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Sydney, AUSATRALIA's Wolfmother started out as an old-school Hard-Rock
band featuring vocalist + guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist + keyboardist
Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. After years of jamming in anonymity
they finally stepped out in public in early 2004.
Later that year the trio released an independent EP that caused ink to
be spilled and fans to be won; then after six months of non-stop Australian
and overseas touring, Stockdale, Ross and Heskett decamped to Los Angeles
in May 2005 and rented an abandoned Hollywood recording studio called
Cherokee for their rehearsal space.
Signed by Modular Records, Wolfmother delivered their eponymous debut
full-length disc in January 2006, all 4 tracks from their first EP are
re-recorded here. The album was a surprise critical and commercial success,
it climbed into the top 3 of the Australian ARIA chart, hit the top 20
in several European countries and peaked at #22 on the American Billboard's
Top 200 chart. The lead single, "Woman", crawled up to #7 on
The Hot Mainstream Rock chart, squeaked into the top 10 of The Hot Modern
Rock Tracks and won the award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th
Grammy Awards; in addition "Woman" hit the top 40 in Australia
and Great Britain. The album spun off two more U.S. Active Rock radio
top 30 hits, "White Unicorn" and "Joker And The Thief"
and the band's second U.K. top 50 entrant, "Dimension".
Swapping out his rhythm section, Stockdale, bringing guitarist Aidan
Nemeth, bassist + keyboardist Ian Peres and drummer Dave Atkins, created
Wolfmother's second set of aggressive and classic sound laced with crunching
guitars, muscular rhythms and soaring vocals. The album, entitled "Cosmic
Egg", was released in October 2009 going straight to #3 on the Australian
ARIA chart and to #16 on The Billboard 200. It includes the single "New
Moon Rising", which reached the #38 position on The Alternative Songs
chart and the minor hit "White Feather".
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