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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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Pop rock band
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A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instruments, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra, some music ensembles consist solely of singers, such as choirs and doo wop groups. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the instrument family. In jazz ensembles, the instruments typically include wind instruments, one or two chordal comping instruments, an instrument, and a drummer or percussionist. Jazz ensembles may be instrumental, or they may consist of a group of instruments accompanying one or more singers. In rock and pop ensembles, usually called rock bands or pop bands, there are usually guitars and keyboards, one or more singers, Music ensembles typically have a leader. In jazz bands, rock and pop groups and similar ensembles, in classical music, orchestras, concert bands and choirs are led by a conductor. In orchestra, the concertmaster is the instrumentalist leader of the orchestra, in orchestras, the individual sections also have leaders, typically called the principal of the section. Conductors are also used in big bands and in some very large rock or pop ensembles. In Western classical music, smaller ensembles are called chamber music ensembles, the terms duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, nonet and dectet describe groups of two up to ten musicians, respectively. A group of musicians, such as found in The Carnival of the Animals, is called either a hendectet or an undectet. A soloist playing unaccompanied is not an ensemble because it contains one musician. A string quartet consists of two violins, a viola and a cello, there is a vast body of music written for string quartets, as it is seen as an important genre in classical music. A woodwind quartet usually features a flute, an oboe, a clarinet, a brass quartet features two trumpets, a trombone and a tuba. A saxophone quartet consists of a saxophone, an alto saxophone, a tenor saxophone. The string quintet is a type of group. It is similar to the quartet, but with an additional viola, cello, or more rarely. Terms such as piano quintet or clarinet quintet frequently refer to a string quartet plus a fifth instrument
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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
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Harder to Breathe
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Harder to Breathe is a song by American band Maroon 5. The song was written by frontman Adam Levine for the debut album. The song expresses tension, having been written quickly under trying circumstances and it tells the story about a former relationship Levine was involved in. Harder to Breathe was met with positive reception by music critics and it was released in 2002 as the lead single of Songs About Jane. The song peaked at six on Airplay Monitor. It also appeared on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart at number 31, internationally, the single charted at number 13 in the United Kingdom. Harder to Breathe also appeared in the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, the song also appears in Maroon 5s 2004 EP1.22.03. Acoustic in an acoustic version and the live album Live – Friday the 13th. Harder to Breathe was featured in One Tree Hill, ER, Birds of Prey, the band thought they had enough material for a release, but when the label told them to keep writing, Levine wrote this song in frustration at the pressure. That song comes sheerly from wanting to throw something and it was the 11th hour, and the label wanted more songs. I wanted to make a record and the label was applying a lot of pressure, Harder to Breathe tells the story of a relationship Levine had with a woman named Jane, who, according to Levine was the muse in the bands album. MacKenzie Wilson of AllMusic described the song as a soulful disposition, meghan Bard of The Daily Campus described the single featuring a great up-tempo number with gritty guitar riffs and powerful vocals from Levine. Bard noted that the theme in the song was about recovering from heartbreak, angus Batey of The Times compared Harder to Breathe sounding as Zeppelin-esque. The song received positive reception from critics, in the Rolling Stone review of the album, critic Christian Hoard called Harder to Breathe a strong single. Spencer Beggs of The Observer wrote, The two singles are the most popular songs on the album, showing off Maroon 5s characteristic clean, crisp and upbeat sound. Sam Beresky of the Daily Lobo, who was enthusiastic about the album, complimented Maroon 5 on Harder to Breathe, in which he said. There are some aspects of mellow, soulful rockers like Train, the track has a good rock meets R&B sound and is predictable enough to get radio play. In October 2003, Levine told USA Today, regarding the success of the song, I didnt love or hate the song and we have a lot of pop songs on our record, and the idea was to start out with something different. Why come out of the gate with another pop song by pop band
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Give a Little More
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Give a Little More is a song by American band Maroon 5. It was released on August 17,2010 as a digital download, the song is the second single from their third studio album, Hands All Over. The song officially impacted US mainstream radio on October 12,2010, give a Little More was written by Adam Levine with keyboardist Jesse Carmichael and guitarist James Valentine. The lyrics talk about how to ask more of a woman who so clearly has you wrapped around her finger, You were wrong for turning me on and on and on, im waiting for something, always waiting / Feeling nothing, wondering if itll ever change. Ultimately, he himself to the fact that, I have no defense / I know youre gonna get me in the end. The song received positive reviews from music critics. Ron Harris from the Associated Press wrote that the song almost strays into disco territory with its body-moving beat. He commented that the song would not have been out of place in 1979, while complimenting that the song is fun and funky. Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly wrote that Levines romantic roundelay trundles on, mikael Wood from LA Times wrote that a light-funk groove as neatly executed as the one in “Give a Little More, ” for instance, is its own reward. The music video is directed by Paul Hunter, the video was released on September 9,2010. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Won't Go Home Without You
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Wont Go Home Without You is a ballad and the third single released from Maroon 5s second album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long. The official video has premiered on VH1 Top 20 Countdown on December 1,2007 and it is also now playing on their official website. The songs music video starts with flashbacks where Adam Levine and a female character appear to have an argument upon which Levine decides to leave, the video then cuts to Levine sitting in a chair thinking it over with the rest of the band performing in the background. Adam realizes that he not go home without you, referring to the female he had walked out on. Levine appears to know where the woman is at the moment, the music video was directed by Sophie Muller. This video features Jesse Carmichael playing both piano and guitar, during their 2007 It Wont Be Soon Before Long tour, Levine used an audience call and response of the lead guitar part of the chorus as an introduction to the song. Reviews for Wont Go Home Without You have been generally positive, robert Christgau gave a positive review on the album as well as the song, saying The devilishly memorable Wont Go Home Without You combines confidence with affection rather than macho. Channel 4 called the musical equivalent of a dogs fart at the dinner table. Digital Spy gave the two stars out of five, calling the songs lyrics as cold, functional and ruthlessly effective as a state-of-the-art refrigerator. The song was nominated for Best Pop Performance from a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 51st Grammy Awards, Wont Go Home Without You peaked at No.48 in the Billboard Hot 100. As of June 2014, the song has sold 1,647,000 copies in the US, the song became the first Maroon 5 single to fail to chart in the UK Top 40, only peaking at #44 in the UK Singles Chart. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Never Gonna Leave This Bed
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Never Gonna Leave This Bed is a song performed by American pop rock band Maroon 5, taken from their third studio album, Hands All Over. The song is a ballad and was written by frontman Adam Levine and it was released as the third single by A&M/Octone Records. It was released in Australia in January 2011 and it had an official radio adds date to Mainstream Radio on May 17,2011. The song received positive reviews from most music critics, who complimented the tracks lyric and it has gained significant airplay on U. S. radio and has charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Pop Songs, while reaching the top ten on the latter. The music video features Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna and sees the frontman snuggling with her on beds in various Los Angeles settings, frontman Adam Levine wrote this song after a weekend bender. He told The Sun September 17,2010, I was totally depleted and got home, picked up a guitar and its my favourite on the record. It reflects a desperate longing to have somebody in my life, Never Gonna Leave This Bed is written in the key of A minor with a moderate pop rock tempo of 117 beats per minute. The song follows the chord progression Am–F/A–C/G–G, and Levines vocals span from G4 to D6, jakof Dorof from Slant Magazine said that, The band turns in career highlights with the harmony-laden Never Gonna Leave This Bed. Sarah Rodman from The Boston Globe said that, “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” nails the hunger to prolong the perfect moment with a partner with its sweet. IGN said, the romance-friendly track Never Gonna Leave This Bed, has a Keane-like feel, leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly opined that, Levines romantic roundelay trundles on the Train-ish midrange balladry. The band performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on January 17,2011. The band also performed it on the Super Bowl 2011 pre-show, the music video for the song was shot at several different places including Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles, California. The music video was released on iTunes on February 8,2011, the music video for the single premiered on February 5,2011 on VH1s Top 20 Video Countdown. The video hit number seven on the Yahoo, chris Ryan wrote for MTV that Its a gorgeously shot and sunny video for a slightly melancholy but incredibly catchy song. The song debuted at #35 on the Billboards Adult Pop Songs chart, on the week of May 14, the song entered the Hot 100 at #100, reaching a peak of #55. It also charted on the Belgian, Hungary, Netherlands and Slovakia charts, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Wake Up Call (Maroon 5 song)
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Wake Up Call is the second single by Maroon 5 from their second studio album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long. It had been rumored as the single, and the band confirmed this on the May 22 episode of TRL. The band also said that they are excited to do the video for the song. FMQB confirmed that the single would be released to radio on July 17 and it leaked online shortly before May 1,2007 as part of a four track sampler from It Wont Be Soon Before Long. They performed the song on 45th at Night, which included a special guest Eve, the remix was never officially recorded. Another remix was with Mary J. Blige making a special guest appearance for this song, before the release of Wake Up Call, the band promoted by performing it a half-step lower. The song was heard playing in the background in a club scene on the HBO hit. The song was BBC Radio 1 playlisted for the playlist week beginning July 18,2007 and it was also featured as downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band. As of June 2014, the song has sold 1,821,000 copies in the US, the music video for Wake Up Call is directed by Jonas Åkerlund and filming took place on July 7–9,2007. The video is presented as a trailer for an imaginary NC-17-rated movie, as the video progresses, Levine arrives home, kicking down the door upon hearing noises coming from the bedroom and catches his girlfriend cheating on him with the other man. As his girlfriend tries to break up the fight between both men attempting to explain the reason of her infidelity to her boyfriend, Levine immediately shoots him in the chest. While his girlfriend watched in horror as her lover dies from the gunshot, Levine covers up the body. The rest of the video centers around Maroon 5 and Adams girlfriend going through a plan to cover up the murder. Mark Ronson recorded a remix of Wake Up Call which has released on November 13,2007 as a digital download. The song features vocals from Mary J. Blige, the track is also on the International Tour edition of It Wont Be Soon Before Long. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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She Will Be Loved
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She Will Be Loved is a song by the American pop rock band Maroon 5. The song was written by frontman Adam Levine and lead guitarist James Valentine and it was released as the third single from Maroon 5s debut album, Songs About Jane. The single peaked at #5 in the United States, and by December 2012 had sold more than 2,722,000 digital downloads and it peaked at #4 in the United Kingdom. In Australia, it reached #1, a position it held for 5 non-consecutive weeks, the single is noted for its music video starring Kelly Preston in a mother-daughter love triangle with lead singer Adam Levine. The video is also in Sepia and these stations continued to play Harder to Breathe and This Love, but Maroon 5s newer hits were played only on pop and adult contemporary stations. As of June 2014, the song has sold over 3,000,000 copies in the US and she Will Be Loved entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #50 as the Hot Shot debut of the week on July 24,2004. The song rose to #20 on August 21,2004, giving Maroon 5 their third consecutive top-twenty hit on the chart. She Will Be Loved continued to gain in performance and rose to #9 on September 11,2004, the song reached its peak position at #5 on September 25,2004, matching the peak position of This Love from earlier that year. It fell to #6 a week later and stayed in position for three weeks, before rising back up to #5 on October 23,2004 for two more consecutive weeks. She Will Be Loved was certified platinum on April 18,2011 by the Recording Industry Association of America and has sold 3,197,000 copies in the US as of June 15,2014. The video is commonly compared to the film The Graduate as it has similarities with the storyline between the daughter, the boyfriend and the mother. It should be noted that the version of the used in the music video is the radio mix version found on the 10th Anniversary Edition of Songs About Jane. As of February 2017, the song has accumulated over 360 million views on YouTube, the video starts with Levine standing in front of a swimming pool. Levine front-flips into the pool and is submerged underwater, completely unaware of whats to happen to him in falling in love that summer. Flashbacks show the two women walking side by side in the city as someone watches them from his/her car, after which, the young man and his girlfriend visit her home and dive into a swimming pool kissing. After they resurface from swimming, the man looks to his girlfriend as shes being cared for by another woman who is revealed to be the girlfriends mother. The mother helps her daughter dry from swimming and glances in the mans direction. One night while walking down the stairs, the man comes to find someone lying unconscious in the room
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Makes Me Wonder
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Makes Me Wonder is the first single released from Maroon 5s second album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long. It premiered on the Las Vegas radio station KMXB, and became an instant hit worldwide, upon release, the song set a record for the biggest jump to number-one in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, rising from number 64 to number-one. However, the record was broken by Kelly Clarksons 2009 single. Makes Me Wonder also became the bands first number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 50th Grammy Awards, their second song to win the award. The song was among the most successful of 2007, and was their biggest hit until the release of Moves like Jagger by the band in 2011, despite the songs commercial success, critical reception was mixed. It was ranked No.49 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007, Maroon 5 performed the song in May 2007 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This song was used in Rock Band games as DLC. Levine began writing parts of Makes Me Wonder years before its release in 2007, Maroon 5 recorded a demo of it, which was one of their firsts while on the road. The band however put the track aside, and years later revisited it for Wont Be Soon Before Long, Levine recalled that the song kept coming up because the label loved it. There, they rethought a couple of songs and we went back, reworking the song for their new album, Maroon 5 struggled to finish Makes Me Wonder. The band could not formulate a chorus that would match with the rest of Makes Me Wonders music, at one point, it had the band deciding to venture into a songwriting trip to somewhere without distractions. While working on another song when they went to a Las Vegas studio, Levine recalls, It was actually great because we were distracted just enough that we didnt think about it too much, and then we wrote this part that wound up being the chorus. Prior to Makes Me Wonder, producer Mark Endert had contributed to the debut album, Songs About Jane, in which he provided additional production to. Having worked on a song called Wake Up Call for the new album, Maroon 5, having re-examined the song, asked Endert to assist them on a track which they did not like. To Endert, the band did not feel like they had realized its potential, however, They were open to new ideas, so I had the freedom to go and look for a new approach. Working on the new material, Endert produced a mockup for the tracks arrangement, using his Logic system at Scream Studios, he programmed the keyboards, bass, guitars on an old 80s Roland. When done, Endert flew to Los Angeles to present to the band the track, Endert and the band went to the Sunset Sound studio where they added track and replaced any parts in Logic that were considered band instruments, resulting to it sounding like Maroon 5s. According to producer Mark Endert, the idea was to make the music contemporary. Meanwhile, they wanted to render it classic by making references to 70s and its music changed from a more rock n roll feel to a 70s funk vibe
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This Love (Maroon 5 song)
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This Love is a song by the American pop rock band Maroon 5. The song was written by frontman Adam Levine and keyboardist Jesse Carmichael for their debut album, the track is built around a piano-led strut, which is immediately followed by synth percussion, and a repeating guitar sound. The songs lyrics are based on Levines break-up with an ex-girlfriend and he revealed that the song was written in the most emotionally trying time in his life. He has also described that the lyrics of song as being extremely erotic. This Love was critically acclaimed by critics, who noted the tracks musicscape. It was released on January 27,2004, as the single from Songs About Jane. The single entered the top ten on most charts, topping several of Billboard magazines component charts, the music video was met with controversy, regarding extended intimate scenes between Levine and his then-girlfriend. This Love helped Maroon 5 win the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist and was the third most played song of 2004. The song won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 2006 Grammy Awards and this Love was the second single from Maroon 5s 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane. In an interview with MTV News in August 2002, Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine revealed that he wrote the song the day his girlfriend moved away when they broke up. In another interview, Levine revealed that the song was written in the most emotionally trying time in his life. He also added, I was in a relationship that was ending and she was literally leaving town within days of me writing the lyrics to This Love, so I was in prime emotional condition to write a song with that kind of conflict. During development of This Love, the stated that the song was influenced by musician Stevie Wonder. The piece was written in the key of C minor, the metre is set in time. The introduction of This Love features a piano-led strut, Maroon 5 has called This Love a prime pop-rock song. The music featured in the song has a lot more rock-guitar crunch, according to Johnny Loftus of Allmusic, the music featured in the song has a slick channeling of vintage R&B rhythms into punchy pop dynamics. Loftus also noted that the band has a charge with the lyrics. The Boston Globes Steve Morse described the sounds as a rocking yet soulful tale about the breakup of a relationship
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Sunday Morning (Maroon 5 song)
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Sunday Morning is a song by American pop rock band Maroon 5. It was released on December 2,2004 as the single from their debut studio album. Released in 2004, the peaked at number 31 in the United States becoming Maroon 5s fourth Top 40 single, it also peaked at number 27 in the United Kingdom. The music video was filmed at Abbey Road Studios in London and it features Maroon 5 performing the song, interspersed with scenes of numerous people singing it at a karaoke bar. Billboard called the single another cant-miss romp from Americas hottest pop-rock band, adam Levine says the idea for the video struck the band when they were in Japan and noticed a few of their songs on the karaoke list at a Japanese bar. The song has also featured on the soundtracks of Somethings Gotta Give and Love Actually. Additionally, it is featured on the Xbox 360 karaoke game Lips, andrew Garcia covered the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show after his 2010 elimination from American Idol. The acoustic version of the song is featured in the 2005 film Cheaper by the Dozen 2, the song was also used in the South Korean television commercial of GM Chevrolet Malibu, as well as Jollibee brand of quick service restaurants in the Philippines. On season 4 of the American singing competition The Voice, Josiah Hawley performed a rendition of Sunday Morning, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Hands All Over (Maroon 5 song)
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Hands All Over is a song recorded by American band Maroon 5, for their 2010 third studio album of the same name. It was written by Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Sam Farrar, the song received generally positive reviews from music critics, with some of them calling it the best track on the album. It received comparison to the works of Prince, Nine Inch Nails, upon the release of the album, Hands All Over debuted on national charts in South Korea and Spain, it peaked at number 20 on the Gaon Chart and 38 on the Spanish Singles Chart, respectively. A music video for the song was shot by Don Tyler was released on December 24,2010 and it features a nude animated woman flirting and dancing for the band members. Maroon 5 began writing material for their studio album, Hands All Over, after completion of a world tour that was launched in support of their 2007 studio album It Wont Be Soon Before Long. Months later, the received a phone call from Robert John Mutt Lange, who had heard that 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. The bands frontman Adam Levine described Mutt as one of the most successful producers who have ever lived, Jesse Carmichael, the band’s keyboardist, said, Mutt really helped us play to the best of our ability. And it drove us to be bigger and better than ever, Hands All Over was released on September 21,2010 in the United States. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200. The albums title track was written by Levine, Jesse Carmichael and Sam Farrar, the additional production, engineering and programming was provided by Farrar and Noah Mailbox Passovoy. The song was recorded at Mutts studio in Vevey, Switzerland by Olle Romo who also provided the Pro-Tools, mike Shipley did the additional recording and also mixed Hands All Over. Additional engineering of the song was done by Isha Erskine, while Eric Rose, scott Cooke and Lenny Castro played the percussion. Brad Blackwood from Euphonic Masters was the mastering engineer, Hands All Over is a funk metal and rock song with a length of three minutes and thirteen seconds. It has an instrumentation consisting of drums, guitar, piano, bill Lamb of About. com wrote for the song, crunchy guitars and a rock star sway animate the title song. Contactmusics Nima Baniamer stated that Hands All Over, follows a trend consisting of heavy percussions, melinda Newman of HitFix wrote that the song is a heavy thump of a song that sounds pure Lange with a big kick drum propelling it forward. Written in the key of C minor, the song is placed in common time, Hands All Over starts with dark and shadowed electronic undertones before sudden bursts of electronic guitars start playing before transitioning into a rock-studded production. The track also contains a lot of guitar solos in the chorus and the verses, in the verses
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OneRepublic
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OneRepublic is an American pop rock band formed in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2002 by lead vocalist Ryan Tedder and guitarist Zach Filkins. It also currently consists of guitarist Drew Brown, bassist and cellist Brent Kutzle, the band first achieved commercial success on Myspace as an unsigned act. They made their first album with producer Greg Wells during the summer and fall of 2005 at his studio, Rocket Carousel, in Culver City, California. The album was scheduled for release on June 6,2006. The lead single of album, Apologize, was released on April 30,2006 on Myspace and received some recognition there. In 2007, OneRepublic released their album, Dreaming Out Loud. Its lead single, Apologize, was remixed by Timbaland, becoming a huge international success, reaching number one in sixteen countries. The second single, Stop and Stare, mirrored its predecessors success, the album was later certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The bands second album, Waking Up, produced the singles All the Right Moves, Secrets, Marchin On, and Good Life, with the latter reaching the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100. OneRepublics third album, Native, became the bands first top ten album on the Billboard 200, and highest charting album to date, charting at number four. S. and this marks their highest charting single in the United Kingdom to date. It has also peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, on October 7,2016, OneRepublic released Oh My My, their fourth studio album, which featured a number of collaborators, including Cassius, Peter Gabriel, and Santigold. During a drive home, as Filkins and Tedder discussed favorite musicians including Fiona Apple, Peter Gabriel and U2, Tedder, Filkins & Co. had a few small gigs at Pikes Perk Coffee & Tea House, attended by friends and family. Senior year ended, and Tedder and Filkins parted ways, each attending different colleges, reuniting in Los Angeles in 2002, Tedder and Filkins reformed their second band under the moniker Republic. Tedder, by then a songwriter and record producer, had convinced Filkins who was living in Chicago to relocate. Nine months later, the signed with Columbia Records. The bands name was changed to OneRepublic after the company mentioned that the name Republic might result in legal action from other. The band worked in the studio for two and a half years and recorded its first full-length album, two months before the album was due to be released, OneRepublic was dropped by Columbia Records. The band was beginning to gain prominence on MySpace, Tedder said it was the number-one unsigned act on MySpace, the band caught the attention of a number of labels, including Timbalands Mosley Music Group
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Bruno Mars
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Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and choreographer. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age and he graduated from high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. After being dropped by Motown Records, Mars signed a contract with Atlantic Records in 2009. In 2009, he co-founded the production team The Smeezingtons, responsible for the singles Nothin on You by B. o. B and he featured on the hooks for both singles, becoming recognized as a solo artist. His debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans included the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Just the Way You Are and Grenade and his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, peaked at number one in the United States. The album spawned the international singles Locked Out of Heaven, When I Was Your Man, in 2014, Mars lent his vocals to Mark Ronsons Uptown Funk. In 2016, he released his studio album 24K Magic with the lead single of the same title released on October 7,2016. To date, he has sold over 100 million singles and albums combined worldwide, Mars has landed six number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since his career launched in 2010, attaining his first five faster than any male artist since Elvis Presley. Mars has received awards and nominations, including five Grammy Awards. In December 2013, he ranked number one on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, Mars is known for his stage performances and retro showmanship. He is accompanied by his band, The Hooligans, who play a variety of such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums and horns. Mars performs in a range of musical styles. Peter Gene Hernandez was born on October 8,1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot and his father is of half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii as a child, and was of Filipino and his parents met while performing in a show in which his mother was a hula dancer and his father played percussion. At the age of two, he was nicknamed Bruno by his father, because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars is one of six children and came from a family which exposed him to a diverse mix of genres including, reggae, rock, hip hop. His mother was both a singer and a dancer, and his father performed Little Richard rock and roll music, Mars uncle was an Elvis impersonator, and also encouraged three-year-old Mars to perform on stage. Mars performed songs by such as Michael Jackson, The Isley Brothers
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Sara Bareilles
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Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single Love Song, in the third season of NBCs The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music and her memoir, Sounds Like Me, My Life in Song, was published in 2015 and was listed by The New York Times as a best-seller. Bareilles was born and raised in Eureka, California in Humboldt County and she has a half-sister named Melody. She is of Italian, English, German, Portuguese, and French descent, she speaks Italian, the groups rendition of Bareilles Gravity was featured on the Best of College a Cappella 2004 compilation CD. Bareilles and the band Maroon 5 have been acquainted since their days in California. She performed in the student concert UCLA Spring Sing, winning twice. Bareilles taught herself to play the piano and, subsequently, all other instruments she has seen playing. After graduating from UCLA in 2002, Bareilles performed at bars and clubs. She issued two demos of mostly live tracks in 2003, The First One in April and The Summer Sessions in October, in 2004, she appeared as a singer in a bar in the indie film Girl Play, performing the song Undertow. In January 2004, Bareilles released her first studio album, Careful Confessions and she then signed a contract with Epic Records on April 15,2005. She spent the remainder of the year, and the months of 2006, writing, composing. In mid-2004 she opened for Rocco DeLuca and the Burden during their headline tour, supported Guster on their first UK tour. She toured as the act in 2006 for Marc Broussards Carencro tour. Bareilless song Gravity appeared briefly in the 2006 independent film Loving Annabelle, in 2007, Bareilles toured as the opening act for Aqualung and Mika, and later that year opened for several shows on both Maroon 5 and Paolo Nutinis U. S. tours. She also opened for James Blunt on his U. S, Tour in association with VH1 You Oughta Know. In June 2007, iTunes featured Bareilless single Love Song as the single of the week. After being featured on a Rhapsody commercial in 2007, Love Song began climbing the pop charts and it entered the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 27,2007, and peaked at No.4
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PJ Morton
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PJ Morton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Since 2012, he is the keyboardist for the pop rock band Maroon 5, on March 27,2012, Morton released his debut solo EP, Following My First Mind, through the record label Young Money. Adam Levine was featured on the single, Heavy, other musicians on the EP include Lil Wayne, Jazmine Sullivan. On May 14,2013, Morton released his first major-label debut album, in 2016, he released his mixtape Bounce & Soul Vol.1 in March and the Sticking to My Guns EP in July. Morton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and his father is Canadian-born American gospel singer, Paul S. Morton. His mother is Debra Brown Morton and he is married to Kortni Morton. Morton graduated St. Augustine High School and majored in marketing at Morehouse College, in 2010, Mortons friend and Maroon 5s musical director Adam Blackstone asked him to audition for a position in the band as keyboardist backing vocalist. Morton was the first to audition and left a mark on the group. Since then, he has played with Maroon 5 in concerts, from 2012 to 2014 Morton filled-in for the bands keyboardist, Jesse Carmichael, who was on an indefinite hiatus from performing with the group, as stated on their official website in March 2012. Mortons solo work won the attention of Mack Maine, who signed him to his company, Soothe Your Soul. The Following My First Mind EP was released on March 27,2012, on May 14,2013, Morton released his debut studio album on YMCMB, entitled New Orleans. The lead single, Only One, featuring Stevie Wonder, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014, on March 25,2016, Morton released his mixtape, Bounce & Soul Vol.1, to SoundCloud. The mixtape features collaborations from other hip hop artists such as Mack Maine, Mannie Fresh, Juvenile, Dee-1, on July 1, he released the Sticking to My Guns EP, featuring the single of the same name. After winning Grammy Awards for his songwriting and production on India. Aries Interested, Morton won Dove, Morton was also noticed by AR Rahman, composer for Slumdog Millionaire, who asked Morton to contribute Sajna to the soundtrack and movie for the Vince Vaughn comedy Couples Retreat. Morton has also produced and written for such as Jermaine Dupri, LL Cool J, Jagged Edge, Monica, India. Arie, gospel musicians Fred Hammond, Men of Standard. In 2009, he published a book entitled Why Cant I Sing About Love
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Santa Barbara, California
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Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U. S. state of California. Situated on a section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States. Santa Barbaras climate is described as Mediterranean, and the city has been promoted as the American Riviera. The population of the county in 2010 was 423,895. In 2004, the sector accounted for fully 35% of local employment. Education in particular is well represented, with four institutions of learning on the south coast. The Santa Barbara Airport serves the city, as does Amtrak, U. S. Highway 101 connects the Santa Barbara area with Los Angeles to the southeast and San Francisco to the northwest. Behind the city, in and beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains, is the Los Padres National Forest, Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary are located approximately 20 miles offshore. Evidence of human habitation of the area begins at least 13,000 years ago, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Chumash lived on the south coast of Santa Barbara County at the time of the first European explorations. Five Chumash villages flourished in the area, portuguese explorer João Cabrilho, sailing for the Kingdom of Spain, sailed through what is now called the Santa Barbara Channel in 1542, anchoring briefly in the area. In 1602, Spanish maritime explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno gave the name Santa Barbara to the channel, a land expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà visited in 1769, and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, who accompanied the expedition, named a large native town Laguna de la Concepcion. Cabrillos earlier name, however, is the one that has survived, the first permanent European residents were Spanish missionaries and soldiers under Felipe de Neve, who came in 1782 to build the Presidio. They were sent both to fortify the region against expansion by other such as England and Russia. Many of the Spaniards brought their families with them, and those formed the nucleus of the small town – at first just a cluster of adobes – that surrounded the Presidio, the Santa Barbara Mission was established on the Feast of Saint Barbara, December 4,1786. It was the tenth of the California Missions to be founded by the Spanish Franciscans and it was dedicated by Padre Fermín Lasuén, who succeeded Padre Junipero Serra as the second president and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain. The Mission fathers began the work of converting the native Chumash to Christianity. The Chumash laborers built a connection between the creek and the Santa Barbara Mission water system through the use of a dam. During the following decades, many of the natives died of such as smallpox
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Greek Theatre (Los Angeles)
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Greek Theatre is a 5, 870-seat music venue located at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1929, opening on September 29 of that year, the Greek Theatre is owned by the city of Los Angeles, and is operated by SMG. Designed by architect Samuel Tilden Norton, the stage is modeled after a Greek temple. The idea for the Greek Theatre originated with wealthy landowner Griffith J. Griffith, in his will he left money for the construction of a Greek theatre. A canyon site was chosen because of its good acoustics, the cornerstone was laid in 1928 and the building was officially dedicated on September 25,1930. The first performance took place on June 26,1931, attended by a capacity crowd of 4,000, during its first decades the theatre was rarely used, and it was used as a barracks during World War II. In the late 1940s a San Francisco producer brought touring shows to the venue, in the 1950s James Doolittle, a Los Angeles showman, leased the theatre and upgraded it with better seating and backstage equipment. Between 1975 and 2015, the theatre was managed by the Nederlander Organization, the theatre underwent an earthquake retrofit in 1995. In 2006 the facade was renovated in celebration of the venues 75th anniversary. In 1983, the Greek Theatres seating capacity was expanded to 6,187, in 2009 the Los Angeles Fire Marshal permitted the addition of two more rows in the pit, bringing full capacity at the Greek to 5,870 seated and 5,900 general admission. The theatre was managed and promoted by the Nederlander Organization for 40 years, in 2015, SMG became the new venue manager. The Greek Theatre is used for concerts, stage shows, and graduation ceremonies for Thomas Starr King Middle School and John Marshall High School, among others. The Greek Theatre won the Best Small Outdoor Venue award seven times in the past eight years, awarded by Pollstar Magazine, the annual Bell-Jeff Invitational cross country running event starts adjacent to the theater. List of contemporary amphitheaters Official website
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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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Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washingtons Puget Sound,32 miles southwest of Seattle,31 miles northeast of the capital, Olympia. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census, Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of activity for the South Sound region. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma and it is locally known as the City of Destiny because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacomas neighboring deep-water harbor, by connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacomas motto became When rails meet sails. Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of trade on the Pacific Coast. Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized, tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the most walkable cities in the country and that same year, the womens magazine Self named Tacoma the Most Sexually Healthy City in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey, Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname Galloping Gertie. The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, mcCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain. Tacoma was incorporated on November 12,1875, following the merger of Old Tacoma, the transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on New Tacoma, two miles south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890, rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 19th century, in 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line, in November 1885, white citizens led by then-mayor Jacob Weisbach expelled several hundred Chinese residents peacefully living in the city. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground, the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacomas prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle
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Tacoma Dome
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The Tacoma Dome is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, United States, approximately 30 miles south of Seattle. Upon winning a design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome for $44 million. The arena seats 17,100 for basketball,530 feet in diameter and 152 feet tall, and able to seat 23,000, it is the largest arena with a wooden dome in the world when measured by volume. Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and it can host American football, albeit with seating reduced to 10,000. The Domes first event was a concert by British musician David Bowie as part of his Serious Moonlight Tour on August 11,1983, the Dome also hosted the NCAA Womens Division I Basketball Championship in back-to-back years. The Tacoma Dome hosted National Hockey League preseason exhibition games in 1983,1984,1988,1992, michael Jackson was scheduled to perform three concerts on October 31 and November 1 and 2,1988, during his Bad Tour. Although all the sold out, the concerts were cancelled because of the performers serious health problems. Also in the Domes first year, Billy Graham hosted one of his crusades and he returned to the Tacoma Dome in 1991. In both crusades Graham averaged 30,000 spectators every night, the Professional Bull Riders hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at the Dome annually between 2003 and 2009. World Championship Wrestling held their Spring Stampede pay-per-view at the Dome on April 11,1999, diamond Dallas Page defeated WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair, Hollywood Hogan and Sting in a Four Corners match to win the title. On February 2,2016, the Tacoma Dome started new security procedures for entering the venue at the sold-out AC/DC concert. The new enhancements included metal detector wands at each entrance, a bag size restriction, the prohibition of backpacks, in November 2016, the City of Tacoma approved a two-year, $21.3 million renovation project. The Tacoma Dome is also known for its controversial neon art, in 1984 the Stephen Antonakos piece displayed inside the Dome was the subject of intense debate over public funding of artworks for public works projects. Tacoma Dome Shanaman Sports Museum of Tacoma-Pierce County
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Fresno, California
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Fresno (/ˈfrɛznoʊ/ FREZ-no is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County. It covers about 112 square miles in the center of the San Joaquin Valley, named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was incorporated in 1885. The population of Fresno proper soared in the half of the 20th century. It was here in Fresno in 1958 that Bank of America first launched the BankAmericard credit card, Fresno is near the geographical center of California. It lies approximately 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles,170 miles south of the capital, Sacramento. Yosemite National Park is about 60 miles to the north, Kings Canyon National Park is 60 miles to the east, the county of Fresno was formed in 1856 after the California Gold Rush. It was named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Millerton, then on the banks of the free-flowing San Joaquin River and close to Fort Miller, became the county seat after becoming a focal point for settlers. Other early county settlements included Firebaughs Ferry, Scottsburg and Elkhorn Springs, the San Joaquin River flooded on December 24,1867, inundating Millerton. Flooding also destroyed the town of Scottsburg on the nearby Kings River that winter, rebuilt on higher ground, Scottsburg was renamed Centerville. In 1867, Anthony McQeen Easterby purchased land bounded by the present Chestnut, Belmont, Clovis and California avenues, unable to grow wheat for lack of water, he hired sheep man Moses J. Church in 1871 to create an irrigation system. Building new canals and purchasing existing ditches, Church then formed the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company, in 1872, the Central Pacific Railroad established a station near Easterbys—by now a hugely productive wheat farm—for its new Southern Pacific line. Soon there was a store around the station and the store grew the town of Fresno Station, many Millerton residents, drawn by the convenience of the railroad and worried about flooding, moved to the new community. Fresno became a city in 1885. By 1931 the Fresno Traction Company operated 47 streetcars over 49 miles of track, in 1877, William Helm made Fresno his home with a five-acre tract of land at the corner of Fresno and R streets. Helm was the largest individual sheep grower in Fresno County, in carrying his wool to market at Stockton, he used three wagons, each drawn by ten mules, and spent twelve days in making the round trip. Two years after the station was established, county residents voted to move the county seat from Millerton to Fresno, when the Friant Dam was completed in 1944, the site of Millerton became inundated by the waters of Millerton Lake. In extreme droughts, when the reservoir shrinks, ruins of the county seat can still be observed. In the nineteenth century, with so much wooden construction and in the absence of sophisticated firefighting resources, fires often ravaged American frontier towns, the greatest of Fresnos early-day fires, in 1882, destroyed an entire block of the city
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Save Mart Center
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Save Mart Center at Fresno State is a multi-purpose arena, on the campus of the California State University, Fresno, located in Fresno, California. An open house was held for community on November 5,2003 and it is also a concert destination, with its first performance featuring opera tenor Andrea Bocelli. The facility includes 32 revenue-generating suites and eight party suites, located on the concourse level. Seating capacities are approximately 15,596 for basketball,14,224 for hockey,8,000 for half-house concerts,15,500 for end-stage concerts, the arenas main exterior landmark is the 37 m Larry A. Shehadey Clock Tower. 13 stories in-all, it was named for the founder of Producers Dairy Foods, a Fresno-based dairy company, the lobby at the arenas southeast entrance is named after Shehadey’s late wife, Elayne Shehadey. The majority of the funding for the facility came from two sources, Save Mart Supermarkets paid US$40 million for 20 years naming rights, and the Pepsi Bottling Group paid a similar sum for exclusive, indefinite beverage dispensing rights. Total construction costs exceeded US$100 million and when completed, represented the largest privately funded complex of any university in the United States, the Bronze Bulldog at the Shehadey Lobby. Created by the Visalia-based art foundry, EMI, the massive bronze statue has dimensions of 3 m high,2 m wide,3 m long, weighing 1,905 kg. Statue onlookers will see engraved on its mounted plaque, Nine time capsule boxes were placed in the base of the massive Bulldog statue early in 2004. The contents of capsules were chosen to represent all aspects of Fresno State University, including the Bulldog Foundation, administration, alumni, students, the capsules are scheduled to be opened in early 2054. Save Mart Centers display cases, located on the upper and main concourses, exhibits equipment, additionally, the display case in the northwest corner spotlights the academic success of Fresno State’s student athletes. The Bulldog Walkway is a permanent, on-campus tribute to the California State University, Fresno alumni, graduates, expected to eventually be extended throughout the campus, the walkway consists of personalized tiles and bricks intended to leave a lasting impression to those who use it. The Bulldog Shop souvenir store is located on the arenas northeast lobby and it will only be open to sell Fresno State merchandise and apparel during university events. The arena has played host to music festivals, including The Winter Jam Tour, The Road Show Tour, The Vans Warped Tour. Also, on Feb 17th,2004, a SmackDown show featuring a newly crowned WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero, had his ceremony at Save Mart Center. The first athletic event held at Save Mart Center took place when the Rainbow Wahine of Hawaii took on the Fresno State Bulldogs in womens NCAA volleyball in October 2003, Save Mart Centers first arena football game was held on July 19,2008. The Central Valley Coyotes defeated the Boise Burn 55-50, both teams were members of the now defunct af2, the former developmental league for the Arena Football League. Save Mart Center has hosted five NBA preseason games since the arena has opened, the first game was in 2003-2004 when the Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Sacramento Kings, the Lakers defeated the Kings 105-80
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Sacramento, California
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Sacramento is the capital city of the U. S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the portion of Californias expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California, Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento Americas Most Diverse City, Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr. his son John Augustus Sutter, Jr. and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutters Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839, the city was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border. The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santísimo Sacramento, California State University, Sacramento, is the largest university in the city and one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. University of the Pacific is a university with one of its three campuses in Sacramento. In addition, the University of California, Davis, located in nearby Davis, operates its UC Davis Medical Center, nisenan and Plains Miwok Native Americans had lived in the area for perhaps thousands of years. Unlike the settlers who would eventually make Sacramento their home, these Native Americans left little evidence of their existence. Traditionally, their diet was dominated by acorns taken from the oak trees in the region, and by fruits, bulbs, seeds. In 1808, the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga discovered and named the Sacramento Valley, a Spanish writer with the Moraga expedition wrote, Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths, the air was like champagne, and drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them. The valley and the river were then christened after the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, John Sutter first arrived on August 13,1839 at the divergence of the American and Sacramento Rivers with a Mexican land grant of 50,000 acres. The next year, he and his party established Sutters Fort, representing Mexico, Sutter called his colony New Helvetia, a Swiss inspired name, and was the political authority and dispenser of justice in the new settlement. Soon, the colony began to grow as more and more pioneers headed west, within just a few short years, John Sutter had become a grand success, owning a ten-acre orchard and a herd of thirteen thousand cattle. Fort Sutter became a stop for the increasing number of immigrants coming through the valley. In 1847, Sutter hired James Marshall to build a sawmill so that he could continue to expand his empire, Sutter received 2,000 fruit trees in 1847, which started the agriculture industry in the Sacramento Valley. In 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma and he hired topographical engineer William H
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Sleep Train Arena
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Sleep Train Arena, originally ARCO Arena and later Power Balance Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in Sacramento, California, United States. Opened in 1988, it was the home of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association from 1988 to 2016 and it hosted nearly 200 spectator events each year. The arena is named for The Sleep Train, a chain of mattress and bed retailers based in Rocklin, the original ARCO Arena, where the Kings played their home games for three seasons, after moving from Kansas City had a capacity of 10,333 seats. Sleep Train Arena is located in an isolated area on the expanding northern outskirts of the city. It was constructed at a cost of just $40 million, the lowest of any venue in the NBA and it is the smallest arena in the NBA with a seating capacity of 17,317, and has 30 luxury suites and 412 club seats. It can host such varied events as concerts, ice shows, rodeos, nearly two million spectators from throughout Northern California visited Sleep Train Arena last year. The configuration for ice shows and ice hockey actually runs perpendicular to the court with the normal sideline seating being retractable to allow for an international standard ice rink. The original namesake sponsor of the arena was ARCO, on March 19,2007, the Maloof brothers announced a multi-year agreement extending the naming rights of ARCO Arena. ARCOs sponsorship agreement ran out in February 2011, the arena was renamed Power Balance Pavilion on March 1,2011 for its new sponsor, Power Balance, a manufacturer of sports wristbands. On October 15,2012, the arena assumed its current name when The Sleep Train purchased the naming rights, the arenas center-hung scoreboard was designed as a joint venture between Panasonic and White Way Sign. Sleep Train Arena is still in use, though the Kings, there are no immediate plans on what to do with the arena or land surrounding it after the new arena opens. Sleep Train Arena has hosted several high school basketball championship games Sleep Train Arena hosts many graduation celebrations for local high schools. This was also the home for the WNBAs Sacramento Monarchs until they folded in 2009, Sleep Train Arena has hosted several WWE events including the 1993 Royal Rumble, Judgment Day 2001, and The Bash in 2009. Other notable events include the five-day 1995 Billy Graham Greater Sacramento Crusade, the arena has also hosted NCAA Mens Basketball Tournaments multiple times and was the host site for the 2007 NCAA Volleyball Championships. It has also hosted a PBR Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event every year since 2005, Sleep Train Arena has played host to four Ultimate Fighting Championship events, UFC65, UFC73, UFC on Fox, Johnson vs. Benavidez 2 and UFC177. The arena hosted World Extreme Cagefightings first ever event, WEC48. It also hosted the WECs two biggest events ever, WEC34, Faber vs. Pulver 1, and WEC41, Brown vs. Faber 2, with an average of 1,300,500 viewers on Versus each. It also hosted WEC The last Kings home game at Sleep Train Arena was on April 9,2016, the last points scored in the arena were two free throws by the Kings Rudy Gay with one second left to clinch the game for the Kings
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San Diego
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San Diego is a major city in California, United States. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico. With an estimated population of 1,394,928 as of July 1,2015, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a country after Detroit–Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego has been called the birthplace of California, historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, the Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly independent Mexico, in 1850, California became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War and the admission of California to the union. The city is the seat of San Diego County and is the center of the region as well as the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. San Diegos main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, international trade, the presence of the University of California, San Diego, with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology. The original inhabitants of the region are now known as the San Dieguito, the area of San Diego has been inhabited by the Kumeyaay people. The first European to visit the region was Portuguese-born explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailing under the flag of Castile, sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and named the site San Miguel. In November 1602, Sebastián Vizcaíno was sent to map the California coast, in May 1769, Gaspar de Portolà established the Fort Presidio of San Diego on a hill near the San Diego River. It was the first settlement by Europeans in what is now the state of California, in July of the same year, Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Franciscan friars under Junípero Serra. By 1797, the mission boasted the largest native population in Alta California, with over 1,400 neophytes living in, Mission San Diego was the southern anchor in California of the historic mission trail El Camino Real. Both the Presidio and the Mission are National Historic Landmarks, in 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain, and San Diego became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California. In 1822, Mexico began attempting to extend its authority over the territory of Alta California. The fort on Presidio Hill was gradually abandoned, while the town of San Diego grew up on the land below Presidio Hill. The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, the 432 residents of the town petitioned the governor to form a pueblo, and Juan María Osuna was elected the first alcalde, defeating Pío Pico in the vote
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Viejas Arena
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Viejas Arena at Aztec Bowl, located on the San Diego State University campus in San Diego, California, is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs mens basketball and womens basketball teams. Viejas Arena opened its doors to the campus and community in July 1997 and seats 12,414 for basketball, the facility also hosts SDSUs commencement ceremonies. Previously, the Aztecs played at Peterson Gymnasium also on the SDSU campus, however, the mens basketball team played most of their home games at the San Diego Sports Arena prior to Viejas Arenas construction. Viejas Arena was built on the site of the old Aztec Bowl football stadium on the SDSU campus, the arena was renamed to Viejas Arena under a 10-year naming rights agreement announced March 17,2009. The naming rights agreement with the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians went into effect July 1, on October 29,2015, the basketball court was named Steve Fisher Court after mens basketball head coach Steve Fisher. Viejas Arena hosted the mens NCAA basketball tournament first and second rounds in 2001,2006 and 2014, in the 2006 tourney, the first-round games were delayed and the building evacuated due to a bomb-sniffing dog picking up scents of a potentially dangerous substance. These fears were unfounded, however, and play went on as scheduled, because of its status as SDSUs home court, the Aztecs were not allowed to open the tournament at home. Viejas Arena has also hosted WCW Bash at the Beach in 1998, in 2007, the arena was the home of the San Diego Shockwave indoor football team for one season. The arena is used as an alternative to the much larger Valley View Casino Center across town. The arena was also the host of filming Megadeths live DVD Blood in the Water, lady Gaga performed at Viejas Arena on her artRAVE, The ARTPOP Ball Tour, on June 2,2014. Actress and singer Ariana Grande performed at the arena on her Honeymoon Tour in 2015, the Who performed at Viejas Arena as part of their The Who Hits 50. The arena hosted TNA Wrestlings Bound For Glory 2013 pay-per-view event on October 20,2013, San Diego State Aztecs Aztec Bowl Viejas Casino Viejas Arena - official page Page on goaztecs. cstv. com
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Tulsa /ˈtʌlsə/ is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. As of July 2015, the population was 403,505 and it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 981,005 residents in the MSA and 1,151,172 in the CSA. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, with urban development extending into Osage, Rogers, Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname Oil Capital of the World, once heavily dependent on the oil industry, Tulsa experienced economic downturn. Subsequent diversification efforts created a base in the energy, finance, aviation, telecommunications. The Tulsa Port of Catoosa, at the head of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, is the most inland port in the U. S. with access to international waterways. Two institutions of education within the city have sports teams at the NCAA Division I level, Oral Roberts University. It is situated on the Arkansas River at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in northeast Oklahoma, the city has been called one of Americas most livable large cities by Partners for Livable Communities, Forbes, and Relocate America. FDi Magazine in 2009 ranked the city no.8 in the U. S. for cities of the future, in 2012, Tulsa was ranked among the top 50 best cities in the United States by BusinessWeek. People from Tulsa are called Tulsans, the area where Tulsa now exists was considered Indian Territory when it was first formally settled by the Lochapoka and Creek tribes in 1836. They established a settlement under the Creek Council Oak Tree at the present day intersection of Cheyenne Avenue. This area and this tree reminded Chief Tukabahchi and his group of trail of tear survivors of the bend in the river and their previous Creek Council Oak Tree back in the Talisi. They named their new settlement Tallasi, meaning old town in the Creek language, the area around Tulsa was also settled by members of the other so-called Five Civilized Tribes who had relocated to Oklahoma from the Southern United States. Most of modern Tulsa is located in the Creek Nation, with parts located in the Cherokee Nation, although Oklahoma was not yet a state during the Civil War, the Tulsa area did see its share of fighting. The Battle of Chusto-Talasah took place on the side of Tulsa. After the War, the tribes signed Reconstruction treaties with the government that in some cases required substantial land concessions. On January 18,1898, Tulsa was officially incorporated and elected its first mayor, Tulsa was a small town near the banks of the Arkansas River in 1901 when its first oil well, named Sue Bland No. Much of the oil was discovered on land whose mineral rights were owned by members of the Osage Nation under a system of headrights
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BOK Center
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The BOK Center, or Bank of Oklahoma Center, is a 19, 199-seat multi-purpose arena and a primary indoor sports and event venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Ground was broken on August 31,2005 and a ceremony involving Tulsa musicians Garth Brooks. The arenas schedule of concerts and other events began on August 31 with a community choir hosted by Sam Harris, designed by César Pelli, the architect of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the BOK Center is the flagship project of Tulsa Countys Vision 2025 long-range development initiative. Local firm, Matrix Architects Engineers Planners, Inc, is the architect, the arena is managed and operated by SMG and named for the Bank of Oklahoma, which purchased naming rights for $11 million. The facility will also host NBA preseason games and college basketball matchups on a regular basis, Tulsa city officials asked César Pelli to create an arena that would be an architectural icon. To achieve this, Pelli employed cultural and architectural themes of the city, including Native American, art deco and he made heavy use of swirling circular elements in the exterior and interior designs of the building. A 103-foot, 600-foot long iconic glass facade featuring 1,600 350-pound panels wrap around the building in an escalating motion leaning at a five-degree angle,33,000 stainless steel panels produced and installed by Zahner continue the upward spiraling path around the circumference of the structure. The interior follows the motion, with staircases that wrap around a portion of the building from the main lobby. In total, the design required 350,000 square feet of exterior stainless steel panels,75,000 square feet of glass,30,000 cubic yards of concrete. The arena encompasses 565,000 square feet and reaches a height of 134 feet. Inside, the bowl areas ceiling rests 120 feet over the base floor, There are 17,343 fixed seats, each ranging from 20 inches to 22 inches wide—an average width greater than the industry standard, including that of Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. The bowl areas second floor, an exclusive carpeted level with a bar, houses press areas and 37 luxury suites, each with 15 22-inch seats and furnished gathering. In the main concourse, more than 130,000 square feet of terrazzo flooring has aggregate that contains 70% mother of pearl, the BOK Center holds 37 public restrooms—12 men’s restrooms,16 women’s restrooms, and 9 family restrooms—with 300 toilets and urinals. Designed by Forty Forty Agency and manufactured by Daktronics, the project received $3.6 million in private donations, There are 14 concession outlets, seven of which belong to Tulsa-area restaurants that supplement typical arena food. Restaurant branches within the building are Billys On the Square, Mazzios, Papa Johns, Doc Popcorn, and The Dog House. Nearly $1.5 million was allocated to artwork within the building in light of a city ordinance mandating that at least 1% of construction costs for any municipal project be used for public art. Tulsas Arts Commission selected five artists out of nearly 300 applicants to decorate the interior of the building with the intention of capturing the spirit of the city and state. Of their pieces, the largest is a cloud-like cloth sculpture designed by Kendell Buster that weighs 5,000 pounds, the city of Tulsa owns the arena but has a five-year management contract worth $950,000 with SMG property management, the largest arena manager in the world
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Dallas
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Dallas is a major city in the U. S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the citys population ranks ninth in the U. S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The citys prominence arose from its importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat, however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816, the United States Census Bureaus estimate for the citys population increased to 1,300,092 as of July 1,2015. In 2016 DFW ascended to the one spot in the nation in year-over-year population growth. In 2014, the metropolitan economy surpassed Washington, D. C. to become the fifth largest in the U. S. with a 2014 real GDP over $504 billion, as such, the metropolitan areas economy is the 10th largest in the world. As of January 2017, the job count has increased to 3,558,200 jobs. The citys economy is based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research. The city is home to the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas, Dallas is the core of the largest metropolitan area in the South. Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were developed due to the construction of railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle. Later, France also claimed the area but never established much settlement, the area remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when Mexico declared independence from Spain, and the area was considered part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1836, the Republic of Texas, with majority Anglo-American settlers, in 1839, Warren Angus Ferris surveyed the area around present-day Dallas. John Neely Bryan established a permanent settlement near the Trinity River named Dallas in 1841, the origin of the name is uncertain. The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Dallas was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1856. With construction of railroads, Dallas became a business and trading center and it became an industrial city, attracting workers from Texas, the South and the Midwest. The Praetorian Building of 15 stories, built in 1909, was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi and it marked the prominence of Dallas as a city
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Starplex Pavilion
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Starplex Pavilion is an outdoor amphitheatre located in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas. The venue opened in 1988 as the Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre, with 7,500 seats, after Coca-Colas naming rights expired in 1998, the venue was known simply as Starplex Amphitheatre. In 2000, naming rights were sold to the Smirnoff vodka company, the center was then called Smirnoff Music Centre. The name changed again in January 2008 when naming rights were awarded to Superpages. com Center and it was renamed in 2011 to Gexa Energy Pavilion. In January 2017, the name changed again to Starplex Pavilion, the venue is operated by Live Nation Concerts, an entity of Live Nation Entertainment. List of contemporary amphitheatres List of concert halls Gexa Energy Pavilion informational site Gexa Energy Pavilion - Tickets and Listings LiveNation informational and ticketing site
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The Woodlands, Texas
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The Woodlands is a master-planned community and census-designated place in the U. S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. According to The Woodlands Development Company, the population was 107,769 as of a January 2014 estimate and it is 28 miles north of Houston along Interstate 45. It won a Special Award for Excellence in 1994 from the Urban Land Institute and it was dedicated by George P. Mitchell in 1974 and managed by The Woodlands Corporation as an extension of Mitchell Energy & Development. Mitchell, an oil businessman, planned to establish a center, hotels, office parks, retail malls, schools, large distribution centers. Houses would range from affordable to expensive and large, Bill Schadewald of the Houston Business Journal said that Mitchell wanted the development to entice city slickers looking for far-flung suburban quality of life. Schadewald said that sources stated that the HUD New Town program. The Woodlands Corporation was acquired on July 31,1997, by a partnership between Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Equities, in December 2003, The Rouse Company acquired Crescents interest, and Rouse was bought by General Growth Properties on November 12,2004. In 2011 The Woodlands was sold to the Howard Hughes Development Corporation, the land was previously occupied by the Grogan-Cochran Lumber Mill, hence Grogans Mill and Cochrans Crossing neighborhoods, called villages. The original development plan included environmental design principles espoused by Ian McHarg and it continues to grow residentially and commercially as many companies are moving there. The Town Center includes shopping and eating facilities, a waterway resembling the San Antonio River Walk, on September 13,2008, it sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Ike. Sustained winds of 85 mph brought down thousands of trees, powerlines, Ike was the first hurricane to directly affect the area since Hurricane Alicia in 1983. The summer of 2011 brought an unprecedented drought throughout Texas, which caused thousands of trees to die and requiring they be taken down, in 2011, Schadewald said Now, Obviously, The Woodlands had quite a future. Somewhere between First Colony and The Woodlands, I realized why visionary real estate developers strike it rich more often than real estate reporters. In 2012, the U. S. Mitchells original plan was for The Woodlands to be annexed by the city of Houston, in the middle part of the 2000s, some residents feared such an annexation, as had happened to the Kingwood development almost a decade before. To counteract any possible move by the city, a movement began to create an independent city government, however, the formation of an independent government would require authorization by the State of Texas and the City of Houston, as Houston held extraterritorial jurisdiction over the area. In 2007, two state legislators representing Woodlands, Sen. Tommy Williams and Rep. Robert Eissler, created and passed two bills in the 2007 Legislature – House Bill 4109 and Senate Bill 1012, the passage of these bills allowed an opportunity for The Woodlands to incorporate itself. The Woodlands is primarily in Montgomery County, Texas, with a portion of the CDP in Harris County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 43.9 square miles, of which 43.3 square miles is land and 0.58 square miles, or 1. 32%, is water
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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
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The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, sometimes called The Woodlands Pavilion or simply The Pavilion, is a concert amphitheatre located in The Woodlands, Texas, an outer suburb of Houston, Texas. It caters to both the arts and contemporary artists and is also available for rental. It is owned and operated by The Center for the Performing Arts at The Woodlands and is a non-profit organization, the amphitheatre seats 16,500 people and has been the second-most heavily used amphitheater in the world. The facility was envisioned as a place where both performing arts groups and contemporary entertainers could perform, after an initial delay due to the regions economic situation, construction began in June 1989. The Pavilions opening weekend in late April 1990 featured successive concerts by the Houston Symphony, Frank Sinatra, Alabama, the original facility provided 3,000 reserved seats and room for 7,000 guests on a sloped grass lawn. Each plaza had one stand and restroom. The main entrance was located in the South Plaza, along with a ticket office. In 1994, The Pavilions Board of Directors decided to expand the capacity, an expansion plan was implemented to provide 1,900 new, uncovered reserved seats, to increase capacity by 1,100 on the lawn, and to build concession stands on the lawn. Each plaza was enhanced with new restrooms and concession stands, a ten-window ticket office and additional lanes for buses, limousines and vehicle drop-off area were added to the North Plaza as well. In 1998, The Pavilion added new administrative offices for the staff necessary to run a first-class performing arts center. Adjacent to the North Plaza and the Gold Parking Lot, the offices comprise approximately 6,000 square feet of space for the administrative staff, in conjunction with the office addition, The Pavilion also added a new amenity to the overall facility, The Woodforest Bank Club. The VIP suite and patio are located adjacent to the North Plaza, the Club is open all year to host events for up to 150 guests for meetings, parties, mall concerts and receptions. On event nights, members of The Club can enjoy an air-conditioned room with full bar, along with the sights. At the conclusion of The Pavilions 2000 season, another expansion and renovation took place. The expansion increased the capacity of the lawn by an additional 3,550 guests, a 10, 000-square-foot dressing room facility with kitchen was also added. In 2002, a parking garage was erected to ease the parking problem which plagued concert-goers since the opening of the facility. The garage is attached via a walkway to the Marriott across Six Pines drive, on September 13,2008, The Pavilion was severely damaged by Hurricane Ike, which moved over the area in the early morning hours. All concerts for the remainder of the 2008 season were canceled due to damage to the facility
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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UIC Pavilion
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UIC Pavilion is a 9, 500-seat multi-purpose arena located at 525 S. Racine Avenue on the West Side in Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1982. The UIC Pavilion is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the UIC Pavilion was renovated in 2001, and is rented for many functions and concerts. It is accessible from the CTA Blue Line Racine stop, located one block north of the Pavilion and it is also accessible from the #7 Harrison Bus and the #60 Blue Island/26th Bus. It also hosted UICs ice hockey team when they competed in the CCHA as well as the 1984,1999, the UIC Pavilion is home to the University of Illinois at Chicago Flames basketball team and the former home of the Chicago Sky WNBA team. It is the home of the Windy City Rollers of the Womens Flat Track Derby Association, from 2004 to 2006 it also housed the Chicago Storm Major Indoor Soccer League team before they moved into the newly constructed Sears Centre. The UIC Pavilion was the arena for Jim Crockett Promotions and WCW Wrestling in the late 1980s. It was the site of three PPV events, Starrcade 87, Chi-Town Rumble and Halloween Havoc 90, when used as a concert venue the arena seats up to 10,075 for end-stage shows,7,924 for ¾-house shows, and 5,878 for ½-house shows. The venue continues to be a regular host for major rock concerts, in 2016, it was the home the Chicago Eagles of Champions Indoor Football. However, the team went on hiatus for the 2017 season, black Sabbath performed here on November 18,1983 on their completely sold-out Born Again Tour featuring Deep Purples Ian Gillan on vocals. Bon Jovi performed here on March 4,1987, parts of the footage were used in the Wanted Dead or Alive video clip. Madonna performed there as part of her first tour ever, Virgin Tour, members of the US National mens and womens gymnastics shows participated at an event at the UIC Pavilion in early October 2003. The UIC Pavilion hosted the AIBA2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and it took place October 23- November 3,2007. WEC40 took place at the Pavilion on April 25,2009, November 5-7,2010 the UIC Pavilion hosted the 2010 WFTDA championships series, which was dubbed the Uproar on the Lakeshore. S. May 23 and 24,2012 the UIC Pavilion hosted the first two days of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, the third day was held at Symphony Center. The event was held in Chicago simultaneous to the 2012 Chicago Summit, sept 17,2015 the WNBA Chicago Sky defeated the Indiana Fever 77-72 at the UIC Pavilion before a crowd of 4,098 in game 1 of an Eastern Conference Semifinal series of the 2015 WNBA Playoffs. March 11,2016, Donald Trump canceled his scheduled political rally at the UIC Pavilion, unrest between Trump supporters and protesters followed. In April 2018, the UIC Pavilion will host the NCAA Mens Gymnastics Championships
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Mahnomen, Minnesota
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Mahnomen is a city in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States, along the Wild Rice River. The population was 1,214 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Mahnomen County. U. S. Highway 59 and Minnesota State Highway 200 are two of the routes in Mahnomen. Mahnomen comes from the Ojibwe name for wild rice, a post office called Mahnomen has been in operation since 1904. Mahnomen City Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.06 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,214 people,529 households, the population density was 1,145.3 inhabitants per square mile. There were 582 housing units at a density of 549.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 59. 3% White,0. 2% African American,31. 2% Native American,0. 1% Asian, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 8% of the population. 36. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.81. The median age in the city was 44.8 years. 22. 4% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24,21. 1% were from 25 to 44, 28% were from 45 to 64, and 21. 7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49. 3% male and 50. 7% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 1,202 people,532 households, and 311 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,252.9 people per square mile, there were 576 housing units at an average density of 600.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 74. 29% White,0. 08% African American,16. 06% Native American, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 08% of the population. 37. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 25. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.85. In the city, the population was out with 23. 3% under the age of 18,5. 0% from 18 to 24,21. 9% from 25 to 44,22. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 45 years, for every 100 females there were 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.0 males, the median income for a household in the city was $26,000, and the median income for a family was $37,500
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Bristol
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Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 449,300 in 2016. The district has the 10th largest population in England, while the Bristol metropolitan area is the 12th largest in the United Kingdom, the city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts, Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham in the Industrial Revolution. Bristol was a place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, in 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, the Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock. Bristols modern economy is built on the media, electronics and aerospace industries. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U. K. - the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road, rail, sea and air by the M5 and M4, Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations, and Bristol Airport. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, the most ancient recorded name for Bristol is the archaic Welsh Caer Odor, which is consistent with modern understanding that early Bristol developed between the River Frome and Avon Gorge. It is most commonly stated that the Saxon name Bricstow was a calque of the existing Celtic name, with Bric a literal translation of Odor. Alternative etymologies are supported with the numerous variations in Medieval documents with Samuel Seyer enumerating 47 alternative forms. The Old English form Brycgstow is commonly used to derive the meaning place at the bridge, utilizing another form, Brastuile, Rev. Dr. Shaw derived the name from the Celtic words bras, or braos and tuile. The poet Thomas Chatterton popularised a derivation from Brictricstow linking the town to Brictric and it appears that the form Bricstow prevailed until 1204, and the Bristolian L is what eventually changed the name to Bristol. Iron Age hill forts near the city are at Leigh Woods and Clifton Down, on the side of the Avon Gorge, a Roman settlement, Abona, existed at what is now Sea Mills, another was at the present-day Inns Court. Isolated Roman villas and small forts and settlements were scattered throughout the area. Bristol was founded by 1000, by about 1020, it was a centre with a mint producing silver pennies bearing its name
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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Colston Hall
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Colston Hall is a concert hall and grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council and named after the trader and merchant Edward Colston, since 2011, management of the hall is undertaken by Bristol Music Trust. The hall first opened as a venue in 1867, and became a popular place for classical music. In the mid-20th century, wrestling matches were in strong demand, the hall has been redeveloped several times, and was gutted by two fires in 1898 and 1945, though the original Bristol Byzantine foyer has survived. A major refurbishment, adding a wing, opened in 2009. The halls official capacity is 2,075, with an additional 350 in The Lantern, as well as the main entertainment areas, there are a number of licensed bars and a restaurant. There has been a building around the location of Colston Hall since the Middle Ages, during the 13th century, a Carmelite friary called Whitefriars stood on this site. In the Tudor period, it was replaced by a called the Great House. Queen Elizabeth I stayed here when visiting Bristol in 1574, in the 16th century, a sugar house was established here by the merchant venturer Edward Colston, that refined sugar that had been brought in from the Caribbean to Bristol Harbour. In 1708, Colston established the Colston Boys School in this building in order to educate the poor, Colston adhered to a strict moral and religious code which was enforced in the school. After his death in 1721, the school continued at the Great Hall until 1857, the site was acquired by the Colston Hall Company in 1861, who demolished the old school building in order to build a concert hall. The venue opened on 20 September 1867 and it was architectured by local firm Foster & Wood, working in the Bristol Byzantine style. The original hall included a coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling, and was modelled after St Georges Hall, on 1 September 1898, a fire broke out in the neighbouring Clarks clothing factory, which quickly spread to the hall. The auditorium suffered damage, with only the walls remaining. The foyer was the surviving part of the building. The hall was rebuilt and re-opened in 1901, the second hall was closed for remodelling in 1935, as it was difficult for all of the audience to see the orchestra performing. Though much of Bristol was bombed during the Battle of Britain, on 5 February 1945, a discarded cigarette started a large fire that burned down the hall for a second time. The organ was destroyed, and the auditorium was reduced to pieces of charred wood
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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O2 Brixton Academy
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The Brixton Academy, officially called O2 Academy, Brixton, is one of Londons leading music venues, nightclubs and theatres. Situated in Brixton, south London, England, the building has hosted a range of leading rock acts since becoming a venue in 1983. The maximum capacity is 4,921, alternatively the all-seated capacity is 2,391, the venue started life as a cinema and theatre in 1929 on the site of a private garden in Stockwell Road. Designed by the architects Thomas Somerford and E A Stone, it was built at a cost of £250,000 as an Astoria theatre. The opening show was the Al Jolson film The Singing Fool, followed by a variety act, including Heddle Nash, the building still retains many of its original features, including the proscenium arch and Art Deco interior. The Astoria eventually closed its doors as a cinema on 29 July 1972 and it was then converted into the Sundown Centre rock venue in September 1972, but was not a success and the Sundown closed down some four months later. In May 1974 planning permission was sought to demolish the Grade II listed building and replace it with a motor showroom, however the redevelopment scheme was scrapped. The building was kept heated after it closed, and was used as an equipment store by the Rank Organisation. In 1981, The Astoria, remodelled by Sean Treacy, who ran the entire site services, was re-opened as a rock venue called The Fair Deal with a concert by UB40. The Clash played the venue in 1982 on their Casbah Club tour, in 1983, Simon Parkes bought the venue for £1, and re-opened it as the Brixton Academy. The Academys success steadily grew throughout the 1980s with numerous productions and it was hired out to major rock and pop acts such as Eric Clapton. The venue was used for video shoots for Wham and Culture Club. In 1995 Parkes sold the Brixton Academy to Break For The Border, the venue is currently run by the Academy Music Group after a re-branding in August 2004, and hosts a range of live acts and club nights. Being one of the biggest non-arena venues in London, the Brixton Academy has been used by many successful acts. The venue has also been voted venue of the twelve times since 1994 in the annual NME Awards. In addition the venue has won the Music Week Award for Venue of the Year several times including 2009, madonna played a special performance at the venue in 2000, to promote the release of her album, Music. The concert was broadcast live online and was watched by an audience of 9 million. Rammstein, Iron Maiden, The Clash, Deborah Harry, The Prodigy, Arcade Fire, Nine Inch Nails, Bob Dylan, HARD-Fi, the Mighty Boosh broke this record in 2008, with their second live show Boosh Live, playing seven consecutive nights
