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The Heroine Sheiks was a New York, United States-based noise rock band until early 2006, when the band called it quits. It began in 1999 as a collaboration of Shannon Selberg, George Porfiris, Norman Westberg and John Fell. Selberg emerged as a major songwriter in the complete history of the band whose sound was darker and more sinister than his previous work in The Cows. With multiple references to the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the band explored a thematic quality of black comedy. Many of the more successful bands from New York in the last ten years record sales wise got...

The Sheiks were a portuguese band formed in 1963 by Paulo de Carvalho (drums and vocals), Fernando Chaby (guitar), Carlos Mendes (vocals, guitar and bass) and Jorge Barreto (guitar). Nicknamed the portuguese Beatles, they played the typical rock and roll of that time and of wich they were the percursors in Portugal. In 1964 Barreto leaves the band being replaced by Edmundo de Brito Silva (bass). .

The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential American guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues, but were adept at many styles of popular music of the time. The Mississippi Sheiks consisted mainly of the Chatmon family, who came from Bolton, Mississippi and were well known throughout the Mississippi Delta. The father of the family had been a "musicianer" (someone with good technical ability on his or her instrument adept at sight-reading written music) during slavery times, and his children carried on the musical spirit. Their most famous (although by no means...

Eaten By Sheiks is not just a project. It is even more than a band. This is serious, conviction, idealism, love, a big chunk of life and family. 9 years practising in permanent pugnacious fertilisation... DISCOGRAFIE: 1997: "In my Head" / LP / Ragaprong Rec. / prod. by Willi D. + E.B.S 1998: "Traxdata Vol.1" / CD / Ragaprong Rec. / prod. by E.B.S 1999: "Monsterwomanwife" / CD / Ragaprong Rec. / prod. by L. Meid 2000: "Monsterwomanmusic" / EP / Ragaprong Rec. / prod. by Moertec 2002: "Come Away" / CD / Ragaprong Rec. / prod. by T|o|m +...