Big Wreck is a rock band formed by Ian Thornley in 1994. They disbanded in 2002 but reports of a reunion surfaced in 2010. History Formation and In Loving Memory Of... The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts by vocalist Ian Thornley, guitarist Brian Doherty, bassist Dave Henning and drummer Forrest Williams, who met as students at the Berklee College of Music. After several years of gigging in Boston and Cambridge, the band signed to a major label and released its debut album In Loving Memory Of... in 1997. The single "The Oaf" was a major Top Ten hit for the band that year. Perha...

Thornley is a Canadian post-grunge/hard rock band formed by Ian Thornley in 2002. The band was started when Ian Thornley returned to Toronto after the breakup of his earlier band, Big Wreck. With the help of Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, Thornley signed on to Kroeger's 604 Records. The other band members of Thornley are Paulo Neta on guitar, drummer Eric Paul, formerly of Canadian band Big Sugar, and Cale Gontier, a former guitar technician for Three Days Grace (and cousin of frontman Adam Gontier), on bass. History The band's debut album, Come Again, was produced by Gavin Brown, and rel...

"Shine" is a song by American post-grunge band Collective Soul. It served as the lead single from their 1993 debut album, Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid. "Shine" would remain the band's most well known song and a hallmark of 1990s alternative rock. It became the #1 Album Rock Song of 1994, and won a Billboard award for Top Rock Track. The track also reached the top of the Album Rock Tracks for eight weeks and peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. VH1 would later place "Shine" at #42 on their list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s." In 2001, it was included on the band'...

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. All of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto. The band refuses the label "supergroup," based on size or the ubiquity of their members, claiming that in the indie scene everyone is involved in more than one project. The group's sound could be considered a combination of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally consi...

Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, consisting of Benjamin Burnley, Aaron Fink, Mark Klepaski and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four albums to date. Their music is most often classified as alternative metal, and post-grunge. The group is currently on hiatus due to frontman, Benjamin Burnley suffering two broken legs in the fall of 2009. History Formation (1998-2001) Before Breaking Benjamin was formed, Ben Burnley had earned money by playing cover songs in various coffee houses as a solo artist under his own name, "Benjamin." He later came up...