Artist description Versatile, origional, and irreverent. Wonderfully twisted lyrics carried over unconventional riffs. Spazmatic changes mixed with salacious melodies. Humor... irony.... charisma, the Bogmen have reinvented music and taken it to a whole new creative level. New York's best live band.

Music Style alternative rock

Musical Influences Sonic Youth, The Rolling Stones, Brian Eno

Similar Artists Violent Femmes, Talking Heads

Artist History Formed in Long Island, NY in 1992. Soon they not only became recognized in Manhattan for their live shows, but all along the eastern coast. They started with the smaller venues: Under Acme, the Lion's Den, Tramps...then that 1994 show at the Limelight. Lonn Friend decided at that show to sign the band to Arista. The Bogmen released two albums on Arista. First the critically acclaimed

Group Members Bill Campion, Derek Finan, Bill Ryan, Brendan Ryan, Mark Wike

Instruments guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion

Albums Life Begins At 40 Million (1994), Closed Captioned Radio (1997), Home Recordings (1999)

Additional Info Bogmen Live, Yellar CD Single

Location New York, NY - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).