The Hotel Alexis | ms

There are at least four bands with this name. 1st. positive melancholic band from Berlin. 2nd. This project is a musical collective series of improvisation, founded by Douglas Dickel (input_output, Blanched), inspired by Joshua Homme’s Desert Sessions. Hotel began in 2006 at the Live Studio, in Porto Alegre, when Dickel brought together musicians from the local indie & post-rock scene. Songs are written & recorded “on the spot”, simultaneously, and in matters of four hours. Hotel is the introducing of people to each other. The gathered musicians try some spontaneous ideas or rhythms, or pick up stuff. “Térreo” means Hotel’s...

Tokio Hotel is a German band founded in Magdeburg, Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer. The four met in 2001 after a live show in a Magdeburg club, where Listing and Schäfer, who knew each other from music school, watched from the audience while Bill and Tom Kaulitz played on the stage. After Bill Kaulitz’s participation in a children’s Star Search in 2003 at age thirteen (which he lost in the quarter-final), he was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann. Devilish changed their name to Tokio Hotel: “Tokio” is...

Alexis & Fido, often nicknamed Los Pitbulls or Los Reyes Del Perreo, are a reggaeton duo from Puerto Rico. They own Wild Dogz, a label created, by both. Alexis's real name is Raul Ortiz, while Fido's real name is Joel Martinez. According to Alex & Fido, the song El Palo, put them on the map. According to Fido,he and Yandel were close friends as teenagers and helped each other kick start their careers. Likewise, Alexis was close to Wisin, and also helped him with his career. Eventually, Alexis & Fido and Wisin & Yandel and went their separate ways. In...

Alexisonfire (pronounced 'alexis-on-fire') is a band from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Their music is characterized by turbulent and explosive dynamics with intricate guitar melodies. Consisting of five friends, they formed in late 2001 as the result of a three-band break up. The band’s name is inspired by a lactating contortionist stripper named Alexis Fire. This caused problems when she discovered that they were using her website name (alexisonfire.com) as their band name, and threatened to sue. However, since she had never trademarked the title nothing became of these threats. In the end, the band decided to change their website’s URL...

The Black Hotels are an indie rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa. Formed in 2006, their first release, a five-track EP called Beautiful Mornings, made them one of the most critically acclaimed South African indie bands of 2007. The band spent the most part of 2007/08 on the road completing six national tours in 18 months with notable performances at Oppikoppi, The XBox Summer Festival, Powerzone Unplugged Festival, Durban Botanical Gardens and The Annexation Tour. In 2009 the band released their first full-length album, Films for the Next Century. The record was nominated for a South African Music Award for...