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University of Scranton
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The University of Scranton is a private, non-profit, co-educational Catholic and Jesuit research university, located in the historic Hill Section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William OHara, in 1938, the College was elevated to university status and took the name The University of Scranton. The institution was operated by the Diocese of Scranton from its founding until 1897, while the Diocese of Scranton retained ownership of the University, it was administered by the Lasallian Christian Brothers from 1888 to 1942. In 1942, the Society of Jesus took ownership and control of the University, during the 1960s, the University became an independent institution under a lay Board of Trustees. The University of Scranton is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is served by the Scranton Jesuit Community. Previously, the University had a College of Graduate and Continuing Education, the University enrolls approximately 6,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Most of its students came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, currently, about 58% of its undergraduate students are women and 42% are men. In its graduate programs, about 62% are women students and 38% are men students, the University has about 300 full-time faculty members, approximately 200 of which are tenured. In 1888, the University of Scranton was founded as the College of St. Thomas of Aquin in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas by the first bishop of Scranton, shortly after, the College was renamed as St. Thomas College. After four years of fundraising, the construction of the College’s first building. In September 1892, the College admitted its first students,62 young men for a tuition cost of $40. For four years, the college was staffed by Scranton’s diocesan priests, from 1896 until 1897, the College was run by the three Xaverian Brothers, who left St. Thomas to work at a new Catholic school that had just opened in West Virginia. The Christian Brothers ran the College for forty-five years, until they transferred governorship of the College to the Society of Jesuits in 1942, once the Christian Brothers arrived, they reorganized St. Thomas College into three separate divisions. They created a college, a commercial department which offered two-year degree programs. In 1899, St. Thomas College held its first Commencement, in 1901, the first four graduates of St. Thomas College’s college department were awarded Bachelor of Science degrees at the commencement ceremony. Because the College had not received a charter, it could not grant official degrees under its own name. Instead, the Christian Brothers began an affiliation with Rock Hill College in Maryland. Until 1925, when the College was given a charter, all St. Thomas College degrees were awarded either by Rock Hill, LaSalle College in Philadelphia, or St. John’s College in Washington
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Dayton, Ohio
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Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Montgomery County. A small portion of the city extends into Greene County, the Dayton-Springfield-Greenville Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,080,044 in 2010, making it the 43rd-largest in the United States. Dayton is within Ohios Miami Valley region, just north of the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area, Dayton also hosts significant research and development in fields like industrial, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering that have led to many technological innovations. Much of this innovation is due in part to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with the decline of heavy manufacturing, Daytons businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors. Other than defense and aerospace, healthcare accounts for much of the Dayton areas economy, hospitals in the Greater Dayton area have an estimated combined employment of nearly 32,000 and a yearly economic impact of $6.8 billion. It is estimated that Premier Health Partners, a network, contributes more than $2 billion a year to the region through operating, employment. In 2011, Dayton was rated the No.3 city in the out of the top 50 cities in the United States by HealthGrades for excellence in health care. Many hospitals in the Dayton area are consistently ranked by Forbes, U. S. News & World Report, and HealthGrades for clinical excellence. Dayton is also noted for its association with aviation, the city is home to the National Museum of the United States Air Force and is the birthplace of Orville Wright, other well-known individuals born in the city include poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and entrepreneur John H. Patterson. Dayton is also known for its patents, inventions, and inventors that have come from the area. In 2008,2009, and 2010, Site Selection magazine ranked Dayton the No.1 mid-sized metropolitan area in the nation for economic development, also in 2010, Dayton was named one of the best places in the United States for college graduates to find a job. Dayton was founded on April 1,1796, by 12 settlers known as The Thompson Party and they traveled in March from Cincinnati up the Great Miami River by pirogue and landed at what is now St. Clair Street, where they found two small camps of Native Americans. Among them was Benjamin Van Cleve, whose memoirs provide insights into the Ohio Valleys history, two other groups traveling overland arrived several days later. In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper laid out Mad River Road, Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1803, and the city of Dayton was incorporated in 1805. The city was named after Jonathan Dayton, a captain in the American Revolutionary War who signed the U. S, constitution and owned a significant amount of land in the area. Historically, Dayton has been the home for many patents and inventions since the 1870s, according to the National Park Service, citing information from the U. S. Patent Office, Dayton had granted more patents per capita than any other U. S. city in 1890, the Wright brothers, inventors of the airplane, and Charles F. Kettering, world-renowned for his numerous inventions, hailed from Dayton. Paul Laurence Dunbar – a famous African-American poet and novelist – penned his most famous works in the late 19th century, innovation led to business growth in the region
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Emo
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Emo /ˈiːmoʊ/ is a loosely categorized music genre characterized by expressive, often confessional, lyrics. By the mid-1990s, numerous emo acts formed in the Midwestern and Central United States, meanwhile, a more aggressive style of emo, screamo, had also emerged. Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the success of Jimmy Eat World. In the wake of success, many emo bands were signed to major record labels. By the early 2010s, the popularity of emo began to decrease, some bands moved away from their emo roots and some bands disbanded. An underground emo revival emerged in the 2010s, with drawing on the sounds and aesthetics of emo of the 1990s. The term emo has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including acts and groups with disparate styles. In addition to music, emo is often used more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of fashion, culture, and behavior. Emo has been associated with a stereotype that includes being particularly emotional, sensitive, misanthropic, shy, introverted and it has also been associated with stereotypes like depression, self-harm, and suicide. While emo originated in hardcore punk and has considered a subgenre of post-hardcore, it has also been associated with indie rock. The fusion of emo with pop punk is known as emo pop. The New York Times described as emo as emotional punk or post-hardcore or pop-punk and that is, punk that wears its heart on its sleeve and tries a little tenderness to leaven its sonic attack. If it helps, imagine Ricky Nelson singing in the Sex Pistols, author Matt Diehl described emo as a more sensitive interpolation of punks mission. The 1966 album Pet Sounds by the American rock band the Beach Boys has been characterized as the first emo album by Treblezines Ernest Simpson, in some ways, one could find trace elements of in early emo albums of the 2000s. In the 1980s, the Washington, D. C. hardcore scene swelled in size with the formation of many hardcore punk, post-hardcore itself is a more melodic and experimental offshoot of hardcore inspired by post-punk. Hardcore bands that were influential on many early emo bands include Minor Threat, The Faith, Black Flag, Emo originated as an outgrowth of the hardcore punk scene of early 1980s Washington, D. C. Minor Threat fan Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcores self-imposed boundaries in favor of guitars, varied rhythms. Many of the themes would become familiar tropes in later generations of emo music, including nostalgia, romantic bitterness
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Post-hardcore
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Like post-punk, the term has been applied to a broad constellation of groups. Hardcore punk typically features very fast tempos, loud volume, and heavy bass levels, additionally, many of these bands vocalists were just as likely to deliver their lyrics with a whispered croon as they were a maniacal yelp. Allmusic also claims that post-hardcore bands find creative ways to build and release tension rather than airing their dirty laundry in short, sharp, british post-punk of the late 1970s and early 1980s has been seen as influential on the musical development of post-hardcore bands. As the genre progressed some of these groups also experimented with an array of influences, including soul, dub, funk, jazz. Groups such as Saccharine Trust, Naked Raygun, and The Effigies, during the early to mid-1980s, the desire to experiment with hardcores basic template expanded to many musicians that had been associated with the genre or had strong roots in it. Many of these also took inspiration from the 1980s noise rock scene pioneered by Sonic Youth. Some bands signed to the independent label Homestead Records, including Squirrel Bait, a reviewer noted that the groups 1989s release Wrong was one of the most aggressive and powerful opuses in post-hardcore ever made. During the years 1984 and 1985 in the scene, a new movement had swept over. When The Faith put out the EP Subject to Change in 1983 it marked an evolution in the sound of D. C. hardcore. This movement has been widely known as the Revolution Summer. Other bands have been perceived as taking inspiration from such as funk. According to Eric Grubbs, a nickname was developed for the new sound, with some considering it post-harDCore, the latter, mentioned in skateboarding magazine Thrasher, would come up in discussions around the D. C. area. In the nearby state of Maryland, similar bands that are categorized now as post-hardcore would also emerge and this group has also been considered as one of the earliest emo acts. The second half of the 1980s saw the formation of bands in D. C. which included Shudder to Think, Jawbox, The Nation of Ulysses. MacKaye described this period as the busiest that the Dischord Records label had ever seen. Most of these acts, along with ones, would contribute to the 1989 compilation State of the Union. It has also noted that the groups ever-evolving sound would signal a more experimental turn in hardcore that paved the way for later Dischord releases. Similarly, the debut studio album, 1990s Repeater, has also been generally regarded as a classic
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Screamo
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Screamo is an aggressive style of emo that emerged in the early 1990s, using short songs that combined musical intensity with willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics. It was pioneered by San Diego bands Heroin and Antioch Arrow and developed in the late 1990s mainly by bands from the East Coast of the United States such as Orchid, Saetia, screamo is characterised by a strong influence from hardcore punk and the use of screamed vocals. Lyrical themes usually include emotional pain, romantic interest, politics, some screamo bands border on powerviolence and grindcore. The term is complicated in usage and many object to the label. The vocal style it describes is not clearly defined and even some bands using growled vocals have been called screamo and it has been applied to various genres unrelated to the original screamo scene, such as modern post-hardcore and metalcore. Screamo essentially is a style of hardcore punk-influenced emo with screaming, the term screamo is a portmanteau of the words scream and emo. Screamo uses typical rock instrumentation, but is notable for its brief compositions, chaotic sounds, harmonized guitars, some screamo music features chaotic noise and quiet, melodic guitar lines put into a song. According to AllMusic, screamo is generally based in the side of the overarching punk-revival scene. Screamo often features dynamic shifts that go from soft and quiet to loud and aggressive or loud and aggressive to soft, emotional singing and harsh screaming are common vocals in screamo. A lot of screamo bands sometimes play ballads, in addition to melodic transitions from heavy to soft styles, screamo also is characterized by frequent shifts in tempo and dynamics and by tension-and-release catharses. Screamed vocals are used not consistently, but as a kind of crescendo element, alex Henderson of AllMusic considers screamo a bridge between hardcore punk and emo. Screamo lyrics often feature topics such as pain, breakups, romantic interest, politics. Screamo lyrics are introspective, similar to that of softer emo bands. The New York Times noted that part of the appeal is its un-self-conscious acceptance of differences. Many screamo bands in the 1990s saw themselves as implicitly political, screamo arose as a distinct music genre in 1991, in San Diego, at the Ché Café, including bands such as Heroin and Antioch Arrow. Gravity Records and Ebullition Records released this more chaotic and expressive descendant of emo, the scene is noted for its distinctive fashion sense, inspired by mod culture. As with emo, the term carries some controversy among participants. The innovations of the San Diego scene eventually spread elsewhere, such as to the Seattle group The Blood Brothers, many groups from the East Coast were influential in the continual development and reinvention of the style, including Orchid, Pg
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Victory Records
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Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It is a privately held corporation and it also operates a music publishing company called Another Victory, Inc. and is the distributor of several smaller independent record labels. Originally focusing on punk and post-hardcore bands, Victory later expanded its roster to include emo. In early 2002, twenty-five percent of the label was announced to have sold to Universal Music Group. However, later that year the deal was terminated by Victory, Victory is currently partnered with and distributed by Sonys RED Distribution. They would continue to sponsor the stage through the annual festival with five of their artists to be announced. Another Victory is the publishing company to Victory Records, founded in 1997. Gulliver Music Publishing, Basement Brazil, and Musou LTD, over the years Victory Records has held distribution deals with several other labels including Sumerian Records, Rise Records, and Red Cord Records. In July 2012, it was announced that Victory would become the home for Boston, MA based record label. On May 10,2013 Victory announced they will be distributing I Scream Records, on September 9,2014 Famined Records signed a distribution deal with Victory. On February 9,2017 it was announced that Wilhelm Records will exclusively distribute through Victory Records, hand of Hope Records Lifeforce Records Rise Records Sumerian Records Victory Records has had some negative relations with artists signed to the label. Former Victory band Thursday has had a conflict with the label, the band also cited an incident involving the Victory Records marketing staff producing whoopie cushions for the promotion of their 2001 album Full Collapse, against their wishes. On July 12,2015, Wil Francis of Horror Punk band Aiden posted on their official Facebook that they sold 500,000 albums total through Victory Records and were not paid, despite the controversy, relations between Victory Records and its bands have not been all negative. Close Your Eyes and Ill Niño have mentioned positive relations multiple times in interview, emmure and Endwell stated that Victory Records has always helped them. Emmure has said specifically Victory does good business, and if you’re a band that is expecting more than what you get, then you’re going to feel cheated and robbed. Brummel allegedly issued public statements in the bands name criticizing hip-hop and singer Ne-Yo, on September 13,2006, Victory records countersued Hawthorne Heights, accusing the band of breach of contract and libel. In October 2006, a Chicago judge dismissed two of the three claims in the bands suit, ruling that the trademark and copyright violation allegations were unfounded. On March 5,2007 a federal judge in Chicago ruled that Victory Records does not hold rights for the bands recording services
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Wind-up Records
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Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is an American record label founded by Alan and Diana Meltzer in 1997. It is based in New York City and is distributed by Universal Music Group, Wind-ups best-selling artists worldwide were Creed and Evanescence. Wind-up Records was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, Wind-up at one point was the largest independently owned record label in the world. The parent company Wind-up Entertainment also runs numerous publishing companies as well as a retail, online. The companys slogan is Developing Career Artists, some of the successful acts on the label included Creed, Evanescence, Seether and Finger Eleven. The label has also re-released albums from bands previously associated with Grass Records, such as Toadies, The Wrens, in September 2009, the label reached an agreement with EMI Music Germany and in February 2011 with EMI Music Canada. The partnership has seen EMI Music take over the marketing and distribution of such as Creed, Evanescence. In Canada, distribution was initially with Sony Music Canada as was the distribution in the United States, however, in October 2004, distribution in Canada switched over to Warner Music Canada with the creation of Wind-up Entertainment Canada. Distribution in Canada moved again, for a time in February 2011. On October 31,2011, the founder, Alan Meltzer. In 2012, Universal Music Group acquired the EMI music operations, in October 2013, the Bicycle Music Company bought the rights to much of Wind-Ups back catalogue, including the contracts to acts such as Seether. These artists will be distributed by the Concord Music Group, in May 2015, Concord Bicycle Music bought the rest of the Wind-Up label. Accurate according to Wind-ups website as of November 25,2013. A. R
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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The Silence in Black and White
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The Silence in Black and White is the first studio album by the American rock band Hawthorne Heights after changing their name from A Day in the Life. Writing for the album commenced shortly after the changed their name from A Day In the Life to Hawthorne Heights. The Transition is believed to be the first song written for the album, the album was recorded over a four-week period at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin and at Big Gold Studios in Chicago. Drummer Eron Bucciarelli commented on the process of the album. We got to take our time and experiment a lot more than we’ve been used to in the past, sonically, this record is such a step up from anything else we’ve done. We are very proud of the finished product and it was released on June 8,2004 through Victory Records. The album was the labels highest selling debut at the time of its release, two music videos were produced, one for Ohio is For Lovers in 2004, and one for Niki FM in 2005. A 2-disc CD/DVD special edition was released on June 27,2005, containing demo and acoustic versions of the tracks, live performances, and a documentary with footage of the band. It also contained a song titled Apparently Hoverboards Dont Work on Water, Niki FM was released to radio on September 27,2005. The album has peaked at No.56 on the Billboard top 200 chart, No.1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart, the album has been certified gold status by the Recording Industry Association of America. Before the release of their second album If Only You Were Lonely in February 2006, The Silence in Black, by April, album sales stood at 822,000 copies. The band is releasing a special acoustic 10th Anniversary release of the album, with all tracks being redone acoustically
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If Only You Were Lonely
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If Only You Were Lonely is the second album by American rock band Hawthorne Heights. If Only You Were Lonely is an album following the long-distance relationship between a young couple who were unwillingly taken apart because of the boys family moving. Throughout the album, the couple keep their relationship going while talking on the phone and this is especially evident in Pens and Needles and Saying Sorry. In the albums track, Decembers, the boy remembers all the times he had with his girlfriend. The name for the track, Where Can I Stab Myself in the Ears. is derived from a post on a forum that was an announcement for Hawthorne Heights release on the music news website. Saying Sorry was made available for streaming solely on Christmas Day, a music video was released for the song via AOL Music on January 16. Saying Sorry was released to radio on January 31,2006, in February and March the group went on a tour of the U. S. alongside Emery, Anberlin, June and Bleed the Dream. The album was released on February 28,2006 through Victory Records, from March to May, the group toured with Fall Out Boy on their North American arena tour, titled the Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour. Pens and Needles was released to radio on June 13,2006, in July, the band went on a tour of Canada alongside Story of the Year and Anberlin. Throughout July and August, the band performed a number of intimate shows. Fans could gain entry by signing up with Rockcorps, on August 7, it was announced that the band had left Victory Records, citing a lack of royalty payment. From September to November, the band headlined the 2006 edition of the Nintendo Fusion Tour, I Am on Your Side impacted radio on October 10. In June and July 2007, the bands went on a U. S. tour with support from From First to Last, Secondhand Serenade, Brighten, following this, the group appeared on the 2007 edition of Warped Tour. Music videos were made for three tracks from the album, the video for This Is Who We Are was filmed at the Minneapolis stop of the Black Clouds Tour on April 14,2006. The band later filmed a video for Pens and Needles in Miami. The video was directed by Dale Rage Resteghini, yet another Music Video was filmed for Saying Sorry. If Only You Were Lonely debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top Independent Albums chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold 435,913 copies in the United States. All lyrics written by JT Woodruff, all composed by JT Woodruff, Matt Ridenour, Micah Carli, Eron Bucciarelli
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Fragile Future
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Fragile Future is the third studio album by Hawthorne Heights. On August 7,2006, it was announced that the band had left Victory Records, citing a lack of royalty payment, on December 6, the band announced they had written 11 songs for a new album. In May 2007, a judge declared that the band could record albums for any record label, however, the bands contract required them to release another two albums through Victory Records. In May 2007, a demo, titled Come Back Home, was available for streaming. By this point, the group had written 23 songs, from mid July to late August, the band went on the 2007 edition of Warped Tour. Following this, the recording their third album. Fragile Future is seen as a departure from the bands original post-hardcore style, the album introduced a friendlier sound, much closer to pop rock. Due to the death of unclean vocalist Casey Calvert, there is an absence of harsh vocals on the record. Before release, the listing for the record was altered. Out of 21 songs written for the album, merely 12 were actually used, theyre kind of along the lines of our song Niki FM in a little way, but its sort of Niki FM to the next level. Sugar in the Engine became the track on the album. The other song mentioned was not used for Fragile Future, but it became the third track on the bands very next album. The song had its title simplified to End of the Underground, Rescue Me impacted radio on July 7,2008. A full version of Rescue Me was released in July 2008 on the bands official MySpace, on July 22,2008 Rescue Me was released on iTunes. The Album leaked onto the internet on July 31, following the leak, the band put the full album up for listening on their MySpace page. The album was to be released earlier in 2008, but due to an incident with Victory Records, Victory and Hawthorne Heights solved their problems quickly, and the album was released August 5,2008. An acoustic EP, titled Rhapsody Originals, was released exclusively for Rhapsody on August 26 and it features three live acoustic songs from Fragile Future, and one from their first studio album, The Silence in Black and White. The album debuted at #23 on the Billboard 200, and #4 on the top Independent album chart, the album spent 5 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart
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Evanescence
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Evanescence /ˌɛv. æn. ˈɛs. ɛns/ is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the released their first full-length album, Fallen. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide and helped the band win two Grammy Awards out of seven nominations, as well as scoring No.6 in CBSs Top Bestselling Albums of the Last 10 Years. A year later, Evanescence released their first live album, Anywhere but Home, in 2006, the band released their second studio album, The Open Door, which sold more than five million copies. As a result, none of the three studio albums feature the same lineup. The latter two led to a hiatus, with temporary band members contributing to tour performances. Billboard ranked Evanescence No.71 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart, announced in June 2009, the newest line-up of the band eventually returned with Evanescence, their self-titled third studio album, released on October 11,2011. It debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 127,000 copies in sales, the album also debuted at No.1 on four other different Billboard charts, the Rock Albums, Digital Albums, Alternative Albums, and the Hard Rock Albums charts. The band spent 2012 on tour in promotion of their latest album with bands including The Pretty Reckless. Troy McLawhorn also became a band member during this time. Following the end of the tour cycle in 2012, the band entered another hiatus. In 2015, the band emerged from hiatus and announced they would resume touring, however, they denied that new Evanescence material was being produced, in addition, Balsamo left the band and was replaced by Jen Majura. Late 2016 saw additional touring from the band and a statement from Lee that Evanescence would continue, in March 2017, Lee stated Evanescence was working on a fourth album for release later in 2017. Evanescence was founded by singer, pianist and songwriter Amy Lee and former lead guitarist, the two met in 1994 at a youth camp in Little Rock, where Moody heard Lee playing a Meat Loaf song on the piano. The band became popular performing in coffee shops around the Little Rock area. After experimenting with band names, such as Childish Intentions and Stricken, they decided on Evanescence, the first is the self-titled Evanescence EP, of which about 100 copies were made and distributed at the bands early live performances. The second is the Sound Asleep EP, also known as the Whisper EP, there was also a third EP called Mystary EP. For their first full-length demo CD, Origin, about 2,500 copies were produced, Origin and the EPs contain demo versions of some songs on their debut album, Fallen
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Creed (band)
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Creed is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida. The bands best-known line-up consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, Creed released two studio albums, My Own Prison in 1997 and Human Clay in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000. The bands third album, Weathered, was released in 2001 with Tremonti handling bass before the band disbanded in 2004 due to increasing tension between members, Tremonti, Marshall, and Phillips went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. In 2009, after months of speculation, Creed reunited for a new album called Full Circle, another album was planned, but has since been shelved. The instrumental members turned their back to Alter Bridge and Tremonti formed his own band. There are currently no plans for Creed to resume, becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond. Creed has sold over 28 million records in the United States, Creed is often recognized as one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement that began in the late 1990s. Creeds origins lie in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida, founding members vocalist Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti had been classmates in high school and friends at Florida State University. Upon reuniting, Stapp and Tremonti realized that they had a love for writing music. By the end of 1995, rhythm guitarist Brian Brasher left the band, Creed then decided to remain as a four-piece band. The four musicians had already written and collaborated on four of the songs that would go on to become tracks on Creeds chart-topping debut album, the band found local success and began to play shows in bars and small venues throughout Tallahassee. Their original band name, Naked Toddler, was based on a newspaper story and this was poorly received by their fans, so they settled on Creed, a nod to Marshalls previous band Mattox Creed. With a new name, exactly the sound they had before and several new songs written. Wanting a real show at a club, they managed to persuade the owner of a bar in Tallahassee to book them by claiming that they could guarantee an audience of 200 people. For their first recordings he matched the band up with John Kurzweg, together they recorded their debut album for $6,000, which was funded by Hanson. The album, titled My Own Prison, was initially self-released on their own label, Blue Collar Records, meltzer later said that she heard an arena band. According to Hanson, before Wind-up signed Creed, fourteen labels had already passed on the band and my Own Prison was remixed, given a more radio-friendly sound, and re-released by Wind-up Records. Four singles were released from the album, My Own Prison, Torn, Whats This Life For, each of these songs reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, making Creed the first band to accomplish such a feat with a debut album
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Cartel (band)
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Cartel is an American pop punk band from Conyers, Georgia, United States, that formed in 2003. The group was featured on the MTV television series Band in a Bubble in 2007 as part of an experiment where they were given 20 days to write and record a full album. The current members of the band include vocalist/bassist Will Pugh, lead guitarist Joseph Pepper, guitarist Nic Hudson, Nic Hudson was born on July 6,1982 in Conyers, Georgia. Hudson has played guitar for the band since late 2004 until bassist Jeff Lett left in 2011. Vocalist Will Pugh now plays bass, Joseph Pepper is the lead guitarist of Cartel. Pepper was born on May 15,1983 in Tucson, Arizona, Pepper learned to play guitar early in his life and discovered that he wanted to pursue a career as a musician. His first playing experiences were at a family church in Conyers. He met Will Pugh and Kevin Sanders in high school, will Pugh is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and lyricist of the band. Pugh met the three members of Cartel as a student at Heritage High School. After graduating from Heritage, Pugh spent a year at Georgia State University in Atlanta and he left UGA after the 2003-04 school year to record and promote his bands first full-length album, Chroma. In 2008, he married longtime girlfriend, Caitlin, an avid golfer, Pugh plays when he has a free moment with bandmates Kevin Sanders and Nic Hudson, and also follows the career of professional golfer Tiger Woods. He was born on October 9,1982 in DeKalb County, Georgia and grew up in Conyers and he started playing the trumpet in 1995 and picked up the drums during Christmas 1996. He plays SJC Drums, while he is playing a DW kit in the Honestly Video. He has used many different kits hand crafted by SJC, his current set-up for the Cartel tour is an Amber Acrylic SJC Kit, the set is equipped with gold glitter revolutionary hoops, teardrop lugs, and Gauger Dynamounts. Sanders uses Pro-Mark 5B Hickory Drumsticks, the five band members of Cartel grew up in Rockdale County, Georgia, and Cartel was formed in late 2003 while they were attending Georgia State University. The band built a fan base and eventually was signed to The Militia Group. Around this time differences between Andy Lee and the rest of the band came to a head, and he was replaced as guitarist by band friend Nic Hudson. With their new lineup, the released their first full-length album, Chroma
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Skeletons (Hawthorne Heights album)
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Skeletons is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band Hawthorne Heights, released June 1,2010. The album was produced by Howard Benson, the album peaked at #50 on the Billboard top 200 albums. Hawthorne Heights posted a blog through their MySpace profile stating that they had officially signed to Wind-up Records. The band revealed that there is not a new member of the band and no replacement was made for Hawthorne Heights former vocalist, Casey Calvert. While on tour, Hawthorne Heights announced that Micah Carli would now be providing vocals for the band, acoustic versions of the two songs were also said to have been recorded. The songs are entitled Here I Am and Nervous Breakdown, Nervous Breakdown did become the first single from the album on March 23,2010. On October 2,2009, both Woodruff and Buicarelli posted updates on their Twitter pages saying that they had just finished gang vocals for the record, Woodruff stated Just finished up doing gang vocals on a few songs. The band has expressed that the process of writing the music, Woodruff states, We had the luxury of time to sit around and think about what we wanted to do, which helped us create something new. Bucciarelli adds, We wrote more songs for this album than ever before and we wrote over 30, then whittled them down to the absolute best ones. We took parts from some and added them to others and made a Frankenstein out of em and we were always writing, re-writing, arranging and re-arranging. Howard Benson really pushed us in the writing department to go against what we’ve done in the past. The final track listing for the album was announced on February 5,2010. Skeletons was released on June 1,2010, on November 16,2009, download cards for the song Unforgivable were distributed while on tour. On March 23,2010, Nervous Breakdown was released as the first official single from the album, the song impacted radio on April 27,2010. On April 21,2010, End of the Underground was made available for listening on Buzznet, on May 18,2010, Drive was released as a digital single through Rhapsody. The track was available for download from Verizon as a ringtone on May 20,2010. On May 25,2010, all songs from Skeletons were added to Hawthorne Heights Myspace music player for listening, on May 28,2010, Nervous Breakdown was made available as a free download separate from Skeletons. On September 28,2010, well after the release of Skeletons, Bring You Back was declared a single by Hawthorne Heights on their official website
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Hate (EP)
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Hate is the first EP of a trilogy released by American rock band Hawthorne Heights through the bands own record label, Cardboard Empire. Hate was released for download on August 23,2011. It is also the first release by the band to contain a title track, on August 11,2011, the album art and track listing for Hate was revealed. The next day MTV premiered one of the EPs tracks, Four White Walls, digital pre-order for the EP became available shortly after, and on August 21,2011, the entire EP was leaked onto the internet. Though the album is considered an EP, it is intended as an album by the members of the band. Two music videos have been released, the first for the song Is This What You Wanted. Hate lyrically deals with feelings of hate, anger, and solitude. According to Woodruff, Hate features more songs that are a lot heavier than anything we’ve ever done. The EP has been compared to other records, such as records by Senses Fail. Screamed vocals and breakdowns are prominent features throughout the album, reflecting the style of the bands first two albums. One review states this aggressive side, dormant for the past few years, has finally boiled over all at once, there Was A Kid -1,17 Is This What You Wanted
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Zero (album)
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Zero is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock band Hawthorne Heights, released on June 25,2013. Its their first album to be released through Red Entertainment, the album was produced by Brian Virtue. It continues having screaming in certain tracks like their album Skeletons and it is their first album to feature guitarist Mark McMillon. It is also their last album to feature drummer Eron Bucciarelli, who left the band in 2014, and guitarist Micah Carli and it was announced early 2013 that the band signed deal with Red Entertainment and that a new album is in the works. They put their final EP from their Hate/Hope Trilogy on hold and they financed the entire project via pledgemusic. The album debuted at 118th place on the billboard 200, on May 18,2013 the first single Golden Parachutes was released. The song impacted radio on May 28,2013, on June 11,2013 they released their second song Taken By The Dark which contains a heavier side including screams from Micah. The band explained, We went in with a bunch of songs and came out with a concept album, if you’re a long-time fan of Hawthorne Heights, you know we’ve been through a lot over the years. No matter how hard life gets or how many seemingly insurmountable odds you may encounter, “ZERO” deals with these life issues against a dystopian, war-ravaged backdrop. All lyrics written by JT Woodruff, all composed by Hawthorne Heights
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and his ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel later added a w to make his name Hawthorne in order to hide this relation and he entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. Hawthorne published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828, he tried to suppress it. He published several stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, the couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels, a political appointment as consul took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to Concord in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19,1864, and was survived by his wife, much of Hawthornes writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically and his themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4,1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, his birthplace is preserved and open to the public. William Hathorne, the authors great-great-great-grandfather, a Puritan, was the first of the family to emigrate from England, first settling in Dorchester, Massachusetts, before moving to Salem. There he became an important member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and held political positions including magistrate and judge. Williams son and the authors great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem witch trials. Hawthornes father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Sr. was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever in Suriname, he had been a member of the East India Marine Society. After his death, young Nathaniel, his mother, and two sisters moved in with relatives, the Mannings, in Salem, where they lived for 10 years. In 1819, he was sent back to Salem for school and soon complained of homesickness and being too far from his mother and sisters. In spite of his homesickness, for the sake of having fun, he distributed seven issues of The Spectator to his family in August, the homemade newspaper was written by hand
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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VH1
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VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1,1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting Systems short-lived Cable Music Channel and it was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV. As of February 2015, approximately 92.6 million US households receive VH1, also frequently featured in the networks early years were videos for Motown and other 60s oldies consisting of newsreel and concert footage. It was introduced on January 1,1985 with the performance of The Star-Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye. From the start, Video Hits One was branded as a version of its sister/parent channel. It played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and had a rotation of urban-contemporary performers. Its early on-camera personalities were New York radio veterans Don Imus, Frankie Crocker, Scott Shannon, Jon Bauman, Bobby Rivers, later VJs included Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM, a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1, and Alison Steele. Rosie ODonnell later joined the outlets veejay lineup, ODonnell would also host a comedy show featuring various comedians each episode. The format left room for occasional ad-libs by the VJ, a godsend for emcees such as Imus, in true Imus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 show to jokingly call smooth-jazz icon Sade Adu a grape for her oval-shaped head. At first many different musicians guest-hosted the program, but eventually musician/songwriter Ben Sidran became the permanent host, new-Age music videos continued to play on the channel into the 1990s. They would be seen on the Sunday morning 2-hour music video block titled Sunday Brunch, once VH1 established itself a few years later, they catered to Top 40, adult contemporary, classic rock, and 1980s mainstream pop. For a time, even music videos aired in a one-hour block during the afternoons. They started out using MTVs famous Kabel typeface font for their music video credit tags and it was later replaced in 1991 by a larger font, with the year the video was made added to the lower column that identified the label on which the album was released. In 1993, the name of the director was included at the bottom of the credits. Every week, the Top 21 Video Countdown usually had a different guest host, occasionally, they had themed countdowns as well, such as Elvira hosting scary videos for Halloween in 1991. Long blocks of videos by a particular artist or band, theme. One popular weekend program was called Video Rewind, in blocks of 1980s videos from one particular year would play for an hour. There was also a short-lived hour-long program called By Request in which viewers could call a 1–900 hotline number to request their videos, also in 1991, a popular morning program was introduced called Hits News & Weather that ran from 7 AM to 9 AM ET
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Underworld: Evolution
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Underworld, Evolution is a 2006 American action horror film directed by Len Wiseman. The film is a sequel to the 2003 film, Underworld, in the film, Selene and Michael fight to protect the future of the Corvinus bloodline from its hidden past. In 1202, an army led by the three vampire elders arrives at a Lycan-ravaged village, Viktor and Amelia capture their target, Markuss twin brother, William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Despite Markuss defiance, Viktor orders that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever. In the present day, vampire Selene takes Michael to a house so that she can confront the vampire regent Kraven, she knows that Kraven intends to kill Markus. However, Markus has awakened before Kraven arrives, Markus kills Kraven and his men. Lorenz Macaro, an man, sends in a team of cleaners to investigate the aftermath from the battle in the Lycans lair. When Macaro examines Viktors corpse he finds a metal disc inside which is the match to a pendant originally worn by Sonja, the other half of the pendant is now possessed by Michael after the death of Lucian. Markus tracks Selene and Michael down and attacks them, but they evade him, there, Selene and Michael share their feelings and have passionate sex. Now knowing that the pendant is important to Markus, Michael, Selene recalls that she saw it as a child, but does not know its significance. They travel to the hideout of the vampire historian Andreas Tanis. Tanis reveals that Markus was the first vampire, one of the three sons of Alexander Corvinus, the first immortal, Markus was bitten by a bat and became a vampire, while William was bitten by a wolf and became a werewolf. The third son remained human and gave rise to a line of mortal descendants including Michael, the first werewolves created by William were entirely animal and unable to return to human form. Viktor did not kill the brothers because he was led by Markus to believe that doing so would result in the extinction of all other vampires. Tanis further reveals that Selenes father was the architect who built Williams prison, Viktor killed Selenes family because they knew the prisons location, but turned Selene into a vampire with the location of the prison encoded in her blood. Tanis then refers Selene and Michael to Macaro for help, after Selene and Michael leave, Markus arrives and drinks Tanis blood to learn Selene and Michaels location, killing Tanis. Visiting Macaro, Selene and Michael discover he actually is Alexander Corvinus, Alexander reveals that he has devoted his entire immortal life to keeping the Vampire-Lycan war a secret. However, he refuses to assist Selene in killing his sons, then Markus arrives, impales Michael and learns the location of Williams prison by drinking Selenes blood
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Casey Calvert (actress)
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Casey Calvert is the stage name of an American pornographic film actor. Calvert was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Gainesville and she was raised conservative Jewish and attended synagogue every Saturday morning until her Bat Mitzvah, after which her family switched to a reform synagogue and began attending only on the holidays. In 2012, she graduated cum laude from the University of Florida with a bachelor of science in film production. Calvert began working as a fetish and art model in the spring of her year of college. She chose her name in honor of professor Clay Calvert after taking his class on Mass Media Law as a sophomore. She also stated that the first name Casey was derived from the initials of her celebrity crushs children, K. C. and she entered the adult film industry on November 5,2012. Her first scene was for the studio SexArt and she has also written about pornography for The Huffington Post. Calvert has also tried to pursue an acting and modeling career. She states that she has been recognized even while auditioning under her legal name, official website Casey Calvert at the Internet Movie Database Casey Calvert at the Internet Adult Film Database Casey Calvert at the Adult Film Database
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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Cover version
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A cover version can also refer to a rerecording of a song by the original artist or performers under a different record company. Originally, Billboard and other magazines that track the popularity of artists and hit tunes measured the sales success of the published tune. Later, they tracked the airplay that songs achieved, some versions being more successful recording than the original song. Before the onset of rock n roll in the 1950s, songs were published and several records of a song might be out by singers of the day. The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylans original, became a Top 10 single in the UK in 1968 and was ranked 48th in Rolling Stone magazines 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The term cover goes back decades when cover version originally described a version of a tune recorded to compete with the recently released version. The Chicago Tribune described the term in 1952, trade jargon meaning to record a tune that looks like a hit on someone elses label. Examples of records covered include Paul Williams 1949 hit tune The Hucklebuck, both crossed over to the popular Hit Parade and had numerous hit versions. In fact, one of the objects of publishing sheet music was to have a composition performed by as many artists as possible. In previous generations, some artists made very successful careers of presenting revivals or reworkings of once-popular tunes, musicians now play what they call cover versions of songs as a tribute to the original performer or group. Using familiar material is an important method of learning music styles, until the mid-1960s most albums, or long playing records, contained a large number of evergreens or standards to present a fuller range of the artists abilities and style. Artists might also perform interpretations of a favorite artists hit tunes for the pleasure of playing a familiar song or collection of tunes. A cover band plays cover versions exclusively. Some tribute acts salute the Who, The Rolling Stones and many classic rock acts. Many tribute acts target artists who remain popular but no longer perform, many tribute bands attempt to recreate another bands music as faithfully as possible, but some such bands introduce a twist. Dread Zeppelin performs reggae versions of the Zeppelin catalog and Beatallica creates heavy metal fusions of songs by the Beatles, there are also situations in which a member of a tribute band will go on to greater success, sometimes with the original act they tribute. One notable example is Tim Ripper Owens who, once the singer of Judas Priest tribute band British Steel. Cover acts or bands are entertainers who perform a variety of crowd-pleasing cover songs for audiences who enjoy the familiarity of hit songs
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The Smashing Pumpkins
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The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1988. Formed by frontman Billy Corgan and James Iha, the band included Darcy Wretzky and it has undergone many line-up changes over the course of its existence, with the current lineup being Corgan and rhythm guitarist Jeff Schroeder. The Smashing Pumpkins broke into the mainstream with their second album. The group built its audience with extensive touring and their 1995 follow-up, the double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, with 20 million albums sold in the United States alone, The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, drug use, and diminishing record sales led to a 2000 break-up, in 2006, Corgan and Chamberlin reconvened to record a new Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist. After touring throughout 2007 and 2008 with a lineup including new guitarist Jeff Schroeder, by mid-2016, Corgan stated that they were considering reforming the bands original lineup, though no concrete plans have been revealed. While working there, he met guitarist James Iha, adorning themselves with paisley and other psychedelic trappings, the two began writing songs together that were heavily influenced by The Cure and New Order. The duo performed live for the first time on July 9,1988 at the Polish bar Chicago 21 and this performance included only Corgan on bass and Iha on guitar with a drum machine. Shortly thereafter, Corgan met Darcy Wretzky after a show by the Dan Reed Network where they argued the merits of the band, after finding out Wretzky played bass guitar, Corgan recruited her into the lineup and the now-trio played a show at the Avalon Nightclub. After this show, Cabaret Metro owner Joe Shanahan agreed to book the band on the condition that they replace the machine with a live drummer. Jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was recommended by a friend of Corgans, Chamberlin knew little of alternative music and immediately changed the sound of the nascent band. As Corgan recalled of the period, We were completely into the sad-rock and it took about two or three practices before I realized that the power in his playing was something that enabled us to rock harder than we could ever have imagined. On October 5,1988, the band took the stage for the first time at the Cabaret Metro. In 1989, The Smashing Pumpkins made their first appearance on record with the compilation album Light Into Dark, the group released its first single, I Am One, in 1990 on local Chicago label Limited Potential. The single sold out and they released a follow-up, Tristessa, on Sub Pop, the band recorded their 1991 debut studio album Gish with producer Butch Vig at his Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin for $20,000. In order to gain the consistency he desired, Corgan often played all instruments excluding drums, the music fused heavy metal guitars, psychedelia, and dream pop, garnering them comparisons to Janes Addiction. Gish became a success, with the single Rhinoceros receiving some airplay on modern rock radio. After releasing the Lull EP in October 1991 on Caroline Records, the band signed with Virgin Records
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Bullet with Butterfly Wings
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Bullet with Butterfly Wings is a song by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and the lead single from their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance and this song was the bands first Top 40 U. S. hit, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also spent six weeks at number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, the song was named the 91st best hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009. The song was ranked number 70 on the 2008 list of The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time of Rolling Stone. The song came second in the Triple J Hottest 100,1995, later was voted #51 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time,2009, the song had its origins during the recording of 1993s Siamese Dream. According to frontman Billy Corgan, somewhere, I have a tape of us from 1993 endlessly playing the world is a part over and over. It was not until 1995 that Corgan finished the song with the noted chorus rat in a cage, the lyrics Can you fake it, for just one more show. May refer to the bands headlining the 1993 Lollapalooza festival. Along with other parts of the album, Corgan appears to compare himself to Jesus Christ, with the line Jesus was an only son / Tell me Im the chosen one. The B-side song. Said Sadly, is one of a number of Smashing Pumpkins songs written by and featuring the vocals of James Iha, rather than Corgan. The 1996 re-issue, included in the Aeroplane Flies High box set, the music video for the song, directed by Samuel Bayer, is a performance video with heavy conceptual elements. The video also marks the last filmed appearance of Billy Corgan prior to his decision to shave his head. When asked why the band chose Bullet for the first video and this is the blue light special, said Chamberlin. Original US/UK CD single. Said Sadly features Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt on vocals,1996 Re-issue US7 double A-side single Scranton punk rock band The Menzingers closed many of the shows on their 2013 tour with a cover of the song. Melodic hardcore band Four Year Strong covered this song on their 2009 album Explains It All which is a cover album tributing songs that were famous by groups in the 1990s. Sigue Sigue Sputnik made a cover of the song for the 2001 compilation album A Gothic–Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins, groove metal band Skinlab covered this song on their 2004 compilation album Nerve Damage. Latin metal band Ill Niño covered this song on their 2010 album Dead New World, the Ghost and the Grace covered this song and released it as a one-off single in 2009. Hawthorne Heights made a cover of song, released as part of a 2007 Smashing Pumpkins tribute album from MySpace Records
