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Hartford, Connecticut
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Hartford is the capital of the U. S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, as of the 2010 Census, Hartfords population was 124,775, making it Connecticuts third-largest city after the coastal cities of Bridgeport and New Haven. Census Bureau estimates since then have indicated Hartfords subsequent fall to fourth place statewide as a result of sustained growth in the coastal city of Stamford. Nicknamed the Insurance Capital of the World, Hartford houses many insurance company headquarters, founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the United States. In 1868, resident Mark Twain wrote, Of all the towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief. Following the American Civil War, Hartford was the richest city in the United States for several decades, today, Hartford is one of the poorest cities in the nation with 3 out of every 10 families living below the poverty line. In sharp contrast, the Hartford metropolitan area is ranked 32nd of 318 metropolitan areas in total economic production, various tribes, all part of the loose Algonquin confederation, lived in or around present-day Hartford. The area was referred to as Suckiaug, meaning Black Fertile River-Enhanced Earth, the first Europeans known to have explored the area were the Dutch, under Adriaen Block, who sailed up the Connecticut in 1614. Dutch fur traders from New Amsterdam returned in 1623 with a mission to establish a trading post, the original site was located on the south bank of the Park River in the present-day Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood. This fort was called Fort Hoop, or the House of Hope, in 1633, Jacob Van Curler formally bought the land around Fort Hoop from the Pequot chief for a small sum. It was home to perhaps a couple families and a few dozen soldiers, the area today is known as Dutch Point, and the name of the Dutch fort, House of Hope, is reflected in the name of Huyshope Avenue. The fort was abandoned by 1654, but its neighborhood in Hartford is still known as Dutch Point, the Dutch outpost, and the tiny contingent of Dutch soldiers that were stationed there, did little to check the English migration. The Dutch soon realized they were vastly outnumbered, the House of Hope remained an outpost, but it was steadily swallowed up by waves of English settlers. The English began to arrive 1637, settling upstream from Fort Hoop near the present-day Downtown, the settlement was originally called Newtown, but was changed to Hartford in 1637 in honor of Stones hometown of Hertford, England. Hooker also created the town of Windsor. The etymology of Hartford is the ford where harts cross, the Seal of the City of Hartford features a male deer, which in full maturity was referred to by the medieval hunting term hart. The fledgling colony along the Connecticut River had issues with the authority by which it was to be governed because it was outside of the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colonys charter. Historians suggest that Hookers conception of self-rule embodied in the Fundamental Orders went on to inspire the Connecticut Constitution, today, one of Connecticuts nicknames is the Constitution State
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Newport Beach, California
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Newport Beach is a seaside city in Orange County, California, United States. Its population was 85,287 at the 2010 census, Newport Beach is also home to Newport Harbor. The citys median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings, the Upper Bay of Newport is a canyon, which was carved by a stream in the Pleistocene period. The lower bay of Newport was formed later by sand that was brought along by ocean currents. Before settlers reached the coasts of California, the Newport area, Indian shells and relics can still be found today scattered throughout the area. Though, throughout the 1800s, settlers began to settle the area due to the availability of land, the State of California sold acre-plots of land for $1 a piece in the Newport area. James Irvine, after hearing the news, quickly traveled from his home in San Francisco to the San Joaquin Ranch. In 1905 city development increased when Pacific Electric Railway established a southern terminus in Newport connecting the beach with downtown Los Angeles, in 1906, the scattered settlements were incorporated as the City of Newport Beach. Settlements filled in on the Peninsula, West Newport, Newport Island, Balboa Island, in 1923 Corona del Mar was annexed and in 2002 Newport Coast, East Santa Ana Heights and San Joaquin Hills, were annexed. In 2008, after a battle with the city of Costa Mesa. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 53.0 square miles. 23.8 square miles of it is land and 29.2 square miles of it is water. Areas of Newport Beach include Corona del Mar, Balboa Island, Balboa Peninsula, Lido Peninsula, Newport Coast, San Joaquin Hills, and Santa Ana Heights, Newport Harbor is a semi-artificial harbor that was formed by dredging Newport Bay estuary during the early 1900s. Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries such as boatbuilding, shipbuilding, and commercial fishing and its shores are occupied mostly by private homes and private docks. With approximately 9,000 boats, Newport Harbor is one of the largest recreational boat harbors on the U. S. west coast and its a popular destination for all boating activities, including sailing, fishing, rowing, canoeing, kayaking, and paddleboarding. Newport Bay is divided by the Pacific Coast Highway bridge, which is too low for most sailboats, North of the bridge is referred to as Upper Newport Bay, or the Back Bay. South of the bridge is commonly called Lower Newport Bay, or Newport Harbor, however the Back Bay also has harbor facilities, especially the marina and launch ramp at The Dunes. The north end of the Newport Harbor channels around Lido Island have a number of business centers and were at one time used by the fishing fleets as their home
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Funk metal
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Funk metal is a subgenre of funk rock and alternative metal which infuses heavy metal music with elements of funk. It was prevalent in the mainstream during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the genre has been described as a brief but extremely media-hyped stylistic fad. According to AllMusic, funk metal takes the loud guitars and riffs of heavy metal and melds them to the bass lines. AllMusic has claimed that funk metal evolved in the mid-80s when alternative bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the self-titled 1984 debut album from Red Hot Chili Peppers has been cited as the first funk metal release. Faith No More have been described as a metal band that dabbled in rap-metal. Rage Against the Machines mix of funk and metal not only included rap, certain bands not from a punk/alternative background, such as glam metal groups Bang Tango and Extreme, have also frequently incorporated funk into their musical style. Bands such as Primus and Mordred emerged from the metal underground. Primus, a band that many genres, has been widely described as funk metal. Claypool has stated Weve been lumped in with the funk metal thing just about everywhere, I guess people just have to categorise you. Living Colour have been cited by Rolling Stone as black funk metal pioneers, entertainment Weekly noted in a May 1991 article that Despite the rise of black rockers like Living Colour, the American funk-metal scene is predominantly white. The success of Faith No Mores 1989 single Epic helped heighten interest in the genre, mark Jenkins of The Washington Post claimed in an 1991 article that much of it sounds like art rock. By the latter part of the 90s, the genre was represented by a group of bands, including Incubus. During 2001, Alien Ant Farm released a hugely successful funk metal cover of Michael Jacksons Smooth Criminal, in 2016, Vice Magazine referred to funk metal as a mostly-forgotten and occasionally-maligned genre. Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance mentioned his fondness for the genre in a 2007 interview, when asked if he thought it would make a comeback, he stated Fuckin revisionists probably wont think its cool enough. Theyll go straight for the flannels and heroin, dimery, Robert, ed.1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
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Alternative metal
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Alternative metal is a music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s, other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of genres, such as hip hop, funk, hardcore. They also remarked that alternative metal was originally a style united by its nonconformist sensibility rather than any immediately classifiable sound, one of the main characteristics of alternative metal and its subgenres are heavily downtuned, mid-paced chug-like guitar riffs. However, funk metal bands use a more conventional riffing style influenced by 1980s thrash metal. Alternative metal features clean and melodic vocals, influenced by those of alternative rock, later bands frequently incorporated vocal styles that alternated between clean singing, growls and screaming. Examples include alternative metal bands associated with the nu metal movement, such as Korn and Deftones, jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1990 Just as rock has an alternative, wing-bands like the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. -so does metal. Alternative metal is alternative music that rocks, and alternative metal these days can reach 10 times the audience of other alternative rock. Janes Addiction plays an intense brand of 70s-influenced arty metal, so does Soundgarden, in fact, the arty meanderings of Sab and the Zep themselves would be considered alternative metal. Houston Press has described the genre as being a compromise for people for whom Nirvana was not heavy enough but Metallica was too heavy. The first wave of metal bands emerged from many backgrounds, including hardcore punk, noise rock, Seattles grunge scene, stoner rock, sludge metal. These bands never formed a movement or scene, rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences. Fudge Tunnels style of alternative metal included influences from both sludge metal and noise rock, other early bands in the genre also came from hardcore punk backgrounds. During the 1980s, alternative metal appealed mainly to rock fans. Several bands associated with the genre denied their status as metal bands, Helmet drummer John Stanier said We fell into the whole metal thing by accident, we always hated it when people mentioned metal in conjunction with us. Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork Media stated bands like Faith No More, Soundgarden, Primus, Helmet, the Rollins Band, and dozens more were initially marketed as quasi-metal acts. This was only possible in a climate where record labels, journalists, many established 1980s metal bands released albums in the 1990s that were described as alternative metal, including Anthrax, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. It resulted in a standardized sound among alternative metal bands, in contrast to the more eccentric
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Nu metal
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Nu metal is a form of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, Nu metal rarely features guitar solos, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to play a heavier sound, DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling, Nu metal is one of the key genres of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, many heavy metal fans have criticized nu metal, and do not regard it as true heavy metal. Many nu metal musicians have rejected the nu metal label and also have rejected being labeled as heavy metal, Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal, MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock. Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene. Nu metal merges elements of metal music with elements of other music genres such as grunge, hip hop, funk. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, alternative metal. Some nu metal bands such as Static-X and Dope made nu metal music elements of industrial metal. Nu metal music is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs, mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. N its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo. Another contrast with other metal genres is nu metals emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music, Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to death metal guitar riffs. Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. sound a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper. Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on elements such as slap bass, a percussive style of playing in which the thumb slaps the low strings
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Sugar Ray
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Sugar Ray is an American rock band formed in 1986. The band, starting off more as a metal band. This songs success, coupled with its pop sound that was quite different from the rest of their material at the time, led the band to change to a mainstream. Subsequent albums shared this style, and the band landed a number of hits with Every Morning and Someday from 14,59, the band members grew up in Orange County. Rodney Sheppard played in a number of bands, including working with future Good Charlotte drummer Dean Butterworth. In the late 1980s, prior to Sugar Ray, Sheppard, later additions Murphy Karges, Craig Bullock and Mark McGrath changed the bands name to Shrinky Dinx - they were initially named Shrinky Dinks. After signing with Atlantic Records, the name was changed to Sugar Ray upon threat of a lawsuit from the Milton Bradley Company, maker of the Shrinky Dinks toy. The bands debut album, Lemonade and Brownies, was released in 1995 and their early work features elements of funk metal, punk rock and alternative rock. Sugar Rays first mainstream hit came in the summer of 1997 with their song Fly, Fly did not sound anything at all like the rest of the tracks on the album and received frequent radio play, resulting in a number one rank on the Billboards Airplay List. As a result of the success of Fly, Floored sold well and was certified double platinum, however, by the end of 1997, critics were skeptical that Sugar Ray could put out another successful song and labeled them a one-hit wonder. The same year, Sugar Ray was featured in the movie Fathers Day, starring Billy Crystal, Floored featured nu metal elements and was their last album to contain heavy metal elements before they moved to a more pop rock direction. Their 1999 album 14,59 was the reply to suggestions that they were a one-hit wonder. Every Morning, which was compared to Fly, had similar success during the spring of 1999. Their follow-up single Someday also enjoyed extensive airplay later that year, the next follow-up single Falls Apart reached number 29 in early 2000. 14,59 outsold its predecessor and was certified triple platinum, the band toured in support of the album, most notably performing at Woodstock 99. In 2000, Sugar Ray did a version of John Cale. Other singles such as Answer the Phone, Under the Sun, Sugar Ray also made several movie appearances, including Scooby-Doo in 2002. Sugar Rays 2003 effort In the Pursuit of Leisure, and the first single from the album, Mr. Bartender, the album also contained the bands cover of Joe Jacksons famous Is She Really Going Out With Him
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Camp Freddy
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Camp Freddy was a hard rock group of established musicians who played rock and roll covers at various shows around America from 2002 through 2014 under the name Camp Freddy. The band consisted of core members Matt Sorum, Dave Navarro, Billy Morrison, Donovan Leitch, Jr. each performance featured guest appearances from many respected musicians. The bands name is derived from a character in the 1969 film The Italian Job, guitarist Billy Morrison described them as. not a band, but it is also way more than a jam session, Camp Freddy is an ‘Occasional Happening’, a freak of nature. His departure from the group was announced on the April 2,2008 edition of Camp Freddy Radio, Camp Freddy, with producer Mike Clink, were reportedly recording an album which would mirror their live shows, with guests performing on each track. So far, two tracks have been released, Cheap Tricks Surrender and Slades Merry Xmas Everybody, in 2009, Billy Morrison stated that there will be a record. When we all get around to finishing what we started, on Saturday evenings, band members - usually Morrison and Navarro - hosted a radio show from 6, 00-8,00 on the Los Angeles-based Indie 103.1 FM radio station. In January 2014 The bands final show was on December 31,2013, Chris Chaney - bass Donovan Leitch, Jr
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Television presenter
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A presenter is a person who introduces or hosts television programs. Some presenters may double as an actor, model, singer, others may be subject matter experts, such as scientists or politicians, serving as presenters for a programme about their field of expertise. Some are celebrities who have made their name in one area, another example would be American stand-up comedian Joe Rogan, who is a commentator and post-fight interviewer in UFC. The term is used in other countries including Ireland, Australia. In the US, such a person is called a host
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Extra (TV program)
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Extra is an American syndicated television newsmagazine that is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution and premiered on September 5,1994, the series was developed in the fall of 1993, for a planned launch during the 1994–95 television season. The program was developed under the working title Entertainment News Television, however due to claims that it too closely mirrored its own name, Entertainment Television filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. The program was anchored by Dave Nemeth and Arthel Neville. Neville joined the program after a run as anchor at New Orleans ABC affiliate WVUE-TV. In September 2002, Telepictures debuted a series, Celebrity Justice. News, actress/producer Tracey Edmonds and SportsNation-turned-Fox Sports Live co-host Charissa Thompson were added to replace her as co-hosts, mario Lopez – weekday and weekend anchor Tracey Edmonds – co-host Charissa Thompson – co-host Renee Bargh – weekend co-anchor/correspondent A. J. The program is taped at Universal Studios Hollywood each Monday through Friday from 10,00 a. m. to 4,00 p. m, the program won its first Emmy Award in 2014, tying with Entertainment Tonight for Best Entertainment News Program. Only the weekday editions of the program are broadcast outside the U. S. the 44-minute weekend edition is distributed domestically. In Canada, the editions of the program airs on a day-behind basis on Omni Television after 1,00 a. m. with a rebroadcast after 5,00 a. m. In Australia, the editions of Extra began airing on the Nine Network on July 2,2012. Extra currently airs at 1pm weekdays, official website Extra at the Internet Movie Database
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Don't Forget the Lyrics! (U.S. game show)
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Dont Forget the Lyrics. is a game show that originally aired on Fox from July 11,2007 to June 19,2009, hosted by Wayne Brady and produced by RDF USA, part of RDF Media. The launch of this show prompted NBC to move up the launch of their game show The Singing Bee. The shows contestants compete to win $1,000,000 by correctly recalling song lyrics from a variety of genres. After a year off the air, on January 25,2010, taping of the shows third overall season, and first as a syndicated show, began on June 15,2010. The show premiered in syndication and in primetime on VH1 on Monday. It premiered in primetime on MyNetworkTV on October 5,2010, on March 24,2011, the show was canceled along with Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader. In this show, a contestant is prompted to complete song lyrics for increasing amounts of money. After each correct answer, the contestant can continue playing, risking what has already earned, or quit the game. If the contestant continues playing and correctly completes nine song lyrics, he or she will be given a lyric from a number 1 hit to complete. If the contestant completes the final lyric correctly, he or she wins the prize, which was $1,000,000 on the Brady version. The primary difference between Dont Forget the Lyrics and other music-based game shows is that artistic talent is irrelevant to the chances of winning. In the words of one of their commercials prior to the first airing, You dont have to sing it well, the producers of the show are RDF USA, Apploff Entertainment, and Brad Lachman Productions. The structure of the show is similar to another FOX game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Contestants pick one of the categories. They are then given a choice of two different songs, the contestant then chooses one of the songs and are told how many missing words they will have to provide. The band starts to play the song and the lyrics are displayed on monitors in front of the contestant. At some point, the lyrics are shown as blank spaces, the contestant then fills in those blank spaces. They can then decide to lock in the lyrics, choose one of the backups, the format is based on the syndicated changes to fellow Twentieth Television game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. One contestant plays the show, with one song each from four different categories
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Steve-O
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Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known by his stage name Steve-O, is a Canadian-British-American stunt performer, comedian, animal-rights activist, and television personality. His entertainment career is mostly centered on his stunts on the American TV series Jackass, its related movies. Steve-O is known for his eccentric character, Steve-O was born in Wimbledon, London. His mother, Donna Gay, was Canadian, and his father and his paternal grandfather was English and his maternal step-grandfather was voice-over announcer Wayne Howell. His family was based in England for many due to his fathers presidency of the South American division of Pepsi-Cola. Childhood residencies include Canada, Brazil and Venezuela and he also lived in Darien, Connecticut, at the age of four, then Miami two years later. At age nine his family returned to London where Steve-O attended the American School in London in St. Johns Wood for four years, growing up, he was an avid Mötley Crüe fan. In 1987, Mötley Crüe was playing at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto where his family was living at the time and he phoned every hotel within and outside the vicinity until he found the name that the band usually checked in under, manager Doc McGhee. He attended the University of Miami but dropped out one year due to poor grades. He also attended the University of New Mexico from 1996-1997 and he then attended and graduated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1997. After graduation he was not selected to join the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and he filmed his stunts, including his clown performances, throughout this period. His mother, Donna, died on November 7,2003, while performing in the flea market circus, Steve-O began sending videos of himself to Big Brother Magazine editor and future Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. After admitting that the thing he was scared of was spiders, Tremaine recruited Steve-O for MTVs television series Jackass. MTV has subsequently released five movies based on the series, Jackass, The Movie, Jackass Number Two, direct-home release Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3D, and Jackass 3.5. The installments Jackass, The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 3D, in 2001, he released Dont Try This at Home on DVD, which contained material MTV censored. It went on to sell 140,000 copies and he toured promoting the DVD doing stunts, which was filmed and released as Dont Try This at Home Volume 2, The Tour. In 2003, Steve-O toured Europe with Bam Margera, a friend, on May 22,2003 Steve-O was arrested and jailed while in Sweden due to footage of himself swallowing a condom containing cannabis to get it past authorities while flying on a plane. He then regurgitated it live on stage, which he showed in his DVD Steve-O, Steve-O reached a deal with the Swedish prosecutors and was released on May 27,2003 after paying a 45,000 kronor fine
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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity
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Fly (Sugar Ray song)
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Fly is a song by rock band Sugar Ray. It appears on their 1997 album Floored twice, one version with reggae artist Super Cat, a physical CD-single was not released commercially in the US, although it was a huge hit on American radio. The song also reached No.1 on Canadas Singles Chart, Fly did not sound anything at all like the rest of the tracks on the album, being the only reggae fusion track. It also sampled a line from Gilbert OSullivans 1972 hit Alone Again, Sugar Rays lead singer Mark McGrath explained that this song had a bouncy beat, yet it was about death, Fly too seemed like a bright, up-tempo song but there is this stark imagery in there. There is loss of a mother, obviously. I thought it was a way to juxtapose the lyrics with the melody on that, similar to what Gilbert O’Sullivan did on “Alone Again. ”As a result of the success of Fly. However, by the end of 1997, critics skeptical that Sugar Ray could put out another successful song labeled them a one-hit wonder, the song was included on VH1s countdown of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s at number 52. A cover version was recorded by the band Pinmonkey on their 2002 self-titled album, four Year Strong also covered the song on their 1990s cover album, Explains It All, featuring Travie McCoy from the band Gym Class Heroes. In 2011, Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song as a track on the Target limited edition of the soundtrack Alvin
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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VH1
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VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1,1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting Systems short-lived Cable Music Channel and it was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV. As of February 2015, approximately 92.6 million US households receive VH1, also frequently featured in the networks early years were videos for Motown and other 60s oldies consisting of newsreel and concert footage. It was introduced on January 1,1985 with the performance of The Star-Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye. From the start, Video Hits One was branded as a version of its sister/parent channel. It played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and had a rotation of urban-contemporary performers. Its early on-camera personalities were New York radio veterans Don Imus, Frankie Crocker, Scott Shannon, Jon Bauman, Bobby Rivers, later VJs included Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM, a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1, and Alison Steele. Rosie ODonnell later joined the outlets veejay lineup, ODonnell would also host a comedy show featuring various comedians each episode. The format left room for occasional ad-libs by the VJ, a godsend for emcees such as Imus, in true Imus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 show to jokingly call smooth-jazz icon Sade Adu a grape for her oval-shaped head. At first many different musicians guest-hosted the program, but eventually musician/songwriter Ben Sidran became the permanent host, new-Age music videos continued to play on the channel into the 1990s. They would be seen on the Sunday morning 2-hour music video block titled Sunday Brunch, once VH1 established itself a few years later, they catered to Top 40, adult contemporary, classic rock, and 1980s mainstream pop. For a time, even music videos aired in a one-hour block during the afternoons. They started out using MTVs famous Kabel typeface font for their music video credit tags and it was later replaced in 1991 by a larger font, with the year the video was made added to the lower column that identified the label on which the album was released. In 1993, the name of the director was included at the bottom of the credits. Every week, the Top 21 Video Countdown usually had a different guest host, occasionally, they had themed countdowns as well, such as Elvira hosting scary videos for Halloween in 1991. Long blocks of videos by a particular artist or band, theme. One popular weekend program was called Video Rewind, in blocks of 1980s videos from one particular year would play for an hour. There was also a short-lived hour-long program called By Request in which viewers could call a 1–900 hotline number to request their videos, also in 1991, a popular morning program was introduced called Hits News & Weather that ran from 7 AM to 9 AM ET
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People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
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Sevendust
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Sevendust is an American alternative metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1994 by bassist Vince Hornsby, drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly. After their first demo, lead vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and guitarist Clint Lowery joined the group, following a few name changes, the members settled on the name Sevendust and released their self-titled debut album on April 15,1997. They have attained success with three consecutive RIAA gold certified albums and have sold millions of albums worldwide, the self-titled album sold 311 copies in its first week. However, through touring and TVT support, the album gained charting success through Billboard, since formation, Sevendust has released ten studio albums, earned additional charting success and gold sales certifications. They have also re-released their self-titled album as Sevendust, Definitive Edition which contains five new tracks, bassist Vince Hornsby joined drummer Morgan Rose in 1994 in a band called Snake Nation. John Connolly, a drummer, left his band and joined Snake Nation as a guitarist. Not happy with vocals, however, Snake Nation spent a year searching for a new singer before finding Lajon Witherspoon, six months passed, Clint Lowery joined the band, and they renamed themselves Rumblefish. Rumblefish was short-lived, however, because they found another band with the same name and they renamed themselves Crawlspace, and released My Ruin on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack album entitled More Kombat through TVT Records in 1996. Shortly after, another band named Crawlspac sent notice that they wanted $2,500 for the rights to their name, rather than purchase the rights, the band members chose to rename themselves Sevendust, a name inspired by the commercial insecticide brand Sevin Dust. The song Rumble Fish was included on the second album. Black became the song for nearly every Sevendust concert until 2004. The debut album contains the song My Ruin, from the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Sevendust appeared on the Billboard 200, remained there for sixteen weeks, the album went gold on May 19,1999. In 1998, Sevendust performed at Dynamo Open Air and Ozzfest 1998, in the same year they released a compilation called Live and Loud which featured live footage of the bands performance of September 16,1998 at Chicagos Metro. On August 24,1999, they released their second album, the album peaked at 19 on the Billboard 200 and featured Skin from Skunk Anansie and Chino Moreno from Deftones as guest vocalists. The two singles from the album, Denial and Waffle, gave the band moderate chart success, in 1999, they gained European exposure by opening for Skunk Anansie at various shows in Germany. Skin from Skunk Anansie provided guest vocals on the track Licking Cream off Home and they also opened with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent for Metallica on New Years Eve in 1999 at the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit, Michigan. They also joined Slipknot, Coal Chamber and other bands on the Tattoo the Earth Tour in June 2000, also in 2000, the song Fall was recorded by producer Sylvia Massy in 1998 at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, Georgia
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise debuted on May 25,1992, three days after Johnny Carsons retirement as host of the program. The program originated from NBC Studios in Burbank, California, and was broadcast Monday through Friday at 11,35 PM in the Eastern, unlike Carson or his predecessor Jack Paar, Leno only once used a guest host, preferring to host the series by himself. The series, which followed the basic format as that of its predecessors, ran until May 29,2009. NBC signed Leno to a new deal for a talk show in the 10,00 pm ET timeslot. The primetime series, titled The Jay Leno Show, debuted on September 14,2009, neither OBriens version of the program, which premiered June 1,2009, nor The Jay Leno Show generated the ratings NBC had expected. The network decided to move a condensed 30-minute version of Lenos show to OBriens time slot and this decision met with opposition from OBrien, whose stint on The Tonight Show ended January 22,2010, after which he began his own talk show on TBS. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno then began its second incarnation, the sixth of the franchise, on March 1,2010. Leno left The Tonight Show for good on February 6,2014 and on February 17, was succeeded by Late Night host Jimmy Fallon, Johnny Carson retired from The Tonight Show on May 22,1992, and was replaced by Jay Leno. David Letterman wanted to move into the time slot from his late night spot after The Tonight Show. With his heart set on the time slot, Letterman left NBC. Late Show with David Letterman, airing in the same slot, Conan OBrien slid into the late night time slot vacated by Letterman. On September 27,2004, the 50th anniversary of The Tonight Shows debut, NBC announced Leno would be succeeded by OBrien, in 2009. Leno explained he did not want to see a repeat of the hard feelings and it was announced on July 21,2008 that Leno would host his final episode of The Tonight Show on Friday, May 29,2009 with OBrien and James Taylor as his guests. OBrien took over hosting duties commencing the following Monday, on June 1,2009, on December 9,2008, it was announced Leno would be hosting a new nightly show in September 2009, which aired at 10 pm EST, during the networks prime time period. The Jay Leno Show ended after a run on February 9,2010. After several days of negotiations, OBrien reached a settlement with NBC that allowed him to leave NBC, on January 21,2010, NBC announced Leno would return to The Tonight Show. Jay Leno began his tenure on March 1,2010. The show moved to Stage 11 in Burbank, the home of The Jay Leno Show, with a similar set
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Everclear (band)
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Everclear is an American rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1991. One, Learning How to Smile, which were all certified platinum in sales, starting in 2012, Alexakis has also started up a 1990s nostalgia tour, called the Summerland Tour, that occurs every summer with Everclear and other 1990s alternative rock bands. In April 2015, the released a ninth studio album entitled Black is the New Black. Art Alexakis suffered through a youth, beginning with his father walking out when Alexakis was a child. Financial hardships pushed his family into the slums of Los Angeles, during his teenage years, Alexakis was shuttled around the country between various family members, but the drug addiction persisted. Eventually, Alexakis suffered a cocaine overdose, which finally pushed him to clean up. In the late 1980s, Alexakis played in a rock band in Los Angeles called Shakin Brave. Frustrated by the inattention of the L. A. music scene, Art relocated to San Francisco, Alexakis founded Shindig Records, a label that represented San Franciscos cowpunk scene. He began recording material of his own for a solo album, Alexakis wrote under the pseudonym A. D. While involved with Colorfinger, he wrote songs that would later find success as Everclear songs, including The Twistinside, Heartspark Dollarsign. In a single month in 1992, Shindig failed, Colorfinger broke up, seeking a change of location, Alexakis and his girlfriend moved to her hometown, Portland, Oregon. There, he placed an ad in music weekly The Rocket. The name Everclear was chosen as a reference to the infamous grain alcohol, in an interview with The Discovering Alcoholic, Alexakis called it pure, white evil for its deceptive nature. The new band recording in a friends basement, essentially bartering for recording time with musical gear. The sessions culminated in two releases, the Nervous & Weird EP and the bands first full-length release World of Noise, frustrated by Tim/Kerrs limited resources, Alexakis hired independent promoters to help push the album. The band spent much of 1994 seeking out a major label deal, after a modest bidding war, they were signed to Capitol Records by Gary Gersh, who was responsible for signing Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and Counting Crows to DGC Records. Just before their signing, Everclear parted ways with drummer Cuthbert, citing personality conflicts, in May 1995, the band released their first album for the label, Sparkle and Fade. The albums first single, Heroin Girl, received some modest airplay via MTVs 120 Minutes, however, near the end of 1995, the second single Santa Monica found a strong audience via the burgeoning alternative radio format, which eventually carried over to mainstream success
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Lit (band)
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Lit is an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Fullerton, California. They are best known for their hit song My Own Worst Enemy, in 1986, guitarist Jeremy Popoff and bassist Kevin Baldes met, and soon after, began playing music together. Later on, Baldes and Popoffs brother, A. Jay, the lineup included Kevin Baldes, Sean Holland, and A. They performed their first show on June 26,1988, at The Troubadour, Jay switched from drums to lead vocals, and the band added guitarist Jeremy Popoff and drummer Allen Shellenberger. Things began to come together in 1990, when the released a demo tape. Razzle dissolved in 1993 and became Stain in 1994, which had a harder and heavier sound. They released a tape in 1995 and eventually signed with Malicious Vinyl in 1995. After finding out the name Stain was already owned, the changed their name to Lit. On April 1,1997 the group released Tripping the Light Fantastic on the Malicious Vinyl record label, Malicious Vinyl went out of business shortly after Tripping the Light Fantastic was released, which left the band unsigned once again. They spent their time writing a new batch of songs and showcasing for various labels until they signed with RCA Records in 1998. The group shot to stardom started with their album titled A Place in the Sun. It was followed by Zip-Lock and Miserable, the latter of which was among the top ten most played songs of 2000, shortly after the album went platinum in the USA and gold in Canada becoming the bands best selling album of all time. The band performed over 286 shows and toured worldwide in support of A Place in the Sun, in addition to the Vans Warped Tour and a slot on Woodstock 1999, the band toured with The Offspring, Garbage, and No Doubt. The bands tracks also appeared in soundtracks of Ready to Rumble, Lit followed up A Place in the Sun with the 2001 release of Atomic. The new album steered away from the sound of their last pop punk album, the bands highest charting single was Lipstick and Bruises which reached Top 10 on the Billboards Hot Modern Rock Tracks. Lit toured to support Atomic with Kid Rock and Butch Walker, the group was released from their contract with RCA Records in late 2002. Lit went on a small, intimate club tour in the fall of 2003 before releasing the self-titled Lit on the DRT Entertainment label on June 24,2004, the single Looks Like They Were Right made it on the Top 40 charts. That year the group put out its first long-form DVD, All Access
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Marcy Playground
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Marcy Playground is an American alternative rock band consisting of three members, John Wozniak, Dylan Keefe, and Shlomi Lavie. The band is best known for their 1997 hit Sex and Candy, the band is named after the Marcy Open grade school in Minneapolis, which is the alternative school John Wozniak attended. He chose the name many of his songs were inspired by his childhood. Marcy Playground emerged in the late 1990s, influences include David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Wham. and the Beatles. The influences are clear on Marcy Playgrounds self-titled album, with songs like Shadow Of Seattle. A limited run of CDs were self-released by Wozniak and our Generation and Dog and His Master, two songs found on Wozniaks Zog BogBean project, would appear on later Marcy Playground albums. As of April 2009, Zog BogBean is available for download at Marcy Playgrounds official site as well as outlets such as iTunes. After attending the Evergreen State College for two years, Wozniak moved east to New York, in order to work with multi-instrumentalist, Jared Kotler, who John had known from suburban Philadelphia. Jared believed in Johns songwriting talent and put together money with his cousin Jeff White in order to pay for the duo to record at Sabella Recording Studios in nearby Roslyn, NY. After hearing the two records worth of material John had recorded of Johns songs, Capitol Records became interested in the music, kurt Rosenwinkel, a mutual friend, introduced bassist Dylan Keefe to John Wozniak and Marcy Playground began performing in NYC. The band was signed to Capitol in 1995 and they performed a series of NYC club dates that would be the first incarnation of Marcy Playground as a band. Personal problems between John and Jared reached a peak after a year of playing the New York music scene, the self-titled album was released in 1997, with the first single, Poppies, released soon after. Marcy Playground emerged into the mainstream with the success of the single Sex, the song spent 15 weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album went platinum and managed to spawn two singles, Saint Joe on the School Bus and Sherry Fraser. Marcy Playground is quiet and minimalist in tone, Marcy Playgrounds next outing was 1999s Shapeshifter. Shapeshifter was released on November 2,1999, upon learning the truth, Wozniak proclaimed that he was honored to have an album cover designed by Paul Leary. Its Saturday, the lead single, managed to hit No.23 on the Modern Rock Charts. After Shapeshifter, drummer Dan Rieser left the band to other interests
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Gin Blossoms
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Gin Blossoms is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona. After a series of charting singles, the broke up in 1997. They reunited in 2002 and released an album, Major Lodge Victory, in 2006. The bands name comes from a photo of W. C, fields in Kenneth Angers infamously erroneous book, Hollywood Babylon, which bore the caption W. C. Fields with gin blossoms, referring to the actors telangiectasia-ravaged face, in their early years, the Gin Blossoms became well-known around their hometown of Tempe, Arizona. The bands frequent touring resulted in an increase in popularity and they independently recorded their first full-length album, Dusted, which was released in 1989. The group is known for the sound, or Mill Avenue sound, similar to other bands from Arizona such as The Sidewinders, The Refreshments, The Meat Puppets. By the early 1990s, Wilson and Valenzuela switched roles, with Wilson taking on vocal duties and Valenzuela concentrating on rhythm guitar. Along with Leen on bass and Hopkins on lead guitar, Phillip Rhodes became the new drummer, after being signed to A&M Records, the band began to work on their first major label album. Initial attempts faltered and the released a EP, Up and Crumbling. Gin Blossoms named their first full-length studio album New Miserable Experience, in February 1992, while still working to complete it, founding member and lead guitarist/songwriter Hopkins drank heavily and grew increasingly depressed during the process. Faced with the prospect of being dropped by A&M, the band was forced by A&M to fire Hopkins, the band then withheld $15,000 owed to Hopkins until he agreed to sign over half of his publishing royalties. Hopkins was also required to relinquish his royalties to his replacement. Hopkins reluctantly agreed to these demands because of his financial situation. The first single released from it was Hopkins song Hey Jealousy and it reached No.25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.4 on Billboards Mainstream Rock Tracks, largely fueling the success of New Miserable Experience. However, the achievement was overshadowed by Hopkins suicide on December 4,1993, the following year, another song by Hopkins, Found Out About You, also reached No.25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and climbed to No.1 on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks. Between their first and second albums, the Gin Blossoms contributed the single Til I Hear It from You for the Empire Records soundtrack and it reached No.9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their second major album, Congratulations Im Sorry, was released in 1996, yielding one top ten hit, Follow You Down - No.9 Billboard Hot 100, the album met with mixed reviews
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Smash Mouth
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Smash Mouth is an American rock band from San Jose, California. The band was formed in 1994, and was composed of Steve Harwell, Kevin Coleman, Greg Camp. They are known for such as Walkin on the Sun, All Star, and a cover of The Monkees Im a Believer. The band adopted retro styles covering several decades of popular music and they have also performed numerous covers of popular songs, including Wars Why Cant We Be Friends. Simple Minds Dont You, Question Mark & the Mysterianss Cant Get Enough of You Baby, The Beatles Getting Better, Smash Mouth was formed in 1994 by Steve Harwell, who had formerly played in a rap group called F. O. S. and his manager. Harwells manager, Kevin Coleman, knew guitarist Greg Camp and bassist Paul De Lisle and they began rehearsing together, along with Kevin Coleman as drummer. They soon developed into a band, and named themselves Smashmouth, during their early years, the band played largely rock music. The bands first publicity came when a demo of the song Nervous in the Alley was played by a San Jose radio station, KOME. Soon after, Interscope Records signed the band, and the debut album, Fush Yu Mang, was released in 1997, featuring another member. Also, upon signing to Interscope Records, the changed their name from Smashmouth to Smash Mouth. The album eventually went double platinum led by the bands first major single Walkin on the Sun, the singles The Fonz and a cover of Why Cant We Be Friends were also subsequently released. The bands second album, Astro Lounge, was released in 1999 and marked a change in direction, as it had less of the ska influence. It led to publicity for the band, and ended up being one of the most critically acclaimed albums from the group. Supported by the hit singles All Star and Then the Morning Comes, also in 1999, The East Bay Sessions was released as a collection of early songs. Shortly after the release of the album, drummer Kevin Coleman left the band due to back problems, in 2001, Smash Mouth covered the Monkees hit song Im a Believer. It was featured on both the soundtrack for the film Shrek and their self-titled album, the album sold fewer copies than the bands earlier works, eventually being certified gold. Also in 2001, the group appeared as themselves in the scene of the film Rat Race. In 2003, Get the Picture. was released, featuring the singles You Are My Number One, Hang On, Smash Mouth was dropped from Interscope shortly after the release of Get the Picture
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Vertical Horizon
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Vertical Horizon is an American alternative rock band formed at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. in 1991. The band is best known for their 1999 album Everything You Want and these hits included Everything You Want, Youre a God, and Best I Ever Had. Their most recent album, Echoes from the Underground, was released in October 2013, Vertical Horizon was formed in 1991 by Georgetown University undergrads Matthew Scannell and Keith Kane. Early performances included cover sets of such as Simon & Garfunkel in the campus Leavey Center food court. Scannell and Kane split songwriting and lead vocal duties, Scannell and Kane toured as a duo for the next few years, mostly appearing with similar bands, such as Jackopierce. Their next album was 1995s Running on Ice, produced by John Alagia, Doug Derryberry, two songs, Kanes Wash Away and Scannells The Man Who Would Be Santa, were featured on the second Aware Records compilation album. More touring followed through 1996 as Vertical Horizon was joined by drummer Ed Toth, Live Stages was released in early 1997, and featured four new songs and more of an emphasis on electric guitar. Their wishes came true, and the band was signed to Sony BMG Music Entertainment/RCA Records, in early 1998 the band held auditions for a permanent bassist. Sean Hurley, a student at the Berklee College of Music, Vertical Horizons indie albums began to attract record executives from several record labels during the late 1990s. The band signed with RCA Records in 1998, RCA re-released Vertical Horizons independent albums, with new packaging and graphics. Before the RCA re-release, the bands first three albums had sold 70,000 combined units, the bands first effort with RCA Records was 1999s Everything You Want, with producers Ben Grosse, Mark Endert, and David Bendeth. The first single, We Are, was successful on Modern Rock stations. The second single, Everything You Want, proved a breakout as the single skyrocketed to the top of the charts, a third single, Youre a God, also did very well and was released as a live performance on the charity album Live in the X Lounge III. It was also featured in the movie Bruce Almighty, the fourth single, Best I Ever Had, received moderate airplay. In 2005, a remake of the song would become a top 10 country hit for Gary Allan, the band, which had been touring constantly since the album was released, continued touring until well into 2001. They then took a break, then back to the studio to record their follow-up. Since 2001, the album is certified double Platinum by the RIAA, after some delays, it was announced that the new album, Go, would be released in September 2002. Go was released while RCA was going through a restructuring and as a result
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Fastball (band)
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Fastball is an American rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in 1995. The band originally called themselves Magneto U. S. A. in 1998, their album All the Pain Money Can Buy reached platinum sales within six months of its release, and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for a year. In addition, the group has been nominated for two Grammy Awards – Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for The Way, and Best Long Form Music Video for their promotional video The Way. They also received five The Austin Chronicle awards, 1998s Album of the Year, Best Video, Best Single/EP, Band of the Year, in 1995, Tony Scalzo, Miles Zuniga, and Joey Shuffield formed Fastball in Austin, Texas. Zuniga and Shuffield first played together in a band called Big Car, after a stint with another group called Wild Seeds, Shuffield introduced Zuniga to Scalzo, who had played in a band called the Goods in Orange County, California. The trio decided to form their own band, and began playing around the Austin area. When they first started out, the band tried out names, such as Star 69, Magneto, Magneto USA, Ed Clarks Business Bible and Starchy. Fastball quickly built a following in the Austin area. As a result, a local journalist spotted them, and suggested that Hollywood Records check them out and they did, and Fastball soon signed a recording contract. Scalzo and Zuniga took turns singing and writing the songs, while Shuffield backed them up on drums, in 1996, Make Your Mama Proud arrived in stores. The album didnt sell well, but it did win for the Best Pop Band category at the Austin Music Awards. The following year, the members of Fastball were unsure of their future, the members of Fastball still had side jobs as late as January 1998. Tony Scalzo worked the graveyard shift at The Bagel Manufactory in Austin and he, Shuffield, and Zuniga would be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan OBrien just four months later. Fastballs second album, All The Pain Money Can Buy, was released on Hollywood Records, within just six months, it had sold more than a million copies. The single The Way stayed on top of Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks, Scalzo was inspired to write the song in 1997, after reading a news article about Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple who had disappeared in Texas. Though Lela had Alzheimers and Raymond was recovering from brain surgery and they were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route. Fastball followed up The Way with a second single Fire Escape and a single, Out of My Head. Out of My Head reached the top ten on Billboards Top 40 chart and was a top ten hit on the Adult Top 40 chart for 29 weeks, the band followed up their album release with a tour that also featured Marcy Playground and Everclear
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Floored
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Floored is the second studio album by American rock band Sugar Ray, released on June 24,1997. It includes the hit song Fly, and another successful single. Two versions of Fly are found on the album, one of them featuring reggae artist Super Cat, Floored fuses metal, funk, reggae, punk rock and rap. Due to the amounts of strong language in the songs Cash and American Pig. It contains the label that can be peeled off the case. It is their last album to do so and their last heavy album before they moved toward a more pop friendly approach, Floored went to number 12 on the Billboard 200 on August 30,1997. Flooreds song Fly was extremely popular, it went to number 1 on the Radio Songs chart, number 1 on the Pop Songs chart, Fly was on the Radio Songs chart for 59 weeks. In September 1997,510,000 copies of Floored were sold, in December 1997,1,200,000 copies of Floored were sold. In February 1998, Floored was certified 2x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling 2,000,000 copies in the United States, all tracks written by Sugar Ray, except where noted
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Sugar Ray (album)
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Sugar Ray is the fourth studio album by the band Sugar Ray. The album was released on June 12,2001, and debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, the albums first single, When Its Over, performed well on pop and rock charts as well. The track Words to Me was featured on the Scooby-Doo film soundtrack in 2002, also, the track Sorry Now was featured in Scary Movie 2. The album received positive reviews. Aggregator Metacritic gave the album a 71/100 rating based on 10 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. The album sold one million copies, less than the multi-platinum albums Floored and 14,59, but far more than their next album, 2003s In the Pursuit of Leisure, #13 UK, #32 Answer the Phone - U. S
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In the Pursuit of Leisure
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In the Pursuit of Leisure is Sugar Rays fifth studio album released in 2003. Hip-hop artists Esthero and Shaggy guest-star on the album and it features the single Mr. Bartender, a song which includes samples from both Sweets hit Love Is Like Oxygen and Midnight Stars hit No Parking. That track was a success and reached the #20 spot on Billboards Adult Top 40, a cover of Joe Jacksons new wave song Is She Really Going Out With Him. was released as the second single. It had similar success and reached the #29 spot on Billboards Adult Top 40, the album only sold 135,000 copies, far less than the bands prior self-titled release, which had gone platinum. The albums commercial failure led to a gap in releasing their next album. All songs written by Sugar Ray, except for Is She Really Going Out with Him, chasin You Around –3,38 Is She Really Going Out with Him. –3,48 Heaven –4,26 Bring Me the Head of
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American Idol
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It began airing on Fox on June 11,2002, and ended on April 7,2016. It started off as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol, the concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by the viewers in America through telephones, Internet, and SMS text voting. American Idol employed a panel of judges who critiqued the contestants performances, the original judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell. The judging panel for the final consisted of country singer Keith Urban, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. The first season was hosted by radio personality Ryan Seacrest and comedian Brian Dunkleman, the success of American Idol has been described as unparalleled in broadcasting history. The series was said by a rival TV executive to be the most impactful show in the history of television. It became a springboard for launching the career of many artists as bona fide stars. The series concluded after 15 seasons, American Idol was based on the British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller, which was in turn inspired by the New Zealand television singing competition Popstars. Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw a version in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain, Fuller was inspired by the idea from Popstars of employing a panel of judges to select singers in audition. He then added elements, such as telephone voting by the viewing public. The show debuted in Britain in 2001 with Lythgoe as showrunner—the executive producer and production leader—and Simon Cowell as one of the judges, it was quite successful with the viewing public. In 2001, Fuller, Cowell, and TV producer Simon Jones attempted to sell the Pop Idol format to the United States, but the idea was initially met with poor responses from the Fox television network. However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Foxs parent company, was persuaded to buy the series by his daughter, Elisabeth. The show was renamed American Idol, The Search for a Superstar, Cowell was initially offered the job as showrunner but later turned down the offer, Lythgoe then took over that position. Much to Cowells surprise, it one of the biggest shows of the summer. The show grew into a phenomenon largely due to its personal engagement of the contestants, thereby prompting viewers to vote, by 2004, it had become the most-watched show on U. S. television, a position it then held for seven consecutive seasons. However, after a few years of declining ratings, the network announced that the fifteenth season would be its last. A fourth judge, radio DJ Stryker, was originally chosen, the show decided to continue with the three judges format until season eight
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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Charmed
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Charmed is an American television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadcast by The WB for eight seasons from October 7,1998, each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern-day San Francisco. The series initially focuses on the three Halliwell sisters, Prue, Piper and Phoebe, however, following Prues death in the third-season finale, their long-lost half sister Paige Matthews assumes her place within the Power of Three from season four onwards. During its fifth season, the became the highest-rated Sunday night program in The WBs history. The shows ratings, although smaller than rival shows on the big four networks, were substantial for The WB as it was not one of the main TV networks in the US. At 178 episodes, Charmed is the second-longest drama broadcast by The WB, the series has also received numerous awards and nominations. Charmed has also become a source of pop culture references in film, the shows success has led to its development in other media, including a video game, board games, novels, and a comic book series which serves as a continuation of its narrative. Throughout 2012, six years after it ceased broadcasting, Charmed was the second-most watched television series on subscription services, including Amazon Video. The series starts when Phoebe Halliwell returns from New York and moves back into the familys Halliwell Manor in San Francisco to live with her sisters Prue and Piper. By the end of the first episode, each sister learns that she has a magical power. Prue, the eldest, has the power of telekinesis, Piper, the middle sister, has the power to effectively freeze people and objects. As she grows more proficient, she learns how to freeze only certain people or objects or body parts, in season three, her powers evolve further, as she is able to cause evil beings or objects to explode using her hands. Phoebe, the youngest of the three, initially possesses the power of allowing her to receive visions of the future. She later develops the powers of levitation in season three, and empathy in season six, the latter allowing her to sense and tap into others emotions and, sometimes, in accordance with the series mythology, a witchs powers are tied to their emotions. During the first two seasons, the sisters face various evil beings from week to week, however, in the third season, they discover that their ultimate enemy is The Underworlds demonic ruler, The Source of All Evil. Eventually, Prue is killed in the season three finale by The Sources personal assassin, Shax, the Source, responsible for the majority of attacks on the sisters, becomes the main villain during season four until he is finally vanquished. After his demise, an annual season-long storyline and several antagonists are introduced in subsequent seasons, the sisters also fight to prevent the exposure of the existence of magic to the human community at large, contending with several police and FBI investigations. The sisters also face romantic storylines, eventually, the two manage to marry and consecrate their union in season three, producing a son named Wyatt in season five
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Jason Lewis (actor)
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Jason Lewis is an American actor and former fashion model. He appeared on the May 2008 cover of Mens Fitness, Lewis was born in Newport Beach, California to Nancy, a nurse, and Gregory Lewis, a judge, his parents are divorced. He has three siblings, Sean, Katie and Nicole, in his teens he attended Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. He attended college at San Diego State University, after college he started modeling, first in Paris and then with star status in Milan in the late 1990s for Guess. Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss, among others, Lewis appeared on Beverly Hills,90210 in 1997, playing a love interest of character Valerie. He reprised the role in 2008s Sex and the City, The Movie and he is also known in Europe for playing the hunk on the Aero Advert for Aero Bubbles. He reprised the role in an episode in April 2009 and he also played a soap opera actor on two episodes of House. Lewis appears and is highlighted on the cover in the coffee table book About Face, shot by celebrity photographer John Russo. Lewis is a supporter of the LGBT community, on May 10,2008, he attended the 19th GLAAD Media Awards, a ceremony that celebrates gay-friendly actors and actresses as well as media outlets. Lewis appeared in the How I Met Your Mother episode The Wedding Bride as a star in a film within the show. He starred in the 2011 Canadian film Textuality, in addition, he appeared as Pete in the Israeli television show, Be With Her. C. Jason Lewis at the Internet Movie Database Mens Fitness interview
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Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious
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Girlicious, unlike the Pussycat Dolls, will be a more urbanized, all female trio. This is the format for the season of the Pussycat Dolls Present series, focusing mostly on female dancers/singers. It premiered on Monday, February 18,2008 and this season features 15 young women competing for the 3 slots open. The album will be out on August 12 and their first single premiered on April 23 right after the finale of the series, the same day, Stupid Shit was released. Their first single can be heard on their official myspace, a third season of Pussycat Dolls Present was planned, but then the show was officially cancelled due to its low ratings. On Weeks 2 and 4 they were called by groups, with the weakest group up for elimination and on Weeks 3 and 5 they were all called together except for the immunity winner, afterwards things got back to the bottom two system. On Week 3 Natalie was called out by Mark McGrath but not by Robin, on Week 6 Jenna was called and then eliminated, Chrystina wasnt called at all. In the finale, Robin called the first two winners, then Charlye who was eliminated and finally surprised Natalie and Chrystina by telling them they would both be in the group, Week 7 is a recap episode. On Week 5 two contestants were planned to be sent home, while on Week 9 the judges couldnt agree on whom to send home, the results are as follow, The girls practice and Keishas vocal short-comings are highlighted. Charlotte and Natalie have an argument, when Natalie doesnt lend Charlotte a pair of boots, the girls are taken to the Tom Tom club. At the club, the girls perform karaoke and both Ilisa and Carrie impress the judges, back at home, Jenna is revealed to have a ruptured cyst and is taken to the emergency room. She then spends the rest of rehearsal in a wheelchair, much to Robins astonishment, in the final performance, Group 2 and 5 are deemed the worst but Ilisa, Natalie and then Carrie are spared, narrowing the group to 12 finalists. The girls move into the house and Chrystina and Natalie separate themselves from the rest, during vocal rehearsals of the N Sync group, former member of *NSYNC JC Chasez surprised the girls and gave advice about being in a group. Only one group will sing it though and the best individual in that group will be safe from elimination at this weeks performance, after a first check, the group made up of Carrie, Charlye, Jenna and Chrystina is selected to sing The National Anthem. Carrie wins immunity for being the best overall, back at home Natalie is confronted by her teammates for not being confident at the challenge, bringing her to tears so she calls her mom who encourages her to bring her confidence up. At the final performance, Baby One More Time is unanimously deemed the worst and Megan, in the end, Megan is eliminated for being too pageanty. Robin selects Carrie, Chrystina and Charlye as team leaders and Ilisa is the last to be picked, the song are as follow, Ilisa struggles with not having a place in the competition. Later the girls are taken to a party where they meet Nicole from The Pussycat Dolls
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Dave Mustaine
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David Scott Dave Mustaine is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor and author. David Mustaine was born September 13,1961 in La Mesa, California, to Emily and his father was of French, Canadian and Irish descent and his mother was German. He was brought up as a Jehovahs Witness, the lineup was Mike Leftwych on drums, Bob Evans on bass, Tom Quecke on rhythm guitar, Pat Voeks as the vocalist, with Mustaine as the lead guitarist. Both Mike Leftwych and the man were killed in a car crash after Panics second show. In 1981, Mustaine left Panic to join Metallica as the lead guitarist, Metallicas drummer Lars Ulrich had posted an ad in a local newspaper, The Recycler, looking for a lead guitarist. In his own words, Mustaine remembers his first meeting with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, I was in the warming up and I walked out and asked. And they said, No, youve got the job, I couldnt believe how easy it had been and suggested that we get some beer to celebrate. Mustaines membership in Metallica ended before recording Kill Em All in 1983, brian Slagel, owner of Metal Blade Records, recalls in an interview, Dave was an incredibly talented guy but he also had an incredibly large problem with alcohol and drugs. Hed get wasted and become a crazy person, a raging megalomaniac. I mean, they all drank of course, but Dave drank more … much more, I could see they were beginning to get fed up of seeing Dave drunk out of his mind all the time. On one occasion, Mustaine brought his dog to rehearsal, the dog jumped onto the car of Metallica bassist Ron McGovney, Hetfield allegedly yelled at Mustaines dog and kicked it in anger, to which Mustaine responded by physically attacking Hetfield and McGovney and verbally abusing Ulrich. Mustaine was fired following the altercation, but the next day, another incident occurred when Mustaine, who had been drinking, poured a full can of beer down the neck and into the pick-ups of McGovneys bass. McGovney then told Mustaine and Hetfield to leave his house and left the band shortly after, the band packed up Mustaines gear, drove him to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and put him on a Greyhound bus bound for Los Angeles. It was on this bus ride that Mustaine scribbled some lyrical ideas on the back of a hand bill, which would later become the song Set the World Afire from the 1988 Megadeth album So Far, So Good. During his time in Metallica, Mustaine toured with the band, co-wrote four songs that appeared on Kill Em All, Mustaine has also made unverified claims to have written parts of Leper Messiah from Master of Puppets. He also recorded songs with the band including the No Life Til Leather demo tape. A few of the songs he wrote with Hetfield and Ulrich went on to be re-recorded by Metallica. The most well-known of these is The Four Horsemen from Kill Em All, Fallen Angels was the name of the short-lived band that Mustaine founded after his departure from Metallica
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Megadeth
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Megadeth is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson formed the band in 1983 shortly after Mustaines dismissal from Metallica. A pioneer of the American thrash metal scene, the band is credited as one of the big four with Anthrax, Metallica and Slayer, responsible for thrash metals development. Megadeth plays in a style, featuring fast rhythm sections. Themes of death, war, politics and religion are prominent in the song lyrics, in 1985, the band released its debut album on the independent label Combat Records. The albums moderate commercial success caught the attention of bigger labels and their first major-label album, Peace Sells. But Whos Buying. was released in 1986 and influenced the underground metal scene, despite its prominence in thrash metal, frequent disputes between its members and substance abuse issues brought Megadeth negative publicity during this period. After the lineup stabilized, the released a number of platinum-selling albums, including Rust in Peace. These albums, along with touring worldwide, helped bring recognition to Megadeth. The band temporarily disbanded in 2002 when Mustaine suffered an arm injury and re-established in 2004 without bassist Ellefson, Ellefson settled with Mustaine out of court and rejoined the group in 2010. Megadeth has hosted its own festival, Gigantour, several times since mid-2005. As of 2014, Megadeth had sold 50 million records worldwide, earned platinum certification in the United States for five of its fifteen studio albums, Megadeth won its first Grammy Award in 2017 for the song Dystopia in the Best Metal Performance category. The bands mascot, Vic Rattlehead, regularly appears on album artwork and, since 2010, the group has experienced controversy over its musical approach and lyrics, including canceled concerts and album bans. MTV has refused to play two of the videos that the network considered to condone suicide. As Metallicas lead guitarist since 1982, Mustaine had composed some of the early songs. Afterward, Mustaine vowed revenge by forming a band that was faster and heavier than Metallica. On the bus back to Los Angeles, Mustaine found a pamphlet by California senator Alan Cranston that read. The term Megadeath stuck with Mustaine and he wrote a song with the slightly changed to Megadeth
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Gary Dell'Abate
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Gary DellAbate, also known as Baba Booey, is an American radio producer, and has been the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show since 1984. His autobiography, They Call Me Baba Booey, was released on November 2,2010, DellAbate was born and raised in Uniondale, New York, on Long Island. He comes from a large Italian-American family and his father, Salvatore DellAbate, was a salesman for Hagen Daz ice cream, while his mother was a food demonstartor at Macys in New York City and Fortunoffs on Long Island. DellAbate attended Adelphi University, receiving the Richard F. Clemo Award his senior year, while interning with Roz Frank, a traffic reporter on WNBC, he came into contact with Howard Stern. DellAbate has worked on The Howard Stern Show since September 4,1984, originally on 66 WNBC, then syndicated through K-Rock in New York City, DellAbate was originally hired for $150 a week, with duties including getting Sterns lunch and scheduling guests for the show. Previously nicknamed Boy Gary, DellAbates Baba Booey moniker originated on The Howard Stern Show on July 26,1990, in the course of discussing a Quick Draw McGraw cel he might purchase, he misstated the name of McGraws sidekick Baba Looey as Baba Booey. Speaking to Howard at the end of the show, DellAbate said, Howard Stern replied, Gary, weve only scratched the surface of this. DellAbate remains Baba Booey to this day, eventually he titled his autobiography They Call Me Baba Booey. DellAbate later recalled that when he watched the cartoon as a child, Quick Draw would often call Baba Looey Baba Boy, Quick Draws drawn-out pronunciation of boy often sounded like booey, which led DellAbate to think that the characters name was actually Baba Booey. Baba Booey as a term has become a mantra for fans of The Howard Stern Show and is used during crank calls to live network television or radio broadcasts. For example, a made to ABC News during the low-speed police chase of O. J. Simpsons Ford Bronco through the streets of Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Sportscaster Al Michaels explained to anchor Peter Jennings the significance of the phrase, more recently, Freestyle wrestler Jake Herbert yelled Baba Booey as the camera panned over Team USA during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. Beginning in 2013, there have been hundreds of instances on the PGA Tour in which spectators have shouted Baba Booey. as soon as a golfer has completed his swing, DellAbate has been married since 1992 to Mary DellAbate. They have two sons, Lucas and Jackson, after DellAbates brother Steven died of AIDS in January 1991, DellAbate became a supporter of LIFEbeat The Music Industry Fights AIDS and serves as the charitys president. DellAbate wrote a biography titled They Call Me Baba Booey which was a New York Times best seller and it debuted at #6 on the NY Times Best Seller list in November of 2010. In the book DellAbate tells the story of his brothers death from AIDS and he was featured in the May 2007 issue of Sound and Vision magazine where his home theater was profiled. DellAbate is an avid New York Mets fan, and, on May 9,2009 he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Mets game, the pitch did not go well, as it landed down the third-base line and hit an umpire. DellAbate is also a fan of the New York Islanders hockey team, DellAbates thoughts and memories of following the Islanders are featured throughout the book, as well as several photos of DellAbate with Islanders players at a Stanley Cup victory parade in 1980
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The Howard Stern Show
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The Howard Stern Show is an American talk radio show hosted by Howard Stern. It gained wide recognition when it was syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005. The show has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a satellite radio service, since 2006. Other prominent staff members include co-host and news anchor Robin Quivers, writer Fred Norris, the show developed in 1979 when Stern landed his first morning shift at WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, four years into his professional radio career. He continued to break out as a morning personality at WWWW in Detroit, Michigan in 1980, in 1982, Sterns success in Washington led to a spot at WNBC in New York City, where he hosted the citys top afternoon show until his firing in 1985. In the New York area, the show was the morning program consecutively between 1994 and 2001. A total of $2.5 million in fines were issued to station licensees that carried the show by the Federal Communications Commission, following Sterns contract with Sirius in 2004, the show left terrestrial radio in December 2005. Since 1994, the show has been taped and broadcast on networks, including E. CBS, and HowardTV. An upcoming audio and video streaming app is currently in development, Stern landed his first professional radio job while at Boston University, performing on-air skits, news casting and production duties at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts from August to December 1975. After his graduation, Stern landed some cover shifts in December 1976 at WRNW and he produced more creative commercials by calling the owners of businesses on the air, which he wrote was mind-blowing to everyone there. In 1979, Stern responded to an advertisement for a wild, fun morning guy at WCCC, rock station in Hartford and he produced a more outrageous audition tape, playing Robert Klein and Cheech and Chong records mixed with flatulence routines and one-liners. He was hired for the job, his first in a radio market. As the stations public affairs director, Stern also hosted an interview show on Sunday mornings. He would ask more unusual type questions to his guests, such as their dating habits, Stern held a two-day boycott of Shell Oil Company during the summer of the 1979 energy crisis, which made Stern and the station make national news. Stern also began his Dial-a-Date routines at WCCC, and met Fred Norris, Norris would join the show as Sterns writer and producer in 1981. After Stern left WCCC for being denied a raise in salary, he began a new morning shift at WWWW, a struggling rock outlet in Detroit, Michigan on April 21,1980. He learned to become more open on the air and decided to cut down the barriers. strip down all the ego. and be totally honest. I still sounded like an FM announcer. Stern held an event and wrestled women outside the studios, and invited listeners to confess the most outrageous places where they had sex
