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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Norah Jones
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Norah Jones is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, Jones has won awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade and she has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazines artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart. In 2002, Jones launched her music career with the release of Come Away with Me. It was certified diamond, selling over 26 million copies, the record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. They were also well received by critics. Jones fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts, was released on April 27,2012, Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, and half-sister of fellow musician Anoushka Shankar. Jones was born Geetali Norah Shankar on March 30,1979 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, to American concert producer Sue Jones, after her parents separated in 1986, Shankar lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. She attended Colleyville Middle School and Grapevine High School before transferring to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing, while in high school, she sang in the school choir, participated in band, and played the alto saxophone. At the age of sixteen, with parents consent, she officially changed her name to Norah Jones. Jones always had an affinity for the music of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday and she once said, My mom had this eight-album Billie Holiday set, I picked out one disc that I liked and played that over and over again. As a child, Jones began singing in church and also took piano and she considers herself spiritual and appreciates the rituals of her church but does not consider herself deeply religious. She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts during the summers, while at high school, she won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and Best Original Composition. Jones attended the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, during this time, she had a chance meeting with future collaborator Jesse Harris. She gave a ride to a band playing at the university whose members happened to be friends of Harris and he was on a cross-country road-trip with friend and future Little Willies member Richard Julian, and stopped to see the band play. After meeting Jones, Harris started sending her lead sheets of his songs, in 1999, Jones left Texas for New York City. Less than a later, she started a band with Harris. As artist Peter Malick states in the notes, I started looking for a singer who could record for me
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Roots rock
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Roots rock is rock music that looks back to rocks origins in folk, blues and country music. Because roots music is used to mean folk and world musical forms. In the 1980s, roots rock enjoyed a revival in response to trends in rock, new wave. The same movement saw the beginning of the careers of Californian solo artists like Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt. The back to basics tendency would also be evident in the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street, the Beatles The White Album and Let It Be. The Doors Morrison Hotel and L. A. Woman, as well as the Grateful Deads Workingmans Dead Dylans lead was followed by The Byrds. The result of Parsons tenure in the Byrds was Sweetheart of the Rodeo, country rock was a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by bands including Hearts and Flowers, Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage. Some folk-rockers followed the Byrds into the genre, among them the Beau Brummels, one of the few acts to successfully move from the country side towards rock were the bluegrass band The Dillards. Members of Ronstadts former backing band went on to form the Eagles, country rock began to fade in the late 1970s in the face of punk and new wave trends.38 Special, and Molly Hatchet. It has been seen as an American Midwest and Rust Belt counterpart to West Coast country rock and it can also be heard as an influence on artists as diverse as Billy Joel, Kid Rock and The Killers. As rock music in general, and blue collar and white working class themes in particular, lost influence with younger audiences, the term roots rock was coined during the mid-80s. Also part of trend and enjoying some mainstream success were Gun Club, Chris Isaak, John Mellencamp, BoDeans. In addition the alternative country movement, producing figures as Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Uncle Tupelo. The movement began to decline in popularity again in the 1990s but produced some bands like Son Volt, Wilco, after disbanding Dire Straits in 1995, frontman and lyricist Mark Knopfler has largely returned to a roots-rock sound across his nine albums since. List of Roots rock bands and musicians
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Folk rock
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It has also been influential in those parts of the world with close cultural connections to Britain and gave rise to the genre of folk punk. By the 1980s the genre was in decline in popularity. When English bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s defined themselves as electric folk they were making a distinction with the existing folk rock. Folk rock was what they had already been producing, American or American style singer-songwriter material played on instruments, as undertaken by Bob Dylan. They drew the distinction because they were focusing on indigenous songs, the result of this hybridisation was an exchange of specific features drawn from Traditional music and Rock music. For example, electric folk groups, while using traditional material as their source for lyrics and tunes. In the same year, The Beatles began incorporating overt folk influences into their music, the Beatles and other British Invasion bands, in turn, influenced the Californian band The Byrds, who began playing folk-influenced material and Bob Dylan compositions with rock instrumentation. The Byrds recording of Dylans Mr Tambourine Man was released in April 1965 and reached #1 on the U. S. and UK singles charts, setting off the mid-1960s folk rock movement. The Beatles late 1965 album, Rubber Soul, contained a number of songs clearly influenced by the American folk rock boom, such as Nowhere Man and If I Needed Someone. Folk rock became an important genre among emerging English bands, particularly those in the London club scene towards the end of the 1960s. Like the American revival, it was often overtly left wing in its politics, most important among their responses were the foundation of folk clubs in major towns, starting with London where MacColl began the Ballads and Blues Club in 1953. These clubs were usually urban in location, but the songs sung in them often hearkened back to a rural pre-industrial past, in many ways this was the adoption of abandoned popular music by the middle classes. This meant that there were, by the later 1960s, a group of performers with musical skill and knowledge of a variety of traditional songs. The result was an interpretation of the song A Sailors Life. The rapid expansion of electric folk that followed in the wake of Liege, five Hand Reel a band formed out of the remnants of Spencers Feat proved to be one of the more successful and influential folk rock bands. Releasing 4 albums with Topic/RCA records they were popular in Europe. He then quit that and eventually formed the Albion Country Band, later the Albion Band, a much smaller group of English bands were formed in emulation of existing electric rock bands. Fiddlers Dram were often dismissed as one hit wonders for their single Day Trip to Bangor, most of their career, from that point until they disbanded in 1979, was one of declining profile and sales
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Blue Note Records
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Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards and it derives its name from the characteristic blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz, while the original company did not itself record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell. Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the hard bop style of jazz, but also recorded essential albums in the avant-garde and free styles of jazz. Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, the label is currently owned by the Universal Music Group. Lion first heard jazz as a boy in Berlin. The Blue Note label initially consisted of Lion and Max Margulis, musicians were supplied with alcoholic refreshments, and recorded in the early hours of the morning after their evenings work in clubs and bars had finished. Francis Wolff, a photographer, emigrated to the USA at the end of 1939 and soon joined forces with Lion. In 1941, Lion was drafted into the army for two years, Milt Gabler at the Commodore Music Store offered storage facilities and helped keep the catalog in print, with Wolff working for him. By late 1943, the label was back in recording musicians. Johnson, who was returning to a degree of musical activity after having largely recovered from a stroke suffered in 1940. Towards the end of the war, saxophonist Ike Quebec was among those who recorded for the label, Quebec would act as a talent scout for the label until his death in 1963. Although stylistically belonging to a generation, he could appreciate the new bebop style of jazz. Lion recorded several Monk sessions before he began to release the resulting sides, monks recordings for Blue Note between 1947 and 1952 did not sell well for some years, but have since come to be regarded as the most important of his career. The sessions by Powell are commonly ranked among his best, J. J. Johnson and trumpeter Miles Davis both recorded several sessions for Blue Note between 1952 and 1954, but by then the musicians who had created bebop were starting to explore other styles. The recording of musicians performing in a jazz idiom, such as Sidney Bechet and clarinettist George Lewis. In 1951, Blue Note issued their first vinyl 10 releases, the label was soon recording emerging talent such as Horace Silver and Clifford Brown. Meanwhile, Milt Jackson and the Jazz Messengers recorded for Blue Note, the Milt Jackson Quartet session was a one-off, but Blakeys various groups recorded for the label extensively, if intermittently, for the next decade
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Danger Mouse (musician)
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Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album and he formed Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green and produced its albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. In 2009 he collaborated with James Mercer of the rock band The Shins to form the band Broken Bells. In addition, Burton worked with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom and released the album The Mouse, as a producer Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005s Demon Days, as well as Becks 2008 record Modern Guilt and three albums with The Black Keys. In 2016, Danger Mouse produced, performed on and co-wrote songs for the studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers titled The Getaway. Danger Mouse has also produced and co-written albums by Norah Jones, Electric Guest, the Man, Adele, and ASAP Rockys. He has been nominated for 19 Grammy Awards and has won 6, hes been nominated in the Producer of the Year category five times, and won the award in 2011. Brian Joseph Burton was born in White Plains, New York, to an African American father and he spent much of his childhood in Spring Valley, New York. Burton also lived in Athens, Georgia for a while, where his trip hop work was released under the name Pelican City and he also remixed work by several local artists, including Neutral Milk Hotel and DJd for University of Georgia radio station WUOG-FM. From 1998 to 2003, Burton also created a series of remix CDs and he performed in a mouse outfit because he was too shy to show his face, and took his name from the British cartoon series Danger Mouse. Afterwards, Burton approached CeeLo Green, a member of Goodie Mob and it would be several years before the pair made contact again, but the two would eventually collaborate as Gnarls Barkley. Burton moved to Britain for a couple of years, living in New Cross in London, while there, he sent a demo to Lex Records, which signed him. He discussed his feelings about any controversy the album may have created in the documentary Alternative Freedom, Danger Mouse was also named among the Men of the Year by GQ in 2004 and won a 2005 Wired Rave Award. The Grey Album also got the attention of Damon Albarn, who enlisted Danger Mouse to produce the Gorillaz second studio album, Demon Days earned Burton a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. Danger Mouses next project was The Mouse and the Mask, a collaboration with MF DOOM about, the two had previously collaborated on the Danger Mouse remix of Zero 7s Somersault, on the Prince Po track Social Distortion, and on Gorillaz November Has Come. A year later, DANGERDOOM released a follow-up EP called Occult Hymn, the 7-track EP featured new songs as well as remixes of tracks from The Mouse & The Mask and was released exclusively as a free download on Adult Swims site. In 2006, Danger Mouse and CeeLo released their first album, St. Elsewhere, Crazy became the first UK number-one single based solely on downloads. Gnarls Barkley set out on tour and was one of the opening acts on the Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium World Tour
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... Featuring Norah Jones
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… Featuring Norah Jones is a compilation album by American artist Norah Jones. It was released on November 16,2010, through Blue Note Records, the album includes songs by other artists on which Jones is featured on, including songs by her side projects The Little Willies and El Madmo. The album includes Here We Go Again, a duet with Ray Charles, the song Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John by Belle & Sebastian appeared one month after the release of the album on which it was originally included, Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
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Foreverly
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Foreverly is a collaborative album by Billie Joe Armstrong, best known as lead singer and guitarist of Green Day, and jazz/pop singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It was released on November 25,2013, through Reprise Records, Foreverly is a collection of traditional songs, and is a reinterpretation of the 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us by The Everly Brothers. It is promoted by the lead single Long Time Gone, a lyric video for the song was released on November 13,2013, and was followed by the release of a music video for Silver Haired Daddy of Mine five days later. In an interview with Stereogum, Armstrong said, It all started with Stevie Wonder and we sang together with Stevie Wonder and his band and a whole bunch of people, that’s how Norah and I first met. Then … well, I got into the Everly Brothers’ record a couple years ago, I was listening to it every morning for a while off and on. And so my wife said, Why don’t you get Norah Jones to do it, and I was like, Well, I kinda know her. Well, I mean, we had Stevie Wonder in common, and so I called her and she said yes. So it was kinda like a … well, I keep saying it was kinda like a blind date, in the studio, Jones and Armstrong were joined by bassist Tim Luntzel and drummer Dan Rieser. The recording started with the first song off Songs Our Daddy Taught Us because they didnt know where else to begin, asked about singing harmonies together with Armstrong, Jones said, I feel like on the first song it started coming together. But it definitely took a minute to get super, super comfortable, but then after hearing what the first song sounded like I thought, Oh. It’s gonna be great, it’s gonna be fine, the songs were initially recorded during a five-day session, except for one track that Armstrong and Jones forgot about. After a few weeks the musicians met for another session to record it, personally, I really enjoy doing records in two sessions so you have some room to see how you feel about everything. It was nice to go back and have room to just kinda re-record a couple of songs that we’d done in the beginning. We figured out which way the record was going at that point and what was missing and we just hit it a little harder. I like doing it in two sessions like that, said Norah Jones, upon its release, Foreverly received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. Jones suppleness sands down Armstrongs ragged voice, he gives her grit while she lends him grace, club gave the album a B, saying As it is, Foreverly is a smart, lovely tribute LP. The highlight comes when Jones takes the lead on Rockin Alone, mark Lore of Paste gave the album 7.6 out of 10, saying No doubt Foreverly will steer a few more listeners to Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Happy Pills (song)
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Happy Pills is a song by the American singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It is the single from her fifth studio album Little Broken Hearts and was released digitally on March 6,2012. Written by Jones and co-written and produced by Brian Burton, it tells the story of Jones emancipating herself from a relationship, musically, it is a gritty, bluesy song with a playful pop sound. It received mostly positive reviews, with critics complimenting its style. Happy Pills was written by Jones and co-written and produced by Brian Burton, the song surprised Jones and Burton from the moment they wrote it. Jones called it too much fun, saying that they couldnt stop singing it and while they didnt know if it would fit on the record, the song revolves around a breakup as Jones admits to be feeling good about not having to deal with her lover anymore. One lyric pleads, Would you please just let me go now, addressing a man who crushed her feelings. The song has described as upbeat and jazzy. On February 28,2012, Jones premiered Happy Pills on her Facebook page via SoundCloud, after she announced that she would be performing at SXSW in 2012, she added that she would perform the single for the first time at that event. Jones has performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman, with Jools Holland and Good Morning America. Becky Bain of Idolator described the song as a sunny, languid tune, in a second review, Bain said that it is a lethargic but lovely lark of a song. Simon Vozick-Levinson from Rolling Stone wrote that her voice is breezy, ray Rahman from Entertainment Weekly wrote that the song is a simple, catchy, pop-leaning number that makes us that much more excited about Jones’ comeback year. It’s exactly what a Norah Jones record would sound like in the current alt-pop climate, a lyric video for the track was released on March 5,2012. The official music video, directed by Isaiah Seret, premiered on VH1 on April 6,2012, according to Under the Gun the video features Jones crooning about the feeling of being in love against visuals of simple elegance, murder, and grace. Jones told VH1 that It’s like a murder-not-so-much-of-a-mystery
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The Black Keys
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The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, the bands raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbachs blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin Wolf, and Robert Johnson. Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college, after signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up, which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. Their third album, Rubber Factory, received acclaim and boosted the bands profile. The groups commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single Tighten Up, won three Grammy Awards. Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received strong reviews and peaked at two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the bands career. The album and its hit single Lonely Boy won three Grammy Awards, in 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first met when they were eight or nine years old living in the same neighborhood of Akron. Auerbach and Carney both come from musical backgrounds, Auerbach is the cousin of guitarist Robert Quine, a veteran of New Yorks avant-rock scene. Carney is the nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Tom Waits albums, while attending Firestone High School, they became friends, though they were part of different crowds—Auerbach was captain of the high school soccer team, while Carney was a social outcast. Encouraged by their brothers, the duo began jamming together in 1996, as Auerbach was learning guitar at the time and Carney owned a four-track recorder, after graduating, both briefly attended the University of Akron before dropping out. Auerbach attempted to make a living performing at small bars in town. To record one, he asked for help from Carney, who agreed to recording equipment. However, none of Auerbachs backing band showed up on the recording date, instead, Carney and Auerbach jammed, eventually leading to the duo forming a band in mid-2001. Together, they recorded a demo consisting of old blues rip-offs. On March 20,2002, the duo played their first live show at Clevelands Beachland Ballroom and Tavern to an audience of approximately eight people. The bands debut album, The Big Come Up, was recorded entirely in Carneys basement on an 8-track tape recorder in lo-fi and was released in May 2002, three months after they signed to Alive. Two tracks, covers of the blues standard Leavin Trunk and The Beatles song She Said
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Gnarls Barkley
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Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo, composed of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse. They have released two albums, St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. St. Elsewhere was recorded on the Warner Music UK label and it was also nominated at the 2007 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, and was platinum certified for shipping over 1,000,000 records. The Odd Couple was recorded on Downtown Records label, and was scheduled for release in April 2008, the album in its entirety received good reviews, but did not have as much commercial success as their first album. CeeLo Green first entered the scene as part of the Atlanta hip hop group Goodie Mob which had a hand in the Dirty South movement of the 1990s. Green left the group after their album in 1999 and started his solo career. That year he sang on Do You Like the Way along with Lauryn Hill on Santanas multi-platinum Supernatural album and he received international attention for his mash-up The Grey Album, which blended the a cappella edition of Jay-Zs The Black Album with samples from The Beatles White Album. The duo first met while Green was on a tour for which Danger Mouse happened to be the DJ, a High Plains drifter, I might add. Danger Mouse said, Theres no story behind it. The name doesnt have anything to do with anything, although many people believe that their name has something to do with former NBA player Charles Barkley, the duo dismiss that idea. Sanjiv asked them about it, saying Not even Charles Barkley, to which Danger Mouse replied, Nope. Its just like everything else on this record, there was no conscious decision about stuff. The costuming extends to photo shoots, as Burton and Cee Lo would rather impersonate characters from films as Back to the Future or Waynes World. They also have dressed up as characters from films A Clockwork Orange, about Gnarls Barkley, Green said in an interview, That is that electric industrial Euro soul, thats what I call it. If I can call it anything and it truly is shapeless and formless. My style and my approach is water, and it runs so deep. So, with that project I got a chance to be a lil zany, of course a continuation of eccentricity, abstract and vague, and all of those wonderful things that make art exactly what it is. As far as the artiste himself, it does cater to and extend the legacy of Cee Lo Green and it is a great project that Im very, very proud of. Crazy was released as their first single on April 3,2006, in an interview with journalist Stephen Mooallem about their single Crazy, Mooallem asked the duo, Is it true that Cee-Lo recorded the vocals for Crazy in just one take
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Beck
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Beck Hansen, known mononymously as Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style. Today, he musically encompasses folk, funk, soul, hip hop, alternative rock, country and he has released 12 studio albums, as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music. Born in Los Angeles in 1970, Beck grew towards hip-hop and folk in his teens and began to perform locally at coffeehouses and he moved to New York City in 1989 and became involved in the citys small fiery anti-folk movement. Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single Loser, which became a hit in 1994, and released his first major album, Mellow Gold. Odelay, released in 1996, produced hit singles, topped critic polls and he released the psychedelic Mutations in 1998, and the funk-infused Midnite Vultures in 1999. The soft-acoustic Sea Change in 2002 showcased a more serious Beck and he is reportedly working on a thirteenth studio album, with the singles Dreams and Wow having already been released. Two of Becks most popular and acclaimed recordings are Odelay and Sea Change, the four-time platinum artist has collaborated with several artists and has made several contributions to soundtracks. Beck is married to actress Marissa Ribisi, and is an active Scientologist, Beck was born in Los Angeles, to David Campbell, a Canadian-born musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist and former Warhol superstar. Bibbes mother was half Jewish, while Bibbes father, Al Hansen, was partly of Norwegian descent, Beck has said that he was raised celebrating Jewish holidays, and that he considers himself Jewish. Becks mother grew up amid New Yorks Andy Warhol Factory art scene of the 1960s, but moved to California at age 17 and his father is a Canadian-born arranger, composer and conductor who worked on hundreds of albums and numerous films. Beck began life in a house near downtown Los Angeles. As a child, he lived in a neighborhood just off Hollywood Boulevard. By the time we left there, they were ripping out miles of houses en masse and building low-rent, giant apartment blocks, the lower-class family struggled financially, moving to Hoover and Ninth Street, a neighborhood populated primarily by Koreans and Salvadorian refugees. He was sent for a time to live with his grandparents in Kansas. Since his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music, Beck also spent time in Europe with his maternal grandfather, Al Hansen, a visual collage artist and a pioneer in the avant-garde Fluxus movement. Beck obtained his first guitar at 16 and became a street musician, during his teens, Beck discovered the music of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and X, but remained uninterested in most music outside folk until many years into his career
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The Fall (Norah Jones album)
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The Fall is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released November 17,2009, through Blue Note Records. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200, selling 180,000 copies in its first week. As of August 2012, the album has more than three million copies worldwide. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, the cover artwork for the album features a portrait by photographer Autumn de Wilde. The first single, Chasing Pirates, was released on October 13,2009, “Young Blood” was released as the second single for North America, Europe and Japan. The music video was available at iTunes on 30 March 2010. The song has reached #33 on the Japan Hot 100, stuck was released as the second single on March 5,2010 in the UK. Its Gonna Be was released as the single for North America in April 2010. It charted on the billboard Triple A Chart and peak on airplay chart #11 in April 2010, Jones performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Jones reappeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on June 25 and performed Its Gonna Be on the show for a second time and she performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on August 31,2010. Billboard gave the album a score of 83 out of 100 and stated that Jones ditches the gentle piano-playing of her previous work and rises to a new level of creative boldness. The New York Times gave it a review and called it the sonic and emotional expansion music needed. Uncut gave it four out of five and said that The emotional imprint. Moves beyond the pining, wistful tones that are trademark in favor of Sex And The City scenarios bursting with heartbreak, regret, Q also gave it four stars out of five and praised the album for its copper-bottomed classics. MusicOMH likewise gave it four out of five and said, Less predictable was her now clear desire to take risks and step off the all-too-well-forged path of safe. Instead, on The Fall Norah Jones chooses to defy categorization, Hot Press gave it a score of four out of five with the header, Easy listening princess goes indie-goth. Filter gave the album a score of 78% and stated that unlike Not Too Late, in a way, she has indeed found a different beat to groove to, and if anyone can play in a piano bar without a piano, it would certainly be Norah Jones. Paste gave it a score of 7.6 out of 10 and stated that Jones is clearly comfortable with where she’s arrived, spin gave it a score of seven out of ten and said that the album has been billed as Norah Jones rock album
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The Little Willies
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The Little Willies is an American alternative country supergroup formed in 2003. It features Norah Jones on piano and vocals, Richard Julian on vocals, Jim Campilongo on guitar, Lee Alexander on bass, the group formed around a love of country classics. Between members regular gigs, they first played at New York City’s Living Room, the show led to a series of events, including a benefit concert for public radio station WFUV. The loose-knit collective found itself with a growing following, the Little Willies’ self-titled debut album has added to their popularity. Their first album features covers of tracks by Fred Rose, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt and Kris Kristofferson. Fusing cover material with a few of their own original compositions and their second album was released in January,2012 and features covers from a variety of down-home legends, including Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and many more. Official website The Little Willies at AllMusic Review of the bands self-titled album Review of The Little Willies
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Broken Bells
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Broken Bells is an American indie rock band composed of artist-producer Brian Burton and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band The Shins. Broken Bells compose and create as a duo, but are joined by Dan Elkan, the previous live band included Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band sidemen Nate Walcott and Nik Freitas, and Jonathan Hischke and Dan Elkan, both ex-members of Hella. Following their 2010 self-titled debut album, the duo released an EP, Meyrin Fields, in 2011 and their studio album, After the Disco. Brian Burton and James Mercer decided to work together after meeting at the Roskilde Festival in 2004 and it took four more years before the two started working together and by March 2008 Mercer and Burton began recording together in secret at Burtons Los Angeles-based studio. The project was first announced on September 29,2009, the two described their material as melodic, but experimental, too. Prior to the formation of Broken Bells, Mercer and Burton both worked together on the track Insane Lullaby on the album Dark Night of the Soul by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse. Broken Bells have since performed the song several times, often as a tribute to the late Mark Linkous, the album has received positive reviews. Rolling Stone magazine gave it a review and stated that it was the year’s coolest left field pop disc. Besides their album being among the year’s highest charting debut albums, Broken Bells released an EP titled Meyrin Fields on March 18,2011. On February 14,2012, in an interview with KINK. FM, on October 8,2013, the band announced the release of its second album, After the Disco. Broken Bells released their single from the album, titled Holding on for Life. After the Disco was released on February 4,2014, the band performed Holding on for Life on the March 7,2014 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Official website LAist - Broken Bells Live Debut at The Bootleg Theater - Review and Photos Broken Bells on NPRs World Cafe -2010 Interview and live performance
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James Mercer (musician)
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James Russell Mercer is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and musician. He is the founder, vocalist, lead singer-songwriter, and sole remaining member of the indie rock group The Shins. In 2009, Mercer and producer Danger Mouse formed the side project Broken Bells, for which they released an album in March 2010. Mercer has also acted, appearing in Matt McCormicks feature film Some Days Are Better Than Others, james was raised Roman Catholic but is now an atheist. In the early 1990s, Mercer belonged to a group called Blues Roof Dinner, in 1992, Mercer founded the band Flake Music with drummer Jesse Sandoval, keyboardist Marty Crandall, and bassist Neal Langford. Together, they produced the well-received album When You Land Here, Its Time to Return, shortly after the release of When You Land Here, in 1999, Mercer formed The Shins in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a side project. Mercer named the band The Shins after the family in the musical The Music Man, the project began as a way to explore three-minute pop songs with conventional chord structure. Mercer recruited Jesse Sandoval to play drums and the two began performing as a duo, the Shins played with Cibo Matto and the American Analog Set, with Mercer serving as the primary songwriter for the band. As The Shins rose to popularity, Flake Music eventually disbanded in 1999, leaving Mercer, Sandoval, and Langford, in 2002, the band relocated to Portland, Oregon. In 2007, Mercer sang backup vocals on the tracks Florida, Missed the Boat, Mercer has also been credited with playing several instruments on The Shins albums, including guitar, bass, synthesizer, ukulele, banjo, harmonium, percussion, beat and MIDI programming. They have also released an album together on February 4,2014 called After the Disco. In 2010, Mercer acted in Matt McCormicks feature film Some Days Are Better Than Others, playing the role of Eli, the film premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film and Music Festival. Also, in 2010, Mercer and Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock contributed original music to director Chris Malloys 180° South, of the two songs that Mercer contributed, one was a cover of Neil Youngs Journey Through the Past. Musical influences he has mentioned include The Smiths, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Zombies and The Jesus, Mercer is known to play a worn yellow Gibson Les Paul Double cut faded. With Broken Bells, Mercer has mostly been seen using a Vox Wildcat, Mercer married designer and home decorator Marisa Kula in April 2006 in a small ceremony on Waimanalo Beach in Hawaii, where Kula was born and raised. They had met when Kula, then a journalist, was assigned to interview Mercer for a story
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U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their live performances, the group has staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career. The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency, within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album War, by the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The groups fifth album, The Joshua Tree, made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US, With or Without You, facing a backlash and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. This experimentation continued through their album, Pop, and the PopMart Tour. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records All That You Cant Leave Behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history. The groups thirteenth album, Songs of Innocence, was released at no cost through the iTunes Store, U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the worlds best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the schools notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Mullen later described it as The Larry Mullen Band for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge. Martin, who had brought his guitar and amplifier to the first practice but could not play, did not remain with the group, the group settled on the name Feedback because it was one of the few technical terms they knew. Most of their material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte. Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as the Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful. In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for an audience at St. Fintans High School. Shortly after, the changed their name to The Hype
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El Camino (The Black Keys album)
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El Camino is the seventh studio album by American rock duo the Black Keys. It was co-produced by Danger Mouse and the group, and was released on Nonesuch Records on December 6,2011, the record was the bands follow-up to their commercial breakthrough, Brothers, and was their third collaboration with Danger Mouse. El Camino draws from genres of the 1950s to 1970s, such as rock and roll, glam rock, rockabilly, surf rock. Danger Mouse contributed as a co-writer on each of the 11 songs alongside guitarist Dan Auerbach, the album was recorded from March to May 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, at Easy Eye Sound Studio, which Auerbach opened the year prior. The band approached writing and recording differently than on previous albums, as they entered the studio without having written any material, after struggling to translate the slower songs from Brothers to a live setting, the band wrote more uptempo, hook-laden tracks for El Camino. The albums cover art depicts a similar to one the group toured in early in their career. A faux newspaper advertisement and parody car commercial playing on this joke were used to promote the record prior to release. Lonely Boy was released as the single in October 2011 and became the groups highest-charting single in several countries, including the United States, Australia. The album received reviews from critics and was ranked by many publications as one of the years best albums. It debuted at two on the US Billboard 200 and reached the top five of the album charts in Australia, Canada, Belgium. The album was certified platinum in France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the US, as well as multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, the Black Keys supported the album with the El Camino Tour, their first headlining arena tour. Four additional singles were released, including Gold on the Ceiling and Little Black Submarines, among other accolades, El Camino won the award for Best Rock Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, while Lonely Boy received honors for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. The album has sold 1.4 million copies in the US, from 2001 to 2009, the Black Keys experienced underground success, but after the release of their critically acclaimed sixth studio album, Brothers, the group achieved a commercial breakthrough. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200 chart and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, including 870,000 copies in the US. The band also gained exposure by continuing to license their songs in popular media. At the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2011, the band won awards for Best Alternative Music Album, the bands sudden success proved overwhelming, as they found themselves booking additional promotional commitments and facing demand for additional touring dates. In January 2011, the group canceled concerts in Australia, New Zealand, drummer Patrick Carney said, Weve been touring long enough to know when were about to hit our breaking point. The desire to record another album soon after Brothers also led to the decision, Carney spoke of how the success of Brothers impacted the follow-up record, For me, there were physical jitters about everything that was going on
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Rome (Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi album)
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Rome is an album written by the American music producer Danger Mouse and the Italian composer Daniele Luppi. The album took five years to make and was inspired by the music from spaghetti westerns, white also chose to provide the lyrics for his three songs. The song Black was featured during the ending of Face Off and it is also featured in Rome, Three Dreams of Black, an interactive film by Chris Milk. The song Two Against One peaked number 20 in Billboard Alternative Songs chart and was featured on the soundtrack for 2 Guns, in 2015, the song featured as the song for the advertisement of long-running British soap opera Emmerdale, promoting the shows big Summer Fate storyline. All music composed by Daniele Luppi and Brian Burton
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Dusty Springfield
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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette OBrien, OBE, better known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She is a member of the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame, international polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, born in West Hampstead to a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters and her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, I Only Want to Be with You. Among the hits that followed were Wishin and Hopin , I Just Dont Know What to Do with Myself, You Dont Have to Say You Love Me, and Son of a Preacher Man. Although she was never considered a Northern Soul artist in her own right and she was the first UK singer to top the New Musical Express readers poll for Female Singer. To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee, to record Dusty in Memphis, an album of pop and soul music with the Atlantic Records main production team. Released in 1969, it has ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine Rolling Stone and in polls by VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers. The album was awarded a spot in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Despite its current recognition, the album did not sell well and after its release, however, in collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, she returned to the Top 10 of the UK and US charts in 1987 with What Have I Done to Deserve This. Two years later, she had two other UK hits on her own with Nothing Has Been Proved and In Private, subsequently, in the mid-1990s, owing to the inclusion of Son of a Preacher Man on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, interest in her early output was revived. Springfield was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette OBrien on 16 April 1939 in West Hampstead and her older brother, Dionysius P. A. OBrien, was later known as Tom Springfield. Springfields father, who had raised in British India, worked as a tax accountant and consultant. Her mother came from an Irish family, originally from Tralee, County Kerry, Springfield was brought up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire until the early 1950s, and later lived in Ealing. She attended St Annes Convent School, Northfields, a traditional all-girl school, Springfield and her brother were both prone to food-throwing as adults. She was given the nickname Dusty for playing football with boys in the street, Springfield was raised in a music-loving family. Her father would tap out rhythms on the back of her hand and she listened to a wide range of music, including George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller. A fan of American jazz and the vocalists Peggy Lee and Jo Stafford, at the age of twelve, she made a recording of herself performing the Irving Berlin song When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam at a local record shop in Ealing
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Here, My Dear
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Here, My Dear is the fifteenth studio album by music artist Marvin Gaye, released December 15,1978, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place between 1977 and 1978 at Gayes personal studios, Marvin Gaye Studios in Los Angeles, California, the album was notable for its subject matters being dedicated to the fallout of Gayes marriage to his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye. Initially a commercial and critical failure upon its release, it was hailed by music critics as one of Gayes best produced albums in the years following Gayes death. Its taken me a while, Anna Gordy admitted in later years, Marvin Gaye was going through a personal crisis in the summer of 1976. In November 1975, Gayes estranged first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye, sued Gaye for divorce, claiming irreconcilable differences, Gaye later argued his spending habit was causing him to fall behind on payments. Several weeks later, Gaye accepted an offer to do a tour of Europe, between October and December 1976, Gaye performed in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Following his return, he recorded Got to Give It Up and released it on his album, the song became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The Gayes divorce was finalized in June, but as Gaye lived with the notion of doing an album for his soon-to-be his ex-wife, the more it fascinated him, stating he felt he owed the public my best effort. Gaye stated he did the record out of passion, noting he sang and sang until I drained myself of everything Id lived through. Shortly after the deal was made, Gaye entered his studio on March 24,1977 to record the album with only engineer Art Stewart by his side. Gaye, who didnt write his lyrics, composed on the spot. The mumblings were embryonic melodies, which evolved into lyrics after three or four takes. Gaye ended up playing all the parts of the album, saying later. It just turned out to be a hands-on project, according to PopMatters journalist Mike Joseph, Here, My Dears music was largely midtempo funk, with elements of traditional soul, gospel, and doo-wop mixed together with a slight hint of disco. The title track opens the album, and in the liner notes David Ritz describes Gayes tone in the song as self-serving, self-justifying self-pitying. I Met a Little Girl includes doo-wop drenched harmonies with its lyrics and music producing a mixture of sincerity. Described as straight ahead and beguiling compared to all the songs on the album, Anger is considered as part sermon and part self-retribution. Is That Enough. was recorded shortly after Gaye returned from a day in court, humming the songs melody
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Lorna Maitland
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Lorna Maitland is an American film actress. She appeared in three Russ Meyer films, Lorna, Mudhoney and Mondo Topless, Lorna by Russ Meyer Mudhoney by Russ Meyer Mondo Topless by Russ Meyer Hot Thrills and Warm Chills by Dale Berry Hip Hot and 21 by Dale Berry McDonough, Jimmy. Big bosoms and square jaws, the biography of Russ Meyer, oakland Tribune, Doc Scortt. Actor-Printer, Sunday, March 1,1964, Page 7-EL. Van Nuys Valley News, Valley West, September 11,1964, Lorna Maitland at the Internet Movie Database
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Mudhoney (film)
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Mudhoney is a 1965 film by Russ Meyer based on the novel Streets Paved With Gold by Raymond Friday Locke. The film became the inspiration for the name of pioneering Seattle grunge band Mudhoney when it was formed in 1988, American singer-songwriter Norah Jones album cover for Little Broken Hearts was based upon a poster for the film. In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, McKinney gets involved with Wades niece, Hannah Brenshaw. But she is married to Sidney, a drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-laws money. Sidney and a preacher named Brother Hanson plot against McKinney. List of American films of 1965 Mudhoney at the Internet Movie Database Mudhoney at AllMovie
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Cover art
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Cover art it is either an artwork as illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book, magazine, comic book, video game, DVD, CD, videotape, or music album. Album cover art is created for a music album. Iconic album cover art includes Pink Floyds The Dark Side of the Moon, King Crimsons In the Court of the Crimson King, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road and their White Album among others. Artists known for their cover art include Alex Steinweiss, an early pioneer in album cover art, Roger Dean. Some album art may cause controversy because of nudity, offending churches, there have been numerous books documenting album cover art, particularly rock and jazz album covers. Alex Steinweiss was an art director and graphic designer who brought custom artwork to record album covers, magazine cover artists include Art Spiegelman, who modernized the look of The New Yorker magazine, and his predecessor Rea Irvin, who created the Eustace Tilly iconic character for the magazine. Sheet music cover artists include Frederick S. Manning, William Austin Starmer, other prolific artists included Albert Wilfred Barbelle, André De Takacs, and Gene Buck
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Russ Meyer
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Russell Albion Russ Meyer was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor, actor, and photographer. Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, such as Faster. Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California, the son of Lydia Lucinda and William Arthur Meyer and his parents were both of German descent. Meyers parents divorced soon after he was born, and Meyer was to have no contact with his father during his life. When he was 14 years old, his mother pawned her wedding ring in order to buy him an 8mm film camera. He made a number of films at the age of 15. Even then he already demonstrated a corny directing style and included nudity, in the Army, Meyer forged his strongest friendships, and he would later ask many of his fellow combat cameramen to work on his films. Much of Meyers work during World War II can be seen in newsreels, on his return to civilian life, he was unable to secure cinematography work in Hollywood due to a lack of industry connections. Meyer would go on to shoot three Playboy centerfolds during the early years, one of his wife Eve Meyer in 1955. He also shot a pictorial of then-wife Edy Williams in March 1973, over the next decade, he made nearly 20 movies with a trademark blend of odd humor, huge-breasted starlets and All-American sleaze, including such notable films as Faster, Pussycat. Russ Meyer was an auteur who wrote, directed, edited, photographed and distributed all his own films. He was able to each new film from the proceeds of the earlier ones. Unlike many independent directors of his era he chose to cast actresses such as Shari Eubank or Cynthia Myers, Meyers output can be divided into several eras. Earlier works like The Immoral Mr, the Gothic period reached its apex with the commercially underwhelming Faster, Pussycat. Kill. which would eventually be reclaimed as a cult classic and it has a following all over the world and has inspired countless imitations, music videos and tributes. He followed it with Cherry, Harry & Raquel, which utilized long montages of the California landscape and Uschi Digard dancing in the desert as the films lost soul. These plot devices were necessitated after lead actress Linda Ashton left the shoot early, what eventually appeared was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, scripted by film critic Roger Ebert and bearing no relation to the novel or films continuity. Many critics perceive the film as perhaps the greatest expression of his intentionally vapid surrealism — Meyer went so far as to refer to it as his work in several interviews
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Mad Men
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Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. The series premiered on July 19,2007, on the cable network AMC, after seven seasons and 92 episodes, Mad Mens final episode aired on May 17,2015. According to the pilot, the phrase Mad men was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods. Season one begins in March 1960 and moves through November 1970 by the conclusion of season seven, throughout its run, Mad Men received widespread critical acclaim for its writing, acting, and historical authenticity, it has won many awards, including 16 Emmys and five Golden Globes. The show was also the first basic cable series to receive the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. In 2000, while working as a writer for Becker. Television producer David Chase recruited Weiner to work as a writer on his HBO series The Sopranos after reading the script in 2002. It was lively, and it had something new to say, here was someone who had written a story about advertising in the 1960s, and was looking at recent American history through that prism. Weiner and his representatives at Industry Entertainment and ICM tried to sell the script to HBO and Showtime. The Sopranos was completing its final season then, and the network happened to be getting into the market for new series programming. Weiner listed Alfred Hitchcock as an influence on the visual style of the series. He also was influenced by director Wong Kar-wai in the music, mise en scène and he also says that Mad Men would have been some sort of crisp, soapy version of The West Wing if not for The Sopranos. Tim Hunter, the director of a half-dozen episodes from the shows first two seasons, called Mad Men a very well-run show and he said, They have a lot of production meetings during pre-production. The day the script comes in we all meet for a first page turn, then theres a tone meeting a few days later where Matt tells us how he envisions it. And then theres a full crew production meeting where Matt again tells us how he envisions it. The pilot episode was shot at Silvercup Studios and various locations around New York City and it is available in high definition for showing on AMC HD and on video-on-demand services available from various cable affiliates. Each episode had a budget between US$2–2.5 million, though the episodes budget was over $3 million
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Fiona Apple
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Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer. Classically trained on piano as a child, Apple began composing her own songs when she was 8 years old. Her debut album, Tidal, written when Apple was 17, was released in 1996 and she followed with When the Pawn. produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and was certified platinum. For her third album, Extraordinary Machine, Apple again collaborated with Brion, however, Apple was reportedly unhappy with the production and opted not to release the record, leading fans to erroneously protest Epic Records, believing that the label was withholding its release. The album was eventually re-produced without Brion and released in October 2005 to critical acclaim, in 2012, she released her fourth studio album, The Idler Wheel. which received universal critical praise and was followed by an extensive tour of the USA. Born in New York City in 1977, Apple is the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart and her maternal grandparents were dancer Millicent Green and big band vocalist Johnny McAfee. Her sister sings cabaret under the stage name Maude Maggart, Apple grew up in Morningside Gardens in Harlem with her mother and sister, but spent summers with her father in Los Angeles. Apple was classically trained on piano as a child, and began composing her own pieces by the age of eight, when learning to play piano, she would often take sheet music and translate guitar tablature into the corresponding notes. Apple later began to play along with jazz standard compositions after becoming proficient, through which she discovered Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, at age 12, Apple was raped outside the apartment she shared with her mother and sister. She then developed an eating disorder, purposely slimming her developing body, in 2000, she insisted that she did not write songs about the trauma, It doesnt get into the writing. Its such a fuckin old pain that, you know, theres nothing poetic about it, schenker then passed the tape along to Sony Music executive Andy Slater. Apples abilities captured his attention, and Slater signed her to a record deal, in 1996, Apples debut album, Tidal, was released by Work Records and Columbia Records. The album sold 2.7 million copies and was certified three times platinum in the U. S. Criminal, the single, became a hit. The songs controversial Mark Romanek-directed music video played on MTV, other singles from Tidal included Shadowboxer, Sleep to Dream, and Never Is a Promise. Apple accepted MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for her song Sleep to Dream in 1997 The New Yorker, when I have something to say, Ill say it, she said, responding to these criticisms in an article in Rolling Stone in January 1998. During this period, Apple also made recordings of The Beatles Across the Universe and she later canceled the last twenty-one dates on a tour in support of her album due to personal family problems. Apples second album, When the Pawn. was released in 1999 and its full title is a poem Apple wrote after reading letters that appeared in Spin regarding an article that had cast her in a negative light in an earlier issue. The titles length earned it a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for 2001
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Facebook
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Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. Facebook gradually added support for students at other universities. Since 2006, anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement. The Facebook name comes from the face book directories often given to United States university students, Facebook may be accessed by a large range of desktops, laptops, tablet computers, and smartphones over the Internet and mobile networks. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile indicating their name, occupation, schools attended and so on. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, hobbies or other topics, in groups, editors can pin posts to top. Additionally, users can complain about or block unpleasant people, because of the large volume of data that users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for its privacy policies. Facebook makes most of its revenue from advertisements which appear onscreen, Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012, and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13,2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poors 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion, Facebook has more than 1.86 billion monthly active users as of December 31,2016. As of April 2016, Facebook was the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook classifies users from the ages of 13 to 18 as minors and therefore sets their profiles to share content with friends only. Zuckerberg wrote a program called Facemash on October 28,2003 while attending Harvard University as a sophomore, to accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of Harvards computer network and copied private dormitory ID images. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online, the site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final exam. He uploaded 500 Augustan images to a website, each of which was featured with a corresponding comments section and he shared the site with his classmates, and people started sharing notes. The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004 and he said that he was inspired by an editorial about the Facemash incident in The Harvard Crimson. On February 4,2004, Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook, originally located at thefacebook. com. com and they claimed that he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to The Harvard Crimson and the newspaper began an investigation and they later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling in 2008 for 1.2 million shares. Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, within the first month, eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website
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SoundCloud
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SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. SoundClouds content is split between music and other audio. Founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss are the executive officer and chief technical officer. SoundCloud was established in Berlin in August 2008 by Swedish sound designer Ljung, in a 2009 interview with Wired, Ljung said, In April 2009, SoundCloud received €2.5 million Series A funding from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. By May 2010, SoundCloud announced it had one million users, in January 2011, it was confirmed that SoundCloud had raised a US$10 million Series B funding round from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. On 15 June 2011, SoundCloud announced they had five million registered users, on 23 January 2012, SoundCloud announced on their blog that they had 10 million registered users. By May 2012,15 million users were announced by the company at a conference held in San Francisco. The usage level for the site was growing by 1.5 million users per month at this stage, the new API was released to the public in December 2012. The response from users was mixed, and many expressed dissatisfaction with the change, SoundCloud received over 60,000 comments regarding the new layout by 10 December 2012. Also in December 2012, the data showed that SoundCloud was reaching 180 million people per month—8 percent of the global Internet—while users were uploading 10 hours of content every minute. In March 2013, Twitter announced SoundCloud as a third-party music partner, alongside iTunes, however, the initiative never eventuated, SoundClouds inability to load licensed music—due to the absence of arrangements with the major music labels—was cited as a major reason. SoundCloud announced in January 2014 that it had commenced negotiations with the music companies. The announcement was publicised after a round of funding in which US$60 million was raised, the additional finances were suggested as the reason for the plan, as finalizing such deals is a costly process. In March 2014, SoundCloud was reportedly in a round of talks with major music labels about licensing after the January negotiations did not amount to anything substantial. However, the outcome of the talks was not forthcoming in any media sources, later in May, the media reported that Twitter had regained interest in SoundCloud and was considering acquiring the platform for around US$2 billion. The next after the publicity of the deal surfaced, the prospect was no longer an active consideration, on 28 September 2016, Spotify announced that it was in talks to buy SoundCloud. On 8 December 2016, Spotify was reported to have abandoned its acquisition plans, other startups that have crossed such a threshold include Spotify and Uber. At this time, SoundCloud claimed that 175 million unique listeners used the site each month, although SoundCloud did not have paid subscriptions for ad-free streaming, they had planned to launch one in 2015
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South by Southwest
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South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in scope and size every year. In 2011, the conference lasted for 10 days with SXSW Interactive lasting for 5 days, Music for 6 days, SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official YouTube channel. The music event has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to over 28,000 registrants, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, most recently bringing over 51,000 registrants to Austin every March. Bands must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event, All performers are offered a cash payment or a wristband package that allows access to all music events. SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference panels and sessions, programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions and more, with expert filmmakers and industry leaders. In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programmed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers, the SXSW Film Festival runs nine days, simultaneously with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. The SXSW Film Awards, which occur on the last day of the Film Conference, honor films selected by the Feature, in 2015, the SXSW Film Festival programmed 150 feature films and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 submissions. Past notable world premieres include Furious 7, Neighbors, Chef,21 Jump Street, The Cabin in the Woods, Bridesmaids and Insidious, and the TV series Girls, Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful. SXSW Interactive is focused on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a ground for new ideas. The festival includes a show, speakers, parties. According to a festival organizer Louis Black, SXSW Interactive has probably been the biggest of its kind in the world since 2007, Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, the event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it an event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came. Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked was the keynote speaker at the 1992 South by Southwest. In 1993, SXSW moved into the Austin Convention Center, where it is still held, in 1994, SXSW added a component for film and other media, named the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. Johnny Cash was the keynote speaker and that year, the three brothers of the band Hanson were brought to SXSW by their father in order to perform impromptu auditions for music executives, in the hopes of getting industry attention
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NPR
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NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. Individual public radio stations are not required to broadcast all NPR programs that are produced and its content is also available on-demand via the web, mobile, and podcasts. The organizations legal name is National Public Radio and its brand is NPR. Is NPR has been used by its hosts for many years. However, National Public Radio remains the name of the group. National Public Radio replaced the National Educational Radio Network on February 26,1970 and this act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which created the Public Broadcasting Service in addition to NPR. A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a Board of Directors chaired by Bernard Mayes, the board then hired Donald Quayle to be the first president of NPR with 30 employees and 90 charter member stations, and studios in Washington, D. C. NPR aired its first broadcast in April 1971, covering United States Senate hearings on the Vietnam War, a month later, the afternoon drive-time newscast All Things Considered began, on May 3,1971, first hosted by Robert Conley. NPR was primarily a production and distribution organization until 1977, when it merged with the Association of Public Radio Stations, NPR suffered an almost fatal setback in 1983 when efforts to expand services created a deficit of nearly US$7 million. After a congressional investigation and the resignation of NPRs president, Frank Mankiewicz, NPR also agreed to turn its satellite service into a cooperative venture, making it possible for non-NPR shows to get national distribution. It took NPR approximately three years to pay off the debt, delano Lewis, the president of C&P Telephone, left that position to become NPRs CEO and president in January 1994. In November 1998, NPRs board of directors hired Kevin Klose, NPR spent nearly $13 million to acquire and equip a West Coast 25, 000-square-foot production facility, NPR West, which opened in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, in November 2002. C. In November 2003, NPR received US$235 million from the estate of the late Joan B, Kroc, the widow of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds Corporation. This was the largest monetary gift ever to a cultural institution, in 2004 NPRs budget increased by over 50% to US$153 million due to the Kroc gift. US$34 million of the money was deposited in its endowment, the endowment fund before the gift totaled $35 million. NPR will use the interest from the bequest to expand its news staff, the 2005 budget was about US$120 million. In August 2005, NPR entered podcasting with a directory of over 170 programs created by NPR, by November of that year, users downloaded NPR and other public radio podcasts 5 million times
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Westdeutscher Rundfunk
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Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, as well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen and six regional radio networks. The Westdeutsche Funkstunde AG was established on 15 September 1924, WDR began broadcasting on two radio networks on 1 January 1956. WDR constitutes the most prominent example of regional broadcasting in Germany, as of 2015 the monthly fee due from each household for radio and television reception was €17.50. These fees are collected not directly by WDR but by a joint agency of ARD, ZDF, WDR began its regional television service, Westdeutsches Fernsehen, on 17 December 1965. On 27 August 1967 Germany turned on it first color TV program, in 1988 the channel was renamed West3, since 1994, it has been known as WDR Fernsehen. WDR has its current affairs and regional-politics studios in Düsseldorf, the TV-sport for the “First Channel” Das Erste is produced in Cologne, and WDR contributes to ARD Digital, 3sat and arte. WDRs main radio channels are available on FM and digital, as well as via cable and satellite, 1LIVE is a music channel modelled on BBC Radio 1. Its schedules include such non-mainstream night-time programmes as Heimatkult, focusing on pop music from Germany, and Lauschangriff, WDR2, featuring adult-oriented popular music, focuses strongly on national and regional news, current affairs, and sport. WDR3, the channel, offers mostly classical, jazz and world music as well as radio drama and spoken-word features dealing with literature. WDR4 is a channel aimed chiefly towards an older audience and its focus is on tuneful music – in particular, oldies and classic hits, popular music of the 1960s to the 1980s or later – with more specialized programming in the evenings. Around 30-40% of WDR 4s musical output is made up of German-language songs, WDR5 features spoken-word programming with the focus on present-day culture and society. Between 6.05 and 9.45 each Monday to Saturday morning the channel offers news, background briefing, interviews, the main lunchtime and early-evening news and current affairs programmes Mittagsecho and Echo des Tages are both co-productions with Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg. Additionally, WDR 2s 30-minute round-up of the days most important news reports, WDR5 also carries childrens programming from KiRaKa at 19. 05–20.00 each evening as well as on Sundays at 7. 05–8.00 and 14. 05–15.00. Funkhaus Europa is a channel aimed at serving immigrants and promoting integration. It features a selection of world music. It is not available over-the-air in every part of WDRs broadcasting area, in addition WDR broadcasts a number of digital-only radio channels via DAB+, cable, satellite, and internet, 1LIVE diGGi, alternative 1LIVE output — with no ad breaks and no DJs. KiRaKa, radio for preschool and school-age listeners, WDR Event, live coverage of selected events in the worlds of sport, politics, and cultural happenings
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Rockpalast
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Rockpalast is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Rockpalast started in 1974 and continues to this day, hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on Rockpalast. Some acts were recorded for broadcast and for retail sale, all-night marathon shows called “Rock Night” were produced once or twice a year from 1977 through 1986 and simulcast throughout Europe via the Eurovision network of TV broadcasters. Rockpalast is involved in several German pop, rock and underground music festivals, the founder and long-time producer of Rockpalast is Peter Rüchel. Not all of these acts were recorded and broadcast, a list of the recorded gigs is readable on the Rockpalast homepage
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Later... with Jools Holland
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With Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show, it has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC Twos late-night line-up, the show is considered an institution, having notched up millions of fans around the world. It is currently broadcast in America on MTV Live, previously it has shown on Ovation, BBC America, Fuse. The Ovation and Fuse broadcasts leave out several performances to air commercials within a one-hour timeslot, the 200th programme was broadcast on 1 February 2008. The 250th edition was broadcast in September 2010, draws from a diverse palette of both popular and world music, and each show features around five bands with a variety of styles performing for each other and a small studio audience. Jools Holland introduces the show and interviews one or more of the performers, a unique feature is the short jam session that begins each show, involving all of his invited guests, along with Holland on piano. This beginning jam session also best shows the layout of the set – all the bands are arrayed in a circle with the audience filling in the gaps between them. On 1 April 2008, a new format was debuted, featuring a 30-minute, fully live show broadcast on a Tuesday, Later Live. with Jools Holland, followed by the original hour-long pre-recorded show, with Jools Holland, broadcast on a Friday. The Friday show features the recorded on a Tuesday as well as others recorded during the session for the live show. The HD broadcasts use Dolby Digital 5.1, which adds to the ambience of the studio environment. After the 2012 closure of BBC Television Centre, production from April 2013 moved to The Maidstone Studios, close to Hollands home in Cooling, occasional special editions of the show showcase a major artist under the Later. The bands in question play for the duration of the hour-long show, despite the different name, the show is still introduced by Jools Holland and takes place in a similarly set-up studio. The special episode featuring M People in 1998 was later released on video, also, a selection of the songs from the programme have been released on the limited edition of The Best of M People album and as a b-side to the single Dreaming. Special editions broadcast on New Years Eve each year are referred to as Jools Hollands Hootenanny and are advance-recorded, in 2003 a Spring Hootenanny was broadcast, which proved to be a one-off. Repeated excerpts from the show were broadcast under the title A Little Later as fill-in programmes on BBC HD and he also argued all the artists it breaks are essentially the same, MOR singer-songwriters. Executive producer Mark Cooper responded to this comment in 2013, claiming, we’re not thinking, Oh no, we’ve never had Def Leppard on, we owe them one. Cooper acknowledged that the series had not had much metal but denied accusations that it was snobby about pop acts. In 2000, the series was ranked at number 81 in the British Film Institutes list of the BFI TV100, numerous albums containing performances from the show have been released over the course of the shows run
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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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Alabama Shakes
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Alabama Shakes is an American blues rock band formed in Athens, Alabama in 2009. The band currently consists of singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell. The group rose to prominence in the early 2010s with their distinctive, the band began their career touring and performing at bars and clubs around the Southeast for two years while honing their sound and writing music. They recorded their album, Boys & Girls, with producer Andrija Tokic in Nashville while still unsigned. Online acclaim led ATO Records to sign the band, which released Boys & Girls in 2012 to acclaim, the album had a hit single, Hold On, and was nominated for three Grammy Awards. After a long touring cycle, the recorded their second record, Sound & Color, which was released in 2015 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Howard grew up interested in music, filling notebooks with lyrics and teaching herself to play drums, bass and she met upperclassman Heath Fogg in junior high when he played guitar at house parties. She met classmate and bassist Zac Cockrell in a psychology class some time later, after graduation, Howard hosted twice-weekly jam sessions at her great-grandparents former home. Drummer Steve Johnson, who had heard Howard singing at a party years prior and they began making music together and recording homemade demos having little else to do in the small town. The group made its debut in May 2009 under the name The Shakes. Fogg, by this point a guitarist in the Tuscaloosa-based Tucos Pistol, the band was nervous to perform for an audience, as they felt vulnerable. Their set included covers of Led Zeppelin, James Brown, Otis Redding, the show went over well, and Fogg soon joined the group. For much of their years, the Shakes performed shows on weekends at sports bars. They also began recording their album at Tokics Bomb Shelter—the home of producer Andrija Tokic—in Nashville. The band chose Tokics over other studios because they mostly live to tape. The band would complete arrangements in their hometown and drive an hour and their first breakthrough came when Justin Gage, a Los Angeles music blogger and SiriusXM host, found a photo of Howard performing online. After contacting the band, he posted an MP3 of their song You Aint Alone on his blog, Aquarium Drunkard. By the next morning, the group was awash in offers from record labels, Gage also contacted Patterson Hood, vocalist of the band Drive-By Truckers, who attended a show not long after
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