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Obits: Music, Discography, History & Members

Obits was an American rock band formed in 2006 in Brooklyn, New York. The band members were veterans of other independent rock bands: Guitarist/vocalist Rick Froberg was previously a member of Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, and Hot Snakes, and guitarist Sohrab Habibion was a member of Edsel. The band released five singles and three albums, I Blame You…

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Obits topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Discography, History and Members as prominent areas in the source structure around Obits.

Related topics: 39
Source areas: 5
Connected nodes: 44
Extracted relationships: 48
Concept neighborhoods: 17
Bridge connections: 44

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 19 topics

Overview · 13 topics

Musical style · 4 topics

Members · 2 topics

Discography · 1 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Genres: Indie rock, garage rock, garage punk
Labels: Stint, Sub Pop
Members: Rick Froberg Sohrab Habibion Greg Simpson Alexis Fleisig
Origin: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Past members: Scott Gursky
Years active: 2006–2015

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Overview

Rock Rock music
Brooklyn
New York New York City
Guitarist
Vocalist Singing
Rick Froberg
Pitchfork Pitchfork (band)
Drive Like Jehu
Hot Snakes
Edsel Edsel (band)
Singles Single (music)
I Blame You
Moody, Standard and Poor

History

Drummer
Guitar
Bassist
Lower East Side
Bootleg recording
Internet
MySpace
Sub Pop
A&R
Seattle
Allmusic
Pitchfork Media
Record Store Day
North America
Midwest Midwestern United States
East Coast East Coast of the United States
South by Southwest
Girls Against Boys
SAVAK Savak (band)

Musical style

Members

Discography

Let Me Dream If I Want To

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Obits connects Entity context

The extracted context around Obits shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Obits → Allmusic, Blame You, Cake Shop, Chris Jacobs, Critical, Edsel, Explaining, Froberg, Froberg's, Greg Simpson, Hot Snakes, If, In, It's, January, Jason Crock, March, Mark Deming, MySpace, New York Another extracted example is Obits → Allmusic, Jason Crock, Mark Deming, Pitchfork Media. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Obits

Top relations

related to history · 37

Obits → Allmusic, Blame You, Cake Shop, Chris Jacobs, Critical, Edsel, Explaining, Froberg, Froberg's, Greg Simpson, Hot Snakes, If, In, It's, January, Jason Crock, March, Mark Deming, MySpace, New York

related to Musical style · 4

Obits → Allmusic, Jason Crock, Mark Deming, Pitchfork Media

Genres · 1

Obits → Indie rock, garage rock, garage punk

Labels · 1

Obits → Stint, Sub Pop

Members · 1

Obits → Rick Froberg Sohrab Habibion Greg Simpson Alexis Fleisig

Origin · 1

Obits → Brooklyn, New York, United States

Past members · 1

Obits → Scott Gursky

Website · 1

Obits → Obitsurl.com

Years active · 1

Obits → 2006–2015

Important terminology

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Important terminology

froberg band habibion rock new gursky simpson 2009 released rick blame 2006 sohrab members 2011 festival guitarist singles sub pop

Obits relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 48 structured relationships around Obits. Examples in this analysis include Obits → Genres → Indie rock, garage rock, garage punk and Obits → Labels → Stint, Sub Pop. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Obits	Genres	Indie rock, garage rock, garage punk	1.00	infobox
Obits	Labels	Stint, Sub Pop	1.00	infobox
Obits	Members	Rick Froberg Sohrab Habibion Greg Simpson Alexis Fleisig	1.00	infobox
Obits	Origin	Brooklyn, New York, United States	1.00	infobox
Obits	Past members	Scott Gursky	1.00	infobox
Obits	Website	Obitsurl.com	1.00	infobox
Obits	Years active	2006–2015	1.00	infobox
Obits	related to history	Rick Froberg	0.60	section
Obits	related to history	New York	0.60	section
Obits	related to history	Hot Snakes	0.60	section
Obits	related to history	In	0.60	section
Obits	related to history	Scott Gursky	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Obits bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include New, York and Rock. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Obits
- New
- York
- Rock
- Brooklyn
- Band
- Bands
- Members
- South
- Southwest
- Froberg
- Album
- Debut
obits
- New
- York
- Rock
- Brooklyn
- Band
- Bands
- Members
- South
- Southwest
- Froberg
- Album
- Debut
new york
- Brooklyn
- New
- York
- Scott
- Sohrab
- Habibion
- Rick
- Obits
- Rock
- Gursky
- Simpson
- Guitarist
rick froberg
- Sohrab
- Habibion
- Rick
- Pitchfork
- York
- Greg
- Gursky
- Scott
- Simpson
- Rock
- New
- Guitarist
i blame you
- Released
- Bed
- Bugs
- Moody
- Pitchfork
- Poor
- Singles
- Standard
- Album
- Debut
- Greg
- Pop
moody, standard and poor
- Moody
- Poor
- Standard
- Bed
- Bugs
- Singles
- Blame
- Released
- Band
- Pitchfork
- South
- Southwest
members
- South
- Southwest
- Festival
- Sohrab
- Rick
- Rock
- Habibion
- Bands
- Guitarist
- Like
- Pitchfork
- Singles
rock
- Bands
- Like
- Members
- Pitchfork
- York
- Habibion
- Sohrab
- Rick
- Froberg
- Guitarist
- South
- Southwest

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Obits, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Obits with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Obits — History · splits 25 ⟂ 20

Obits — Overview · splits 31 ⟂ 14

Obits — Musical style · splits 40 ⟂ 5

Obits — Members · splits 42 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Obits

Nodes45

Edges44

Triples48

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.044444

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Obits to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Discography, History & Members, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Obits · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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