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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret
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Power pop
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Power pop is a pop rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of devices such as strong melodies, clear vocals and crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed, in the 1980s and 1990s, power pop continued as a commercially modest genre but by the mid-1990s through the 2000s, power pop was mainly in the underground. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods. The Small Faces are often cited as being among the progenitors of power pop, the Whos role in the creation of power pop has been cited by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen of the Raspberries, who has said, Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didnt stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups came out in the 70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars. It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models, other acts such as the Knickerbockers, the Easybeats and the Outsiders contributed iconic singles. Writer John Borack has noted, Its also quite easy to draw a line from garage rock to power pop. Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American. The Raspberries 1972 hit single Go All The Way is an almost perfect embodiment of the elements of power pop, the most influential group of the period may have been Big Star. The Replacements even recorded a song entitled Alex Chilton in honor of Big Stars frontman, spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and new wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, as the novelist Michael Chabon has written, Power pop in its essential form. Did not come into existence for a number of years after it was first identified, like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff. The term was used in reference to critics favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Los Angeles-based Bomp. magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genres roots to 1960s groups like the Who, like their punk brethren, late–1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early–1970s predecessors. Some occasionally incorporated synthesizers into their music, though not to the degree as did their new wave counterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from the Bomp, records label by 20/20, Shoes and the Romantics. Major label groups like Cheap Trick, the Cars and Blondie merged power pop influences with other styles and achieved their first mainstream success with albums released in 1978
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Giant Records (Warner)
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Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and record executive Irving Azoff. In 1990 Giant became a label for Warner Music Group. Its first release, in early 1991, was the Gulf War all-star tribute song Voices That Care and that spring, Hold You Tight by Tara Kemp was released and went on to become a top-five single. In the months that followed, Giant Records released the album for the film New Jack City. The label signed such acts as MC Hammer, Jade, Lord Finesse, Giant also signed established acts such as Big Car, Miles Zuniga, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Oingo Boingo, Chicago, Deep Purple, Morbid Angel, Brian Wilson, and Kenny Rogers. The label operated a music division in Nashville, the first act signed was Dennis Robbins. In 1993 Giant became dissatisfied with the way Warner Music Group was handling its international affairs, by the mid- to late 90s, the company had replaced most of its staff and launched a subsidiary label called Revolution Records, Brian Wilson signed with the new label in 1997. The company later reverted to its name and distributed Paladin Records. In 2001 Warner Music Group ended its joint venture with Giant Records, in February 2015 Warner Music Sweden announced that it would reactivate Giants name, the first single released under the new Giant Records banner was Simon Ericss Waiting for the Sun. Artists on Giant Records were primarily distributed by Warner Bros, Giant recording artists marked with were distributed by Reprise Records. List of record labels Warner Music Looks to Complete Giant Records Deal
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Lakeshore Records
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Lakeshore Records is the independent music division of Lakeshore Entertainment. They started out as WILL Records, will Records were started by Skip Williamson in the early 1990s. As WILL Records they released albums by such as Grandaddy In 2000. Will Records and Lakeshore Entertainment partnered to form Lakeshore Records, Lakeshore Records has released soundtracks to many films, such as Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. Official Lakeshore Records site Soundtrack. net Allmusic Official website Lakeshore Records at the Internet Movie Database
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V2 Records
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V2 Records is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, and then by PIAS Entertainment Group in 2013. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI, the label was owned 95% by Morgan Stanley, the chief financier of the company, and 5% by Branson. Over the years V2 acquired Gee Street Records, Junior Boys Own, Blue Dog Records, the label also distributed many labels, such as WichitaWichita, Luaka Bop, City Slang and Modular. Stereophonics were the first band to sign to the label, V2 now operates in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. It was distributed in the US by BMG, however it left for WEA shortly after the formation of Sony BMG. Its headquarters were located at 14 East 4th Street in Manhattan, the former US home of Island Records, in 2006 Branson sold V2 North America to Sheridan Square Entertainment LLC for $15 million. SSE then merged its label Artemis Records into V2 North America, the new label was effectively divested from the Virgin Group. On 12 January 2007, V2 North America announced that it was undergoing restructuring to focus on its back catalogue, as a result, their employees were let go and their roster of artists left as free agents. V2 Benelux was founded by Richard Branson in 1997 as part of the V2 International group with affiliates in USA, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux. In February 2007 the directors of V2 Benelux, Chris Boog and Tom Willinck, rounded off a management buy out together with their distributor. In August 2007, V2 Music Group was sold for £7 million to Universal Music Group, Cooperative Music has had significant success with various acts such as Fleet Foxes, Phoenix and The Black Keys. In 2009, the newly formed IndieBlu Music Holdings LLC acquired SSEs business, including V2 North America, IndieBlu was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010. In early 2013, PIAS acquired Cooperative Music from Universal Music Group, since its formation, PIAS Cooperative has had success with albums from Factory Floor, Temples, Maximo Park, John Grant, The Eels, and Midlake. Acoustic 07, an album released by V2 List of record labels Official website Cooperative Music
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EMI Music Japan
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EMI Music Japan Inc. was one of Japans leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30,2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake and its CEO and president was Kazuhiko Koike. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was involved with the production of anime, on April 1,2013, the company became defunct, following its absorption into Universal Music Japan as a sublabel under the name EMI Records Japan. The company was founded on October 1,1960, as Toshiba Musical Industries, from 1962, it licensed Columbia titles for release in Japan. After an injection of capital by Capitol EMI, EMI acquired 50% of the company in October 1973, on October 3,1994, the equity ratio of the company was changed, in which EMI obtained 55% with Toshiba owning the remaining 45%. On June 30,2007, Toshiba Corporation sold the remaining 45% stake in the company to EMI, the name was then changed to EMI Music Japan, reflecting Toshibas divestiture from the business. On April 1,2013, EMI Music Japan was officially absorbed into Universal Music Japan, the label continued to use the TOCT catalog code until October 2013, when it started to use the TYCT catalog code. The official website has shut down as of October 23,2013. After the dissolution and absorption, some of the former EMI staffs, then-executive producer San-e Ichii has been the managing director of Japan Content Expansion Department. Kazuhiko Koike has stepped down from his position as CEO by the end of 2013, nine months after the merger and he was replaced by Naoshi Fujikura. EMI Music Japans present slogan is Music for all, All for music, TM Factory Unlimited Records List of record labels Youmex Official website— 50th Anniversary of EMI Music Japan website—
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Loaded (band)
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Loaded is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1999. Since 2001, the bands line-up has included vocalist and rhythm guitarist Duff McKagan, lead guitarist Mike Squires, since 2009, Isaac Carpenter has been the bands drummer, replacing Geoff Reading. McKagan first formed Loaded to be his band in support of his unreleased solo album Beautiful Disease. The first lineup included Michael Barragan, Dez Cadena, and Taz Bentley, the band disbanded before the end of 1999. Following McKagan and Kushners involvement in The Project that later became Velvet Revolver, Loaded were put on hiatus, following the departure of Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland from Velvet Revolver, Loaded returned from hiatus in 2008 to record and release their second album. The following year, Reading left the group and was replaced by Isaac Carpenter, to date, Loaded have released three studio albums, Dark Days, Sick and The Taking, one extended play called Wasted Heart, and one live album called Episode 1999, Live. Duff McKagan was previously a member of Guns N Roses from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, McKagan moved back to Seattle, reforming previous group 10 Minute Warning, releasing one self-titled album on Sub Pop in 1998, before recording his second solo album Beautiful Disease the same year. McKagan formed Loaded, initially as The Gentlemen, to be his band for the supporting the album. With McKagan performing lead vocals and bass duties, Loadeds line-up consisted of guitarists Dez Cadena, Loaded continued to tour and released a live album, Episode 1999, Live, independently, which was recorded and mixed by Nick Raskulinecz. They re-recorded half of Beautiful Disease and received offers from four labels, however, they disbanded before the end of the year, with McKagan and Bentley becoming part of Izzy Stradlins rhythm section for his tour of Japan supporting Ride On. By early 2000, McKagan had begun working on a new project with singer Mark Lanegan, though they recorded a number of songs, Lanegan left to join Queens of the Stone Age. After being convinced by Reading and Martin Feveyear to take lead vocals, they continued to write. With nearly an albums worth of material recorded, they decided to re-record some of the songs from Beautiful Disease to add to the material they already had. The resulting album, titled Dark Days, was released in the United States and Japan in July 2001, through Artistdirect and EMI, while it was released in Europe, through Locomotive Music, rather than releasing the album under his own name, McKagan readopted the Loaded moniker. Loaded played more shows in the US before going on to tour Japan and they toured Japan as part of Fire Wire, supporting J and Zilch, where McKagan first met guitarist Dave Kushner, who was, then, the Zilch guitarist. Following the tour, Rouse and Squires departed the band when Alien Crime Syndicate signed with V2 Records for the re-release of their latest album. Loaded enlisted Dave Kushner and George Stuart Dahlquist and announced a tour of Europe, playing shows in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as shows in the UK. After performing at a gig for Randy Castillo in 2002, McKagan began collaborating with his former Guns N Roses band mates, Slash and Matt Sorum
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Tommy Stinson
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Thomas Eugene Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the bass guitarist for The Replacements, after their breakup in 1991, Stinson formed Bash & Pop, acting as lead vocalist, guitarist and frontman. In the mid-1990s he was the singer and bassist for the rock band Perfect and he released his second solo album, critically acclaimed One Man Mutiny, on his own Done To Death Music label in 2011. In 2016, after leaving Guns N Roses, Stinson reunited Bash & Pop, after beginning to learn the bass at the age of 11, Stinson began playing and covering songs with his brother, Bob Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars under the name Dogbreath without a singer. After recruiting singer Paul Westerberg, Dogbreath changed their name to The Impediments and played a performance, without Tommy. After being banned from the venue for disorderly behavior, they changed their name to The Replacements. The Replacements began to themselves from the hardcore punk scene after the release of Stink and, inspired by other rock subgenres, released their second album, Hootenanny. The band embarked on their first tour of the U. S. in April 1983, the band toured cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia, but their intended destination was New York City, where they played at Gerdes Folk City and Maxwells. For the recording of their studio album, The Replacements decided to return to Blackberry Way Studios in late 1983 with the result being Let It Be. A live album, The Shit Hits the Fans, was released in 1985, warner Bros. Records subsidiary Sire Records, eventually signed The Replacements with their first major-label release being the Tim album, produced by Tommy Erdelyi, released in 1985. After the release of Tim, The Replacements fired Tommys brother, Bob Stinson, the remaining Replacements carried on as a trio for Pleased to Meet Me, released in 1987, recorded in Memphis with producer Jim Dickinson. Guitarist Slim Dunlap took over guitar duties for the subsequent tour. They released Dont Tell a Soul, in 1989, which featured the song Ill Be You, following a disastrous tour opening for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Westerberg recorded a new album largely with session musicians but was persuaded to release it as a Replacements album. Drummer Steve Foley was recruited as Marss replacement in 1990, and this show was broadcast by Chicago radio station WXRT. In December 2005, he reunited with his surviving Replacements band mates Paul Westerberg, Stinson further collaborated with Westerberg on the soundtrack to the Sony feature film Open Season, recording bass tracks for Love You in the Fall and Right to Arm Bears. On September 20,2012, Stinson and Westerberg recorded Busted Up as part of the Songs For Slim vinyl series, the project was created to raise money for guitarist Slim Dunlap after he suffered a massive stroke in February 2012. They recorded three songs, released as the Songs For Slim EP, the bands first release of all newly recorded music since All Shook Down. A subsequent eBay auction of a special edition 10 version of the EP, limited to 250, the band reunited in 2013 to play their first live show in 22 years at Riot Fest in Chicago
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Jeff Rouse (musician)
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Jeff Rouse is an American musician who is best known as the bassist for both Alien Crime Syndicate and Duff McKagans Loaded. In September 2014, it was announced Rouse was the newest member of Fozzy, previously, Rouse was a member of a number of Seattle based groups such as Vendetta Red and Sirens Sister while he also has his own solo project titled To the Glorious Lonely. Rouse was also a member of the band, along with his Alien Crime Syndicate band mates, of Tommy Stinson. The first record became available and was released by Will Records in July 2000, released in 2002 through Nabil Ayers label The Control Group, XL from Coast to Coast showed an updated sound, incorporating influences like The Replacements and Urge Overkill. They also performed as his band for the shows. In 2002, Rouse was added to the new lineup of Loaded, in January 2002, Loaded announced a string of dates in the US and Japan. During one of the shows, in Los Angeles, Loaded were joined onstage by The Cult duo Billy Duffy and Matt Sorum, after the tour of Japan, Rouse left Loaded to rejoin Alien Crime Syndicate along with Mike Squires. Following the formation of Velvet Revolver, Loaded went on a semi-hiatus with the playing a few shows each year with both Rouse and Squires returning to the group. In December 2006, the group reunited for a benefit show for Jerry Allens Cancer Fund. Supporting Loaded that night were Top Heavy Crush and Jeff Angell of Post Stardom Depression, in February 2008, while on tour with Velvet Revolver, McKagan announced that Loaded were planning on releasing a new album in the summer. During the UK leg of Velvet Revolvers tour in April, McKagan stated that Loaded were to enter the studio in later in the month, after a few jam sessions, Loaded began recording what would become Sick with Dark Days producer Martin Feveyear at Jupiter Studios in Seattle. They released a series of Webisodes during this time featuring footage from the sessions for the groups new album which was completed in less than 2 weeks. Sick was released on March 20,2009 in Europe and April 7,2009 in the United States where it placed at number 43 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart selling 1,400 copies. The band continued to tour and were announced as the support for Black Stone Cherry, along with New Jersey group The Parlor Mob, during their tour of Europe. During the Janes Addiction shows taking place at the GelreDome, in Arnhem, Netherlands, during this time, he and McKagan recorded a Loaded/Janes Addiction webisode in Amsterdam. On September 2, it was announced that the album was completed, McKagan also stated that it was Date that approached the group about producing their new album. In 2005, Rouse joined Vendetta Red, replacing previous bassist Michael Vermillion, on their tour to support their latest album Sisters of the Red Death. However, on March 8,2006 the group announced they were to disband and they played their show at El Corazon in Seattle
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Mike Squires (musician)
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Mike Squires is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist in the hard rock group Loaded, the group led by Velvet Revolver and Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan. He also performed with Green Apple Quick Step for a number of reunion shows alternating between guitar and bass, Squires was born in Concord, California on December 28,1971. He moved around frequently as a child, attending various schools before eventually settling in Granite Falls. He joined the Marines before eventually moving to Seattle, Washington, during his early career, Squires formed or joined a number of groups but with little or no releases. One of his first musical ventures was a jam band named Eat the Feeling, next was the Minutemen influenced group, Compass, where they recorded a few demos, and Suttree, a Country/pop influenced group. Squires and Darius Minwalla, future drummer for The Posies, attempted to put a band together, recording demos in the process, in 1997, Squires joined the Nevada Bachelors, a group formed by Robb Benson. The bands lineup was rounded up by bassist Ben Brunn and drummer Dusty Hayes and they released debut album Carrots & So On in 1998 through Pop Llama Records with a sound reminiscent of The Police. They toured in support of the album and played shows in their native Seattle supporting Death Cab for Cutie in 1998, the presidents of the United States of America drummer Jason Finn joined the group replacing Dusty Hayes. The group recorded and released their second and last album Hello Jupiter in 2000, with the result being King James Version released in September 2000. For the albums supporting tour, Squires was added as the live guitarist as well as The Western State Hurricanes founder John Roderick on keyboard. During his time in the group, Squires recorded some demos with the band however they remain unreleased and it was later released in Europe in July 2002. Loaded announced three dates at the House of Blues taking place in Anaheim, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and West Hollywood, before these shows, Squires officially joined the group as lead guitarist and was joined by Alien Crime Syndicate bassist Jeff Rouse. In January 2002, Loaded announced a string of dates in the United States, during one of the shows, in Los Angeles, Loaded were joined onstage by The Cult duo Billy Duffy and Matt Sorum, also formerly of Guns N Roses. After these shows, Squires left Loaded to join band mate Rouse in Alien Crime Syndicate and was replaced by former Wasted Youth, when Loaded went on a semi-hiatus, still playing shows occasionally, following the formation of Velvet Revolver both Squires and Rouse returned to the group. In December 2006, the group reunited for a benefit show for Jerry Allens Cancer Fund. Supporting Loaded that night were Top Heavy Crush and Jeff Angell of Post Stardom Depression, in February 2008, while on tour with Velvet Revolver, McKagan announced that Loaded were planning on releasing a new album in the summer. During the United Kingdom leg of Velvet Revolvers tour in April, after a few jam sessions, Loaded began recording what would become Sick with Dark Days producer Martin Feveyear at Jupiter Studios in Seattle. They released a series of Webisodes during this time featuring footage from the sessions for the groups new album which was completed in less than 2 weeks
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes
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U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their live performances, the group has staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career. The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency, within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album War, by the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The groups fifth album, The Joshua Tree, made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US, With or Without You, facing a backlash and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. This experimentation continued through their album, Pop, and the PopMart Tour. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records All That You Cant Leave Behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history. The groups thirteenth album, Songs of Innocence, was released at no cost through the iTunes Store, U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the worlds best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the schools notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Mullen later described it as The Larry Mullen Band for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge. Martin, who had brought his guitar and amplifier to the first practice but could not play, did not remain with the group, the group settled on the name Feedback because it was one of the few technical terms they knew. Most of their material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte. Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as the Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful. In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for an audience at St. Fintans High School. Shortly after, the changed their name to The Hype
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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A. C. Newman
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Allan Carl Newman is a Canadian musician and singer–songwriter. He was a member of the rock bands Superconductor and Zumpano in the 1990s. Following the breakup of those bands, he reemerged as the leader of the New Pornographers in 2000, in 2004, Newman launched his solo career, performing as A. C. Newman. He has stated he chose A. C. for his career because it sounded like a pseudonym. Newman began his career in the 1990s as a member of the Vancouver grunge/pop group Superconductor. During the 90s, Newman often filled in on guitar with metal band Nemesis Gypsy. After a brief stay, he joined the Vancouver-based pop group Zumpano, the band released two albums with Newman in the mid-1990s, Look What the Rookie Did and Goin Through Changes, both of which received favorable reviews. Though Zumpano never officially announced their breakup, they have not recorded any new material since the 90s, Newman is a founding member of the successful Vancouver-based power pop supergroup the New Pornographers. The band has released six albums since 2000, all of which received favorable reviews. In 2007, Blender ranked the groups album, Mass Romantic. Newman is the main songwriter and vocalist, and is generally regarded as the bands leader. In 2004 Newman debuted as A. C. Newman the solo artist, the Slow Wonder, his first album, was well received. His musical sensibilities as a musician have been compared to those of Ray Davies, Harry Nilsson. Newman is married to Christy Simpson, formerly the manager at Matador Records. Newmans second solo album, titled Get Guilty, was released on Matador Records on January 20,2009, prophets was featured in the end of the fourth season finale of How I Met Your Mother. In October 2012, Newmans third album was released, Shut Down The Streets, recorded in Woodstock, New York, the album features contributions from New Pornographers colleague Neko Case. Newman has said that Shut Down The Streets is all about birth, death, happiness and sadness, in June 2013, the album was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. In November 2012, Newman appeared in the video alongside television personality Whip Nicken for Im Not Talking
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Geoff Reading
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Geoff Reading is an American musician. Currently, Reading performs, on occasion, with Green Apple Quick Step, Geoff Reading was born on February 23,1968, in Rochester, New York and was raised in both Huntington Beach, California and Edmonds, Washington before eventually settling in Seattle, Washington. Reading, recently engaged, currently resides in Tacoma, Washington where hes raising his son, having moved from Los Angeles, California, Reading was previously diagnosed with colorectal cancer but successfully underwent treatment and chemotherapy. Reading first starting playing drums in his teens and was taught by neighborhood friend Mike Mongrain. Years later, Mongrain recommended to his bandmate, local guitarist Scott Wade. In 1997, Reading joined the post-grunge group Green Apple Quick Step, prior to joining, the group had recorded a new album with Columbia Records however it remains unreleased. He played at shows with the group, including a show in Seattle where front man Tyler Willman destroyed various equipment on stage. Following the departure of previous drummer Jack Stringham, Reading joined New American Shame who went on the sign a deal with Atlantic Records. After some adjustments, as well as new drum tracks by Reading, Atlantic re-released the self-titled album, previously released on Will Records. They recorded a number of songs before Lanegan left to join Queens of the Stone Age, after being convinced by Reading to take over lead vocals, McKagan and Reading continued to write and record new material. With nearly an albums worth of material recorded, they decided to re-record some of the songs from Beautiful Disease to add to the material they already had, McKagan performed the bass on all tracks as well as guitar and the piano on the song Misery. Former Nevada Bachelors and Harvey Danger guitarist Mike Squires was also invited to record guitar parts on the album. In June 2001, McKagan announced that the album would be titled Dark Days and that it would be released under the moniker Loaded rather than using his own name for the project. According to drummer Geoff Reading, the band initially did not have a name and settled on Loaded when it close to their first show, Dark Days was released in the US. It was later released in Europe in July 2002, Loaded announced three dates at the House of Blues taking place in Anaheim, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and West Hollywood, California in November. Before these shows, Squires officially the group as lead guitarist and was joined by Alien Crime Syndicate bassist Jeff Rouse, in January 2002, Loaded announced a string of dates in the US and Japan. During one of the shows, in Los Angeles, Loaded were joined onstage by The Cult duo Billy Duffy and Matt Sorum, also formerly of Guns N Roses. After these shows, Squires left Loaded to join band mate Jeff in Alien Crime Syndicate and was replaced by former Wasted Youth, when Loaded went on a semi-hiatus, still playing shows occasionally, following the formation of Velvet Revolver both Squires and Jeff returned to the group
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Dave Dederer
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Dave Dederer is an American guitarist and singer best known as a member of the 2x GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum-selling musical group The Presidents of the United States of America. An alumnus of Seattle, Washingtons The Bush School and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he founded The Presidents with fellow Bush School alumnus Chris Ballew. He has also been a member of The Gentlemen and Loaded with Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan, also a Seattle native, and Subset, Dederer currently heads programming and editorial at Amazon Music and manages The Presidents ongoing business interests. Dederer worked for Seattle web/mobile media company Melodeo from 2007 to 2010 as Vice President, Melodeo was acquired by Hewlett Packard in June,2010. He previously worked for four years as a public affairs consultant at Seattle firm Pyramid Communications, on October 22,2009, Dederer responded to questions made by users of the website reddit. Dave Dederer on reddit The Melodeo Team Dave Dederers band history
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Dark Days (Loaded album)
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Dark Days is the debut studio album by American rock band Loaded. Recorded between December 2000 and February 2001 at Jupiter Studios in Seattle, Washington, it was self-released in July 2001, in 2000, Duff began re-recording some of the songs from Beautiful Disease, as well as new material at Jupiter Studios in Seattle, Washington. Duff performed the bass on all tracks as well as guitar, former Nevada Bachelors and Harvey Danger guitarist Mike Squires was also invited to record additional guitar parts on the album. In June,2001, Duff announced that the album would be titled Dark Days, Dark Days was released in the US and Japan in July,2001. It was later released in Europe in July,2002, Loaded announced three dates at the House of Blues taking place in Anaheim, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and West Hollywood, California in November 2001. To perform at shows, Mike Squires was added as the groups lead guitarist. Additional US dates were announced for 2002 as well as a tour in Japan, european tour followed in summer of 2002. All tracks written by Duff McKagan
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Urge Overkill
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Urge Overkill is an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, United States, consisting of Nathan Kaatrud, who took the stage name Nash Kato, and Eddie King Roeser. They are widely known for their song Sister Havana and their cover of Neil Diamonds Girl, Youll Be a Woman Soon and their first album since 1995, Rock & Roll Submarine, was released in 2011. Kato and Roeser met at Northwestern University in 1985 and they formed Urge Overkill in Chicago, with drummer Pat Byrne, and released an EP, Strange, I. on Ruthless Records. The EP was recorded by Katos friend, Steve Albini, a full-length album, Jesus Urge Superstar, soon followed, again produced by Albini, and with Kriss Bataille taking over the drums. These two releases showcased a noise-rock sound common to other independent rock acts of the period and their next effort, Americruiser, saw a drastic change in style. Jack Jaguar Watt was the new drummer and their sound from then on has been described as a Stonesy fusion of arena rock, having a strong following by this time, they jumped from their indie label, Touch & Go, to a major label, Geffen Records. Despite some criticism for the switch, Urge Overkills major-label debut, Saturation. The single Sister Havana finally gave the band a hit record, in 1993, the band contributed the track Take a Walk to the AIDS relief benefit album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization. As the band recorded an album, cult filmmaker Quentin Tarantino used the groups cover version of the Neil Diamond song, Girl, Youll Be a Woman Soon. When the movie became a hit, the song made it to number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, Urge Overkill retained their sound for their next album, Exit the Dragon, released in 1995. Kato and Roeser started feuding, resulting in Roeser leaving the band, Roeser went on to perform with Jim Kimball as L. I. M. E. and with his brother John in the band Electric Airlines. Now a duo consisting of Kato and Onassis, Urge Overkill moved to Sonys 550 Music in early 1997, after a break of several years, Kato released a solo album in 2000 called Debutante. Six of the albums 13 songs were co-written with Onassis, on September 19,2010 on the free form radio program Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WRXP-FM in New York, the first new Urge Overkill song in 15 years was played. Russo also announced an Urge Overkill show on October 4,2010 at Mercury Lounge in New York, live shows began happening, including being the musical guest at a Roast of Quentin Tarantino on December 1,2010. As of February 2011, the band was preparing the release of a new album titled Rock & Roll Submarine, a subsequent 2011 tour followed the release of the album. On October 8,2011, Urge Overkill opened for Weezer at the Red Bull Riot Fest at the historic Congress Theater in Chicago, official website www. urgeoverkill. com - Latest tour dates/Mood Control Urge Overkill at AllMusic Urge Overkill at Rolling Stone
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The Replacements (band)
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The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979. Initially a punk band, they are considered pioneers of alternative rock. The band was composed of the guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bass guitarist Tommy Stinson, following several acclaimed albums, including Let It Be and Tim, Bob Stinson left the band in 1986, and Slim Dunlap joined as lead guitarist. Steve Foley replaced Mars in 1990, towards the end of the bands career, Westerberg exerted more control over the creative output. The group disbanded in 1991, with the members ultimately pursuing various projects, a reunion was announced on October 3,2012. The Replacements never had significant commercial success, except for Ill Be You, which hit No.1 on the Alt Rock Billboard listing, unlike many of their underground contemporaries, the Replacements played heart-on-the-sleeve rock songs that combined Westerbergs raw-throated adolescent howl with self-deprecating lyrics. The Replacements were a notoriously wayward live act often performing under the influence of alcohol, the Replacements history began in Minneapolis in 1978, when nineteen-year-old Bob Stinson gave his eleven-year-old brother Tommy Stinson a bass guitar to keep him off the streets. That year Bob met Mars, a school dropout. With Mars playing guitar and then switching to drums, the trio called themselves Dogbreath and began covering songs by Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, One day as Westerberg, a janitor in U. S. Senator David Durenbergers office, was walking home from work, he heard a band playing in the Stinsons house, after being impressed by the bands performance, Westerberg regularly listened in after work. Mars knew Westerberg and invited him over to jam, Westerberg was unaware Mars drummed in Dogbreath. Dogbreath auditioned several vocalists, including a hippie who read lyrics off a sheet, the band eventually found a vocalist however, Westerberg wanted to be the singer and took him aside one day to say, The band doesnt like you. The vocalist soon left and Westerberg replaced him, before Westerberg joined the band, Dogbreath often drank and took various drugs during rehearsals, playing songs as an afterthought. In contrast to the rest of the band, the relatively disciplined Westerberg appeared at rehearsals in neat clothes, after being banned from the venue for disorderly behavior, they changed the name to the Replacements. The band soon recorded a demo tape in Marss basement. Jesperson was the manager of Oar Folkjokeopus, a rock record store in Minneapolis. Westerberg originally handed in the tape to see if the band could perform at Jays Longhorn Bar and he eavesdropped as Jesperson put in the tape, only to run away as soon as the first song, Raised in the City, played. Jesperson played the song again and again, if Ive ever had a magic moment in my life, it was popping that tape in, said Jesperson
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KNDD
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KNDD, also known as 107.7 The End, is an alternative rock radio station in Seattle, Washington. It is operated by Entercom Communications and its studios are located in the Metropolitan Park West tower between Downtown and South Lake Union in Seattle. The station broadcasts on 107.7 MHz with an ERP of 68,000 watts and transmits from a tower near Issaquah, the station began its life in 1962 as non-commercial KRAB, founded by Lorenzo Milam and eventually owned by the Jack Straw Memorial Foundation. KRAB broadcast a mix of Pacifica radio features, world music, jazz. But the station was also close to insolvency.1 MHz and 91.9 MHz. The owners of KRAB originally applied to time with KNHC. However, this action was seen by the district as a hostile take-over bid. Ultimately, the owners got a license for 90.7 MHz in Everett, kRABs legacy remains on the air at KSER. The 107.7 FM frequency then went dark for 11 months, the first commercial station signed on March 9,1985. It was known as KMGI, also known as Magic 108, the station was a gold-based Adult Contemporary station and had limited success for four years. But, under the ownership of Noble Broadcast Group, the station refocused as a Hot AC station in August 1989, KMGI brought together the morning team of Kelly and Alpha, who remained with the station throughout its days as I-107-7. All forms of AC tried on the station resulted in low ratings, at 3 p. m. on August 16,1991, KMGI began stunting with TV theme songs with different voices stating The End is coming during its commercial breaks and randomly between themes. A week later, on August 23, at 3 p. m. the station flipped to modern rock, the Ends first songs were Its The End of The World As We Know It by R. E. M. The station referred to its music as The Cutting Edge of Rock and this positioning statement borrowed directly from its San Diego/Tijuana sister station XETRA-FM. It was the Seattle markets 4th attempt at an alternative format. Other stations in the format at one time or another included KJET AM1590 and KYYX FM96.5, within six weeks of The Ends first broadcast, three albums by local artists — Ten by Pearl Jam, Nevermind by Nirvana and Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden — were released. These albums helped come to define the sound known as grunge, KNDD was also the first commercial station to play the band Weezer, when in June 1994, the station played Undone. In 1998, MTVs The Real World was taped in Seattle, for many years, the stations morning show was titled The Morning End, and was hosted by Andy Savage
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Seattle Weekly
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The Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster as The Weekly and its first issue was published on March 31,1976. The paper is owned by Sound Publishing, Inc. the largest community news organization in Washington State. Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Medias papers, Sound Publishing, Inc. purchased the Seattle Weekly from Voice Media Group in January 2013. In July 2006, longtime editor-in-chief Knute Berger announced he would be leaving the paper, the Seattle Times profiled the change in leadership at the company in a Business & Technology section news report titled, Uncertain Times at Seattle Weekly
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Don't Go Breaking My Heart
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Dont Go Breaking My Heart is a duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee. It is not to be confused with the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song of the same title recorded in 1965 by Dionne Warwick for the album Here I Am. John and Taupin originally intended to record the song with Dusty Springfield, writers John and Taupin received the 1981 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. Unlike many of Johns singles from the 1970s, it was never included on an original album and this version of the song was recorded with RuPaul, and the album included another duet with Kiki Dee, Cole Porters True Love. Dont Go Breaking My Heart was the first No.1 single in the UK for both John and Kiki Dee, topping the chart for six weeks in mid 1976, John would not enjoy a solo British chart-topper until Sacrifice in 1990. It also became his sixth No.1 single in the US, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, Billboard ranked it as the No.2 song for 1976. In the U. S. it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, after this duet with Dee, John failed to have another #1 single, without sharing the top song with other credited artists, until his 1997 smash Candle in the Wind 1997. In 1977, John guest starred on The Muppet Show and performed the track with Miss Piggy, in 1985, John and Dee performed the track to the crowd at Wembley Stadium during Johns set at Live Aid. In 1987, John appeared with Minnie Mouse on the NBC series Totally Minnie miming to the track and he performed the track with Alan Partridge at the 2001 British Comedy awards. He also performed it with the Spice Girls on his ITV tribute programme An Audience with, in June 2013,37 years after its original release, the single reached one million sales in the UK. The song can be found on Elton Johns Greatest Hits Volume II and Greatest Hits 1976–1986, in 2002, it also appeared on Johns 2-disc greatest hits album, Elton Johns Greatest Hits 1970-2002. A demo version of the song was recorded by John as a solo artist and this version has not been released commercially. The B-side, Snow Queen, has not seen any re-release since being issued on the single
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Duff McKagan
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Michael Andrew Duff McKagan is an American musician, singer, songwriter and author. He is best known for his tenure as the bass guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s. McKagan rejoined the band in 2016, following their induction into the Rock, towards the end of his first tenure with Guns N Roses, McKagan released a solo album, Believe in Me, and formed the short-lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders. Between 2002 and 2008, he played bass in the supergroup Velvet Revolver with his former Guns N Roses bandmates Slash and he briefly performed with Janes Addiction in 2010 and joined the supergroup Hollywood Vampires in 2016. In addition to his career, McKagan has established himself as a writer. He has written columns on a wide variety of topics for SeattleWeekly. com, Playboy. com. A former high school drop-out, he attended Seattle Universitys Albers School of Business and Economics in the early 2000s and he was a high school honor student, but dropped out early to pursue a career in music. Michael Andrew McKagan grew up in Seattles largely working-class University District and he has been called Duff since toddlerhood, to which he once referred as an Irish thing. Following his parents divorce, his mother supported the family by taking a job as a medical stenographer and he was taught how to play bass by his brother Bruce, further developing his skills by playing along with the albums 1999 by Prince and Damaged by Black Flag. In his autobiography, Its So Easy, McKagan said he was influenced by bass driven bands such as that of Barry Adamson in Magazine, although an honors student, McKagan dropped out of Roosevelt High School in the tenth grade. He then worked as a chef for the Great American Food. He was later awarded a diploma after speaking at the class of 2012s graduation ceremony. In 1979, at the age of 15, McKagan formed the band the Vains, in which he played bass. During this time, he played guitar in the punk band the Living. In 1980, McKagan joined the band the Fastbacks as their drummer. In 1982, McKagan became the drummer for the punk band The Fartz, with whom he recorded several demos, five of which were included on their 1990 album You. After several line-up changes, The Fartz evolved into the post-punk band 10 Minute Warning, in 1983, McKagan moved to Los Angeles, California, with one of his brothers where he found work as an appetizer server at a Black Angus restaurant in Northridge. Answering an ad for a bass guitarist in a newspaper, he met guitarist Slash and drummer Steven Adler
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Guns N' Roses
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Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles formed in 1985. The lineup, when first signed to Geffen Records in 1986, consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The current lineup consists of Rose, Slash, McKagan, keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese, guitarist Richard Fortus, the success of the debut was followed by the eight-song album G N R Lies which reached number two on the Billboard 200. The cover album The Spaghetti Incident. was the bands last studio album to feature Slash and it debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 but undersold industry expectations, despite mostly positive critical reception. Former members Slash and McKagan both rejoined the band in 2016, embarking on the Not in This Lifetime, Guns N Roses has been credited with reviving the mainstream popularity of rock n roll, at a time when popular music was dominated by dance music and glam metal. The bands classic lineup, along with later members Reed and drummer Matt Sorum, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, in 1984, Hollywood Rose member Izzy Stradlin was living with L. A. Guns needed a new vocalist, Stradlin suggested Hollywood Rose singer Axl Rose, Guns N Roses was formed in March 1985 by Rose and rhythm guitarist Stradlin, along with lead guitarist Tracii Guns, bassist Ole Beich, and drummer Rob Gardner of L. A. Guns. The band coined its name by combining the names of both previous groups, rejected names for the band included Heads of Amazon and AIDS. After a short time, during which the band played two or three shows, Beich was fired and replaced by Duff McKagan. Tracii Guns left the band after an argument with Rose leading to his replacement by Rose and Stradlins one-time Hollywood Rose bandmate, Gardner quit soon after and was replaced by another former Hollywood Rose member, Steven Adler. Slash had also played with McKagan and Adler in Road Crew. In June 1985, four days after the lineup was finalized, through the bands increasing presence on the Hollywood club scene – playing famed bars such as The Troubadour and The Roxy – Guns N Roses drew the attention of major record labels. The group was signed by Geffen Records in March 1986, receiving a $75,000 advance. In December of that year, the released the four-song EP Live. *@ Like a Suicide. The EP contained covers of Rose Tattoos Nice Boys and Aerosmiths Mama Kin, although billed as a live recording, the four songs were taken from the bands demo tapes and overdubbed with crowd noise. Live. *@ Like a Suicide was released on the Geffen subsidiary Uzi Suicide, Guns N Roses debut album Appetite for Destruction was released July 21,1987. The band stated the artwork was a symbolic social statement. The revised cover was done by Andy Engell, based on a design by tattoo artist Bill White Jr. who had designed the artwork for a tattoo Rose had acquired the previous year, the artwork featured each of the five band members skulls layered on a cross
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Kim Warnick
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Kim Warnick is an American rock musician, a former member of Seattle-based bands The Fastbacks and Visqueen. Described by KIRO-FM in 2016 as a musician and vocalist. She has also collaborated since 2010 with Evan Dando in an originally called The Calligraphers
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Visqueen (band)
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Visqueen is a power pop/punk rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2001. It is named after a brand of film that United States Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge once recommended as a defense against bioterrorism. The bands original members were singer-songwriter-guitarist Rachel Flotard and drummer Ben Hooker, Warnick retired at the end of 2004, but Muffs co-founder Ronnie Barnett signed on to play the bass during the bands 2005 tour. Early in 2006, Bill Coury, formerly of Once For Kicks & Sourmash, joined the band as bassist, late in 2006, Bill Coury left the band and by spring 2007, Barrett Jones, producer, joined Visqueen as bassist. Their current bassist is Cristina Bautista, Bautista also played bass in Connecticut Four, from Bellingham, Washington, and in 2006 put out a solo EP, This Is the Team. Recently Flotard has performed as singer in support of Neko Case and Jon Rauhouse. Visqueens third album, Message to Garcia, was released in 2009 on Flotards own label, Local 638 Records, Flotard used to write an advice column for Seattle-based online publication Three Imaginary Girls called Love Is Hard with Rachel Flotard. Flotard was featured on Minus the Bears song Into the Mirror from their album Omni, Visqueen played what were announced as their final shows in 2011, with a farewell show at the Neptune Theater in November of that year. On November 28,2016, after a hiatus, Visqueen reunited as Flotard, Hooker
