What happens when a really cool band puts out a great first album that you fall in love with and then they break up? Go into a deep depression? Smoke some weed? Well whatever you choose be glad that you have one good album to obsess over. Sometimes we are lucky enough that the members split and form new bands and while they never sound like the original pairing at least it's something. In the case of one particular band, Death From Above 1979, band members Jesse Keeler and Sabastien Grainger decided to call it quits because they could no longer get along after the surprising success of their first full album, Your a Woman, I'm a Machine. A great mix of hard rock infused with a dance vibe, DFA1979 was one of a kind, literally. Fortunately both members have gone on to make more music and I have been lucky enough to buy some of it. Jesse Keeler went on to form the electronic band MSTRKRFT and Sebastien Grainger started the band called Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains. Check them out . There's also The Harlem Shakes who disbanded after one semi-successful album. A rock band from Brooklyn with a unique sound that is a little like Vampire Weekend before Vampire Weekend was even around. A friend just recently introduced me to them and it's a shame that they won't be making anymore music together because I certainly would have liked some more. Anyway the guitarist from HS, Todd Goldstein, has formed a new band called ARMS and I have just listened to a few tracks on their Myspace page and it's pretty good. I foresee an album purchase in the near future!
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