Super groups

From The Good, the Bad and the Queen to Broken Bells.

Typically, a supergroup is understood as a team whose participants have already become known thanks to other projects or solo activities. Super groups can be born as a result of a joint jam during a festival performance or just gather in order to record something new, different from the main projects, and then break up. One of the most famous formations of this kind was the group of Traveling Wilburys , which together gathered Boba Dilan , Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harisson and Jeff Line. Nevertheless, the super groups continue to be born and disappear from the musical horizon. Look at Me decided to recall all the most loud super groups of recent times.

Composition: Guy Barrimen (Coldplay), Jonas Byerre, Magne Furuholman (A-Ha) and Martin Teref

Genre : Sinty-POP / ELROCK

History: Apparatjik (read as an “apparatchik”) appeared back in 2008. Initially, the project was conceived only under a one -time recording of a song for the charity collection “Amazon - Tribe - Songs for Survival” , but the group members decided not to stop there. The result of further studio work was the album "We Are Gere" . The debut performance of Apparatjik, which took place on February 1 on CTM Festival in Berlin, took place inside a specially designed cube.

Prospects: Apparatjik is a project at the junction with contemporary art, we can assume that the group will definitely give several more concerts at music festivals, but nothing has been reported about working on new tracks.

Interesting fact: group members speak under the pseudonym Jonas a, Guy a, Magne a and Martin A.

"Embarrass or be embarrassed ..." - recording Twitter of the group

Composition: Josh Om (QTSA), John Paul Jones, Dave Grol (Foo Fighters)

Genre: Psychedelic hard rock

History: The first mention of Them Croeced Vultures is dated 2005. In an interview, Dave Grol admitted that he was going to sit down for a drum installation for the sake of a joint project with Josh Om and John Paul Jones. Nevertheless, the musicians managed to gather in the studio for a joint recording only in 2009. Before the release of the debut album, the group managed to give several live performances, and the record itself showed good results in the charts.

Prospects: Dave Grol managed to inform the press that the group was ready to sit in the studio to write a new album, which "will be even more powerful than the first." Preliminary release date is the end of 2010.

An interesting fact: despite the star status of the participants, for the first time in the UK, Them Cooked Vultures acted as a warm -up group at the Arctic Monkeys concert.

Josh Ohm

“I think this is quite an ordinary phenomenon-to meet someone from Led Zeppelin at the birthday of Dave Goll ” (with irony)

Composition: The Kills, Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (Qtsa) and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs)

Genre: Garage and Blues Rock

History: When the schedule of The Raconteurs tour turned out to be a free day, the restless Jack White invited the future participants of The Dead Weather to record a seven -inch single. During the first session, they composed several tracks, after which they were rented by a studio for full work for fifteen days.

Prospects: back in October 2009, information was received that the second album was half ready, and in March it was announced that the first single would be the song “Blue Blood Blues” . The sound is promised to make even heavier and blues.

An interesting fact: the director of the video “Treat Me Like Your Mother” was Jonathan Glazer, whose last work was the video of the Massive Attack “Live with ME” .

Jack White

“We had no specific ideas. We composed one, two songs a day, did what we wanted and wrote on the fly. There was no time to think that it was. It was just. "

Composition: James Iha, Taylor Hanson (Hanson), Adam Schlicener, Ban and Carlos (Cheap Trick)

Genre: Power Pop

History: The circumstances due to which Tinted Windows was born are covered with darkness, moreover, many publications took information about the composition of this team as a not too successful joke. Nevertheless, the group managed to marked at the SXSW festival and get into several television programs.

Prospects: This project did not achieve much commercial success, the album was met by critics very coolly, so the future of the group is blurry.

An interesting fact: the nineties post-nineties still release albums, the new release is scheduled for this year.

Adam Schlezinger

"We decided from the very beginning - no key!"

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Composition: Damon Elbarn, Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong, Tony Allen (Fela Kuti)

Genre: Alternative rock

History: Initially, the album was planned as a solo record of Damon Albarn, but then it turned into a conceptual story about life in London today. The group managed to give several live performances, looking with touring even in Moscow.

Prospects : Albarn once said that the group will record new material in the fall of 2007, but since then there has been no information about session work.

Interesting fact: in fact, the group does not have an official name

Paul Simonon

“We just play together because we like it. And it works "

Composition: The Shins, Danger Mouse

Genre: Indi-rock with nostalgic notes

History: Danger Mouse and James Mercer met several years ago when they performed on the same site, but the joint work began only in 2008. They left the shadow of Broken Bells just recently, declaring their existence on December fourteenth, 2009, and a week later, the single “High Road” was laid out for free download.

Prospects: The debut album is released on March third, and judging by the reaction of critics and bloggers, the project has great prospects.

Interesting fact: James Mercer said that he was pushed to the new project that his stay in The Shins "became very difficult"

Danger Mouse

"I no longer wanted to be a producer on other people's records"

Composition: Conor Oberst and Mike Magis, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Matt Ward (She and Him)

Genre: Indi-rock

History: The group was formed in 2004 during the joint tour of the main groups of Monsters of Folk participants. However, due to extreme workload, the first records were made only in 2009. While working on a debut plate, the group members boldly changed tools, because "it was very fun."

Prospects: Monsters of Folk managed to perform at a charity concert organized by Nile Yang, ride in Europe and get good criticism. There is reason to believe that the next album will ever be recorded.

Interesting fact : In order to download the first single “Say please” from the official website for free, it was necessary to introduce the word “please”.

Conor Oberst

"The name of our group is misleading, but I like it"

Composition: Kevin Drew, Brendan Connin, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spirin, Sam Goldberg, Lisa Lobsinger, Lesley Feist, Evan Crangi, Jason Colllet.

Genre: Baroque indie

History: a Canadian group with an indefinite number of participants (the number ranges in the range from six to nineteen people) was organized in 1999 in order to prove the fact that the musicians of the Indie scenes are simultaneously involved in various projects. By the way, most of these projects come from Toronto and its environs.

Prospects: The most rosy. During their existence, Broken Social Scene released four license plates (new ones promise to present this year), receive several musical awards in their native Canada, get an army of devoted fans and achieve the love of critics.

An interesting fact: the number of participants in Broken Social Scene at their Moscow concert is seven people.

Kevin Drew

"If you pay six bucks for a fucking bottle of water at a concert - this is definitely a shitty show"

Composition: Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Brad Vilk, Tim Commerdford (Rage Against the Machine)

Genre: Alternative rock

History: on the wreckage of two extremely successful groups of the nineties, a team was formed that managed to satisfy not only fans of Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine , but also lovers of radio format alternative rock. During its existence, Audioslav managed to release three license plates, a bunch of successful single, and also become nominees for Grammy several times.

Prospects: there are no due to decay due to "irreconcilable disagreements" in 2007.

Interesting fact: Audioslave became the first American rock band to play Open-Eir a concert in Cuba.

Anonymous friend Cornell

“What the hell are“ irreconcilable disagreements ”! Chris was dissatisfied with financial agreements within the group. He wrote all the music, but the deductions for it were shared between everyone "

Genre: Alternative hip-hop

History: Before the release of the Graduation album, Kanye West released the Mestiop “Canomet Tell Me Nothing” , one of the track of which was the song “US Placeers” . The producer of this entry was Lupe Fiasco , who made Mash-AP from the solo album of Tom Yorke ( Thom Yorka ) Eraser and several Radiohead songs, and part of the text went to Farrell . Many musical critics liked the final result: Rolling Stone placed the record for 43rd place in the list of the best songs of 2007.

Prospects: foggy. The group has only one single and Remix, nevertheless, recently Lupe Fiasco said in his blog that the work was completed over four tracks, although the album was supposed to be released back in 2007.

An interesting fact: it was originally assumed that the third member of the group will be Mike The Streets Skinner, however, since he did not respond to a request for cooperation, Phalll was connected to the case.

Lupe fiasco

“I'm not going to record mysties anymore. My energy for writing hip-hop ends "

Text: Vladimir Baskov