Black Taxi (band) Black Taxi (band) Black Taxi is a rock band that formed in Brooklyn in 2007. The band is considered one of New York City's premier live acts, and consistently sells out venues along the East Coast. To date the band has released three full-length albums, "Things of That Nature" (2009), "We Don't Know Any Better" (2012), and "Electroshock Death Grip" (2014), and three extended plays. The music video for their song "Shoeshine" was named an official honoree in the 15th annual Webby Award selections. The group has an upbeat party rock musical style, which has been dubbed "grit pop" or
Taxi (TV series) its ABC time slot of Thursday 9:30 p.m following the first season of "Cheers". An NBC promo for "Taxi"s move to the network featured Danny DeVito in character as Louie saying "Same time, better station!" The opening titles show a cab driving east across the Queensboro Bridge. The footage originally was intended as a "bridge" between scenes and is only about fifteen seconds long; parts of it are repeated to fill the opening. The closing version consisted of a cab driving into the night. Bob James wrote the opening theme, "Angela", which had been intended for a sequence in episode