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San Francisco Bay (1996 – present)

There are more than one musical act that use the name Monkey.

1) Monkey is a third wave ska band from the San Francisco Bay Area of California, formed in summ/er 1996. Current band members include Curtis Meacham (guitar, vocals), Donelle Cory (bass), Micah Turney (drums), Dustin James (keyboard, trombone), Dan Root (tenor and baritone saxophone), and Brian Lockrem (trumpet, backup vocals).

Musical influences include Skatalites, Toots & The Maytals, Desmond Dekker, and Elvis Costello. rocksteady and ska dominate their sound, while elements of rock, rockabilly, Latin, and soul music are also present. As of 2007, the band was signed with Asian Man Records, also based in the Bay Area.

Monkey has released four albums as of 2009. The first two were independently released, and the others were released by Asian Man Records. Their debut album ¡Changito! has sold over 6,000 copies, without any record label support or distribution, and was listed as San Jose’s Best Independent Release for 1998. The band has had songs on over 20 international compilation releases, has had music on a PlayStation soundtrack, and has had songs added to independent film soundtracks, including the Russ Meyer tribute “Pervert the Movie” on Stag Films.

Monkey has toured the United States over 10 times, as well as touring Canada and parts of Mexico, bringing the band’s big beat, horn-driven, dancehall sound to people all over the continent.

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opera, chinese, electronic, damon albarn, ska
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fallerman wrote:
last month

vote for a name correction into 萌. there are three different pages for this same "artist".

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ayjay90 wrote:
last month

yes - people do listen to it you know

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Diminuendo_ wrote:
December 2009

does anyone here actually care about the ska band...?

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BOWLOFGRAIL wrote:
November 2009

Hi! You are hired. We can play Fantasy Festival and win together. FF_BOWL_OF_GRAIL * BOWLOFGRAIL * Male, Russia * LAST.FM Profile

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Mikolajk wrote:
September 2009

just tag it Monkey (Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett)

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kurt111 wrote:
August 2009

maybe like a subheading or something to indicate the genre of music the artist belongs to could be shown below the artist name in grey for searching... and at the same time last.fm could scrobble them into their respective artist names based on the album name? it would save so much complaining on shoutboxes

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wal-in-space wrote:
July 2009

hey guys, check out thi brand new band from Milano, GOOD POTENTIAL http://www.myspace.com/theflatsounds (let us know if u like it or it sucks...walfrutta@hotmail.com)

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ImNotLSD wrote:
July 2009

we want a blur's new album - http://www.last.fm/group/We+want+a+blur%27s+new+album

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Mumu_Lovelace wrote:
May 2009

Damon Albarn is so freaking great. It's kind of ridiculous.

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AlecGray wrote:
April 2009

I think this really highlights the need for last.fm to better identify groups with the same name.

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psychopeach wrote:
March 2009

I love I love Buddha

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izak_90 wrote:
March 2009

hmmm... i love it

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Tijnvveen wrote:
December 2008

http://musicbrainz.org/artist/46160439-9999-42b7-b6aa-a8fbdb468282.html

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legghiu wrote:
December 2008

obey candyman! (i did)

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Candyman876 wrote:
November 2008

Hi guys, if you could please scrobble this group under this name " 猴 " - it's the chinese sign (it means "monkey") that is shown on the cover. So nobody has to get confused with the ska band....

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mizufusion wrote:
November 2008

Monkey is an amazing ska band. I think Journey to the West is the one that doesn't belong on this page. You're using the album's name instead of the artist's.

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kuma-kun wrote:
October 2008

'Journey To The West' it's an a amazing Album

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VGoRiLLaZ wrote:
October 2008

Well, there's another ska band named Monkey, so, I guess it does belong here =//

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SedonaSnow wrote:
October 2008

Ska has no business being under the tags for this artist.

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keep wrote:
September 2008

Monkey brings me back to super nintendo world i dunno why.. i like it!

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