![]() They were also nominated for a Radio Contraband Rock Radio Award as Indie Artist of the Year in 2012, and were voted the 98.7 FM 2012 Close to Home Artist of the Year, defeating No Doubt in the final round. Dead Sara received the "Best New Rock Group" award at the third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012 on August 26, 2012. Soon after, "Weatherman" was used by Fiat in their "Fiat 500 Abarth Burning Up the Desert" advertisement. 16 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart. In April 2012, the band released their debut eponymous album through the label, Pocket Kid Records, produced by Noah Shain. In 2010, the band started their own label, Pocket Kid Records, set up as a subsidiary of Interact-TV, Inc. In 2011, when singer Grace Slick was asked by The Wall Street Journal which contemporary female singers she admires, Slick named Armstrong. In 2009 Armstrong was commissioned by Hole frontwoman Courtney Love to sing backing vocals on Love's 2010 album Nobody's Daughter. After numerous changes to the drummer and bass player positions, the band’s line-up finally coalesced in 2009 with Sean Friday on drums and Chris Null on bass, both of whom previously played with Sonny Moore (currently known as Skrillex). They released the six-song EP The Airport Sessions on Viscount Records in 2008. In 2007, Dead Sara began their first tour as the opening act for Endless Hallway. Around this time Medley began styling her first name as "Siouxsie", as a nod to the Sioux Indians tribe and the Native American heritage of one of her great-grandparents (rather than a reference to the musical artist Siouxsie Sioux). ![]() Both Armstrong and Medley have publicly cited Stevie Nicks, the singer and writer of the song "Sara", as a primary influence. Having briefly gone by the name Epiphany, in mid-2005 they changed their name to Dead Sara as a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song "Sara" and its lyric ".said Sara", which the band misheard as "dead Sara". Their first live performance as a band was in March 2005 at The Mint nightclub in Los Angeles, with Armstrong playing bass. The pair began writing songs together in 2003, and in 2004 completed their first studio recording with the song "Changes". Armstrong and Medley met through a mutual friend in 2002, at ages 16 and 15 respectively. They signed with Atlantic Records in 2017, and released an EP, Temporary Things Taking Up Space in 2018. Best known for their single "Weatherman" from their debut eponymous album Dead Sara they released their second album, Pleasure to Meet You, in 2015. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Emily Armstrong, Siouxsie Medley and Sean Friday. For… Read Full Bio ↴ Dead Sara is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California. Dead Sara is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California.
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