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Wasilla, Alaska
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Wasilla is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, United States and the sixth-largest city in Alaska. It is located on the point of Cook Inlet in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of the southcentral part of the state. The citys population was 7,831 at the 2010 census, estimates in 2013 put the population at roughly 8,621. Wasilla is the largest city in the borough and a part of the Anchorage metropolitan area, established at the intersection of the Alaska Railroad and Old Carle Wagon Road, the city prospered at the expense of the nearby mining town of Knik. The George Parks Highway turned the town into a suburb of Anchorage. Several state and federal agencies have offices in Wasilla, including the Alaska Departments of Environmental Conservation, Labor and Divisions of Public Assistance, Wasilla is named after Chief Wasilla, a local Denaina chief. Wasilla is the spelling of the chiefs Russian-given name, Васи́лий Vasilij. Glacial ice sheets covered most of the northern hemisphere during the last glacial period, early humans moved through the area and left evidence of their passage. The Matanuska-Susitna valley was settled by the Denaina Alaska natives who utilized the fertile lands. The Denaina are one of the eleven sub-groups comprising the indigenous Athabaskan Indian groups extending down Canadas western coast, the area around downtown Wasilla was known to the Denaina as Benteh, which translates as among the lakes. Russians occupied Alaska from 1741, including strategic trading posts in Lower Cook Inlet, near the mouth of the Matanuska River, the town of Knik was settled about 1880. In 1900, the Willow Creek Mining District was established to the north, in 1917, the U. S. government planned the Alaska Railroad to intersect the Carle Wagon Road which connected Knik and the mines. Knik businesses and residents rushed to buy land nearby, and the town declined, Wasilla Station was named for the nearby Wasilla Creek. Local miners used the name Wassila Creek, referring to Wassila, there are two sources cited for the name, one being derived from a Denaina word meaning breath of air while another stating Denaina derived it from the Russian name Vasili. As Knik declined into a ghost town, Wasilla served early fur trappers and miners working the fields at Cache Creek. The area was a base for gold mines near Hatcher Pass through World War II. Until construction of the George Parks Highway around 1970, nearby Palmer was the city in the Matanuska Valley. Wasilla was at the end of the Palmer-Wasilla highway and the road to Big Lake provided access to land west of Wasilla, the Parks Highway put Wasilla at mile 40–42 of what became the major highway and railroad transportation corridor linking Southcentral Alaska to Interior Alaska
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Psychedelic rock
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Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often used indiscriminately. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called raga rock. In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre, the whimsical British pop-psychedelia, and the harder American West Coast acid rock. While acid rock is often deployed interchangeably with the psychedelic rock, it can also refer more specifically to the heavier. The genre bridged the transition from early blues- and folk-based rock to rock and hard rock. Since the late 1970s it has revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia. The term psychedelic was first coined in 1956 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as a descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy. As the countercultural scene developed in San Francisco, the acid rock. In the popular music of the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with form, arrangements, unnatural reverb. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spectors Wall of Sound production formula, there was no transition to be made. You go from things like Flying Purple People Eater to I Am the Walrus, music critic Richie Unterberger says that attempts to pin down the first psychedelic record are therefore nearly as elusive as trying to name the first rock & roll record. Some of the far-fetched claims include the instrumental Telstar and the Dave Clark Fives massively reverb-laden Any Way You Want It, the first mention of LSD on a rock record was the Gamblers 1960 surf instrumental LSD25. American folk singer Bob Dylan was an influence on mid 1960s rock music. He led directly to the creation of rock and the psychedelic rock musicians that followed. Molly Longman of mic. com writes that, in terms of bridging the relationship between music and hallucinogens, the Beatles and the Beach Boys were the eras most pivotal acts. The considerable success enjoyed by these two bands allowed them the freedom to experiment with new technology over entire albums. In Unterbergers opinion, the Byrds, emerging from the Californian folk scene, with their ominous minor key melodies, hyperactive instrumental breaks, and use of Gregorian chants. In the songs lyric, the requests, Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
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Experimental rock
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Experimental rock is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it wasnt until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended, in 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with avant-garde, later in the 1970s, significant musical crossbreeding took place in tandem with the developments of punk and new wave, DIY experimentation, and electronic music. Funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music. The first wave of 1980s experimental rock groups had few precedents for their sound. Later in the decade, avant-rock pursued a psychedelic aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, during the 1990s, a loose movement known as post-rock became the dominant form of experimental rock. As of the 2010s, the experimental rock has fallen to indiscriminate use, with virtually every modern rock band being categorized under prefixes such as post-, kraut-, psych-. Although experimentation had always existed in music, it wasnt until the late 1960s that new openings were created from the aesthetic intersecting with the social. In 1966, the boundaries between pop music and the avant-garde began to blur as rock albums were conceived and executed as distinct, self-taught rock musicians in the middle and late 1960s drew from the work of composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio. In addition, The Quietus Ben Graham described duos the Silver Apples, calling attention to the very recordedness of the album. This would also be reflected in contemporary experimental rock LPs, such as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Smile, the Whos The Who Sell Out and Tommy. The Velvet Underground were a group in experimental rock, according to Rosenberg. Peppers inspired a new consideration for experimental rock as commercially viable music, as progressive rock developed, experimental rock acquired notoriety alongside art rock. By 1970, most of the musicians which had been at the forefront of rock had incapacitated themselves. Groups such as Can, Faust, Neu, the ideas of minimalism and composers such as Stockhausen would be particularly influential. During this era, funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music, some groups who were categorized as post-punk considered themselves part of an experimental rock trajectory, with This Heat as one of the prominent players. Anderson claims that the no wave scene represented New York’s last stylistically cohesive avant-rock movement, steve Redhead noted the resuscitation of New Yorks avant-rock scene, including artists such as Sonic Youth and John Zorn, in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, avant-rock pursued a frazzled, psychedelia-tinged, blissed out aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, the UK shoegaze scene was seen by some as a continuation of an experimental rock tradition
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Fearless Records
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Fearless Records is a record label that was founded in 1994. However, the label has experimented with different styles in recent years, Fearless Records releases are currently distributed nationwide by RED Distribution, but after Concord Music Group take-over, theyll be distributed by Universal Music Group. The label was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in May 2015, Bob Becker started Fearless Records when he was selling his friends tacos at their shows. He would also go to stores and put their records on consignment. The record label came from Bob not knowing what he was doing at the time. Fearless Records was officially formed in 1994, in 2000, Fearless Records released Punk Goes Metal, the first compilation album from the Punk Goes. series. Punk Goes Pop 5 was released on November 6,2012, in 2005, Fearless Records released the studio album All That We Needed by Plain White Ts, a thirteen-song collection that proved to be a breakthrough for both the label and the Illinois-based band. Hey There Delilah, a single from album, reached No.1 on Billboard Hot 100. On November 8,2010, Fearless announced the release of a Christmas-themed compilation album and it would feature eight of their signed artists recording original songs. The album was available for pre-ordering on iTunes the same day, three years later, Fearless Records released Punk Goes Christmas featuring original & cover tracks from All Time Low, ISSUES, New Found Glory, and more. In 2011, Fearless Records released Breathe Carolinas album Hell Is What You Make It, blackout, a single from the album, became another success for the label. It debuted at No.32 on Billboard Hot 100 and was certified as a gold single, in October 2012, Fearless Records announced that they had launched a sister label called Old Friends Records, which would sign more indie rock artists including Hellogoodbye. In November 2013, Fearless Records announced a second imprint label called Outerloop Records, the label with a back catalog of about 150 albums was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in May 2015 for an estimated $10,000,000. Chasing Safety Lorna Shore Megosh Youth In Revolt Carousel Hellogoodbye The Static Jacks Wild Party List of record labels Official website Punknews. org Entry on Fearless Records
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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity
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The Revivalists
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The Revivalists are a North American rock band formed in New Orleans in 2007. The 7-piece band consists of Ed Williams, David Shaw, Zack Feinberg, Rob Ingraham, George Gekas, Andrew Campanelli, the groups sound has been described as a Crescent City-rhythm spin on jam-band jubilee. The band released its latest album Men Amongst Mountains on July 17,2015, via Wind-up Records, in September 2016, their song Wish I Knew You reached No.1 on the Adult Alternative Songs chart. The Revivalists began when guitarist Zack Feinberg met frontman David Shaw, Shaw fatefully encountered Feinberg when he happened to be riding his bike. Feinberg, taking a different route than usual, found himself riding past Shaw who was singing a song called “Purple Heart” on his front porch, the two struck up a conversation and got together later that day to play music. The duo began playing with Andrew Campanelli, a drummer Feinberg had met at Tipitina’s, within a week, the earliest version of the band played their first show at Checkpoint Charlie’s Laundromat/Bar on Esplanade Avenue. By the time they got a chance to play at Tipitina’s a few weeks later, the Revivalists self-titled EP was self-released on May 15,2008 and was named one of the best albums of 2008 by WWOZ New Orleans DJ Sherwood Collins. Their debut album, Vital Signs, was also self-released on March 3,2010 and their follow-up albums were released by Wind-up Records. Their second album, City of Sound was re-released on March 4,2014 with a disc containing over an hour of live tracks, City of Sound veers folk, pop. Singles from this album included Criminal, Navigate Below, and Upright and their third album, Men Amongst Mountains, was released on July 17,2015. The album has sold 19,000 copies to date, today, their members also include Ed Williams, Rob Ingraham, George Gekas and Michael Girardot. EPs The Revivalists EP – released May 15,2008 Official Website Wind-Up Records
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Danger Mouse (musician)
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Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album and he formed Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green and produced its albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. In 2009 he collaborated with James Mercer of the rock band The Shins to form the band Broken Bells. In addition, Burton worked with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom and released the album The Mouse, as a producer Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005s Demon Days, as well as Becks 2008 record Modern Guilt and three albums with The Black Keys. In 2016, Danger Mouse produced, performed on and co-wrote songs for the studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers titled The Getaway. Danger Mouse has also produced and co-written albums by Norah Jones, Electric Guest, the Man, Adele, and ASAP Rockys. He has been nominated for 19 Grammy Awards and has won 6, hes been nominated in the Producer of the Year category five times, and won the award in 2011. Brian Joseph Burton was born in White Plains, New York, to an African American father and he spent much of his childhood in Spring Valley, New York. Burton also lived in Athens, Georgia for a while, where his trip hop work was released under the name Pelican City and he also remixed work by several local artists, including Neutral Milk Hotel and DJd for University of Georgia radio station WUOG-FM. From 1998 to 2003, Burton also created a series of remix CDs and he performed in a mouse outfit because he was too shy to show his face, and took his name from the British cartoon series Danger Mouse. Afterwards, Burton approached CeeLo Green, a member of Goodie Mob and it would be several years before the pair made contact again, but the two would eventually collaborate as Gnarls Barkley. Burton moved to Britain for a couple of years, living in New Cross in London, while there, he sent a demo to Lex Records, which signed him. He discussed his feelings about any controversy the album may have created in the documentary Alternative Freedom, Danger Mouse was also named among the Men of the Year by GQ in 2004 and won a 2005 Wired Rave Award. The Grey Album also got the attention of Damon Albarn, who enlisted Danger Mouse to produce the Gorillaz second studio album, Demon Days earned Burton a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. Danger Mouses next project was The Mouse and the Mask, a collaboration with MF DOOM about, the two had previously collaborated on the Danger Mouse remix of Zero 7s Somersault, on the Prince Po track Social Distortion, and on Gorillaz November Has Come. A year later, DANGERDOOM released a follow-up EP called Occult Hymn, the 7-track EP featured new songs as well as remixes of tracks from The Mouse & The Mask and was released exclusively as a free download on Adult Swims site. In 2006, Danger Mouse and CeeLo released their first album, St. Elsewhere, Crazy became the first UK number-one single based solely on downloads. Gnarls Barkley set out on tour and was one of the opening acts on the Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium World Tour
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Casper (rapper)
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Benjamin Griffey, better known by his stage name Casper, is a German American rapper signed to the German music label Four Music. Casper was born in Extertal in North Rhine-Westphalia to a German mother and an American father, Arlen Griffey and his family moved to Augusta, Georgia, in the United States, when he was two weeks old, where he lived in a trailerpark. At the age of 11, he moved back to Germany with his mother and younger sister, despite his mother being German, he had not been raised bilingually and therefore struggled at school initially. Casper was involved in studio recordings with other German rappers, such as Abroo. Together they founded the hip-hop group Kinder des Zorns, in 2004 they released Rap Art War, their first and only album. In 2006 he released a mixtape called Die Welt Hört Mich with the label 667 - One More Than The Devil. In the two following the release of Die Welt Hört Mich, he toured through Germany and on 9 May 2008 he released his first album. In February 2009, he left 667 Records and signed a contract with Selfmade Records, together with Kollegah, Favorite and Shiml, who were also signed to Selfmade Records, they released Chronik 2 in April 2009. In October 2010 Casper left Selfmade Records and signed a new contract with Four Music and his second album, XOXO, was released on 8 July 2011. Casper has often been labelled as an emo rapper, which he uses to describe himself. His lyrics are mainly autobiographical, in particular in the song Hin zur Sonne, describing his early life in America. Kollegah, Shiml and Favorite 2011, So perfekt 2011, Michael X2011, Auf und davon 2013, Im Ascheregen 2013, Hinterland 2013, Jambalaya 2014, Alles endet 2016 and his song Eines Tages is dedicated to Arminia Bielefeld. In the 1LIVE Schulduell, the school, Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf won an exclusive concert with Casper
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Mike D
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Michael Louis Diamond, better known as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician and producer, best known as the founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Diamond raps, sings, and plays drums and he has provided remixes for Moby and Björk. A product of the arts-oriented Saint Anns School, Diamond was born in New York City to a Jewish household, in 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. By 1983, Adam Horovitz joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip hop, in 1992, Diamond founded the Beastie Boys now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper, it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea. A year after the passing of Yauch in 2012, Diamond told Rolling Stone he was excited about making new stuff again, a remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Bands Bad Dancer by Diamond and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with additional beats, programming and other curve balls, in October 2014, Diamond stated that he had been working in the studio with American rock band Portugal. He has also produced English punk outfit Slaves second studio album, Take Control, in 1993, Diamond married film, television and music video director Tamra Davis, they have two children, Davis Diamond and Skyler Diamond. With Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill Pauls Boutique Check Your Head Ill Communication Hello Nasty To the 5 Boroughs The Mix-Up Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Diamonds wallpaper portfolio
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Cage the Elephant
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Cage the Elephant is an American rock band from Bowling Green, Kentucky, that formed in 2006 and relocated to London, England in 2008 before their first album was released. Lincoln Parish served as the lead guitarist from their formation in 2006 until December 2013. Cage the Elephant are known for live performances and for possessing an eclectic sound. The bands first album is influenced by rock, funk. Cage the Elephants fourth album, Tell Me Im Pretty, produced by Dan Auerbach, was released on December 18,2015, the album won the award for Best Rock Album at the 59th Grammy Awards. Before Cage the Elephant, Matt worked in construction as a plumber, in an interview with the Rock It Out. Blog for Consequence of Sound, he said he felt if he did not quit that job. He left to work at a bar with Brad, who had previously worked in telemarketing. Daniel Tichenor held a job at Lowes and Jared worked in a pet store, Nick Bockrath is part of the band Nicos Gun and previously played bass with Morning Teleportation. Cage got to him through their friendship with that band. Matthan Minster formed a band called YOURS in 2010, members of Cage the Elephant had previously been involved in the band Perfect Confusion when they were in high school. Matt was also in a punk band in middle school called Left Nostril. The bands name, according to lead singer Matthew Shultz, came from an incident in 2006 where a mentally disturbed man approached the band after a show and he hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence You have to cage the elephant over and over. The band signed with Relentless Records after showcasing at the 2007 South by Southwest music festival and their first tour was as a support act for Queens of the Stone Age in Canada. They then moved to London, England, to the Leyton area on the outskirts of the city in order to avoid trouble. At the time, Lincoln was only 16 years old, so in order to be able to move, in 2008, they appeared on the British show Later. With Jools Holland with Coldplay, Sia, Glen Campbell, John Mellencamp and their single Aint No Rest for the Wicked reached number 32 on the UK Singles Chart and was featured in the Gearbox Software video game Borderlands, as well as in the 2010 movie The Bounty Hunter. It was also featured as ITunes free single of the week for the week of April 12,2009, Cage the Elephant appeared as a support act on tour with The Pigeon Detectives in early 2008, and for Silversun Pickups and Manchester Orchestra in 2009
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The Underachievers
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The Underachievers are an American hip hop duo from Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 2011, the duo is composed of rappers AKTHESAVIOR, American record producer Flying Lotus signed the duo to his Brainfeeder record label in 2012. Following that signing they independently released two mixtapes, Indigoism and Lords of Flatbush in 2013 and their debut studio album Cellar Door, Terminus Ut Exordium was released on August 12,2014. The Underachievers released their official album Evermore, The Art of Duality on September 25,2015. Issa Gold and AK grew up just a few blocks from other in Flatbush. AK began rapping at the age of eleven, later on in school he would work under the stage name The Underachiever. Issa Gold started rapping much later, not taking it seriously until around late 2011, the duo then began making music together under the name The Underachievers after a producer pushed them to work together, which resulted in them forming the group. Gold explained the name saying, I feel like the things that we do could be considered underachieving, people would probably meet us at first and be like, They’re probably just potheads. And then they’ll talk to me, or talk to AK, so it’s just a flip on that. Like, The Underachievers, even though technically we’re doing underachiever things, in May 2012, they released their first music video for the song So Devilish. Their music was passed on to record producer Flying Lotus. After they met a few times and performed a few shows for him, Flying Lotus said he already wanted to sign the duo after listening to one song for only 20 seconds. Around the same time they signed they released their music video for Herb Shuttles. Around mid-2012, The Underachievers, Pro Era and Flatbush Zombies formed the New York hip hop supergroup Beast Coast, the duo released their first official mixtape Indigoism on February 1,2013, via Flying Lotus Brainfeeder record label. Indigoism featured psychedelic lyrics, allusions to the eye and spirituality. The mixtape was met very positive reviews from music critics upon its release. On March 13,2013, The Underachievers released No Religion, following the release of Indigoism they toured North America and Australia with Joey Badass, Pro Era and Flatbush Zombies from March 21 until April 20,2013. On July 19,2013, Indigoism was released to iTunes for retail sale, on August 20,2013, they released the first song from their second mixtape Lords of Flatbush, Leaving Scraps
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Haim (band)
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Haim is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles. The band consists of three sisters, Este Haim, Danielle Haim, and Alana Haim, who are joined on stage by drummer Dash Hutton, in addition to their primary instruments, each member is also proficient in several others. The groups pop sound on their studio work stands in contrast to the more rock-based music of their live shows. The sisters grew up in a family, and began playing instruments from an early age in the cover band Rockinhaim, fronted by their mother and father, Moti. The sisters began performing with the group Valli Girls in 2005 and they formed Haim in initially in 2007, but did not seriously consider a professional career for some years. After Danielle became a touring guitarist, first with Jenny Lewis and later with Julian Casablancas. The band began recording material for their first album, Days Are Gone, the album charted in the top ten in several countries, including the number one-spot in the UK, and the group had won several best of awards by the end of 2013. The group was nominated for Best New Artist at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards and is recording an album set to be released in mid-2017. The three sisters, Este Arielle Haim, Danielle Sari Haim and Alana Mychal Haim were born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, California. While Danielle showed an aptitude for the guitar at an age, Moti made the decision that Este would be more suited to the bass. Danielle and Este were members of the group the Valli Girls. As they grew older, the became more interested in incorporating pop and contemporary R&B into their music. For their first gig, the played at a Jewish deli in Hollywood and were paid in matzah ball soup. Early gigs were sparsely populated, Danielle recalled we were bottom of the bill at 50 capacity venues, for the next five years, Haim played local venues but did not consider music as a professional career, since all three sisters were busy with other projects. Este was studying at UCLA and graduated in 2010 with a degree in Ethnomusicology, after graduating from high school, Danielle was spotted by musician Jenny Lewis at a jam session in Laurel Canyon, which led to Danielle joining Lewis touring band. The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas came to see one of Lewiss shows on tour, Danielle rehearsed with Casablancas band every day for two months, which she later described as an eye-opening experience. Following working with Casablancas, she toured as part of Scarlet Fever, while Danielle enjoyed touring, she decided she would prefer to perform her own music alongside her sisters, turning down a lucrative tour deal with Green. Casablancas advised Danielle to write material and focus on recording
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Tera Melos
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Tera Melos is an American band from Sacramento, California, that incorporates many styles of rock, ambient electronics and unconventional song structures. They are currently a three-piece, consisting of guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Nick Reinhart, bassist Nathan Latona, though the band has typically eschewed the label of math rock, they are considered recent innovators of the genre. The band formed in 2004 after the breakup of Nick Reinhart, Jeff Worms and Vince Rogers joined shortly thereafter. Tera Melos rehearsed for nearly a year before choosing to debut live. The band had intended to recruit a vocalist but did not settle on one. After releasing a demo, their untitled debut full-length was released on October 4,2005. The album comprises eight tracks, and was re-issued in 2010 on Sargent House, the album was named One of the most overlooked albums of 2005 by AP magazine. Right before they started recording their second EP Drugs to the Dear Youth, one of the guitarists, Jeff Worms, on January 19,2007, Tera Melos released the EP on Sargent House. ‘Drugs’ for short, was an away from the previous sound they had before and farther into more progressive. They then embarked on their first national tour, later in the year, the band contributed five songs to a split EP with the Houston Texas band By the End of Tonight. Released on Temporary Residence Limited, Complex Full of Phantoms was the first release to feature prominent vocals in Tera Melos songs, tours with By the End of Tonight and Facing New York followed. Tera Melos announced on their Myspace page on April 2,2008 and he now performs solo drum act, with a sequencer, under the name The Blank Reference. He is also a member of Marnie Sterns band, the band began searching for a new drummer and after 6 months, announced the addition of John Clardy as their new drummer. Prior to Vinces departure, the band had been planning a long-awaited LP release after touring, however, in the meantime they ended up releasing an EP of covers, featuring songs by The Beach Boys and Polaris, entitled Idioms, Vol. I. The band resumed live activity again in January 2009 and toured with the likes of RX Bandits, These Arms are Snakes, October 2009 the band did an 8-date headlining tour of Japan, and were subsequently featured in the DVD Parabolica Jam 09. On November 7,2009, Tera Melos confirmed a new album due out in 2010 in a Myspace bulletin, the post stated that the band was set to begin recording the next day, November 8. The new album, titled Patagonian Rats, was released on September 7,2010, the band toured extensively throughout North America and Europe in support of the record, playing with bands such as Maps & Atlases and Marnie Stern. The band embarked on a short west-coast tour with the recently reunited Firehose in April 2012
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John Gourley
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John Baldwin Gourley is an American musician, singer, and songwriter from Alaska. He is the singer and guitarist in the Portland, Oregon rock band Portugal. Gourley was previously the singer in screamo punk band, Anatomy of a Ghost. Gourley is also a visual artist, who uses the alias The Fantastic The. Gourley was born in 1981 to John T. and Jennifer Gourley and he and his two siblings grew up in Alaska moving from town to town, wherever their fathers contracting business took the family. Gourleys parents both competed in the Iditarod, and for a while the family lived in a remote off the grid cabin accessible only by dogsled and he grew up helping to take care of dozens of mushing dogs. He attended Wasilla High School, but dropped out at age 15 to study at home, Gourley joined four fellow Wasilla musicians, his best friend Zach Carothers and the three members of band Nice Guy Eddie, to form punk band Anatomy of a Ghost in 2002. They toured across the country and released album Evanesce in October 2003 on Fearless Records, the members wanted to pursue their own ideas, however, so the band split up in May 2004. Gourley and bassist Carothers formed the nucleus of Portugal, valley rockers look forward to homecoming gigs. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012, the Man, From Alaska to rock stardom. The Man Unwind Back in Hometown
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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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Portland, Oregon
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Portland is a port and the largest city in the U. S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette, the city covers 145 square miles and had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States. Approximately 2,389,228 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area and its Combined Statistical Area ranks 17th with a population of 3,022,178. Roughly 60% of Oregons population resides within the Portland metropolitan area, named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the industry was a major force in the citys early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. After the citys economy experienced a boom during World War II. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its liberal political values, and the city has earned a reputation as a bastion of counterculture. According to a 2009 Pew Research Center study, Portland ranks as the eighth most popular American city, the city operates with a commission-based government guided by a mayor and four commissioners as well as Metro, the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States. The city government is notable for its planning and investment in public transportation. Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool and this climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the City of Roses for over a century. Keep Portland Weird is a slogan for the city. During the prehistoric period, the land that would become Portland was flooded after the collapse of glacial dams from Lake Missoula and these massive floods occurred during the last ice age and filled the Willamette Valley with 300 to 400 feet of water. The Chinook people occupying the land which would become Portland were first documented by Meriwether Lewis, before its European settlement, the Portland Basin of the lower Columbia River and Willamette River valleys had been one of the most densely populated regions on the Pacific Coast. Large numbers of settlers began arriving in the Willamette Valley in the 1830s via the Oregon Trail. In the early 1840s a new settlement began emerging ten miles from the mouth of the Willamette River and this community was initially referred to as Stumptown and The Clearing because of the many trees cut down to allow for its growth. In 1843 William Overton saw potential in the new settlement but lacked the funds to file a land claim. For 25 cents Overton agreed to half of the 640-acre site with Asa Lovejoy of Boston
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Wasilla High School
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Wasilla High School is a public secondary school in Wasilla, Alaska, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. The school is part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, with admission based primarily on the locations of students homes, as of the 2010-2011 school year, there are ten AP classes offered. WHS also participates in the University of Alaska Anchorages Tech Prep program, WHS is a 4A member school of the Alaska School Activities Association, the governing body for high school athletics in Alaska. The fall sports offered at WHS are cross country running, football, cheerleading, powderpuff, swimming, the winter sports offered are basketball, hockey, Native Youth Olympics, cross country skiing, cheerleading, and wrestling. The spring sports offered are baseball, soccer, softball, and track, in 2000, Wasilla High School received a $5000 environmental education grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The school worked in partnership with government agencies and businesses to raise awareness of groundwater issues in the school. Then they worked on projects to tell their community to save the environment. Close-Up is program that takes students to study in Washington D. C. for one week, the Rose Urban Rural Exchange program is a one-week student exchange program between students in urban and rural Alaska. A Johns Hopkins University study named Wasilla High School as a dropout factory, Wasillas dropout rate was 6.5 percent in 2006, a number that was much higher than most of the schools in the Mat-Su district. The study was conducted by finding the difference between a class with 400 freshman students which ended up with 260 seniors four years later, however, the Johns Hopkins study did not follow specific students. If a student started school at Wasilla High and then graduated from high school. Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District has an open enrollment policy and it is common for students to transfer from one school to another if their parents find new jobs in other areas. School Board President Sarah Welton said that the study was flawed, only 58 percent of incoming freshmen graduate as seniors. In the spring of 2009, the students of Wasilla High School took an exam for graduation. The subjects tested were math, writing, and reading, in math,87 percent of Wasillas students received a proficient score. Statewide,80.2 percent of tenth graders received a proficient score, in writing,78.1 percent of Wasillas students received a proficient score. Statewide,78.8 percent of tenth graders received a proficient score, in reading,94.1 percent of Wasillas students received a proficient score. Statewide,90.0 percent of tenth graders received a proficient score, as of the 2008-2009 school year, Wasillas graduation rate is 77.8 percent, higher than the statewide graduation rate of 67.6 percent
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Waiter: "You Vultures!"
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Waiter, You Vultures. is the debut full length album by the Alaskan experimental rock band Portugal. It is lead singer John Gourleys first album released after leaving the band Anatomy of a Ghost and it is the bands only album before 2009s The Satanic Satanist to use a heavy amount of electronic drums and synthesizers. All tracks written by John Baldwin Gourley
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David Bowie
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David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music, during his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the worlds best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, in the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, born in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. Space Oddity became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969, after a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single Starman and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, in 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. Heroes and Lodger followed, each reached the UK top five. He then reached his peak in 1983 with Lets Dance. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with styles, including industrial. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006, in 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar. David Robert Jones was born on 8 January 1947, in Brixton, south London and his mother, Margaret Mary Peggy, was born in Kent, and had Irish ancestry, she worked as a waitress. His father, Haywood Stenton John Jones, from Yorkshire, was an officer for the childrens charity Barnardos. The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, near the border of the south London areas of Brixton, Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded child—and a defiant brawler. In 1953, Bowie moved with his family to the suburb of Bromley and his voice was considered adequate by the school choir, and he demonstrated above-average abilities in playing the recorder. Upon listening to Little Richards song Tutti Frutti, Bowie would later say, presleys impact on him was likewise emphatic, I saw a cousin of mine dance to. Hound Dog and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything and it really impressed me, the power of the music
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Church Mouth
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Church Mouth is the second full-length album from Alaskan experimental rock band Portugal. It was released on July 20,2007 in Europe and on July 24,2007 in the UK, as of June 22,2007, the album had leaked to p2p networks. Regarding the leak, the posted the following message on their MySpace bulletins. All tracks written by John Baldwin Gourley, a limited edition of the album was released exclusively in Germany. It featured the Its Complicated Being a Wizard EP as a bonus disc
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Play Radio Play
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Analog Rebellion is the solo, independent music project of Aledo, Texas songwriter Daniel Hunter. Hunters solo career was started under the name PlayRadioPlay. in December 2005, Hunter changed the name to Analog Rebellion in September 2009, stating in his blog I have come to the point where I no longer feel that the name PlayRadioPlay. Hunter writes, records and performs all of his own music, and refers to his sound as Stadium Lo-Fi, hunters most recent music has been compared to The Paper Chase, Pixies and The Secret Machines. In April 2010, The Dallas Observer called Hunter the most promising 20-year-old musician from DFW since Palomo, Hunter began creating music in his garage, but it was not until he discovered Music Programming in Music Theory class at Aledo High School he began to create electronic-based music. After rapidly gaining popularity on MySpace, Hunter signed with Island/Stolen Transmission midway through his year of high school. Hunter released an EP entitled The Frequency E. P. on April 27,2007, a full-length album entitled Texas was released March 18,2008 debuting at No.157 on the Billboard 200. In support of the album, he toured nationally with American rock bands Fall Out Boy, Secondhand Serenade, Yellowcard, The Spill Canvas, Hellogoodbye, Hunter left Island Records in late June 2008 after a two-year run. He described his affiliation with the company as a nightmare in his MySpace blog, on July 27,2009, Hunter announced he would be simultaneously releasing a full-length album with new songs and a B-Sides album featuring songs from 2003–2009. On July 31,2009, Hunter announced he would be attempting to involve his fans in the creation of his new album, for a donation of a minimum of $10.00, the donor could have their name listed in the album credits as Executive Producer _____. The donations were being raised to promote and distribute the album. On September 17,2009 it was announced the name would be changed to Analog Rebellion. On October 13,2009 Hunter confirmed he would be releasing a new album called Ancient Electrons under the new name. On January 26,2010, Hunter released two albums, Ancient Electrons and Besides, Nothing. Both albums were available at the Analog Rebellion merchandise store. On April 22,2010, Hunter announced Cavanaugh, Something, on February 18,2014, Ille Grande was released. Hunter, and DABBO RECORDS have since changed the arrangement to a 5 piece band. Recent Bio, Self-described musically as Stadium Lo-Fi, the new album finds Analog Rebellion further blending seemingly disparate sonic qualities in total harmony, the resulting work is what The A. V. Club referred to as raucous, dischordant, and a bit psychedelic and it can also be said that the recording locales themselves contributed to the final product
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Thursday (band)
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Thursday is an American post-hardcore band, formed in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1997. The band consisted of Geoff Rickly, Tom Keeley, Steve Pedulla, Tim Payne, Andrew Everding, Thursday released their debut album, Waiting, in late 1999 with original guitarist Bill Henderson, who left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Steve Pedulla. Thursday released their album, A City by the Light Divided, in 2006. In a January 2013 interview, Geoff Rickly confirmed that the band had actually disbanded, however, the band announced a reunion in 2016. Thursday, heavily influenced by Joy Division, was formed in 1997 by vocalist Geoff Rickly, guitarist Tom Keeley, guitarist Bill Henderson, bassist Tim Payne, and drummer Tucker Rule. The album was released on December 6,1999 on northern New Jersey-based Eyeball Records without any singles or support from television or radio, Thursday signed to Chicago-based label Victory Records, and released their second album, Full Collapse, on April 10,2001. Victory Records originally wanted to remove the lyrics from the packaging against the wishes in order to cut costs. The video for this song received airplay on both MTV2 and Muchmusic, gaining the band a large underground following. A second single, Cross Out the Eyes, would follow, the band was routinely upset at Victory Records, over the use of the bands image and promotion, including the labels attempts to distribute Thursday-themed whoopie cushions. The bands new-found popularity and disgust with the led to internal problems. The situation caused the creation of the Five Stories Falling EP, Thursday toured extensively to support War All the Time, featuring dates with acts such as AFI, Thrice, and Coheed and Cambria. On these tours, Thursday performed many in-store acoustic sessions at various Tower Records stores, the band also recorded a live acoustic session for Y100 Sonic Sessions, a radio program on the now defunct Philadelphia-based radio station, Y100. The live acoustic version of single Signals Over the Air was used on Y100 Sonic Sessions Volume 8, the band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2004, citing label pressure, extensive touring, and health problems as the reasons. However, Thursday returned for a performance to save New York Citys CBGB, on August 25,2005. In fall 2005, five Thursday demo songs were stolen from the iPod of the manager for My American Heart. The band issued a statement on their website stating that they were disappointed the unfinished products leaked. The band confirmed the title of one demo, At This Velocity, three other songs would also make the album, while the remaining demo would later become the song Last Call on their fifth studio album, Common Existence. Thursday released their album and second major label release, A City by the Light Divided, on May 2,2006, on Island Records in the US
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Circle Takes the Square
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Circle Takes the Square is an American screamo band from Savannah, Georgia. It is composed of founding members Drew Speziale and Kathleen Stubelek and their debut release was a 6-track self-titled EP released in 2001, followed by a 7 split with Pg.99 in 2002. In 2004, they released their studio album As the Roots Undo on Robotic Empire, which released the CD, and HyperRealist Records. The album gained considerable acclaim. According to Metal Injection, Circle Takes the Square have made a name for themselves. With their blend of progressive experimentation and DIY hardcore, metal, characterized by a natural fusion of the off-the-wall structures of grindcore and the sweeping guitar dynamics of post-punk. They have described themselves as. a punk band with reverence for the Mystery. Writing for NPR music, Lars Gotrich credited Circle Takes the Square alongside Pg.99,2 The Conspiracy of Seeds — 65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas Official website
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Censored Colors
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Censored Colors is the third full-length album from Alaskan experimental rock band Portugal. The album was released through a partnership with Equal Vision Records on September 16,2008 and this partnership is not a traditional record contract, as the band could work at their own pace and be intimately involved in all factors of their recording career. The album leaked onto the internet August 25,2008, the following day, the band posted a blog entry discussing the leak and their support of music downloading, encouraging their fans to download, share, and give feedback about the album. All tracks written by John Baldwin Gourley
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Bonnaroo Music Festival
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The festival typically starts on the second Thursday in June and lasts four days. Musical acts play from noon until 3, 00am or later. The festival began with a focus on jam bands and folk rock, it has diversified in recent years, the festival features craftsmen and artisans selling unique products, food and drink vendors, a comedy tent, silent disco, cinema tent, and a Ferris wheel. Bonnaroo Music Festival was largely influenced by rock concerts of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the festival is a nod to the Monterey International Pop Music Festival, the Atlanta International Pop Festival, and most famously the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bonnaroo was established by Ashley Capps of AC Entertainment and Kerry Black, Rick Farman, Richard Goodstone, the first Bonnaroo took place in 2002. The founders chose bonnaroo, a Creole slang word meaning a good time, for its literal meaning. This term was popularized by New Orleans R&B singer Dr. John with his 1974 album Desitively Bonnaroo, the founders were inspired by music festivals they attended in the 1990s, including those put on by the band Phish, and events held in Coachella and Glastonbury. They found a site in Manchester, Tennessee that had facilities, using only their website for ticket sales, they sold out the festival in about two weeks. By 2003, the festival had been named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top 50 moments in rock & roll, Comedy acts such as Jim Breuer were first added in 2005. In 2007, Bonnaroo purchased the land for the festival, creating Great Stage Park with all of its iconic features and they installed a permanent main stage in 2010. On January 10,2007, Bonnaroo organizers Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment purchased a portion of the site where the annual music festival is held. Since its inception, Bonnaroo has contributed more than $1 million directly to Coffee County organizations, in addition to the festivals annual charitable contributions, its activities help generate annual revenue for the county. Measured in a 2005 study, the impact of the event on Coffee County was more than $14 million in business revenues. The Bonnaroo music festival makes most of its income from the fans and it provided aid to assist local organizations following disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake,2005 Hurricane Katrina, Nashville floods, and Gulf of Mexico oil spill. By 2013, the direct and indirect impact of the festival since inception was estimated at $51 million. Bonnaroo is run to support recycling and sustainability, in 2011, A Greener Festival recognized Bonnaroos efforts for the previous three years with an award. In 2004 Bonaroo said it prevented having to collect 120 tons of trash by encouraging fans to recycle, food and drink are sold in organic and recyclable materials to create less waste. AGF auditors review festivals, as well as requiring their self-evaluation, as of late, Bonnaroo initiates many green activities during the festival, such as Planet Roo, a hub advocating sustainability and effective change toward the environment
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Lollapalooza
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Lollapalooza /ˌlɒləpəˈluːzə/ is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and EDM bands and artists, dance and comedy performances and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups, conceived and created in 1991 by Janes Addiction singer Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for his band, Lollapalooza ran annually until 1997, and was revived in 2003. From its inception through 1997 and its revival in 2003, the festival toured North America, in 2004, the festival organizers decided to expand the dates to two days per city, but poor ticket sales forced the 2004 tour to be cancelled. In 2011, the company Geo Events confirmed the Brazilian version of the event, the music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a two or three day period. Lollapalooza is broadcast live and globally on Red Bull TV and its earliest known use was in 1896. In time the term came to refer to a large lollipop. Farrell, searching for a name for his festival, liked the euphonious quality of the term upon hearing it in a Three Stooges short film. Paying homage to the double meaning, a character in the festivals original logo holds one of the lollipops. The word has caused a slang suffix to appear in event-planning circles as well as in news and opinion shows that is used synonymously with other suffixes like a-go-go, o-rama. The suffix palooza is often used to imply that an event or crowd was made over that term, e. g. Parks-apalooza, Nipple-apalooza. Another key concept behind Lollapalooza was the inclusion of non-musical features, performers like the Jim Rose Circus Side Show, an alternative freak show, and the Shaolin monks stretched the boundaries of traditional rock culture. There was a tent for display of art pieces, virtual reality games and it was at Lollapalooza where Farrell coined the term Alternative Nation. Punk rock standbys like mosh pits and crowd surfing became part of the canon of the concerts, after 1991, the festival included a second stage for up-and-coming bands or local acts. Attendee complaints of the festival included high ticket prices as well as the high cost for food, grunge band Nirvana was scheduled to headline at the festival in 1994, but the band officially dropped out of the festival on April 7,1994. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobains body was discovered in Seattle the next day, Cobains widow, Courtney Love, made guest appearances at several shows, including the Philadelphia show at FDR Park, speaking to the crowds about the loss, then singing a minimum of two songs. In 1996, Farrell, who had been the soul of the festival, decided to focus his energy to produce his new project, ENIT. Moreover, festival cofounder Farrell felt that Metallicas macho image violated his peaceful vision for the festival, Farrell quit the tour in protest. Responding to the controversial Metallica tour, Lollapalooza made efforts to revive its relevance to audiences, the festival booked eclectic acts such as country superstar Waylon Jennings in 1996, and emphasized heavily electronica groups such as The Orb and The Prodigy in 1997
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Grant Park (Chicago)
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Grant Park is a large urban park in the Loop community area of Chicago. Located in Chicagos central business district, the parks most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago, originally known as Lake Park, and dating from the citys founding, it was renamed in 1901 to honor Ulysses S. Grant. The parks area has expanded several times through land reclamation. It is bordered on the north by Randolph Street, on the south by Roosevelt Road and McFetridge Drive, on the west by Michigan Avenue, the park contains performance venues, gardens, art work, sporting, and harbor facilities. It hosts public gatherings, and several annual events. The park is often called Chicagos front yard and it is governed by the Chicago Park District. The original plans for the town of Chicago left the area east of Michigan Avenue unsubdivided and vacant, when the former Fort Dearborn Reserve became part of the townsite in 1839, the plan of the area east of Michigan Avenue south of Randolph was marked Public ground. Forever to remain vacant of buildings, the city officially designated the land as a park on April 29,1844, naming it Lake Park. When the Illinois Central Railroad was built into Chicago in 1852, the resulting lagoon became stagnant, and was largely filled in 1871 with debris from the Great Chicago Fire, increasing the parkland. In 1896, the city began extending the park into the lake with landfill, on October 9,1901, the park was renamed Grant Park in honor of American Civil War commanding General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant. At the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Grant had been nominated for his first presidential term, the legal restrictions prohibiting any buildings in the park were ignored in the 19th century, as various civic buildings were sited there. At various times, a post office, exposition center, armory, a 1904 plan prepared by the Olmsted Brothers recommended locating the Field Museum as the parks centerpiece, an idea integrated into Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennetts 1909 Plan of Chicago. Chicago businessman Aaron Montgomery Ward ultimately fought four court battles, opposed by nearly every civic leader, the one exception Ward consented to was for the Art Institute of Chicago, constructed in 1892. More landfill in the 1910s and 1920s provided sites for the Adler Planetarium, Field Museum of Natural History, and Shedd Aquarium, in 2004, a section of northern Grant Park, previously occupied by Illinois Central railyards and parking lots, was covered and redeveloped as Millennium Park. The park has been the site of large civic events. It served as the ground for the citys funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln. In 1911, the hosted the major Chicago International Aviation Meet. The park was the scene of clashes between Chicago Police and demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, pope John Paul II celebrated an outdoor mass to a large crowd here in 1979
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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The Satanic Satanist
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The Satanic Satanist is the fourth full-length album from Alaskan experimental rock band Portugal. The albums artwork is a combination of photographs and watercolor illustrations by lead singer John Gourley, on June 1,2009, the band released the song People Say for free download on their official website. On June 24,2009, the album leaked on the Internet, lead singer John Gourley posted a blog entry regarding the leak on the bands official website. The statement encouraged fans to download the album, but to support the band. On October 1,2010, the band released onto YouTube a music video for the song People Say, directed by Michael Ragen and this album featured a guest drummer who had been touring with them while Jason Sechrist took a leave of absence from the band. All tracks written by John Baldwin Gourley
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Pixies
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The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts. Until 2013, the band comprised Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, the band disbanded acrimoniously in 1993, but reunited in 2004. Deal left in 2013 and was replaced by Kim Shattuck and then Paz Lenchantin, the Pixies music contains elements including psychedelia, noise pop, hard rock, surf pop, and surf rock. Francis is the Pixies primary songwriter, his surreal lyrics cover offbeat subjects such as extraterrestrials, incest. The Pixies achieved modest popularity in their country, but were more successful in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe. Their jarring pop sound influenced bands such as Nirvana, Radiohead and their popularity grew in the years following their break-up, leading to sold-out world tours following their reunion in 2004. In June 2013, they released their first new material in almost 10 years, guitarist Joey Santiago and songwriter Black Francis met when they lived next to each other in a suite while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Although Santiago was worried about distractions, he noticed Francis played music, Francis embarked on a student exchange trip to Puerto Rico to study Spanish. After six months, he returned to Amherst and dropped out of the university, Francis and Santiago spent 1984 working in a warehouse, with Francis composing songs on his acoustic guitar and writing lyrics on the subway train. The pair formed a band in January 1986 and she was invited to join the band as she liked the songs Francis showed her. She obtained a bass, and the trio started rehearsing in Deals apartment, after recruiting Deal, the band tried unsuccessfully to get her sister, Kelley Deal, to join as drummer. Kims husband suggested they hire David Lovering, whom Kim had met at her wedding reception, the group arrived at a name after Santiago selected the word pixies randomly from a dictionary, liking how it looked and its definition as mischievous little elves. Once the band had settled on a name and line-up, they moved rehearsals to Loverings parents garage in mid-1986 and they began to play shows at bars in and around the Boston area. While the Pixies were playing a concert with Throwing Muses, they were noticed by producer Gary Smith and he told the band he could not sleep until you guys are world famous. The band produced a 17-track demo at Fort Apache soon afterwards, funded by Francis father at the cost of $1000, the recording session was completed in three days. Local promoter Ken Goes became the manager, and he passed the demo to Ivo Watts-Russell of the independent record label 4AD. Watts-Russell nearly passed on the band, finding them too normal, too rock n roll, upon signing with 4AD, eight tracks from the Purple Tape were selected for the Come on Pilgrim mini-LP, the bands first release. Francis drew upon his experiences in Puerto Rico, mostly in the songs Vamos and Isla de Encanta, the religious lyrics in Come on Pilgrim and later albums came from his parents born-again Christian days in the Pentecostal Church
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Radiohead
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Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed OBrien, Colin Greenwood and they have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. After signing to EMI in 1991, Radiohead released their debut single Creep in 1992 and it became a worldwide hit after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey. Their popularity and critical standing rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their second album, despite initially dividing listeners, Kid A was later named the best album of the decade by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the Times. Radioheads sixth album, Hail to the Thief, mixed rock and electronic music with lyrics inspired by the War on Terror and their subsequent releases have pioneered alternative release platforms such as pay-what-you-want and BitTorrent. Radiohead self-released their seventh album, In Rainbows, as a download for which customers could set their own price, to critical and their eighth album, The King of Limbs, an exploration of rhythm, was developed using extensive looping and sampling. Their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, prominently featured Jonny Greenwoods orchestral arrangements, Radiohead have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Their work places highly in both polls and critics lists of the best music of the 1990s and 2000s. In 2009, Rolling Stone readers voted the group the second-best artist of the 2000s, the members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, an independent school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. In 1985, they formed On a Friday, the name referring to the usual rehearsal day in the schools music room. At one point, On a Friday featured a saxophone section, the band disliked the schools strict atmosphere—the headmaster once charged the band for using a rehearsal room on a Sunday—and found solace in the schools music department. They credited their music teacher for introducing them to jazz, film scores, postwar avant-garde music, Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley had an active independent music scene in the late 1980s, but it centred on shoegazing bands such as Ride and Slowdive. Although all but Jonny had left Abingdon by 1987 to attend university, On a Friday continued to rehearse on weekends, in 1991, On a Friday regrouped, sharing a house on the corner of Magdalen Road and Ridgefield Road, Oxford. As On a Friday continued to perform in Oxford, including performances at the Jericho Tavern, record labels. Chris Hufford, Slowdives producer and co-owner of Oxfords Courtyard Studios, impressed, he and his partner Bryce Edge produced a demo tape and became On a Fridays managers, they remain Radioheads managers today. At the labels request, the changed their name, Radiohead was taken from the song Radio Head on the Talking Heads album True Stories. Radiohead recorded their debut release, the Drill EP, with Chris Hufford, released in May 1992, its chart performance was poor. The band enlisted Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade, who had worked with US indie bands Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. to produce their debut album, Radiohead released their debut album, Pablo Honey, in February 1993
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American Ghetto
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American Ghetto is the fifth studio album by the U. S indie rock band Portugal. The Man, released in March 2010 to coincide with the bands North American tour, the CD version is limited to 15,000 copies. American Ghetto was created in just 10 days, the album cover features a picture of lead singer John Gourleys dads barn, coinciding with the hometown theme of the album. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the said that Its about places we used to go growing up – its kind of a fun record in that way. All tracks written by John Baldwin Gourley, the Mans site on the album
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El Paso, Texas
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El Paso is the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The city is situated in the far corner of the U. S. state of Texas. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande river across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the region of over 2.9 million people constitutes the largest bilingual and binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. The city hosts the annual Sun Bowl college football post-season game, El Paso has a strong federal and military presence. William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Biggs Army Airfield, and Fort Bliss call the city home, Fort Bliss is one of the largest military complexes of the United States Army and the largest training area in the United States. Also headquartered in El Paso are the DEA domestic field division 7, El Paso Intelligence Center, Joint Task Force North, Border Patrol El Paso Sector, and U. S. In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award, El Paso has been ranked the safest large city in the U. S. for four consecutive years and has ranked in the top three since 1997. As of July 1,2015, the estimate for the city from the U. S. Census was 681,124. Its U. S. metropolitan area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, the El Paso MSA forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces CSA, with a population of 1,053,267. The El Paso region has had human settlement for thousands of years, the evidence suggests 10,000 to 12,000 years of human habitation. The earliest known cultures in the region were maize farmers, when the Spanish arrived, the Manso, Suma, and Jumano tribes populated the area. These were subsequently incorporated into the Mestizo culture, along with immigrants from central Mexico, captives from Comanchería, the Mescalero Apache were also present. El Paso del Norte was founded on the bank of the Río Bravo del Norte. El Paso remained the largest settlement in New Mexico until its cession to the U. S. in 1848, the Texas Revolution was generally not felt in the region, as the American population was small, not being more than 10% of the population. However, the region was claimed by Texas as part of the treaty signed with Mexico, during this interregnum, 1836–1848, Americans nonetheless continued to settle the region. The present Texas–New Mexico boundary placing El Paso on the Texas side was drawn in the Compromise of 1850, El Paso County was established in March 1850, with San Elizario as the first county seat. The United States Senate fixed a boundary between Texas and New Mexico at the 32nd parallel, thus largely ignoring history and topography, a military post called The Post opposite El Paso was established in 1854. Further west, a settlement on Coons Rancho called Franklin became the nucleus of the future El Paso, a year later, pioneer Anson Mills completed his plan of the town, calling it El Paso
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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San Diego
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San Diego is a major city in California, United States. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico. With an estimated population of 1,394,928 as of July 1,2015, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a country after Detroit–Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego has been called the birthplace of California, historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, the Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly independent Mexico, in 1850, California became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War and the admission of California to the union. The city is the seat of San Diego County and is the center of the region as well as the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. San Diegos main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, international trade, the presence of the University of California, San Diego, with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology. The original inhabitants of the region are now known as the San Dieguito, the area of San Diego has been inhabited by the Kumeyaay people. The first European to visit the region was Portuguese-born explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailing under the flag of Castile, sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and named the site San Miguel. In November 1602, Sebastián Vizcaíno was sent to map the California coast, in May 1769, Gaspar de Portolà established the Fort Presidio of San Diego on a hill near the San Diego River. It was the first settlement by Europeans in what is now the state of California, in July of the same year, Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Franciscan friars under Junípero Serra. By 1797, the mission boasted the largest native population in Alta California, with over 1,400 neophytes living in, Mission San Diego was the southern anchor in California of the historic mission trail El Camino Real. Both the Presidio and the Mission are National Historic Landmarks, in 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain, and San Diego became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California. In 1822, Mexico began attempting to extend its authority over the territory of Alta California. The fort on Presidio Hill was gradually abandoned, while the town of San Diego grew up on the land below Presidio Hill. The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, the 432 residents of the town petitioned the governor to form a pueblo, and Juan María Osuna was elected the first alcalde, defeating Pío Pico in the vote
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SXSW
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South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in scope and size every year. In 2011, the conference lasted for 10 days with SXSW Interactive lasting for 5 days, Music for 6 days, SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official YouTube channel. The music event has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to over 28,000 registrants, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, most recently bringing over 51,000 registrants to Austin every March. Bands must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event, All performers are offered a cash payment or a wristband package that allows access to all music events. SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference panels and sessions, programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions and more, with expert filmmakers and industry leaders. In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programmed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers, the SXSW Film Festival runs nine days, simultaneously with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. The SXSW Film Awards, which occur on the last day of the Film Conference, honor films selected by the Feature, in 2015, the SXSW Film Festival programmed 150 feature films and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 submissions. Past notable world premieres include Furious 7, Neighbors, Chef,21 Jump Street, The Cabin in the Woods, Bridesmaids and Insidious, and the TV series Girls, Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful. SXSW Interactive is focused on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a ground for new ideas. The festival includes a show, speakers, parties. According to a festival organizer Louis Black, SXSW Interactive has probably been the biggest of its kind in the world since 2007, Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, the event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it an event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came. Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked was the keynote speaker at the 1992 South by Southwest. In 1993, SXSW moved into the Austin Convention Center, where it is still held, in 1994, SXSW added a component for film and other media, named the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. Johnny Cash was the keynote speaker and that year, the three brothers of the band Hanson were brought to SXSW by their father in order to perform impromptu auditions for music executives, in the hopes of getting industry attention
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
