Monarchs | zh

Described as "what The Mars Volta would sound like if they were a surf band," The Reigning Monarchs are a four-piece surf punk band from North Hollywood, California. Co-founded by guitarists Greg Behrendt and Mike Eisenstein in 2007, the current lineup also includes bassist David Hawkins and drummer Blair Sinta. The band's self-titled first album came out in 2009, and was followed up with a two-song Split 7" with Laramie Dean in 2010. In July 2012, the band released their three-song "All Summer Single" EP, which quickly became their best-selling record to date. The band's music is featured on the...

There are multiple artists with this name. 1) Doo-wop group. In 1960, the Blue Angels, a 5-piece combo, contained the core of what would become The Monarchs. Following the addition of four members and a name change suggested by Frances Gibson the Mother of Mike Gibson the lead singer, the band scraped together the money to record their first 45. It was an era filled with local "music stars." It was a time of sock hops, teen clubs and AM radio. If a group had out a record it was possible to receive airplay.The Monarchs' first recording, "Over The Mountain;'...

1.) A doo-wop group from Louisville, Kentucky. 2.) A garage rock band from Michigan active in the mid-'90s on Bulb Records. 3.) A garage rock band from Sydney, Australia active in the '90s. 4.) Music comes not from lesson or rote but the open soul. Celeste Griffin, the Monarchs lead singer, began her music education in the piano at age eight. It lasted less than a year. It was fifteen years later, on a sultry afternoon in Alabama, when Celeste again laid her untrained hands to her mother’s piano and stumbled upon her first song, Notes of Disease. The pot...