What band originally from Tucson, Arizona and currently from Albany, New York released their first album in 2000?
Hector on Stilts
Hector on Stilts
Hector on Stilts (HOS) is an American Indie pop/rock band.
 The band was originally formed in Tucson, Arizona, in 1998, and currently resides in Albany, New York.
Pretty Please
Pretty Please is the first album released by Hector on Stilts in 2000.
The Dusty Chaps
The Dusty Chaps was a honky tonk country swing band based in Tucson, AZ from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s.
 In 1975 they released their first album Honky Tonk Music on a small Tucson label, Bandoleer Records.
 The band subsequently signed with Capitol Records and rerecorded Honky Tonk Music with an added track in 1977.
 They released another album on Capitol, Domino Joe (1978).
 Band members included Peter Gierlach (vocals, accordion); George Hawke (bass, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Pat McAndrew (electric guitar); Leonardo Lopez (drums, percussion); Steve Solomon (keyboards, saxophone, clarinet, vibraphone); Bill Emrie (violin); Red Davidson (piano, accordion, vibraphone, marimba); and Ted Hockenbury (pedal steel guitar).
 For some time the Chaps were the house band at Tucson's renowned Stumble Inn as well as the Poco Loco. Mario Martinez (painter)
Mario Martinez (born 1953) is a contemporary abstract painter.
 He is a Native American artist who is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from New Penjamo (in Scottsdale), the smallest of six Yaqui settlements, in Arizona.
 He currently lives in New York City.
 Martinez received his bachelor's degree from School of Art, Arizona State University in Tempe and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
 His work has been exhibited in 2005 in a one-person retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York.
 Notable group exhibitions include: "Who Stole the Tee Pee?"
 at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York; "AlieNation" at the American Indian Community House Gallery.
 His work was recently shown at "IN/SIGHT 2010" at Chelsea Art Museum, New York and "The Importance of IN/VISIBILITY" at Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, 2009.
 In 2002 Martinez was one of the first non-Japanese artists to be invited to exhibit at the Contemporary Artists Federation Group Show at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan.
 In 2000, he was a visiting professor of art at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and in 2001 he received the Native Artist in Residence Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian.
 In 2005, Martinez completed a commission for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; a 22-foot mural called "Sonoran Desert: Yaqui Home" as part of "Home: Desert Peoples in the Southwest" exhibition.
 Martinez will be featured in a solo exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts in Mesa, Arizona opening September 10, 2010. Kid Gorgeous
Kid Gorgeous is a metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, United States.
 The group features a conglomerate mix of members from past and current bands Buried Alive (band), Every Time I Die and Anterrabae.
 Their first album, "Friday Night Knife Fight", was released in May 2001.
 Their second studio album, "This Feeling Gets Old", came out in June 2003.
 Both efforts were released on Southern California indie label Uprising Records.
 The band originally called it quits in 2003 with their last show being with Snapcase and Every Time I Die in November of that year.
 from 2003</ref> With a couple one off reunion shows since then, the band has recently resurfaced with news in March 2010 that they were going to record and tour briefly in the summer.
 The band started recording an EP in December 2010 at GCR Audio in Buffalo, New York with Jay Zubricky and debuted 2 of the songs at their show with Every Time I Die on December 29, 2010.
 Subsequently, on December 30, 2010, The band released the song "Mermaid With A Switchblade" via their Facebook and Myspace pages.
 On February 1, 2012, Eulogy Recordings announced that it will be releasing the EP titled "Blue Romance" which includes three new tracks, a re-recorded classic, and a cover on June 5, 2012.
 It was announced via the band's Twitter and Facebook pages that Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley has lent vocals to a cover of Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight" which will be a bonus track on the EP. Laurie Notaro
Laurie Notaro (born aft.
 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is a #1 "New York Times" best-selling American writer.
 Notaro was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, She graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in journalism.
 She co-founded "Planet Magazine", and was a senior editor at "Tucson Monthly", a full-color city magazine.
 Notaro was a columnist for ten years at The Arizona Republic.
 In October 2001, The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club was picked up by Random House which resulted in eleven books.
 She is now with Simon & Schuster publishers with the Gallery imprint.
 Numerous articles, essays, and novels have followed, and she was a finalist for The Thurber Award for American Humor.
 She has written for "The New York Times", "Glamour, BARK Magazine", "USA Today, Village Voice Media," and "BUST".
 She currently lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband. Tony Malaby
Tony Malaby (born January 12, 1964 in Tucson, Arizona) is a jazz tenor saxophonist.
 Malaby moved to New York City in 1995 and has played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias's Open Loose, Fred Hersch's Trio + 2 and Walt Whitman project, and bands led by Mario Pavone, Chris Lightcap, Bobby Previte, Tom Varner, Marty Ehrlich, Angelica Sanchez, Mark Dresser, and Kenny Wheeler.
 Other collaborators have included Tom Rainey, Christian Lillinger, Ben Monder, Eivind Opsvik, Nasheet Waits, Samo Salamon and Michael Formanek.
 His first album as a co-leader was "Cosas" with Joey Sellers. Osgoods
Osgoods are an American rock band with its roots in Tucson, Arizona.
 The band was formed by guitarist Anthony Nigro and drummer Colin Wyatt while they were both attending college in Tucson.
 In 1998, the band relocated to Los Angeles.
 In 2003 they released their first full album, "Automatic Do-Over", followed by "Smother and Shrink" in 2006. Joe Sharkey
Joe Sharkey is an American author and former columnist for "The New York Times."
 His columns focused mostly on business travel, while his non-fiction books focus on criminality.
 Sharkey also co-authored a novel.
 He has been the Assistant National Editor for "The Wall Street Journal", the City Editor for the "Albany Times-Union", and a columnist for "The Philadelphia Inquirer".
 Formally residing in the New York area, he and his wife live in Tucson, Arizona. Digby (band)
Digby is an American power pop band originally formed in January 2000 in Louisville, Kentucky.
 They had been known as 100 Acre Wood before that.
 The band is fairly popular within the city and surrounding area.
 During 2000, Digby released its first album, Laughing At The Trees.
 In 2004, they released their most notable album to date, "Falling Up", on June 1, 2004 under the Toucan Cove/Label X label.
 The album was produced by Todd Smith, who has done work with Days of the New and Smash Mouth.
 The album debuted #1 on the ear X-tacy sales chart, #92 on the CIMS sales chart, #20 on R&R's specialty chart, and #7 on FMQB's Submodern Report.