Albums by Stereophonics
ALBUMOochya!Stereophonics
ALBUMKind (Deluxe)Stereophonics
ALBUMScream Above the Sounds (Deluxe)Stereophonics
ALBUMKeep the Village Alive (Deluxe)Stereophonics
ALBUMGraffiti On The Train (Deluxe)Stereophonics
ALBUMPerformance and Cocktails (Deluxe Edition)Stereophonics
ALBUMWord Gets Around (Deluxe Edition)Stereophonics
ALBUMKeep Calm and Carry OnStereophonics
ALBUMPull the PinStereophonics
ALBUMLanguage.Sex.Violence.Other?Stereophonics
Stereophonics's Popular Music Videos
Caught By the Wind
Stereophonics
All In One Night
Stereophonics
The Bartender and the Thief (Live at Live 8, Hyde Park, London, 2nd July 2005)
Stereophonics
Innocent
Stereophonics
C'est La Vie
Stereophonics
Do Ya Feel My Love?
Stereophonics
White Lies
Stereophonics
I Wanna Get Lost With You
Stereophonics
Summer 2016
Stereophonics
Song For The Summer
Stereophonics
Artist Playlists
Stereophonics Essentials
These Welsh talents loom large over rock in the 21st century.
Stereophonics: Influences
The sweaty rock and throaty vocalists behind the Welsh band.
Stereophonics: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Artist Biography
Formed in 1992, Stereophonics rose up alongside the nascent Britpop movement, but they always seemed to exist just outside that scene. For one, hailing from the small Welsh village of Cwmaman—where singer/guitarist Kelly Jones and drummer Stuart Cable grew up on the same street—put them at a geographic remove from the London hipsters, while the band’s formative tastes leaned more toward no-frills blue-collar classic rock. (Prior to 1996, they were known as Tragic Love Company, a nod to riff-wielding heroes The Tragically Hip, Mother Love Bone, and Bad Company.) But in Jones, the band possessed a raspy yet melodic mouthpiece who could scale the power-ballad peaks of Bends-era Radiohead (see: 1997’s debut Top 20 single “Traffic”), while making Rod Stewart standards his own (with a faithful 1999 rendition of “Handbags and Gladrags”). And long after the Britpop party flamed out, Stereophonics continued to rack up the hits—in 2005, the band scored their first No. 1 single with the driving indie anthem “Dakota,” while in 2022, Oochya! became their eighth album to top the UK charts.
Hometown
Cwmaman, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
Genre
Rock