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There is more than one artist with this name:
1) A band from Cincinnati Ohio and Oakland California, who play both indie rock and alternative hip-hop
2) A folk rock band from England active in the 1990s.
1) A trio of Cincinnati-born men who fiddle with skins, strings, bells and microphones and present their findings to the listening public. Singer Yoni Wolf grew up the second son to an art book editor and a rabbi. He got his start recording bad poems and sloppy beats on the family synagogue’s 4-track. In junior high he discovered hip-hop. At art school, he learned how to drop out. Yoni’s brother Josiah played drums at Rabbi Wolf’s worship service as a kid, became a band geek as a teen, and fell in love with Thelonious Monk on his way to study music at University of Cincinnati. Doug McDiarmid would eventually get expelled from that same school for carrying a stun gun, but first he was raised by two French teachers and taught piano while in kindergarten. He also went to high school with the Wolfs, where he played in Steve Miller cover bands.
In various permutations together and with other now-notables (i.e. Doseone, Odd Nosdam, Mr. Dibbs, Atmosphere’s Slug), these three created and/or contributed to several freewheeling rap and lo-fi rock-related projects including Greenthink, Miss Ohio’s Nameless, Reaching Quiet, and the seminal cLOUDDEAD outfit. Their wildest dreams were achieved when they relocated to Oakland to make pop-inflected psychedelic folk-hop.
1) A band from Cincinnati Ohio and Oakland California, who play both indie rock and alternative hip-hop
2) A folk rock band from England active in the 1990s.
1) A trio of Cincinnati-born men who fiddle with skins, strings, bells and microphones and present their findings to the listening public. Singer Yoni Wolf grew up the second son to an art book editor and a rabbi. He got his start recording bad poems and sloppy beats on the family synagogue’s 4-track. In junior high he discovered hip-hop. At art school, he learned how to drop out. Yoni’s brother Josiah played drums at Rabbi Wolf’s worship service as a kid, became a band geek as a teen, and fell in love with Thelonious Monk on his way to study music at University of Cincinnati. Doug McDiarmid would eventually get expelled from that same school for carrying a stun gun, but first he was raised by two French teachers and taught piano while in kindergarten. He also went to high school with the Wolfs, where he played in Steve Miller cover bands.
In various permutations together and with other now-notables (i.e. Doseone, Odd Nosdam, Mr. Dibbs, Atmosphere’s Slug), these three created and/or contributed to several freewheeling rap and lo-fi rock-related projects including Greenthink, Miss Ohio’s Nameless, Reaching Quiet, and the seminal cLOUDDEAD outfit. Their wildest dreams were achieved when they relocated to Oakland to make pop-inflected psychedelic folk-hop.
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MyWindowT0Yours wrote:
I have never liked a band that sounds even remotely like this one. But I am love their sound.
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tobacconist wrote:
fuck this band. as suckin their marrows out & rape their hollow bones
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FoolmeThrice wrote:
Fuck this band. As in have sex with them because they're awesome
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<3
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xthesceneHxc wrote:
>> Went to Spotify to listen to WHY? >>Saw new album, freaked out >> 5 new albums actually holy crap >>http://i.imgur.com/358M7.png >>Oh wait, this is irish music for kids.
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ohsoimpulsive wrote:
Guess who's coming to dinner?
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Where is that new swerp, dog?
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when the knot grows tighter than fingers can untie
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Never in the night
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no info on the new album? c'monnnn
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https://twitter.com/#!/YoniWolf/status/155069148160991232
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aakac wrote:
they're tied with my favorite band now yaaaay
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cheezeybaines wrote:
saw them live a couple weeks ago. they're truly a great live act. the new material sounds amazing!
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derpdedoo wrote:
overrated [-1] do you see what i did there
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Inci90 wrote:
overrated
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leoislostatsea wrote:
And also I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't stick with Golden Tickets, those songs were dope as.
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@dim2192 Eskimo Snow is amazing! Way better than Oaklandazulasylum.
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"11,794 plays in your library" and that aint even countin iPod and various MP3 players throughout highschool............ i'm a why? fiend...
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