Arctic Monkeys

Formed: 2003 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
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Styles: Indie Rock
Group Members: Jamie Cook, Alex Turner, Matt Helders, Andy Nicholson, Nick O'Malley
Biography: By distilling the sounds of Franz Ferdinand, the Clash, the Strokes, and the Libertines into a hybrid of swaggering indie rock and danceable neo-punk, the Arctic Monkeys became one of the U.K.'s biggest bands of the new millennium. Their meteoric rise began in 2005, when the teenaged bandmates fielded ...Read full biography
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Released: 2007
Label: EMI Australia
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Breathless praise is a time-honored tradition in British pop music, but even so, the whole brouhaha surrounding the 2006 debut of the Arctic Monkeys bordered on the absurd. It wasn't enough for the Arctic ...Read full review
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
Released: 2006
Label: Domino Recording Co.
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Breathless, hyperbolic praise was piled upon the Arctic Monkeys and their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, an instant phenomenon without peer. Within the course of a year, the ...Read full review
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