Artist
WHY?
WHY? is a musical artist formed in 1997. 43 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 43
- Releases
- 1999–2025
- Active years
- 1997
- Formed
Artist
WHY? is a musical artist formed in 1997. 43 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Most popular
Alopecia
2008 · 14 tracks
Circles
Single · 2025
Ocracoke
Single · 2025
Jump
Single · 2024
The Letters, Etc.
Single · 2024
G-dzillah G’dolah
Single · 2024
Auld Lang Syne
Single · 2022
Phantom Throb
Single · 2021
Heyi (Yoni Wolf Remix)
Single · 2021
Early Whitney (Almost Live from Joyful Noise)
Single · 2021
The Hanukkah Blessings
Single · 2021
I, Testarossa (Almost Live from Russian Recording)
Single · 2019
III. Please take me home, I don’t belong here.
EP · 2019
V. I want to live with conviction, in silence and diction.
Single · 2019
We Are Real
Single · 2019
VI. Though I’m tired, I’m still trying.
Single · 2019
Siren 042
Single · 2019
IV. The surgeon nervously goes on, he never claimed to be God.
EP · 2019
I. I may come out a broken yolk, I may come out on saddle.
EP · 2019
II. I’ve been carving my elbows, I might just take flight.
EP · 2019
Easy (Baths Remix)
Single · 2018
By Torpedo or Crohn's (DNTEL Remix)
Single · 2018
Good Friday (Boards of Canada Remix)
Single · 2018
Proactive Evolution (Nick Diamonds Remix)
Single · 2017
WHY?: The Wild Honey Pie Buzzsession
Single · 2017
Golden Tickets
EP · 2013
Sod in the Seed
EP · 2012
Rubber Traits
EP · 2006
Sanddollars EP
EP · 2005
The Early Whitney EP
EP · 2003
Split EP!
EP · 2001
One of the more indie rock acts on the usually hip-hop-leaning label Anticon, the indefinable Why? come from the Oakland Bay area. The genre-blending band came to the revered label because of main man Yoni Wolf's college friendship with Anticon artist Doseone. The enigmatic Split was their first release for the label in 2002 and was followed a year later by Oaklandazulasylum. Both the Sanddollars EP and the full-length Elephant Eyelash appeared in 2005. The following year the Rubber Traits EP came out, and in 2008, Alopecia hit shelves. Eskimo Snow followed in 2009 and featured Mark Erickson along with Fog's Andrew Broder. The title for their 2012 effort Mumps, Etc. was inspired by contracting the disease while in Europe, along with other "on tour" calamities. In 2013 the conceptual Golden Tickets EP materialized, a seven song collection of personalized tracks crafted by Wolf for seven individual Why? fans he'd internet stalked over the course of several months.
