Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Main Releases

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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2018 - Wrong Creatures

2013 - Specter at the Feast

2010 - Beat the Devil's Tattoo

2008 - The Effects of 333

2007 - Baby 81

2005 - Howl

2003 - Take Them On, on Your Own

2001 - B.R.M.C.

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San Francisco, USA

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Alternative Rock

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Rock/Pop

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Crazy

Born

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1998 to Present...

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread Your Love
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread Your Love
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns

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River Styx	Need Some Air	Fire Walker
Lose Yourself	We're All in Love	Whatever Happened to M...
Little Thing Gone Wild	Berlin	Spread Your Love

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for their garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia sound. They are influenced by bands such as: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Verve, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, T. Rex, The Velvet Underground and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club formed in 1998, taking its name from Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film The Wild One. Bassist Robert Levon Been and guitarist Peter Hayes met at high school in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Lafayette and quickly formed a band; Hayes having recently left The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Looking for a drummer, they met Nick Jago, from Devon, England, who had moved to California to be with his parents after spending some time at Winchester School of Art, where he was studying fine art.The band was originally called The Elements, but after discovering that another band had the same name, they changed the name to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The vocals are shared between Been and Peter Hayes.
The band's first two records were indebted to classic hard rock influenced by Led Zeppelin and also encompassed slower paced psychedelic rock, space rock, and noise pop influences from bands such as The Verve, Loop, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Their second album Take Them On, On Your Own (recorded with Coldplay/Kasabian producer Rik Simpson) has several songs such as "Generation" and "US Government" that are critical of the United States government.
Been used the pseudonym 'Robert Turner' on the first two records, in an attempt not to be linked to his father (Michael Been of The Call.) He later dropped this identity when promoting Howl. The senior Been later toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club as part of their sound crew.
In 2003, a concert in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England had to be cancelled half way through the set, after Leeds City Council officials suspected the 150 year old floor of Leeds Town Hall might collapse. This led to the band sometimes being referred to as 'the band who broke the floor'. Problems with drummer Nick Jago began surfacing publicly at the 2003 NME Awards, when Jago remained on stage for nine minutes, completely silent, while accepting an award.