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Blink-182
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Blink-182 is an American rock band formed in Poway, California in 1992. The band currently consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, Blink-182 was initially known as Blink until an Irish band of the same name threatened legal action, in response, the band appended the meaningless number -182. In its early years, Blink-182 toured heavily behind the bands debut, the group signed with major label MCA Records to co-distribute its second album, Dude Ranch. Raynor was fired midway through a 1998 tour and replaced by Barker, the groups next two releases, Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, were enormous successes on the strength of radio and MTV airplay. The eponymously titled Blink-182 followed in 2003 and marked a shift for the group. DeLonge quit in 2005, sending the band into what was termed an indefinite hiatus and they reunited in 2009, producing the trios sixth album, Neighborhoods. In 2015, DeLonge again exited and was replaced by Alkaline Trio guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba, the bands seventh studio album, California, was released on July 1,2016. Blink-182 is considered a key group in the development of pop punk, the trio has sold over thirteen million albums in the United States, and over 50 million albums worldwide. Blink-182 was formed in Poway, California, a suburb outside of San Diego, tom DeLonge was expelled from Poway High for attending a basketball game drunk and was forced to attend another local school for one semester. At Rancho Bernardo High School, DeLonge performed at a Battle of the Bands competition and he also befriended Kerry Key, who too was interested in punk music. Keys girlfriend, Anne Hoppus, introduced her brother Mark Hoppus—who had recently moved from Ridgecrest to work at a record store, the two clicked instantly and played for hours in DeLonges garage, exchanging lyrics and co-writing songs—one of which became Carousel. Hoppus, in trying to impress Delonge, managed to fall from a lamppost in front of DeLonges garage and crack his ankles, the trio began to practice together in Raynors bedroom, spending hours together writing music, attending punk shows and movies, and playing practical jokes. Hoppus and DeLonge would alternate singing vocal parts, the trio first operated under a variety of names, including Duck Tape and Figure 8, until DeLonge rechristened the band Blink. Shortly thereafter, DeLonge and Raynor borrowed a four-track recorder from friend and collaborator Cam Jones and were preparing to record a demo tape, Hoppus promptly broke up with his girlfriend and returned to the band. Flyswatter—a combination of songs and punk covers—was recorded in Raynors bedroom in May 1993. Southern California had a large population in the early 1990s, aided by an avid surfing, skating. In contrast to East Coast punk music, the West Coast wave of groups, Blink included, New York is gloomy, dark and cold. The Californian middle-class suburbs have nothing to be that bummed about, San Diego at this time was hardly a hotbed of activity, but the bands popularity grew as did California punk rock concurrently in the mainstream
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Green Day
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Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1986 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. For much of the career, the band has been a trio with drummer Tré Cool. Guitarist Jason White, who has worked with the band as a member since 1999, was an official member from 2012 to 2016. Green Day was originally part of the scene at the DIY924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley. The bands early releases were with the independent record label Lookout, in 1994, its major label debut Dookie became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the U. S. The bands rock opera, American Idiot, reignited the bands popularity with a younger generation, the bands eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released in 2009 and achieved the bands best chart performance to date. 21st Century Breakdown was followed up by a trilogy of albums called ¡Uno, ¡Dos. and ¡Tré. which were released in September, November and December 2012 respectively. The bands twelfth album, Revolution Radio was released on October 7,2016 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide, in 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical was nominated for three Tony Awards, Best Musical, Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design, losing only the first, also in 2010, Green Day was ranked no.91 in the VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. On April 18,2015, the band was inducted into the Rock, in 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt,14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children. The groups first live performance took place on October 17,1987, at Rods Hickory Pit in Vallejo, in 1988, Armstrong and Dirnt began working with former Isocracy drummer John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante. As said in the film Punks Not Dead, Armstrong cites the band Operation Ivy as an influence. In 1988, Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout, Records, saw the band play an early show and signed the group to his label. In 1989, the band recorded its debut extended play,1,000 Hours, before 1,000 Hours was released, the group dropped the name Sweet Children, according to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band Sweet Baby. The band adopted the name Green Day, due to the fondness for cannabis. Released Green Days debut studio album, 39/Smooth in early 1990, Records re-released 39/Smooth under the name 1, 039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, and added the songs from the bands first two EPs, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours. In late 1990, shortly after the bands first nationwide tour, Kiffmeyer left the East Bay area to attend Humboldt State University in Arcata, California
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American Idiot World Tour
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The American Idiot World Tour was a concert tour by American Rock band Green Day in support of the groups seventh studio album, American Idiot, which was released in September 2004. The tour began in Los Angeles at the Grand Olympic Auditorium on July 29, during the tour, the band played at the 2004 Reading Festival in England. During the tour, Green Day recorded an album, Bullet in a Bible. The concert at which the album was recorded was in England, at the Milton Keynes National Bowl, the DVD sold more than 1,500,000 copies and went Platinum in the UK and in the US. Dates for the second North America leg was announced in February 2005, the third North American leg was announced in May 2005. My Chemical Romance Jimmy Eat World The setlist throughout the tour remained mostly the same, Green Day commonly played a several songs from American Idiot, Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. Ever since the Fort Worth, TX, USA concert in October 19,2004, American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday Are We the Waiting St. Jimmy Bobby Schneck – Rhythm guitar, backing vocals on St. Jimmy Official website
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Concert tour
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Monsters of Rock
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In 1979, promoter Paul Loasby, along with Maurice Jones, planned a one-day festival dedicated specifically for bands within the hard rock and heavy metal genre. Loasby was an established and successful promoter working that year on the Rainbow UK tour and penned the festival as the final show of the tour for the band to headline. Jones knew the owner of the Donington Park race track, Tom Wheatcroft, located next to the village of Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England, and the site was chosen to host the event. Donington Park was unknown as a location but its location in the East Midlands next to the M1, A42. Additionally the site ground level sloped which allowed for a viewing for the audience throughout the site. The first Monsters of Rock line-up consisted of a mix of British, over the years, the attendance continued to grow, reaching 107,000 in 1988, when two fans died during Guns N Roses set. As a result, the festival was cancelled the following year, the festival had been held in parallel in West Germany from 1983 to 1991. In 1984 and 1986 the festival branched into Sweden, in 1988, the festival occurred for the first time in France, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. It was held as an event in 1991 in Soviet Union, Poland, Belgium. In 1994, the festival was exported overseas to Chile, Argentina, in 1993 the MONSTERS OF ROCK® radio show debuted in the United States with host Harlan Hendrickson. In 1995 the festival found itself in a situation until Metallica agreed to play with the condition of the band having control over the event. Donington Park remained event-less until 2001 when the Rock and Blues Festival, an outstanding success from the offset, the festival continues to this day having increased to a three-day event with five stages, though as of 2008 the event has been relegated outside of the track. In 2006, the Monsters of Rock name was revived and held at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, for a one off event headlined by Deep Purple and with Alice Cooper as a special guest. In 2012 Harlan Hendrickson & Monsters of Rock Worldwide partnered with Larry Morand, Motörhead Bad News Warlock 22 August 1987 Bon Jovi Dio Metallica Anthrax W. A. S. P. A. S. P. The Almighty 4 June 1994 This was the first year that two stages were used, magazine were invited to vote on bands to appear at the festival, and Extreme easily won the right to appear second on the bill. 26 August 19951995 was not officially billed as Monsters Of Rock, skid Row Slayer Slashs Snakepit White Zombie Machine Head Warrior Soul Corrosion of Conformity 17 August 1996. Ozzy Osbourne and Kiss co-headlined with Kiss being the band on stage. S. G. A. F. France, Paris, Hippodrome de Vincennes –3 September 1990 Whitesnake Aerosmith Poison The Front Faith No More Face to Face Quireboys Note, Faith No More was not on the ticket list but was present to the show. S. T
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Jimmy Eat World
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Jimmy Eat World is an American rock band from Mesa, Arizona, that formed in 1993. The band is composed of vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, as of October 2016, Jimmy Eat World have released nine studio albums, the last eight featuring the current lineup. The four pieces commercial breakthrough came with the release of several singles from the album Bleed American. Four singles from the album charted within the top twenty positions of the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, Jimmy Eat Worlds follow-up album Futures featured another Modern Rock Tracks number one song, Pain. The RIAA certified Bleed American platinum and Futures gold, rewarding the two albums for selling one and a half million records between them. The bands sixth album Chase This Light became the bands highest charting album, the band released their ninth album, Integrity Blues, on October 21,2016. Jimmy Eat World formed in Mesa, Arizona in 1993, guitarist Jim Adkins and drummer Zach Lind, who had been friends since preschool, joined with guitarist Tom Linton and bass player Mitch Porter to try their hand at music. The band originally formed with a rock sound and first released a demo tape in 1993, followed by their first EP in 1994, entitled One, Two, Three. Their debut self-titled album was released with Linton singing most of the vocals on the album. Within the span of a couple of years, the recorded and released three singles and a full-length on local label Wooden Blue Records. During their formative period the band claimed as influences such bands as Mr. T Experience, Radon. The bands name came from a drawing made after an incident between Lintons younger brothers, Jim and Ed Linton, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed sought revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth, eventually, spurred by bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, the band began to experiment with slower tempos and more varied song structures. The band began to attract increasing attention following the release of numerous recordings, in response to this self-generated exposure, Capitol Records offered the band a deal in mid-1995, following the interest of Loren Israel, the A&R Director of the label. Just prior to signing with Capitol, bass player Mitch Porter parted ways with the band and was replaced by Lintons friend Rick Burch, from late 1998 to early 1999, the band recorded their next album Clarity at two studios, Sound City Studios and Clear Lake Audio. The tracks were mixed at One on One Studios and Music Grinder Studios, both the band and Trombino produced the album, with the latter also responsible for the albums mixing duties. Clarity marks the start of Adkinss primary role as lead vocalist and, instead, Clarity was also released on vinyl through the now-defunct American independent record label Big Wheel Recreation. The third album contained the single Lucky Denver Mint and a remix of the song was featured in the film Never Been Kissed
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Saves the Day
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Saves the Day is an American emo band from Princeton, New Jersey, formed in 1994. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Chris Conley, guitarist Arun Bali, bassist Rodrigo Palma, after forming under the name Sefler in 1994, Saves the Day released their debut studio album, Cant Slow Down, in 1998. It was followed by Through Being Cool, which featured their first single, Stay What You Are was released in 2001, peaking at number 100 on the Billboard 200. It spawned two music videos on MTV2, for the singles At Your Funeral and Freakish, and has since sold 300,000 copies. After the success of Stay What You Are, Saves the Day signed to Dreamworks Records, the album peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Independent Albums chart. Their latest, self-titled LP was released in 2013, Saves the Day originally performed in the New Jersey area under the name Sefler as a four-piece band with Chris Conley on bass guitar and vocals. The band changed their name in late 1997, of the original lineup, only Conley remains today. The band has gone through numerous changes over the years and has only recorded two consecutive albums with the same lineup, with Conley as the only permanent fixture. The bands first proper release, Cant Slow Down, was recorded and released through Equal Vision Records in 1998 while the members were still in high school, using their own resources, Saves the Day released a five-song acoustic EP, Im Sorry Im Leaving, in early 1999. Later that year, they released their second full-length with Equal Vision, Through Being Cool, the band began drawing attention from some of the larger independent labels, eventually signing with Vagrant Records. In 2001, the band moving away from their roots with the release of Stay What You Are. The album had a poppier feel with more guitar work. The band gained exposure with a video for the song At Your Funeral. The band also released a video for Freakish in April 2002, shortly after the albums release, guitarist Ted Alexander left the band and Conley took over guitar duties. The album was original drummer Bryan Newmans last recording with the band. With the success of Stay What You Are, the signed with major label DreamWorks Records, who would co-release their next album with Vagrant. The 2003 release of In Reverie saw the band experiment with their sound. The drastic change in sound was alienating among fans, and the album received support from DreamWorks
