Alien Ant Farm

They are currently working on a new album; the name has yet to be released. Seeger and Hays founded communal homes called Almanac Houses, but the group fell apart soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Joe Hill was named the new guitarist in 2005. More recordings followed, but blacklisting and internal friction soon drove the group apart. In 2004, guitarist Terry Corso split with the band citing "irreconcilible differences". The second album was Talking Union, a collection of labor songs, many of which were intensely anti-Roosevelt. "Glow" has been a mainstream radio success, while also achieving long lasting top 20 success in New Zealand. Politics and music remained closely intertwined with the members' political beliefs, which were far-left and occasionally led to controversial associations with the Communist Party USA. Their first release was an album called Songs for John Doe, would urged non-intervention in World War II, and was made with the help of Eric Bernay (of Keynote), Joe Thompson (of NBC), Nicholas Ray (future film director) and Alan Lomax (musicologist).

Finally in winter 2002, Alien Ant Farm returned to the studio to work on their next album called truANT, which was released in 2003 produced by Stone Temple Pilots' Robert and Dean DeLeo. in February of 1941. The driver died and the band members had several injuries, including a broken neck for lead singer Dryden Mitchell. Mainstream national success began after the American Youth Congress meeting in Washington D.C. The band was involved in a bus accident while touring in Spain. Members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally after Seeger and Hays had been playing at left-wing political functions for a time. Their following single "Movies" was a Top 5 hit in the UK and a Top 20 hit in New Zealand. The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who achieved brief popularity in the early 1940s.

Their cover of the Michael Jackson song, "Smooth Criminal", was a #1 single in Australia and New Zealand and a #3 single in the UK. In 2000, Alien Ant Farm signed with DreamWorks SKG for their debut album ANThology and then the band began touring in 2001. Alien Ant Farm was formed in the USA in 1996 as a grunge and alternative metal group. "Glow", 2004 single.

"These days", 2003 single. truANT, 2003