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Sydney
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Sydney /ˈsɪdni/ is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australias east coast, the metropolis surrounds the worlds largest natural harbour, residents of Sydney are known as Sydneysiders. The Sydney area has been inhabited by indigenous Australians for at least 30,000 years, the first British settlers, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, arrived in 1788 to found Sydney as a penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Since convict transportation ended in the century, the city has transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural. As at June 2016 Sydneys estimated population was 5,005,358, in the 2011 census,34 percent of the population reported having been born overseas, representing many different nationalities and making Sydney one of the most multicultural cities in the world. There are more than 250 different languages spoken in Sydney and about one-third of residents speak a language other than English at home and it is classified as an Alpha+ World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has a market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing. Its gross regional product was $337 billion in 2013, the largest in Australia, there is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as one of Asia Pacifics leading financial hubs. Its natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, man-made attractions such as the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge are also well known to international visitors. The first people to inhabit the now known as Sydney were indigenous Australians having migrated from northern Australia. Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity first started to occur in the Sydney area from around 30,735 years ago, the earliest British settlers called them Eora people. Eora is the term the indigenous used to explain their origins upon first contact with the British. Its literal meaning is from this place, prior to the arrival of the British there were 4,000 to 8,000 native people in Sydney from as many as 29 different clans. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was inhabited by the Cadigal clan, the principal language groups were Darug, Guringai, and Dharawal. The earliest Europeans to visit the area noted that the people were conducting activities such as camping and fishing, using trees for bark and food, collecting shells. Development has destroyed much of the citys history including that of the first inhabitants, there continues to be examples of rock art and engravings located in the protected Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The first meeting between the people and the British occurred on 29 April 1770 when Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay on the Kurnell Peninsula. He noted in his journal that they were confused and somewhat hostile towards the foreign visitors, Cook was on a mission of exploration and was not commissioned to start a settlement
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ABC Music
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ABC Music is an Australian independent record label that operates as a subsidiary of Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Established in 1974, it is one of the record labels in the country. ABC Music receives distribution from Universal Music Australia, and operates imprints including ABC Classics, ABC Kids, as a commercial entity ABC Music invests all profits back into the broader ABC, to fund production of further content within the corporation. The label has been in existence for over 40 years and has a catalogue of recordings by Australian. The label has released many compilation albums for ABC Radio stations. This includes triple js Hottest 100, Like A Version, House Party, One Night Stand, Beat The Drum and 40 Years Of Music releases, as well as tribute albums to Nick Cave and Paul Kelly. Additionally, the label produces special one-off releases, such as His Life and Music, the label also produces popular compilation releases including Countdown, rage, Hit Country, and ABC Kids themed titles. The label has enjoyed success in recent years, including ARIA Chart #1 albums from Lee Kernaghan. ABC Audio is a producer of audiobooks and other spoken word releases
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Dangerbird Records
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Dangerbird Records is an independent record label located in Los Angeles, California. Founded by musician Peter Walker and executive Jeff Castelaz in 2004, the label is home to artists around the globe, the label has had international success from its small roster of artists including Silversun Pickups, Fitz and The Tantrums, and Minus the Bear. The two founders represented different roles in the music industry, Castelaz had managed Feist, Phoenix, Citizen King, and others, while Walker was a singer-songwriter. The labels first release, Walkers solo album Landed and their business approach includes a strong emphasis on artist development, and working with a network of partners to help the bands reach a wide market. In 2006, Dangerbird gained repute after releasing Carnavas, the debut album by Silversun Pickups. The bands lead singer Brian Aubert has said of Dangerbird, They believe in careers, and they stuck with us when most people wouldnt have. On September 14,2012, co-founder Peter Walker announced the promotion of Jenni Sperandeo to President, in October 2012, Castelaz was named President of Warner Music Groups Elektra Records. A. Sinclair Butch Walker The Dears Holly Miranda Jesse Harris Maritime Minus the Bear Moke Hill nav/attack People Flavor Slothrust The Frights The Night Sea The One AM Radio Sea Wolf T
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Gerling
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Gerling were an Australian electronica, alternative rock trio formed in 1993. From early 1997 the members were Darren Cross on guitar and lead vocals, Presser on drums and Burke Reid on guitar and their second album, When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun, reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. It provided a top 50 single, Dust Me Selecta, Gerling were formed as a guitar pop trio in 1993 in western Sydney with the line-up of Darren Cross on guitar and lead vocals, Presser on drums and Brad Herdson on guitar and vocals. With only two guitars and drums, the group played cover version of W. A. S. P. Then they focussed on creating experimental guitar pop, with their single, Sedatives for Dead Radars. It was followed by an extended play, A Day of Research. It reached No.13 on the ARIA Alternative Albums Chart, Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt it was a mix of early Pavement-style lo-fi guitar pop and idiosyncratic backing, it garnered widespread interest among the indie cognoscenti. Some of its tracks received high rotation on national radio station, Triple J. Early in 1997 Herdson left to form Sonic Emotion Explosion. He was temporarily replaced in Gerling by Ben Lee for their gig at Big Day Out, Sydney, herdsons long-term replacement, on guitar, was Canadian-born, Burke Reid. In February 1998 the group issued a four-track 7 EP, Bachelor Pad on the Trifekta label, the label had been partly established in the previous year by Towner. In October 1998 they issued, Death to the Apple Gerls, in the following month they released their debut album, Children of Telepathic Experiences, which peaked at No.21 on the ARIA Alternative Albums Chart. McFarlane noticed an entertaining mix of Gerlings live punky-pop sound and a background of layered electronica, for the first time the group incorporated electronica in their music, they also built a recording studio, Gerlog, in Alexandria where band members produced and remixed tracks. Their next single, Enter, Space Capsule, provided four versions of the song, including one at Gerlog by band members, McFarlane saw this as the groups move deeper into the realms of abstract electronica. Another single, Ghost Patrol, followed in September, which featured guest lead vocals by Naoko Matsumoto of Sydney-based group, during 2000 they toured the United Kingdom where they recorded, G-House Project, with lead vocals provided by Kylie Minogue. Gerling issued a late in the year, The Deer in You. The single doesnt suggest any great departure musically, just a reminder of what Gerling do best – pop music, at the ARIA Music Awards of 2001 they were nominated for Best Video for Paul Butler and Scott Waltons directorial work on The Deer in You. It peaked in the ARIA and New Zealand Albums Chart Top 50s, the band became increasingly electronic they had success in the dance scene and mainstream charts with the earlier single, Dust Me Selecta, which reached the ARIA Singles Chart Top 50. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002 they received three nominations, Best Dance Release and Best Video for Dust My Selecta, and Producer of the Year for When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Sonic Youth
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Sonic Youth was an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. In their early career Sonic Youth were associated with the no wave art, the band is considered to be a pivotal influence on the alternative and indie rock movements. In 2011 Ranaldo announced that the band was ending for a following the separation of married couple Gordon. Thurston Moore updated and clarified the position in May 2014, Sonic Youth is on hiatus, the band is a democracy of sorts, and as long as Kim and I are working out our situation, the band can’t really function reasonably. Gordon refers several times in her 2015 autobiography Girl in a Band to the band having split up. Shortly after guitarist Thurston Moore moved to New York City in early 1977, he formed a group, Room Tone, with his roommates, after the breakup of the Coachmen, Moore began jamming with Stanton Miranda, whose band, CKM, featured Kim Gordon. Moore and Gordon formed a band, appearing under names like Male Bonding and Red Milk, the name came from combining the nickname of MC5s Fred Sonic Smith with Youth from reggae artist Big Youth. Gordon later recalled that as soon as Thurston came up with the name Sonic Youth, the band played Noise Fest in June 1981 at New Yorks White Columns gallery, where Lee Ranaldo was playing as a member of Glenn Brancas electric guitar ensemble. Their performance impressed Moore, who described them as the most ferocious guitar band that I had ever seen in my life, the new threesome played three songs at the festival later in the week without a drummer. Each band member took turns playing the drums, until they met drummer Richard Edson, Branca signed Sonic Youth as the first act on his record label Neutral Records. In December 1981 the group recorded five songs in a studio in New Yorks Radio City Music Hall, the material was released as the Sonic Youth that, while largely ignored, was sent to a few key members of the US press, who gave it uniformly favorable reviews. After their first release, Edson quit the group for a career and was replaced by Bob Bert. During their early days as part of the New York music scene, the bands came to share the same rehearsal space, and Sonic Youth embarked on its first tour, a two-week journey through the southern United States starting in November 1982, supporting Swans. During a second tour with Swans of the Midwest the following month, tensions ran high and Moore constantly criticized Berts drumming, Bert was fired afterwards and replaced by Jim Sclavunos, who played drums on the bands first studio album, 1983s Confusion Is Sex. Sonic Youth set up a tour of Europe for the summer of 1983. Sclavunos, however, quit after only a few months, the group asked Bert to rejoin, and he agreed, on the condition that he would not be fired again after the tours conclusion. Sonic Youth found themselves well received in Europe, but the New York press largely ignored the noise rock scene. After a substandard September concert in New York, another critic from The Village Voice panned it, Gordon wrote a scornful letter to the newspaper, criticizing it for not supporting its local music scene, to which Christgau responded by saying they are not obligated to support them
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Thurston Moore
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Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stones 2004 edition of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, in May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1. In 2012, Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving, with their first track, Burroughs, Chelsea Light Movings eponymous debut was released on March 5,2013. Moore was born July 25,1958, at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida, to George E. Moore and Eleanor Nann Moore, and moved with his family in 1967 to Bethel, Connecticut. He attended St. Josephs School in Danbury Ct followed by St. Marys School in Bethel CT and it was there that he was able to watch shows by the likes of Patti Smith and spoken-word performances by William S. Burroughs. In 1980 he moved in with Kim Gordon to an apartment at 84 Eldridge St. below artist Dan Graham, eventually befriending him, once in the city, Moore was briefly a member of the hardcore punk band Even Worse, featuring future The Big Takeover editor Jack Rabid. After exiting the band, Moore and Lee Ranaldo learned experimental guitar techniques in Glenn Brancas guitar orchestras, Moore invited Ranaldo, who he had known when The Coachmen shared a CBGB stage with Ranaldos 1970s band The Flux, to join the band. The new threesome played three songs at the later in the week without a drummer. Each band member took turns playing the drums, until they met drummer Richard Edson, the band signed to Neutral Records, then to Homestead Records, and then to SST Records. Moore and Ranaldo make extensive use of guitar tunings, often heavily modifying their instruments to provide unusual timbres and drones. They are known for bringing upwards of fifty guitars to every gig, in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Moore and Ranaldo the 33rd and 34th Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2011, Moore and his wife, Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon, announced they had separated, shortly afterward, though his marriage was ending Moore never claimed that Sonic Youth was finished. In addition to his work with Sonic Youth, Moore has also released albums as a solo artist and he and Gordon released a few songs as Mirror/Dash. Moore established Protest Records as a gesture of activism but the project has since lapsed. S. P. John Moloney, Glenn Branca, Yamantaka Eye, My Cat is an Alien, John Russell, Steve Noble, John Edwards, Haino Keiji, John Zorn, Yoko Ono, Takehisa Kosugi, and others. In the early 1990s, Moore formed the side band Dim Stars, with Richard Hell, Don Fleming, Moore performed solo on the side stage of the 1993 Lollapalooza tour. Additionally, Moore also contributed guitar work and backing vocals on Crush with Eyeliner and he played Fred Cracklin in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode dedicated to Sonny Sharrock
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Beastie Boys
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The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop group from New York City, formed in 1981. For the majority of their career, the group consisted of Michael Mike D Diamond, Adam MCA Yauch, Berry left shortly thereafter, and was replaced by Horovitz. They toured with Madonna in 1985 and a year released their debut album Licensed to Ill. With seven platinum or better albums from 1986 to 2004, the Beastie Boys were one of the hip hop acts worldwide. In 2009, they released digitally remastered editions of their albums Pauls Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication. Their eighth studio album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, was released in 2011, and received positive reviews. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012, just the third rap group to enter the Hall, after Run–D. M. C. and Grandmaster Flash, the following month, MCA died of cancer of the parotid salivary gland. In June 2014, Mike D confirmed that he and Ad-Rock would not continue the Beastie Boys, prior to forming the Beastie Boys, Michael Diamond was part of a number of bands such as the Walden Jazz Band, BAN and The Young Aborigines. The band supported Bad Brains, the Dead Kennedys, the Misfits and Reagan Youth at venues such as CBGB, A7, Trudy Hellers Place and Maxs Kansas City, playing at the latter venue on its closing night. In November 1982 the Beastie Boys recorded the 7 EP Polly Wog Stew at 171A studios, on November 13,1982, the Beastie Boys played Philip Puccis birthday for the purposes of his short concert film of the Beastie Boys, Beastie. Pucci held the concert in Bard Colleges Preston Drama Dance Department Theatre and this performance marked the Beastie Boys first on screen appearance in a published motion picture. The opening band for that performance was The Young and the Useless, skills to Pay the Bills later went on to earn the Recording Industry Association of Americas gold sales award for selling more than 500,000 copies. The band also recorded and then performed its first hip hop track, Cooky Puss, based on a prank call by the group to Carvel Ice Cream in 1983. It was a part of the new line-up’s first EP, also called Cooky Puss, which was the first piece of work that showed their incorporation of the rap phenomenon. It quickly became a hit in New York underground dance clubs, in 1983, the new line-up released the Cooky Puss EP, which offered the first evidence of them picking up on the underground rap phenomenon and the use of samples. ‘Beastie Revolution’ was later sampled for a British Airways commercial, earning them $40,000 in royalties, due to the success of Cooky Puss they began to incorporate rap into their sets. They decided to hire a DJ for their shows and ended up getting an NYU student named Rick Rubin. Soon thereafter, Rubin began producing records and he then formed Def Jam Recordings with fellow NY University student Russell Simmons and approached the band about producing them for his new label
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Mike D
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Michael Louis Diamond, better known as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician and producer, best known as the founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Diamond raps, sings, and plays drums and he has provided remixes for Moby and Björk. A product of the arts-oriented Saint Anns School, Diamond was born in New York City to a Jewish household, in 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. By 1983, Adam Horovitz joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip hop, in 1992, Diamond founded the Beastie Boys now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper, it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea. A year after the passing of Yauch in 2012, Diamond told Rolling Stone he was excited about making new stuff again, a remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Bands Bad Dancer by Diamond and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with additional beats, programming and other curve balls, in October 2014, Diamond stated that he had been working in the studio with American rock band Portugal. He has also produced English punk outfit Slaves second studio album, Take Control, in 1993, Diamond married film, television and music video director Tamra Davis, they have two children, Davis Diamond and Skyler Diamond. With Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill Pauls Boutique Check Your Head Ill Communication Hello Nasty To the 5 Boroughs The Mix-Up Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Diamonds wallpaper portfolio
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Grand Royal
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Grand Royal was the Los Angeles, California-based vanity record label set up in 1992 by the Beastie Boys in conjunction with Capitol Records after the group left Def Jam Recordings. Due to mounting debts, Grand Royal went out of business in 2001 and its assets were sold off via auction on Bid4Assets, these assets did not include any rights to Beastie Boys music. The assets and back catalog were purchased by a group of fans who in turn started GR2 Records, Grand Royal was also the name of a magazine written and published by the group. It was most famous for its article Mulling Over the Mullet in issue two, which lampooned the mullet hairstyle, List of record labels List of Grand Royal artists GR2 Records
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Evan Dando
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Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician, best known for fronting the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015 Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards Hall of Fame, Dando was born in Essex, Massachusetts, to Susan, a former fashion model, and Jeffrey, who worked as a real estate attorney. At the age of nine, his family moved to the North Shore of Boston, in his teens Dando attended Commonwealth School in Boston. In the fall of 1986 he enrolled at Skidmore College but dropped out after getting four Fs and a D. While at Commonwealth, Dando met Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz, the Lemonheads debuted at the Meltdown House in Cambridge on July 18,1986, followed by a show at The Rat on August 19. The band recorded an EP, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners, the Lemonheads first three albums, Hate Your Friends, Creator, and Lick, were all released on Taang. Following the third album, Dando left the group briefly after some tension with Deily, however, he returned as a drummer when The Lemonheads cover of Suzanne Vegas song Luka became successful, and the group had an opportunity to tour Europe. Deily, however, quit the band shortly before the tour, Dando brought in David Ryan on drums, and the group signed with major label Atlantic/Warner, where it released the album Lovey in 1990. The album straddled punk, rock, country, and metal, Dando spent some time in Australia to write songs with friends Nic Dalton and Tom Morgan, who would later start the band Sneeze. Some of his songs formed the basis for The Lemonheads fifth album, in 1992, The Lemonheads recorded a punk-inflected cover of Simon and Garfunkels hit Mrs. Robinson to help promote the video cassette release of The Graduate film for its 25th anniversary. The song reached number 19 on the UK Charts in December 1992, Dandos face appeared on several magazine covers, and People listed him among the 50 Most Beautiful People. In an interview with Q magazine, he admitted he smoked crack cocaine, in late 1993, the group released the album Come on Feel the Lemonheads, which featured singles Style, The Jello Fund, and Into Your Arms. During the groups touring in 1994, Dando befriended Oasis and appeared at some of their live shows and he also made a cameo appearance at the end of the 1994 film Reality Bites with Karen Duffy. Dando re-formed The Lemonheads with former member John Strohm on guitar, Bill Gibson, former bassist of Australian band The Eastern Dark, and Patrick Murphy, the group released the album Car Button Cloth in 1996. The album featured jangly guitar songs such as If I Could Talk Id Tell You, in 1997 the band went on tour and played its final gig at the Reading Festival, after which the band went on hiatus. In 2005, Dando put together a new lineup for The Lemonheads which included Karl Alvarez and Bill Stevenson, formerly of the pioneering band. In April 2006, they signed with Vagrant Records, and released an album in September
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Sebadoh
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Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, currently signed with Joyful Noise Recordings. Sebadoh were formed in 1988 in Northampton, Massachusetts, by Eric Gaffney, along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording techniques, often on four-track machines. The bands early output, such as The Freed Man and Weed Forestin, lead singer Lou Barlow says of the bands resurrected sound, We kept to ourselves during the recording and didn’t have much, if any, outside intervention. That, to my mind, makes it a true Sebadoh record, Lou Barlow was the bass player for alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. in the late 1980s. While both Barlow and leader J Mascis wrote songs, Mascis material dominated the groups output because Barlow was intimidated by the songwriting efforts. Barlow spent progressively more time recording his own songs at home, Barlow and Eric Gaffney released the Weed Forestin cassette in 1987 on Homestead Records under the name Sebadoh, which was a nonsense word Barlow often muttered in his recordings. Both Barlow and Gaffney contributed songs to The Freed Man cassette, Homestead Records head Gerard Cosloy heard the cassette release of The Freed Man and released it as a full-length album on Homestead in 1989. Soon after the cassettes release Barlow was kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. Jason Loewenstein joined in summer 1989, only ten band shows were performed throughout Western Massachusetts, Boston, and New York over the period 1989-1990 before the third album Sebadoh III was released. After touring with Firehose in 1991, they signed to Sub Pop in 1992 and these EPs had their track listings truncated and shuffled around and made into the American full-length release Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock. Their fourth album Bubble and Scrape was released in April 1993, the same year, the bands Soul and Fire EP humorously described the bands musical goal as driving dozens of college-age lemmings off the cliff of limited imagination. Following Bubble and Scrape Gaffney left the band and his replacement, Bob Fay, appeared on Bakesale and the follow-up Harmacy in 1996. Fay was fired before the sessions for The Sebadoh and replaced by Russ Pollard, the two reunited to play concerts in late 2003 and early 2004. In March 2007, the Sebadoh Classic lineup of Barlow, Gaffney and this coincided with a new series of reissues which repackaged some of the early albums with extra discs of unreleased tracks. First came a reissue of Sebadoh III, then The Freed Man, in 2011 Sebadoh toured in support of reissues for their Bakesale and Harmacy albums. Though Bakesale was reissued on time, as of June,2015, taking the place of Gaffney on drums was Bob DAmico, who plays with Loewenstein in both Circle of Buzzards and The Fiery Furnaces. Fifty copies of Weed Forrestin came as a bonus with purchases of the limited edition re-release of Dinosaur Jr. s first three albums in a cassette boxed set released by Joyful Noise in 2012. They were chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrows Parties festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, in July 2012, Sebadoh released Secret EP on the Sebadoh bandcamp, available in a digital download. CD copies were available at the shows of their 2012 tour
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Lou Barlow
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Louis Knox Barlow is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr. Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the style of rock music in the late 1980s. His first band, in Amherst, Massachusetts, was Deep Wound, Barlow was born in Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Jackson, Michigan and Westfield, Massachusetts. Barlow has released three albums, the latest Brace The Wave appeared on September 4,2015. Barlow attended high school in Westfield, Massachusetts, where he met Scott Helland, the two formed the Massachusetts-based hardcore punk band Deep Wound. J Mascis joined the band after answering their ad for a drummer wanted to play really fast, after becoming disillusioned with the constraints of hardcore, Deep Wound broke up in 1984. Mascis and Barlow reunited to form Dinosaur later that year, in 2005, Barlow rejoined the band alongside the original drummer, Murph. Since then, the band has reissued its first three records, toured worldwide and released four new records, Beyond, Farm, I Bet on Sky. After his dismissal from Dinosaur Jr. Barlow turned his attention to his band Sebadoh, the project featured lo-fidelity recording techniques and combined Barlows introspective, confessional songwriting with Gaffneys discordant noise collages. Bassist and songwriter Jason Loewenstein was later added to the line-up, Sebadohs early releases include The Freed Man and Weed Forestin, the latter of which was originally self-released under the name Sentridoh in 1987. Both albums were released by Homestead Records, as was the bands third album, Sebadoh III. The band released several studio-recorded albums on Sub Pop Records throughout the 1990s, in 1993, Sentridoh released a popular single for the song Losercore, on the label Smells Like Records founded by Steve Shelley of the American rock band, Sonic Youth. Barlow has called it the most finely executed of all my releases thanks to Shelley, numerous other Sentridoh releases on a variety of record labels followed, including releases on his own Loobiecore label. In 1994, Barlow formed the Folk Implosion with singer-songwriter John Davis, the band released several singles and EPs, and in 1995 reached the Top 40 with the song Natural One, from the soundtrack to the film Kids by Larry Clark. It remains Barlows biggest commercial hit, the soundtrack itself was curated by Barlow, and also included previously released songs by Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Slint and Daniel Johnston. After the release of Sebadohs eighth album, The Sebadoh, in 1999, Barlow continued to work with the Folk Implosion, releasing One Part Lullaby in 1999. Barlow took a break from the Folk Implosion in 2000 to collaborate on the album Subsonic 6 with Belgian musician, in 2003, Barlow released The New Folk Implosion featuring Imaad Wasif on guitar and Sebadoh drummer Russ Pollard on drums. The same year, he appeared as a musician in the film Laurel Canyon, in the spring of 2004, Barlow briefly reunited with Loewenstein for the Turbo Acoustic Sebadoh tour
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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T Bone Burnett
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Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett III is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer. He was a touring guitarist in Bob Dylans band on the Rolling Thunder Revue, after the tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band, followed by his first solo album in 1980. d. Lang on the A Wonderful World album, Burnett won Grammy Awards for the O Brother, Where Art Thou. Soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart. He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia and he oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line, The Big Lebowski, and Inside Llewyn Davis, and the True Detective TV series. Burnett, the son of Joseph Henry Burnett Jr. and Hazel Perkins Burnett, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1948 and he attended R. L. Paschal High School, and is featured in the schools Hall of Honor. He played rhythm guitar in a called the Shadows. His first significant contribution to the field was as the manic drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboys novelty hit. Also in 1968, he produced 6 songs for a group of friends, called at the time, The Case Hardy Boys. Later this band would move to Los Angeles and become known first as The Fare, and later as El Roacho, in 1972, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded his second album, The B-52 Band and the Fabulous Skylarks. In 1975 and 1976, he toured with Bob Dylans Rolling Thunder Revue, when the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylans band, David Mansfield and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band, which released three albums. The Alpha Band and Spark in the Dark were both released in 1977, while The Statue Makers of Hollywood was released in 1978, Burnett and singer-songwriter Sam Phillips were married in 1989 and divorced in 2004. He produced many of her albums, including Martinis and Bikinis and he is currently married to writer-producer Callie Khouri. Burnett has three daughters, including one from his marriage to Phillips, in 1980, Burnett released his first post–Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma Records label. Truth Decay was a rock album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as mystic Christian blues. In 1982, his Trap Door EP, released on the Warner Brothers label, Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson on guitar. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat tended toward adult alternative music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers, proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records Handmade Music in a limited edition of 5,000 on May 29,2007, in an expanded version
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Best Men
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Best Men is a 1997 American film directed by Tamra Davis, and stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Luke Wilson, Andy Dick, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Ward, Drew Barrymore and Dean Cain. Jesse Reilly was released from prison and he is to be married to Hope, shortly before the wedding, he is involved in a bank robbery with his friends Buzz Thomas, Teddy Pollack and Billy Phillips. It escalates to a crisis, and the FBI is called. In an exchange of fire, a few men are shot, Hope and Jesse are then rescued by John G. Coleman in a helicopter. In the final scene, Jesse and Hope raise their son
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There's Something About Mary
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Theres Something About Mary is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. It stars Cameron Diaz as the character with Ben Stiller, Chris Elliott. The film was placed 27th in the American Film Institutes 100 Years,100 Laughs, Americas Funniest Movies, in 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the fourth-greatest comedy film of all time. Diaz won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, an MTV Movie Award for Best Performance, an American Comedy Award for Best Actress and she also received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and it won 4 out of 8 MTV Movie Awards, including Best Movie. In 1985, 16-year-old high school student Ted Stroehmann lands a date with his dream girl Mary Jensen. After the ordeal gains the attention of members of the household and community and Ted is carted off to a hospital. Thirteen years later, in 1998, 29-year-old Ted is still in love with Mary, on the advice of his best friend Dom, he hires a smarmy private detective named Pat Healy to track her down. Healy discovers that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami with her friend, Magda and he lies to Ted about her, saying she is grossly overweight with many children, to discourage him from having any contact with her. Enraged, Healy tails Tucker and discovers him to be a fraud himself, he is an able-bodied, for years, Tucker has been driving away potential rivals through slander, including one oft-mentioned suitor referred to only as Brett. Meanwhile, Ted decides he wants to reconnect with Mary and, assisted by Dom, drives down to Florida. Ted seems to have won Marys love, until an anonymous letter exposes his connection with Healy, and she breaks contact with him. Ted confronts Healy and Tucker, and Mary is accosted by Dom, who is revealed to be her former boyfriend Woogie, after reuniting Brett and Mary, Ted leaves tearfully until Mary catches up to Ted, saying that she would be happiest with him. Bill Murray was considered for the role of Pat Healy, the movie was filmed in Miami, Florida. The makeup effects and animatronic effects were the handiwork of Makeup Effects Designer Tony Gardner and Alterian. This sleeper hit was the comedy of 1998 in North America as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year. It also catapulted Diaz and Stiller into the limelight, the film made $369 million worldwide, including $176 million in the U. S. alone. The film was critically acclaimed
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ARIA Music Awards
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The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association. For 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time,31 to No.5 in the ARIA Charts, its highest position. It later included smaller record companies representing independent acts/labels and has over 100 members, ARIA provided peer voting for some awards, while Countdown provided coupons in the related Countdown Magazine for viewers to vote for populist awards. At the 1985 Countdown awards ceremony, held on 14 April 1986, fans of INXS and Uncanny X-Men scuffled during the broadcast, the ARIA Hall of Fame honours Australian musicians achievements have had a significant impact in Australia or around the world. The first ceremony, in 1987, featured Elton John as the compere and was held at the Sheraton Wentworth Hotel, there were no live performances at the early ARIAs, music for both walk on/walk off was supplied by a nightclub dj, Rick Powell. All subsequent ceremonies were held in Sydney except the 1992 event at World Congress Centre, for 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time. 31 to No.5 in the ARIA Charts, its highest position, the first televised ARIA Awards ceremony occurred in 1992, all subsequent ceremonies were televised. They were broadcast on Network Ten from 2002 to 2008 and returned in 2010, nine Network aired the ceremony on 26 November 2009, its digital channel, GO. aired the 2011 ARIA Music Awards on 27 November 2011. At the 1988 ceremony a fracas developed between band manager, Gary Morris, accepting awards for Midnight Oil, and former Countdown compere, Ian Molly Meldrum and they conflicted over visiting United Kingdom artist, Bryan Ferry, who had also presented an award. Morris objected to Ferrys presence and insulted him, Meldrum defended Ferry, in 1995 electronic music group, Itch-E and Scratch-E, won the inaugural award for Best Dance Release for their single, Sweetness and Light. Band member, Paul Mac thanked Sydneys ecstasy dealers for their help, one of the sponsors of the awards, that year, was the National Drug Offensive. In 2005 Mac explained that he did not expect to win and his speech was bleeped for the TV broadcast. Network Ten disputed the finding, however their basis for defence was criticised by Media Watch, there never seems to be enough reference or homage paid to great Aussie pop and rock trailblazers who made and continue to make Australian music what it is today. To be eligible, a release must be available within the specified period for a given year. Material must be previously unrecorded, thus ruling out most live albums, a recording can be nominated within multiple categories, but only one genre category. Re-released recordings are not eligible and compilations are not eligible, Artists must either be Australian citizens, or have applied for or attained permanent resident status and have resided in Australia for at least six months within the specified period. For bands, at least half the members of the group must meet this requirement, if a recording refers to both an individual and a band, it must be nominated only the basis of the individual or the band, not mixed or both. Some categories have further requirements as specified below, Album/Single of the Year, Best Rock Album, Recording must be directed toward Contemporary Rock, Modern Rock and Active Rock formats
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Cigarettes Will Kill You
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Cigarettes Will Kill You is a single by Australian rock musician Ben Lee. Release from the artists 1998 album Breathing Tornados and produced by Ed Buller and it was voted #2 in the Triple J Hottest 100,1998 and also reached #46 on the Australian singles chart. During the 24 April 2006 concert at Irving Plaza in New York City and he recalled that he had been listening to British rock group The Verve, who have a song called The Drugs Dont Work. He was so impressed with the title of the song, that he decided to name his song with a catchy title. The cover even resembles a pack of cigarettes, the song was featured in the 2002 Australian comedy Crackerjack
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ARIA Charts
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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia, ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australias national charts since 1974. The Go-Set charts were Australias first national singles and albums charts published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974, succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australias national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data, in mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists compilation albums were included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989. The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990, the printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000, the ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic. Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale. In March 1991, Do the Bartman by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only. Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, in 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after an absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006. The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts, top 40 digital tracks chart, the ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically, on 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3, the show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6,00 pm. The charts were published online at 6,00 pm each Sunday. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments, for music DVDs, a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped. co. uk
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Triple J Hottest 100, 2002
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The 2002 Triple J Hottest 100, announced on 26 January 2003, was the tenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 39 songs was released, for the first time, a DVD, containing film clips of songs from the Hottest 100 was also released. This was also the last time that voting was allowed, in the 2003 poll. Part way through the song, they declared that it had been a joke, broke the CD on air, note, Australian artists Australian artists made up 50 of the 100 tracks. The double CD titled triple j - Hottest 100, Vol 10 Various Artists was released 2003-03-03 and it is a compilation of 39 of the top 100 songs. Badly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk About The Living End - One Said To The Other Bodyjar - One In A Million Darren Hanlon - Punks Not Dead Weezer - Keep Fishin
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Awake Is the New Sleep
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Awake Is the New Sleep is the fifth album by Australian musician Ben Lee, released in 2005. It reached #5 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, becoming his most successful album and it contains the top 40 singles Gamble Everything for Love and Catch My Disease. Gamble Everything for Love was also voted number 15 in the Triple J Hottest 100,2004 while Catch My Disease was #2 in the Triple J Hottest 100,2005. The song Were All in This Together was used on television advertisements in Australia and New Zealand, including Coca-Cola. In October 2010, Awake Is the New Sleep was listed in the book,100 Best Australian Albums, before writing Awake Is The New Sleep, Lee traveled to India. It was here that he met Sakthi Narayani Amma, who inspired him spiritually and this was a turning point for Lee. Having experienced criticism for his light heartedness in the past, Lee felt a renewed need to incorporate joy, Lee also changed his reason for making music, from creating music to get something out of it to creating music as a way to give to others. All of this influenced the music on Awake Is The New Sleep. Listed here are the titles of the singles and a description of their content. Gamble Everything for Love Gamble Everything for Love is about the importance of putting love above all else and its message is that love should be put first in all instances, that love, if you make a point to embrace it, will fulfill all of your needs. Catch My Disease Catch My Disease is a song about embracing Lees thinking and he sings, Open your heart, and catch my disease. Due to past criticism of his music, this may be interpreted as Lee suggesting that others open themselves up to his music. Were All in This Together Were All in This Together is a song about the connectedness of humanity and its message is that the things we do affect others
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Australian Recording Industry Association
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It oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties. The association has more than 100 members, including small labels typically run by one to five people, medium size organisations, ARIA is administered by a Board of Directors comprising senior executives from record companies, both large and small. As of October 2010, the directors were Denis Handlin, George Ash, Mark Poston, Sebastian Chase, David Vodica, in 1956, the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers was formed by Australias major record companies. It later included smaller record companies representing independent acts/labels and has over 100 members, by 1997, the six major labels provided 90% of all recordings made in Australia. ARIA is administered by a Board of Directors comprising senior executives from record companies, as of October 2010, the directors were Denis Handlin, George Ash, Mark Poston, Sebastian Chase, David Vodica and Tony Harlow. Australian TV pop music show Countdown presented its own awards ceremony, Countdown Music and Video Awards. ARIA provided peer voting for awards, while Countdown provided coupons in the related Countdown Magazine for viewers to vote for populist awards. At the 1985 Countdown awards ceremony, held on 14 April 1986, fans of INXS and Uncanny X-Men scuffled during the broadcast and as a result ARIA decided to hold their own awards. Since 2 March 1987, ARIA administered its own entirely peer-voted ARIA Music Awards, to recognise excellence, initially included in the same awards ceremonies, it established the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1988 and has held separate annual ceremonies since 2005. The ARIA Hall of Fame honours Australian musicians achievements have had a significant impact in Australia or around the world, in February 2004, the Australian Record Industry Association announced its own legal action against Kazaa, alleging massive copyright breaches. The trial began on 29 November 2004, on 6 February 2005, the homes of two Sharman Networks executives and the offices of Sharman Networks in Australia were raided under a court order by ARIA to gather evidence for the trial. In 2006, ARIA formed sponsorship deals with Motorola and Nova and changed the appearance, Motorola took naming-rights sponsorship seeing the charts referred to in the media as the Motorola ARIA Charts. ARIA, have commented that as part of the same marketing printed charts would be reintroduced into media retailing shops, as part of the deal Nova began broadcasting the charted singles in reverse order on a Sunday afternoon show before it was released on the ARIA charts website. The ARIA Charts is the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association, the charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres. All charts are compiled from data of both physical and digital sales from retailers in Australia, the ARIA No.1 Chart Awards were established in 2002 to recognise Australian recording artists, who reached number one on the ARIA albums, singles and music DVDs charts. The ARIA Music Awards is a series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry. This criticism is stauncher in Australia due to the absence of an equivalent Digital Millennium Copyright Act or state crimes acts which clearly establish copyright infringement as a crime, in February 2004, the Australian Record Industry Association took legal action against Kazaa, alleging massive copyright breaches. The trial began on 29 November 2004, on 6 February 2005, the homes of two Sharman Networks executives and the offices of Sharman Networks in Australia were raided under a court order by ARIA to gather evidence for the trial
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Catch My Disease
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Catch My Disease is a single by Australian artist Ben Lee. It is from the album Awake Is the New Sleep, which was produced in U. S, the song gained moderate popularity and went to #27 in Australia, and also came in second place in the Triple J Hottest 100,2005. It was also featured in My Bad Too, an episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs, in addition, it was featured in the first episode of Season 8 of Scrubs, My Jerks. The song also appeared in the movies Just Friends and Deuce Bigalow, the song is also the opening music to the podcast Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank. The song makes references to Southern California, including Pomona. The song was used in a Dell commercial and it was also used by Metcash Supermarkets Australia Limited to promote their Independent Grocers of Australia Supermarket chain, featuring Australian comedian Anh Do. At the 2006 ceremony, Lees winning song, Catch My Disease, was performed by indie artist, Lyrics Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Triple J Hottest 100, 2005
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The 2005 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2006. It was the thirteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, the broadcast began at 10am AEDT and finished a little before 7pm when the top song was announced. Voters were limited to 20 votes each -10 via SMS and 10 via the Internet, note, Australian artists 50 of the 100 tracks are by Australian artists. Wolfmother won the J Award for their self-titled album, the 2-CD set titled triple j - Hottest 100, Vol 13 Various Artists was released in 2006. It is a compilation of 41 of the top 100 songs
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Just Friends
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Just Friends is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Roger Kumble, written by Adam Tex Davis and starring Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein and Christopher Marquette. The film revolves around humorous observation of strictly platonic relationships as just friends or just as best friends and it was shot in Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The film was released on November 23,2005 and grossed $50 million, in 1995, Chris Brander is an overweight high school student with a lisp, braces, and a gentle giant demeanor who secretly has a huge romantic crush on his classmate and best friend Jamie Palamino. After confessing his feelings by writing them in Jamies yearbook, he attends Jamies graduation party, as he returns the yearbook to her, it is secretly swapped by her despicable ex-boyfriend, Tim, who reads the declaration aloud to everyone and humiliates Chris. Jamie doesnt reciprocate his feelings, after they share a brief kiss on the cheek, Tim. While Jamie admonishes them, Chris tearfully leaves the party, announcing that he would never return, during the trip to Paris, Samantha accidentally sets her private jet on fire resulting in an emergency landing in New Jersey, near Chriss hometown. Chris takes Samantha to his mothers house to spend the night and re-engages with his teenage past, Samantha meets Chriss mother and 18-year-old brother Mike who has an enormous crush on Samantha. At the local bar, Chris encounters some old classmates, including his best friend Clark and Clarks wife Darla, he also encounters Tim, who is now balding, fat, Jamie also appears, working as a bartender to support herself through graduate school. Chris plans to impress and seduce Jamie and he gets Mike to keep Samantha busy during his date with Jamie, but the realization that Jamies platonic friendship is important to him hampers Chriss plan. During a friendly ice skating day date, Chris is taken away in an ambulance after injuring himself, at the scene, Jamie is reunited with Dusty Dinkleman, a paramedic and former high school nerd who was also romantically in love with her. That night, in an attempt to rectify his situation, Chris again leaves Samantha in Mikes hands, Jamie, however, brings Dusty along, and Chriss mother ends up joining them, ruining Chriss plan. Meanwhile, Samantha plays a gig at the heavy metal club that Chris sent her to, gets booed off the stage and assaults a member of the audience. The next night, Chris goes to Jamies for a Christmas party, planning to reveal his feelings for her, in a rage, she drives to Jamies house and crashes through her fence, destroying her familys Christmas decorations. The next day, Jamie speaks with Darla about the night before, Jamie admits that while the two are just friends, she tried to put herself out there to Chris, to show Chris that she is interested in a relationship. Meanwhile, Chris goes to Clarks medical office to get advice, saying that the timing wasnt right and Jamie, outside the office, they happen to catch Dusty singing to a sexy nurse and then kissing her. Chris tries to warn Jamie, but instead ends up attacking Dusty in front of her, Chris consequently gets drunk and goes to the bar where Jamie works, finding her there with Dusty. Jamie refuses to listen and Dusty tries to convince her to have sex with him, when Jamie gently turns him down, Dusty storms out of the bar. Chris and Jamie get into fight, with him blaming her for keeping him in the friend zone and saying that she peaked in high school
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
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Deuce Bigalow 2, European Gigolo is a 2005 American sex comedy film and a sequel to the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo, from Happy Madison Productions. Unlike Male Gigolo, distributed by Disneys Touchstone Pictures brand, European Gigolo was released by Sonys Columbia Pictures, the film was panned by critics and grossed $45 million on a $22 million budget. Gigolos in Europe are being terrorized by a serial killer, in Malibu, Deuce Bigalows wife Kate has died from a shark attack, and Deuce is invited by his former pimp T. J. Hicks to Amsterdam. Deuce goes to take his mind off of Kate, after T. J. shows Deuce his boat, or float crib, the pair go to a coffee shop where they get high and bump into Heinz Hummer, a German gigolo. T. J. plans to dump the body, but skeptical of Hummers reputation of being well-endowed, unzips his pants and examines his genitalia and is caught by a tour boat. Upon his release from the station, Deuce finds T. J. at a restaurant. Deuce says it was a woman, so they both figure it was a she-john, a client of the murdered gigolo. T. J. convinces Deuce to find the killer by becoming a gigolo again, visiting the former clients and they attend a meeting of the Royal Order of European Man Whores, but fail to procure a list of the clients. Deuce and T. J. visit the first client on the list, while Deuce distracts the woman, T. J. breaks into her residence and finds a brand of lipstick which might be the kind found on all the victims. After leaving, Deuce finds Gaspar on the street and shows him the lipstick, Gaspar throws the lipstick in the trash, mentioning that the lipstick found on the victims is a very rare one, Lavender Love #66. As Gaspar enters the station, his niece, Eva, approaches him. Eva slaps herself three times when Gaspar sneezes, Deuce helps her pick up the things she dropped, and Eva explains to Deuce that she has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Deuce sees that she has a painting of a fish, so go to the Amsterdam aquarium together. Deuce continues to investigate different women from Antoines book, Deuce rides with Gaspar to the Man-Whore Awards Ceremony under the guise of protecting the man-whores. Gaspar pulls a gun on Deuce and tells him that he was once a man-whore hopeful, while Gaspar was observing a demonstration on how to perform a certain sex act, one of his classmates offered to let him use his penis-enlargement pump. When the demonstration ended, Gaspar was horrified the demonstration was his fiancée, Gaspar was so angry and shocked that he continued to pump until his penis exploded, causing the other men to laugh at him. He blames man-whores for the loss of his fiancée and his penis, Gaspar beats Deuce, but before he can detonate the bomb, the woman with a penis for a nose and the woman with the tracheotomy distract Gaspar. Deuce knocks out Gaspar with a taking the bomb detonator
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Grey's Anatomy
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Greys Anatomy is an American medical drama television series that premiered on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement on March 27,2005. The series focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents and attending physicians, as they evolve into seasoned doctors while trying to maintain personal lives. The title is a play on Grays Anatomy, a human anatomy textbook by Henry Gray. The shows premise originated with Shonda Rhimes, who serves as a producer, along with Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding. Although it is set in Seattle at the fictional Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital it is filmed in Los Angeles. The show was originally titled Complications, a reference to the complicated medical procedures, the series was created to be racially diverse, utilizing a color-blind casting technique. It revolves around the title character Dr. Meredith Grey played by Ellen Pompeo. The original cast consisted of nine star-billed actors, Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, T. R. Knight, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr. Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey. The cast has undergone changes through the shows run, with many members leaving and being replaced by others. In its twelfth season, the show had an ensemble of sixteen actors. On February 10,2017, ABC renewed Greys Anatomy for a fourteenth season,3 drama on all of broadcast. Greys Anatomy has been received by critics throughout much of its run. Since its inception, the show has been described by the media outlets as a television phenomena or a juggernaut, owing to its longevity and dominant ratings. It is considered to have had a significant impact on culture and has received numerous awards. It has received multiple Emmy nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, in 2012, Greys Anatomy was named the fifth-highest revenue earning show, in terms of advertising per half-hour. It is the longest running scripted primetime show airing on ABC. The series follows Meredith Grey, the daughter of a general surgeon named Ellis Grey. The residents are joined by Jackson Avery and April Kepner, former Mercy-West residents who join Seattle Grace following an administrative merger in the sixth season
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Hidden Palms
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Hidden Palms is an American teen drama television series that ran from May 30 until July 4,2007, on The CW in the United States. It was canceled after eight first-run episodes, the series, created by Kevin Williamson, portrays the fictional lives of a group of teenagers and their families residing in Palm Springs, California. In the US there are no plans to release Hidden Palms on DVD and/or Blu-ray from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. But in the Netherlands the entire series was released on DVD by RCV Entertainment in the summer of 2009, the series, produced by Lionsgate Television, began production in late 2006 with the tentative title Palm Springs. The pilot episode was leaked onto the Internet before the series premiered. The series eventually premiered on The CW on May 30,2007 at 8,00 pm Eastern/7,00 pm Central. It was announced on June 12,2007, that Hidden Palms would wrap up two weeks earlier on the CW, which would stop rebroadcasting it on Sundays. Because of the labor costs of filming in Palm Springs, California, Hidden Palms was actually filmed at a studio in Avondale. In the promos, mountains are shown in many clips, however, parts of the pilot episode were filmed in Palm Springs, including downtown Palm Springs. Hidden Palms premiered on The CW in the United States on May 30,2007, the Nine Network in Australia has acquired the rights to broadcast it. During production, the episode number was lowered to 8. As of May 31,2007, the show had a score of 45% based on 22 reviews at Metacritic. Linda Stasi of the New York Post called it the best rich kid show to appear on TV since that other California show died, diane Werts of Newsday said the show is enough to make me forgive The CWs entire sorry first season. However, there was also negative reception of the show, mike Duffy of the Detroit Free Press said the show is luridly derivative and that theres nothing remotely hip about it. Charlie McCollum of the San Jose Mercury News said the show spends far too much time exploring the whiny angst of the teens. Tom Shales of The Washington Post said of the show, youre likely to find more fascinating figures, Hidden Palms at the Internet Movie Database Hidden Palms at Metacritic Hidden Palms at TV. com
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Scrubs (TV series)
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Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created by Bill Lawrence that aired from October 2,2001, to March 17,2010, on NBC and later ABC. The series follows the lives of employees at the fictional Sacred Heart teaching hospital, the title is a play on surgical scrubs and a term for a low-ranking person because at the beginning of the series, most of the main characters are medical interns. The series is fast-paced, with slapstick and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the character, Dr. John J. D. Dorian. The main cast for all but its last season consisted of Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, Neil Flynn, Ken Jenkins, the series featured multiple guest appearances by film actors, such as Brendan Fraser, Heather Graham, and Colin Farrell. Scrubs, produced by the production division of Disney–ABC Television Group, premiered on October 2,2001. The series received a Peabody Award in 2006, during the seventh season, NBC announced that it would not renew the show, ABC announced it had picked up the eighth season of the series, which began January 6,2009. The ninth season premiered on December 1,2009, and on May 14,2010, most episodes feature multiple story lines thematically linked by voice-overs done by Braff, as well as the comical daydreams of J. D. According to Bill Lawrence, What we decided was, rather than have it be a monotone narration and it opened up a visual medium that those of us as comedy writers were not used to. Actors were given the chance to improvise their lines on set with encouragement by series creator Bill Lawrence, with Neil Flynn, almost every episode title for the first eight seasons begins with the word My. Bill Lawrence says this is because each episode is Dr. John Dorian writing in his diary, a few episodes are told from another characters perspective and have episode titles like His Story or Her Story. Apart from a period of narration from J. D. at the beginning and the end. The transfer of the duties usually occurs at a moment of physical contact between two characters. Starting with season nine, the titles start with Our. as the focus has shifted from the perspective of J. D. to a new group of medical students. The webisodes that accompanied season eight, Scrubs, Interns, also were named Our, for the first eight seasons, the series featured seven main cast members, with numerous other characters recurring throughout the course of the series. Starting with the season, many of the original cast left as regular characters. Zach Braff portrays John Michael J. D. Dorian, the shows protagonist, J. D. is a young attending physician, who begins the series as a staff intern. His voice-over to the series comes from his thoughts and often features surreal fantasies. J. D. describes himself as a sensi, enjoying acoustic alternative music, J. D. has a son with ex-girlfriend Kim Briggs and a child with wife Elliot Reid
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Dell
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Dell Inc. is a multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. The company is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, which was formed by the 2016 merger of Dell Inc. eponymously named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide. Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, Dell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014. After going private in 2013, the confidential nature of its financial information prevents the company from being ranked by Fortune. In 2015, it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo, Dell is currently the #1 shipper of PC monitors in the world. Dell is the sixth largest company in Texas by total revenue and it is the second largest non-oil company in Texas – behind AT&T – and the largest company in the Greater Austin area. It was a traded company, as well as a component of the NASDAQ-100 and S&P500. On September 7,2016, Dell Inc. acquired EMC Corporation to form Dell Technologies, Michael Dell founded PCs Limited while a student of the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components, Dell dropped out of school to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting $1,000 in expansion-capital from his family. In 1985, the company produced the first computer of its own design, the Turbo PC, Dell appeared in PCs Limited advertisements in national magazines, asking readers to give us a chance to show you what can do. Selling directly to consumers custom-assembled computers according to a selection of options, in 1986, Michael Dell brought in Lee Walker, a 51-year-old venture capitalist, as president and chief operating officer, to serve as mentor and to implement Dells ideas for growing the company. Walker was also instrumental in recruiting members to the board of directors when the company went public in 1988, the company dropped the PC’s Limited name in 1987 to become Dell Computer Corporation and began expanding globally. In June 1988, Dells market capitalization grew by $30 million to $80 million from its June 22 initial public offering of 3.5 million shares at $8.50 a share. In 1992, Fortune magazine included Dell Computer Corporation in its list of the worlds 500 largest companies, making Michael Dell the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company ever. In 1993, to complement its own direct sales channel, Dell planned to sell PCs at big-box retail outlets such as Wal-Mart, bain consultant Kevin Rollins persuaded Michael Dell to pull out of these deals, believing they would be money losers in the long run. Margins at retail were thin at best and Dell left the channel in 1994. Rollins would soon join Dell full-time and eventually become the company President, Dell found an opportunity among PC-savvy individuals who liked the convenience of buying direct, customizing their PC to their means, and having it delivered in days
