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"Who: Band of Skulls, a British trio whose shit-kicking, bare-bones brand of gritty rock &amp;amp; roll earned them a spot on the hugely anticipated soundtrack to the next Twilight movie, New Moon.\r\nSounds Like: White Stripes fans will dig Band of Skulls &amp;#x2014; swampy, heavily blues-influenced jams, especially the psychedelic stomp of &amp;quot;Light of the Morning&amp;quot; and the hard-charging &amp;quot;I Know What I Am.&amp;quot; But these guys aren&amp;apos;t just blues-rock formalists: they occasionally veer into complex prog-rock territory on tracks like the sprawling, appropriately-titled &amp;quot;Impossible.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That song was definitely a breakthrough for us,&amp;quot; says singer-guitarist Russell Marsden. &amp;quot;We realized we can make a wider, more epic version of our sound. [Drummer] Matt [Hayward] came up with the guitar hook, this lovely and complex finger-picking pattern. But I just dumbed it down.&amp;quot;\r\nVital Stats:\r\n&amp;#x2022; Singer-bassist Emma Richardson is a obsessive record collector &amp;#x2014; she&amp;apos;s amassed thousands of albums over the years. &amp;quot;I have a big old wall full of them,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Even thought it&amp;apos;s not in any order, I know where everything is.&amp;quot; Favorite album? Tom Waits 2004 LP Real Gone. &amp;quot;I listen to it at least once a week,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It kicks ass.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;#x2022; Band of Skulls cut their debut, Baby Darling Doll Face Honey, at Radiohead&amp;apos;s old studio in Oxfordshire, which was a huge thrill for the band &amp;#x2014; even if Radiohead only use it as a storage space nowadays. &amp;quot;They just keep their awards and gold records there,&amp;quot; says Marsden. &amp;quot;But it was still inspiring for us to be around the stuff of our favorite band from Britain.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;#x2022; Band of Skulls were shocked to hear that Twilight producers wanted to include the track &amp;quot;Friends&amp;quot; on the soundtrack to the movie, alongside heavy-hitters like Death Cab for Cutie, Thom Yorke and the Killers. And not because it would offer them huge exposure &amp;#x2014; the song that&amp;apos;s included is a rough-hewn cut they didn&amp;apos;t intend to send out. &amp;quot;When we sent out this CD, it had this extra song on it from our sessions, which we were unaware of,&amp;quot; says Marsden. &amp;quot;And they came back to use and asked for that track and we were like, &amp;apos;How the hell did they have it?&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\nGet It Now: Baby Darling Doll Face Honey is out now. Check out the band&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;I Know What I Am&amp;quot; in the video above."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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