Dot Hacker

Dot Hacker
Origin	El Sereno, Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Experimental rock Alternative rock
Years active	2008–present
Labels	ORG Music
Associated acts	Gnarls Barkley, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante, Hella, Tweaker, The Motels, Le Butcherettes, Broken Bells, El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Big Sir, Monsters Are Waiting, The Bicycle Thief, Warpaint
Website	Official Website
Members	Josh Klinghoffer Jonathan Hischke Clint Walsh Eric Gardner

Dot Hacker is an American experimental rock band from California, formed in 2008. The band consists of Josh Klinghoffer (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Clint Walsh (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), Jonathan Hischke (bass) and Eric Gardner (drums).

Klinghoffer, Walsh and Gardner were all previously members of the touring incarnation of Gnarls Barkley, and were subsequently joined by Hella bassist Jonathan Hischke to create Dot Hacker. Prior to Klinghoffer joining the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the band recorded its debut album, Inhibition, which was released on May 1, 2012.

After meeting multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer through his Hella bandmates Spencer Seim and Dan Elkan, bassist Jonathan Hischke moved to Los Angeles, California, in 2008, to begin work on a potential project that would include Klinghoffer, and fellow Gnarls Barkley touring musicians, Clint Walsh and Eric Gardner. Regarding the band, Hischke noted,

"It’s this interesting thing, because it’s this band made of kind of young session musician types: Josh played with Beck, and PJ Harvey and John Frusciante, now he’s the new Chili Pepper. Then there’s Eric Gardner our drummer, he’s played with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gnarls Barkley, you know, Tom Morello, stuff like that. Clint Walsh has done Gnarls, The Scream, Electric Guest, and many others. So they invited me in to jam with them and I moved to LA to pretty much do that."

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