Burnside Project
Biography
Burnside Project is a New York City based electro-pop band. The band members include Richard Jankovich, Gerald Hammill, Paul Searing, Anna Bohichik and Michael Lerner. They transformed from a solo project in 1999, to a duo in 2001, a trio shortly after their album release in 2003 and finally expanded to a five-piece in 2005.
The group released their debut, The Networks, the Circuits, the Streams, the Harmonies in 2003 on Bar/None. In 2005, the group released The Finest Example is You. As of May 2007, they were in the studio recording new material.
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The song "Cue the Pulse to Begin", from The Networks, the Circuits, the Streams, the Harmonies, was used as the theme song to seasons 4 and 5 of the US TV series Queer as Folk. "Cue The Pulse To Begin" also became a top 10 radio hit in Japan when "Networks" was released on SONY/DefSTAR in 2004. The band toured the country in support of the release in Summer of 2004.
In 2005, bandleader Richard Jankovich also began making a name for himself remixing and producing under the name "Pocket." To date, he has release "pocket mixes" for Joanna Newsom, Elk City, Mendoza Line, Antony & The Johnsons, Eskobar, Cat Power, Dirty On Purpose and Of Montreal.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.