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She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge Live in Orlando FL.
Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres Alternative rock
Darkwave
Post-punk revival[1][2]
Years active 2005–present
Labels Perfect Kiss
Flawless Justin Warfield of She Wants Revenge - Live in Concert
Geffen/Interscope (2005–2008)
Universal Records
Suicide Girls that She Wants Revenge has a lot of un-
Website shewantsrevenge.com released potential b-sides, like "Love to Sleep," which
Members they’d like to share. Adam added that the band would like
to tour with their heroes The Cure and Bauhaus.[5] Re-
Justin Warfield
cently, they have been released from their contract with
"Adam 12" Bravin
the label Geffen/Interscope, according to a MySpace bul-
letin, alongside acts like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails
She Wants Revenge is an American musical duo, based
who have recently declared independence. The group
in San Fernando Valley, California. The group’s debut al-
formed their own label, Perfect Kiss, formerly an imprint,
bum She Wants Revenge was released in early 2006, with
in 2008.
three singles to follow ("These Things," a video for which
Their EP, Save Your Soul, was released to iTunes on
features Shirley Manson from Garbage, "Out of Control,"
May 13, 2008.[6] The EP contained four tracks: "Save Your
and "Tear You Apart" for which the video was directed by
Soul," "A Hundred Kisses," "Sugar," and "Sleep." The
Joaquin Phoenix). The band has sold more than 300,000
group has formed a fan club and participated in the 2008
records in the US. The band’s second album, This Is Forev-
Nylon summer tour. Their song "Tear You Apart" ap-
er, was released on October 9, 2007.
peared in the first season of the TV show Fringe (episode
The group’s third album, entitled Valleyheart, was re-
18, "Midnight") and in the movie Number 23 starring Jim
leased on May 23, 2011.
Carrey.
An EP titled Up and Down, was released via iTunes on
History September 22, 2009.[7] At the end of their current tour to
The band toured extensively through 2006 with synth- promote the release of Up and Down, She Wants Revenge
pop band Depeche Mode[3] and Placebo.[4] will begin working on their third studio album,[8] which
In 2007, the group was featured on the track "Time" will revisit the dark roots of their first album.[9]
with Timbaland. In a recent interview, Adam Bravin told
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Year Song US Hot U.S. Album
100 Modern
Rock
2005 "Sister" - - She Wants Revenge
"Tear You Apart" - 6
2006 "These Things" - 22
"Out of Control" - -
"I Don’t Wanna Fall in Love" - -
2007 "True Romance" - - This Is Forever
"Written in Blood" - -
2011 Must Be The One / Take The World - - Valleyheart
A new video titled "Take The World" was released Fe- Their song "Us" was chosen to be leaving music for Daft
bruary 7, 2011, prior to the release of their first single, Punk’s Alive 2007 Tour.
"Must Be The One". The video was band member Adam She Wants Revenge will be at the House Of Blues at
Bravin’s directorial debut. Filming for "Must Be The One" Aneheim.
began on February 8, and was released in March. Valley-
heart, the band’s third studio album, was released on May
23, 2011.[10][11]
Band members
Lead members
Genre • Justin Warfield – vocals, guitar, keyboards
Due to a broad array of musical influences, and a reluc- 12)
• Adam Bravin (aka Adam 12 – bass guitar, keyboards,
tance to stick to a single genre of music,[12] She Wants guitar, drum machine, percussion, programming,
Revenge’s genre is often disputed. vocals
Considered part of the post-punk revival movement
of the 00s,[1][2] the group have been compared to Joy Divi- Accompaniment
sion or Interpol in the music press because both vocal- • Thomas Froggatt – guitar
ists (Paul Banks and Justin Warfield) have similarities to • Scott Ellis – drums, percussion [19]
the baritone vocal range of Ian Curtis. However, Justin
Warfield has stated many times his band is more elec-
tronically based[13] often referring to She Wants Revenge Discography
as "Dance Music."[14][15]
Musically, their influences range from the dance of Albums
1980s acts like New Order, Depeche Mode and The Psy- • She Wants Revenge (2006) Perfect Kiss
chedelic Furs to the alternative rock groups of the 1990s, • This Is Forever (2007) Perfect Kiss
such as Pulp, My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth to the • Valleyheart (2011) Five Seven Music
darker rock bands of the New Wave and post-punk move-
ments such as Bauhaus, Danse Society, and The Sisters of EPs
Mercy[16] who helped create the aesthetics of the origi-
• These Things (2005) Perfect Kiss
nal gothic rock genre.[17]
• Tear You Apart (2006) Perfect Kiss
Justin Warfield speaks about the umbrella term dark-
• True Romance (2007) Perfect Kiss/Geffen/
wave which has been applied to She Wants Revenge’s mu-
UniversalMusic
sic:
• Save Your Soul (2008) Perfect Kiss
“ ...Dark wave to me is darker than what we do, ” • Up and Down (2009)
I mean honestly I just consider it dancy rock n
roll: not like rock n roll like early Stones dan- Singles
cy rock n roll, but certainly rock n roll like
dance. Sure we’ve said before it’s like dark Compilations
dance because that’s an easy way for people to
• The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack – (October
wrap their hands around it. If you want to get
2006; contributed "Kidnap the Sandy Claws")
more specific, yeah it’s dark.[18]
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• Timbaland Presents: Shock Value – (April 3, 2007; [9] Interview with Adam Bravin at The Bottleneck,
contributed "Time") October 3rd 2009
[10] Official Facebook Post: Valleyheart
References [11]
[12]
SWR Twitter
She Wants Revenge (genre: Other) and Influences
[1] ^ Senft, Michael. "6/27: Get to know She Wants [13] Interview with Justin Warfield
Revenge". azcentral.com (The Arizona Republic). [14] [1]
http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/ [15] [2]
articles/2010/06/17/20100617she-wants-revenge- [16] Justin Warfield’s MySpace: Influences
scottsdale.html. Retrieved 2010-09-12. [17] Goth rock
[2] ^ Cleinman, Daria. "She Wants Revenge - Love, Sex [18] October 2009 Interview in Audio
and Synthesizers". Regen Magazine. [19] Scott Ellis
http://www.regenmag.com/Interviews-305-She-
Wants-Revenge.html. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
[3] She Wants Revenge & Depeche Mode Tour Dates
External links
[4] Placebo to play US shows with She Wants Revenge • Official website
[5] Suicide Girls Interview • She Wants Revenge on Myspace
[6] Save Your Soul iTunes Download Link • Voodoo Tonic - Interview With The Voodoo - New
[7] Up and Down iTunes Download Link Models & Great Bands
[8] Facebook Page; "Recent News" Section
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