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外 文 名 Awolnation
组 建 人 Aaron Bruno
签约公司 Red Bull Records
类 型 美国电子摇滚乐队
乐队资料
Awolnation(经常写作AWOLNATION)是一个美国电子摇滚乐队,由Aaron Bruno组建,乐队受Under the Influence of Giants、Hometown Hero和Insurgence的影响颇深。乐队和独立唱片公司Red Bull Records签约,2010年5月18日在iTunes上发布了他们的第一张单曲《Back from Earth》。
美国新晋摇滚乐团,乐团成绩相当不错,第一首单曲 《Sail》一上榜就取得Billboard Alternative Songs 前30的不俗成绩。
作品列表
Back From Earth(2010)专辑
Megalithic Symphony(2011)专辑
I've Been Dreaming(2012)EP
Run(2015)专辑
Run (Beautiful Things)(2016)EP
Awolnation (usually stylized as AWOLNATION) is an American electronic rock band, formed and fronted by Aaron Bruno, formerly of Under the Influence of Giants, Home Town Hero, and Insurgence. The band is signed to Red Bull Records,and their first EP, ‘Back from Earth’, was released on iTunes on May 18, 2010.They released their first studio album, ‘Megalithic Symphony’, on March 15, 2011; it featured their most notable hit, "Sail", which peaked at #17 on the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100, #4 on the ‘Billboard’ Rock Songs chart,and #5 on the ‘Billboard’ Alternative Songs chart.The song has been certified 6× platinum by the RIAA and has sold 5,500,000 copies in the United States.As of February 29, 2016, the album has been certified platinum.
The band's second studio album, ‘Run’, was released on March 17, 2015.
On April 7, 2015, they made an appearance on ‘Conan’.
On or around September 3, 2015 Bruno confirmed that long time guitarist Drew Stewart had left the band to spend time with his family. He was replaced by Irontom guitarist Zach Irons. In an interview with Premier Guitar, Irons says he got a call from Aaron while on the road with his band Irontom supporting AWOLNATION during the Run tour. Aaron asked if he could step in for Drew. Zach says it took him four whole days to learn all of the songs where he barely slept and there were barely any rehearsals. An interesting note about Zach's playing is that he is right handed, but plays guitar left handed.
On December 1, 2015, AWOLNATION released a B-Side track from Run named "Wichita Panama" for the Red Bull Records "Red Bull 20-Before-16" December event.
On February 22, 2016, AWOLNATION released the videoclip for the song "Woman Woman" for the Red Bull Records.
In a live Facebook Q&A session, Aaron mentioned that his favorite song to play live with AWOLNATION is usually the newest song that they have started playing live.
Aaron says he is always working on the next AWOLNATION song, but he is currently working on finishing IRONTOMs sophomore record.
On June 20, 2016, the band announced that it was cancelling many dates of its summer headlining tour so it could serve as the opening band for the Prophets of Rage tour. This announcement was met with consternation and upset by many of the band's fans, many of whom took to the band's Facebook page and other social media outlets to express their displeasure at incurring non-refundable expenses planning to attend imminent shows that were cancelled unceremoniously and at the last minute.
On July 8, 2016, AWOLNATION released an alternate version of ‘Run named Run (Beautiful Things’), where the repeating lyric "capable of doing terrible things" is replaced with "capable of doing beautiful things." The music video for this shows a person in a cloak with the AWOL helmet holding a purple lantern while emerging from the sea. At times, the scene cuts away to a mermaid with the person as she swims away at the lyric "run."