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Eleven is an indie rock band hailing from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1990 by Alain Johannes (vocals, guitar, sitar, horns), Natasha Shneider (vocals, keyboards, bass), and Jack Irons (drums).

Eleven's early history is intertwined with that of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. As teenagers Irons and Johannes formed the band Anthym with Michael Balzary (Flea) and Hillel Slovak; this band was soon to be renamed What Is This?. The members of What Is This? then joined with Anthony Kiedis to form the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but Slovak and Irons also continued to record with Johannes, and What Is This? released the EP Squeezed with Chris Hutchinson playing bass. After the recording of the self-titled second What Is This? album, Slovak and Irons discontinued the band to concentrate full time on the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Schneider and Johannes met and formed the duo Walk The Moon, which featured Jack Irons and Chris Hutchinson on several tracks. When Irons later left The Red Hot Chili Peppers he teamed up with his former bandmate Johannes and his new partner to form Eleven.

Midway through the recording of Eleven's third album, Thunk, Irons departed again to drum with Pearl Jam, and Matt Cameron played drums on the album's remaining four tracks. Irons was replaced by Greg Upchurch for their fourth album, Avantegardedog, but returned to the band once again prior to the recording of their fifth album, Howling Book. Ric Markmann played bass for Eleven on stage, though he did not feature on any of their albums.

Eleven have toured with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Queens of the Stone Age, and Johannes and Schneider have also become a sought-after production team working on albums such as Chris Cornell's Euphoria Morning (on which they also wrote, performed and toured), No Doubt's Return Of Saturn, Steadman's Revive, and The Desert Sessions 7&8 and 9&10 with Josh Homme. Most of the recording takes place at 11AD, their home studio - Howling Book was self-produced, recorded and mixed in its entirety at 11AD.

The band cites their major influences as Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sergei Prokofiev. With Chris Cornell, they recorded Shneider's arrangement of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria", which appears on the album, A Very Special Christmas 3, in the liner notes of which they state they deliberately chose a classical work to help interest young people in classical music.

• Awake In A Dream (1991)
• Eleven (1993)
• Thunk (1995)
• Avantegardedog (2000)
• Howling Book (2003)

• Eleven World - the official website

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