An impossible band with an impossible name and an impossible image, Turbonegro battled adversity (largely self-generated) to become a truly exceptional band, releasing a brace of albums that defined then redefined their own death punk genre. Formed i…

Drew Daniels the Soft Pink Truth grew from a dare While Daniel was performing in Paris with Martin Schmidt as Matmos Matthew Herbert challenged him to make a house record Daniel responded with 2001s Soft Pink Missy 12 which Herbert released on his So…

b. Merrill Nisker, Canada. This former drama/music teacher first branched out into music as a folk singer with Mermaid Hotel. She began to take a more alternative route with avant-jazz act Fancypants Hoodlum before teaming up with fellow Canadian Jas…

UK synth-pop band formed in 1998 by Daniel Hunt (keyboards/rhythm box), Reuben Wu (keyboards/rhythm box), Mira Aroyo (b. Bulgaria; vocals/keyboards) and Helena Marnie (vocals/keyboards). Ladytron, who take their name from a Roxy Music track, pay homa…

Evocative US alternative rock band Girls Against Boys formed originally in Washington, DC, in 1990, but soon relocated to New York. A quartet of Scott McCloud (vocals/guitar), Alexis Fleisig (drums), Eli Janney (bass/keyboards) and Johnny Temple (bas…