The Brooklyn-based history band, Piñataland, recorded a song about Leedskalnin entitled " Latvian Bride " for their 2003 album Songs for the Forgotten Future Vol.

* Suckers ( band ), a Brooklyn-based band

* Vince Giordano – bass saxophone, tuba ( also band leader of the Nighthawks Orchestra, a Brooklyn-based jazz-style brass band )

On September 11, 2007 Brooklyn-based punk band The World / Inferno Friendship Society released a full-length album about Lorre called Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century, which traces Lorre's film career, drug addiction, and death.

In 2011, a song titled " Future Shock " by Darwin, Obie, and Mr-E appeared on the album Nu Nrg 100, the final installment of the world-renowned label Nu Energy, while Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio included a song titled " No Future Shock " on their album Nine Types of Light.

* As the band name for Brooklyn-based group Jackpot, Tiger

* Brooklyn-based band, Mixel Pixel, credits Mxyzptlk as the source of their name.

From August 2005 to the present, Jason has performed and recorded with the Brooklyn-based band The Fiery Furnaces, playing bass and guitar.

The blocks surrounding 7th Avenue also thrive with restaurants, nightlife and shopping .< sup ></ sup >< sup ></ sup > Reflecting the district's status as a party destination, Ybor City is referenced extensively in the lyrics of Brooklyn-based rock band The Hold Steady.

* Ed Droste, singer / songwriter for the Brooklyn-based indie band, Grizzly Bear ( band )

* Lowry ( band ), Brooklyn-based indie rock band

* The Brooklyn-based band Pinataland have a song titled " Ota Benga's Name " on their album Songs from the Forgotten Future Volume 1, which tells the story of Ota Benga.

Antibalas ( Spanish for " bulletproof ") is a Brooklyn-based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra.

He is now the lead singer and songwriter for the indie / post hardcore band I Am the Avalanche, a Brooklyn-based indie rock band whose first album was produced by Barett Jones ( Foo Fighters, The Melvins ).

Brooklyn-based hardcore punk band Swallowed Up included a spoken sample of text from the novel on a track from their 2010 split LP with Black Kites.

The main reason the WMCA call was recorded and saved for posterity was that a Brooklyn-based fan asked his mother to record the end of game.

In June 1870, Laura Curtis Bullard, a Brooklyn-based writer whose parents became wealthy from selling a popular morphine-containing patent medicine called " Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ", bought the rights to The Revolution for one dollar, with Anthony assuming its $ 10, 000 debt, an amount equal to $ in current value.

In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies " Havalina " for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire-a tribute to PIXIES compilation.

On December 18, 1993 Ferguson asked a judge to let him replace Falanga with Colin A. Moore, a Brooklyn-based attorney with a reputation for attacking alleged racism in the criminal-justice system.

In 1984, while working as the in-store DJ for Downtown Records in Manhattan, Kurtis Mantronik met MC Tee, a Haitian-born, Flatbush, Brooklyn-based rapper ( and regular record store customer ).

He writes columns regularly for the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press as well.

In 1990, they saw the success of Snapple ( also a Brooklyn-based company founded in the 1970s ) bottled juices and teas, and decided to try to make their own product.

In 2005, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger identified Mihdhar, Hazmi, Shehhi and Atta as members of a Brooklyn-based al-Qaeda cell in early 2000.

In 1925, the studio expanded its operations and acquired the Brooklyn-based theater company, Vitagraph.

Vito Hannibal Acconci ( born January 24, 1940 ) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.

Finally, on July 12, 1930, a Brooklyn-based syndicate headed by Bill Dwyer bought the Triangles ; the franchise moved to Brooklyn and was renamed the Brooklyn Dodgers.

On March 3, 2009, it was announced that Brooklyn-based businessman Jack Gemal had bought the rights to the Crazy Eddie name and quickly launched a new online Crazy Eddie venture at pricesareinsane. com.

He was the longtime underboss and later the boss of the powerful Brooklyn-based New York City Lupertazzi crime family.

Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr., played by Tony Lip, was the fictional boss of the Brooklyn-based Lupertazzi crime family on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos.

Channing was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary Alice ( née English ), who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard ( died 1960 ), who was in the shipping business.

Then, until 2011 it was operated by the Red Hook, Brooklyn-based New York Water Taxi company on its Rockaway / Sandy Hook route.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100, Top 40 hits of any group in US chart history without ever having a number one single.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

Sweetheart of the Rodeo was originally conceived by band leader Roger McGuinn as a sprawling, double album history of American popular music.

In one of the pivotal experiments in the history of optics, the young Newton shone a narrow beam of sunlight through a prism to produce a rainbow-like band of colors on the wall.

Moon's history forced The Who to stay outside of New York City when the band performed there ; none of the New York hotels would accept them as guests.

Rolling Stone magazine described them as " the heaviest band of all time ", " the biggest band of the ' 70s " and " unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history ".

In 1988 John Kalodner, then-A & R executive of Geffen Records, remarked that " In my opinion, next to the Beatles they're the most influential band in history.

In announcing the end of their relationship with Elektra Records, the band became one of the few groups in history to own and control their publishing and catalogue of recorded masters.

As described by critic Jon Savage, the band members " embodied an attitude into which McLaren fed a new set of references: late-sixties radical politics, sexual fetish material, pop history ,... youth sociology ".

They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Wagon, a flatbed truck Doughty had studied in transportation history, and the initials are those of its founder Ransom E. Olds.

Tommy Womack, a singer / songwriter from Nashville, sings a mostly biographical song called " The Replacements " recounting the history and histrionics of the band on his 2002 Circus Town CD.

* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.

* August 11 – The British rock band Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in UK history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history with an audience of 300, 000 in Buenos Aires and two concerts at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to an audience of more than 131, 000 people in the first night ( then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world ) and more than 120, 000 people the following night.

Rabin initially objected to this, as he now found that he had inadvertently joined a reunited band with a history and expectations, rather than help launch a new group.

Also, a new rule created elimination for riding in jumping phases without a medical arm band carrying information about the rider's medical history, insurance, medications, and blood type.

The band has been through multiple line-up changes in its history, but the current line-up is a reunion of that original line-up.

The official websites of each band reflect a split between the shared history of Payne's tenure with the band, as the reunited Asia acknowledge only pre-and post-Payne albums, whereas Asia Featuring John Payne claim Payne-era ( 1991 – 2006 ) albums Aqua ( 1991 ) through Silent Nation ( 2004 ) as part of their own discography.

The set list featured most of the first album as well as a couple of songs from the second, along with one selection each from Yes, ELP, King Crimson and the Buggles to acknowledge the history of each member of the band.

For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting ( lead vocals, bass ), Andy Summers ( guitar ) and Stewart Copeland ( drums ).

* The German metal band Grave Digger released Tunes of War in 1997, a concept album about the history of Scotland.