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Maroon 5
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Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. The band, which self-released an album called We Like Digging, then signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. After the album garnered a tepid response, the band parted ways with the record label, in 2001, the band changed its image by adding guitarist James Valentine and pursuing a different direction under the name Maroon 5. At this point, Carmichael switched to playing keyboards, which has become his main instrument in the band. After these changes, Maroon 5 signed with a subsidiary of J Records, Octone Records, the albums lead single, Harder to Breathe, received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2004, the album went platinum and has dubbed the sleeper hit of the millennium. The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005, for the next few years, Maroon 5 toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and produced two live recordings, 2004s 1.22.03. Acoustic and 2005s Live – Friday the 13th. In 2006, Dusick officially left Maroon 5 after suffering from serious wrist, the band then recorded their second album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long and released it in May 2007. The album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, in September 2010, Maroon 5 released their third studio album Hands All Over, which was re-released in 2011 to include the single Moves like Jagger featuring Christina Aguilera. While the original version of the album received mixed reviews, Moves like Jagger reached the one position on the Billboard Hot 100. The band released their album, Overexposed, on June 26,2012. All four singles of the album were successful on the Billboard Hot 100, including second single One More Night. Keyboardist PJ Morton became a member of the band in 2012. The addition of PJ Morton meant that for the first time, in 2014, the band signed with Interscope Records and released their fifth studio album, V. Maroon 5 has sold more than 20 million albums and 70 million singles worldwide, Adam Levine was introduced to Ryan Dusick by a mutual friend and guitarist, Adam Salzman. Levine was 15 years old and Dusick was 16, three of the five members of the band started playing together at age 12. The four original members of the band met while attending Brentwood EMH School in Los Angeles, while attending Brentwood EMH School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Karas Flowers, a rock band. The name was taken from a girl went to their high school that the band had a collective crush on
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Hands All Over (album)
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Hands All Over is the third studio album by the American rock band Maroon 5. Produced by veteran producer Robert John Mutt Lange, the album was released by A&M/Octone Records on August 18,2010, on July 12,2011, the band re-released the album to include their summer hit Moves like Jagger. The lead single, Misery, was released in June 2010, Give a Little More followed as the second single in August 2010, Never Gonna Leave This Bed as the third single in January 2011, and Moves like Jagger as the fourth and final single in June 2011. The album received mixed reviews from music critics, though many of them praised it for its production. Some critics have noted that the features a more soulful style than Maroon 5s previous works. Maroon 5 went on tour to promote the album in the summer of 2011, the band began writing the songs from the third album, after winding down from a world tour in support of their second album It Wont Be Soon Before Long. Several months later, the received a phone call from Robert John Mutt Lange, who had heard the band were beginning to write a new album. In a press release on their website, the album is described as a killer hybrid of rock, pop, funk. Lead singer Adam Levine, spoke about the experience of working with Lange, He worked me harder than ever has, I would come in with a finished song. Now strip it down to the drums and start over, the coolest thing about him is that not only has he been a huge, legendary producer, but he also is a legit, serious writer. Rolling Stone has said that the disc is the bands brightest-sounding and poppiest yet. Levine has also said about the album, Our first record was a reflection of my love for Stevie Wonder, with the second I kept going back and forth between Prince and The Police. But there was no one on my mind for this album, in a separate interview, however, Levine said that the album was influenced by Tupac Shakur and Marvin Gaye. The album artwork was revealed on July 1,2010, the cover photo for the album was taken by 19-year-old photographer Rosie Hardy, who also serves as the model in the photo. Hardy took the photo herself, in just under an hour, in the second week, it dropped to #9. In November 2010 the album was certified Gold by RIAA, denoting a sales of at least 500,000 copies in the United States. Of course we could have liked it to have done better so far, Valentine told Billboard, the lack of response to the latest record has the band thinking about recording another album sooner than they originally planned, but according to Valentine that may not be a bad thing. The album was certified platinum in January 9,2012. in April 2011, the album was certified as gold album in Japan for having more than 100,000 copies shipped to stores
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Cobra Starship
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Cobra Starship was an American dance-pop band created by former Midtown bassist and lead vocalist Gabe Saporta in 2006 in New York City, New York. Over ten years, Cobra Starship produced four albums and two Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles, the group released its debut album, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets in 2006, which contained the single Snakes on a Plane. The band released its second album ¡Viva La Cobra. on October 23,2007 and their third album, Hot Mess, was released on August 11,2009. Their fourth and final album, Night Shades was released on August 30,2011 in the US, Cobra Starship officially announced its dissolution on November 10,2015. Cobra Starship was formed in 2005 after Midtown bassist Gabe Saporta took a trip to the deserts of Arizona, during this time, Saporta went on a vision quest, spending time with Native American tribes and smoking peyote. He began to create his vision for a new band, a style of music heavily influenced by synthpop while angels are singing in the background. Upon returning home, Saporta rented a house in the Catskill Mountains and began writing what would become the bands album, While the City Sleeps. He posted a response to Gwen Stefanis Hollaback Girl titled Hollaback Boy on Myspace. The song gained Saporta notoriety on the internet and he signed to Decaydance Records. Midtowns management company soon set Saporta up with an opportunity to record a song for the soundtrack to the 2006 Snakes on a Plane, along with members of The Academy Is. Gym Class Heroes, and The Sounds, Saporta recorded Snakes on a Plane, during the recording of While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets, Saporta began recruiting new members to complete the groups lineup. He first enlisted drummer Nate Novarro, whom he met on tour while Novarro sold merchandise for fellow touring act Hidden in Plain View, the lineup was completed by Victoria Asher. While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets, was released October 10,2006 and it featured the single Snakes on a Plane, of which a video had been featured during the closing credits of the film Snakes on a Plane earlier that summer. In October 2006, they supported Thirty Seconds to Mars on their Welcome to the Universe Tour, with the groups lineup solidified, Cobra Starship began touring across the United States. While on the 2007 Honda Civic Tour, the group began writing together for the first time. The members recorded their parts on their laptops in the bands bus. By the time Cobra Starship entered the studio to work on a new album, recorded in twenty days at Mission Sound Studios in Brooklyn, New York, ¡Viva la Cobra. was released on October 23,2007. It was produced by Patrick Stump, who was credited as singing some backup vocals
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Night Shades
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Night Shades is the fourth and final studio album by Cobra Starship, being released through Fueled by Ramen and Decaydance Records on August 29,2011. The album is the follow-up to 2009s Hot Mess, the first single from the album, You Make Me Feel. Features singer Sabi and was released on May 10,2011, a music video has been created for it. The full album was available to stream for free on their Facebook page prior to its release. The album debuted at number 50 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 9,000 in its first week, the band were the opening act for Justin Bieber in October through South America. The third single #1Night has sold more than 91,000 downloads to date 2013, the groups third album, Hot Mess, released in 2009 by Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen, debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. After the success, Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta said of the aftermath of Hot Mess, That caused me to lose my girlfriend, the band started writing Night Shades in September 2010, but during these initial sessions, Saporta wasnt happy with what they were coming up with. We had a lot of songs that just felt uninspired to me and it felt like I was just doing it to do it, because thats what we do, were a band. He confessed that his solution for inspiration was embarking on what he describes as a spiritual detox in South America, I went on this, like, pretty crazy. I dont know if you call it a retreat, but I lived in a house in the forest in Brazil. In the end, the trip gave Saporta clarity and made him feel rejuvenated—two things he needed to survive the studio mishaps Cobra Starship experienced after he returned. First, the set up shop in an abandoned floor of a building owned by a friends family—but two weeks into recording, they were unexpectedly met by a demolition crew. Their next attempt at setting up studio space unwittingly ended up being adjacent to a place rented by a masseuse, finally, the band found a home in a converted storage space on the ground floor of Saportas building. Once the band settled into their permanent digs, Saporta started delving into the issues he started dissecting in South America—and found a way to them from a unique perspective. When I was writing in September, the problem was it was either uninspired or it was really depressing and it was about the fact that I lost the love of my life. As much as I need to deal with that, I dont think the world needs to deal with that. Its very self-serving just for me to make a record for that, if I would have just written that without taking my spiritual detox in the jungle, we would have had a record that wouldve just been that. Speaking of Night Shades, Saporta commented, This record might be the most commercial record, Fueled by Ramen president John Janick was quoted as saying, delivered an album that has the Cobra sound but delivers those radio records and thought that there are multiple singles on album
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Misery (Maroon 5 song)
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Misery is a song by American band Maroon 5. It was released on June 22,2010 by A&M Octone Records via the iTunes Store, the song is the first single from their third studio album, Hands All Over. Written by Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, and Sam Farrar, / The silence is slowly killing me / Girl you really got me bad, he states in the lyrics. The song documents the decay of a relationship, familiar territory for the band, frontman Adam Levine told MTV News, Misery is about the desperation of wanting someone really badly in your life but having it be very difficult. Kind of what all the songs I write are about, im not treading on new ground, but I think a lot of people – including myself – deal with that all the time. Relationships are difficult, and its good therapy to write about them, the band performed it live on the Late Show with David Letterman on September 21,2010. They were also on Jimmy Kimmel Live. on September 28,2010, the song received mostly positive reviews from music critics. However, this time the band takes it all a few steps forward into the category of pop perfection, quite possibly a key reason for this step forward is the presence of the by now legendary Robert John Mutt Lange in the producers chair. Misery is instantly the best mainstream pop single of 2010 so far, MTV Buzzworthy stated that the single was pretty classic Maroon 5, and a buoyant, poppy affair that has a dark underbelly. AOL Radio stated that it was a falsetto-pleading, yet upbeat, the New York Post stated that the single was exactly the kind of up tempo, falsetto-filled single weve come to expect. Rolling Stone reviewers called the song a funk-rock singalong that some people might have a hard time picking out, from a police line-up of Maroon 5 songs. The video was filmed in May 2010, russian model Anne Vyalitsyna, appears in this video. The various members of the band appear as bystanders or passersby who get variously hit by cars, the video premiered on July 1,2010 on MTV and VH1. The UK version censors the majority of the violence with cartoon-like graphics, Levine told MTV News about the Joseph Kahn-directed video. The cool thing is, when Joseph wrote the treatment after reading a few sentences, I thought it was really amazing, Levine admitted to MTV News, Ill tell you a little secret. The stuntmen were so great, but they werent too happy because they had to dress like us. This dude who was Jesse s stunt double was, like, really buff, the shoes were, like, falling off his massive ankles. Levine added, I did a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff is me, but most of it wasnt very dangerous
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If I Never See Your Face Again
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If I Never See Your Face Again is a song by American pop rock band Maroon 5 from the June 2008 re-release of the groups second studio album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long. It was also included on the June 2008 re-release of Rihannas album Good Girl Gone Bad, the song was originally included on the standard version of the album without the inclusion of Rihanna. It was written by band members Adam Levine and James Valentine, with production of the song helmed by Christopher Tricky Stewart, Mike Elizondo, Mark Endert, Mark Spike Stent and Maroon 5. It was released as an Extended Play in Australia on May 22,2007, If I Never See Your Face Again was originally intended to be a duet with Janet Jackson and appear on her Discipline album, although label problems interfered. The collaboration with Rihanna later came to fruition when Levine asked her to add her vocal to the remix version, If I Never See Your Face Again is a pop and R&B song featuring instrumentation provided by synthesizers and a guitar. The song received a response from music critics, who praised the songs composition but criticized Levine. The songs accompanying video was directed by Anthony Mandler and shot on an indoor soundstage in Castaic. The concept for the video was high-end erotica, If I Never See Your Face Again was written by Adam Levine and James Valentine, two of the five band members from Maroon 5. Production of the song was helmed by Mike Elizondo, Mike Endert, Mike Spike Stent, Christopher Tricky Stewart and it was recorded by Spike Stent at Conway Studios, Hollywood, CA, Glenwood Place Studios, Burbank, CA and Phantom Studios, Westlake Village, CA. The song was intended to be a duet with Janet Jackson and appear on her Discipline album. The singer continued, saying that he asked Rihanna to do some bits and pieces in the recording studio, Levine stated that if there is magic between two artists, then you dont even have to think about it. If I Never See Your Face Again was released as a single in the United States on May 2,2008, If I Never See Your Face Again is a pop and R&B song, which lasts for 3,18. The song was composed using common time in the key of A minor, instrumentation is provided by synths, and a guitar. A reviewer for IGN noted that If I Never See Your Face Again is complete with slinky synth insinuations, whilst Jerome Blakeney for BBC wrote that it is a guitar drenched, alex Fletcher for Digital Spy commented that the song incorporated a jagged use of synthesizers. For the most part of the song, Levine sings in his falsetto register, upon the release of It Wont Be Soon Before Long, music critics commented on the original version of the song, which does not include guest vocals by Rihanna. A reviewer for IGN was complimentary of If I Never See Your Face Again, sal Cinquemani was critical of the song, labeling it as nasty. Alex Fletcher for Digital Spy disapproved of the collaboration between the band and Rihanna, with thoughts on Levine and Rihannas pairing. Fletcher was critical of their performance, writing that their voices clashed with one another
