Which Californian band, formed in Modesto in 1992, once wrote a song about an android who drinks himself to death?
Grandaddy
Jed the Humanoid
Jed the Humanoid is a song on the 2000 album "The Sophtware Slump" released by the Modesto, California indie-rock band Grandaddy.
 The song is a eulogy for an android who drinks himself to death, and is taken to be central to the nature versus technology parable of the band's second album.
 A music reviewer for The Guardian, Dorian Lynskey, called it "the saddest robot song ever written."
Grandaddy
Grandaddy is an American indie rock band from Modesto, California.
 The group was formed in 1992, and featured Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Jim Fairchild, Kevin Garcia and Tim Dryden.
Always the Hard Way
Always the Hard Way is an album by Californian band Terror, released on the Trustkill label in 2006 (see 2006 in music).
 The album also features a guest appearance by Mr. Dibbs and Murs (credited as "Mr. Murs") as a rap interlude, Aaron Cooley of Death Threat on "You Can't Break Me", and on "So Close to Defeat", a vocal performance is given by Eddie Sutton of Leeway. Neurosis &amp; Jarboe
Neurosis & Jarboe is the self-titled debut studio album by the collaboration of Californian band Neurosis and ex-Swans vocalist and solo artist Jarboe.
 It was released on October 21, 2003 by Neurot Recordings Noah Landis
Noah Landis is the keyboard player for the Californian band Neurosis.
 His keyboard sound varies between textural and moody overlays, sampled effects/noises and the occasional hook.
 He is also a member of the experimental/noise band Tribes of Neurot, the band Blood and Time, and was the lead singer for Blister (punk band).
 He runs a small recording studio in Oakland and restores a vintage Chevrolet El Camino in his free time. The Eye of Every Storm
The Eye of Every Storm is the eighth studio album from the Californian band Neurosis.
 While still carrying the folk influenced sound that was used extensively on "A Sun that Never Sets", this album sees the band returning to the massive and dark guitar textures and sludge metal passages that were prevalent on "Through Silver in Blood", but employing a more sparse, clear style of songwriting. British folk rock
British folk rock (sometimes called electric folk) is a form of folk rock developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s.
 Though the merging of folk and rock music came from several sources, it is widely regarded that the success of "The House of the Rising Sun" by British band the Animals in 1964 was a catalyst, prompting Bob Dylan to "go electric", in which, like the Animals, he brought folk and rock music together, from which other musicians followed.
 In the same year, the Beatles began incorporating overt folk influences into their music, most noticeably on the song "I'm a Loser" from their "Beatles for Sale" album.
 The Beatles and other British Invasion bands, in turn, influenced the Californian band the Byrds, who released their recording of Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" in April 1965, setting off the mid-1960s folk rock movement.
 A number of British groups, usually those associated with the British folk revival, moved into folk rock in the mid-1960s, including the Strawbs, Pentangle, Eclection, and Fairport Convention. Jona Weinhofen
Jona Weinhofen (born January 1, 1983) is an Australian metalcore guitarist and musician from Adelaide, South Australia.
 He is the lead guitarist for Australian band I Killed the Prom Queen.
 He was also the rhythm guitarist for British band Bring Me the Horizon from 2009 to 2013 and the guitarist for Californian band Bleeding Through from 2007 to 2009. A Sun That Never Sets
A Sun That Never Sets is the seventh studio album from the Californian band Neurosis.
 With this album Neurosis further distances themselves from their punk influenced roots and delve further into experimentalism but also still having sludge metal influences.
 The album sees Neurosis incorporate folk into their sound creating yet another unique sounding album.
 The album was awarded #18 on Decibel Magazine's top 100 metal albums of the decade.
 The band later released a DVD of a full-length film to which the album accompanies. Times of Grace (album)
Times of Grace is the sixth studio album by Californian band Neurosis.
 It continued the band's development of the post-metal genre and demonstrates gothic rock and progressive rock influences.
 This album and "Grace", an ambient companion by the band's alter-ego Tribes of Neurot, are designed to play alongside each other.
 "Times of Grace" marked the beginning of the band's ongoing working relationship with recording engineer Steve Albini.