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Music venue
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A music venue is any location used for a concert or musical performance. A music venue range in size and location, from an outdoor bandshell or bandstand or a hall to an indoor sports stadium. Typically, different types of venues host different genres of music, music venues may be either privately or publicly funded, and may charge for admission. An example of a publicly funded music venue is a park bandstand, a nightclub is a privately funded venue, venues like these often charge an entry fee to generate a profit. Music venues do not necessarily host live acts, disc jockeys at a discothèque or nightclub play recorded music through a PA system. Depending on the type of venue, the hours, location and length of performance may differ. Other attractions, such as art or social activities, may also be available. For example, at a bar or pub, the band may be playing live songs while drinks are being served. Some classes of venues may play live music in the background, music venues can be categorised in a number of ways. Typically, the genre of music played at the venue, whether it is temporary, the majority of music venues are permanent, however, there are temporary music venues. An example of a venue would be one constructed for a music festival. Music venues may be the result of private or public enterprises, some venues only promote acts of one particular genre and example of this are opera houses. Music venues can be categorised by size and capacity, a nightclub will often have a much smaller capacity than that of a stadium. Music venues are either outdoor or indoor, examples of outdoor venues include bandstands and bandshells, such outdoor venues provide minimal shelter for performing musicians and are usually located in parks. A temporary music festival is typically an outdoor venue, examples of indoor venues include public houses, nightclubs, coffee bars and stadia. Venues can play music, recorded music, or a combination of the two, depending on the event or time of day. A characteristic of every live music venue is that one or more stages are present. Venues may be unticketed, casual entry available on the door, or advance tickets only, a dress code may or may not apply
Music venue
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The
Sydney Opera House 's Concert Hall is an example of a large indoor classical music venue. It is home of the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The rest of the building contains other amenities common at such music venues, such as
cafés, restaurants, bars and retail outlets.
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The annual
Dance Valley dance music festival in the Netherlands. Such music festivals typically include a large temporary stage, are held outdoors, and include other attractions such as food,
performance art and other social activities.
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A bandstand is an example of a small outdoor venue. Bandstands are typically circular or semicircular structures that accommodate
musical bands performing outdoor concerts, providing shelter from the weather for the musicians.
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The
Theatre of Dionysus in
Athens.
Greek tragedies often featured
choral music performed on-stage.
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper,1,351,587 in the urban area, the city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe. Amsterdams name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the citys origin around a dam in the river Amstel, during that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered a world city by the Globalization. The city is also the capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the worlds 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 12th globally on quality of living for environment, the city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. After the floods of 1170 and 1173, locals near the river Amstel built a bridge over the river, the earliest recorded use of that name is in a document dated October 27,1275, which exempted inhabitants of the village from paying bridge tolls to Count Floris V. This allowed the inhabitants of the village of Aemstelredamme to travel freely through the County of Holland, paying no tolls at bridges, locks, the certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme. By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam, Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean there was already a settlement then, since reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either 1300 or 1306, from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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Netherlands
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The Netherlands is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a densely populated country located in Western Europe with three territories in the Caribbean. The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, sharing borders with Belgium, the United Kingdom. The three largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, Amsterdam is the countrys capital, while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of parliament and government. The port of Rotterdam is the worlds largest port outside East-Asia, the name Holland is used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. Netherlands literally means lower countries, influenced by its low land and flat geography, most of the areas below sea level are artificial. Since the late 16th century, large areas have been reclaimed from the sea and lakes, with a population density of 412 people per km2 –507 if water is excluded – the Netherlands is classified as a very densely populated country. Only Bangladesh, South Korea, and Taiwan have both a population and higher population density. Nevertheless, the Netherlands is the worlds second-largest exporter of food and agricultural products and this is partly due to the fertility of the soil and the mild climate. In 2001, it became the worlds first country to legalise same-sex marriage, the Netherlands is a founding member of the EU, Eurozone, G-10, NATO, OECD and WTO, as well as being a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. The first four are situated in The Hague, as is the EUs criminal intelligence agency Europol and this has led to the city being dubbed the worlds legal capital. The country also ranks second highest in the worlds 2016 Press Freedom Index, the Netherlands has a market-based mixed economy, ranking 17th of 177 countries according to the Index of Economic Freedom. It had the thirteenth-highest per capita income in the world in 2013 according to the International Monetary Fund, in 2013, the United Nations World Happiness Report ranked the Netherlands as the seventh-happiest country in the world, reflecting its high quality of life. The Netherlands also ranks joint second highest in the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, the region called Low Countries and the country of the Netherlands have the same toponymy. Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nether and Nedre and Bas or Inferior are in use in all over Europe. They are sometimes used in a relation to a higher ground that consecutively is indicated as Upper, Boven, Oben. In the case of the Low Countries / the Netherlands the geographical location of the region has been more or less downstream. The geographical location of the region, however, changed over time tremendously
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The Netherlands in 5500 BC
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Flag
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The Netherlands in 500 BC
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An oak figurine found in
Willemstad, North Brabant (4500 BC).
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Leidseplein
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The Leidseplein is a square in central Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lying in the southwest of the Grachtengordel district of Amsterdam, the Leidseplein is immediately northeast of the Singelgracht canal and it is situated on the crossroads of the Weteringschans, the Marnixstraat, and the Leidsestraat. The Leidseplein is one of the busiest centres for nightlife in the city, historically, the square was the end of the road from Leiden, and served as a parking lot for horse-drawn traffic. Today, modern traffic travels through the square and side streets are packed with restaurants, the Stadsschouwburg, a theater, is the most notable architectural landmark on the square, and the American Hotel is close by
Leidseplein
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Besides the square itself, several streets around it, such as the Korte Leidsedwarsstraat (pictured) are named after the city of
Leiden.
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Acoustics
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Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of technology may be called an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in almost all aspects of society with the most obvious being the audio. Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, accordingly, the science of acoustics spreads across many facets of human society—music, medicine, architecture, industrial production, warfare and more. Likewise, animal species such as songbirds and frogs use sound, art, craft, science and technology have provoked one another to advance the whole, as in many other fields of knowledge. Robert Bruce Lindsays Wheel of Acoustics is a well accepted overview of the fields in acoustics. The word acoustic is derived from the Greek word ἀκουστικός, meaning of or for hearing, ready to hear and that from ἀκουστός, heard, audible, which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω, I hear. The Latin synonym is sonic, after which the term used to be a synonym for acoustics. Frequencies above and below the range are called ultrasonic and infrasonic. If, for example, a string of a length would sound particularly harmonious with a string of twice the length. In modern parlance, if a string sounds the note C when plucked, a string twice as long will sound a C an octave lower. In one system of tuning, the tones in between are then given by 16,9 for D,8,5 for E,3,2 for F,4,3 for G,6,5 for A. Aristotle understood that sound consisted of compressions and rarefactions of air which falls upon, a very good expression of the nature of wave motion. The physical understanding of acoustical processes advanced rapidly during and after the Scientific Revolution, mainly Galileo Galilei but also Marin Mersenne, independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings. Experimental measurements of the speed of sound in air were carried out successfully between 1630 and 1680 by a number of investigators, prominently Mersenne, meanwhile, Newton derived the relationship for wave velocity in solids, a cornerstone of physical acoustics. The eighteenth century saw advances in acoustics as mathematicians applied the new techniques of calculus to elaborate theories of sound wave propagation. Also in the 19th century, Wheatstone, Ohm, and Henry developed the analogy between electricity and acoustics, the twentieth century saw a burgeoning of technological applications of the large body of scientific knowledge that was by then in place. The first such application was Sabine’s groundbreaking work in architectural acoustics, Underwater acoustics was used for detecting submarines in the first World War
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Principles of acoustics were applied since ancient times:
Roman theatre in the city of
Amman.
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Artificial omni-directional sound source in an
anechoic chamber
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Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Acoustics
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Melkweg
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The Melkweg is a popular music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is located on the Lijnbaansgracht, near the Leidseplein - the prime nightlife square of Amsterdam and it is housed in a former milk factory and is divided into a number of spaces of varying sizes. Besides four halls for varying genres of music concerts, the houses a cinema, a restaurant. The Melkweg is run by an organisation that has existed since 1970. In the 19th century a sugar refinery was established at the Lijnbaansgracht, in 1920, the milk company OVVV bought the factory. Until 1969, the OVVV housed in the factory, before closing, the building was closed for a year, but reopened as a cultural center in 1970. It was only open for the summer and featured a café, because of the success the Melkweg reopened in the summer of 1971 and 1972 before becoming a permanent venue since 1973. In the years followed the Melkweg became one of the most important pop venues of Amsterdam. A meeting place for hippies in the seventies and eighties, the Melkweg embraced all music styles and its this diverse blend of styles - along with combining big international names with local upcoming talent - that defines the Melkweg. The venue has 6 halls, The Max, which is the largest concert hall of the venue and it hosted internationally known acts like Prince or Arctic Monkeys, but is also used for parties, meetings and film projections. It has a capacity of 1500 people and opened in late 1995 and it was completely renovated in 2007. The Old Hall, the oldest concert hall of the venue and it hosts concerts of lesser-known acts, and bands such as U2 or Nirvana played their first Dutch concerts here. It has a capacity of 700 people, the Rabo Hall, which is in a separated building, and mostly hosts film projections or theater plays. It has a capacity of 1400 people, the Theater Hall, a small hall used for smaller artists and theater plays. It has a capacity of between 90 and 130 people, the Cinema, a private film projection hall with a capacity of 90 people. The Exhibition space, used for art exhibitions, Melkweg is referenced in the Cracker song Euro-Trash Girl, the Lagwagon song Infectious and in title of the Half Man Half Biscuit song Prag Vec at the Melkweg. The title of The Churchs song Under the Milky Way is also a reference to the Melkweg, heather Novas 1995 EP Live from the Milky Way was recorded here as was Spacemen 3s album Performance. Frank Black And The Catholics recorded there live on March 24,2001 on Live From Melkweg, media related to Melkweg at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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The main entrance of the Melkweg
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Ani DiFranco during her 2007 concert
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Hippie
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The word hippie came from hipster and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York Citys Greenwich Village and San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie was first popularized in San Francisco by Herb Caen, the origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant sophisticated, currently fashionable, fully up-to-date, the Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people, in later years, mobile peace convoys of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival, piedra Roja Festival, a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie fashion and values had an effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature. Since the 1960s, many aspects of culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the principal American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, argues that the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip, whose origins are unknown. The term hipster was coined by Harry Gibson in 1944, by the 1940s, the terms hip, hep and hepcat were popular in Harlem jazz slang, although hep eventually came to denote an inferior status to hip. In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, New York City, young counterculture advocates were named hips because they were considered in the know or cool, as opposed to being square. In the April 27,1961 issue of The Village Voice, An open letter to JFK & Fidel Castro, Norman Mailer utilizes the term hippies, in questioning JFKs behavior. In a 1961 essay, Kenneth Rexroth used both the hipster and hippies to refer to young people participating in black American or Beatnik nightlife. According to Malcolm Xs 1964 autobiography, the hippie in 1940s Harlem had been used to describe a specific type of white man who acted more Negro than Negroes. Andrew Loog Oldham refers to all the Chicago hippies, seemingly in reference to black musicians, in his rear sleeve notes to the 1965 LP The Rolling Stones. The word hippie was also used in reference to Philadelphia in at least two songs in 1963, South Street by The Orlons, and You Cant Sit Down by The Dovells. In both songs, the term is applied to residents of Philadelphias South Street, in that article, Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn Cafe, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district. New York Times editor and usage writer Theodore M. Bernstein said the paper changed the spelling from hippy to hippie to avoid the ambiguous description of clothing as hippy fashions. Even the counterculture of the Ancient Greeks, espoused by philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics were also early forms of hippie culture
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Young hippie people near the Woodstock festival in August 1969.
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A Hippie-painted VW bug
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American hippies smoking cannabis in Thailand
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Escapin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space It trembled and exploded Left a bus stop in its place The bus came by and I got on That's when it all began There was cowboy Neal At the wheel Of a bus to never-ever land -
Grateful Dead, lyrics from "That's It for the Other One"
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Counterculture
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A counterculture is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores. A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes, John Milton Yinger originated the term contraculture in his 1960 article in American Sociological Review. Some scholars have attributed the counterculture to Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture and it became prominent in the news media amid the social revolution that swept the Americas, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand during the 1960s. Scholars differ in the characteristics and specificity they attribute to counterculture, mainstream culture is of course also difficult to define, and in some ways becomes identified and understood through contrast with counterculture. Counterculture might oppose mass culture, or middle-class culture and values, Counterculture is sometimes conceptualized in terms of generational conflict and rejection of older or adult values. Counterculture may or may not be explicitly political and it typically involves criticism or rejection of currently powerful institutions, with accompanying hope for a better life or a new society. It does not look favorably on party politics or authoritarianism, typically, a fringe culture expands and grows into a counterculture by defining its own values in opposition to mainstream norms. Countercultures tend to peak, then go into decline, leaving an impact on mainstream cultural values. Their life cycles include phases of rejection, growth, partial acceptance, during the late 1960s, hippies became the largest and most visible countercultural group in the United States. The cultural shadows left by the Romantics, Bohemians, Beats, the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s generated its own unique brand of notable literature, including comics and cartoons, and sometimes referred to as the underground press. In the United States, this includes the work of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, another such hippie/anarchist bookshop was Mushroom Books, tucked away in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. Some genres tend to challenge societies with their content that is meant to question the norms within cultures. More often than not, sources of these controversies can be found in art such as Marcel Duchamp whose piece Fountain was meant to be an attack on the most basic conventions of art in 1917. Instead of being a topic to fear, they have initiated subtle trends that other artists, in order to achieve such liberation, consciousness raising and direct action were employed. At the outset of the 20th century, homosexual acts were punishable offenses in these countries, the prevailing public attitude was that homosexuality was a moral failing that should be punished, as exemplified by Oscar Wildes 1895 trial and imprisonment for gross indecency. But even then, there were dissenting views, according to Charles Kaisers The Gay Metropolis, there were already semi-public gay-themed gatherings by the mid-1930s in the United States. There were also bars and bathhouses that catered to gay clientele, but homosexuality was typically subsumed into bohemian culture, and was not a significant movement in itself
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Mother Centre Meeting at
Nambassa, 1979
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As a hippie
Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 70s
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Soft drugs
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Drug harmfulness is the degree to which a psychoactive drug is harmful to a user. Drug harmfulness is measured in various ways, such as by addictiveness, more harmful drugs are called hard drugs and less harmful drugs are called soft drugs. The term soft drug is considered controversial by its critics as it may imply that soft drugs cause no or insignificant harm. The Dutch Opium Law contains two lists of drugs, List I and List II, that are considered to be lists of hard and soft drugs. Other countries typically have more than two categories, for example, the US has five schedules in the Controlled Substances Act, ranging from one through five. The UK has three classes in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, A, B and C, according to the legal system of the Netherlands, selected soft drugs are tolerated legally while other hard drugs are illegal. Soft drugs can be tolerated in various ways whether it be total lack of regulation or some regulation, gateway drug theory LD50 Effective dose Drug policy of the Netherlands Designer drug The Rhetoric of Drugs Responsible drug use
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In a 2011 survey, 292 clinical experts in Scotland ranked 19 common recreational drugs by personal and social harm. Harder drugs are in red and softer drugs are in yellow.
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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The
Ramones ' 1976
debut album laid down the musical "blueprint for punk", while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style.
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Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols
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The Clash, performing in 1980
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British punks, circa 1986
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New wave music
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New wave is a genre of rock music popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with ties to 1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from smooth blues and rock and roll sounds to create pop music that incorporated electronic and experimental music, mod, initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop, college rock, common characteristics of new wave music include the use of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as diversity. In the mid-1980s, differences between new wave and other genres began to blur. New wave has enjoyed resurgences since the 1990s, after a rising nostalgia for several new wave-influenced artists, subsequently, the genre influenced other genres. During the 2000s, a number of acts explored new wave and post-punk influences, such as the Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and these acts were sometimes labeled new wave of new wave. The catch-all nature of new music has been a source of much confusion. The 1985 discography Whos New Wave in Music listed artists in over 130 separate categories, the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock calls the term virtually meaningless, while AllMusic mentions stylistic diversity. New wave first emerged as a genre in the early 1970s, used by critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground. It gained currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin Glue and newsagent music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. In November 1976 Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLarens term new wave to designate music by bands not exactly punk, the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about the Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977, the new wave. By the end of 1977, new wave had replaced punk as the definition for new music in the UK. As radio consultants in the United States had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad, like the filmmakers of the French new wave movement, its new artists were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most U. S. writers exclusively used the new wave for British punk acts. Music historian Vernon Joynson claimed that new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, in the U. S. the first new wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated with the New York club CBGB. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show of the band Television at his club in March 1974, said, furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads, New wave is much more closely tied to punk and came and went more quickly in the United Kingdom than in the United States
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Blondie, 1976. L–R: Gary Valentine, Clem Burke, Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri.
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Talking Heads performing in Toronto in 1978.
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Duran Duran in 1981. Top line: Nick Rhodes (keyboards), Simon Le Bon (vocals); Middle: John Taylor (bass); Bottom line: Roger Taylor (drums), Andy Taylor (guitar)
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Elvis Costello, in Massey Hall, Toronto, April 1979
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Rave
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A rave is a large dance party featuring performances by DJs and occasionally live performers playing electronic music. The music is amplified with a large, powerful sound reinforcement system, the music is accompanied by laser light shows, projected images, visual effects and fog machines. The word rave was first used in the late 1980s to describe the subculture grew out of the acid house movement. While some raves may be small parties held at nightclubs or private residences, some raves have grown to immense size, some electronic dance music festivals have features of raves, but on a large, often commercial scale. Raves may last for a time, with some events continuing for twenty-four hours. In the late 1950s in London the term rave was used to describe the wild bohemian parties of the Soho beatnik set, in 1958, Buddy Holly recorded the hit Rave On, citing the madness and frenzy of a feeling and the desire for it never to end. The word rave was used in the burgeoning mod youth culture of the early 1960s as the way to describe any wild party in general. People who were gregarious party animals were described as ravers, pop musicians such as Steve Marriott of The Small Faces and Keith Moon of The Who were self-described ravers. Presaging the words subsequent 1980s association with music, the word rave was a common term used regarding the music of mid-1960s garage rock. It was later part of the title of a music performance event held on 28 January 1967 at Londons Roundhouse titled the Million Volt Light. The event featured the only public airing of an experimental sound collage created for the occasion by Paul McCartney of The Beatles – the legendary Carnival of Light recording. With the rapid change of British pop culture from the mod era of 1963–1966 to the era of 1967 and beyond. Its use during that era would have perceived as a quaint or ironic use of bygone slang. Also during the 1970s the Chicago house movement continued to expand along with a new club - Studio 54, Studio 54 was a world-famous New York nightclub and discothèque. Founded and created by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager in 1977, Rubell and Schrager hired Scott Bromley as architect, Ron Doud as interior designer and Brian Thompson as lighting designer. Where formerly all clubs had very dark, at Studio 54 the crowd could be lit brightly. In the late 1970s, the club was arguably the best-known nightclub in the world, the perception of the word changed again in the late 1980s when the term was revived and adopted by a new youth culture, possibly inspired by the use of the term in Jamaica. In the late 1980s, the word rave was adopted to describe the subculture grew out of the acid house movement
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Strobing lights flash at a rave in
Vienna, Austria in 2005
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A huge bank of speakers and
subwoofers from a rave
sound reinforcement system.
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Rave - Juiz de Fora - MG, featuring bright psychedelic theming common at many raves.
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Rave in Hungary in 2010, showing many of the fantastical theming elements common at such events.
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The Killers (band)
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The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001 by members Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning. Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. would complete the current line-up of the band in 2002, the bands name is derived from a logo on the bass drum of a fictitious band, portrayed in the music video for the New Order song Crystal. The band has released four chart topping studio albums, Hot Fuss, Sams Town, Day & Age and they have also achieved worldwide success as a live band, performing in over 50 countries and on six continents, headlining venues such as Madison Square Garden and Wembley Stadium. In 2001, Brandon Flowers was fired by his first band, after attending an Oasis concert at the Hard Rock Hotel during The Tour of Brotherly Love, Flowers realized his calling was to be in a rock band and began searching for like-minded musicians. He eventually came across an ad posted in a Las Vegas newspaper by Dave Keuning, when the pair met they bonded over similar musical influences and immediately began writing songs together in Keunings apartment. Bassist Dell Neal later left the band due to personal reasons, Ronnie Vannucci Jr. joined The Killers shortly before Neals departure. Vannucci was well-known on the Las Vegas music scene, having played in bands since a young age. It was while he was drumming for other bands including Daphne Major, ronnies first show with the band was on August 30,2002, at a club called The Junkyard. Playing bass for The Killers that night was Mark Stoermer, who was at point the lead guitarist for local progressive rock band The Negative Ponies. The band were keen on Stoermer joining them on a permanent basis with full commitment and they had initially approached him to be the second guitarist when they were considering turning the band into a five-piece, possibly more like the Strokes, with a keyboard. Stoermer mentioned later on that he could play bass. The band had continued as a three-piece trying out other bassists until November 2002, according to Ryan Pardey who booked many of the bands early shows They became a great band when Ronnie and Mark joined. That’s when they became a cohesive unit. What Ronnie did — he was the discipline — and Mark was just a solid musician, the four of them would get together in Vannuccis garage to work on song ideas. They would also sneak into the room at the University of Nevada. It was during this period that the band much of their debut album Hot Fuss including hit singles Somebody Told Me. The band continued playing at venues around their hometown, often playing Sunday nights at a transvestite bar named Sashas. It wasnt long before they caught the attention of Braden Merrick, an A&R rep for Warner Bros
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The Killers in concert in 2006
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The band's official logo, first used in 2003.
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Flowers and Keuning in 2005
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Sam's Town is named after a
locals casino in the band's hometown of Las Vegas
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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership
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The Rolling Stones performing at
Summerfest festival in June 2015 Left to right:
Charlie Watts (drums),
Ronnie Wood (rhythm guitar),
Mick Jagger (vocals),
Keith Richards (lead guitar)
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The back room of what was the
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The Rolling Stones performing at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia, May 1965
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A trade ad for the 1965 Rolling Stones' North American tour.
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Joy Division
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Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band consisted of singer Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bass player Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris. Formed by Sumner and Hook after the two attended a Sex Pistols gig, Joy Division soon moved beyond their roots to develop a sound. The bands self-released 1978 debut EP, An Ideal for Living, drew the attention of the Manchester television personality Tony Wilson, Joy Divisions debut album Unknown Pleasures, recorded with producer Martin Hannett, was released in 1979 to critical acclaim. As the bands popularity grew, singer Curtis suffered from problems that included depression, a failing marriage. He found it difficult to perform live concerts, during which he sometimes suffered seizures. In May 1980, on the eve of the bands first American tour, Curtis committed suicide, the bands second and final album, Closer, was released two months later, the album and preceding single Love Will Tear Us Apart became the bands highest charting release. After Curtiss death, the members continued as New Order. Although their career spanned less than four years, Joy Division continues to exert an influence on a variety of subsequent artists, on 20 July 1976, childhood friends Sumner and Hook separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall. The following day Hook borrowed £35 from his mother to buy his first bass guitar, Sumner later said that he felt that the Pistols destroyed the myth of being a pop star, of a musician being some kind of god that you had to worship. Inspired by the performance, Sumner and Hook formed a band with their friend Terry Mason, Sumner bought a guitar, and Mason a drum kit. They invited schoolfriend Martin Gresty to join as vocalist, but he turned them down after getting a job at a local factory, an advertisement was placed in the Virgin Records shop in Manchester for a vocalist. Ian Curtis, who knew them from earlier gigs, responded and was hired without audition, Sumner said that he knew he was all right to get on with and thats what we based the whole group on. If we liked someone, they were in, Warsaw debuted on 29 May 1977 at the Electric Circus, supporting the Buzzcocks, Penetration and John Cooper Clarke. They received immediate national exposure due to reviews of the gig in the NME by Paul Morley, Tony Tabac played drums that night after joining the band two days earlier. Mason was soon made the manager and Tabac was replaced on drums in June 1977 by Steve Brotherdale. During his tenure with Warsaw, Brotherdale tried to get Curtis to leave the band and join Panik, in July 1977, Warsaw recorded a set of five demo tracks at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham. Uneasy with Brotherdales aggressive personality, the band fired him soon after the demo sessions, driving home from the studio, they pulled over and asked Brotherdale to check on a flat tyre, when he got out of the car, they sped off
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Joy Division c. 1979: Morris, Curtis, Sumner, Hook
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Sumner and Hook were inspired to form a band after attending a
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Manchester television personality
Tony Wilson signed Joy Division to his
Factory Records label.
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Curtis performing with Joy Division at the Mayflower in Manchester in 1979.
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Johnny Thunders
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John Anthony Genzale Jr. better known by his stage name Johnny Thunders, was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls and he later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. Thunders was born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. in Queens, New York and his first musical performance was in the winter of 1967 with The Reign. In 1968 he began going to the Fillmore East and Bethesda Fountain in Central Park on weekends and his older sister, Mariann, started styling his hair like Keith Richards. In late 1969 he got a job as a clerk at DNaz leather shop, on Bleecker Street in the West Village. He and his girlfriend, Janis Cafasso, went to see The Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in November 1969, in London, after the Isle of Wight Festival, the following summer, his girlfriend Janis fell sick and they flew home. Back in NYC from the UK, toward the end of 1970, he started hanging out at Nobodys and it was near there that he met future Dolls Arthur Kane and Rick Rivets. He joined their band Actress, which later, after firing Rivets and adding David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and Billy Murcia and it was then that he adopted the stage name Johnny Thunders, inspired by a comic book hero. It was raunchy, nasty, rough, raw, and untamed, I thought it was truly inspired. Adding His sound was rich and fat and beautiful, like a voice, the New York Dolls were signed to Mercury Records, with the help of A & R man Paul Nelson. Thunders recorded two albums with the band, New York Dolls and Too Much Too Soon and they were managed by Marty Thau, and booked by Leber & Krebs. Subsequently they worked with Malcolm McLaren for several months, later becoming a prototype for the Sex Pistols. In 1975 Thunders and Nolan left the band, though Johansen and Sylvain continued playing, along with Peter Jordon, Tony Machine and Chris Robison, Thunders formed The Heartbreakers with former New York Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan and former Television bassist Richard Hell. Walter Lure, former guitarist for the New York City punk band The Demons was soon added, after conflict arose between Thunders and Hell, Hell left to form Richard Hell and the Voidoids and was replaced by Billy Rath. The group stayed in the UK throughout 1977, where their popularity was greater than in the U. S. particularly among punk bands. While in Britain they were signed to Track Records and released their official studio album. An abbreviation for Like A Mother Fucker, L. A. M. F. was received positively by critics and fans alike, but was criticised for its poor production. Displeased with the production, the members were soon competing with one other, mixing and remixing the record
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Johnny Thunders, performing at the VFW Post in Ann Arbor, Michigan in July 1975. At that time he was collaborating with Wayne Kramer of the MC5, as 'Gang War'.
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Chic (band)
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Chic is an American band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. Its commercially successful songs include Dance, Dance, Dance, Everybody Dance, Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Good Times. The group regarded themselves as a band for the disco movement that made good on hippie peace, love. In October 2014, Chic was nominated for induction into the Rock, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards met during 1970, as fellow session musicians working in the New York City area. They formed a band named The Boys and later The Big Apple Band. Despite interest in their demos, they never got a record contract and they were later in the band New York City which had a hit record in 1973 with Im Doing Fine Now which charted in the UK. The original demo tapes were made by DJ/studio engineer Robert Drake, New York City would break up in 1976. During 1977, Edwards and Rodgers recruited drummer Tony Thompson, formerly with LaBelle and Ecstasy, Passion, & Pain, to join the band, they performed as a trio doing cover versions at various gigs. Thompson recommended keyboardist Raymond Jones,19, to join the band, as he had worked with him in the hit group Ecstasy, Passion & Pain. Needing a singer to become a band, they engaged Norma Jean Wright by an agreement permitting her to have a solo career in addition to her work for the band. Using a young recording engineer Bob Clearmountain, they created the track Dance, Dance, Dance, as a result, Chic became a support act. The title of the first song recorded as Chic was Everybody Dance, under contract with Atlantic Records company, during 1977 they released the self-titled debut album Chic, which was an extension of the demonstration tape. But Edwards and Rodgers were convinced that to produce the recording studio sound when performing live with sound and visuals. Wright suggested her friend Luci Martin, who became a member during late spring of 1978. Soon after the sessions ended for the album, the band members began to work on Wrights self-titled debut solo album Norma Jean. This album included the successful nightclub song Saturday, to facilitate Wrights solo career, the band had agreed to contract her with a separate record company. She was replaced as a singer by Alfa Anderson, who had done back-up vocals on the debut album. For the Sister Sledge project, Edwards and Rodgers wrote and produced Hes the Greatest Dancer, the group endeavored to express deep hidden meaning in every song they wrote
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Chic performing in the 1970s
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Chic performing at
GuilFest 2012
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Joe Jackson (musician)
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David Ian Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter. After years of studying music and playing clubs, Jacksons first release and this was followed by a number of new wave singles before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with Steppin Out. He has also composed classical music and he has recorded 19 studio albums and garnered 5 Grammy Award nominations throughout the course of his career. Born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, David Jackson spent his first year in nearby Swadlincote and he grew up in the Paulsgrove area of Portsmouth, where he attended the Portsmouth Technical High School. Jacksons parents moved to nearby Gosport when he was a teenager, Jackson learned to play the violin but soon switched to piano and prevailed on his father to install one in the hall of their Paulsgrove council house. Jackson began playing piano in bars at the age of 16, Jacksons first band, formed in Gosport, was called Edward Bear, later renamed Edwin Bear and then Arms and Legs, but the band broke up in 1976 after two unsuccessful singles. Jackson then spent some time performing on the circuit to make money to record a demo. In 1978, a record producer heard Jacksons demo tape and signed him to A&M Records, the next year the newly formed Joe Jackson Band released their debut album, Look Sharp. Its mix of energetic New Wave rock and bitter British punk similar to his contemporaries Elvis Costello, the album enjoyed wide critical success, in 2013 Rolling Stone magazine named Look Sharp. Number 98 in a list of the 100 best debut albums of all time, some commercial success also followed, as the debut single Is She Really Going Out with Him. reached the top 40 in 5 countries, and no.9 in Canada. The Joe Jackson Band released Im the Man in 1979, the album followed a similar musical pattern, and received good, though not as strong, reviews. It did produce the single Its Different for Girls, which became Jacksons highest charting UK single, Jackson also collaborated with Lincoln Thompson in reggae crossover. In 1981, Jackson produced an album for the British power pop group The Keys, the Keys Album was the groups only LP. The Joe Jackson Band toured extensively until it broke up, Jackson subsequently recorded an album of old-style swing and blues tunes, Jumpin Jive, with songs by Cab Calloway, Lester Young, Glenn Miller, and Louis Jordan. The album, and associated single release, was credited to the band Joe Jacksons Jumpin Jive, Jacksons 1982 album Night and Day was his only studio album to reach either the UK or US Top 10, peaking at No.3 and at No.4. Two singles released from the album, Steppin Out and Breaking Us in Two, were US top 20 hits, the tracks Real Men and A Slow Song referred obliquely to New York Citys early 1980s gay culture. Real Men also became a top 10 hit in Australia, by 1984, New York had become Jacksons home base, and he recorded Body and Soul there, an album he later said was from the point of view of a relative newcomer. Heavily influenced by pop and jazz standards and salsa, it had the US No.15 hit single You Cant Get What You Want
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Jackson performing in Arizona, July 1982
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Chris Isaak
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Christopher Joseph Chris Isaak is an American rock musician and occasional actor. He is best known for his hit Wicked Game, as well as the hit songs Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing. He is renowned for his signature 1950s rock & roll style and crooner sound, as well as his soaring falsetto and reverb-laden music. He is closely associated with film director David Lynch, who has used his music in films and gave him a large role in the film Twin Peaks. His songs generally focus on the themes of love, loss, with a career spanning four decades, he has amassed a total of twelve studio albums, and has accumulated numerous award nominations and tours. He has been called the Roy Orbison of the 1990s, and is also compared to Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson. Isaak was born in Stockton, California, at St. Josephs Medical Center, the son of Dorothy, a potato chip factory worker, and Joe Isaak and his fathers family is Catholic Black Sea German from North Dakota. Isaaks mother is Italian American, from Genoa, Isaak attended Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in north Stockton, graduating in 1974. He also was in a program which allowed him to study in Japan. After graduating from college, Isaak put together his first band and this rockabilly outfit consisted of James Calvin Wilsey, Rowland Salley and Kenney Dale Johnson, who remained with Isaak as his permanent backing band. Isaak signed a contract to Warner Bros, Records, and released his first album in 1985, Silvertone. to critical acclaim including from John Fogerty. The name was taken from the band he formed after graduating college, the albums sound was raw and diverse, mingling country blues with conventional folk ballads. Although the album was a success, it failed to sell respectably. The track Dancin was the first music video featured on MTV. Two other tracks from the album, Gone Ridin and Livin for Your Lover, Isaaks self-titled follow-up album was released in 1986, and managed to scrape into the Billboard Top 200. The album saw Isaak hone his style to sophisticated R&B, the artwork for Chris Isaak, was photographed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. Isaaks contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Bros. moved him to their Reprise Records label, suspicion of Love appears in the 1988 hit movie Married to the Mob starring Matthew Modine, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dean Stockwell. Isaaks best known song is Wicked Game, though released on the 1989 album Heart Shaped World, an instrumental version of the song was later featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart
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Chris Isaak at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater
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Kaizers Orchestra
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Kaizers Orchestra was a Norwegian alternative rock group that formed on 1 January 2000. They are notable for being among the first non-black metal Norwegian bands or artists singing in their language to become popular beyond Scandinavia. In 2012, the announced that following a 2013 Farewell Tour. Their final concert was held on 14 September 2013 at DNB Arena in Stavanger, in 1998, childhood friends Janove Ottesen and Geir Zahl released their only album by their band gnom called Mys. Of its 1000 copies, only 500 or so were sold the first year, a line from Bastard and the songs overall crowd response became a source of inspiration for Ottesen, and after gnom dissolved after disappointing record sales, he formed Kaizers Orchestra. In 2000, Kaizers Orchestra recorded the Kaizers Orchestra EP, an EP containing four songs, Bastard, Bøn fra helvete, Katastrofen, during by, Larm, a Norwegian festival focusing on up-and-coming artists, the bands songs were played frequently on the radio. Kaizers Orchestras special sound and creative use of instruments was noticed by the small and their first album, Ompa til du dør, was released on this label in September 2001. It was critically acclaimed and became a success, first in Norway, later in Denmark, the album won a Spellemannpris for best rock album, as well as two Alarm-awards. Ompa til du dør also made Kaizers Orchestra the highest-selling rock debut to be released in the Norwegian language, the second album, Evig pint, was released in February 2003. The third album, Maestro was released on 15 August 2005 in Norway, in connection with the release of Maestro, Kaizers Orchestra signed an international record deal with Universal Germany, taking them from one of the smallest labels to one of the biggest. Their 5 and 6 October 2005 performances at Vega, in Copenhagen, Denmark, were recorded for a live DVD, titled Viva La Vega, a book, written in Nynorsk by Geir Zahls older brother Jan, called Kontroll på kontinentet was released 18 October 2006. It is close to 300 pages long and include almost 150 pictures documenting the 2005 Maestro tour, at the book signing in Oslo to promote its release over 400 copies of the 3,000 first editions of the book had been sold. The book was sold during their 2006 Grand Finale Tour. In 2007, the members of Kaizers Orchestra took a break from playing live, all members are involved in some sort of side-project, and they concentrated on these in their break time. They only played three shows in 2007, one in Hungary, at the Sziget Festival, one in Norway, at Cementen, on September 6,2006, the band released information about their upcoming fourth album. The album was recorded in Berlin, Germany, assisted by producer-engineer Mark Howard, the audio mixing for the album was done in Los Angeles, California. The album title was revealed to be Maskineri in December 2007, and around the same time, the album was released on February 19,2008, on Sony BMG. They claimed to have chosen the label instead of working with Universal for more freedom
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Live!
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Janove Ottesen live with Kaisers Orchestra in 2008.
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Duran Duran
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Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978. The band grew from alternative sensations in 1982 to mainstream pop stars by 1984, by the end of the decade, membership and music style changes challenged the band before a resurgence in the early 1990s. The group were a band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US. They have placed 14 singles in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, when they first emerged, they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, along with bands such as Spandau Ballet. Soon they would shed this image, using fashion and marketing to build a more refined and they were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The video age catapulted Duran Duran into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV, many of their videos were shot on 35 mm film, which gave a much more polished look than was standard at the time. They also collaborated with film directors to take the quality a step further. In 1984, the band were early innovators with video technology in their stadium shows. These five members featured the most commercially successful line-up, the reunion of the original five members in the early 2000s created a stir among the bands fans and music media. Andy Taylor left the once again in mid-2006, and guitarist Dom Brown has since been working with the band as a session player. John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in Birmingham, England in 1978, at the club they were doing jobs such as John working the door and with Nick deejaying for £10 a night. They began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue, There were many nearby nightclubs, and the one significant one, where bands such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash played gigs, was called Barbarellas. They would go on to name the band after a character from Barbarella, the character, played by Milo OShea, is named Dr. Durand Durand. The bands first singer was Stephen Duffy, Simon Colley soon joined Taylor, Rhodes and Duffy. Colley was the original bass player, as John Taylor was the guitarist at this point. This was the first complete line-up of the band played live shows. For drums and percussion, a drum machine belonging to Rhodes was used. Colley left the prior to the addition of Andy Taylor
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Duran Duran at
SXSW in Austin, Texas; 2011. L-R: John Taylor (bass), Simon Le Bon (vocals), Dom Brown (guitar), Roger Taylor (drums) and Nick Rhodes (keyboards).
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Duran Duran in New York City in 2005
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The band in Bogotá, Colombia in 2008
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Willie Nelson
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Willie Hugh Nelson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist. He was one of the figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has involved in activism for the use of biofuels. Born during the Great Depression, and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven, during high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from school in 1950, he joined the Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his return, Nelson attended Baylor University for two years but dropped out because he was succeeding in music, during this time, he worked as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations and a singer in Honky-tonks. Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote Family Bible, in 1958, he moved to Houston, Texas after signing a contract with D Records. He sang at the Esquire Ballroom weekly and he worked as a disk jockey, during that time, he wrote songs that would become country standards, including Funny How Time Slips Away, Hello Walls, Pretty Paper, and Crazy. In 1960 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and later signed a contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join Ray Prices band as a bassist. In 1962, he recorded his first album. And Then I Wrote, due to this success, Nelson signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, the ongoing music scene of Austin motivated Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters. In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to country, including albums such as Shotgun Willie. In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded the acclaimed album. The same year, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted, the Outlaws, along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. In 1990, Nelsons assets were seized by the Internal Revenue Service, the difficulty of paying his outstanding debt was aggravated by weak investments he had made during the 1980s. In 1992, Nelson released The IRS Tapes, Wholl Buy My Memories, the profits of the double album—destined to the IRS—and the auction of Nelsons assets cleared his debt. During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson continued touring extensively, reviews ranged from positive to mixed. He explored genres such as reggae, blues, jazz, Nelson made his first movie appearance in the 1979 film The Electric Horseman, followed by other appearances in movies and on television
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Nelson performing at
Farm Aid in 2009
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A young Nelson poses for a photograph
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Nelson's high school football portrait, c. 1950
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Nelson performing on a
Grand Ole Opry package show in 1965
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Dexter Gordon
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Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was among the earliest tenor players to adapt the musical language of people such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie. Gordons height was 6 feet 6 inches, so he was known as Long Tall Dexter. His studio and live performance career spanned over 40 years, Gordons sound was commonly characterized as being large and spacious and he had a tendency to play behind the beat. He was famous for humorously inserting musical quotes into his solos, One of his major influences was Lester Young. Gordon, in turn, was an influence on John Coltrane. Rollins and Coltrane then influenced Gordons playing as he explored hard bop, Gordon was known for his genial and humorous stage presence. He was an advocate of playing to communicate with the audience, One of his idiosyncratic rituals was to recite lyrics from each ballad before playing it. A photograph by Herman Leonard of Gordon taking a break at the Royal Roost in 1948 is one of the iconic images in jazz photography. Cigarettes were a theme on covers of Gordons albums. He also had a role in the 1990 movie, Awakenings. Dexter Keith Gordon was born on February 27,1923 in Los Angeles and his father, Dr. Frank Gordon, was one of the first African American doctors in Los Angeles who arrived in 1918 after graduating from Howard Medical School in Washington, D. C. Among his patients were Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Dexters mother, Gwendolyn Baker, was the daughter of Captain Edward Baker, one of the five African American Medal of Honor recipients in the Spanish–American War. Gordon played clarinet from the age of 13, before switching to saxophone at 15, while still at school, he played in bands with such contemporaries as Chico Hamilton and Buddy Collette. Between December 1940 and 1943, Gordon was a member of Lionel Hamptons band, playing in a section alongside Illinois Jacquet. During 1944 he was featured in the Fletcher Henderson band, followed by the Louis Armstrong band, in 1943 he was featured, alongside Harry Sweets Edison, in recordings under Nat Cole for a small label not affected by the strike. By late 1944, Gordon was resident in New York and a featured soloist in the Billy Eckstine big band, by late 1945 he was recording under his own name for the Savoy label. His recordings during 1945-46 included Blow Mr. Dexter, Dexters Deck, Dexters Minor Mad, Long Tall Dexter, Dexter Rides Again, I Cant Escape From You, by mid-1947, he was in Los Angeles, recording for Ross Russells Dial label
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In concert with
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Phish
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Phish is an American rock band that was founded at the University of Vermont in 1983. They resumed touring from December 31,2002 until August 15,2004 and they reunited in March 2009 for a series of three consecutive concerts played in the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia, and have since resumed performing regularly. Phishs music blends elements of a variety of genres, including funk, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, folk, country, jazz, blues, bluegrass. Rolling Stone stated that the band helped to. spawn a new wave of bands oriented around group improvisation, Phish was formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 by guitarists Trey Anastasio and Jeff Holdsworth, bassist Mike Gordon, and drummer Jon Fishman. For their first gig, at Harris-Millis Cafeteria at the University of Vermont on December 2,1983, the band was joined by percussionist Marc Daubert in the fall of 1984, a time during which they promoted themselves as playing Grateful Dead songs. Holdsworth left the group after graduating in 1986, solidifying the lineup of Trey, Page, Mike. Following a prank at UVM with his friend and former bandmate Steve Pollak—also known as The Dude of Life—Anastasio decided to leave the college, with the encouragement of McConnell, Anastasio and Fishman relocated in mid-1986 to Goddard College, a small school in the hills of Plainfield, Vermont. Phish distributed at least six different experimental self-titled cassettes during this era, the older version was officially released under the title Phish in August 1998. Pollock and Wright were musical collaborators, experimenting with multi-track cassette records to be broadcast on local radio. Phish adopted a number of Nancys songs into their own set, including Halleys Comet, I Didnt Know, and Dear Mrs. Reagan, the latter song being written by Nancy and Pollock. Jarnow argues that despite an eventual falling out between the members of Phish and Nancy, Nancy and his music was influential to Phishs early style. Pollock continued to collaborate with Phish over the years, designing some of their most iconic concert posters, the bands actions demonstrate an identity with their hometown of Burlington, Vermont. By 1985, the group had encountered Burlington luthier Paul Languedoc, in October 1986, he began working as their sound engineer. Since then, Languedoc has built exclusively for the two, and his designs and traditional wood choices have given Phish a unique instrumental identity, also during the late 1980s, Phish played regularly at Nectars restaurant and bar in Burlington. In 1992 the album A Picture of Nectar, named as a tribute to the owner, as his senior project, Anastasio penned The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday, a nine-song concept album that would become Phishs second studio experiment. Recorded between 1987 and 1988, it was submitted in July of that year, accompanied by a written thesis, elements of the story—known as Gamehendge—grew to include an additional eight songs. The band performed the suite in concert on five different occasions, in 1988,1991,1993, beginning in the spring of 1988, members of the band began practicing in earnest, sometimes locking themselves in a room and jamming for hours on end. One such jam took place at Anastasios apartment, with a second at Paul Languedocs house in August 1989, the product of one of these jam sessions was included in the bands first mass-released recording, a double album called Junta, later that year
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Phish performing live at
American Airlines Arena in
Miami, Florida, in 2009; left to right:
Page McConnell,
Trey Anastasio and
Mike Gordon
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Arcade Fire
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Founded in 2001 by friends and classmates Win Butler and Josh Deu, the band came to prominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Funeral. Their second studio album, Neon Bible, won them the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and their third studio album, The Suburbs, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success. It received many accolades, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year, the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, Win Butler and Josh Deu founded Arcade Fire in Montreal around 2001, having first met at Phillips Exeter Academy as high school students. Both attended Concordia University, where their musical ideas began to develop, the duo began rehearsing their material at McGill University where they met Régine Chassagne, a music student whom they asked to join them. Deu recalls, Win and I played guitar and we had no music to show her, but she ended up saying yes to joining us, and I don’t know why. Maybe there was a spark with Win. The trio recorded a set of demos and began performing live in the half of 2001. The initial Montreal structure of the band began to dissolve in the summer of 2002, tension between Butler and bassist Myles Broscoe led the latter to exit the band following the recording session. Richard Reed Parry, who had enlisted to help the band record, began to collaborate with them during the sessions. Around the same time, Joshua Deu left the band to continue his studies, in the winter of 2003, the band celebrated the release of its EP with a show at Montreals Casa del Popolo. Before a crowd packed beyond capacity, the set ended with an argument between Butler and Reed, who quit the band on-stage. Mills told gathered friends in the crowd immediately thereafter that he considered the band to have broken up, the eponymous release was sold at early shows. After the band achieved fame, the EP was subsequently remastered, the promise shown by the new band in its early live shows allowed them to land a record contract with the independent record label, Merge Records, before the end of its first year together. When asked about the rumour that the name refers to a fire in an arcade, Win Butler replied, Its not a rumour. Its not an event, but one that I took to be real. I would say that its something that the kid made up. Funeral was released in September 2004 in Canada and February 2005 in Great Britain, the title of the debut album referred to the deaths of several relatives of band members during its recording. These events created an atmosphere that influenced songs such as Une année sans lumière, In the Backseat
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Arcade Fire in 2010
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Arcade Fire's second album Neon Bible.
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Arcade Fire performing in support of Neon Bible at the
United Palace Theater on May 7, 2007
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Win Butler
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Nightwish
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Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, the band soon picked up drummer Jukka Nevalainen, and then bassist Sami Vänskä after the release of their debut album, Angels Fall First. In 2002, Vänskä was replaced by Marco Hietala, who took over the male vocalist role previously filled by Holopainen or guest singers. Although Nightwish have been prominent in their country since Angels Fall First, they did not achieve worldwide fame until the release of the albums Oceanborn, Wishmaster. Their 2004 album, Once, has more than one million copies and was the bands breakthrough in the United States. Their biggest US hit single, Wish I Had an Angel and her last performance with Nightwish was during a concert recorded for the live album/DVD End of an Era. After the concert, the members informed Turunen with an open letter that she was no longer a member of Nightwish. In May 2007, Nightwish announced Anette Olzon as Turunens replacement and that September, the band released their sixth album, Dark Passion Play, which has sold almost 2 million copies. The albums lead single, Amaranth, became one of Nightwishs most successful in Europe, the supporting tour, one of the bands largest, started on October 6,2007 and ended on September 19,2009. The band released an EP/live album, Made in Hong Kong, in March 2009 as a CD/DVD, on October 1,2012, Nightwish announced that they had parted ways with Olzon and would be finishing the tour with ReVamp and former After Forever vocalist Floor Jansen. Nightwish is the band and musical entity in Finland with certified sales of nearly 900,000 certified copies. He soon invited friend and schoolmate Erno Emppu Vuorinen to play guitars, and the classical vocalist Tarja Turunen. The three musicians recorded their self-titled acoustic demo in winter 1996, the name Nightwish was derived from their first song together – the demo also included the song The Forever Moments, and an early version of Etiäinen. In early 1997, following the release of the Nightwish demo, Jukka Julius Nevalainen joined the band, the addition of heavy metal elements to the bands existing experimental style gave the band a different sound, forming the core of the Nightwish sound. The band entered the studio in April 1997 to record seven songs for their second demo, in May 1997, the demo made its way to the Finnish record label Spinefarm Records, who wanted to release it as the bands debut album of the same name. The label offered Nightwish to a deal, and the band returned to the studio to record four more songs to accompany the tracks of the demo. The full-length album was released in November 1997 and reached number 31 on the Finnish album charts, the band made their live debut in their hometown Kitee in December 1997. Since they were missing a bass player, Samppa Hirvonen joined them as a live member
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Nightwish in 2013 at the
Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, with from left to right: Holopainen, Hietala, and Jansen.
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Emppu Vuorinen performing live with Nightwish at
Norway Rock Festival in 2009
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Nightwish's current bassist,
Marco Hietala, who replaced
Sami Vänskä in the fall of 2001.
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Nightwish live in
Jämsä,
Finland, on June 25, 2005.
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Bad Brains
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Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D. C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk and they are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of other genres like funk, heavy metal, hip hop and soul. Bad Brains are followers of the Rastafari movement, the unique factor of the bands music was the fact that they played more complex rhythms than other hardcore punk bands, also adapting non-punk style guitar riffs and solos into their songs. Bad Brains have released nine studio albums, the band broke up and reformed several times over the years, sometimes with different singers or drummers. Since 1994, the lineup of singer H. R. guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer. In 1977, their friend Sid McCray introduced the band, who were interested in bands such as Black Sabbath, to punk rock, including the Dickies, the Dead Boys. Mind Power became obsessed with rock and changed their name to Bad Brains, after the Ramones song Bad Brain. Despite their burgeoning punk sound, the early Bad Brains, after seeing Bob Marley in concert, also delved deep into reggae music and the Rastafari movement. Sid McCray became their first singer but left in the days of the groups hardcore punk era. In 1979, Bad Brains found themselves the subject of an unofficial ban among Washington D. C. area clubs, the band subsequently relocated to New York City, where they would serve as a catalyst for that citys burgeoning hardcore scene. At first, the Brains stayed with their NYC friends in the bands The Mad and their self-titled debut album was released on Neil Coopers ROIR Records on cassette only in January 1982, followed in 1983 by Rock for Light, produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars. In 1986, Bad Brains signed with SST Records and released I Against I, H. R. provided the vocals for Sacred Love over the phone from the Lorton Reformatory while doing a bid for a cannabis charge. The title tracks video was shown on MTVs then-new 120 Minutes program, despite the success of I Against I, H. R. quit the band again, taking his brother Earl with him after spending most of 1987 touring. 1988 dates for the I Against I tour were done with Taj Singleton on vocals, in 1988, Bad Brains signed with Caroline Records, who released their fourth album Quickness the following year. Returned, rewrote the lyrics and overdubbed the vocals for Quickness replacing Taj Singletons recorded lyrics, Bad Brains were plagued by internal tensions nearly from their beginning. After the Quickness tour, H. R. and Earl left once again, soon afterwards, Bad Brains broke up yet again. In 1990, Bad Brains backed longtime friend, fan, the recording appears on the soundtrack to the film Pump Up the Volume. As bands influenced by Bad Brains enjoyed commercial success, Dr. Know was approached by Mundane Records in 1992, the former Cro-Mags drummer Mackie Jayson, and vocalist Israel Joseph I joined at this time
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Bad Brains at 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 1983
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Bad Brains performing in Baltimore in 2007
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Kayak (band)
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Kayak are a Dutch progressive rock band formed in 1972 in the city Hilversum by Ton Scherpenzeel and Pim Koopman. In 1973, their debut album See See The Sun was released and their main popularity was in the Netherlands, with their top hit reaching No.6 on the Dutch charts in March 1979. They disbanded in 1982 after releasing nine albums, in 1999 the band was asked to perform on the TV show De Vrienden van Amstel Live. After this performance, they decided to reform, and released seven studio albums. On 4 January 2008 they released Coming Up For Air and that same day saw the start of their 35th anniversary-tour. On 7 October 2008, they ended the tour at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, the concert was released on CD and DVD as The Anniversary Box in December 2008. In October 2009 the band embarked on a Dutch tour, according to Ton Scherpenzeel, after that tour Kayak would no longer do the album-tour-album-tour cycle. They would probably keep on making new music though, as Scherpenzeel stated, but the sudden and unexpected death of Pim Koopman in November 2009 made the future of the band very uncertain. In May 2010, the website announced a tribute concert for Pim Koopman. The concert was held on 22 November at the Paradiso and it involved not only Kayak, but also some artists with whom Koopman had worked in the past. Some of the names appeared on stage, Pussycat, Caren Maywood, Alides Hidding, José Hoebee. Okkie Huysdens and Jeroen Engelbert also performed, for the occasion, Kayak used Hans Voerman as an extra keyboard player. The drumstool was occupied by Hans Eijkenaar, after the concert, Kayak announced that Eijkenaar was the new drummer of Kayak. With Eijkenaar on drums, Kayak released their album Anywhere But Here in September 2011, on 21 September 2012, it was exactly 40 years ago that the bands name was chosen. To celebrate this, Kayak went on a tour titled Journey through Time and they played at least one song from each studio album. Also included was an excerpt from their forthcoming album Cleopatra - The Crown Of Isis and that excerpt was also released on an EP, backed by a newly recorded version of Symmetry, a song that Scherpenzeel and Koopman originally wrote in 1971. The album Cleopatra - The Crown Of Isis was released in November 2014, at the end of 2014, Cindy Oudshoorn and Edward Reekers announced their departure from Kayak, leaving the band without lead vocalists. At a one-off live performance of Cleopatra in March 2015 on the Dutch isle of Texel, Oudshoorn was replaced by Marjolein Teepen, male vocalists were Martin van der Starre, Alexander van Breemen -both of whom also sang on the album- and Rolf Koster
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Kayak in 1974
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Loudness (band)
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Loudness is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. Despite numerous changes in their roster, the band continued their activities throughout the 1990s and this line-up released a further seven albums until November 30,2008, when original drummer Munetaka Higuchi died from liver cancer at a hospital in Osaka at age 49. He was replaced with Masayuki Suzuki, the band was started by guitarist Akira Takasaki, bassist Hiroyuki Tanaka and drummer Munetaka Higuchi, coming off the split-up of the rock band Lazy in February 1980. The three musicians, Takasaki in particular, were unsatisfied with the direction of their previous band. The rising movement of new Japanese heavy metal acts fit the aspirations, nevertheless, bassist Tanaka soon renounced to be part of the new metal group, searching success in the anime soundtrack business with the band Neverland. Takasaki recruited his childhood friend Masayoshi Yamashita as bass player and, after a few auditions, with this line-up, Loudness signed for the major label Nippon Columbia and recorded their Japanese-language debut album, The Birthday Eve. The flashy shred guitar work of Takasaki and the musicianship of the other band members soon became a trademark of their performances in the studio. In 1983, after recording their third album The Law of Devils Land, they embarked on their first United States tour and they moved to Europe to record their fourth album Disillusion, performing several concerts there, as documented in their second video Eurobounds. As an attempt to break in the scene, the band re-recorded the vocal tracks of the album Disillusion in English language. Finally in 1985, through the management of Twisted Sister co-manager Joe Gerber, such an achievement was the first in Japanese music history for a heavy metal band. Their fifth album, the Max Norman produced Thunder in the East, was recorded in the USA and was very successful. It was their first American release and it peaked at No.74 in the Billboard album chart, relying much on the strength of the single Crazy Nights and their sixth album, Lightning Strikes, was once again produced by Max Norman and charted at No. 64, receiving good reviews and making Loudness a worldwide attraction. The album was released in Japan in a different version, under the name Shadows of War, following this new and apparently chart-rewarding direction, the band lost some of their supportive Japanese fan base, which did not accept the homologation to the US glam metal sound. Their seventh album Hurricane Eyes was released in 1987 worldwide with standard English lyrics, a Japanese version was subsequently released only in Japan later in the year with Niihara singing most of the lyrics in Japanese. The album was produced by the producer and sound engineer Eddie Kramer. The song So Lonely, a version of Ares Lament from the 1984 album Disillusion, was instead produced by Andy Johns. The chosen American vocalist was former Obsession frontman Mike Vescera, Minoru Niihara continued his singing career in Japan as frontman of the metal bands Ded Chaplin, Sly and X. Y. Z. →A, besides releasing a solo album
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Loudness in
Germany in 2010
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Nirvana (band)
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Nirvana was an American rock band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important alternative bands in history. Though the band dissolved in 1994 after the suicide of Cobain, their music maintains a following and continues to influence modern rock. In the late 1980s, Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album, Bleach and they developed a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. After signing to major label DGC Records, Nirvana found unexpected success with Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvanas third studio album, In Utero, released to critical acclaim, featured an abrasive, less mainstream sound and challenged the groups audience. Nirvanas active career ended following the death of Cobain in 1994, but various posthumous releases have been issued since, overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobains widow Courtney Love. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, in its first year of eligibility. Cobain and Novoselic met while attending Aberdeen High, although they never connected, the pair eventually became friends while frequenting the practice space of the Melvins. Cobain wanted to form a band with Novoselic, but Novoselic did not respond for a period of time. In persuading Novoselic to form a band, Cobain gave him a tape of his project Fecal Matter. Three years after the two first met, Novoselic notified Cobain that he had listened to the Fecal Matter demo. The pair recruited Bob McFadden on drums, but after a month the project fell apart, in early 1987, Cobain and Novoselic recruited drummer Aaron Burckhard. The three practiced material from Cobains Fecal Matter tape but started writing new material soon after forming, during its initial months, the band went through a series of names, starting with Skid Row and including Pen Cap Chew, Bliss, and Ted Ed Fred. The group finally settled on Nirvana, which Cobain said was chosen because I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk name like the Angry Samoans. With Novoselic and Cobain having moved to Tacoma and Olympia, Washington, respectively, the pair instead practiced with Dale Crover of the Melvins, and Nirvana recorded its first demos in January 1988. In early 1988, Crover moved to San Francisco but recommended Dave Foster to the band as his replacement on drums, Cobain and Novoselic put an ad in Seattle music publication The Rocket seeking a replacement drummer, which only yielded unsatisfactory responses. Meanwhile, a friend introduced them to Chad Channing. Channing continued to jam with Cobain and Novoselic, although the drummer noted, They never actually said okay, youre in, Nirvana released its first single, a cover of Shocking Blues Love Buzz, in November 1988 on the Seattle independent record label Sub Pop
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Nirvana performing at Pier 48,
Seattle in December 1993 for MTV's
Live and Loud show. From left to right:
Kurt Cobain,
Dave Grohl and
Krist Novoselic.
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Kurt Cobain (foreground) and Krist Novoselic live at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards
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Dave Grohl performing in 1991
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Announcement from the band encouraging people to participate in the making of the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
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