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Dead Man´s Bones
12+ albums
indiealternative
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Dead Man's Bones is a band comprising Academy Award-nominated actor Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl, Blue Valentine) and friend Zach Shields. Their first album, Dead Man's Bones was released on October 6, 2009 through ANTI- Records. The entire album is a collaboration with the Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir started by Flea from Los Angeles, California. Gosling performs under the alias "Baby Goose". When Shields and Gosling met in 2005 they discovered a mutual obsession with ghosts and decided to write love stories about ghosts and monsters. The pair chose to play all the instruments on the record, even those they had never touched before. They also imposed rules on themselves during the recording process, like not playing with a click track, or trying to do no more than three takes on any song, letting any imperfections highlight the strengths of the music. On December 25, 2008, Dead Man's Bones released a music video and free download for their song "In The Room Where You Sleep," and on April 4, 2009, the band released another music video for their song "Name In Stone" on MySpace and YouTube. The self-titled debut album from the band, featuring members of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music's children's choir, was released on October 6, 2009 through ANTI- records and was produced by Tim Anderson of I’m A Robot. Gosling and Shields also toured around North America for fall/Halloween 2009 with a local choir and talent show at every show to rave re