Rock Bands and Musicians from Northeast Ohio

The name of the band is a portmanteau of the description "danceable jazz." The band has recorded fourteen studio albums on the Motown, Geffen, RCA, and Intersound labels and released twenty singles. [...] The band was among the first wave of punk bands, and was known as one of the rowdiest and most violent punk groups of the era. [...] The band released a string of singles in between the late 1970s and early 1980s before entering to a hiatus and reforming in 1988 with guitarist Rick Christyson and keyboardist Trent Reznor, the founder of the industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails. [...] With Gamble & Huff, the O'Jays (now a trio after the departure of Isles and Massey) emerged at the forefront of Philadelphia soul with "Back Stabbers" (1972), and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 the following year with "Love Train." Several other US R&B hits followed, and The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, and the National Rhyt. [...] He is the frontman for the rock band Filter and a founding member of the supergroups Army of Anyone and The Damning Well, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails.