From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tsar (band)
Tsar (band)
Tsar Albums
Origin USA
Genres Rock and roll/power pop
Tsar - July 25, 2000
• 1. Calling All Destroyers
Years active 1998–present
• 2. I Don’t Wanna Break-Up
Labels Hollywood Records, TVT Records • 3. Silver Shifter
• 4. Kathy Fong Is The Bomb
Members
• 5. The Teen Wizards
Jeff Whalen - Guitar & Vocals (1998-) • 6. MONoSTEReo
Daniel Kern - Guitar & vocals (1998-) • 7. Afradio, Pt. One & Pt. Two
Jeff Solomon - Bass Guitar (1998-2005, 2010-)
• 8. Ordinary Gurl
Steve Coulter - drums (1998-2004, 2010-)
• 9. Disappear
Past members • 10. The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die
Derrick Forget - Bass Guitar (2005-2006)
Chuck Byler - drums (2004-2006) Band-Girls-Money - June 28, 2005
• 1. Band-Girls-Money
Tsar is a rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in • 2. Wanna Get Dead
1998, with Jeff Whalen on lead vocals and guitar, Daniel • 3. The Love Explosion
Kern on vocals and guitar, Jeff Solomon on bass, and • 4. Superdeformed
Steve Coulter on drums. They released an eponymous al- • 5. Straight
bum on Hollywood Records in 2000, which, although a • 6. Wrong
financial disappointment for the label, availed them a • 7. Everybody’s Fault But Mine
number of dedicated fans. Their songs ’Ordinary Gurl’ • 8. Conqueror Worm
and ’The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die’ were featured in the • 9. Startime
movie American Psycho 2. • 10. You Can’t Always Want What You Get
In 2004 Chuck Byler replaced Coulter and in 2005 Der-
rick Forget replaced Solomon. In 2005 Tsar released its
second full album, Band-Girls-Money, on TVT Records. The
External links
album had been recorded nearly two years earlier with • Tsar MySpace page
Coulter and Solomon. The titular track was included in • http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/
the soundtrack for the racing game Burnout Legends. 01/tsar-live-los-angeles-times.html
In late January 2010, the band’s original lineup ( • http://www.americanheartbreak.com/rnrgeekwp/
Whalen/Kern/Solomon/Coulter ) reunited. They played 2010/02/28/classic-albums-revisited-tsar-jeff-
a show at the LA Times, & released a new song ( "Girls Try whalen-interview/
To Be Cool" ).
According to a Jeff Whalen interview on the "Rock
And Roll Geek Show" podcast, a new album is in the
works.
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Categories:
• American pop punk musical groups
• Musical groups from Los Angeles, California
• TVT Records artists
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