Concrete Blonde

Concrete Blonde is an alternative rock band based that consisted of singer-songwriter and bassist Johnette Napolitano, guitarist James Mankey, and drummer Harry Rushakoff.

Concrete Blonde was featured prominently in the 1987 film The Hidden. "Your Haunted Head" was also used in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 in 1986. The B-side to the single of "Joey", "I Want You," was featured in Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 cult film Point Break.

Their most commercially successful album was Bloodletting which was released in 1990 and featured the top 20 radio hit "Joey". The band broke up in 1993, but reunited in 1997, and again in 2001, releasing the albums Group Therapy in 2002 and Mojave in 2004. In June 2006, Napolitano announcedthat the band has officially retired.

In July 2010, Shout! Factory released a remastered 20th anniversary edition of Bloodletting, compiled without involvement from the band. It features six bonus tracks including "I Want You," "Little Wing," the French extended version of "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)", and live versions of "Roses Grow," "The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden," and "Tomorrow, Wendy".