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Musical groups from Los Angeles

  • Black Eyed PeasThe Black Eyed Peas topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 26 straight weeks in 2009. No artist had done it longer by then.
  • Metro Station (band)The band Metro Station began on the set of Hannah Montana. Mason Musso and Trace Cyrus met there in 2005.
  • Guns N' RosesGuns N' Roses, the hard rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1985, owes its breakthrough to a single airing in the dead of night. The video for "Welcome to the Jungle" first ran on MTV at 4 a.m. on a Sunday, and it was played only once.…
  • Red Hot Chili PeppersThe Red Hot Chili Peppers played their first show on the 16th of December 1982, at the Grandia Room, a club on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of roughly 30 people. They did not yet have that name. The poster billed them as Tony Flow and the…
  • Eagles (band)The Eagles, an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971, spent the 31st of July 1980 promising to beat each other up. The trouble began before the concert in Long Beach, California. Guitarist Don Felder said 'You're welcome - I…
  • The DoorsThe Doors sang the banned word "higher" on The Ed Sullivan Show. Network executives had asked the band to cut it.
  • Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine, a rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1991, had sold more than 16 million records worldwide by 2010. On the 3rd of November 2023, Ice-T inducted the group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Barclays Center in…
  • MegadethMegadeth is an American heavy metal band, and its name began with a line on a political pamphlet. In 1983, Dave Mustaine found the leaflet on a bus heading back to Los Angeles. California senator Alan Cranston had put it out. One sentence…
  • KatseyeMore than 120,000 people applied to join Katseye, a girl group based in Los Angeles, and only six of them made the final lineup. The group did not form the usual way, through old friends or a single audition room. It was assembled over…
  • Hollywood UndeadHollywood Undead began as a song posted on MySpace in 2005. Three Los Angeles friends called themselves The Kids.
  • Zoellner QuartetHelen Keller wept when the Zoellner Quartet played for her in Oklahoma City. She felt the music through a tabletop.

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