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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Hardcore punk
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Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock, New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the music industry and anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock. Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Boston—as well as in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Hardcore has spawned the straight movement and its associated submovements, hardline. Hardcore was heavily involved with the rise of the independent record labels in the 1980s and it has also influenced various music genres that have experienced widespread commercial success, including alternative rock, thrash metal, emo and metalcore. While traditional hardcore has never experienced mainstream success, some of its early pioneers have garnered appreciation over time. In 2011, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke placed Greg Ginn of Black Flag 99th place in his 100 Greatest Guitarists list, although the music genre started in English-speaking western countries, notable hardcore scenes have existed in Italy, Brazil, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. The origin of the hardcore punk is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D. O. A. may have helped to popularize the term with the title of their 1981 album, Hardcore 81. C. Hardcore historian Steven Blush said that the term hardcore is also a reference to the sense of being fed up with the existing punk, Blush also states that the term refers to an extreme, the absolute most Punk. One definition of the genre is a form of exceptionally harsh punk rock, like the Oi. subgenre of the UK, hardcore punk can be considered an internal music reaction. According to one writer, distressed by the artificiality of much post-punk, lacking the art-school grace of post-punk, hardcore punk favor low key visual aesthetic over extravagance and breaking with original punk rock song patterns. One of the important philosophies in the scene is authenticity. The pejorative term poseur is applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy. Joe Keithley, the vocalist of D. O. A. said in an interview, in the vein of earlier punk rock, most hardcore punk bands have followed the traditional singer/guitar/bass/drum format. The songwriting has more emphasis on rather than melody. Critic Steven Blush writes The Sex Pistols were still rocknroll. like the craziest version of Chuck Berry, Hardcore was a radical departure from that
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Accordion
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Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist, the concertina and bandoneón are related, the harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family. The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing pallets to open and these vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instruments reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the manual. The accordion is widely spread across the world, nevertheless, in Europe and North America, some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion is used in cajun, zydeco, jazz music. The piano accordion is the official city instrument of San Francisco, the oldest name for this group of instruments is harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos, meaning harmonic, musical. Today, native versions of the accordion are more common. These names refer to the type of accordion patented by Cyrill Demian, accordions have many configurations and types. Similar to a bow, the production of sound in an accordion is in direct proportion to the motion of the player. The bellows is located between the right- and left-hand manuals, and is made from pleated layers of cloth and cardboard, with added leather and metal. It is used to pressure and vacuum, driving air across the internal reeds and producing sound by their vibration. These boxes house reed chambers for the right- and left-hand manuals, each side has grilles in order to facilitate the transmission of air in and out of the instrument, and to allow the sound to better project. The grille for the manual is usually larger and is often shaped for decorative purposes. The right-hand manual is used for playing the melody and the left-hand manual for playing the accompaniment. The manual mechanism of the instrument either enables the air flow, or disables it, the different types have varying components. All instruments have reed ranks of some format, the most typical accordion is the piano accordion, which is used for many musical genres
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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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NOFX
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NOFX /ˌnoʊɛfˈɛks/ is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They were formed in 1983 by vocalist/bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin, drummer Erik Sandin joined NOFX shortly after, and El Hefe joined the band in 1991 to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out the current line-up. NOFXs mainstream success was signified by a growing interest in punk rock during the 1990s, NOFX has released thirteen studio albums, sixteen extended plays and a number of seven-inch singles. The band rose to popularity with their studio album Punk in Drublic. Their latest studio album, First Ditch Effort, was released on October 7,2016, the group has sold over 8 million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful independent bands of all time. NOFX broadcast their own show on Fuse TV entitled NOFX, Backstage Passport, in 1983, guitarist Eric Melvin met bassist/vocalist Mike Burkett and started the band under the name NO-FX, after a Boston hardcore punk band called Negative FX. At this time, they were joined by drummer Erik Smelly Sandin, nOFXs first recording was a demo from 1984, entitled Thalidomide Child produced by Germs drummer Don Bolles, which did not sell many copies, but is now an incredibly rare collectors item. Fat Mike once claimed that no copies existed and it was announced in 2011 that the demo would be re-released and in 2012 it finally saw a release. The group released its debut extended play NOFX on Mystic Records in 1985. Mystics Mark Wilkins, who handled promotion on their first national tour with Dr. Know told Wild Times I knew those guys had something special. In the middle of the tour Dr. Knows van broke down forcing them to quit the tour but NOFX kept on going and that was very rare and in my mind an example of the kind of discipline it takes to be successful. The bands line-up had undergone a number of changes, however, for a year, Erik Smelly Sandin left the band and was replaced by Scott Sellers, and later by Scott Aldahl. Dave Allen was in the band for four months, until he died in a car accident. In 1986, the released the extended play So What If Were on Mystic. Dave Casillas joined the band on guitar in 1987 and was featured on the extended play The P. M. R. C. Can Suck on This, attacking the PMRCs campaign for music censorship, the original cover was an edited S&M photo, the cover for the re-released version was changed to a photo of Eric Melvin. Prior to the release of Liberal Animation, a compilation of 14 early NOFX songs was released on Mystic Records, the album was self-titled, and featured the songs from the NOFX and So What If Were on Mystic. extended plays. The album is rare and only printed around 1,000 copies
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in San Francisco in 1995. The Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band, the band is named after a childrens book of the same name by Gerald G. Jampolsky and Diane V. Cirincione. The bands first release came with 1995s Denver, a 7 single released on band member Fat Mikes record label Fat Wreck Chords, featuring two John Denver covers. 1996 and 1997 saw the release four more singles, each on a different label and named after the artist covered on that particular release. Their first full-length album, Have a Ball, was released July 29,1997, the compilation album Have Another Ball. The band entered the studio on April 3,2006 to work on their album, Love Their Country. The theme of album is country and western, and includes covers of tracks by Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks, Hank Williams, Sr. Prior to the release of the album, Fat Wreck Chords released a digital label sampler, in late 2006, Fat Wreck Chords released another digital label sampler Christmas Bonus, containing a previously-unreleased cover of Steve Goodmans City of New Orleans. In August 2006 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes were scheduled to play three dates at PNC Park after Pirates games, but after they got booed on the first night and they were to play along with fireworks during the post-game Skyblast shows. On December 5,2007, Fat Wreck Chords released a flash MP3 holiday bonus sampler called Hanuk-Comp containing The Boxer, there is also a downloadable podcast that features commentary from Fat Mike and Floyd during breaks between songs in which the next album is revealed. The compilation Have Another Ball. was released on July 8,2008, it all the B-side recordings from the Have a Ball singles, plus covers of Sodomy. Fat Wreck Chords released Go Down Under on February 1,2011, on September 13,2011 Fat Wreck Chords released a 5-song EP, Sing in Japanese. In a Reddit AMA on January 28,2014, Fat Mike revealed the album theme would be Divas. Featuring covers of Barbra Streisand, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga and we Are Diva. would be released on May 13,2014 on Fat Wreck Chords. Chris Shifletts brother, Scott Shiflett, has been filling in for him on the bands most recent tours, NOFX guitarist Eric Melvin filled in for Fat Mike on bass during the 2007 European tour and 2008 and 2013 Australian tours. Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals & Lindsay McDougall of Frenzal Rhomb filled in on guitars during the participation in the 2003 Livid Festival in Australia. Since 2014, Jay Bentley of Bad Religion has been the usual fill-in member on bass for Fat Mike, the Gimmes have a gimmick of wearing quirky matching costumes during their live shows. Some of the match the albums, such as when they dress in cowboy outfits to accompany the album Love Their Country or in drag as various characters from musicals in Are a Drag
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Heavy Petting Zoo
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Heavy Petting Zoo is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released on January 31,1996 through Epitaph Records, the record reached a position of No.63 on the American Billboard 200 Albums chart, the first NOFX album to do so. In Austria Heavy Petting Zoo peaked at No,20, while the album achieved the No.13 position in both Sweden and Finland. NOFX recorded the album in October 1995 with Ryan Greene at the Razors Edge studio, San Francisco, the track August 8th makes reference to the death of Jerry Garcia. Songwriter Fat Mike commented that he wrote the song, cuz I fucking hate the Grateful Dead and he really dies on August 9th. According to Fat Mike, the first half of The Black And White is concerned with a homosexual male living in Small Town. Liza revisits the lesbians Liza and Louise introduced on the 1992 album White Trash, Two Heebs, the third song in the series, Louise is found on their eighth album Pump up the Valuum. There are two different cover images for the album, both illustrated by Mark deSalvo, a designer of punk album art. The artwork for the CD edition features a man cuddling a sheep, the bands name and album title are featured at the top of the cover. The vinyl editions artwork features the man and sheep in a 69 position. The title Eating Lamb is given on the cover of the LP, with Heavy Petting Zoo written on the spine, CMJ New Music Monthly, in their review of the album, described it as the bands nastiest cover yet. And in their analysis of NOFXs attitude, the authors of Screaming for Change, to promote the albums release, record label Epitaph sent out inflatable sheep with the message Fuck ewe attached. The LP version was banned in Germany, due to its Zoophilia content, a court order in October 1996 prohibited distribution of the record in Germany, and confiscated copies with the offending artwork that were already on public display. All tracks written by Fat Mike
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Coaster (album)
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Coaster is the eleventh studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released on April 28,2009 through Fat Wreck Chords, writing and recording sessions for Coaster took place from November 2008 to February 2009. The band worked with Bill Stevenson, who produced Wolves in Wolves Clothing and Self Entitled. The album was the first new Fat Wreck Chords release priced under $10 in the US under the new promise that all CDs from the label would cost under $10. The album was released on vinyl under the title Frisbee with alternative artwork. As with the CD release, vinyl preorders came with a bonus 7-inch single with the two bonus tracks. The vinyl release came with a free MP3 download of the album. The vinyl release features an intro to the opening track We Called it America. The song Creeping Out Sara is about meeting Sara Quin of indie band Tegan, the vinyl edition of the album has an alternate version called Creeping Out Tegan which has alternate lyrics and is about a meeting with Saras identical twin sister and bandmate Tegan Quin. The vinyl release features an alternate trumpet solo and organ intro on the track Best God in Show. A few songs not included on the album that were written, the covers of both Coaster and Frisbee are in a style reminiscent of graphic design from the 1970s. The lyric booklet included with Coaster also includes photos of the members from that time period. The cover art of Coaster shows a compact disc being used as an alcoholic drink coaster with the art side facing down. The rear cover shows various older NOFX albums also being used as coasters with the disc art facing up, the disc art itself declares Absorbing Alcohol Since 1983. The alternate Frisbee artwork depicts guitarist Eric Melvin catching a vinyl record as he would a frisbee, all tracks written by Fat Mike
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Fat Wreck Chords
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Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California-based independent record label, focused on punk rock. It was started by NOFX lead singer Michael Burkett and his girlfriend at the time, Erin Burkett, in 1991. Fat Wreck Chords has released 157 studio albums to date. The label was started by Michael Burkett and his girlfriend at the time, Erin Burkett, Michael wanted a label that would represent himself, signing only bands he liked and that had similar beliefs. In the beginning Erin would fill orders and handle mail when Michael was on tour, the operation moved into its own office around 1993. The label grew during the 1990s selling over a million records per year and it had eighteen employees and four offices. A documentary about Fat Wreck Chords called A Fat Wreck is set to be released on November 22nd 2016, one somewhat uncommon and defining characteristic of Fat Wreck Chords is that they only sign one-record deals with bands. This allows the working with Fat Wreck Chords to have a choice as to if. In some cases, bands have released albums on Fat Wreck Chords, the label has never been a member of the Recording Industry Association of America as indicated on the frequently asked questions portion of the labels website, Are we a member. Not only no, but FUCK NO and we spent three years having our labels name removed from their members list. A year went by, then our name showed up again on their fucking list, needless to say, were in the process of having our name removed again, but they arent being too cooperative. The label has had two subsidiaries over the years, Honest Dons and Pink & Black, Honest Dons released records from Chixdiggit and Teen Idols amongst others, while Pink & Black released albums from female-fronted bands like Fabulous Disaster and Dance Hall Crashers. Fat Wreck Chords regularly releases albums, often to promote bands signed to the label. The earliest Fat Wreck Chords compilations all have titles with some reference to fatness, shortly after Fat Music Volume IV was released, Fat Wreck Chords released a similarly titled album, Short Music for Short People, which features 101 songs, all averaging approximately 30 seconds. The shortest song is only eight seconds, and the longest is 40 seconds, some of the songs were commissioned and recorded specifically for the album, while others were from the bands pre-existing repertoires. Since the last Fat Music album has released, the Fat Wreck Chords compilations have been explicitly for charitable causes. Between Liberation and PROTECT, two compilation albums were released in protest of President George W. Bush and his administration, Rock Against Bush, Vol.1. To celebrate 20 years of business Fat Wreck Chords released the 3-disc Wrecktrospective compilation on December 8,2009. Disc 1 is composed of the labels greatest hits, disc 2 is composed of unreleased demos and rarities, Live in a Dive is a series of live albums recorded by Fat Wreck Chords
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