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There are also at least two bands that go under the name of "New York": 1) The now defunct heavy metal band. 2) The indie rock band that was featured on the "Fresh Weird & Wonderful" compilation released by Australia's Pistol Records. Currently, New York has released the EP, "Your Love (The Remixes)," and their self-titled full album, both of which were released in 2008. .

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is best known as the lead singer of the English alternative rock band Radiohead. He has released two solo albums, "The Eraser" (2006) and "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" (2014) and is also the frontman for the supergroup Atoms for Peace. He mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions). He has one brother, Andy, of the band the Unbelievable Truth. Yorke currently lives in central Oxford with his partner, Rachel Owen, a printmaker...

The New York Dolls are a rock group formed in New York City in 1971, now famous as a protopunk band. Though they found limited success during their initial run, the New York Dolls prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era, particularly among other NYC bands such as the Ramones. And, even later; the Dolls' over-the-top crossdressing and sexual tone influenced the look of many glam metal groups, especially that of early Mötley Crüe and Poison, and their shambling and sloppy but highly energetic playing style set the tone for many later rock n roll...

Fleeing New York describe their music as Rockabilly/Crunk/Jam and they are from Southampton, UK. Band members are Russell Marsden, Emma Richradson and Matt Hayward. Now known as Band of Skulls. See http://www.last.fm/music/Band+Of+Skulls . .