piece suit for evening wear, distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain jacket's lapels, and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers.

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Twin/Tone Records

Twin/Tone Records was a independent record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which operated from 1977 until 1994.

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Viva! Suburbs! Live at First Avenue

Viva! Suburbs! Live at First Avenue is a live album by the American New wave band The Suburbs that was recorded "mostly" on April 24, 1993 at First Avenue, a music venue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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1980s

The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", commonly shortened as the "'80s", pronounced "eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suburbs_(band)

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