The Naked and Famous are an alternative rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. They formed in 2008 when Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith recorded EPs This Machine and No Light with engineer Aaron Short, a fellow student at Auckland's MAINZ music college. The band took their name from a line in the English artist Tricky's song Tricky Kid, everybody wants to be naked and famous, that is ambivalent about the notion of celebrity.
The EPs were subsequently released on local independent label Round Trip...
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