You know, The Dalles -- that little town with the funny name on the eastern end of the Columbia Gorge, famous mainly for an incident of salad bar bioterrorism in 1984? I was reading up on The Dalles because there's a job opening there, when I noticed this little note on the "The Dalles" Wikipedia entry:
Disamb: For the German rock group The Dalles, see The Dalles (band)One thing led to another and I found myself here, where I learned this:
05.03.2006 The Dalles bei iTunesSo what we've learned is, there is a German rock group called The Dalles, and they're the sort of German rock group that sings in English, and they've got a couple songs on iTunes. After a little more research, I have determined that they sound like a cross between Oasis and Coldplay!Die beiden Songs der aktuellen Vinyl-Single sind ab sofort auch im iTunes Music Store erhältlich. Zu einem Preis von 0,99- Euro kann man hier "All Goes Down" und "A Light Will Shine" in voller Länge downloaden. Hier ist der direkte Link: iTunes
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Posted by FLOG at April 16, 2006 12:21 PM | TrackBackNot bad, but how do they compare to the rocktacular stylings of Shakra, Der (Die? Das?) Hardrockband Aus Der Schweiz?
Posted by: zerlesen at April 18, 2006 12:13 AMWell, not being named after Shakra, and sounding like a cross between Coldplay and Oasis, I'd say they don't stand a chance against any kind of Hardrockband.
Posted by: FLOG at April 18, 2006 10:54 AM