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The Wonders are a fictional one-hit wonder rock band from the 1996 film "That Thing You Do!," which was written and directed by Tom Hanks. It shows their rise to near fame on the heels of the British Invasion in the early 1960s, from local clubs and dances, to a major national tour and a record contract. Written and composed by Adam Schlesinger, bassist for Fountains of Wayne, and released on the film's soundtrack, the song "That Thing You Do!" became a genuine hit for The Wonders in 1996, and was nominated for the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best...

Wonderswan was conceived early in 2008 in a dark, damp basement in Leeds, UK and incubated in a warm pouch by the radiant glow of a shared love for scuzzy 90s lo-fi slacker bands. The first demo recordings were put together as the untitled "Bear" CDR and given out for free to audiences and friends. Within a very short time the young Wonderswan had played with bands including Times New Viking, No Age, Copy Haho and Lovvers to name just a few, toured the UK with Copy Haho, supported Sky Larkin on a UK tour and played the BBC Introducing...

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One of the reasons to invent new words or misspell existing ones when you name something, is to make people who search the internet for information about your creation find just the relevant data and nothing else. Perhaps this is the case with Koordinate of Wonders. The original name of the band is in Russian Координаты Чудес, named after a short story by science fiction writer, Robert Sheckley. KoW is a two person project with Yuri creating most of the music and Anton focused on promotion. They first started their music making experiments together back in 1998. The results were...

As a boy, growing up in a small town, he did what all the kids his age did: go outside and play sports. His dad would always play rock classics and domestic music and subconsciously he thinks this turned him off from music for a long time. He had too much in too short of a time period. It was not until the age of 14 that he expressed interest in music. He really did not know what was out there. The first electronica track he's ever heard was an .S3M (back in the MOD days) by "Purple Motion". He...