The Halo Benders - инди рок супер группа которая была сформирована в 1994 году Кельвином Джонсом из Beat Happening и Дагом Маршем из Built to Spill. В этом же году группа выпустиламвой первый альбом God Don't Make No Junk. Этот и все последуйшие лонплеи группа выпускала на лейбле K Records, а синглы Canned Oxygen и Don't Touch My Bikini вышли на Atlas Records и Fire Records соответсвенно.
Группа распалась в 2000 и собралась заново в 2007 чтобы сыграть несколько концертов. В середине 90-х во время тура, полиция задержала водителя фургона за хранение марихуаны. Случайный очевидец заснял проишествие на видео музыкантов, которое потом попало в телешоу Real Stories of the Highway Patrol.
Состав
Doug Martsch - guitar, vocals, bass, maracca,
Ralf Youtz - drums, guitar
Calvin Johnson - vocals, guitar, samples,
Wayne Flower - bass, drums
Steve Fisk - keyboards
Heather Dunn - guitars on The Rebels Not In Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
The Halo Benders are a band formed in 1994 by Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. They released their first album, called God Don't Make No Junk, in 1994. They followed up in 1996 with Don't Tell Me Now and in 1998 with The Rebels Not In.
All three of the band's albums were released on Johnson's influential Olympia record label, K Records.
Following a hiatus through the early 2000's, The Halo Benders reformed in March 2007 for a pair of shows at the Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID. The band featured Doug Martsch, Ralf Youtz, Calvin Johnson, and Brett Netson.
The Halo Benders' music is characterised by untraditional sounds, movements, and song structures. Additionally, the vocals of the baritone Johnson and the pitchy Martsch overlap often, even though often entirely unrelated. Johnson has said that the two write lyrics for songs largely independently. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.