Kaiser Chiefs

This indie rock group hailing from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, sings with heart and sends a message through every song they create. They're named after the South African football team, Kaizer Chiefs, and have been throwing out tasteful jams since 1996. They drew inspiration for their first album, Employment, from 1970s and 1980s punk rock and new wave, and worked their way into the indie rock scene with their later albums. Band members Nick Baines, Nick Hodgson, and and Simon Rix first met when they were eleven and attending St. Mary's Catholic High School (not the one my sister went to here in the States, unfortunately), and like all good things in life, the forces of nature brought them back together in later years. Other band members, Ricky Wilson and Andrew White, were brought into Hodgson's life while Rix and Baines went to university. The trio formed the band Runston Parva, which luckily for all of us who will be at Coachella, did not work out, leading to the formation of Kaiser Chiefs. Kaiser Chiefs have that smooth indie Brit sound and draw you into their music with their beautiful and captivating eyes, I mean voices... ;)

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