Dirty Three is an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis (violin and bass guitar), Mick Turner (electric and bass guitars) and Jim White (drums), which formed in 1992. Their album, Horse Stories (1996), was voted by United States magazine, Rolling Stone, as one of the top three albums of the year. Two of their albums have peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Ocean Songs (1998) and Toward the Low Sun (2012). During their career they have spent much of their time overseas, when not performing together Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, described them as providing a "rumbling, dynamic sound incorporated open-ended, improvisational, electric rock ... minus the jazz-rock histrionics". In October 2010, Ocean Songs was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.
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- Official homepage at dirtythree.com
- MySpace at myspace.com/dirtythree
- Wikipedia article on Dirty Three
- Last.fm page on Dirty Three
- Discogs at discogs.com/artist/Dirty Three
- MusicBrainz entry on Dirty Three
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