Tsar is a rock band

Rock Band

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 formed in Los Angeles

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, California

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 in 1998, with Jeff Whalen on lead vocals and guitar, Daniel Kern on vocals and guitar, Jeff Solomon on bass, and Steve Coulter on drums. They released an eponymous album on Hollywood Records

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 in 2000, which, although a financial disappointment for the label, availed them a number of dedicated fans. Their songs 'Ordinary Gurl' and 'The Girl Who Wouldn't Die' were featured in the movie American Psycho 2

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In 2004 Chuck Byler replaced Coulter and in 2005 Derrick Forget replaced Solomon. In 2005 Tsar released its second full album, Band-Girls-Money, on TVT Records

TVT Records

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. The album had been recorded nearly two years earlier with Coulter and Solomon. The titular track was included in the soundtrack for the racing game Burnout Legends

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In late January 2010, the band's original lineup ( Whalen/Kern/Solomon/Coulter ) reunited. They played a show at the LA Times, & released a new song ( "Girls Try To Be Cool" ).

According to a Jeff Whalen interview on the "Rock And Roll Geek Show" podcast, a new album is in the works.

Tsar - July 25, 2000

• 1. Calling All Destroyers
• 2. I Don't Wanna Break-Up
• 3. Silver Shifter
• 4. Kathy Fong Is The Bomb
• 5. The Teen Wizards
• 6. MONoSTEReo
• 7. Afradio, Pt. One & Pt. Two
• 8. Ordinary Gurl
• 9. Disappear
• 10. The Girl Who Wouldn't Die

Band-Girls-Money - June 28, 2005

• 1. Band-Girls-Money
• 2. Wanna Get Dead
• 3. The Love Explosion
• 4. Superdeformed
• 5. Straight
• 6. Wrong
• 7. Everybody's Fault But Mine
• 8. Conqueror Worm
• 9. Startime
• 10. You Can't Always Want What You Get

External links

• Tsar MySpace page
• http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/01/tsar-live-los-angeles-times.html
• http://www.americanheartbreak.com/rnrgeekwp/2010/02/28/classic-albums-revisited-tsar-jeff-whalen-interview/