Sigur Rós (Icelandic pronunciation:  is an Icelandic band active since 1994. Known for its ethereal sound, frontman Jónsi Birgisson's falsetto vocals, and the use of bowed guitar, the band's music is also noticeable for its incorporation of classical and minimalist aesthetic elements into their music. The band was named after Birgisson's sister Sigurrós.

History

Von (1997) and Von brigði (1998)

Main articles: Von (album) and Von brigði

Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson (guitar and vocals), Georg Hólm (bass) and Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson (drums) formed the group in Reykjavík in August 1994. Their name is Icelandic wordplay: while the individual words Sigur and Rós mean, respectively, Victory and Rose, "Victory Rose" wouldn't be grammatically correct; the name is actually borrowed from Jónsi's younger sister Sigurrós, who was born the same day as the band was formed, and then split into two words. They soon won a record deal with the local Sugarcubes owned record label, Bad Taste. In 1997, they released Von (pronounced , meaning "hope") and in 1998 a remix collection named Von brigði  This name is also Icelandic wordplay: Vonbrigði means "disappointment", but Von brigði means "variations on Von". The band was joined by Kjartan Sveinsson on keyboards in 1998. He is the only member of Sigur Rós with musical training, and has contributed most of the orchestral and string arrangements for their later work.

Ágætis byrjun (1999)

Main article: Ágætis byrjun

International acclaim came with 1999's Ágætis byrjun (['au̯cai̯tɪs 'pɪrjʏn] "An all right start"). The album's reputation spread by word of mouth over the following two years. Soon critics worldwide hailed it as one of the great albums of its time, and the band was playing support to established acts such as Radiohead. Three songs, "Ágætis byrjun", "Svefn-g-englar", and a live take of the then-unreleased "Njósnavélin" (later 'un-named' "Untitled #4") appeared in the Cameron Crowe film Vanilla Sky. The former two also subsequently appeared in the US version of the television series Queer as Folk. Their music has also appeared in the TV series 24 with "Ný batterí", and CSI with "Svefn-g-englar". In 2004, Wes Anderson used "Starálfur" in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as did the Emmy winning 2005 TV film The Girl in the Café. In Enki Bilal's Immortel (Ad Vitam) the song "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" is used. The song "Svefn-g-englar" was also used on V (2009 TV series) on November 24, 2009 and features prominently in Café de Flore (film) released in 2011.
After the release of Ágætis byrjun, the band became well known for Jónsi's signature style of reverb accentuated guitar work using a cello's bow.

Rímur (2001)

Main article: Rímur (album)

In 2001, Sigur Rós christened their newly completed studio by recording an EP with an Icelandic fisherman named Steindór Andersen. The EP contains six songs, all of which feature Steindór Andersen reciting traditional Icelandic poetry called rímur. Sigur Rós accompany him on three songs. Two songs feature Steindór alone. The last song on the EP, "Lækurinn", is a duet with Sigurður Sigurðarson. A thousand copies of the EP were printed and sold during the spring tour of 2001. The EP was sold in a blank-white-paper case.

( ) (2002)

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Drummer Ágúst left the band after the recording of Ágætis byrjun and was replaced by Orri Páll Dýrason. In 2002, their highly anticipated follow-up album  was released. Upon release all tracks on the album were untitled, though the band later published song names on their website. All of the lyrics on ( ) are sung in Vonlenska, also known as Hopelandic, a constructed language without semantic meaning, technically glossolalia, which resembles the phonology of the Icelandic language. It has also been said that the listener is supposed to interpret their own meanings of the lyrics which can then be written in the blank pages in the album booklet.
In 2002, the band also wrote an original score for the Bodyscript dance production by Wayne McGregor Random Dance in collaboration with Sadler's Wells Theatre and the Arts Council England.
Sigur Rós collaborated with Radiohead in October 2003 to compose music for Merce Cunningham's dance piece Split Sides; Sigur Rós’s three tracks were named Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do and released in March 2004 while Radiohead's contribution was never released. Sigur Rós' 1997 debut album Von found a US and UK release in October 2004.
"Untitled 3" (a.k.a. Samskeyti) from the album is used on the video 6AM by film maker Carmen Vidal, winner of the 2006 Student Academy Award. "Untitled 3" is also used at the end credits of the indie drama movie, Mysterious Skin. It can also be heard in Skins and CSI: Miami and the British TV Documentary Protecting Our Children. "Untitled 4" from the album featured in the final scene of Vanilla Sky.

Takk... (2005)

 

 

Sigur Rós performing in Barcelona, 2005

 

 

Sigur Rós performing in Hong Kong, on 7 April 2006.

 

Their fourth album, Takk...  "Thanks...") employs the distinctive sound of their second album in a more rock oriented structure with greater use of the guitar, and was released in September 2005. "Hoppípolla" "Puddle jumping"), the second official single from Takk..., was released in November alongside a new studio remake of "Hafsól" ([ˈhafsoʊ̯l] "Ocean Sun"), a song that was previously released on the band's 1997 debut, Von. "Hoppípolla" was used in the trailers for the BBC's natural history series Planet Earth in 2006, as well as the closing credits for the 2006 FA Cup final, ITV's coverage of the 2006 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, advertisements for the BBC's coverage of England games during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, on television advertisements for RTÉ's Gaelic games coverage in Ireland, and on an advertisement for Oxfam. It was also used in the final scene of the movie Penelope, for the trailer of the film Children of Men and for the trailer of the film Slumdog Millionaire. Following this, demand for the single grew. It was made more widely available by EMI in consequence. This song is also used in the trailer for the Disney movie Earth.
An extended Sæglópur EP ([ˈsaɪ̯ˌkloʊ̯pʏr]) was released in July 2006 in most parts of the world and in August in the United States. Its original release was scheduled in May, but because of the sudden demand of "Hoppípolla" it was pushed back from that date. Sigur Rós recorded three new songs to appear on the EP ("Refur", "Ó friður", and "Kafari"). In July 2006, Sigur Rós finished a major world tour with stops in Europe, the United States (where they played a headline show at the Hollywood Bowl), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Japan. Upon return to their homeland, Sigur Rós provided a series of free surprise outdoor concerts throughout Iceland in July and August, playing in various venues such as abandoned bunkers and community coffee shops, all of which were included in the 2007 documentary film Heima. They also performed twice in the United States in February.

Heima and Hvarf/Heim (2007)

Main article: Heima

Main article: Hvarf/Heim

 

 

 

At UCLA in 2008, playing an acoustic set before screening Heima

 

In August 2007, a limited DVD+CD edition of the 2002 soundtrack to the documentary Hlemmur was released. Hvarf/Heim  was released on 5 November (6 November in the U.S.), a double compilation album containing studio versions of previously unreleased songs — "Salka"  "Hljómalind" (formerly known as "Rokklagið"), "Í Gær" [i ˈcaɪ̯r] and "Von" on Hvarf, and acoustic studio versions of the songs: "Samskeyti" ([ˈsamˌscɛɪ̯tɪ]), "Starálfur" [ˈstarˌaʊ̯lvʏr], "Vaka" [ˈvaːka], "Ágætis Byrjun", "Heysátan" [ˈhɛɪ̯saʊ̯tan] and "Von", on Heim. On the same day (20 November in the U.S.) Heima, a live DVD of the previous summer’s Iceland tour, was released. Just prior to the release of Hvarf/Heim, on 29 October, a single named "Hljómalind" was released.
To promote their film Heima, the band scheduled a series of premiere screenings throughout the world, featuring a short acoustic set before the film and a question-and-answer session afterwards.

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)

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The band's fifth regular studio album, "With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly"), recorded with producer Flood in downtown Reykjavík, was released in June 2008 to generally positive reviews. Stylistically different from their earlier releases, it featured fewer strings and more guitar, and had more pop-oriented songs, making it "the group's most accessible effort" while maintaining the "majestic beauty that defines the band's music." The final track "All Alright" is the band's first to be sung in English, though all the other lyrics are in Icelandic.

 

 

Sigur Rós performing in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 2008

 

The band were announced as a headlining act for the 2008 Splendour in the Grass Festival in Byron Bay, Australia, Latitude Festival 2008, and the 2008 La Route du Rock Festival in St Malo, France. In addition, the band performed a late-night set at the 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee,where they blew a speaker at the end of their second song. Jónsi Birgisson commented, "The piano is exploding, I think," one of the few things spoken in English.
The band released the first song from the album entitled "Gobbledigook" for free on their website, along with a music video.
On June 8, the whole album was made available for free streaming on their website and Last.fm.
In the fall of 2008 Sigur Rós embarked on a world tour supporting their newly released album. The band played as a four-piece without Amiina and the brass band, the first time the band had played as a four-piece in seven years. The tour started on 17 September 2008 in the United States, at the United Palace Theater in New York City, and finished with a concert in Reykjavík at Laugardalshöll on 23 November 2008. The majority of the tour was European with the exception of concerts in the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies," and their enthusiastic and emotional live shows. They primarily play with three electric guitars and a drum kit, although band member Michael James will at times exchange his electric guitar for a bass guitar. The band's music is instrumental and completely void of vocals.

History

Originally called Breaker Morant, Explosions in the Sky was formed in Austin, Texas in 1999. Drummer Chris Hrasky is from Rockford, Illinois, and the rest of the band hails from Midland, Texas. The new name of "Explosions in the Sky" came from a comment Hrasky made in reference to the noise or sight of fireworks when they left KVRX on the night they played their first set and recorded their first track, "Remember Me as a Time of Day", that would be released on a compilation. Their 2000 debut album, How Strange, Innocence, was locally distributed in the form of CD-Rs. Rehearsal footage is featured on the feature film Cicadas, which won an Austin Film Festival award.

Performing at Central Park SummerStage on June 30, 2009

 

Explosions in the Sky quickly gained a reputation for themselves among other established local bands such as Lift to Experience. Temporary Residence Limited signed the band on the strength of their demo after only half a listen; the demo was submitted by fellow Austin band The American Analog Set with a brief note saying, "This totally fucking destroys."
They garnered a small amount of media attention with their second album, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, due to rumors linking it to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The band denied any connection in interviews. The album art shows an airplane with the caption "This plane will crash tomorrow." There were false reports that the last track was called "This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow" and that the album was released on September 10, 2001; the concept had actually originated in 2000, and the album was released on August 27, 2001. Bassist Michael James was detained in an airport as a threat to security, and had to explain why his guitar contained the words "this plane will crash tomorrow".
The band also received a considerable amount of attention playing before large audiences as the opening act of Fugazi's spring 2002 US tour in support of The Argument.
After being contacted by Brian Reitzell, Explosions in the Sky wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 film Friday Night Lights. Despite having access to rare equipment in the studio for that project, the band kept to their songwriting style in creating original material.
Their album The Rescue was written and recorded in eight days as part of the TRL Travels in Constants series. As such, the album was originally only available at the band's live shows.
Explosions in the Sky's fifth studio album, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, which debuted February 20, 2007, exists as both a one-disc version and a two-disc special edition featuring remixes by multiple artists. The band began touring on February 19 in the U.S. and Canada.
On April 26, 2011, the band released their sixth studio album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.

On stage in the Webster Hall, New York City, 2007

Music styles and characteristics

Although the band's music deviates from pop, Hrasky said that they have similar goals "like immediately grabbing your attention and getting to your emotions." Rayani said, "We don't consider ourselves post-rock at all; we consider ourselves a rock band."
In a post-show interview clip on Austin City Limits, guitarist Munaf Rayani said about their status as instrumentalists, "I mean, I think we discussed singing for half a second, and then it just kinda, we just dropped it. We just didn't go back to it because we were comfortable enough." Drummer Chris Hrasky added, "There were a couple of instrumental bands at the time that we were heavily into: Dirty Three and Mogwai; we were listening to those bands a lot. And I think we just liked the idea of a band that there was not a leader or main songwriter, everyone sort of collaborating and has their own say. I don't think any of us want the sort of 'leader role', so a leaderless band is kind of the best option for us."

In popular culture

Most notably, Explosions in the Sky's music is heavily featured in the Friday Night Lights movie and television show. It is a common misconception that the band wrote and recorded the television show's theme song. Instead, it is an original composition by W.G. Snuffy Walden. Music by Explosions in the Sky has been used in several television programs and commercials: "The Birth and Death of the Day" for the BBC documentary Lost Land of the Jaguar, All the Real Girls, Shopgirl, One Tree Hill, Love the Beast and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, as well as various songs for the PBS documentary The Street Stops Here.
Their song "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" is also featured in the narrative sports documentary series 24/7 Mayweather vs. De La Hoya.
Another song, "Catastrophe and the Cure" is used during the intro to Get Collins, an Irish documentary on Michael Collins and the film Kaboom by director Gregg Araki in which the male lead is also given a signed copy of All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone as a birthday gift.
In 2009, their song "First Breath After Coma" is used for the introduction of feature presentations on the television network, Versus. The song is also used in the trailer for the Steve Hwang directed documentary Focus. "First Breath After Coma," along with "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" were featured in the 2010 film "Kalamity."
The song "The Only Moment We Were Alone" is shortly featured in Michael Moore's documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. It is also featured in the 2008 film Sleepwalking.
The song "The Birth and Death of the Day" was used by soccer team FC Barcelona in a promo video "At the Gates of Wembley" to motivate the fans and alike prior to the 2011 Champions League Final.
The song "Your Hand in Mine" is featured in the films Paul Blart Mall Cop, The Big Empty (short film) and Love Happens
The song Glittering Blackness is featured in the film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
The song "Your Hand in Mine" is featured in the TV series 'Prisoner Wives', episode 5 on BBC One.
The song "So Long, Lonesome" is featured in the 2010 film "Last Night".
The song "Human Qualities" is featured in the 2012 film "This Means War (film)".

Band members

• Munaf Rayani – guitar
• Mark Smith – guitar
• Michael James – guitar, bass guitar
• Chris Hrasky – drums

Discography

Studio albums

• How Strange, Innocence (2000)
• Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (2001)
• The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)
• The Rescue (2005)
• All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007) #76 US, #58 UK
• Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (2011) #16 US, #58 UK

Soundtracks

• Friday Night Lights (2004)

Compilations

• "Remember Me as a Time of Day" on Refurbished Robots (1999)
• "The Long Spring" on Thank You (TRR50) (2004), Temporary Residence Limited
• "Welcome Ghosts" sampler on Destroy Independent Music! (2007), Temporary Residence Limited
• "First Breath After Coma" on Friday Night Lights (television soundtrack) (2007), Adrenaline Records
• "Your Hand in Mine" on The Steel People (2009)
• "Your Hand in Mine" on the Love Happens soundtrack (2009)

This Will Destroy You

Often abbreviated to TWDY, is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2005. The band consists of guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bass player and keyboardist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore. They typically compose lengthy atmospheric instrumental pieces, featuring layers of effects-laden guitar and a heavy usage of dynamics.Their latest album, Tunnel Blanket, was released in May 2011. It entered the Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart at number 25 

This Will Destroy You was formed by guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller in San Marcos, Texas, in 2005. They had met through mutual friends,and played together in various different bands throughout high school before the line-up was finalized by around 2002.
Early iterations of the band featured Galindo on vocals and sounded like Radiohead, but after recording some tracks they decided the results were "awful" and didn't fit in with the rest of their music.After composing their next song "The World Is Our___", the band decided to write instrumental music instead.Chris King said in an interview with BBC Radio Foyle, "we were ... writing different kinds of songs and we wrote one [instrumental] song, and we were like, that works, lets go for it!"
The bands name originated from a song that was to be called "This Will Destroy You", but this was rejected for being too pretentious. The band found it "hilarious." When asked whether he wished the band had chosen a different name, King said to Rock Sound, “It’s supposed to be a little bit obnoxious. There’s something about people automatically hating you before you play that’s kind of endearing. It gets to the point where it’s over-the-top obnoxious. It’s an attention-grabber and people will check it out I guess. Even if they hate it.”

Young Mountain (2005–2006)

"There are songs on that record that we all really like, but I think it was not really the starting point that we would have wanted for the band. I think it pushed it into categories — not that we didn't want to be a part of, but that we hadn't planned on being a part of."

Jeremy Galindo, on Young Mountain.

This Will Destroy You self-recorded and self-produced their first EP, Young Mountain, in 2005.They intended it to be just a demo, and sold it as a CD-R after their concerts. The release was reviewed by a number of critics and was generally praised, including being named the fifth best instrumental release of the year by The Silent Ballet. The band was contacted by Magic Bullet Records owner Brent Eyestone over the internet and he asked them to contribute a track to his label's It Came From The Hills Vol. 1 compilation. The band sent Eyestone a copy of their demo to thank him, after which he invited them to tour with Sparrows Swarm and Sing.  This Will Destroy You then began to work with Magic Bullet on the basis of a verbal agreement;  in keeping with the labels DIY attitude, no written contract was ever signed.
In June 2006 Magic Bullet re-packaged and re-released Young Mountain. The band began to gather mentions in more publications, including Pitchfork Media and Rolling Stone. A Sputnikmusic review said, "TWDY’s sound is near perfect. Production wise, everything is right where it should be. Tone wise, it doesn’t get much better. The quiet parts are tear jerking. The loud parts, while equally tear jerking, are brutal." The EP came in for particular praise from Rock Sound, who called it "an astonishingly beautiful work that promises a bright future" and whose editor Darren Taylor named it as the best release of 2006.

This Will Destroy You (2006–2008)

The writing process for This Will Destroy You, the band's eponymous debut studio album, was initially a slow and fragmented one. The band members were all living in different cities within Texas, due to work and school commitments, and so could only meet irregularly. Chris King said to Rock Sound, "[Writing] was a struggle; when we did meet up, sometimes the ideas would come flowing, but at others we’d just stand there for the whole time staring at each other." In February 2007 the band began recording with producer John Congleton at a studio in Texas owned by the country music singer Willie Nelson, a process that took several months.
The band was booked to tour the United States during July and August, along with 65daysofstatic, Fear Before the March of Flames and Hot Cross.  However, after one of their concerts guitarist Jeremy Galindo fell ill; he was later diagnosed in hospital as suffering from Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel condition. This led to the band having to cancel all their remaining summer tour dates^. Combined with financial problems, this caused the band to go on a three-month hiatus, a time where the future of the band was uncertain.
This Will Destroy You was released by Magic Bullet in January 2008.It was generally positively received: Rock Sound compared it to "the soundtrack to the impending apocalypse" and awarded it the fifth best album of the year, while Drowned in Sound called it "a true classic of its kind." However, although The Silent Ballet described it as a "good album", they called it “underwhelming”  and "regressive... in comparison to the promise and talent displayed on Young Mountain."  Shortly after the release of the album, the band parted company with bass guitar player Raymond Brown, who left in order to focus on his medical career.  The band trialled a number of bassists,  before permanently recruiting Donovan Jones. In March 2008 the band toured Europe for the first time, playing at the Bevrijdingspop,  Out of the Crowd and Rhâââ Lovely festivals.  The tour lasted for six weeks and included performances with Boris and Devil Sold His Soul.

Field Studies (2008–2009)

This Will Destroy You performing in Barcelona,Spain in April 2009.

 

The foundations for what would become the Field Studies EP were formed in late 2007. This Will Destroy You and Lymbyc Systym were touring the United States together and decided to collaborate on a split record; the members of both bands were good friends and had further plans to tour again together in the future. They came together at John Congletons Texas studio in July 2008 to record their contributions; This Will Destroy You tracking two longer pieces to Lymbyc Systyms three shorter songs.
In September Lymbyc Systym released Love Your Abuser Remixed, a remix album of their previous record Love Your Abuser. It featured a This Will Destroy You version of the title track, the band's first official remix.
Field Studies was released in January 2009 on Magic Bullet and received a generally positive critical reception, but was criticized for being “nothing groundbreaking.” The Silent Ballet's reviewer Joseph Sannicandro hailed the opening track, “Brutalism & the Worship of the Machine”, as “easily amongst [This Will Destroy You's] best work”, while conceding that the composition kept “within a typical post-rock framework.” Rock Sound's Joe Marshall echoed similar sentiments by saying: “Of course, neither track is especially original and it’s fairly easy to predict the trajectories they take, but ultimately this is seriously beautiful music.”
The band then set out on a series of tours, including an appearance at the ATP festival in April, playing alongside bands such as Devo and The Jesus Lizard.  In July they played on the main stage at Rock Herk festival. In October of the same year the band performed at Damnation Festival, where they shared a stage with Jesu. In November the band parted company with Andrew Miller,  due to musical differences between the members. They replaced him with Alex Bhore, their tour manager and former drummer for The New Frontiers.

Moving on the Edges of Things and Tunnel Blanket (2009–present)

Donovan Jones and Chris King performing in St. Gallen, Switzerland in October 2010

 The band began working on their second studio album, to be called Tunnel Blanket, in late 2009.
On April 1 the band posted a message on their Tumblr announcing that they had split.  This was followed by a press release from their label, explaining the decision as being due to "uncertainty placed upon them by the behaviors and disappearances of other members." After it emerged that the whole incident was an April Fool's Day prank carried out by drummer Alex Bhore and Magic Bullet Records owner Brent Eyestone, Daniel Hopkins from the Dallas Observer named it as one of "the funniest april fool's day pranks in the local music scene."
In May 2010 the band released an exclusive track titled "Their Celebrations" as part of PEACE, a compilation in aid of Amnesty International,  after a request from the charity. The band subsequently released a two-song 12" EP titled Moving on the Edges of Things in August 2010, ^] before embarking on a September US tour, supporting the metal group Deftones. This was followed by a September and October European tour, including a performance at the Incubate festival. A 7" single, Communal Blood, was released in December of the same year. This was the bands first single and featured two tracks from Tunnel Blanket.  This has been recorded and mixed by John Congleton, and is set for release in Europe on May 9, 2011 on Monotreme Records, and on May 10 on Suicide Squeeze Records for the rest of the world.  The band are set to tour Europe in June and July to promote the record, which will include an appearance at Dour Festival in Belgium. In 2011, the trailer for the Brad Pitt film Moneyball used the song "The Mighty Rio Grande," from the band's self titled release.

Musical style and influences

Influenced by artists such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, David Bowie, Mice Parade, Stars of the Lid and Animal Collective  the band's compositions typically feature a wide dynamic range, with slow build-ups to a "wall of noise" crescendo. The guitars are usually the most prominent feature of the band's sound, combining ambient soundscapes with simple melodies, and using a number of effects, such as reverb, sustain and distortion.
Many reviews categorized the band's early releases as post-rock, and compared them to other bands of the genre, most notably fellow Texas instrumental group Explosions in the Sky although the band members largely reject this description, with Donovan Jones saying: “Fuck post-rock, and fuck being called post-rock.” In an interview with the Dallas Observer, Jeremy Galindo said, "It can be aggravating. I think after this new album comes out, a lot of that is gonna stop. Because this next album is definitely gonna be sounding more like the stuff that we do listen to." The band describe their new sound as being darker and heavier, referring to it as "doomgaze", a portmanteau of doom metal and shoegaze.

Other projects

Chris King is a member of the Austin based ambient band Amasa Gana, who have yet to release an album. They are signed to Light Lodge Records, a label run by King. He also writes ambient electronica music under the moniker Mosh Patrol, under which he has released a split record with Aughra, titled Is There Anyone Else Outside?
Donovan Jones is involved with a number of other musical projects, including Fuzzy Mystic and Black Taffy.
Alex Bhore drummed with The New Frontiers until their dissolution in 2008. He also produces and mixes albums for other Texas groups.
Jeremy Galindo, along with Magic Bullet Records' Brent Eyestone, runs an independent film studio called We Tried Film. Their first production is set for release in summer 2012.

Band members

Current members Jeremy Galindo – guitar (2005–present) Chris "Royal" King – guitar (2005–present) Donovan "Dono" Jones – bass guitar, keyboard, Rhodes piano (2007–present) Alex Bhore – drums (2009–present)

Former members Raymond Brown – bass guitar, keyboard (2005–2007) Andrew Miller – drums (2005–2009)