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Boom Boom Satellites are an electronic duo formed in Japan in 1990, and had disbanded in 2016. The band is made up of bassist/programmer Masayuki Nakano and guitarist/vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima. They also have a support member, Yoko Fukuda, who plays drums at live performances. They first debuted in Europe in 1997 with their first single, "4 A Moment of Silence" which received rave reviews from such definitive European music magazines as Melody Maker, which compared their debut impact to those of The Chemical Brothers' and The Prodigy's. The band blends the energy of rock with the meticulousness of electronic music....

The Smashing Pumpkins are an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1988. Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D'arcy Wretzky, using a drum machine. Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards. Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins had a densely layered, guitar-heavy sound, with powerful loud-to-soft-to-loud transitions, while still picking up grunge, heavy metal, power pop, psychedelic rock, shoegaze-style production. In later recordings,...

There are four bands by this name; 1. Satellites is an experimental rock group formed in Mallorca (Mediterranean Sea) in 1996. 2. Satellites is a UK post rock band formed in 2008, whose ep 'Shorelines' shows up on this page. www.myspace.com/satellitesbanduk 3. Satellites are a UK based band formed in 2010, who have released an EP titled 'New Eyes', available to download at http://satellitesuk.bandcamp.com. 4. Satellites is in fact not a band but one man, Englishman Johnny Vic aka John Garrison who lives in Copenhagen. He writes, plays and produces as Satellites. More information can be found on https://www.facebook.com/satellites01 http://www.satellites01.co.uk/...

Sal Costa fulfilled his dream of playing arenas in a rock band, but that band wasn’t his, so now he’s going full-force as lead singer, songwriter, co-producer and guitarist of Toronto alternative-rock band Smashing Satellites. The band — comprised of childhood friend, guitarist-keyboardist Mick Valentyne; drummer Mykey Thomas; and Vancouver transplant, guitarist-keyboardist Devon Lougheed is off to a good start. The first official single, the electro-drama “Waterfall,” hit the top 50 on the U.S. Mediabase alternative chart and top 40 in Canada. “Coming from a straight up rock band, I wanted people to know that that wasn’t the only place...

Ending Satellites (Bayonne, France) is a project both musical and photographic, whose main ambition is to offer anyone willing to undertake a journey out of time, within a few moments, in a universe where images and melodies. At the same time one and many, Ending Satellites is an eclectic artistic entity, shaped by the different personalities that will meet and evolve together in this project. At the beginning of Ending Satellites, there was the end of something, to be born in his epilogue another. Ending Satellites, launched by Damien Dufour in January 2011, is an entity built by all the...