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The Raconteurs
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The band is based in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the official website, The seed was sown in an attic in the middle of a hot summer when friends Jack White and Brendan Benson got together. This song was Steady, As She Goes and the led to the creation of a full band with the addition of Lawrence. The band came together in Detroit during 2005 and recorded when time allowed for the remainder of the year, due to the various members success in other bands, they were quickly dubbed a supergroup. The band, however, asserted they were not, saying that the term implies something pre-planned or temporary, the band has played a number of music festivals in Europe, Asia, and North America, headlining many. The Raconteurs were renamed as The Saboteurs for the Australian market when it was discovered that a Queensland band was using the name Raconteurs. A member of the Queensland band said that they had not been informed of who was trying to buy their name, the Raconteurs full-length debut, Broken Boy Soldiers, was recorded at Brendan Bensons in-home studio located in Detroit. The first single was Steady, As She Goes/Store Bought Bones and was released as a limited-edition 7-inch,45 rpm vinyl record in Europe on January 30,2006, and in North America on March 7,2006. A CD version of Steady, As She Goes was released on April 24,2006, the Raconteurs first performed live at the Academy in Liverpool, UK, on March 20,2006, launching a short British tour. Their first American date was the month, on April 20 at New York Citys Irving Plaza. Nearly nonstop touring followed, bringing the band to audiences around North America, the high profile of Jack White meant that even though the band was new, they were able to sell out mid-size venues—a rarity for a bands first tour. Broken Boy Soldiers was released on May 15,2006, in the UK on Third Man Recordings/XL Recordings and it entered the UK charts at No.2 and the U. S. charts at No.7. In November 2006, the Raconteurs played eight dates as the act for Bob Dylan on the north-eastern leg of his U. S. tour. On November 3,2006, the Raconteurs performed the song Store Bought Bones, according to Planet Sound, during Store Bought Bones Whites guitar malfunctioned and they had to re-play the song. This eventually happened four times, with the breaking up in laughter by the fourth take. The TV airing used edited pieces from all four performances and cut out any laughter, the bands cover of Teenage Kicks by The Undertones appeared on a 40-year anniversary of the BBC live compilation. They played it live on a John Peel tribute, the band has performed a number of covers during live shows. For instance, the set list usually includes renditions of Bang Bang, other songs the band has covered include Gnarls Barkleys Crazy, Bo Diddleys Who Do You Love
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Covington, Kentucky
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Covington is a city in Kenton County, Kentucky. It is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers, cincinnati, Ohio, lies to its north across the Ohio and Newport, Kentucky, to its east across the Licking. Part of the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area, Covington had a population of 40,640 at the time of the 2010 U. S. census and it is one of its countys two seats, along with Independence. The city was incorporated by the Kentucky General Assembly a year later. Stewart Iron Works was established in 1862 and became the largest iron fence maker in the world, Covington experienced growth during most of the 19th century, only to decline during the Great Depression and the middle 20th century. The city has seen some redevelopment during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, instead, Covington was awarded a team in the new outlaw circuit, the Federal League. The city raised $13,500, with $6,000 budgeted to build the ballpark, bernard Wisehall, a prominent local architect, designed Federal Park with a capacity to 6,000. The playing field was tiny, believed to be smallest for any pro baseball park ever built, by June, Covington was seeing only a few hundred fans per contest. On June 26, the moved to Kansas City and ownership of the team reverted to creditors. Federal Park was used for other events the next few years, Covington has not hosted a professional team in any sport since. Covington claims 19 distinct neighborhoods, ranging in population from several hundred to 10,000 people, many of the neighborhoods are located in 12 historic districts that are predominantly found in the northern portion of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, Covington has an area of 13.7 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people,18,257 households, the population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile. There were 20,448 housing units at a density of 1,556.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 87. 05% White,10. 14% African American,0. 24% Native American,0. 34% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 63% from other races, and 1. 57% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1. 38% of the population,36. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the family size was 3.08. The age distribution was 25. 9% under the age of 18,10. 0% from 18 to 24,33. 3% from 25 to 44,19. 0% from 45 to 64, the median age was 33 years
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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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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Bass guitar
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The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to a guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The four-string bass, by far the most common, is tuned the same as the double bass. The bass guitar is an instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the guitar has pickups and it is plugged into an amplifier and speaker on stage, or into a larger PA system using a DI unit. Since the 1960s, the guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While types of basslines vary widely from one style of music to another, many styles of music utilise the bass guitar, including rock, heavy metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, symphonic rock, and jazz. It is often a solo instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, funk, progressive rock and other rock, the adoption of a guitar form made the instrument easier to hold and transport than any of the existing stringed bass instruments. The addition of frets enabled bassists to play in more easily than on acoustic or electric upright basses. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period, around 1947, Tutmarcs son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D. Heater Music Company wholesale jobber catalogue of 1948, however, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton and his Fender Precision Bass, which began production in October 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. This split pickup, introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups, the pole pieces and leads of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, producing a humbucking effect. Humbucking is a design that electrically cancels the effect of any AC hum, the Fender Bass was a revolutionary new instrument, which could be easily transported, and which was less prone to feedback when amplified than acoustic bass instruments. Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, roy Johnson, and Shifty Henry with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, were other early Fender bass pioneers. Bill Black, playing with Elvis Presley, switched from bass to the Fender Precision Bass around 1957. The bass guitar was intended to appeal to guitarists as well as upright bass players, following Fenders lead, in 1953, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally. In 1959 these were followed by the more conventional-looking EB-0 Bass, the EB-0 was very similar to a Gibson SG in appearance
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Autoharp
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The autoharp is a trademark for a string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, debate exists over the origin of the autoharp. A German immigrant in Philadelphia, Charles F. Zimmermann, was awarded US257808 in 1882 for a design for an instrument that included mechanisms for muting certain strings during play. He named his invention the autoharp, unlike later autoharps, the shape of the instrument was symmetrical, and the felt-bearing bars moved horizontally against the strings instead of vertically. It is not known if Zimmermann ever commercially produced any instruments of this early design, karl August Gütter of Markneukirchen, Germany, built a model that he called a Volkszither, which most resembles the autoharp played today. Gütter obtained a British patent for his instrument circa 1883–1884, Zimmermann, after returning from a visit to Germany, began production of the Gütter design in 1885, but with his own design patent number and catchy name. Gütters instrument design became popular, and Zimmermann has often been mistaken as the inventor. A stylized form of the term Autoharp was registered as a trademark in 1926, the word is currently claimed as a trademark by U. S. Music Corporation, whose Oscar Schmidt division manufactures Autoharps, the USPTO registration, however, covers only a Mark Drawing Code WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM and has expired. In litigation with George Orthey, it was held that Oscar Schmidt could only claim ownership of the lettering of the word Autoharp. Modern autoharps have 36 or 37 strings, although examples with as many as 47 strings. They are strung in either diatonic or chromatic scales, standard models have 15 or 21 chord bars, or buttons, available, a selection of major, minor, and dominant seventh chords. These are arranged for historical or systemic reasons, as for example, A variety of chord bar layouts exist, although the autoharp is often thought of as a rhythm instrument for playing chordal accompaniment, modern players can play melodies on the instrument. Diatonic players are able to play fiddle tunes using open-chording techniques, skilled chromatic players can perform a range of melodies. Diatonically strung single-key instruments from modern luthiers, such as Orthey, Fladmark, Hollandsworth, DAigle, Baker, Daniels and this is accomplished by doubling the strings for individual notes. Since the strings for notes not in the diatonic scale need not appear in the string bed, until the 1960s, no pickups were available to amplify the autoharp other than a rudimentary contact microphone, which had a poor-quality, tinny sound. Eventually, a bar magnetic pickup was designed by Harry DeArmond, pinkertons Assorted Colours used the instrument on their 1966 single Mirror, mirror. In the 1970s, Oscar Schmidt came out with their own magnetic pickup, shown at the right is a 1930 refinished Oscar Schmidt Inc. Model A
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Banjo
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The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head. The membrane, or head, is made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in America, the banjo is frequently associated with country, folk, Irish traditional and bluegrass music. Historically, the banjo occupied a place in African American traditional music. The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music and it is also very frequently used in Traditional Jazz. The modern banjo derives from instruments that had used in the Caribbean since the 17th century by enslaved people taken from West Africa. Written references to the banjo in North America appear in the 18th century, the etymology of the name banjo is uncertain. The word could have come from the Yoruba word Bami jo and it may derive from the Kimbundu word mbanza. A Banza, a five double string courses Portuguese viuhela with two short strings, mbanza is a string African instrument that has been built after the Portuguese Banza. Banza is quite similar to Banjo, various instruments in Africa, chief among them the kora, feature a skin head and gourd body. Banjos with fingerboards and tuning pegs are known from the Caribbean as early as the 17th century, 18th- and early 19th-century writers transcribed the name of these instruments variously as bangie, banza, bonjaw, banjer and banjar. Instruments similar to the banjo have been played in many countries, another likely relative of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo. Early, African-influenced banjos were built around a body and a wooden stick neck. These instruments had varying numbers of strings, though often including some form of drone, the five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white performer to play the banjo on stage and his version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth string. This new banjo was at first tuned dGdf♯a, though by the 1890s this had been transposed up to gcgbd, Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeneys group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls. In the Antebellum South, many black slaves played the banjo, two techniques closely associated with the five-string banjo are rolls and drones. Rolls are right hand fingering pattern that consist of eight notes that subdivide each measure
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Piano
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The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument. The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a sound and smaller dynamic range. An acoustic piano usually has a wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings. Pressing one or more keys on the keyboard causes a padded hammer to strike the strings. The hammer rebounds from the strings, and the continue to vibrate at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies by more efficiently coupling the acoustic energy to the air, when the key is released, a damper stops the strings vibration, ending the sound. Notes can be sustained, even when the keys are released by the fingers and thumbs and this means that the piano can play 88 different pitches, going from the deepest bass range to the highest treble. The black keys are for the accidentals, which are needed to play in all twelve keys, more rarely, some pianos have additional keys. Most notes have three strings, except for the bass that graduates from one to two, the strings are sounded when keys are pressed or struck, and silenced by dampers when the hands are lifted from the keyboard. There are two types of piano, the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano is used for Classical solos, chamber music and art song and it is used in jazz. The upright piano, which is compact, is the most popular type, as they are a better size for use in private homes for domestic music-making. During the nineteenth century, music publishers produced many works in arrangements for piano, so that music lovers could play. The piano is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances, accompaniment, with technological advances, amplified electric pianos, electronic pianos, and digital pianos have also been developed. The electric piano became an instrument in the 1960s and 1970s genres of jazz fusion, funk music. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments, pipe organs have been used since Antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Drum kit
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A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some also include electronic instruments and both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the drum kit is usually played while seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs from instruments that can be used to produce pitched melodies or chords, even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or guitar. The drum kit is part of the rhythm section used in many types of popular and traditional music styles ranging from rock and pop to blues. Other standard instruments used in the section include the electric bass, electric guitar. Many drummers extend their kits from this pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals. Some performers, such as some rockabilly drummers, use small kits that omit elements from the basic setup, some drum kit players may have other roles in the band, such as providing backup vocals, or less commonly, lead vocals. Thus, in an early 1800s orchestra piece, if the called for bass drum, triangle and cymbals. In the 1840s, percussionists began to experiment with foot pedals as a way to them to play more than one instrument. In the 1860s, percussionists started combining multiple drums into a set, the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks. Double-drumming was developed to one person to play the bass and snare with sticks. With this approach, the drum was usually played on beats one. This resulted in a swing and dance feel. The drum set was referred to as a trap set. By the 1870s, drummers were using an overhang pedal, most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal. Companies patented their pedal systems such as Dee Dee Chandler of New Orleans 1904–05, liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played with the foot of a standing percussionist. The bass drum became the central piece around which every other percussion instrument would later revolve and it was the golden age of drum building for many famous drum companies, with Ludwig introducing
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Clarinet
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The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist, the word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette, or from Provençal clarin, oboe. It would seem however that its roots are to be found amongst some of the various names for trumpets used around the renaissance. Clarion, clarin and the Italian clarino are all derived from the medieval term claro which referred to a form of trumpet. This is probably the origin of the Italian clarinetto, itself a diminutive of clarino, according to Johann Gottfried Walther, writing in 1732, the reason for the name is that it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet. The English form clarinet is found as early as 1733, while the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may hold a clue to its name, other factors may have been involved. The trumpet parts that required this speciality were known by the term clarino, Johann Christoph Denner is generally believed to have invented the clarinet in Germany around the year 1700 by adding a register key to the earlier chalumeau. Over time, additional keywork and airtight pads were added to improve the tone and these days the most popular clarinet is the B♭ clarinet. However, the clarinet in A, just a lower, is commonly used in orchestral music. Since the middle of the 19th century the clarinet has become an essential addition to the orchestra. The clarinet family ranges from the BBB♭ octo-contrabass to the A♭ piccolo clarinet, the clarinet has proved to be an exceptionally flexible instrument, equally at home in the classical repertoire as in concert bands, military bands, marching bands, klezmer, and jazz. The cylindrical bore is primarily responsible for the clarinets distinctive timbre, the tone quality can vary greatly with the musician, the music, the instrument, the mouthpiece, and the reed. The most prominent were the German/Viennese traditions and the French school, the latter was centered on the clarinetists of the Conservatoire de Paris. The proliferation of recorded music has made examples of different styles of clarinet playing available, the modern clarinetist has a diverse palette of acceptable tone qualities to choose from. The A clarinet and B♭ clarinet have nearly the same bore, orchestral players using the A and B♭ instruments in the same concert could use the same mouthpiece for both. The A and the B♭ instruments have nearly identical tonal quality, the tone of the E♭ clarinet is brighter than that of the lower clarinets and can be heard even through loud orchestral or concert band textures. The bass clarinet has a deep, mellow sound, while the alto clarinet is similar in tone to the bass
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Mandolin
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A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or pick. It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five, the courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello. There are many styles of mandolin, but three are common, the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-back has a bottom, constructed of strips of wood. The carved-top or arch-top mandolin has a shallower, arched back. The flat-backed mandolin uses thin sheets of wood for the body, each style of instrument has its own sound quality and is associated with particular forms of music. Neapolitan mandolins feature prominently in European classical music and traditional music, carved-top instruments are common in American folk music and bluegrass music. Flat-backed instruments are used in Irish, British and Brazilian folk music. Some modern Brazilian instruments feature a fifth course tuned a fifth lower than the standard fourth course. There has also been a type and an instrument with sixteen-strings. Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard, pre-mandolin instruments were quiet instruments, strung with as many as six courses of gut strings, and were plucked with the fingers or with a quill. However, modern instruments are louder—using four courses of metal strings, the modern soundboard is designed to withstand the pressure of metal strings that would break earlier instruments. The soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections, there is usually one or more sound holes in the soundboard, either round, oval, or shaped like a calligraphic f. A round or oval sound hole may be covered or bordered with decorative rosettes or purfling, Mandolins evolved from the lute family in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the deep bowled mandolin, produced particularly in Naples, became common in the 19th century. Dating to around c.13,000 BC, a painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed, since each string played a note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow harps, harps. In turn, this led to being able to play dyads and chords, another innovation occurred when the bow harp was straightened out and a bridge used to lift the strings off the stick-neck, creating the lute
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Accordion
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Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist, the concertina and bandoneón are related, the harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family. The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing pallets to open and these vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instruments reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the manual. The accordion is widely spread across the world, nevertheless, in Europe and North America, some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion is used in cajun, zydeco, jazz music. The piano accordion is the official city instrument of San Francisco, the oldest name for this group of instruments is harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos, meaning harmonic, musical. Today, native versions of the accordion are more common. These names refer to the type of accordion patented by Cyrill Demian, accordions have many configurations and types. Similar to a bow, the production of sound in an accordion is in direct proportion to the motion of the player. The bellows is located between the right- and left-hand manuals, and is made from pleated layers of cloth and cardboard, with added leather and metal. It is used to pressure and vacuum, driving air across the internal reeds and producing sound by their vibration. These boxes house reed chambers for the right- and left-hand manuals, each side has grilles in order to facilitate the transmission of air in and out of the instrument, and to allow the sound to better project. The grille for the manual is usually larger and is often shaped for decorative purposes. The right-hand manual is used for playing the melody and the left-hand manual for playing the accompaniment. The manual mechanism of the instrument either enables the air flow, or disables it, the different types have varying components. All instruments have reed ranks of some format, the most typical accordion is the piano accordion, which is used for many musical genres
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Double bass
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The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is an instrument and is typically notated one octave higher than sounding to avoid excessive ledger lines below the staff. The double bass is the modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths, rather than fifths, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2. The instruments exact lineage is still a matter of some debate, the double bass is a standard member of the orchestras string section, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western classical music. The bass is used in a range of genres, such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly, psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango. The double bass is played either with a bow or by plucking the strings, in orchestral repertoire and tango music, both arco and pizzicato are employed. In jazz, blues, and rockabilly, pizzicato is the norm, Classical music uses just the natural sound produced acoustically by the instrument, so does traditional bluegrass. In jazz, blues, and related genres, the bass is typically amplified with an amplifier and speaker, the double bass stands around 180 cm from scroll to endpin. However, other sizes are available, such as a 1⁄2 or 3⁄4 and these sizes do not reflect the size relative to a full size, or 4⁄4 bass, a 1⁄2 bass is not half the size of a bass but is only slightly smaller. It is typically constructed from several types of wood, including maple for the back, spruce for the top and it is uncertain whether the instrument is a descendant of the viola da gamba or of the violin, but it is traditionally aligned with the violin family. While the double bass is nearly identical in construction to other violin family instruments, like other violin and viol-family string instruments, the double bass is played either with a bow or by plucking the strings. In orchestral repertoire and tango music, both arco and pizzicato are employed, in jazz, blues, and rockabilly, pizzicato is the norm, except for some solos and also occasional written parts in modern jazz that call for bowing. In classical pedagogy, almost all of the focus is on performing with the bow and producing a good bowed tone, some of these articulations can be combined, for example, the combination of sul ponticello and tremolo can produce eerie, ghostly sounds. Classical bass players do play pizzicato parts in orchestra, but these parts generally require simple notes, vibrato is used to add expression to string playing. In general, very loud, low-register passages are played with little or no vibrato, mid- and higher-register melodies are typically played with more vibrato. The speed and intensity of the vibrato is varied by the performer for an emotional and musical effect, in jazz, rockabilly and other related genres, much or all of the focus is on playing pizzicato. In jazz and jump blues, bassists are required to play extremely rapid pizzicato walking basslines for extended periods, as well, jazz and rockabilly bassists develop virtuoso pizzicato techniques that enable them to play rapid solos that incorporate fast-moving triplet and sixteenth note figures. In jazz and related styles, bassists often add semi-percussive ghost notes into basslines, to add to the rhythmic feel and to add fills to a bassline
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V2 Records
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V2 Records is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, and then by PIAS Entertainment Group in 2013. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI, the label was owned 95% by Morgan Stanley, the chief financier of the company, and 5% by Branson. Over the years V2 acquired Gee Street Records, Junior Boys Own, Blue Dog Records, the label also distributed many labels, such as WichitaWichita, Luaka Bop, City Slang and Modular. Stereophonics were the first band to sign to the label, V2 now operates in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. It was distributed in the US by BMG, however it left for WEA shortly after the formation of Sony BMG. Its headquarters were located at 14 East 4th Street in Manhattan, the former US home of Island Records, in 2006 Branson sold V2 North America to Sheridan Square Entertainment LLC for $15 million. SSE then merged its label Artemis Records into V2 North America, the new label was effectively divested from the Virgin Group. On 12 January 2007, V2 North America announced that it was undergoing restructuring to focus on its back catalogue, as a result, their employees were let go and their roster of artists left as free agents. V2 Benelux was founded by Richard Branson in 1997 as part of the V2 International group with affiliates in USA, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux. In February 2007 the directors of V2 Benelux, Chris Boog and Tom Willinck, rounded off a management buy out together with their distributor. In August 2007, V2 Music Group was sold for £7 million to Universal Music Group, Cooperative Music has had significant success with various acts such as Fleet Foxes, Phoenix and The Black Keys. In 2009, the newly formed IndieBlu Music Holdings LLC acquired SSEs business, including V2 North America, IndieBlu was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010. In early 2013, PIAS acquired Cooperative Music from Universal Music Group, since its formation, PIAS Cooperative has had success with albums from Factory Floor, Temples, Maximo Park, John Grant, The Eels, and Midlake. Acoustic 07, an album released by V2 List of record labels Official website Cooperative Music
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Third Man Records
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Third Man Records is an independent record label founded by Jack White in Detroit, Michigan, in 2001. Third Man established its first physical location—a combination record store, performance venue, the label opened a Detroit branch location in 2015, which added a pressing plant in 2017. Jack White founded Third Man Records in Detroit, Michigan, in 2001, White originally purchased the building to store his gear, and some plans to reissue the early White Stripes 45s. Third Man, which releases albums and singles primarily on vinyl record, established its first physical location in Nashville, Tennessee, the Nashville location serves as a record store, label offices and live venue. It includes The Blue Room, a studio and darkroom, a storage facility for master recording tapes. The Blue Room is the venue in the world to record live shows direct-to-acetate. To commemorate the opening of Third Man Records in Nashville, White debuted his new project, The Dead Weather, the labels motto is Your Turntables Not Dead. The labels name incorporates several elements of personal significance to White and his fondness for the number three is well documented. It refers to Carol Reeds The Third Man starring Joseph Cotten and his old upholstering company was named Third Man Upholstery. White also refers to himself as a third man in the song Ball. All six studio albums of The White Stripes appear with the Third Man logo, both albums of The Raconteurs also carry the labels logo. For The Raconteurs tour of the United Kingdom in October 2006,1,000 live albums were pressed and sold for each show, the Dead Weather, Jack White, The Black Belles, Karen Elson, and the Greenhornes are also core acts on the Third Man roster. Other artists who have released LPs on Third Man Records include Kelley Stoltz, Seasick Steve, the label released and pressed a 7-inch vinyl of Conan OBriens 2010 comedy album And They Call Me Mad. which featured an interview of OBrien by Jack White on its reverse. The Third Man Records Vault is a quarterly subscription service that began in September 2009 as a way to release special. Platinum members of the Vault receive a package containing limited-edition vinyl records, generally each cycles offerings include a 12” record, a 7” record and a “bonus item. The labels headquarters is located in a prosperous neighborhood, and is surrounded by a methadone clinic, a halfway house. Whites presence, however, has raised the areas provenance, motivating the city and business owners to rezone the area with more creative ventures, White opposes the idea, calling the environment a solid neighborhood everyone looks out for each other. The location is organized around five dedicated sections, the store, a novelties lounge, the label’s offices and distribution center, its recording studios
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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XL Recordings
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XL Recordings is an English independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell, Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes, and owned by Russell and Beggars Group. The label originated as a 1989 offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records, though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with Adele, Arca, Beck, Dizzee Rascal, Electric Six, FKA twigs, M. I. A. Gil Scott-Heron, Gotan Project, The Horrors, Jai Paul, King Krule, The Prodigy, Peaches, Radiohead, Sampha, SBTRKT, Sigur Rós, Tyler, The Creator, Vampire Weekend, The White Stripes and The xx. The label releases albums worldwide and operates across a range of genres, the label was launched in 1989 to release rave and dance music. However, with the success of such as The Prodigy and SL2. During the early nineties, XL Recordings releases were dance oriented ranging from Belgium techno to breakbeat hardcore to drum and this period of XLs history has been recorded on the XL Recordings Chapters compilation series. In 1993 Halkes left XL to form the EMI-owned commercial dance label Positiva, after Palmer retired Russell took over the running of the business. Russell later broadened the horizons of the label whilst maintaining a credo of working with artists he saw as original. June 2000 saw the release of Badly Drawn Boys The Hour of Bewilderbeast which won the 2000 Mercury Music Prize, the next year, The White Stripes third album White Blood Cells was released together with reissues of the bands previous albums, The White Stripes and De Stijl. In the same year XL released Dizzee Rascals first solo album, in March 2005, M. I. A. s debut album Arular was released after several months delay. Thom Yorke, from Radiohead, released his first solo record, The Eraser, in October 2007, Radiohead completed negotiations to sign with XL for physical release of their seventh studio album, In Rainbows. Radiohead subsequently went on to release through XL, and have so far released everything since their eighth studio album The King Of Limbs on the label, in March 2008 XL added Friendly Fires and The Horrors. Also in 2009, The xxs debut album xx was released on XL Recordings partner label Young Turks, on 11 January 2010, XL Recordings released Vampire Weekends second album Contra. It was the bands first album to number one on the US Billboard 200. Gil Scott-Herons thirteenth studio album Im New Here was released in February, it was Scott-Herons first release of material in sixteen years. Recording sessions for the album took place between 2007 and 2009 and production was handled by XL Recordings-owner Richard Russell, on 24 January 2011, XL Recordings released the album 21 by Adele. In February the 19-year-old OFWGKTA member Tyler, the Creator was signed for a deal for his second studio album. Singer Gil Scott-Heron died in May and his recordings, Im New Here
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The Greenhornes
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The Greenhornes are an American garage rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 1996 by vocalist/guitarist Craig Fox, bass guitarist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler. They released their debut album Gun For You in 1999, followed by an album in 2001. A third studio album, Dual Mono, was released in 2002, the Greenhornes returned in 2005 to release a new EP, East Grand Blues, and a compilation album, Sewed Soles. During this time, Lawrence and Keeler formed The Raconteurs with Detroit musicians and personal friends Jack White and Brendan Benson, leaving very few performances, in 2010, the band reunited once again to record a studio album, Four Stars, their first in eight years. The Greenhornes started life as a school band based in Dearborn County, Indiana, called Us and Them. The following year released their first full-length album, Gun For You. A self-titled LP followed in 2001, 2002s Dual Mono came after the departure of Olive and McKinney and included guitarist and vocalist Eric Stein, currently guitarist and vocalist of The Griefs. By 2003, the band was down to Fox, Lawrence,2005 saw the release of East Grand Blues, an EP for V2 Records, which was produced by Detroit musician Brendan Benson. It was quickly followed by the compilation Sewed Soles, the bands collaboration with Holly Golightly, There Is an End, was the theme song of Jim Jarmuschs 2005 film, Broken Flowers. Throughout their career, the Greenhornes have toured almost constantly, only taking breaks when the musicians have worked on other projects, Lawrence and Keeler spent all of 2006 at work in The Raconteurs with Benson and White. Recently, Fox, McKinney, and Olive have been playing together in a new, still-untitled band in, the song Cant Stand It was featured in the episode Pie-O-My during season 4 of The Sopranos. The Greenhornes have also contributed the song Pattern Skies to the PS2/Xbox video game Destroy All Humans, the group are confirmed to play the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York, in September 2010 at the request of film director Jim Jarmusch. Four Stars, the fourth studio album was released on November 9,2010. A seven-song 12 record of demos and outtakes from the recording of the East Grand Blues EP was released as a part of the vault package no.6 from Third Man Records. This album is not available for purchase in stores, and only a number of pressings were made
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The Dead Weather
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The Dead Weather is an American rock supergroup, formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. Composed of Alison Mosshart, Jack White, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence, the band performed live for the first time at the event, immediately before releasing their debut single Hang You from the Heavens. The bands second album, Sea of Cowards, was released first in Ireland on May 7,2010, then on May 10 and 11 in the United Kingdom. Dodge and Burn, their studio album, was released in September 2015. When The Raconteurs were performing in Memphis, Tennessee, Jack White lost his voice and she sang lead vocals on Steady as She Goes and Salute Your Solution. White later asked her if she would record a song with him and they met Dean Fertita at the studio and they ended up performing more than one song that night. Ultimately they decided to form a band with Mosshart as their singer, Lawrence on bass, Fertita on guitar and keyboard. White claims he wanted to play the drums in the band and he had played drums as a child, and for Goober & the Peas before forming the White Stripes. White said he felt that playing lead guitar in another band would be too redundant, in January 2009, Mosshart, Fertita, Lawrence and White got together for an impromptu jam at Whites Third Man studio. The session was followed by two and a weeks of song writing and recording, during which The Dead Weather formed. Things just started to happen, said White and we just went a song a day, two songs a day, whatever we could do and recorded them on the fly. There was no time to think about what it was, the Dead Weathers debut album, Horehound, was released on July 14,2009 in North America, and July 13 in Europe. It entered the U. S. Billboard 200 Album Charts at No.6, three tracks from Horehound were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on the same day as the North American release. Jack White co-directed a short documentary about The Dead Weather called Full Flash Blank and it contains exclusive interviews of the band members and performances of 60 Feet Tall, I Cut Like A Buffalo, and Treat Me Like Your Mother. Full Flash Blank aired on Channel 4 straight after the showing of Later, with Jools Holland which featured The Dead Weather performing their first three singles. On October 16,2009, Mosshart confirmed that an album was halfway done. White later announced that the first single from the new album would be called Die By The Drop and he commented that it was bluesier and heavier than we ever thought we could be. Sea of Cowards was first released on May 7,2010, in Ireland, and then released on May 10 and May 11 in the U. S. and the U. K. respectively
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Blanche (band)
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Blanche is an American alternative country band from Detroit, Michigan. Their music is based in Americana, early country, and folk blues, with a touch of haunting Southern Gothic stylings, Blanche is known for wearing vintage fashion of the early to mid-20th century. The origins of Blanche can be traced back to the early 90s band Goober & the Peas, led by Dan Goober Miller, the band was devoted to cowpunk, and dressed in honky-tonk attire. After the break-up of Goober & The Peas, three of the bands members—Dan Miller, Jack White, and Damian Lang—formed the garage rock band Two-Star Tabernacle with Millers wife Tracee Mae Miller, the band split in 1999, after releasing one 7-inch vinyl with Andre Williams. White went on to form The White Stripes, Lang joined The Detroit Cobras, since 2003, Blanche has performed at several international music festivals, including Lowlands, Pukkelpop and the CMJ Music Marathon. The band opened for and toured with The White Stripes, Loretta Lynn, Ditty Bops, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Calexico, The Kills, and Brendan Benson, among others. Blanche has also appeared on radio stations for live performances and interviews in the United States and Europe, including WFUV in New York. Perkins wife, Margie, was portrayed by Tracee Mae, Miller also appeared on the films T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack. Tracee Mae Miller is a painter, and also makes many of her own dresses. For a short time, she ran a popular eBay store, feeny was in the 80s garage band The Hysteric Narcotics as well as the Orange Roughies, and is currently also in the band American Mars. Little Jack Lawrence has been the long-time bassist for The Greenhornes and he is also a member of Jack Whites bands The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. The album was produced by Jack White, who led the band. Patch Boyle has drifted out of the business, and is the co-founder of the Detroit web magazine Model D. Official website MySpace page Facebook page July 2005 Interview with Tiny Mix Tapes
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Dallas Green (musician)
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Dallas Michael John Albert Green is a Canadian singer-songwriter who records under the alias City and Colour. He plays melodic acoustic and folk music and is accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians. He is also known for his contributions as the vocalist, guitarist, in 2005, he debuted his first full-length album, Sometimes, which achieved Platinum certification in 2006. City and Colour began performing in small intimate venues while Alexisonfire disappeared for some time, the name City and Colour comes from his own name, Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy putting the album out under the name Dallas Green, Green was born on September 29,1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Green was named after Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green, Green started playing piano at the age of 8 and writing music since he was around the age of 14. Regarding the songs released on his first album, Sometimes, Green said that he had been writing material for it as early as when he was 16 years old, before joining Alexisonfire, Green was in a band called Helicon Blue, producing several songs before breaking up. The three piece band also featured Marcel Lanteigne on bass and vocal, and Nicholas Osczypko on drums, Dallas began playing with Alexisonfire in late 2001. They released four albums and several EPs before disbanding in 2011 due to Dallas decision to focus on his work in City, Dallas came up with the name of the band from an episode on Discovery Channel. This specific episode was about contortionism, in this show there was a segment on a stripper who added contortionism into her show, as well as lactating and breathing fire. The womans stage name was Alexis Fire, and the segment was called Alexisonfire and he thought that this would be a cool name for a band, and that is where it all started. In 2003, Dallas appeared on Jude the Obscures album The Coldest Winter and he contributed vocals to Neverending White Lights collaborative album Act 1, Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies, released in 2005, on the song The Grace. Green provided additional vocals on the track INRihab with Every Time I Die as well as on the track Black Albino Bones with Fucked Up on their second full-length album, Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the Internet for fans to download. Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of songs to make his first album. The full-length debut was released on November 1,2005 to a good reception, the cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style, Green still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time. Green indicated that his view that the best music for is sad music and he also said that he love music to sort of escape to and the idea of sad music that people could identify with. Green said of the album that, a lot of songs are written on some of the experiences Ive been through and stuff. I just write songs when I’m bummed out and I feel happier, Sometimes was re-released on Vagrant Records on January 13,2009, which was the first time the album was available in physical form in the United States
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries and it is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname Music City, U. S. A. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government which includes six municipalities in a two-tier system. Nashville is governed by a mayor, vice-mayor, and 40-member Metropolitan Council, thirty-five of the members are elected from single-member districts, five are elected at-large. Reflecting the citys position in government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Courts courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2015 estimates from the U. S. Census Bureau, the balance population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Nashville, was 654,610. The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, the 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644. The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and it was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero. Nashville quickly grew because of its location, accessibility as a port on the Cumberland River, a tributary of the Ohio River. By 1800, the city had 345 residents, including 136 African American slaves and 14 free blacks, in 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee, by 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a prosperous city. The citys significance as a port made it a desirable prize as a means of controlling important river. In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops, the state was occupied by Union troops for the duration of the war. Within a few years after the Civil War, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W. Morton, meanwhile, the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and developed a solid manufacturing base. The post–Civil War years of the late 19th century brought new prosperity to Nashville and these healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can still be seen around the downtown area. Circa 1950 the state approved a new city charter that provided for the election of city council members from single-member districts. This change was supported because at-large voting diluted the minority populations political power in the city and they could seldom gain a majority of the population to support a candidate of their choice
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Quantum of Solace
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It stars Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright and Judi Dench. In the film, Bond seeks revenge for the death of his lover, Vesper Lynd, and is assisted by Camille Montes, who is plotting revenge for the murder of her family. The trail eventually leads them to wealthy businessman Dominic Greene, a member of the Quantum organisation, producer Michael G. Wilson developed the films plot while the previous film in the series, Casino Royale, was being shot. Purvis, Wade, and Haggis contributed to the script, Craig and Forster had to write some sections themselves due to the Writers Strike, though they were not given the screenwriter credit in the final cut. The title was chosen from a 1959 short story in Ian Flemings For Your Eyes Only, location filming took place in Mexico, Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria, and Wales, while interior sets were built and filmed at Pinewood Studios. The film was marked by its frequent depictions of violence. As of September 2016, it is the fourth-highest-grossing James Bond film, without adjusting for inflation, James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regarding his organisation, Ms bodyguard, Craig Mitchell, is a double agent, he attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills him, Bond and M return to London and search Mitchells flat, discovering Mitchell had a contact in Haiti, Edmund Slate. Bond learns Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, after rescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Bregenz, Austria. Meanwhile, the head of the CIAs South American section, Gregg Beam, Bond infiltrates Quantums meeting at the opera, identifying members of Quantums executive board, and a gunfight ensues. A Special Branch bodyguard working for Quantum member Guy Haines, is killed by antagonists after Bond throws him off a roof, M assumes Bond killed him, and has Bonds passports and credit cards revoked. Bond heads to Italy and convinces his old ally René Mathis to accompany him to Bolivia and they are greeted by Strawberry Fields, a consular employee who demands Bond return to the UK immediately. Bond seduces her and they attend a fundraising party Greene holds that night, at the party, Bond again rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano and they had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bonds car to frame Bond. In the ensuing struggle, Mathis and the cops are killed, the following day, Bond and Camille survey Quantums intended land acquisition by air, their plane is shot down by a Bolivian fighter aircraft. They skydive into a sinkhole, and discover Quantum is damming Bolivias supply of water to create a monopoly. Back in La Paz, Bond meets M and learns Quantum killed Fields by drowning her in crude oil, Bond meets CIA Agent Felix Leiter, who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet in the Atacama Desert to finalise their agreement
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Another Way to Die
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Another Way to Die is a song by American rock musician and singer Jack White and American R&B singer Alicia Keys. The song is the first single from As I Am, The Super Edition and it was also nominated for Best Song at the 2008 Critics Choice Awards, and won Best Original Song at the Satellite Awards 2008. It was also released as a song for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour on November 7,2008. Roughly the first two minutes of the song were first played on September 13,2008 on the radio show Siglo 21 on Radio 3 in Spain, the song premiered on British radio on September 18,2008 on BBC Radio 1s The Jo Whiley Show. Newsbeat described the reaction from listeners who e-mailed their opinions as mixed, on October 3,2008 the music video premiered on Channel 4. White wrote and produced the song and he plays the guitar, drums and piano, while Keys provides vocals, initial reviews of the song were mixed, with some critics anticipating that the song could grow in popularity the more it was played on radio and performed live. Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis had previously been rumored as the vocalists for the Bond theme, the music video for the song was released on Yahoo. Video on September 29,2008, and directed by P. R. Brown and it has since made its way onto YouTube and other video sharing sites. It can also be seen on the DVD of the film and it features White singing and playing both guitar and the drums. Keys sings and plays piano in the video, Video effects and CGI are in the background featuring wavy lines and use of dawn and dusk. A shot of Daniel Craig as James Bond appears in the very last shot, the video was announced as a nominee for Best Short Form Music Video at the 51st Grammy Awards. In the opening titles to the film, the song begins when Bond fires a bullet. He roams the desert aiming his gun in every direction, aside from the desert theme, there are also visual cues of the night sky, and lines of celestial navigation seen, as well as various handgun silhouettes. The main colors used in the video are black, blue, on September 28,2008, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number twenty-six on downloads alone, and peaked at nine. Also, it became Keys first chart-topper in Finland, and charted inside the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland. In Canada it debuted at fifteen on the Canadian Hot 100 on the issue dated October 18,2008. In the United States it debuted at number eighty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated November 29,2008, in Australia the single made its way into the top forty, peaking at number twenty-nine for the week of December 1,2008. The song received acclaim as a song, but was subject to some poor reception as a Bond theme, with Jude Rogers of The Guardian calling the song jagged
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Baritone guitar
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The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch. Tacoma, Santa Cruz, Taylor, Martin, Alvarez Guitars and others have made acoustic baritone guitars, the baritone guitar first appeared in classical music. More recently, the guitar has appeared in rock, metal. With appropriate strings, some baritone guitars can play in the guitar range. Tic-tac bass is a method of playing, in which a muted baritone guitar doubles the part played by the guitar or double bass. The method is used in country music. A standard guitars standard tuning is E A D G B E, while no standard tuning has been established for baritone guitars, popular tunings for the instrument are, a perfect fifth, a diminished fifth, a perfect fourth, or a major third lower. The most common scale lengths on an electric baritone range from 25.5 to 28.7, With the latter more commonly being tuned lower than a common six-string. The average baritone scale on the market would be around the length of 27, with a tuning set to a perfect fourth. On a standard, steel-string, acoustic guitar, the length is typically 24.9 to 25.7. The scale lengths of various baritone designs range from 27 to 30.5, shorter-scale baritone guitars are more like long-scale guitars, having more midrange volume, whereas the longer scale lengths and heavier string sets give more bass to the instruments timbre. Shorter scale baritones tend to be tuned C-C or B-B, whereas longer ones are typically tuned A-A, the instrument was used almost exclusively on his best-selling 1960 album The Twangs the Thang and appears regularly on singles and albums throughout his career. The twangy sound of his guitars augmented the even deeper twangy sound made by the Danelectro baritone, eddy used the familiar black model and an unusual gray Longhorn model. Brian Wilson often included baritone guitars in his arrangements for The Beach Boys records, such as in Dance, Dance, Dance or Caroline, singer Jimmie Rodgers also favored the baritone guitar, which can be heard in the opening bars of his recording of Woman from Liberia. Baritone guitars became popular in metal music during the late 1980s, as it became increasingly popular to employ lower guitar tunings. Early examples include Carcass and Bolt Thrower, Pat OBrien of the band Cannibal Corpse has a baritone guitar to allow him to use the tuning G# without experiencing tuning problems because of his use of a Floyd Rose tremolo. Dylan Carlson of drone metal band Earth played a guitar on Hex. Machine Head uses baritone guitars tuned to drop B and C# standard, robb Flynn, singer and guitarist from the band, has a signature Epiphone Baritone Flying V model called Love Death
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Jack White
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Jack White is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is known as the singer and guitarist of duo The White Stripes. On April 24,2012, White released his solo album. His second studio album, Lazaretto, was released on June 10,2014, both received wide commercial and critical acclaim. After moonlighting in several underground Detroit bands as a drummer, White founded The White Stripes with fellow Detroit native Meg White in 1997. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, brought international fame with the hit single and accompanying music video. This recognition provided White opportunities to collaborate with artists, including Loretta Lynn. In 2006, White founded The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success, and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won twelve Grammy Awards, and both of his albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts. Rolling Stone ranked him number 70 on its 2010 list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, david Frickes 2011 list ranked him at number 17. White has a collection of guitars and other instruments, and has a preference for vintage items that often have connections to famous blues artists. He is an advocate for analog technology and recording techniques. His record label and studio Third Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own work, as well as that of other artists and his latest album holds the record for most first-week vinyl sales since 1991. White values his privacy and has known to create misdirection about his personal life. He and Meg divorced in 2000 and he was married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013, together, they have a son and daughter. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and he recently bought a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan. John Anthony Gillis was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of ten children—and the seventh son—of Teresa and his mothers family was Polish, while his father was of Scottish-Canadian descent. He was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit
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Meg White
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Megan Martha Meg White is an American drummer known for her work with Jack White in the Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. On an impulse, she played on Jacks drums in 1997, the two decided to form a band and began performing two months later, calling themselves The White Stripes because of their last name and Megs preference for peppermint candy. The band quickly became a Detroit underground favorite, before reaching national, White has been nominated for various awards as a part of the White Stripes, and has received four Grammy Awards. Her drumming style has been called primal for its simplicity, and her musical influences are wide and varied, with Bob Dylan being her favorite artist. Meg calls herself very shy, and has kept a low public profile. In 2009, she married guitarist Jackson Smith, son of musicians Patti Smith, while on tour in support for The White Stripes sixth studio album, Icky Thump, White suffered a bout of acute anxiety, and the remaining dates of the tour were cancelled. After a few appearances, and a hiatus from recording. White has not been active in the industry since. Megan Martha White was born in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan on December 10,1974, to Walter Hackett White, Jr. and she grew up in the affluent Detroit suburb with her parents and older sister, Heather. She attended Grosse Pointe North High School and, according to one classmate, was always the quiet, obviously artistic type, and she just kept very much to herself. While still in school, she decided not to go to college and instead began to work at Memphis Smoke. They began dating and were married on September 21,1996. Throughout the 1990s, Jack worked as an upholsterer, but continued to moonlight in several bands, according to them, on Bastille Day of 1997, Meg first tried playing on Jacks drumkit. In Jacks words, When she started to play drums with me, just on a lark, there was something in it that opened me up. The two then began calling themselves The White Stripes and soon played their first gig at the Gold Dollar in Detroit, in keeping live performances to three basic elements, Jack did the guitar and vocal work while she played drums. Jack and Meg presented themselves as siblings to a public, and keeping to a chromatic theme, dressed only in red, white. They began their career as part of Michigans underground, garage rock music scene and they played along with and opened for more established local bands such as Bantam Rooster, the Dirtbombs, Two Star Tabernacle, Rocket 455, and the Hentchmen, among others. In 1998, the signed with Italy Records, a small
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Spike Jonze
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Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Weezer, the Beastie Boys, Björk and he was a co-creator and executive producer of MTVs Jackass. He is currently the director of Vice Media, Inc. He is part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and he co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, Best Director for Being John Malkovich and he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2014 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Her. Jonze was born on October 22,1969 in Rockville, Maryland and his father, Arthur H. Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family, and founded APM Management Consultants. His mother, Sandra L. Granzow, is a writer, communications consultant in developing countries and his brother, Sam Squeak E. Clean Spiegel, is a producer and DJ. He also has a sister, Julia and his father was from a German Jewish family, while his mother has German, Scottish, and English ancestry. Jonze attended the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, when he was a junior in high school, Jonze spent time at a Bethesda community store, where the former owner Mike Henderson gave him his nickname Spike Jonze in reference to Spike Jones. He fronted Club Homeboy, an international BMX club, with Mark Lew Lewman and Andy Jenkins, the three also created the youth culture magazines Homeboy and Dirt. In 2006, he was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Achievement in Commercials in 2005 and he was nominated for a body of work that included Hello Tomorrow for Adidas, Lamp for IKEA, and Pardon Our Dust for The Gap. He was a producer and co-creator of MTV television series Jackass and Jackass, The Movie, also directing some of the segments. Jonze has acted in videos and films, his most prominent role was in Three Kings as the sweet, dimwitted, casually racist Conrad. Jonze was a co-founder and editor of Dirt magazine along with Mark Lewman and Andy Jenkins, as well as an editor for Grand Royal Magazine and senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding. In the past, Jonze shot street skateboarding videos, most notably Blinds highly influential Video Days in 1991 and he co-directed the Girl Skateboards film Yeah Right. and the Chocolate Skateboards video Hot Chocolate. In the closing montage of Yeah Right. Spike is shown doing a nollie heelflip in loafers and he is co-owner of Girl Skateboards. Jonze has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey, the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, the Koufey persona appeared when Jonze, in character, filmed himself dancing to Fatboy Slims The Rockafeller Skank as it played on a boom box in a public area
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Where the Wild Things Are (film)
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Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, it is adapted from Maurice Sendaks 1963 childrens book of the same name and it combines live-action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery. The film stars Max Records and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine OHara, and Chris Cooper. The film centers on a lonely boy named Max who sails away to an island inhabited by creatures known as the Wild Things. The film was co-produced by actor Tom Hanks through his production company Playtone, where the Wild Things Are was a joint production between Australia, Germany, and the United States, and was filmed principally in Melbourne. The film was released on October 16,2009, in the United States, on December 3 in Australia, the film was met with mostly positive reviews and appeared on many year-end top ten lists. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 2,2010, the film begins with Max, a lonely eight-year-old boy with an active imagination whose parents are divorced, wearing a wolf costume and chasing his dog. His older sister, Claire, does nothing when her friends crush Maxs snow fort during a snowball fight, out of frustration, Max messes up her bedroom and destroys a frame that he had made for her. At school, Maxs teacher teaches him and his classmates about the death of the sun. Later on, his mother, Connie, invites her boyfriend Adrian to dinner, Max becomes upset with his mother for not coming to the fort he made in his room. He wears his costume, acts like an animal. When his mother gets upset, he throws a tantrum and bites her on the shoulder and she yells at him and he runs away, scared by what has transpired. At the edge of a pond, Max finds a boat that he boards. The pond soon becomes an ocean, Max, still in his wolf suit, eventually reaches an island. There, he stumbles upon a group of seven large, monstrous creatures, one of them, Carol, is in the middle of a destructive tantrum while the others attempt to stop him. As Carol wreaks havoc Max tries to join in on the mayhem, when they contemplate eating him, Max convinces them that he is a king with magical powers capable of bringing harmony to the group. They crown him as their new king, shortly after, K. W. returns and Max declares a wild rumpus, in which the Wild Things smash trees and tackle each other. The Wild Things introduce themselves as Carol, Ira, Judith, Alexander, Douglas, the Bull, soon, they all end up piling on one another before going to sleep, with Max at the center
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Karen O
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Karen Lee Orzolek, better known by her stage name Karen O, is a South Korean-born American singer and musician. She is the lead vocalist for American rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and she was born in Busan, South Korea, the daughter of a Korean mother and a Polish father. The family eventually moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where she grew up, about her childhood, she stated that its almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself on stage as an adult. She attended Oberlin College, but transferred to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, O is best known as the lead vocalist for the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She has also noted for her sense of fashion, wearing ostentatious outfits made by her friend. In the early days of the band, she became known for her outrageous antics during live shows. Their first ever gig was opening for The White Stripes, Playboy made an offer for O to pose on their cover, but she stated, I was approached but I said no. Maybe Ill do it in the future, but now doesnt seem to be the right time, since then, however, Karen said in an interview with Associated Press magazine that she has changed her mind and would never do Playboy because of the audience that Playboy magazine attracts. During a tour for the 2003 Livid Festival in Australia, at a sideshow at The Metro in Sydney, a few days later, at the Sydney leg of the Livid Festival, she appeared in a wheelchair pushed onstage by Angus Andrew. O won Spin Magazines Sex Goddess Award in 2004 and 2005, in 2006, she was named one of rocks hottest women by Blender. In 2007, O placed #3 on Spinner. coms Women Who Rock Right Now, in February 2010, she won a Shockwaves NME Award for the Hottest Woman. She began working on a side project called Native Korean Rock. In 2009, she contributed backing vocals, screaming animal sounds, and noises to the songs Gemini Syringes, I Can Be A Frog, in 2011, she contributed vocals on the song Pinkys Dream on the David Lynch debut album Crazy Clown Time. In 2012, she collaborated with rock group Swans on the song Song for a Warrior on their album The Seer. She also lends vocals to the song GO. on Santigolds 2012 album Master of My Make-Believe. On the collaboration project with N. A. S. A. on The Spirit of Apollo, she appears on the track Strange Enough, together with Ol Dirty Bastard, Os vocal approach has been described as ethereal, and has been described as yelping at times. She described her approach, We still have to grab people by the collar … We put out a record three years now, we could easily be forgotten. If you look at a lot of our peers that we came up with, O has also collaborated with James Iha on his second solo LP Look to the Sky in 2012
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Wanda Jackson
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She is known to many as the Queen of Rockabilly or the First Lady of Rockabilly. Jackson mixed country music with fast-moving rockabilly, often recording them on opposite sides of a record and she had a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s among rockabilly revivalists in Europe and younger Americana fans. In 2009 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an Early Influence, Jackson was born to Tom Robert Jackson and Nellie Vera Jackson in Maud, Oklahoma, in 1937. She has lived much of her life in Oklahoma City and her father, a musician, moved the family to Bakersfield, California, during the 1940s in hopes of a better life. Two years later, he bought Jackson a guitar and encouraged her to play and he also took her to see performances by Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and Bob Wills, which left a lasting impression. In 1948, when she was 11, the family moved back to Oklahoma, in 1956, she won a talent contest which led to her own radio program, soon extended by 30 minutes. She recorded a few songs on their label, Capitol Records, including You Cant Have My Love, the song was released as a single in 1954 and reached number 8 on the country chart. Jackson asked Capitol to sign her but was turned down by producer Ken Nelson and she signed with Decca Records instead. After graduating from school, Jackson began to tour with her father as manager. She often shared the bill with Elvis Presley, who encouraged Jackson to sing rockabilly, Jackson briefly dated Elvis while touring. She was a cast member of ABC-TVs Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri, in 1956 she signed with Capitol, recording a number of singles mixing country with rock and roll. I Gotta Know, released in 1956, peaked at number 15, Jacksons stage outfits in these years were often designed by her mother. Unlike the traditional clothing worn by country music singers of the time, she wore fringe dresses, high heels. She has claimed she was the first woman to put glamor into country music and she continued to record more rockabilly singles through the decade with producer Ken Nelson. Jackson insisted that Nelson make her records sound like those of label mates Gene Vincent, Nelson brought in many experienced and popular session players, including the rock-and-roll pianist Merill Moore and the then unknown Buck Owens. With a unique style and upbeat material, Jackson created some of the most influential rock. In the late 1950s, Jackson recorded and released a number of rockabilly songs and that Made Him Mad, Mean, Mean Man, Fujiyama Mama and Honey Bop. The songs were only regional hits and she toured Japan in February and March 1959
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Blunderbuss (album)
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Blunderbuss is the debut album by Jack White, released on April 23,2012 through Whites own label Third Man Records in association with XL Recordings and Columbia Records. The album was released in MP3, compact disc, and vinyl editions, the album was almost entirely written, recorded, and produced by White in 2011. The first single from the album, Love Interruption, was released on January 30,2012 through Whites website, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 138,000 copies. The album received Grammy Award nominations for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards, the single Im Shakin was nominated for Best Rock Performance at 2014 Grammy Awards. Blunderbuss has its roots in Whites recordings with several artists under his label, Third Man Records, the tracks would later develop into songs that appear on the album. The album was produced by Grammy-winning sound engineer Vance Powell, who had worked with such names as The Whigs, Kings of Leon. The entire album was recorded to 8-track analogue tape, according to White, he used “100 different production styles on the record. He explained, It came from the freedom of having my own studio, what was great too with all these hired guns in the room was that I could write on-the-fly. I could ask people to play something, and I would go somewhere else, I was directing people in the room. I had never done that before, when you are in a band, you dont really tell other people what to play. In regards to issuing a solo album, White said, Ive put off making records under my own name for a long time. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, the studio version of Sixteen Saltines was subsequently released via Whites YouTube channel on March 13. Promotional copies of the album, distributed to reviewers and radio stations, were sent as vinyl records to prevent leaks, the album leaked on April 15, nine days ahead of its official release. On April 16, Third Man Records streamed the album in its entirety on iTunes for free listening,8 days before its release, the vinyl LP version of the record was pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville, TN. The photographs on the album were taken outside the Nashville Electric Service South Substation in Nashville. The Japanese edition of the album features two tracks, Machine Gun Silhouette and a cover of U2s Love Is Blindness. Love Interruption was the first single from the album, released January 30,2012, on February 8,2012, Machine Gun Silhouette, the B-side to Love Interruption, appeared on SoundCloud, but it was quickly removed. The single peaked at #13 and #27 on the Billboard US Alternative Songs and US Rock Songs charts, Sixteen Saltines was the second single, released on March 13,2012
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Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums over a career of almost 60 years. She is the most awarded female recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade. Lynn is the second of eight born to Clara Marie Clary and Melvin Theodore Ted Webb. In January 1948, 15-year-old Loretta married Oliver Doolittle Lynn and their life together inspired the music she wrote. In 1953 Doolittle bought her a $17 Harmony guitar and she often appeared at Bills Tavern in Blaine, Washington, and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer, Washington, with the Pen Brothers band and the Westerneers. She cut her first record, Im a Honky Tonk Girl and she became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967 she had the first of 16 number-one hits and her later hits include Dont Come Home A Drinkin, You Aint Woman Enough, Fist City, and Coal Miners Daughter. Lynn focused on womens issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses. Country music radio stations refused to play her music, banning nine of her songs. She and contemporaries like Tammy Wynette provided a template for artists in country music to follow. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miners Daughter, was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the title in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek. Her album Van Lear Rose, released in 2004, was produced by the rock musician Jack White, Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys. Lynn has received awards in country and American music. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013, Lynn has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since joining on September 25,1962, her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15,1960. Lynn has recorded 70 albums, including 54 studio albums,15 compilation albums, and one tribute album, Lynn was born and raised in Butcher Hollow, Van Lear, Kentucky, a mining community near Paintsville. Her mother was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry, Loretta was the second of eight children. She was named after the film star Loretta Young, Ted Webb never got to see his daughter become famous, as he died in 1959 of coalworkers pneumoconiosis before Lorettas first single, Im A Honky Tonk Girl, was released. Besides her famous siblings and children who perform, she is related to the country singer Patty Loveless on her mothers side and she is also related, on her mothers side, to Venus Ramey, Miss America of 1944
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Van Lear Rose
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Van Lear Rose is an album by Loretta Lynn, released in 2004 and produced by Jack White of the rock band the White Stripes. At the time of the release, Lynn was 72. The title refers to Lynns origins as the daughter of a miner working the Van Lear coal mines, the album peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and at number 24 on the Billboard 200, the most successful crossover music album of Lynns 45-year career. The track Portland, Oregon was listed as the 305th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media, the album was released to glowing reviews and near universal acclaim. It received a rating of 97 at Metacritic. com, the joint-second highest score to date, blender magazine called the album Some of the most gripping singing youre going to hear all year. A brave, unrepeatable record that speaks to her whole life, rhapsody ranked the album #16 on its Country’s Best Albums of the Decade list. Jack White, of the bizarre and bluesy duo the White Stripes, Van Lear Rose is a stripped-down effort that isnt afraid to get dirty -- both in its dark subject matter and in its raucous, gritty tones. And as much as body of work highlights Lynns down-home vocals. On paper, these two disparate souls have little in common, but the excitement of the music proves the two are a match made in heaven. The album debuted at No.2 on the Top Country Albums chart, and No.24 on Billboard 200, selling 37,000 in its first week, all tracks written by Loretta Lynn, except where noted
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Sewed Soles
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Sewed Soles is a compilation album from the rock band The Greenhornes. It was released in November 2005 and it consists of old recordings of songs from their previous albums, including their East Grand Blues EP as well as original tracks. All tracks written by Craig Fox, Jack Lawrence, Patrick Keeler, a low budget music video was produced for There Is An End. The video featured the British singer-songwriter Holly Golightly, the Raconteurs Albums produced by Jack White East Grand Blues There Is an End music video
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Broken Boy Soldiers
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Broken Boy Soldiers is the debut album by American rock band The Raconteurs, released on May 15,2006 in the United Kingdom and May 16,2006 in the United States. The album was favored among critics and spawned the hit single Steady. The album earned a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 49th Grammy Awards, the songs were written by Brendan Benson and Jack White. Steady, As She Goes was the first song the pair worked on, after the completion of these two songs and their demos, they called in Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler to work on the songs. In an interview with Uncut magazine White said that Store Bought Bones originated from an outtake of The White Stripes album, in the same interview, Benson also said that Call It a Day and Together were both songs he was working on for his next solo album. Benson said in an interview with Mojo magazine that the album feels like a demo because of how the plays the songs live now. Hands features a heavily influenced by AC/DCs Back in Black, Call It a Day has been sped up, Store Bought Bones has been merged with B-side The Bane Rendition. The cover was photographed by Autumn de Wilde and designed by Patrick Keeler, critics were generally favorable towards Broken Boy Soldiers. Rolling Stone said of the album Expectations were sky-high, but the Raconteurs exceed them all, more conservatively, Billboard remarked No one is breaking any ground here, and White fanatics looking for a new White Stripes record should temper their expectations. But as far as side projects go, this is as good as it gets, dan Raper of PopMatters described the groups sound in the album as garage-tinged/power-pop/rock n roll, the kind of straightforward verse-chorus-bridge songs that do well on commercial radio. Rob Fitzpatrick of NME regarded it as psychedelic pop-rock that was popular between 1965 and 1968, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that the albums songs prove that the Raconteurs are nothing less than a first-rate power pop band. The album ranked No.28 on Rolling Stones year-end critics list and it entered the UK charts at #2 and managed to reach #7 in the U. S. Since its release, it has sold approximately 425,000 copies in the U. S, in December 2006, Britains Mojo magazine made it their Album of the Year. The lead single Steady, As She Goes became the bands first Top 10 hit in the UK, all songs by Brendan Benson and Jack White
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Consolers of the Lonely
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Consolers of the Lonely is the second album by American rock band The Raconteurs. It was released on March 25,2008 on Warner Bros. Records in most parts of the world, the band did no promotion before the albums release, and its existence was only confirmed a week before. Even so, the record was leaked by iTunes. It is available on CD, vinyl, and MP3, a video for the first single from the album, Salute Your Solution was released on the same day. The album earned a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 51st Grammy Awards, the band premiered Five on the Five during their last tour. The title of the record comes from the inscription in the side of a Washington, according to the band, the album was finished during the first week in March and was released less than three weeks later. For a band of their stature, the release of Consolers of the Lonely with no promotion was highly unorthodox, music critics and commentators largely saw it as a way to eschew critics and deal directly with fans. The Observer called it one of the most exciting events of 2008. Despite the already rapid release time and efforts to secure the date, critique of Consolers of the Lonely was mostly positive, much of it centered on the chaotic sound and diverse nature of the album as well as its resemblance to albums by Led Zeppelin and The Who. According to The Toronto Star, Whites bent Americana and Bensons British invasion-isms yields wonderfully unpredictable results, kitty Empire of The Observer called the album lively and said it finds luxuriating in fancy stuff with kid-in-a-sweetshop enthusiasm. Minimalism is out, bombast is in, the detail, is, as ever, austin-American Statesmen said its a weirdly overblown and curiously dull album, and complained about its production. The New York Times echoed those statements about the chaos of the album, the Guardian found that on Consolers of the Lonely, the Raconteurs establish a firm, emotionally charged identity of their own and called the effort flawed but ragged glory. Allmusic concluded that the album is a lop-sided, bottom-loaded album thats better and richer than their debut, the album was nominated for Best Rock Album and won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 51st Grammy Awards. The album ranked No.44 on Rolling Stones year-end critics list, the album was ranked the #4 Album of the Decade by Glide Magazine. The album debuted at #7 on the U. S. Billboard 200 chart and it debuted at #8 on the UK Album Chart, #4 on the Canadian Album Chart, and #50 on the Australian ARIA chart on 7 April 2008, based on digital downloads. However, the CD was released on 5 April, thus allowing the album the week to ascend 32 places to reach its peak position thus far of #18 due to physical sales. The stage portrayed on the cover of the album depicts three signs for Tennessee, Michigan, and Ohio, after being folded out the scene then depicts the band on stage with a woman exiting from a door in the back. It also has a sign that says The Raconteurs and another that says the albums title, once opened up, it is noticed that the stage is empty and the bass drum in the back says Sanitary Workers Band
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Horehound (album)
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Horehound is the debut studio album by American rock band The Dead Weather. It was released on July 10 in Australia, July 13 in Europe, the album was recorded at Third Man Studios during a three-week session in January 2009. The first single from the album, Hang You from the Heavens, was released through iTunes on March 11,2009, treat Me Like Your Mother was released as the second single from the album on May 25,2009. The third single from the album was set to be I Cut Like A Buffalo, the album debuted at No.6 on the U. S. Billboard 200 Album Charts and at No.14 on the UK Album Charts
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Sea of Cowards
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Sea of Cowards is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band The Dead Weather. It was first released on May 7 in Ireland, then on May 11,2010, in the U. S. the album was streamed on the bands website, via continuous vinyl playback, for a period of 24 hours from April 30 to May 1. It was subsequently available for streaming on various media streaming websites such as National Public Radio and this album was number 11 on Rolling Stones list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010. In 2009, the group worked on 15 songs over three days at Whites Nashville studio, Third Man Records and they reconvened at the studio in December, and recorded the album in three weeks. The vinyl LP version was pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville, on May 3, before the albums release, the band played a special show at Whites Third Man Records where Sea Of Cowards was played in its entirety. The show was streamed on MySpace and subsequently appeared on the bands YouTube channel, the performance was released on 12 vinyl through the Third Man Records Vault subscription service, recorded live to analog tape and pressed directly to vinyl. This is in contrast to the mastering process of the original album. According to Billboard magazine, the blues that drives tracks like Hustle and Cuss. Brisbane periodical mX identified the song as a road trip through voodoo blues, garage rock. Sea of Cowards received generally favorable reviews, ratings with Metacritic rating of 70, giving the album a B+, Entertainment Weekly said it was 35 minutes of furious guitar solos and demonic howls. Blare magazine remarked that the album combines the group’s sinister attitude with dreary funk, the album debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 5, and No.3 on Top Rock Albums and it has sold 171,000 copies in the US as of September 2015. There are also two bonus songs pressed on the label of Sea of Cowards vinyl. The albums song I Cant Hear You was featured in the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love and is a playable song in the guitar-themed video game Rocksmith
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Four Stars (album)
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Four Stars is the fourth studio album by rock band The Greenhornes, it is available on iTunes, and the CD and LP released on November 9,2010. It is their first studio album in eight years, with Dual Mono in 2002 and their first original release since East Grand Blues, an EP released in 2005. After recording two albums and immense touring through North America, the UK and Australia, the announced they would be taking a break. During this time, Lawrence and Keeler also performed as The Do-Whatters, after these projects, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler reunited with Craig Fox again in Ohio, where they recorded Four Stars in mid-2010. Although Four Stars was originally set to be released in October and it was released on Jack Whites Third Man Records label in Nashville, Tennessee. Track 1, Saying Goodbye, can be heard at the end of the 2011 film The Green Hornet, like many Third Man Records releases, Four Stars was released on multiple varieties of unusually-colored vinyl. Along with the black vinyl version, undisclosed quantities of limited-edition green vinyl. All songs written by Craig Fox, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler
