City Quote by Kurt Vile

I was really into Radiohead and Live.

— St. Lucia

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

— Noel Redding

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early…

— Fred Armisen

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to…

— Arto Lindsay

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that…

— Dee Dee Ramone

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music…

— Lights

I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever…

— Jez Williams

I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and Steel Pole…

— Bonobo

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

— St. Lucia

I was with a group called the Nappy Headz. We had a song called Robbery it was like a redo of Khias My Neck,…

— T-Pain

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring…

— Jane Wiedlin