Yeasayer (pronounced "yaysayer") is a band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band was formed in 2006 and consists of three core members, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Anand Wilder. They first came to attention after appearing at the SXSW festival in early 2007. Their debut album All Hour Cymbals was released in October 2007. Yeasayer described their music as "middle eastern-psych-snap-gospel". Live performances often include psychedelic visuals.

Yeasayer released their second studio album, Odd Blood, in February 2010, featuring more pop music influences than earlier work. The band revealed that the album came out of a massive acid trip in New Zealand. Peter Gabriel's drummer Jerry Marotta helped to record Odd Blood in an upstate New York studio packed with rare synths and percussion instruments from around the globe to create the characteristic worldbeat sound of the album.

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There are at least 4 groups that use this name.

Javelin is a hip-hop and electro production duo from Providence, RI.
Tracks can be downloaded from their official Myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/hotjamzofjavelin.

Javelin was a visual kei band from Japan.
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Javelin is a metal band from Germany.
http://www.myspace.com/javelinmetal

Javelin is a stoner/doom metal band from Boston, MA.
http://www.myspace.com/javelinboston

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Class Actress is a synthpop band formed in 2009 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. The group consists of the singer-songwriter Elizabeth Harper and the producers Scott Rosenthal and Mark Richardson. Their music has been compared with artists like Depeche Mode, The Human League, OMD and Madonna.

Elizabeth Harper is a former drama student from Los Angeles, USA. Harper also pursued a solo career as an indie rock singer-songwriter. She released a studio album Elizabeth Harper in 2004 (2005 in the UK and 2006 in Japan). After the producer Mark Richardson remixed a song, she preferred Richardson's version to the original, and the two eventually reconvened in Brooklyn. They began fusing Harper' songs with sampled drumbeats and synthesized instruments and named the collaboration Class Actress. Later, multi-instrumentalist/engineer Scott Rosenthal joined the group.

In 2010, Class Actress released the 5-track EP Journal of Ardency on Chris Taylor's (of Grizzly Bear) Terrible Records.

In October 2011, the band released the debut album Rapprocher (meaning "to come closer" in French) on Carpark Records. The album received many positive reviews. The single "Weekend" supported the album.

Official site: http://classactress.tumblr.com


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