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OK Go (album)
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OK Go is the debut studio album by American rock band OK Go. It was released in September 2002, the cover was created by designer Stefan Sagmeister. The album debuted at number 107 on Billboard 200, and number one on Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart, all lyrics written by Damian Kulash Jr. all music composed by Damian Kulash Jr. except where noted. Get Over It was featured on the soundtrack of the video games Triple Play Baseball 2002, dont Ask Me was featured on the soundtrack of the video game MVP Baseball 2003, trailers for Just Friends and Good Luck Chuck, and the movie Catch That Kid. Youre So Damn Hot was used on an episode of The O. C and it also appeared in a television commercial advertising campaign for Payless Shoes in 2006. It is now appearing in ads for ABCs television show Castle
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, the word Illinois comes from a French rendering of a native Algonquin word. For decades, OHare International Airport has been ranked as one of the worlds busiest airports, Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics. With the War of 1812 Illinois growth slowed as both Native Americans and Canadian forces often raided the American Frontier, mineral finds and timber stands also had spurred immigration—by the 1810s, the Eastern U. S. Railroads arose and matured in the 1840s, and soon carried immigrants to new homes in Illinois, as well as being a resource to ship their commodity crops out to markets. Railroads freed most of the land of Illinois and other states from the tyranny of water transport. By 1900, the growth of jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted a new group of immigrants. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars, the Great Migration from the South established a large community of African Americans in Chicago, who created the citys famous jazz and blues cultures. Three U. S. presidents have been elected while living in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, additionally, Ronald Reagan, whose political career was based in California, was the only U. S. president born and raised in Illinois. Today, Illinois honors Lincoln with its official slogan, Land of Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is located in the capital of Springfield. Illinois is the spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries and explorers name for the Illinois Native Americans. American scholars previously thought the name Illinois meant man or men in the Miami-Illinois language and this etymology is not supported by the Illinois language, as the word for man is ireniwa and plural men is ireniwaki. The name Illiniwek has also said to mean tribe of superior men. The name Illinois derives from the Miami-Illinois verb irenwe·wa he speaks the regular way and this was taken into the Ojibwe language, perhaps in the Ottawa dialect, and modified into ilinwe·. The French borrowed these forms, changing the ending to spell it as -ois. The current spelling form, Illinois, began to appear in the early 1670s, the Illinois name for themselves, as attested in all three of the French missionary-period dictionaries of Illinois, was Inoka, of unknown meaning and unrelated to the other terms. American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, the Koster Site has been excavated and demonstrates 7,000 years of continuous habitation
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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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Power pop
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Power pop is a pop rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of devices such as strong melodies, clear vocals and crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed, in the 1980s and 1990s, power pop continued as a commercially modest genre but by the mid-1990s through the 2000s, power pop was mainly in the underground. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods. The Small Faces are often cited as being among the progenitors of power pop, the Whos role in the creation of power pop has been cited by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen of the Raspberries, who has said, Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didnt stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups came out in the 70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars. It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models, other acts such as the Knickerbockers, the Easybeats and the Outsiders contributed iconic singles. Writer John Borack has noted, Its also quite easy to draw a line from garage rock to power pop. Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American. The Raspberries 1972 hit single Go All The Way is an almost perfect embodiment of the elements of power pop, the most influential group of the period may have been Big Star. The Replacements even recorded a song entitled Alex Chilton in honor of Big Stars frontman, spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and new wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, as the novelist Michael Chabon has written, Power pop in its essential form. Did not come into existence for a number of years after it was first identified, like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff. The term was used in reference to critics favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Los Angeles-based Bomp. magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genres roots to 1960s groups like the Who, like their punk brethren, late–1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early–1970s predecessors. Some occasionally incorporated synthesizers into their music, though not to the degree as did their new wave counterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from the Bomp, records label by 20/20, Shoes and the Romantics. Major label groups like Cheap Trick, the Cars and Blondie merged power pop influences with other styles and achieved their first mainstream success with albums released in 1978
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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EMI
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EMI was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 and was based in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth-largest business group and its EMI Records Ltd. group of record labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records and Capitol Records. EMI also had a publishing arm, EMI Music Publishing—also based in London with offices globally. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, other members of the Sony consortium include the Estate of Michael Jackson, The Blackstone Group, and Abu Dhabi–owned investment fund Mubadala Development Company. The new vertically integrated company produced sound recordings as well as recording, the companys gramophone manufacturing led to forty years of success with larger-scale electronics and electrical engineering. He was killed in 1942 whilst conducting flight trials on an experimental H2S radar set, post-war, the company resumed its involvement in making broadcasting equipment, notably providing the BBCs second television transmitter at Sutton Coldfield. It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies as well as for the BBC, the commercial television ITV companies also used them alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi. Exports of this piece of equipment were low, however, the company was also for many years an internationally respected manufacturer of photomultipliers. This part of the business was transferred to Thorn as part of Thorn-EMI, in 1958 the EMIDEC1100, the UKs first commercially available all-transistor computer, was developed at Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield, an electrical engineer at EMI. In 1973 EMI was awarded a prestigious Queens Award for Technological Innovation for what was called the EMI scanner. After brief, but brilliant, success in the imaging field, EMIs manufacturing activities were sold off to other companies. Subsequently, development and manufacturing activities were sold off to companies and work moved to other towns such as Crawley. Emihus Electronics, based in Glenrothes, Scotland, was owned 51% by Hughes Aircraft, of California, US and it manufactured integrated circuits electrolytic capacitors and, for a short period in the mid-1970s, hand-held calculators under the Gemini name. Early in its life, the Gramophone Company established subsidiary operations in a number of countries in the British Commonwealth, including India, Australia. Over 150,000 78-rpm recordings from around the world are held in EMIs temperature-controlled archive in Hayes, in 1931, the year the company was formed, it opened the legendary recording studios at Abbey Road, London. During the 1930s and 1940s, its roster of artists included Arturo Toscanini, Sir Edward Elgar, during this time EMI appointed its first A&R managers. These included George Martin, who brought the Beatles into the EMI fold. When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1931, at this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board
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BMG Rights Management
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BMG Rights Management GmbH is an international music company focused on the management of music publishing, recording rights and music distribution. The company operates as a division of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann. The company was established in 2008 as a joint venture between Bertelsmann and the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. In March 2013, Bertelsmann took over BMG by acquiring KKRs shares, making BMG a fully owned subsidiary of the Bertelsmann group. The companys head office is in Berlin, and it operates offices in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Hilversum, Beijing, Toronto, Sydney. BMG is the youngest major international company in the music industry, the formation of the company was first announced in October 2008 shortly following Bertelsmanns sale of its music interests to Sony Music Entertainment. BMG opened their first offices in January 2009 in Paris, London, Milan, Madrid, Amsterdam, the company trades under the name BMG Chrysalis in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Sweden. BMG in 2010 made its biggest acquisition at the time with the purchase of Cherry Lane Music, the Cherry Lane roster of clients includes Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Black Eyed Peas, etc. The acquisition gave BMG a major presence in the U. S, in 2012, BMG was the fourth-largest music publisher in the world, based on revenue. BMG acquired Sanctuary Records Group from Universal Music Group for over €45 million in February 2013, the previous BMG had distributed Sanctuary in certain territories. The deal was approved by the EU in May 2013, in March 2013, Bertelsmann took over BMG by acquiring KKRs shares, making BMG a fully owned subsidiary of the Bertelsmann group. In 2014, it was the most successful publisher in Germany. Soon after completing its acquisition of Mute Records and Sanctuary, BMG arranged for INgrooves to distribute the catalogues in North America, also, Depeche Mode will be distributed through Sony Music Entertainment, while Black Sabbath remained at Universal Music Group until March 2014. Then in 2014, BMG signed multi-platinum selling group Day26, in November 2014, BMG acquired Union Square Music. BMG completed the purchase of Oregon-based metal and hard rock label Rise Records, home to The Devil Wears Prada, Of Mice & Men, in 2015, the Berlin-based company became the 5th biggest recorded music company in the UK. In April 2016, BMG signed a deal with Warner Music Group. On March 7,2017, BMG announced that it would transfer the worldwide rights to 95,000 tracks and 8,000 albums to Warners Alternative Distribution Alliance division. At the end of May 2016, BMG expanded into Brazil by acquiring the local publisher Basement Music, in July 2016, BMG completed two major acquisitions
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Debate Team (band)
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Their debut extended play, Wins Again, was released independently on January 24,2011. The band started out as a project by flatmates Brown. Both had an interest in such as Elvis Costello and Queen. With the success of Browns main project, OneRepublic, the band went on hiatus until 2008, in 2009, Konopka, James and Morris joined Brown and McNeill to complete the band. Throughout 2009 and 2010, the began recording Wins Again. The EP was set to be released in Summer 2010, but was delayed until the start of 2011, in the meantime, the band released the tracks Christmastime Alone, Curious Pair, My Expertise and Leave onto their Facebook page. On November 3,2010, the band mentioned on their Facebook page that their second EP was being recorded, the date and title of this release are still unknown. List of bands from Los Angeles List of indie pop artists List of indie rock musicians Music of Los Angeles debateteamtheband. com, the bands official website Debate Team at AllMusic
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Damian Kulash
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Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. is the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band OK Go. He is also a video director. United States, Kulash graduated from St. Albans School in 1994, the family name was originally Kulas when Kulashs great-grandparents lived in Poland. In a podcast, Kulash states that one of his grandfathers invented the modern day fish stick, while in college at Brown, Kulash played in at least three bands – A La Playa, Calixto Chinchile, and Square. In May 1998, Kulash won Brown Universitys Weston Prize in music composition, Kulash also attended Interlochen Arts Camp while in high school as a visual arts major. As a result of courses he took in music, Kulash became interested in more highly produced. After graduation from Brown, Kulash moved to Chicago, and in 1998 formed OK Go, after playing in Chicago and appearances on NPRs This American Life, OK Go signed to Capitol Records. They have released four albums, OK Go, Oh No, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky and he is also a fan of post-hardcore and indie rock. He was also one half of the Washington, D. C. based independent record label Level Records, Level Records released various 7s, compilations, and CDs for bands such as Branch Manager and Frodus. On March 9,2010, Kulash announced OK Gos departure from EMI via their YouTube channel and their new label is called Paracadute. In August 2006, Kulash appeared on an episode of The Colbert Report to discuss the band putting their videos on YouTube instead of going through the normal corporate video-making process. OK Go made another appearance in April 2010, and performed This Too Shall Pass, in early 2008, Kulash wrote a passage in Ben Karlins book Things Ive Learnt from Women Whove Dumped Me. Kulash describes one of his previous, unsuccessful relationships, involving a dog which he shared with his partner, on February 19,2010, The New York Times printed his op-ed piece entitled WhoseTube. Which discussed the relationship between musicians, record labels, and the Internet, Kulash had previously written two other op-eds in the New York Times, one in 2008 about Net Neutrality and another in 2005 about the Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal. He has also testified in Congress in favor of Net Neutrality, Kulash was previously married to artist Shana Lutker and also designer Ambra Medda. In March 2014, Kulash was part of a video titled First Kiss. Smart Music Thats Fun Brown Alumni Magazine Online, OK Go Biography Accessed October 24,2005. PopGurls 20 Questions with Damian Kulash
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Andy Ross
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Andrew Andy Ross, is an American musician most famous as guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist for the rock band OK Go since 2005. He is also behind a project, Secret Dakota Ring. Ross is also co-founder of Serious Business Records, a label under which Secret Dakota Ring publish their records, Ross was also the bassist for a brief stint in early 2000s indie band Cold Memory, and was also the headliner for The A-Ross Experience. Other early bands include Phter, D-Funky and the Beechmont Chilles, in 2004 he released an album, Do Not Leave The Baggage All The Way, under the solo project name Secret Dakota Ring. Ross described his album as a break up album at a Google artists performance. In early 2005 he became a member of OK Go after auditioning to replace the former guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan. A second Secret Dakota Ring album, entitled Cantarell, was released on November 11,2008, Secret Dakota Ring has released two studio albums, Do Not Leave Baggage All the Way Cantarell Band blog
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Andy Duncan (musician)
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Andy Scott Duncan is an American musician, best known for being a founding member of the Chicago band OK Go, playing lead guitar and keyboards. He appears on their first two albums, the eponymous OK Go and its follow-up album Oh No and he was in a band from Chicago, Parks & Gardens, with Joshua R. Davison and Nathan T. Tucker. He also played bass on the Frodus album Fireflies, released in 1995, after relocating to San Francisco to develop the Seahorse Liberation Army, Duncan produced for Sound Arts a studio in San Francisco started by SFAI students. He produced music with the Seahorse Liberation Army and Echo Wild and he produced tracks inside the actress Cheryl Millers of Daktaris home for 28 days in 2010 with conceptual artist Erik Seidenglanz to develop Compact 86 still unreleased. Andy Duncan was the producer for Matt Fishbecks You made my dreams come true 12-inch record, alternate versions from the Sound Art sessions exist. Most recently he scored and sound designed the new media interactive iPad graphic novel CIA, Duncan studied classical guitar and music theory at Northwestern University, and graduated with a degree in Academic Studies of Music in 1998. Andy Duncans father, Dr. Jim Duncan, is a Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of Maryland, Duncan now resides in Los Angeles, California
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Lead vocals
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The lead vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer either leads the ensemble, or sets against the ensemble as the dominant sound. In vocal group performances, notably in soul and gospel music, and early rock and roll, as an example in rock music, Mick Jagger is the lead singer of The Rolling Stones. Similarly in soul music, Smokey Robinson was the singer of The Miracles. The practice of using a lead singer in vocal groups, however, has a longer history, songs of the late nineteenth century frequently used a leading solo voice, followed by a choral response by other singers. From these various points - including Motown - it went on to become a device in much rock. In some bands - most famously, The Beatles - the role of lead singer alternated, while in others - for example, there are as many types and styles of lead singer as there are styles and genres of music. However, the singer of a group or band is usually the main focus of audiences attention. The lead vocalist of a band is called the front man or front woman. Pink Floyd also can be considered a band with two front men, as both the guitarist David Gilmour and the bassist Roger Waters sang and wrote most of the songs. In the beginning of the career, however, Pink Floyds lead singer and guitarist was Syd Barrett. Particularly before the 1970s, many bands were named for the leader or founder, rather than the lead singer, examples include the Dave Clark Five and Harold Melvin. In modern rock music, the singer is often, but not always, also the bands leader. While lead singers or spokespersons for any musical ensembles can be called a front man, since the position commonly has an expanded role from simple lead vocalists, there have been cases in which the front man for a band is someone other than the lead vocalist. In many bands, such as The Who, Fall Out Boy, Led Zeppelin, Living Colour, Queen and Oasis, usually, this is derived from that guitarists specific role as a co-songwriter, co-founder and/or co-vocalist. Also in some cases, there are two frontmen, such as Underoath, with singers Spencer Chamberlain and Aaron Gillespie sharing vocal duties, another example is Blink-182, in which vocal duties are split between bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge. Hoppus usually carries out most media either by himself or together with DeLonge, linkin Park has two vocalists as well, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, both considered as frontmen. Another example is the metal band Metallica, in which James Hetfield
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Rhythm guitar
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Therefore, the basic technique of rhythm guitar is to hold down a series of chords with the fretting hand while strumming rhythmically with the other hand. More developed rhythm techniques include arpeggios, damping, riffs, chord solos, in big band music, the guitarist is considered part of the rhythm section, alongside bass and drums. In some musical situations, such as a solo singer-guitarist, the guitar accompaniment provides all the rhythmic drive, in the most commercially available and consumed genres, electric guitars tend to dominate their acoustic cousins in both the recording studio and the live venue. However the acoustic guitar remains a popular choice in country, western and especially bluegrass music, most rhythms in rock and blues are based on 4/4 time with a backbeat, however, many variations are possible. A backbeat is a syncopated accentuation on the off beat, in a simple 4/4 rhythm these are beats 2 and 4. This requires rhythm guitarists to have a knowledge of how to use chord voicings, riffs. Three-chord progressions are common in pop and rock, using various combinations of the I, IV and V chords. Minor and modal chord progressions feature in popular music. One departure from the basic strummed chord technique is to play arpeggios, if this is done rapidly enough, listeners will still hear the sequence as harmony rather than melody. Arpeggiation is often used in folk, country, and heavy metal and it is also prominent in 1960s pop, such as The Animals House of the Rising Sun, and jangle pop from the 1980s onwards. Rhythm guitarists who use arpeggio often favor semi-acoustic guitars and twelve string guitars to get bright, the Soukous band TPOK Jazz additionally featured the unique role of mi-solo, guitarist, playing arpeggio patterns and filling a role between the lead and rhythm guitars. In some cases, the progression is implied with a simplified sequence of two or three notes, sometimes called a riff, that is repeated throughout the composition. In heavy metal music, this is expanded to more complex sequences comprising a combination of chords, single notes. The rhythm guitar part in compositions performed by more technically oriented bands often include riffs employing complex lead guitar techniques, in bands with two or more guitarists, the guitarists may exchange or even duplicate roles for different songs or different sections within a song. In those with a single guitarist, the guitarist may play lead and rhythm at different times or simultaneously, some rhythm techniques cross over into lead guitar playing. In guitar-bass-and-drums power trios guitarists must double up between rhythm and lead, for instance Jimi Hendrix combined full chords with solo licks, double stops and arpeggios. A recent innovation is the use of a pedal to record a chord sequence or riff over which the lead line can then be played. As a result, rhythm and lead players may use different guitars and amplifiers, Rhythm guitarists may employ an electric acoustic guitar or a humbucker-equipped electric guitar for a richer and fatter output
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Bass guitar
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The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to a guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The four-string bass, by far the most common, is tuned the same as the double bass. The bass guitar is an instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the guitar has pickups and it is plugged into an amplifier and speaker on stage, or into a larger PA system using a DI unit. Since the 1960s, the guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While types of basslines vary widely from one style of music to another, many styles of music utilise the bass guitar, including rock, heavy metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, symphonic rock, and jazz. It is often a solo instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, funk, progressive rock and other rock, the adoption of a guitar form made the instrument easier to hold and transport than any of the existing stringed bass instruments. The addition of frets enabled bassists to play in more easily than on acoustic or electric upright basses. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period, around 1947, Tutmarcs son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D. Heater Music Company wholesale jobber catalogue of 1948, however, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton and his Fender Precision Bass, which began production in October 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. This split pickup, introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups, the pole pieces and leads of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, producing a humbucking effect. Humbucking is a design that electrically cancels the effect of any AC hum, the Fender Bass was a revolutionary new instrument, which could be easily transported, and which was less prone to feedback when amplified than acoustic bass instruments. Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, roy Johnson, and Shifty Henry with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, were other early Fender bass pioneers. Bill Black, playing with Elvis Presley, switched from bass to the Fender Precision Bass around 1957. The bass guitar was intended to appeal to guitarists as well as upright bass players, following Fenders lead, in 1953, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally. In 1959 these were followed by the more conventional-looking EB-0 Bass, the EB-0 was very similar to a Gibson SG in appearance
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Backing vocalist
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Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. In some cases, a singer may sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalists entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a range of popular music, traditional music. Solo artists may employ professional backing vocalists in studio recording sessions as well as during concerts, in many rock and metal bands, the musicians doing backup vocals also play instruments, such as guitar, electric bass, drums, or keyboards. In Latin or Afro-Cuban groups, backup singers may play percussion instruments or shakers while singing, in some pop and hip-hop groups and in musical theater, the backup singers may be required to perform elaborately choreographed dance routines while they sing through headset microphones. The style of singing used by backup singers varies according to the type of song, in pop and country songs, backup vocalists may perform vocal harmony parts to support the lead vocalist. In hardcore punk or rockabilly, other members who play instruments may sing or shout backup vocals during the chorus section of the songs. While some bands use performers whose sole on-stage role is performing backing vocals, two notable examples of band members who sang back-up are The Beach Boys and The Beatles. The Beach Boys were well known for their vocal harmonies, occasionally with all five members singing at once such as In My Room. All five members would sing lead, although most often Brian Wilson or Mike Love would sing lead with guitarists Carl Wilson and Al Jardine, examples of three-part harmonies by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison include Nowhere Man, Because, Day Tripper, and This Boy. Former guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang nearly all backing vocals often singing some parts without accompaniment from lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis, the bands bassist Flea occasionally filled in for additional vocals. Frusciante usually sang one song by himself during concerts, another example is No Frontiers by The Corrs, which is sung by Sharon and Caroline. In the recording studio, some lead singers record their own backing vocals by overdubbing, one famous example is Freddie Mercury of Queen singing the first part of Bohemian Rhapsody himself by overdubbing. With the exception of a few songs on album, Dan Fogelberg, Eddie Rabbitt, David Bowie. Some bands, such as Hawthorne Heights and Finch have the backup singers do harsh vocals to highlight specific lyrics. Pop and R&B vocalists such as Diana Ross, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé Knowles, Brandy, Faith Evans, DAngelo, when they perform live, they may have backing vocalists that impersonate their voices. Some bands use backing vocals in order to contrast with the singer who may be performing an unusual vocal technique. In rap music, a rapper who chants and rhymes to support the main artist is often referred to as hype man
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Drum kit
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A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some also include electronic instruments and both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the drum kit is usually played while seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs from instruments that can be used to produce pitched melodies or chords, even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or guitar. The drum kit is part of the rhythm section used in many types of popular and traditional music styles ranging from rock and pop to blues. Other standard instruments used in the section include the electric bass, electric guitar. Many drummers extend their kits from this pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals. Some performers, such as some rockabilly drummers, use small kits that omit elements from the basic setup, some drum kit players may have other roles in the band, such as providing backup vocals, or less commonly, lead vocals. Thus, in an early 1800s orchestra piece, if the called for bass drum, triangle and cymbals. In the 1840s, percussionists began to experiment with foot pedals as a way to them to play more than one instrument. In the 1860s, percussionists started combining multiple drums into a set, the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks. Double-drumming was developed to one person to play the bass and snare with sticks. With this approach, the drum was usually played on beats one. This resulted in a swing and dance feel. The drum set was referred to as a trap set. By the 1870s, drummers were using an overhang pedal, most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal. Companies patented their pedal systems such as Dee Dee Chandler of New Orleans 1904–05, liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played with the foot of a standing percussionist. The bass drum became the central piece around which every other percussion instrument would later revolve and it was the golden age of drum building for many famous drum companies, with Ludwig introducing
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Percussion
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A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater, struck, scraped or rubbed by hand, or struck against another similar instrument. The percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments, the percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tambourine. However, the section can also contain non-percussive instruments, such as whistles and sirens, percussive techniques can also be applied to the human body, as in body percussion. On the other hand, keyboard instruments, such as the celesta, are not normally part of the percussion section, Percussion instruments may play not only rhythm, but also melody and harmony. Percussion is commonly referred to as the backbone or the heartbeat of an ensemble, often working in close collaboration with bass instruments. In jazz and other popular ensembles, the pianist, bassist, drummer. Most classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of Haydn and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, however, often at least one pair of timpani is included, though they rarely play continuously. Rather, they serve to provide additional accents when needed, in the 18th and 19th centuries, other percussion instruments have been used, again generally sparingly. The use of percussion instruments became more frequent in the 20th century classical music, in almost every style of music, percussion plays a pivotal role. In classic jazz, one almost immediately thinks of the rhythm of the hi-hats or the ride cymbal when the word swing is spoken. Because of the diversity of instruments, it is not uncommon to find large musical ensembles composed entirely of percussion. Rhythm, melody, and harmony are all represented in these ensembles, music for pitched percussion instruments can be notated on a staff with the same treble and bass clefs used by many non-percussive instruments. Music for percussive instruments without a pitch can be notated with a specialist rhythm or percussion-clef. The word percussion has evolved from Latin terms, percussio, as a noun in contemporary English it is described in Wiktionary as the collision of two bodies to produce a sound. Hornbostel–Sachs has no high-level section for percussion, Most percussion instruments are classified as idiophones and membranophones.1 Concussion idiophones or clappers, played in pairs and beaten against each other, such as zills and clapsticks. 111.2 Percussion idiophones, includes many percussion instruments played with the hand or by a mallet, such as the hang, gongs and the xylophone. 21 Struck drums, includes most types of drum, such as the timpani, snare drum, (Included in most drum sets or 412. Stringed instruments played with such as the hammered dulcimer
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Keyboard instrument
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A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various keyboards, including synthesizers. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, today, the term keyboard often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Another important use of the keyboard is in historical musicology. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the piano were in competition. Hence in a phrase like Mozart excelled as a player the word keyboard is usefully noncommittal. The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ, the keys were likely balanced and could be played with a light touch, as is clear from the reference in a Latin poem by Claudian, who says magna levi detrudens murmura tactu. Intent, that is “let him thunder forth as he presses out mighty roarings with a light touch”, from its invention until the fourteenth century, the organ remained the only keyboard instrument. Often, the organ did not feature a keyboard at all, almost every keyboard until the fifteenth century had seven naturals to each octave. The clavichord and the harpsichord appeared during the 14th century—the clavichord probably being earlier, the harpsichord and clavichord were both common until widespread adoption of the piano in the 18th century, after which their popularity decreased. The piano was revolutionary, because a pianist could vary the volume of the sound by varying the vigor with which each key was struck. The pianos full name is gravicèmbalo con piano e forte meaning harpsichord with soft and loud but can be shortened to piano-forte, which means soft-loud in Italian. In its current form, the piano is a product of the late 19th century, in fact, the modern piano is significantly different from even the 19th-century pianos used by Liszt, Chopin, and Brahms. See Piano history and musical performance, keyboard instruments were further developed in the early twentieth century. Early electromechanical instruments, such as the Ondes Martenot, appeared early in the century and this was a very important contribution to the keyboards history. Much effort has gone into creating an instrument that sounds like the piano but lacks its size, the electric piano and electronic piano were early efforts that, while useful instruments in their own right, did not convincingly reproduce the timbre of the piano. Electric and electronic organs were developed during the same period, more recent electronic keyboard designs strive to emulate the sound of specific make and model pianos using digital samples and computer models. Concerns celebrated keyboard players and the various instruments used over the centuries
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Here It Goes Again
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Here It Goes Again is an alternative rock/power pop song by OK Go, and is the third released single from the album Oh No. It also appears on the compilation album Now 23 and it was the bands only single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, until I Wont Let You Down entered the Hot 100 in November 2014. Featuring the band dancing on treadmills, the became a staple on YouTube, it was one of the most watched videos, with over 52 million views. In addition, the peaked at #36 in the UK Singles Chart on October 1,2006, hence marking their second UK Top 40 single. Its B-side, The Lovecats, a cover of The Cures single, was released on the bands Do What You Want EP. An alternate version was nicknamed UK Surf, written by Damian Kulash Jr. the three-minute Here It Goes Again is set in common time at a Moderately fast rock tempo of 144 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of C major, with the vocal range spanning from C4 to A4, Kulash also sang and played the guitar in the original mix, which was produced by Tore Johansson with co-production done by Eric Drew Feldman, Howard Willing and Ken Sluiter. Andy Ross was another guitarist on the track and was keyboardist as well, other instruments on the recording include drums performed by Dan Konopka and bass by Tim Nordwind. David Carlsson and Petter Lindgård were the engineer, with Jens Lindgård being the engineering assistant. Recorded at Gula Studion in Malmö, Sweden, it was mixed at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles by Dave Sardy, the music video of the song is an elaborate performance of the band dancing on treadmills in a single continuous take. Choreographed by Trish Sie and directed by Sie and the band, the video debuted on YouTube on July 31,2006. As of March 2010, it had been viewed over 50 million times and it premiered on VH1s Top 20 Countdown that same day. OK Go performed the dance routine live at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and the 2006 YouTube awards for Most Creative Video. In July 2011, the video was named one of The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos by Time Magazine. It was also featured on the video game Rock Band, according to MTV Gamess Paul McGooyer, a portion of the song and video were used in the 2008 video game Dance Dance Revolution X. Here it Goes Again appeared in the E32016 trailer for Lego Dimensions, parodies of the video have appeared on The Simpsons, The Fairly OddParents and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. During the summer of 2006, the recorded a slower version of Here It Goes Again in their attic. This version, dubbed UK Surf or the UK Surf Mix, was released on iTunes in the UK the same day as the single
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Grammy Award for Best Music Video
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Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Video, Short Form, the award was first presented in 1984, as was a similar award for Best Long Form Music Video. From 1986 to 1997, the name was changed to Best Music Video. However, in 1988 and 1989, the criteria were changed. The awards were returned to the format in 1990. The category was called Best Short Form Music Video until 2014, Award recipients include the performers, directors, and producers associated with the winning videos. Johnny Cash, Peter Gabriel, Janet Jackson, and Michael Jackson hold the record for the most wins as a performer in this category, mark Romanek holds the record for the most wins as a director, with a total of three. Icelandic singer Björk holds the record for the most nominations as a performer without a win, ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. ^ Director are only indicated if they were presented a Grammy Award. ^ Award was not presented. Music video categories presented this year included Best Concept Music Video, latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video List of Grammy Award categories List of most expensive music videos One shot Official website of the Grammy Awards
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Townsquare Media
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Townsquare Media is an American media company based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The company started in radio and expanded digital media toward the end of the 2000s. As of 2016, Townsquare was the third-largest AM–FM operator in the country, Townsquare Media was established as Regent Communications by Terry Jacobs in 1994. Jacobs was formerly the CEO of Jacor Communications, a broadcasting company which he created in 1979. Bill Stakelin later shared chief status in the company with Jacobs, Stakelin and Jacobs resurrected the Regent name to replace JS, with approval by Jacor. Jacobs left the company in 2005, on October 27,2008, Regent Broadcasting joined Radiolicious and began streaming on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Regent is the first major group to contract for all of its streaming stations to be available through the Radiolicious application. The filing plan made Oaktree Capital Management the majority owner of Regent after the bankruptcy, after the privatization, the company was renamed Townsquare Media. Gap Broadcasting Group, another radio group owned by Oaktree, was merged into Townsquare, in December 2010, the company began to expand its digital media operations, overhauling its stations websites and launching a new country music news website known as Taste of Country. Townsquare acquired a number of stations from Double O Radio in August 2011, on August 24,2012, Townsquare reached a deal to acquire the MOG Music Network, an advertising network for music blogs. The network was part of MOG, a music service that had previously reached a deal to be acquired by Beats Electronics. In June 2013, Townsquare announced it would acquire a number of music-related blogs from AOL, including The Boombox, The Boot, the deal came following the abrupt shutdown of AOLs Music division in April 2013. On August 29,2013, it was announced that Cumulus would purchase Dial Global, Cumulus paid $260 million for this service, a portion of which was used to pay off Dials debt before it was folded into Cumulus. The second sent 15 more stations in Dubuque, IA and Poughkeepsie, NY, Peak, which like Dial Global and Townsquare has a large investment held by Oaktree, also had its Boise cluster folded into Townsquare. Due to market overlaps, three of Townsquares newly acquired stations were placed in a divestiture trust, the acquisition of the Cumulus stations closed on November 14,2013. On June 24,2014, Townsquare Media filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, on July 24,2014, Townsquare Media became a public company with an initial offering price of $11 a share. In September 2014, Townsquare Media acquired XXL, King, Townsquare then ceased print publication of XXL. In August 2015, Townsquare Media acquired North American Midway Entertainment of Farmland, Indiana, on August 17,2016, The Madison Square Garden Company acquired a 12% stake in Townsquare Media
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Interlochen Center for the Arts
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Interlochen Center for the Arts is a tax exempt,501 non-profit corporation, operating an arts education institution in northwest Michigan. The center is situated on a 1, 200-acre campus in Interlochen, Michigan, Interlochen draws young people from around the world to study music, theater, dance, visual arts, creative writing, motion picture arts, and comparative arts. Interlochen Center for the Arts comprises five major divisions, an annual summer camp attended by young artists from around the world. Programs are offered to students in grades three through twelve, providing an opportunity to learn, create and perform alongside leading artists, a fine arts boarding high school offering arts training combined with comprehensive, college-preparatory academics. An adult artist learning program offering programs in a variety of arts disciplines. Two listener-supported stations that broadcast to northwest Michigan, Classical Music 88.7,88.5,94.7 and 100.9 FM, broadcasts include arts, news and culture from around the world, as well as local and regional news, information and artists. IPR was a member of National Public Radio. An ongoing series of performances by students, faculty and dozens of world-renowned guest artists, the series presents more than 600 events each year, making Interlochen one of the nations largest arts presenters. The Interlochen Arts Academy, the highest profile pre-professional arts boarding school worldwide, was founded in 1962 by Joseph E. Maddy, as of 2016, it had 350 faculty and staff, and approximately 500 students. While more than half the major in Music Performance, IAA offers majors in Comparative Arts, Creative Writing, Dance, Theatre, Motion Picture Arts. Newer majors include Motion Picture Arts beginning in 2005, Comparative Arts in 2011, the vast majority of students at Interlochen Arts Academy are boarding students, including many international students, some are day students who live in the vicinity. This was due to the schools boarding feature and competitive entrance auditions, with the addition of new majors, IAA has attempted to increase the number of students attending all four years. IAA also offers a year for further pre-professional study. Upon graduation, most IAA graduates continue to universities or conservatories for further study in the arts or academics, Interlochen Arts Academy graduates also matriculate at colleges and universities that do not have a primary focus on the arts. From the State of Michigan historical marker on Interlochens Osterlin Mall, in the late 1800s white men came and cut the pines, leaving only a small forest between the lakes. This virgin pine was purchased in 1917 by the state and became part of one of the first state parks, when the lumber era ended, the Wylie Cooperage mill occupied the Indian village site, making barrels until the hardwood ran out. Willis Penningtons summer hotel, opened in 1909, was popular with fishermen until automobiles, then in 1918, Camp Interlochen, one of Michigans first girls recreation camps, was opened, followed in 1922 by Camp Penn Loch for boys. In 1928, by arrangement with Willis Pennington, Joseph E. Maddy and it grew rapidly in scope, size, and reputation, becoming the National Music Camp in 1931, and affiliating with the University of Michigan in 1942
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Traverse City, Michigan
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Traverse City is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, although a portion extends into Leelanau County. It is the largest city in the 21-county Northern Michigan region, the population was 14,674 at the 2010 census, with 143,372 in the Traverse City micropolitan area. The Traverse City area is the largest producer of cherries in the United States. Near the time of cherry harvest, the city hosts the annual week-long National Cherry Festival in the first full week of July, the surrounding countryside also produces grapes, and is one of the centers of wine production in the Midwest. Tourism, both summer and winter, is another key industry, the Traverse City area features varied natural attractions, including freshwater beaches, vineyards, a National Lakeshore, downhill skiing areas, and numerous forests. In 2009, TripAdvisor named Traverse City the number two small town travel destination in the United States, in 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U. S. by U. S. News. Traverse City is named after the Grand Traverse Bay, which the city heads, the bay earned its name from 18th-century French voyageurs who made la grande traverse, or the long crossing, across the mouth of bay. On Old Mission peninsula, Rev Peter Doughtery started the first permanent settlement in 1839, in 1847, Captain Boardman of Naperville, Illinois, purchased the land at the mouth of the Boardman River at the head of the west arm of the bay. During that year the captain, his son, and their employees built a dwelling, in 1851 the Boardmans sold the sawmill to Hannah, Lay & Co, who improved the mill greatly. The increased investment in the mill attracted settlers to the new community. As of 1853, the operating post office in the Grand Traverse Bay region was the one located at Old Mission. While in Washington, D. C. in 1852, Mr. Lay had succeeded in getting the U. S, post Office to authorize a new post office at his newer settlement. Mr. Lay agreed to the name Traverse City for the post office, in December 1872, rail service arrived in Traverse City via a Traverse City Rail Road Company spur from the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad line at Walton Junction. This opened up the area to settlement and industrial development, as a result, they have viticulture and Cherry orchards. Consequently, it generally experiences warm, mild summers and severe winters, lake-effect snowfall constitutes a large percentage of the total annual snow accumulation, which averages around 80 inches. Periods of snowfall typically last from November to April, although light snow as late as May or as early as late September sometimes occur. Traverse Citys record high temperature is 105 °F, recorded in 1936, Traverse City is a part of the greater Northern Michigan region
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Elliott Smith
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Steven Paul Elliott Smith was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived for much of his life in Portland, Oregon, Smiths primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a vocal style, characterized by his whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery, and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his career in 1994, with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search. In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, for which he recorded two albums, Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song Miss Misery—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting —was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998. Smith abused alcohol and drugs, while suffering depression. In 2003, aged 34, he died in Los Angeles, California, the autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his studio album, From a Basement on the Hill. His parents divorced when he was six months old, and Smith moved with his mother to Duncanville, Smith later had a tattoo of a map of Texas drawn on his upper arm and said, I didnt get it because I like Texas, kind of the opposite. But I wont forget about it, although Im tempted to because I dont like it there, Smith endured a difficult childhood and a troubled relationship with his stepfather Charlie Welch. Smith stated he may have sexually abused by Welch at a young age. He wrote about this part of his life in Some Song, How they beat you up week after week, the name Charlie also appears in songs Flowers for Charlie and No Confidence Man. Its not my place to say what, for much of his childhood, Smiths family was a part of the Community of Christ but began attending services at a local Methodist Church. Smith felt that going to church did little for him, except make him really scared of Hell, in 2001, he said, I dont necessarily buy into any officially structured version of spirituality. But I have my own version of it, Smith began playing piano at age nine, and at ten began learning guitar on a small acoustic guitar bought for him by his father. At this age he composed a piano piece, Fantasy. Many of the people on his mothers side of the family were musicians, his grandfather was a Dixieland drummer. At fourteen, Smith left his mothers home in Texas and moved to Portland, Oregon to live with his father and it was around this time that Smith began using drugs, including alcohol, with friends
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The Olivia Tremor Control
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The Olivia Tremor Control is a psychedelic rock band that was prominent in the mid-to-late 1990s. It was, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, the band was founded by the remnants of the group Synthetic Flying Machine in 1994. The band went on hiatus in early 2000, and later reformed in 2009, an announcement revealed that Bill Doss had died on 31 July 2012, with the Olivia Tremor Control confirming his death on their official website. The cause of his death has not yet been revealed, Synthetic Flying Machine was an early project of Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Neutral Milk Hotels Jeff Mangum. The band later went on to become known as the Olivia Tremor Control, with Hart, the band had only one official release to their name, Heaven Is for Kids, but there are several other tape cassettes of music distributed among friends and collaborators. Many of the performed by Synthetic Flying Machine later became songs by Neutral Milk Hotel or Olivia Tremor Control. Jeff Mangum wrote a song about the band of the same name, the bands distinct sound is a mixture of Doss and Harts pop and experimental tendencies. Furthermore, the released a record of experimental electro-acoustic music, The Late Music, Volume One, under the name The Black Swan Network. Another Black Swan Network release, a 7 EP on the Happy Happy Birthday to Me label, appeared in 2000, the Black Swan Network, though the band had never wanted the record to be named as such. The members of the Olivia Tremor Control embarked on a variety of different projects before and after the band broke up. Eric Harris released a record under the name Frosted Ambassador and later two CD-R releases under his own name on Cloud Recordings, the label founded by Fernandes and Hart in the wake of OTCs demise. Pete Erchick released three records, Individualized Shirts, Special Fanfare For Anything and Lost in the Pancakes, under the name Pipes You See, Bill Doss followed OTC by putting out records as The Sunshine Fix, a name he had used years before. The Sunshine Fix has evolved from a project to a formal working band. Harts post-OTC project, Circulatory System, has taken a similar route, the self-titled 2001 LP continued the melding together of pop and experimental traditions the OTC had worked on and won high accolades from the press. Jeff Mangum followed OTC with Neutral Milk Hotel, releasing On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, signal Morning, Circulatory Systems sophomore LP features the reunion of Will Hart and Bill Doss singing harmonies on its opening track. Signal Morning was released on 8 September 2009 on Cloud Recordings, in 2005, the Olivia Tremor Control temporarily reunited, solely for live shows, at the behest of the All Tomorrows Parties festival. A. In the fall of 2008, all members of the Olivia Tremor Control toured with members of the Elephant 6 collective as part of the Holiday Surprise tour. In May 2009, Will Hart said in an interview that the band had recently re-entered the recording studio, in addition to this, they have released a song titled North Term Reality under Olivia Tremor Control for AUX Vol.2
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Sloan (band)
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Sloan is a Toronto-based rock/power pop quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their over twenty-five-year career, Sloan has released 11 LPs, the band has received nine Juno Award nominations, winning one. The band is known for their sharing of songwriting from each member of the group and their albums success has made Sloan one of the most popular Canadian bands of all time. The band was formed in 1991 when Chris Murphy and Andrew Scott met at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Patrick Pentland, the band is named after the nickname of their friend, Jason Larsen. Larsen was originally called Slow One by his French-speaking boss which, with the French accent, the original agreement was that they could name the band after Larsen as long as he was on the cover of their first album. As a result, it is Larsen who appears on the cover of the Peppermint EP, later in 1992, Sloan released their full-length album Smeared on Geffen Records. In 1994 Geffen did not promote their album, Twice Removed, due to artistic disputes. Spin named it one of the Best Albums You Didnt Hear in 1994, a 1996 reader poll by Canadian music magazine Chart. Ranked it as the best Canadian album of all time, only two years after its release, the same poll in 2000 ranked the album third, behind Joni Mitchells Blue and Neil Youngs Harvest. However, the 2005 poll once again ranked the album first, after the release of Twice Removed, the band went on hiatus and there were press reports that the band had broken up, as they had rejected Geffens offer for their next album. In 1996, however, they released the widely praised One Chord to Another on their own Murderecords label, following 1998s Navy Blues album, which achieved gold status, Sloan released their first live album 4 Nights at the Palais Royale in 1999. Those albums were followed by Between the Bridges in 1999, Sloan made a concerted effort to break into the US market on their 2003 release Action Pact. Songs were recorded in L. A. with Tom Rothrock producing, the glossier, radio-ready sound failed to raise Sloans profile in the US, though they continued to be highly popular in Canada. Sloans first compilation album A Sides Win, Singles 1992-2005, included two new songs, All Used Up and Try to Make It, the Japanese release included two additional new tracks. Now signed to Yep Roc Records for their US releases, they put out their eighth disc, the album contained 30 tracks with all the members of the band contributing new songs. It was met with critical acclaim and became the highest charting Sloan album in the US up to that point. In 2008, Sloan followed up their longest album with their shortest release, in November 2009 Sloan added a digital music store to their website. The band released an online-only EP called Hit & Run to promote the store, the EP featured two songs by Chris Murphy, and one by each of the other band members
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Ira Glass
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Ira Jeffrey Glass is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. He is the first cousin once removed of composer Philip Glass, Glass attended Milford Mill High School in Baltimore County where he was active in student theater, student government, and yearbook, he was also the co-editor of the student literary magazine. Glass was involved in student government during his junior and senior years and his involvement in yearbook started in tenth grade and continued until his graduation in 1977. A rather popular and outgoing student, Glass also was involved with the morning announcements, while in high school, he wrote jokes for Baltimore radio personality Johnny Walker. After graduation from school, he initially attended Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, but transferred to Brown University. Glass has worked in radio for some 30 years. At 19 he began as an intern at National Public Radios headquarters in Washington and he was a reporter and host on several NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. Glass wrote, The very first National Public Radio show that I worked on was Joe Franks, I think I was influenced in a huge way. Before I saw Joe put together a show, I had never thought about radio as a place where you could tell a kind of story. From November 1990 until September 1995, with NPR producer Gary Covino, in 1993, Glass said, I like to think of it as the only show on public radio other than Car Talk that both Daniel Schorr and Kurt Cobain could listen to. I think its appropriate that the show is on a station that most people dont listen to at a time when most people wont hear it, and the fact that public radio never puts a new show on the air or takes any off is definitely to our advantage. During this time, he spent two years reporting on the Chicago Public Schools—one year at a school, and another at an elementary school. The largest finding of his investigations was that class sizes would contribute to more success in impoverished. Malatia approached Glass, who countered that he wanted to do a program with a budget of US$300,000. In 1998 Covino told the Chicago Reader, The show he proposed was The Wild Room and he just didnt call it The Wild Room. Covino continued to produce The Wild Room until February 1996, Glass invited David Sedaris to read his essays on NPR, which led to Sedariss success as an independent author. Glass also produced Sedariss commentaries on NPR, since 1995, he has hosted and produced This American Life, from WBEZ and its parent company, Chicago Public Media. The show was syndicated nationally in June 1996 by Public Radio International and has been ever since
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This American Life
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This American Life is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. It is broadcast on public radio stations in the United States and internationally. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, the first episode aired on November 17,1995, under the shows original title, Your Radio Playhouse. The series was distributed by Public Radio International until June 2014, a television program of the same name ran for two seasons on the Showtime cable network between June 2007 and May 2008. Each weeks show has a theme, explored in several acts, on occasion, an entire program will consist of a single act. The most acts were in the episode 20 Acts in 60 Minutes, each act is produced by a combination of staff and freelance contributors. Programs usually begin with a station identification by Glass who then introduces a segment related to the theme which precedes act one. The segment will then lead into the presentation of the theme for that weeks show, stories are often told as first-person narratives. The mood of the ranges from gloomy to ironic, from thought-provoking to humorous. The show often addresses current events, such as Hurricane Katrina in After the Flood, often This American Life features stories which explore aspects of human nature, such as Kid Logic, which presented pieces on the reasoning of children. Glass has stated he is obligated to mention both station WBEZ, and previously, distributor PRI three times in the course of the show. Glass, the creator, has served as executive producer and host since its November 17,1995. The programs first year was produced on a budget that was even by US public-radio standards. A budget of $243,000 covered an outfitted studio, marketing costs, purchased satellite time, National syndication began in June 1996 when Public Radio International formed a distribution partnership with the program. It airs on 509 PRI affiliate stations in the United States reaching an estimated 2.1 million listeners each week, the show is also carried on Sirius XM Satellite Radio over the Public Radio International block on the XM Public Radio channel. The program consistently rates as the first- or second-most downloaded podcast on iTunes for each week, originally titled Your Radio Playhouse, a local show on WBEZ, the programs name was changed beginning with the March 21,1996 episode. It was picked up nationally by PRI in June 1996, the reference to each segment of the show as an act is a holdover from its original playhouse theme. The program helped launch the careers of many, including contributing editor Sarah Vowell and essayists David Rakoff
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Portishead (band)
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Portishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. They are often considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music, the band are named after the nearby town of the same name, eight miles west of Bristol, along the coast. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley, while citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald. Their debut album, Dummy, was met with acclaim in 1994. Two other studio albums were issued, Portishead in 1997 and Third in 2008, Portisheads first album Dummy was released in 1994. The cover features a still from the bands own short film To Kill a Dead Man, the credits indicate that at this juncture, Portishead was a duo of Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons. Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with them, became a band member shortly after its release. Despite the bands aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States, Dummy was positively described by the Melody Maker as musique noire for a movie not yet made. Rolling Stone praised its music as Gothic hip-hop, Dummy spawned three singles, Numb, Sour Times and Glory Box, and won the Mercury Music Prize in 1995. The success of the saw the band nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 1995 Brit Awards. In 2003, the album was ranked number 419 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the album is often considered one of the greatest trip hop albums to date and is a milestone in the definition of the genre. After their initial success, Portishead withdrew from the spotlight for three years until their album, Portishead, was released in 1997. The albums sound differed from Dummy, characterised as grainy and harsher, three singles, All Mine, Over and Only You were released, the first one achieving a Top 10 placing in the UK. In 1997, the band performed a show with strings at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. A live album featuring these new orchestral arrangements of the groups songs was released in 1998. There was also a long-form VHS video of the performance, in 1999, Portishead recorded the song Motherless Child with Tom Jones for his album Reload. For the next few years, the members concentrated on solo. In February 2005, the band appeared live for the first time in seven years at the Tsunami Benefit Concert in Bristol, around that time, Barrow revealed that the band was in the process of writing its third album
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They Might Be Giants
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They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBGs early years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a duo, in the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to include a backing band. The duos current backing band consists of Marty Beller, Dan Miller, the group is best known for an unconventional and experimental style of alternative music. Over their career, they have success on the modern rock. More recently they have found success in childrens music. TMBG have released 19 studio albums, Flood has been certified platinum and their childrens music albums Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science have all been certified gold. The band has won two Grammy Awards, one in 2002 for their song Boss of Me, which is most famous as the song of the television series Malcolm in the Middle. They won their second in 2009 for Here Come the 123s, the band has sold over 4 million records. Linnell and Flansburgh first met as teenagers growing up in Lincoln and they began writing songs together while attending Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School but did not form a band at that time. The two attended separate colleges after high school and Linnell joined The Mundanes, a new group from Rhode Island. The two reunited in 1981 after moving to Brooklyn to continue their career, according to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act. The name was adopted by the band, who had been searching for a suitable name. A common misconception is that the name of the band is a reference to themselves, in an interview, John Flansburgh said that the words they might be giants are just a very outward-looking forward thing which they liked. He clarified this in the documentary movie Gigantic by explaining that the name refers to the world of possibilities that they saw as a fledgling band. In an earlier interview, John Linnell described the phrase as something very paranoid sounding. Their atypical instrumentation, along with their songs which featured unusual subject matter and clever wordplay and their performances also featured absurdly comical stage props such as oversized fezzes and large cardboard cutout heads of newspaper editor William Allen White. Many of these props would later turn up in their first music videos, from 1984–87, They Might Be Giants were the house-band at Darinka, a Lower East Side performance club. One weekend a month they played on the there and by the end of their three-year stint sold out every performance
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Madden NFL 2003
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Madden NFL2003 is an American football video game. It features then-reigning 3 time NFL Offensive Player of the Year and this edition of Madden was the first to feature EA Trax. This is also the first Madden to feature the Mini Camp mode, the game was released in August 2002 for the Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and the Xbox. It is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, as well as G for General by the OFLC in Australia and this was the first game John Madden and Al Michaels appeared as commentators taking over for Pat Summerall. Bruce Matthews is the center for the Tennessee Titans despite having retired by the start of the season. Retired quarterback Mark Rypien is listed as a free agent, ryan Leaf appears as a backup quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks despite retiring before the start of training camp. LaVar Arrington does not appear in the due to him not represented by the NFL players association at the time therefore preventing him from appearing in the game. Bill Parcells does not appear in the due to his contract with ESPN. The late Pat Tillman appears as a free agent, tony Boselli appears as a left tackle for the Houston Texans, however he retired before the 2002 NFL season because of injuries. Madden NFL2003 was the first EA Sports video game to feature EA Trax, the game was met with universal acclaim to positive reception upon release. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PS2 version a score of 33 out of 40, Madden NFL2003 at MobyGames Madden NFL2003 at MobyGames
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Francis Lawrence
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Francis Lawrence is an American filmmaker and producer, who has worked on films, television shows, and music videos. He is best known for directing three of the four films in the Hunger Games film series, Lawrence was born to American parents in Vienna, Austria. His father is a Theoretical Physicist who taught at California State University, Northridge and he moved to Los Angeles at the age of three. Lawrence worked as 2nd assistant camera on the feature Pump Up the Volume directed by Allan Moyle prior to earning his bachelors degree in production at Loyola Marymount University Film School. He went on to work as first AD on the feature Marching out of Time directed by Anton Vassil in 1993, Francis Lawrence then joined ex-classmate Michael Jason Rosen in co-directing music videos. Lawrence directed his first music videos for the San Jose band, Rosen and Lawrence made the two videos for a total of $3,000 with DP Jeffrey Michael Cutter, another ex-classmate, shooting for them. Lawrence, Rosen and Cutter also made a video for Michael Blakey, president of Atico Records and Tidal Force drummer for that bands single, soon, Lawrence became known for his original and imaginative music video scripts and visual directing style. In 2005, his film debut was Constantine based on the Hellblazer comic book. In 2007, he directed I Am Legend, with Will Smith, in 2011, he directed Water for Elephants. In 2012, Lawrence directed and executive produced the episode of the Fox paranormal series. He is currently signed to DNA Inc, in 2011, he won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form for directing Lady Gagas Bad Romance music video. In April 2012, Lionsgate Films announced that Lawrence had been selected to direct the adaptation of the novel Catching Fire. The book and film were the sequel to the hit, The Hunger Games. This film adaptation of The Hunger Games was directed by Gary Ross, Lawrence was officially confirmed as the director for the film on May 3,2012. He returned to direct the two parts of the series, The Hunger Games, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2. Lawrence is currently working on an adaptation of the novel Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik. He is set to direct Red Sparrow, based on a book by Jason Matthews, the Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton star. Francis Lawrence at the Internet Movie Database Francis Lawrence at the mvdbase. com Biografie of Francis Lawrence at The New York Times
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The Vines (band)
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The Vines are an Australian rock band formed in 1994 in Sydney. Their sound has been described as a hybrid of 1960s garage rock. The bands current line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Craig Nicholls, bass guitarist Tim John, in 2003, the album went platinum in Australia, and since then the band has released four albums and a best-of compilation from their time at Capitol Records. The Vines have released six albums to date. They were soon joined by Matthews school friend David Olliffe on drums, the name Rishikesh, suggested by Olliffe, refers to the Indian city where the Beatles visited an ashram in 1968. The local newspapers regularly misprinted the name as Rishi Chasms, so Nicholls suggested a new name, the Vines, as an homage to his father, the group started performing Nirvana and You Am I covers at backyard parties while developing their sound on Nicholls four-track recorder. Over the next few years, the Vines gigged infrequently and remained unknown, even in their hometown. On the strength of their demo, Rex Records put out what was to be their first single, Factory, the release became NMEs Single of the Week in November 2001. In July 2001, the band flew to Los Angeles to start recording their album, Highly Evolved. David Olliffe was replaced a few months later as a result of increasing record company interest, and the band hadwith session drummers such as Joey Waronker of R. E. M. Their debut single, Factory was released in November 2001 in the UK and gained a good response in the press, the band then signed to Heavenly Records in the UK in December 2001 and EMI in Australia in April 2002. The single Highly Evolved earned them critical acclaim as NME made it a single of the week in March 2002. The single charted in the UK at number 32 on the singles chart, the band appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in October 2002 with the words Rock is Back, Meet the Vines boldly emblazoned underneath. The release of the album saw more success, with the band appearing on the cover of NME. The album reached number 11 in the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 albums chart, the band played high-profile slots on the Late Show with David Letterman and the MTV Video Music Awards. Several more singles were released from the album, including Get Free, a fourth single, Homesick, was released in Australia only. The band went on to win an ARIA Award, Breakthrough Artist – Single, for Get Free in 2002, and were nominated for Best Group, Best Rock Album, Best Cover Art, and Breakthrough Artist – Album. Highly Evolved sold 1.5 million copies throughout the world with distribution through Capitol Records, by end of 2003, the album went platinum in Australia
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Phantom Planet
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Phantom Planet is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1994. The band consists of Alex Greenwald, Darren Robinson, Sam Farrar, the band is best known for its track California, which became the theme song for the TV series The O. C. The band featured actor Jason Schwartzman on drums until 2003 and continued to release well-received albums in his absence. On November 25,2008, the band announced in an entry on their website that they are going on hiatus. They played their last pre-hiatus show on December 12,2008, in Los Angeles, Phantom Planet was named in 1994 after a 1961 B-movie called The Phantom Planet. They played their first show in 1994 at The Troubadour in Hollywood, most of their friends could not attend because they were still in high school. Two of the songs played are featured on the bonus material of the Chicago, Chicagogoing. Among the songs performed were My Friend Lizs Dad and a cover of the Beastie Boys 1994 song Sabotage, while still in their teens, the group played frequently in and around the Hollywood area, finally catching the eye of Geffen Records executives. Phantom Planet signed with Geffen in 1997 and released their first effort, however, as some group members started to make appearances on both the small and large screen and the group pressed on, Phantom Planet gradually built momentum. Shortly thereafter Geffen Records folded into Universal as part of a record industry merger. Excited by the music, the young Froom approached her father to produce the group. Froom also brought in engineer Tchad Blake, who had worked with Pearl Jam and Sheryl Crow, the Guest was released in 2002 and showcased a solid dose of poppy vocals, solid melodies, and sing-along choruses, which helped anchor Phantom Planet as a formidable indie outfit. The groups presence was solidified by its commitment to touring. The group toured for almost 18 months both as a headliner and an act, and in late 2002 the band got the opportunity to open for one of their collective idols. The Guest got an extra boost when the records notable power ballad California was chosen as the song for the Fox Networks hit TV series The O. C. As a result, the record was reissued in late 2003 with bonus tracks, the bands eponymous third album in 2004 marked a change in both the bands sound and lineup. Ditching their radio-friendly pop rock, the band moved towards a rock sound. Lead singer Alex Greenwald stated that he wants the band to continue to change its sound, I love rock n roll music, Greenwald said
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The Donnas
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The Donnas are an American rock band from Palo Alto, California. They consist of Brett Anderson, Allison Robertson, Maya Ford, Cesari replaced Torry Castellano, who left the band in 2009 due to tendonitis. They draw inspiration from Ramones, The Runaways, AC/DC, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, rolling Stone has stated that the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation, they traffic in kicks, not catharsis, fun rather than rage. MTV has stated that the band offers a good old-fashioned rock & roll party, all the founding band members were born in 1979, Brett Anderson on May 30, Allison Robertson on August 26, and Maya Ford and Torry Castellano, both on January 8. They all became friends by eighth grade and formed as a band in May 1993 to play for their schools Day on the Green, one of two girl bands in their town Palo Alto, California, they were relatively unknown until they were out of high school. They are all musicians and practiced in Castellanos garage nearly every day during high school. They worked with producer Darin Raffaelli for their first two albums, the first of which, simply called The Donnas, was released on Raffaellis Superteem. They took a week off their year of high school to tour Japan as The Donnas. As the band grew, they were urged to sign with a label company. In 2001, they signed with Atlantic Records, in 2002, The Donnas released Spend the Night as their Atlantic debut. The album represented their first attempt at mainstream success, with their single Take it Off they were booked for appearances on Total Request Live, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Show with David Letterman. In the summer of 2003, they played the stage at Lollapalooza. In 2004, they released their sixth album Gold Medal, in February 2005, they toured Australia with the Big Day Out music festival, playing from Sydney to Perth. While in Aust. they performed Take It Off Live on National Prime time show Rove Live with Rove McManus, Atlantic repeatedly placed the Donnas music in video game soundtracks. Youve Got A Crush On Me can be heard in the PlayStation 2 game Splashdown, who Invited You can be found on the soundtracks for True Crime, Streets of LA and MVP Baseball 2003 as well as Splashdown, Rides Gone Wild. I Dont Want to Know is in the Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack also, I Dont Want to Know was also used as the theme song for the first season of The-Ns hit series, South of Nowhere. A cover of Take it Off is featured in Guitar Hero and added as a track in Guitar Hero 2 on the Xbox 360. Rock Band 2, released by Harmonix in 2008, features the track New Kid In School which was released exclusively on Apples iTunes service, Fall Behind Me was also used in a national television commercial advertising the Nissan Xterra while Take It Off was used in a Budweiser commercial
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Fountains of Wayne
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Fountains of Wayne was an American rock band that formed in New York City in 1995. The band consisted of Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter, the band was best known for their 2003 Grammy-nominated single Stacys Mom. In the mid-1990s, they came together to form Fountains of Wayne, named after a lawn ornament store in Wayne, previous band names included Woolly Mammoth, Are You My Mother. And Three Men Who When Standing Side by Side Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet, recruiting guitarist Jody Porter and still active Posies drummer Brian Young, the band cut a demo and signed with Atlantic Records. That same year, Schlesinger wrote the Academy Award-nominated, RIAA gold certified title song for the film That Thing You Do, in 1999, the band released Utopia Parkway, an album named after a road in Queens, New York. The album was a record that dealt with life in modern suburbia. Utopia Parkway was received well by critics, garnering favorable reviews. The group once again toured extensively behind the album, but frustrations grew between the band and the label, the band was later dropped by Atlantic in late 1999. The band was inactive for a period of time, Collingwood formed and fronted a Northampton, Massachusetts-based pop-country band, called Gay Potatoes, and played a string of solo shows in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. Guitarist Jody Porter worked with his band, The Astrojet, alongside famed producer Gordon Raphael, percussionist Brian Young moved to Los Angeles and did session work for various artists such as producer Steve Fisk, Ivy, Heather Duby and Greg Dulli. The band reunited recording a cover of The Kinks Better Things for the album, This Is Where I Belong, Songs of Ray Davies. Another song off the album, All Kinds of Time, was used for NFL commercial promotions during the 2005 season, also included on the album is a 1999 cover of the Britney Spears hit. Baby One More Time. In 2007, the band released Traffic and Weather, an album which included the song I-95, in 2009, the band released No Better Place, Live In Chicago, a live concert DVD which included newly recorded acoustic songs. Also that year, they played a run of full-band acoustic shows where they showcased songs from their forthcoming album. Also, on a note that year, the store for which their band was named went out of business. In 2011, the band released Sky Full of Holes, a put out in Japan by Warner Music Japan, Europe by Lojinx. As of 2016, the band have no plans to new material
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