My Sister's Machine
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| My Sister's Machine | |
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| Origin | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Genre(s) | Grunge |
| Years active | 1989–1994 |
| Label(s) | Unsigned |
| Former members | |
| Owen Wright Chris Ivanovich Chris Gohde |
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My Sister's Machine was a grunge metal band, formed in Seattle, WA in the early nineties.
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[edit] History
My Sister's Machine was a hard rock band that formed in 1989, prior to the "grunge movement" of the early 90's in Seattle, WA. They have been labeled as a grunge band, but in reality they were a hard rock band.
In 1990, My Sister's Machine received the "Best New Band" award from the Northwest Music Association.
In 1991, they had much interest from the major record labels but chose to sign with a smaller label Caroline Records who could spend more time and effort promoting them.
In 1992, they released their debut album, Diva to much critical acclaim. Lonn Friend (editor of the heavy metal/rock music magazineRIP) who did a weekly segment called "Friend At Large" on Headbangers Ball on MTV, talked about how much he loved the album. He also wore their shirt for two weeks on the show. Over the next year they did a tour with The Smashing Pumpkins who were also signed to Caroline. They toured the United States and Europe. They did in-studio interviews on Headbangers Ball promoting their video on MTV for their single, I'm Sorry. They also co-headlined a tour with Pantera.
In 1993, they moved to Chameleon a division of Elektra Entertainment and released Wallflower in 1993. You can view the video for their single, Enemy at [1]. They toured the United States with King's X.
Just a couple months after releasing the album Elektra Entertainment folded the Chameleon division dropping all bands that were signed leaving the album and band un-promoted. After a string of bad luck they split up in 1994.
Vocalist Nick Pollock had played the guitar in Alice in Chains in the '80s and remained in the close-knit Seattle metal scene that included those two bands as well as Gruntruck and Screaming Trees.
[edit] Members
[edit] Discography
- Diva (Caroline, 1992)
- Wallflower (Chameleon, 1993)
