Tweaker (band)

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Tweaker
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Genre(s)	Alternative rock Industrial rock Electronica New prog
Years active	Late 1990s–present
Label(s)	Waxploitation
Associated acts	Teargas & Plateglass Marilyn Manson Gnarls Barkley
Website	www.tweaker.net
Members
Chris Vrenna Clint Walsh

Tweaker is an American alternative rock collaboration founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s. Tweaker's musical style incorporates synthpop, progressive rock, modern jazz and electronica genres, and is characterized by a generally melancholy and sombre sound with distinctive artwork to match.

The album The Attraction to All Things Uncertain was Vrenna's "solo" debut and it was not until the follow-up album, 2 a.m. Wakeup Call, that Clint Walsh was announced as a permanent fixture to the band. While Vrenna and Walsh supply most instruments and electronics, many other famous musicians have lent their voices and talents to Tweaker, including Robert Smith, David Sylvian, Burton C. Bell, Will Oldham, Hamilton Leithauser, Buzz Osborne, Jonathan Bates and Johnny Marr.

The albums that have been released follow a central theme that was planned out and this was given to the collaborators. Both albums' cover art were paintings by Joe Sorren.

Tweaker wrote and performed the title theme to Doom 3, which was released via the band's website.

While the Doom 3 theme was heavy metal-oriented (to the point of often being misattributed to Tool), most of Tweaker's music presents a unique combination of synthpop, shoegaze, modern jazz, and industrial.

Tweaker is to release a new album in 2008, as stated by Waxploitation in the official Tweaker forums. Waxploitation is Tweaker's management company and doesn't always have solid information about project time frames.

1 Live performance
2 Official members
3 Discography
4 External links

[edit] Live performance

In 2004, Tweaker opened for Skinny Puppy on select dates with a full live band, consisting of Chris Vrenna (drums, percussion and keyboard), Clint Walsh (guitar and keyboard), Paul Ill (bass guitar and keyboards) and Nick Young (vocals). They performed everything completely live (i.e., no pre-recorded tape), although they did have to alter some of their songs to fit the live format — the most extreme case being a completely revamped rock version of "Microsize Boy". The final performance on the tour was at QuakeCon 2005 in Dallas, TX.