question: What band wrote the songs Alive and Meet Me Halfway were the first and third songs on their album called "The E.N.D.?
answer: The Black Eyed Peas
context: Title: Wormburner
  Passage: Wormburner is an indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York.  Their music has been categorized as college rock.  The band has five members, and is led by Steve "Hank" Henry, who is the band's singer, guitarist, and songwriter.  Henry graduated from Colgate University in 1993.  Their debut album, "A Hero's Welcome", was released in 2006 and produced by David Lowery of Cracker.  The band wrote and recorded the album's 12 songs at Lowery's studio in Richmond, Virginia.  These songs' power-pop sound, along with a series of live shows by the band, led to the band and album becoming increasingly popular.  The band released its second album, "Placed by the Gideons", in 2010 on the label Wax Off, which is partly run by WSUM host DJ Renton.  In 2012, the band was interviewed for MTV's series 120 Minutes.  Their third album, "Pleasant Living in Planned Communities", was released on Dive Records in September 2014.  Prior to its release, a song from the album, "Somewhere Else to Be", was premiered by Brooklyn Magazine.  Robert Christgau gave "Pleasant Living in Planned Communities" an A- grade, writing that on the album, "Hank Henry doesn't swallow a word as he shouts his tuneful tales into the void, and unlike Craig Finn [of the Hold Steady], he doesn't specialize in or even much notice the human dregs and heroes of the alt-rock scene."
  Title: Meet Me Halfway
  Passage: "Meet Me Halfway" is the third single from the Black Eyed Peas’ fifth studio album "The E.N.D".  The song peaked at number seven on the "Billboard" Hot 100.  Outside the United States, "Meet Me Halfway" topped the charts in Australia, Germany, Romania and the United Kingdom.  In the latter country, "Meet Me Halfway" became the tenth biggest-selling single of 2009.  It is a dance-pop song in the key of D Major.
  Title: Zenji flava
  Passage: Zenji Flava is a common nickname for Zanzibari hip hop, a genre that began to develop in the 1990s.  Cool Para said to be the first rapper to pioneer Zenji Flava during the 90s.  He was using Saleh Jabri's tape to rap on some local shows in Zanzibar until 1996 when he teamed-up with another rapper named Cool Muza together with others they formed a rap group called "Struggling Islanders.  They made their debut single "Historia" in early 1997.  Though the group short-lived and Cool Para and Muza both went to pursue a solo career.  Cool Para was the first rapper in Zanzibar and Tanzania mainland to make rap and taarab fusion called taarap.  With it he went to record a song with the most prominent taarab music band widely known as the East African Melody Modern Taarab, the song was known as "Loo Umezoea" which was released early 2000.  He also did "Kwenye Mataa" with the same taarab band in 1998.  Before Cool Para, there was also another short-lived crew named Contish.  The group consisted with two members Abdul and Hakim.  They released their only album called "Mabishoo" (93).  The album was available all over Zanzibar and Tanzania.  They were using Swahili lyrics over ragga instrumentals such as 'Tingaling' by Shabba Ranks.  Sam,e style as Saleh J. Sometimes later they disbanded and Kim went on pursue a solo and released an album called Kim Pekee.  Abdul went to live abroad.  The name is made of "zenji", which is slang for "Zanzibar", and "flava", which is a corruption of "flavour", thus meaning "of Zanzibari taste".  As with bongo flava, i.e., Tanzanian mainland's hip hop, zenji flava is usually sung in swahili; the main difference between the two subgenres is that Zanzibari hip hop also reflects some influence of taarab, and thus indirectly of Arab music and Indian music.  Notable zenji flava artists include Ali Haji.  As Zenji flavour goes on it find itself as a sub part of Bongo flava as it has influence from the young generation of artists who want to cop with Bongo flava.  like Offside trick, 2 berry now is separated to form two solo artists（Berry black and Berry white）, Wazenji kijiwe and Shaka zulu, others are East connection which was made up with almost seven groups of artist including Offside trick Brooklyn, Four nature, Jumbo camp, Queen love, and K jam.  It was in this time that Zenji flava was modernized with rapid growth in the number of artists.
  Title: Halfway Gone
  Passage: "Halfway Gone" is a song by American band Lifehouse.  It is the first single released from their fifth studio album, "Smoke & Mirrors" (2010).  It was first released via digital download in the United States and Canada on October 26, 2009.  It was then solicited to mainstream radio on January 12, 2010.  Several remixes of the song were later released on iTunes on April 6, 2010 in an album called "Halfway Gone Remixes".  The song was a commercial success, charting in Canada, the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.  The accompanying music video portrays Lifehouse lead singer Jason Wade singing most of the lyrics in a local park, and also features several anonymous people singing the lyrics as well.  The band has performed the song live on several occasions.
  Title: Alive (The Black Eyed Peas song)
  Passage: "Alive" is a song by The Black Eyed Peas from their album "The E.N.D".  The track reached number 65 in the Canadian Singles Chart and number 88 in the UK Singles Chart.  The song was released on May 23, 2009 in United Kingdom, May 25 in Australia and on May 26 on iTunes.  It was the second promotional single from the album as part of "The Countdown to "The E.N.D", the first being "Imma Be" and the third being "Meet Me Halfway" which were later commercial singles.
  Title: The Hunger (band)
  Passage: The Hunger is an industrial rock band from Houston, Texas formed by brothers Jeff and Thomas Wilson along with Brian Albritton.  During the initial year of putting the band together and working on new material the band wrote and independently released the single, "Shock" in 1991 which rose to the top of the dance charts.  Industrial dance music ruled the charts in Europe along with strong ties to Chicago, Wax Trax Records, and Houston.  Subsequent releases of "Cut the Skin" and "Shoot to Kill" gained national exposure on the dance charts and club scene.  "Never Again" was self-released as a radio single and quickly rose to the top of Houston Radio Station's 93Q and 96.5 attracting the attention of independent record label Alpha International.  Stephen Bogle produced the single of "Never Again".  The band wrote and produced the album "Leave Me Alone" but due to the bankruptcy of Alpha International the record sat idle.  It was released but there were no marketing efforts behind it.  After the release of the album, the band sought out drummer Max Schuldberg and they played their first concert as a foursome opening for Peter Murphy at Southern Star Amphitheater.  They played concerts in Texas as a foursome for two years.  Along with the three founders and newest member Max Schuldberg, the band added producer Stephen Bogle as guitarist to complete the line up.  The band recorded and produced "Grip" under their own start up label, Gut Records.  "Grip" went on to sell 15,000 units with the help of a crafty rework of Bad Company's "Feel like Makin Love".  Universal Records, at the time a brand new start up label, heard of the success of "Grip" and signed the band as their second artist ever.  "Devil Thumbs a Ride", the 3rd album, had already been recorded and mastered and was about to be manufactured for another self-release when Universal stepped in to sign the band and release the album as-is.  The Hunger had a hit song in 1996, "Vanishing Cream", from the "Devil Thumbs a Ride" CD, which received heavy airplay on rock stations and reached No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock charts.  After two years of constant touring, the band finally stopped to record their second release with Universal Records, "Cinematic Superthug".  After only moderate success with the single, "Moderation", the band asked to be and was granted a release from their contract from Universal Records.  Two songs, "Shoot to Kill", also from "Devil Thumbs a Ride", and "If", from "Grip", reached No. 42 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart.  The band has released six albums: two on Universal Records and four on independent labels. Former original drummer (1991-2003) Max Schuldberg (voted 2002's Best Drummer by the Houston Press Music Awards) parted with the band after the five albums in 2003 and moved to Los Angeles.  Former guitarist and two time Grammy Award nominee (remixer, for his work with D.J. Cubanito) Stephen Bogle now Produces artists in the Metal, Electronic, and Pop genres.  In late 2005 Stephen Bogle parted ways with the band, and Tim Huston was quickly picked up.  With having only a few practices with the band they headed on tour with Ten Years.  Tim Huston Stayed with the band from late '05 til 2013.  "The lifestyle was just getting to overwhelming for me to handle".  "If I would have stayed, who knows what would have happened to me.  There was just no off button".  In 2013, guitarist Raf Rivera joined the lineup, and the band is currently in the process of recording their first new material in over 8 years.
citations: Alive (The Black Eyed Peas song) Meet Me Halfway