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Sweet Children (EP)
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Sweet Children is the third EP by American punk rock band Green Day. It was released in August 1990 through Skene, the name of the EP is a reference to the original name of Green Day. The EP is a collection of some of the bands earliest songs that the band was playing live at the time. It was recorded in 2 hours on July 5,1990 at 6 ft Under in Minneapolis, Minnesota while the band was on a break from its summer tour. The EP was released on Minneapolis-based indie label Skene and these were the last recordings drummer John Kiffmeyer would contribute to the band. Shortly after the end of the tour, he left the band to attend college, also of note, My Generation features a line from the film Blue Velvet, Heineken. Fuck that shit. said by the primary antagonist Frank Booth, there are five different pressings of the EP. The first four have been out of print since its inclusion on the CD issue of Green Days second album Kerplunk in 1992, because of this, it has since become a valuable and sought-after item among collectors and Green Day fans alike. The first pressings cover is a picture of Mike Dirnts leg during a concert, the second pressings cover is a black and white picture of a somewhat trashed Volkswagen Beetle with the caption What Do You Think Mike. This rare second pressing, limited to 600 copies as opposed to the first runs respectable 1,500, also featured an insert, reading Not a lyrics sheet. The third pressing is the same as the one above in every way except there is no insert, on March 24,2009, the EP was back in print as it was included with the vinyl reissue of Kerplunk. It is a reissue of the first pressing, in 1990, on the first day of the EPs release, it sold 493 copies. All lyrics written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except noted, all music composed by Green Day. Billie Joe Armstrong - lead vocals, guitar Mike Dirnt - bass, backing vocals Al Sobrante - drums, backing vocals
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time
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Jason White (musician)
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Jason White is an American musician, best known as the former rhythm guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day. He has played as a member of Green Day since 1999. He is also the guitarist/vocalist for the Californian punk band Pinhead Gunpowder, lead guitarist/lead vocalist for California, in late 2014, he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer. In the summer of 1992, White filled in guitar duties at the last minute for Bay Area punk band Monsula, after the performance, Jason toured as guitarist for the band and eventually relocated to the Bay Area after the breakup of Chino Horde in summer 1993. White joined the Big Cats in 1996, after the departure of bassist Josh Bentley. The group is a project of many musicians, playing live very rarely. Their newest record, On Tomorrow, was released in 2007, because of Pinhead Gunpowders infamy for sporadic get-togethers, White and Gunpowder bassist Bill Schneider began looking to form another band that would be a group the two could focus on. After recruiting Schneiders brother Greg Schneider to join and finally convincing Willie Samuels to play drums, White and Greg would become the focus of the band, splitting songwriting duties, as well as singing time. Bill Schneider left the band on good terms after the groups first album Check Please to focus on his shop and was soon replaced by Johnnie Wentz. The new line-up soon recorded a follow up, Some of the Young, in 2006, Jason recorded a cover of The Replacements Torture for the Replacements Cover compilation, Well Inherit the Earth. Hes also featured in the May 2007 release, Towncraft, a documentary covering twenty years of the music scene in Little Rock, AR. That same year, White played with Green Day in the video for the cover of Working Class Hero, as a friend of punk rock trio Green Day, he appeared in the When I Come Around video, where he is seen kissing a girl. In 1994, White joined punk quartet Pinhead Gunpowder after the departure of singer/guitarist Mike Kirsch, when Green Day/Pinhead Gunpowder lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong founded Adeline Records in 1997, White helped him run it. He re-appeared with Armstrong for two Green Day shows in 1999, both of which raised money for the Bridge School Benefit, with the release of American Idiot, White was required again to play with the band during the supporting tour of the album. In February 2005, Jason got married and that year, he played with Green Day in their video, Wake Me Up When September Ends – the first time that any musician outside the trio appeared as a performer in a Green Day video. He also appears along the band in their 2005 live CD/DVD Bullet in a Bible, in April 2007, White and his wife joined Armstrong and his family in their Spring Break working with Habitat For Humanity and writing a diary for fan site GreenDay. net. In 2008, White joined Green Days side project Foxboro Hot Tubs as lead guitarist along with Kevin Preston of Prima Donna on rhythm guitar, in 2009, he toured with Green Day in support for their latest record, 21st Century Breakdown. On July 13,2010, Max Recordings released Whites debut 45 single - Hungover b/w Im A Mess and he appeared once again as Green Days sideman for their 2011 live album Awesome As Fuck
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Billie Joe Armstrong
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He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Days side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network. Raised in Rodeo, California, Armstrong developed an interest in music at a young age and he met Mike Dirnt while attending elementary school, and the two instantly bonded over their mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Children when the two were 15 years old. The band changed its name to Green Day, and would later achieve massive commercial success, Armstrong has also pursued musical projects outside of Green Days work, including numerous collaborations with other musicians. The record company has come under the management of Pat Magnarella. Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Oakland, California and raised in nearby Rodeo and his father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of cancer on September 10,1982, when Armstrong was 10. The song Wake Me Up When September Ends is a memorial to his father and he has five older siblings, David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rods Hickory Pit restaurant in El Cerrito, Armstrong is of Scotch-Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, Spanish, German, and Welsh descent. Armstrongs interest in music started at a young age and he attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled Look for Love at the age of five on the Bay Area label Fiat Records. After his father died, his mother married a man whom her children disliked, at the age of 10, Armstrong met Mike Dirnt in the school cafeteria and they immediately bonded over their love of music. He became interested in punk rock after being introduced to rock by his brothers. Armstrong has also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements and Hüsker Dü as major musical influences, Armstrong and Mike Dirnts first live performance under the name Green Day was in Davis, a town approximately an hours drive northeast of the San Francisco Bay area. Along with Hillcrest Elementary, Armstrong attended Carquinez Middle School and John Swett High School, on his 18th birthday, he dropped out to pursue his musical career. In 1986, aged 14, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt, in the beginning, Dirnt and Armstrong both played guitar, with John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante, on drums, and Sean Hughes on bass. After a few performances, Hughes left the band in 1988, Dirnt then began playing bass and they changed their name to Green Day in April 1989, choosing the name because of their fondness for marijuana. In 1989, Armstrong provided lead guitar and backing vocals on three songs for The Lookouts final EP IV and that same year, Green Day released their debut EP1,000 Hours through Lookout. They recorded their debut studio album 39/Smooth and the extended play Slappy in 1990, tré Cool became Green Days drummer in late 1990 after Sobrante left in order to go to college. Cool made his debut on Green Days second album, Kerplunk, in 1993, Armstrong played live several times with California punk band Rancid
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Mike Dirnt
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Michael Ryan Pritchard, known professionally as Mike Dirnt, is an American musician, songwriter and composer. He is best known as the co-founder, bassist, backing vocalist and he has also played in several other bands, including The Frustrators. As a child, his father was often away obtaining a degree, while his mother stayed at home to care for him, Dirnt excelled in school despite missing classes, often as a result of various illnesses believed to be caused by his biological mothers drug use. After an argument between his parents resulted in a call to the police, the couple divorced and his mother and sister moved to Rodeo, CA while he stayed in El Sobrante, CA with his father. However, missing his mother, he moved in with her. Having been previously described as bright and fearless, Dirnt became sullen, in the cafeteria in Carquinez Middle School, ten-year-old Dirnt met Billie Joe Armstrong, with whom he bonded instantly. Armstrong began to play guitar with Mike, and the two spent much time in Armstrongs house and they played songs by artists, most notably The Ramones. At the age of 15, they formed a group named Sweet Children where Billie playing lead guitar, dirnts family struggled with financial troubles, in an effort to help out, he worked as a chef at Nantucket, a seafood restaurant in Crockett. He eventually saved up money to purchase a used pickup truck that he and Armstrong often drove to Berkeley to attend shows at 924 Gilman Street. The pair got jobs at the club as security guards, despite their small physiques, Dirnt recalled, We lived and died for that place. At that time, it meant everything, while at Pinole Valley High School, Dirnt and classmate Billie Joe Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children. Dirnts mother struggled to provide for him and his sister as a single parent, unwilling to leave Sweet Children, Armstrong and Dirnt convinced each others parents to allow Dirnt to move into Armstrongs garage. After drummer John Kiffmeyer, who was known as Al Sobrante, joined the group. The band performed several well-received sets, which encouraged Armstrong to drop out of school to focus his energy on music. Dirnt, however, worried that he needed a backup plan, hughes, who was not as dedicated to the group as the other members, left Sweet Children, leaving Dirnt to play bass. Dirnt often brought his bass to school, and the noise of the unamplified strings led classmates to jokingly call him by the onomatopoeia Dirnt. While performing at the 1998 KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, California, Third Eye Blind bassist Arion Salazar ran onstage and bear-hugged Dirnt, the incident escalated into an on-stage scuffle before security took Salazar away. After the performance, Dirnt confronted Salazar backstage, and as the two argued, a beer bottle struck Dirnt in the head, causing a fracture in his skull
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East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
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The eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area, commonly referred to as the East Bay, includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, with a population of roughly 2.5 million in 2010, it is the most populous subregion in the Bay Area. Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay and the third largest in the Bay Area, the city serves as a major transportation hub for the U. S. West Coast, and its port is the largest in Northern California, increased population has led to the growth of such large edge cities as Berkeley, Hayward, Concord and Fremont. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 with its terminus at the newly constructed Oakland Long Wharf. Today the Port of Oakland is the Bay Areas largest port, in 1868, the University of California was formed from the private College of California and a new campus was built in what would become Berkeley. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake saw a number of refugees flee to the relatively undamaged East Bay. As the East Bay grew, the push to connect it with a permanent link than ferry service resulted in the completion of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in 1936. The Bay Area saw further growth in the decades following World War II, the 1937 completion of the Caldecott Tunnel through the Berkeley Hills fueled growth further east, where there was undeveloped land. Cities in the Diablo Valley, including Concord and Walnut Creek, the addition of the BART commuter rail system in 1972 further encouraged development in increasingly far-flung regions of the East Bay. Today, the valleys east of the Berkeley Hills contain large affluent suburban communities such as Walnut Creek, San Ramon, the East Bay is not a formally defined region, aside from its being described as a region inclusive of Alameda and Contra Costa counties. As development moves generally eastward, new areas are described as being part of the East Bay, beyond the borders of Alameda County, the large population of Tracy is connected as a bedroom community housing commuters traveling to or through the East Bay. Except for some hills and ridges which exist as parklands or undeveloped land, and some farmland in eastern Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, the East Bay is highly urbanized. The East Bay shoreline is a corridor with several cities exceeding 100,000 residents, including Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, Richmond. In the inland valleys on the east side of the Berkeley Hills, the land is developed, particularly on the eastern fringe of Contra Costa county. In the inland valleys, the density is less and the cities smaller. The only cities exceeding 100,000 residents in the valleys are Antioch. The free East Bay Monthly has been published since 1970, in the early years of the evolution of USA Today, during the early 1980s, they operated regional newspapers, with the regions paper entitled East Bay Today
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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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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Reprise Records
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Reprise Records /rəˈpriz/ is an American major record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It was mostly inactive from 1976 to 1987 and it is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Bros. Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname The Chairman of the Board, having left Capitol/EMI, and after trying to buy Norman Granzs Verve Records, the first album Sinatra released on Reprise was Ring-a-Ding-Ding. As CEO of Reprise, Sinatra recruited several artists for the label, such as fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis. The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Sinatra, Esquivel, the label still issues any Sinatra work recorded while on the label and, after his death in 1998, it had great success with his greatest hits collections. One of the founding principles under Sinatras leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom. This is the reason why recordings of early Reprise artists are distributed through other labels. In Martins case, his Reprise recordings were out of print for nearly 20 years before a deal was struck with Capitol Records, in 1963, as part of a film deal, Warner Bros. purchased Reprise from Sinatra, who nonetheless retained a 20% interest in the label. Many of the artists on the label were dropped by Warner Bros. Reprise president Mo Ostin was retained as the head of the label, warner-Reprise executives began targeting younger acts, beginning by securing the American distribution rights to the Pye Records recordings by the Kinks in 1964. Reprise would soon add teen-oriented pop acts like Dino, Desi & Billy to the roster, as well, Franks own daughter Nancy Sinatra would be retained by Ostin, becoming a major pop star starting in late 1965. The label moved almost exclusively to rock-oriented music in the late 1960s, rex, the Meters, John Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael Franks, Richard Pryor, Al Jarreau, Fleetwood Mac, Fanny, and the Beach Boys. In 1976, the Reprise label was deactivated by Warner Bros. an unconfirmed explanation for this move is that Sinatra wanted to be the only artist on Reprise, and Young is said to have been the only Reprise act who refused to agree to a change in labels. In late 1985, some copies of the Dream Academys hit single Life in a Northern Town were pressed with Warner Bros. labels bearing a Reprise logo,1986 saw releases bearing Reprise labels from the Dream Academy as well as Dwight Yoakam. Vice President of Promotion Rich Fitzgerald was appointed as label Vice-President and it was formerly home to the Jimi Hendrix and the Barenaked Ladies catalogs in the U. S. When the Bee Gees back catalog was remastered by Rhino Records in the 2000s, neil Young stated in a documentary about his life that Marilyn Manson was turned down by Reprise. In September 2011, several took place at Reprise Records
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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Lookout Records
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Records was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. In 2005 the label ran into difficulties after several high-profile artists rescinded the rights to their Lookout. After a period of rapid contraction the label slowly expired, terminating operations, thus in October of that year was launched a circulation magazine called Lookout, the first issue of which was typed and photocopied with a press run of just 50 copies. Opposition emerged to the controversial local topics upon which Livermore opined and so he turned to the punk rock. Livermore also decided to start a band, drafting a 12-year-old neighbor to play drums — given the rock name Tré Cool by Livermore. Cool would later gain fame as the drummer of Green Day, after a few ill-attended shows in 1985 Livermore took his band, The Lookouts, into a local recording studio to record their songs, with a 26-song demo tape resulting. He also began living part-time in the San Francisco Bay Area, early in 1987 Livermore decided that it was time for The Lookouts to release a record. Livermore chose to take the Do It Yourself route to such an album. The duo would soon join forces as co-founders of a permanent label, both Lawrence Livermore and David Hayes were deeply inspired by the energetic East Bay punk rock scene and sought to further document its leading bands. David Hayes initially wanted to start a new label of his own for the purpose, to be known as Sprocket Records, with a view to a first release for the band Corrupted Morals. Livermore, a columnist for Maximum Rocknroll who knew Hayes as a so-called shitworker for the publication, the companys iconic beady eyes logo was the early creation of David Hayes, who also handled much of the artwork for the labels early sleeves and LP jackets. With Hayes Corrupted Morals project moving forward as LK-02, a 7-inch EP entitled Chet, Livermore and this would be yet another 7 EP, a record by raw-edged ska-punkers Operation Ivy called Hectic. In an effort to make a splash, four 7-inch vinyl records were released simultaneously, including releases by popular 924 Gilman bands Crimpshrine. This initial barrage of new releases went far in cementing Lookouts place as a cutting edge local label for the Berkeley punk scene, the Gilman bands began to form friendships amongst themselves and to play out together at other venues on the road. Before long Appelgren would be traveling to Livermores Laytonville home to help with the stuffing of 7 vinyl into sleeves and packaging records for mailorder, but all was not well with the fledgling record label. In addition, Hayes and Livermore differed greatly with respect to commercial motivation, in a 2015 memoir, Livermore recalled that Even when it came to music we both liked, we found things to disagree about. Didnt want to hear me speculate about bands becoming popular even on an underground — let alone a mainstream — level and it almost felt as if he thought it was our job to stop that from happening, or at least delay it as much as possible. I saw no reason why some of our bands shouldnt sell hundreds of thousands
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The Network
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The Network is a six-piece new wave band. The band released its debut album Money Money 2020 on Adeline Records on September 30,2003, a re-release of the album with two bonus tracks followed in 2004. The band was speculated to be a project of the punk rock band Green Day. The band has remained inactive since a live performance since October 13,2005 opening for Green Day at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, the band formed in 2003, and the band started working on material on mid-2003. After rumors started surfacing that Green Day was starting a new project, the group recorded and released Money Money 2020 in 2003. Since Armstrongs voice is heard in several songs of the album. After 2 years of speculation, Armstrong stated that he was not in the project, nor any members of Green Day. That being said, fans did not believe Armstrong, and The Network then ceased touring together, since about 2008, a new album has been rumoured, which is Omega 3000, but nothing from The Network has been heard. Green Day has performed covers from the Network as the Foxboro Hot Tubs, the original Money Money 2020 release came with a companion DVD with music videos directed and produced by Roy Miles of AntiDivision. A segment of the song Joe Robot can also be heard on several VH1 specials like All Access, MTV 2s High School Stories, the following information may or may not link the members of Green Day to certain stage names in the band. Members of The Network include Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool and Jason White, the stage names of The Network are Fink, The Snoo, Van Gough, Captain Underpants and Balducci. Armstrong denies the involvement of any Green Day members in The Network, although the style of music is different, Warner/Chappell Music cites the three Green Day members as having writing credits for The Networks album Money Money 2020. I just wanted to talk about the rumors and the bullshit that has been going on lately, All I gotta say is fuck The Network. These guys are totally spreading rumors, I try to do those guys a favour by bringing them to this country and putting out their record and this is how I get repaid, by talking shit about my band. Unfortunately there is a contract and I have to put out their record, the only thing I can say is Fuck you, Network. -Billie Joe Armstrong The bands website was registered by Green Day, WHOIS details for the domain can be seen at Network Solutions. Green Day also utilized the domain in July 2007 to host the bands rendition of The Simpsons theme song for The Simpsons Movie, Fink, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has written songs for Pinhead Gunpowder under the alias Wilhelm Fink. Fink of The Network and Armstrong are also born under the same astrological sign, Aquarius
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Foxboro Hot Tubs
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Foxboro Hot Tubs is a garage rock side project of Green Day, formed in 2007. The band includes all members of Green Day, and features Kevin Preston of Prima Donna Their first album Stop Drop, the name Foxboro Hot Tubs is the alias Green Day uses to book secret shows. When performing as Foxboro Hot Tubs, Billie Joe Armstrong and Jason White go by the names Reverend Strychnine Twitch and Frosco Lee respectively. The band was brought to the attention of Green Day fans through messages sent to a few members of the Idiot Club in December 2007. While the bands history is, as yet, unknown, they comprise the official and backing members of Green Day, who are performing garage music under a nom de plume. He also went on to explain where the name Foxboro Hot Tubs came from, The Foxboro Hot Tubs were a place we used to sneak booze, but most of the time it was just dude soup. Foxboro is a housing development located in Hercules, California, on December 8,2007, Green Day site released six tracks, in streaming and downloadable mp3 formats, free of charge to the listener. Five days later, on December 13, the MP3s were taken off the site, the MP3s were reinstated on December 16, but were again removed and replaced with the clock, later the website was changed to simply redirect to the bands MySpace. All the tracks were included on the debut album Stop Drop. Soon after, the song Mother Mary became a hit on rock radio. The Pedestrian was released as the single off the album. During this performance they played Stop Drop and Roll and Mother Mary, on April 23,2010, the band played their first new song since 2008 at a show in New York City called Fuck Time. On June 14,2012, Green Day released a trailer for their upcoming album ¡Uno, on August 22,2012, in an interview on BBC Radio One, Armstrong, confirmed that the song would appear on ¡Dos. and stated that it could be a possible single. In various interviews promoting Green Days upcoming trilogy of albums called ¡Uno, ¡Dos. and ¡Tré. they have stated that the album ¡Dos. would have a Foxboro Hot Tubs-garage kind of feel, even going so far to call it the second Foxboro Hot Tubs album. On October 26,2013, The Foxboro Hot Tubs played a show at Elis Mile High Club in Oakland. Along with performing a majority of their album, they performed songs from Green Days album ¡Dos. On March 14,2014, the performed for the SXSW festival in Austin. Singles Mother Mary The Pedestrian Stop, Drop and Roll Official website Green Day official website
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John Kiffmeyer
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John Kiffmeyer, known professionally in music as Al Sobrante, is an American musician, best known as the former drummer for the punk rock band Green Day. His name of Al Sobrante is a reference to his hometown and his work with Green Day resulted in about 961,000 albums sold, which are mostly from the compilation album 1, 039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Kiffmeyer was born in California on July 11,1969 and his first exposure in the punk scene was as the drummer of the band Isocracy. The group was popular in the East Bay, and mainstays at the club,924 Gilman Street. Kiffmeyer is most well known for his time in Green Day, after Isocracy broke up, he joined Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong to form Sweet Children, the first few performances took place at Contra Costa College, where Kiffmeyer was a journalism student. On the strength of a performance, Livermore vowed to release a Green Day record on his Lookout. The groups first full-length effort, 39/Smooth, would feature a Kiffmeyer original, I Was There, in 1990, he attended college at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. While Kiffmeyer was attending college, Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt accepted drummer Tré Cool into the band, Kiffmeyer later joined the band The Neer Do Wells, leaving abruptly in 1994. Following a stint with punk band The Ritalins, he became manager of The Shruggs until their split, in 1998 he was the executive producer of The Great Lost Trouble Makers Album by The Troublemakers, a garage band from Sacramento, California. He now lives in San Francisco and is married to experimental filmmaker and he works as a Director of Photography, specializing in green screen and producing mainly commercial work
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Kerplunk (album)
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Kerplunk is the second studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on December 17,1991 by Lookout Records. Kerplunk was Green Days last release on the Lookout Records label, the band developed a fan base on the east coast behind the touring support of grassroots promotor, Jak Werz. The risk paid off as album sales reached over 50,000 copies, along with the albums sales and the successful live shows, major labels took notice of Kerplunks phenomenal popularity, as a result, many approached the band. Green Day realized that they had outgrown their record distribution capacity with Lookout. with Reprise, Green Day recorded and released their next album Dookie. The album officially includes only 12 tracks, but the released on CD. One of those tracks is a cover of The Whos My Generation, in August 2005, Green Day pulled the album, as well as all of their other material released through the Lookout. It was reissued on CD by Reprise Records, who Green Day has been with since leaving Lookout. on January 9,2007, in Europe, the album was released by Epitaph Europe, and has remained in print. It was reissued on vinyl on March 24,2009 by Reprise Records, as of November 2013, Kerplunk has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in the United States and more than 4,000,000 copies worldwide. The album has gone on to be among the best selling independently released albums of all time, Kerplunk was banned from certain stores because of the cover art. The cover features a white picture of a high school girl with a gun that has been fired. On the back cover, there is a boy lying on the ground with a wound on his back. AllMusic regards Kerplunk as the dry run for the bands later mainstream appeal. Pitchfork Media states All in all, its a better than its predecessor. In December 2007, Blender magazine ranked the album number 47 on their The 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Ever list, All lyrics written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except where noted, all music composed by Green Day, except where noted. Adapted from the liner notes
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924 Gilman Street
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The Alternative Music Foundation, a non-profit located at 924 Gilman Street, often referred to by its fans simply as Gilman, is an all-ages, collectively organized music club. Gilman is mostly associated with being the springboard for the 90s pop-punk revival led by bands like Green Day, Operation Ivy, Rancid, and The Offspring. Gilman showcases mostly punk rock, specifically pop punk and hardcore acts, as well as heavy metal, industrial metal, grindcore, ska punk and, most recently. Negotiations began with the landlord and in April 1986 a lease was signed, the organizing circle was expanded with a view to raising the $40,000 needed for rent and remodeling and for generating the volunteers necessary to make the construction project happen. Berkeley mayor Gus Newport was supportive and project organizers crossed their ts and dotted their is in winning the approval for the project from businesses. The landlord also proved reliable and supportive of the goals of his new tenants. We had to build new bathrooms, etc. and pass the inspections and we got our final approval from the city the afternoon of our first show, which was New Years Eve, December 1986. Rent on the 2,000 square foot building was $2,000 per month at the time of the clubs launch — regarded as a reasonable and manageable rate, on December 31,1986, the first musical performance was held at 924 Gilman. Since then, it has one of the longest-running independent music venues in the United States. The club slowly progressed as a mecca for punk youth to get away from everyday issues at home, work, government, in its initial phase hardcore punk shows were held three days a week — on Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sunday matinees. This quickly proved to be overwhelming for club volunteers, however and this necessary scheduling adjustment had the serendipitous effect of diversifying and broadening the base of support for the 924 Gilman space. As one early participant recalled, in order to not be closed down by local police we had to have rules, such as no drinking in or around the club, no fighting, things like that. Josh Levine, a long time punk rock fan, band member, a good feeling, or a sense of pulling together, and unity among people who just wanted to see bands that was free of sexism, homophobia, racism, and especially violence. Shows were not as safe then — there were shows I went to before Gilman where I got beat up, shows where I went to jail, just for being a punk rock kid out after curfew. And worse, shows where I saw people getting beat up by skinheads, or jocks and those were the kind of things that motivated us to get involved. Despite a few incidents of vandalism, a fertile creative environment rapidly developed. The eclectic sounds of this and other pioneer Gilman bands stood in contrast to the speed metal, although the Gilman warehouse provided a vital all-ages venue and spawned a vibrant local musical scene, its success was neither inevitable nor linear. In a published eulogy by Tim Yohannan, Gilman was remembered as a fun place where the old macho bullshit got attacked, the clubs core volunteers were not despondent, Yohannan noted, and hoped to arrange special shows at other existing venues in the future
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Berkeley, California
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Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley and it borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills, the 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world and it is one of the most politically liberal cities in the United States. The site of todays City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo/Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived, other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek. The first people of European descent arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 1776, today, this is noted by signage on Interstate 80, which runs along the San Francisco Bay shoreline of Berkeley. The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, luis Peralta was among the soldiers at the Presidio. For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay for a ranch, luis Peralta named his holding Rancho San Antonio. The primary activity of the ranch was raising cattle for meat and hides, eventually, Peralta gave portions of the ranch to each of his four sons. What is now Berkeley lies mostly in the portion that went to Peraltas son Domingo, with a little in the portion that went to another son, no artifact survives of the Domingo or Vicente ranches, but their names survive in Berkeley street names. However, legal title to all land in the City of Berkeley remains based on the original Peralta land grant, the Peraltas Rancho San Antonio continued after Alta California passed from Spanish to Mexican sovereignty after the Mexican War of Independence. The lands of the brothers Domingo and Vicente were quickly reduced to reservations close to their respective ranch homes, the rest of the land was surveyed and parceled out to various American claimants. Politically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County, on March 25,1853, Alameda County was created from a division within Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County. The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of land, farms and ranches. It was not yet Berkeley, but merely the part of the Oakland Township subdivision of Alameda County. In 1866, Oaklands private College of California looked for a new site, according to the Centennial Record of the University of California, In 1866…at Founders Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. Although the philosophers name is pronounced bark-lee, the pronunciation of the name has evolved to suit American English as burk-lee. The College of Californias College Homestead Association planned to raise funds for the new campus by selling off adjacent parcels of land, to this end, they laid out a plat and street grid that became the basis of Berkeleys modern street plan
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Lookout! Records
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Records was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. In 2005 the label ran into difficulties after several high-profile artists rescinded the rights to their Lookout. After a period of rapid contraction the label slowly expired, terminating operations, thus in October of that year was launched a circulation magazine called Lookout, the first issue of which was typed and photocopied with a press run of just 50 copies. Opposition emerged to the controversial local topics upon which Livermore opined and so he turned to the punk rock. Livermore also decided to start a band, drafting a 12-year-old neighbor to play drums — given the rock name Tré Cool by Livermore. Cool would later gain fame as the drummer of Green Day, after a few ill-attended shows in 1985 Livermore took his band, The Lookouts, into a local recording studio to record their songs, with a 26-song demo tape resulting. He also began living part-time in the San Francisco Bay Area, early in 1987 Livermore decided that it was time for The Lookouts to release a record. Livermore chose to take the Do It Yourself route to such an album. The duo would soon join forces as co-founders of a permanent label, both Lawrence Livermore and David Hayes were deeply inspired by the energetic East Bay punk rock scene and sought to further document its leading bands. David Hayes initially wanted to start a new label of his own for the purpose, to be known as Sprocket Records, with a view to a first release for the band Corrupted Morals. Livermore, a columnist for Maximum Rocknroll who knew Hayes as a so-called shitworker for the publication, the companys iconic beady eyes logo was the early creation of David Hayes, who also handled much of the artwork for the labels early sleeves and LP jackets. With Hayes Corrupted Morals project moving forward as LK-02, a 7-inch EP entitled Chet, Livermore and this would be yet another 7 EP, a record by raw-edged ska-punkers Operation Ivy called Hectic. In an effort to make a splash, four 7-inch vinyl records were released simultaneously, including releases by popular 924 Gilman bands Crimpshrine. This initial barrage of new releases went far in cementing Lookouts place as a cutting edge local label for the Berkeley punk scene, the Gilman bands began to form friendships amongst themselves and to play out together at other venues on the road. Before long Appelgren would be traveling to Livermores Laytonville home to help with the stuffing of 7 vinyl into sleeves and packaging records for mailorder, but all was not well with the fledgling record label. In addition, Hayes and Livermore differed greatly with respect to commercial motivation, in a 2015 memoir, Livermore recalled that Even when it came to music we both liked, we found things to disagree about. Didnt want to hear me speculate about bands becoming popular even on an underground — let alone a mainstream — level and it almost felt as if he thought it was our job to stop that from happening, or at least delay it as much as possible. I saw no reason why some of our bands shouldnt sell hundreds of thousands
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Dookie
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Dookie is the third studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on February 1,1994, through Reprise Records. It was the bands first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo and its record label debut. Dookie became a commercial success, peaking at No.2 on the US Billboard 200. The album helped propel Green Day, and even rock music into mainstream popularity. Dookie was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America for the shipment of 10 million copies, Dookie produced five hit singles for the band, Longview, When I Come Around, Basket Case, a re-recorded version of Welcome to Paradise and the radio-only single She. As of 2014, Dookie is the bands best-selling album with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide, following the underground success of the bands second studio album Kerplunk, a number of major record labels became interested in Green Day. Representatives of these attempted to entice the band to sign by inviting them for meals to discuss a deal. The band declined these advances until meeting producer and Reprise representative Rob Cavallo and they were impressed by his work with fellow Californian band The Muffs, and later remarked that Cavallo was the only person we could really talk to and connect with. Eventually, the band left their independent record label Lookout, Records on friendly terms, and signed to Reprise. Signing to a major label caused many of the bands fans from the independent music club 924 Gilman Street to regard Green Day as sell-outs. The club has banned Green Day from entering since the major label signing, Cavallo was chosen as the main producer of the album, with Jerry Finn as the mixer. Green Day originally gave the first demo tape to Cavallo, the bands recording session lasted three weeks and the album was remixed twice. Armstrong claimed that the wanted to create a dry sound. The band felt the original mix to be unsatisfactory, Cavallo agreed, and it was remixed at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. Armstrong later said of their experience, Everything was already written. Much of the content was written by Armstrong, except Emenius Sleepus written by bassist Mike Dirnt, and the hidden track, All by Myself. The single Longview had a bass line that bassist Dirnt wrote while under the influence of LSD. He originally forgot much of it, but the portions were included in the song
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Punk rock in California
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Since the late 1970s, California has had a thriving regional punk rock movement. Many figures from this scene would play notable roles in the later punk scene. In the mid-1970s from 1974 to 1975 a wave of bands emerged from Los Angeles, including, among others, the Quick, The Weirdos, Berlin Brats, the Flyboys, Christopher Milk. Starting in 1976, following recent releases of recordings by bands such as the Ramones. In 1978 in Southern California, the first hardcore punk bands arose, including Middle Class, Black Flag, Vicious Circle, Fear, ANTI, and this resulted in a rivalry between the older artsy Hollywood scene and the hardcore suburban, surf punk, or beach punk scene. Ferguson and CD Presents organized New Wave 1980, the first festival gathering and showcasing punk bands from all over the West Coast, by 1979, hardcore had displaced the Hollywood scene and become the dominant expression called hardcore punk in both Northern and Southern California. By this time, many of the punk bands had broken up or become relatively inactive. A few, such as The Go-Gos, The Dickies, and X, went on to success, while a few others, such as The Dickies. In the early 1980s in California, hardcore was the dominant form of punk, many considered T. S. O. L. to be the definitive hardcore band of the time with sold out shows of 5000 people regularly. I. White Mice, Verbal Abuse, Dr. Know, The Mentors and NOFX in Southern California, though hardcore became dominant during this period, punk also began to diversify. The Adolescents, Detours, China White, Suicidal Tendencies, D. R. I. and others influenced later bands like Anthrax, Slayer. These hardcore bands also created a crossover sound, the genre of thrash and early metalcore grew out of this fusion. The hardcore scene, particularly in Los Angeles and Orange County and these gangs were predominantly white and would do a lot of violence to anyone who got in their way, even beating up and shooting at black gangs in Watts. Some of the earliest gangs formed in 1977-1980, among them the Burbank Punks Organization, the Lords of Destruction, Vicious Circle, FFF, La Mirada Punks, Circle One, East Side Punx, also, the SKUNX in Northern California. In the early 1980s, punk concerts increasingly became sites of violent battles between police and concertgoers, particularly in Los Angeles, but also in San Francisco, henry Rollins argued that in his experience, the police caused far more problems than they solved at punk performances. At one point, Black Flag was under surveillance by police convinced that the band was the cover for a drug ring. Cities like Sacramento, Lake Tahoe and neighboring Reno, Nevada followed San Francisco and Los Angeles, local promoter Stuart Katz brought punk rock to Sacramento in the early 1980s starting off with shows in auditoriums at McKinley Park. Club Minimal and Katz became a target of the Sacramento Police Department and was constantly being shut down, Katz made it a cat and mouse game with the police by having the bands play before the cops arrived to shut down the show
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Sublime (band)
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Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The bands line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Lou Dog, Nowells dalmatian, was the mascot of the band. Nowell died of an overdose in 1996. In 1997, posthumous songs such as What I Got, Santeria, Wrong Way, Doin Time, Sublime released three studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums, three EPs and one box set. 13 on the Billboard 200, and spawned the single What I Got, as of 2009, the band has sold over 17 million albums worldwide, including about 10 million in the U. S. alone. Michael Miguel Happoldt and Marshall Goodman Ras MG contributed to several Sublime songs, in 2009, the surviving members decided to reform the band with Rome Ramirez, a young guitarist and admitted Sublime fan from California. In January 2010 the lawsuit was settled and the new lineup now performed as Sublime with Rome, in 2011 Gaugh announced his departure from the Sublime with Rome band. Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh were childhood friends, having grown up in the same Long Beach neighborhood, Erics father, Billy Wilson taught Gaugh how to read music and play the drums. Gaugh and Wilson together with future Sublime manager, Michael Happoldt, about this time, Bradley Nowell, who had recently dropped out of University of California, Santa Cruz, joined the band. Nowell helped introduce Gaugh and Wilson to reggae and ska, who at the time listened exclusively to punk rock, Sublime played its first gig on the Fourth of July,1988 in a small club. Music venues were skeptical of the eclectic musical fusion and many refused to book the band. For the next years, the group focused primarily on playing at parties and small clubs throughout Southern California with local ska bands Smokestacks, No Doubt. The trio recorded a few songs and put forth a number of short demos, in February 1990, Nowell adopted an abused dalmatian puppy from a shelter and named him Louie after his grandfather. Louie Nowell, King Louie, or Lou Dog as he was called, Gaugh recalled that Lou Dog just loved Brad because it was the first time he had ever actually been shown love. Lou Dog was often allowed to wander around the stage during the concert performances. One of Sublimes early club venues in 1990 was at a club in Long Beach called Toe Jam. This Club was owned and operated by David Rice, James Walker, Jason Burch, a private party was held in February 1991 at Toe Jam for one of the owners. Special thanks can be found for Toe Jam and the owners on the back of the later produced album, in late 1990, music student Michael Miguel Happoldt approached the band, offering to let the band record in the studio at the school where Happoldt was studying
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Bad Religion
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Bad Religion is an American punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1979. To date, Bad Religion has released sixteen albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, three EPs and two DVDs. They are considered to be one of the punk rock acts of all time. Bad Religion had built a following in the United States with their early albums before signing to Atlantic Records in 1993. They rose to fame that year with their seventh studio album and major-label debut Recipe for Hate. Shortly before the release of Stranger than Fiction, Gurewitz left Bad Religion to run his label Epitaph on a full-time basis, the band is expected to release their seventeenth studio album in 2017. Bad Religion was formed in Los Angeles in 1979 by high school students Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Jay Ziskrout, according to bassist Jay Bentley, Bad Religion started around November or December 1979, but no one can remember exactly. Greg Graffin wanted the year 2000 to be Bad Religions 20th birthday and their first public performance was playing 6 or 8 songs at a Fullerton, California or Santa Ana, California warehouse opening for Social Distortion. Their first official show was on November 11,1980 at Joey Kills Bar in Burbank, in 1981, the band released their initial eponymous album on the newly formed label, Epitaph Records, which was and continues to be managed and owned by Gurewitz. Also in 1981, the began recording their first full-length album. During the recording of album, drummer Jay Ziskrout quit the band. Released in 1982, How Could Hell Be Any Worse. was also distributed by the band under the Epitaph label, in 1983, the band released Into the Unknown, a keyboard-driven progressive hard rock album with a slightly slower pace. Almost all of the albums the band produced were out of the warehouse they were housed in without the bands knowledge. This incident, as well as band members increasingly divergent personal lives, soon after, Graffin reassembled Bad Religion with Circle Jerks guitarist Greg Hetson replacing Gurewitz, who had gone into rehab for his drug problem. Bad Religion returned to a mellower, rock and roll version of their original sound with the Back to the Known EP. Eventually the band split toward the middle of 1985, Bad Religion slowly reformed in 1986 out of the Back to the Known line-up when Graffin called Bentley and asked him to return. Bentleys response was tentative, but after being assured that the setlist consisted mostly of tracks from How Could Hell Be Any Worse and he agreed to return for one show, and ended up staying on because he had so much fun. A freshly rehabilitated Gurewitz was eventually convinced to come back aboard and this lineup recorded the bands third album, Suffer, which was released in 1988
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The Offspring
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The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, bassist Greg K. lead guitarist Kevin Noodles Wasserman and drummer Pete Parada. The Offspring went through lineup changes over the years, and Holland. The band is often credited—alongside fellow California punk bands Green Day, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise and they have sold over 40 million records worldwide, being considered one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time. To date, the Offspring has released nine studio albums and their first three albums for the independent record labels Nemesis and Epitaph earned them a cult following. Splinter was followed five years later by Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, the Offspring is currently in production of their tenth studio album, which is due for release in 2017. The foundations for the Offspring began with guitarist/vocalist Bryan Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel playing music together in a garage in Cypress, at a party, and following a riot at a 1984 Social Distortion show, they decided to form a band called Manic Subsidal. Holland changed his role from drums to guitar, and the band was rounded out by singer Doug Thompson, marcus Parrish briefly joined as a second guitarist, however, no recordings were made at this point. After Thompson was forced out, Holland took over vocals, in 1985, school janitor Kevin Noodles Wasserman joined as a second guitarist, allegedly because he was old enough to purchase alcohol for the other members, who were under the legal drinking age. In 1986, after changing their name to The Offspring, the released their first single. They released the single on their self-made Black Label record company, an earlier version of Ill Be Waiting, which was then known as Fire and Ice, appeared on the long-out of print Subject to Blackout compilation tape, which was also released in 1986. Also in 1986, the Offspring recorded a tape, which received a positive review in Maximum Rocknroll magazine. Lilja left the Offspring in 1987 to pursue a career in gynecology, and was replaced by Ron Welty. After recording another demo in 1988, The Offspring signed a deal with a small-time label. In March 1989, the band teamed up with producer Thom Wilson to record their first album, the album was released in limited numbers by the label, only on the 12 vinyl and cassette formats, and was not released on CD until 1995. A six-week national tour followed, but Noodles was later stabbed during a performance at a Hollywood anti-nuclear benefit, in 1991 the Offspring teamed up with Wilson again to produce the Baghdad 7 EP and a third demo tape. This EP and demo were instrumental to the signing with Epitaph Records. In 1992 Thom Wilson and the Offspring returned to the studio to record their second album Ignition, the band went on U. S. tours with Pennywise and Lunachicks, and a European tour with NOFX
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Rancid (band)
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Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991. Over their 26-year career, Rancid remained signed to an independent record label and retained much of its original fan-base, Rancid has had only a few lineup changes since its inception, with Armstrong and Freeman being the only constant members. Their current lineup consists of Armstrong on guitar and vocals, Freeman on bass and vocals, Lars Frederiksen on guitar and vocals, the band was formed by Armstrong, Freeman, and former drummer Brett Reed, who left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Steineckert. Frederiksen joined Rancid in 1993 when the band was searching for a guitar player. The band has sold over four million records worldwide, making it one of the most successful independent punk rock groups of all time. The band rose to fame in 1994 with its studio album, Lets Go. In the following year, Rancid released its highly successful album and its next four albums — Life Wont Wait, Rancid, Indestructible and Let the Dominoes Fall — were also critically acclaimed, though not as successful as. And Out Come the Wolves. Rancid released. Honor Is All We Know, their first studio album in five years and they are currently working on a new album. Childhood friends Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman grew up together in the small, working-class town of Albany, California, the two had been playing together in the influential ska punk band Operation Ivy from 1987 to 1989. The band became popular in the scene at 924 Gilman Street. When Operation Ivy broke up, Armstrong and Freeman decided to form a new band, and formed a ska band called Downfall. They then started a punk band called Generator, which also disbanded shortly after. They also started the ska influenced Dance Hall Crashers, though left the band shortly after it was formed, during this time, Armstrong was struggling with alcoholism, and to keep him focused on other interests, Freeman suggested they form a new band. In 1991, they recruited Armstrongs roommate Brett Reed as their drummer, a few months after the bands inception, Rancid began performing around the Berkeley area, and quickly developed a fan following. Rancids first recorded release was a 1992 EP for Operation Ivys old label Lookout, shortly after releasing the extended play, the band left Lookout. and was signed to Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitzs record label, Epitaph Records. Rancid released its debut album through Epitaph in 1993. While Rancid was writing for an album, Billie Joe Armstrong joined them to co-write the song Radio. Tim had previously asked Lars Frederiksen to be Rancids second guitarist, after Billie Joe turned down the request, Frederiksen changed his mind and joined Rancid
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Insomniac (Green Day album)
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Insomniac is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 10,1995 by Reprise Records. Insomniac has sold over 2,100,000 copies in the United States according to Billboard as of 2012, the album was reissued on vinyl on May 12,2009. Before the name Insomniac was decided on, the band considered naming the album Tight Wad Hill, after visiting collage artist Winston Smith for the album cover, Billie Joe Armstrong asked him how he managed to make such intricate pieces in such short times. Smith answered, Its easy for me, Armstrong himself has said that the album title comes from his own insomnia, after having been woken up frequently during the night due to his sons screams, Joey. Armstrong also mentions his insomnia in the song Brain Stew, panic Song was inspired by bassist Mike Dirnts panic attacks he has suffered as a result of being born with an enlarged mitral valve in his heart. 86 discusses the rejection Green Day faced from the 924 Gilman Street music club in Berkeley after the rise to fame in 1994. The collage on the cover was created by Winston Smith and is called God Told Me to Skin You Alive. Interestingly enough, the art contains an image that was originally used in a collage featured in the inside cover art of Dead Kennedys album Plastic Surgery Disasters. Smith knew drummer Tré Cool from Green Days time at Lookout, Records and told Cool that if he ever needed album artwork that he should call him. The cover art features several images, a naked woman. There are also three skulls on the album cover and back, one for each member of Green Day. One of the skulls requires the viewer to tilt the piece at an angle, the hidden skull is taken from Hans Holbeins 1533 painting The Ambassadors. Green Days version, however, is different from the original. Insomniac did not have the big sales or airplay as the singles from Dookie, and Green Day are as good as this stuff gets. Once more, the songs relate the travails of a pathetic, self-loathing goofball whose sense of self-worth is continually reduced to rubble by sundry jerks, authority figures, however, Green Day was slightly criticized for not progressing as much as their predecessors. Entertainment Weekly stated that, Insomniac does make you wonder about Green Days growth, between albums one and four, The Clash, to take an old-school example, branched out from guitar crunch to reggae, dub, and Spectorized pop. By comparison, Green Day sound exactly the same as on their first album, albeit with crisper production and, ominously, the few hints of growth are fairly microscopic, a tougher metallic edge to a few of the songs. And lyrics that are bleaker than Dookies, allMusic similarly noted that they kept their blueprint and made it a shade darker
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Nimrod (album)
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Nimrod is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 14,1997 through Reprise Records. The group began work on the album in the wake of their cancellation of a European tour after the release of Insomniac, recorded at Conway Studios in Los Angeles, the album was written with the intent of creating a set of stand-alone songs as opposed to a cohesive album. The album peaked at ten on the Billboard U. S. charts and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The record was certified triple platinum in Australia and double platinum in Canada. Upon release, Nimrod received generally positive reviews critics, who praised Armstrongs songwriting. The album yielded the acoustic hit Good Riddance, which appeared in pop culture events. To promote the album, Green Day embarked on a touring schedule. Retrospectively, Nimrod is noted for its diversity and experimentation. It contains elements of folk, surf rock, and ska, the themes discussed on the record include maturity, personal reflection. In 1995, Green Day released Insomniac, which did not perform as well commercially as the bands breakthrough major-label debut Dookie. Speaking of Insomniac, vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong noted, It did a lot better than I thought it was going to do. From the sound of it, we knew it wasnt going to sell as much as Dookie. The members became uncomfortable with the level of stardom they had attained, Armstrong recalled, We were becoming the things we hated. It was beginning to be not fun anymore, Green Day also became homesick as touring forced the members to leave behind their families. The band eventually decided to cancel the late 1996 European leg of the Insomniac tour to take time off to spend at home, during this time, the band continued to write, and eventually completed over three dozen new songs by the beginning of 1997. The album was recorded at Conway Studios in Los Angeles, Nimrod took four months to record and, Armstrong partially attributed the lengthy recording time to spending a little too much time playing pool and foosball during the sessions. The recording schedule, which lasted from noon to two in the every day, became frustrating for the group members, who began drinking heavily. Bassist Mike Dirnt recalled, One night one of us was walking down the halls knocking on peoples doors while naked, another incident involved drummer Tre Cool throwing his hotel room television set out of his window. Armstrong noted, There was a lot of glass and you have to live that arrogant lifestyle every now and then
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Warning (Green Day album)
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Warning is the sixth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 3,2000 by Reprise Records. Building upon its predecessor, Nimrod, the album eschewed the bands punk rock sound and incorporated acoustic elements and pop. Lyrically, the record contains more optimistic and inspirational themes in comparison with the earlier releases. Warning was also Green Days first album since Kerplunk that was not produced by Rob Cavallo, despite mixed criticism towards the bands stylistic change, the album received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrongs songwriting. The album has nonetheless been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and, Warning was reissued on vinyl on July 14,2009. After taking a break from touring in promotion of the fourth album Insomniac. The record, which delved into a wide variety of genres including folk, ska. It was really exciting and it kind of sparked more in us as songwriters to expand on that, the band embarked on the Nimrod promotional tour, which largely featured more intimate shows with audiences of 1,500 to 3,000 people. By the end of the tour, the noted that its audience had evolved. 924 Gilman Street, the club in the bands hometown that had once banned Green Day after the group signed with a major label. Dirnt described the experience as a piece of closure. Punk rock music was no longer popular in the mainstream as rap metal acts such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, according to Studio 880 owner John Lucasey, the band was definitely at a very big crossroads. For Warning, Green Day initially opted to work with an other than Rob Cavallo. The group selected Scott Litt, who had worked with Nirvana. However, the band had disagreements with Litt over the musical direction. He was really cool, but for that project, it just wasnt the right chemistry. The group subsequently brought Cavallo back in, but this time the band handled most of the production duties, the band began work on the album two years before entering the studio to record on April 1,2000. People think were off in Hawaii kicking back and shit, but were in Oakland playing our jams, the album was recorded at Studio 880 in Oakland
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American Idiot
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American Idiot is the seventh studio album by American rock band Green Day. Produced by Rob Cavallo, the album was released in the UK on September 20,2004, Green Day first achieved popularity in the 1990s with a string of successful albums. Following disappointing sales of their album, Warning, the band took a break before recording their next album. The recording process was cut short when the master tapes were stolen. Rather than re-record that material, the decided to start over. A concept album and punk opera, American Idiot follows the story of Jesus of Suburbia. Through its plot, the album expresses the disillusionment and dissent of a generation that came of age in a period shaped by many events like the Iraq War. The album was inspired by musicals and the work of The Who. Recording of American Idiot was split between two California studios between 2003 and 2004 and its album art depicts a heart-shaped hand grenade. American Idiot marked a comeback for Green Day following a period of decreased success. It charted in 27 countries, peaking at one in 19. The album spawned five singles, American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Holiday, Wake Me Up When September Ends. American Idiot was well received critically and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2005 and its success inspired a Broadway musical and an incomplete feature film adaptation. It has been praised in the years following its release, appearing on several year-end and decade-end lists, Green Day, which formed in 1986 and spent early years touring punk rock clubs, emerged in the early 1990s as one of the most popular rock acts. Their third album and major-label debut Dookie sold upwards of 20 million copies, subsequent releases were also hits, including Insomniac and Nimrod. Their subsequent album Warning, released in 2000, was considered a significant commercial disappointment, in early 2002, the band embarked on the Pop Disaster Tour, co-headlining with Blink-182. The tour created momentum for the trio, who began to be viewed as elder statesmen of the pop punk scene at the time, which consisted of bands like Good Charlotte, Sum 41, and New Found Glory. By this time, things had come to a point regarding unresolved personal issues between the three band members, the band was argumentative and miserable, according to Dirnt, and needed to shift directions
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21st Century Breakdown
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21st Century Breakdown is the eighth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day. It is the second rock opera, following American Idiot. The album was released May 15,2009 through Reprise Records, the singles Know Your Enemy and 21 Guns exemplify the themes of alienation and politically motivated anger present in the record. Critical response to 21st Century Breakdown was generally positive and it was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards held on January 31,2010. As of December 2010, 21st Century Breakdown has sold 1,005,000 copies in the United States and more than 4 million worldwide. Green Day began to write new songs for what would become 21st Century Breakdown in January 2006 after touring extensively in 2005 in support of their studio album American Idiot. At the time, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stated, Well start with silence, the band did not release any details of the writing and recording process until October 2007, when Armstrong said in an interview with Rolling Stone that he had written something like 45 songs. The band members worked on the conceptual stages of the album at their rehearsal studio in Oakland. Little was revealed on the themes or musical style of the album and he added that many of the 45 songs were written on piano rather than guitar. Green Day began the process for 21st Century Breakdown in January 2008. Later that year, it was confirmed that the worked with producer Butch Vig. While recording in Hollywood, the members bought cheap turntables from Amoeba Music and listened to many vinyl records for inspiration, including albums by The Beat. Armstrong cited as inspiration the music of The Kinks Ray Davies, sorrow, The Doors The Doors and Strange Days, and Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell. Drummer Tré Cool noted the influence of Eddie Cochran and The Creation on Armstrongs writing. While writing at his studio, Armstrong worked on a cover of The Whos 1966 mini-opera A Quick One, While Hes Away. Vig noted that frustrations would sometimes cause delays in the process for 21st Century Breakdown. Armstrong kept his lyrics closely guarded and intentionally mixed his demos so that the vocals were low in the mix and thus unintelligible to the other band members. It was not until late 2008 that he chose to share his words with Cool, Vig, the band members made the finishing touches on the album in early April 2009 and claimed that its release would lead to a kind of
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Grammy Awards
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Best Alternative Music Album
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While the definition of alternative has been debated, the award was first presented in 1991 to recognize non-mainstream rock albums heavily played on college radio stations. In 1991, and from 1994 to 1999, the award was known as Best Alternative Music Performance, beginning in 2001, award recipients included the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. As of 2012, Radiohead and The White Stripes share the record for the most wins in this category, two female solo artists have won the award, Sinéad OConnor and St. Vincent. With eight nominations to date, Radiohead holds the record for the most nominations in this category, björk also holds the record for the most nominations for a solo artist, as well as the record for the most nominations without a win. Beck and Coldplay have each received the award twice, the latter being the group to win two years consecutively. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year, independent music List of alternative rock artists List of Grammy Award categories Timeline of alternative rock Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Best Rock Album
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The award for Best Rock Album was first presented to the band The Rolling Stones in 1995, and the name of the category has remained unchanged since then. Since 1996, award recipients have included the producers, engineers. The band Foo Fighters holds the record for the most wins in this category, two-time winners include Sheryl Crow, Green Day, U2, and Muse. Foo Fighters and Neil Young hold the record for the most nominations, Young also holds the record for the most nominations without a win. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year, list of Grammy Award categories Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, recorded for their seventh studio album American Idiot. Reprise Records released Boulevard of Broken Dreams as the single from American Idiot. The songs lyrics were written by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, production was handled by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. Boulevard of Broken Dreams remains one of Green Days signature songs, the song speaks from the point of view of American Idiots main character, Jesus of Suburbia, and is a moderate midtempo song characterized by somber and bleak lyrics. This is in contrast to the track on the album, Holiday. MTVs Green Day Makes a Video described Holiday as a party, the song was ranked the number one on Rolling Stones Readers Choice, Singles of the Decade list in 2009 and number 65 on the 100 Best Songs of the Decade list in the same year. It has sold over 2 million copies in the United States as of 2010, the single peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind Candy Shop by 50 Cent and Olivia, making it Green Days most successful song in the United States. The song was the single of the 2000–2009 decade with worldwide sales exceeding 5 million copies. As of 2017, Boulevard of Broken Dreams remains to be the song in history to win both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. Boulevard of Broken Dreams was written during a respite from pre-production on what would become the seventh album. He spent much of this time taking long walks and participating in jam sessions in the basement of Hi-Fi and he began socializing with songwriters Ryan Adams and Jesse Malin. Armstrong wrote the song about his time in New York City, about feeling alone, Armstrong felt the song fit nicely with the albums storyline, which is about going away and getting the hell out, while at the same time fighting their own inner demons. The songs title is from a James Dean poster in which he is walking through New York with an overcoat on, Boulevard of Broken Dreams is set in common time and composed in the key of F minor, like Holiday, its prelude. The opening features a guitar with tremolo playing the verse progression. The songs distinct tremolo effect on the guitar was achieved by digitally manipulating the recording in ProTools. It was difficult to produce, as it needed to remain in sync with the songs tempo, Armstrong added tracks of acoustic guitar-playing to augment his electric guitar rhythms and Cools drumming. Billie Joes vocals begin, accompanied by acoustic guitar, the bass and drums enter after the first two lines. The pre chorus features a lead guitar melody before seguing into the distorted chorus
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American Idiot (musical)
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American Idiot is a sung-through stage adaptation of punk rock band Green Days rock opera, American Idiot. After a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009, the moved to the St. James Theatre on Broadway. Previews began on March 24,2010 and the play opened on April 20,2010. The show closed on April 24,2011 after 422 performances, while Green Day did not appear in the production, vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong performed the role of St. Jimmy occasionally throughout the run. The story, expanded from that of the album, centers on three disaffected young men, Johnny, Will, and Tunny. Johnny and Tunny flee a stifling suburban lifestyle and parental restrictions, while Will stays home to work out his relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, the former pair look for meaning in life and try out the freedom and excitement of the city. Tunny quickly gives up on life in the city, joins the military, Johnny turns to drugs and finds a part of himself that he grows to dislike, has a relationship and experiences lost love. The book was written by Armstrong and director Michael Mayer, the music was composed by Green Day and the lyrics were by Armstrong. The musical won two 2010 Tony Awards, Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Christine Jones, and Best Lighting Design of a Musical for Kevin Adams and it also received a nomination for Best Musical. In 2011, its Broadway cast recording won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, set in the recent past, the musical opens on a group of suburban youths living unhappily in Jingletown, USA and saturated with TV. Fed up with the state of the union, the company explodes in frustration, one of the youths, Johnny, goes to commiserate with his friend Will. A third friend, Tunny, joins the two and they party until they run out of beer, prompting them to pick up more at the local 7-Eleven, Tunny soon exposes the do-nothing go-nowhere quicksand of their lives. They get riled up, and Johnny challenges his friends to engage, Wills girlfriend, Heather, soon makes an appearance. She is pregnant and doesnt know what to do, Johnny borrows money and buys bus tickets to the city for the three young men, eager to escape suburbia. Before the boys are able to leave, Heather tells Will of her pregnancy, with no other choice, he stays home. Johnny and Tunny depart for the city with a group of other jaded youths, while Johnny wanders the city and pines for a woman he sees in an apartment window, Tunny finds it hard to adjust to urban life and is seduced by a television ad for the army. Tunny realizes that his generation has been so numbed and apathetic that nothing, not even the lights of the city. A frustrated Johnny manifests a rebellious drug-dealing alter ego called St. Jimmy and his newfound courage thanks to St. Jimmy and the drugs allow Johnny to make a successful move on the girl in the window
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Tony Awards
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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