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Chris Conley
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Christopher Lane Chris Conley is an American musician, songwriter, and composer. He is also the lead-singer/rhythm guitarist in Saves the Day and he is the only remaining original member as well as major artistic contributor. Conley formed a band with a group of classmates at Princeton Day School, the band was originally titled Indifference, but later renamed the band Sefler. Sefler was originally composed of Conley, Bryan Newman, Chris Zampella and they recorded a 3-track 7 entitled 13 Hours of Everything one afternoon in a friends basement. They then recorded a demo at Trax East Studio in New Jersey. While recording, a friend of the band, Sean McGrath, suggested that change their name to Saves the Day. Saves the Day signed to Equal Vision Records and recorded their first album Cant Slow Down, lyrically the album included idealistic dreams, feeling inadequate, honesty and unhappiness, which reflected Conleys life at the time. The style of music is considered very similar to that of the band Lifetime. In 1999, the released their second album Through Being Cool. With this album, Conleys lyrics started becoming morbid and corporeal, aged 19 and 20, he started listening to the Beatles and has cited them as the main influence for In Reverie. During the writing of Sound the Alarm, Conley was heavily influenced by Bad Brains, The Damned, The Misfits, Conley, with Saves the Day, has released four other albums. Lyrically, all are considered similar except for In Reverie, which is a positive album. Conley cites a lack of turmoil in his life at the time as the cause of the change in tone and it was utter insanity. in regards to the failure of In Reverie and subsequent release from DreamWorks. While there are no plans for any recordings, Chris and David Soloway have toured throughout the USA. Conley, and an army of committed fans recently have posted performances via the bands website, Conley also finished up a solo three week acoustic tour with Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids. Beginning in 2009, Chris joined fellow front men Dustin Kensrue of Thrice, Matt Pryor, tour, where each play acoustic renditions of fan favorites. On December 1,2010, Conley announced he would be opening as an act for Dashboard Confessional. This is Following his East Coast touring on the Wheres the band, in 2008, Conley lent his voice to Forgive Durdens musical project Razias Shadow, A Musical as the character Toba The Tura
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Princeton, New Jersey
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As of the 2010 United States Census, the municipalitys population was 28,572, reflecting the former townships population of 16,265, along with the 12,307 in the former borough. Princeton was founded before the American Revolution and is best known as the location of Princeton University, Princeton is roughly equidistant from New York City and Philadelphia. It is close to major highways that serve both cities, and receives major television and radio broadcasts from each. It is also close to Trenton, New Jerseys capital city, the governor of New Jerseys official residence has been in Princeton since 1945, when Morven in the borough became the first Governors mansion. It was later replaced by the larger Drumthwacket, a mansion located in the former Township. Morven became a property of the New Jersey Historical Society. Princeton was ranked 15th of the top 100 towns in the United States to Live, although residents of Princeton traditionally have a strong community-wide identity, the community had been composed of two separate municipalities, a township and a borough. The central borough was completely surrounded by the township, the Borough contained Nassau Street, the main commercial street, most of the University campus, and incorporated most of the urban area until the postwar suburbanization. The Borough and Township had roughly equal populations, the Lenni Lenape Native Americans were the earliest identifiable inhabitants of the Princeton area. Europeans founded their settlement in the part of the 17th century. The first European to find his home in the boundaries of the town was Henry Greenland. He built his house in 1683 along with a tavern, in this drinking hole representatives of West Jersey and East Jersey met to set boundaries for the location of the township. Originally, Princeton was known only as part of nearby Stony Brook, James Leonard first referred to the town as Princetown, when describing the location of his large estate in his diary. The town bore a variety of names subsequently, including, Princetown, Princes Town, although there is no official documentary backing, the town is considered to be named after King William III, Prince William of Orange of the House of Nassau. Another theory suggests that the name came from a large land-owner named Henry Prince, a royal prince seems a more likely eponym for the settlement, as three nearby towns had similar names, Kingston, Queenstown and Princessville. When Richard Stockton, one of the founders of the township, died in 1709 he left his estate to his sons, who helped to expand property, based on the 1880 United States Census, the population of the town comprised 3,209 persons. Local population has expanded from the nineteenth century, according to the 2010 Census, Princeton Borough had 12,307 inhabitants, while Princeton Township had 16,265. Aside from housing the university of the name, the settlement suffered the revolutionary Battle of Princeton on its soil
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Emo
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Emo /ˈiːmoʊ/ is a loosely categorized music genre characterized by expressive, often confessional, lyrics. By the mid-1990s, numerous emo acts formed in the Midwestern and Central United States, meanwhile, a more aggressive style of emo, screamo, had also emerged. Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the success of Jimmy Eat World. In the wake of success, many emo bands were signed to major record labels. By the early 2010s, the popularity of emo began to decrease, some bands moved away from their emo roots and some bands disbanded. An underground emo revival emerged in the 2010s, with drawing on the sounds and aesthetics of emo of the 1990s. The term emo has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including acts and groups with disparate styles. In addition to music, emo is often used more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of fashion, culture, and behavior. Emo has been associated with a stereotype that includes being particularly emotional, sensitive, misanthropic, shy, introverted and it has also been associated with stereotypes like depression, self-harm, and suicide. While emo originated in hardcore punk and has considered a subgenre of post-hardcore, it has also been associated with indie rock. The fusion of emo with pop punk is known as emo pop. The New York Times described as emo as emotional punk or post-hardcore or pop-punk and that is, punk that wears its heart on its sleeve and tries a little tenderness to leaven its sonic attack. If it helps, imagine Ricky Nelson singing in the Sex Pistols, author Matt Diehl described emo as a more sensitive interpolation of punks mission. The 1966 album Pet Sounds by the American rock band the Beach Boys has been characterized as the first emo album by Treblezines Ernest Simpson, in some ways, one could find trace elements of in early emo albums of the 2000s. In the 1980s, the Washington, D. C. hardcore scene swelled in size with the formation of many hardcore punk, post-hardcore itself is a more melodic and experimental offshoot of hardcore inspired by post-punk. Hardcore bands that were influential on many early emo bands include Minor Threat, The Faith, Black Flag, Emo originated as an outgrowth of the hardcore punk scene of early 1980s Washington, D. C. Minor Threat fan Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcores self-imposed boundaries in favor of guitars, varied rhythms. Many of the themes would become familiar tropes in later generations of emo music, including nostalgia, romantic bitterness
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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret
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DreamWorks Records
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DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label itself also featured a Nashville, Tennessee-based subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music and was shut down in 2005. The companys logo was designed by Roy Lichtenstein and was his last commission before his death in 1997, in 1996, six years after Geffen sold Geffen Records to MCA Music Entertainment, he joined Spielberg and Katzenberg to form DreamWorks SKG, which included the subsidiary DreamWorks Records. The labels logo was the last project completed by artist Roy Lichtenstein, Geffen Records distributed DreamWorks until 1999, when Interscope Records took over distribution duties. Rufus Wainwright was the first to be signed to the new label in early 1996, henry Rollins, Tamar Braxton, George Michael, Randy Newman, Morphine, Eels, comedian/actor Chris Rock, Powerman 5000 and others were also signed to the label. The label was presided over by Lenny Waronker and Mo Ostin and it was announced on November 11,2003 that Universal Music Group reached an agreement to acquire DreamWorks Records from DreamWorks SKG for about $100 million. The purchase came at a time when the business was going through major changes as it struggled to counter falling sales. Under the deal new, DreamWorks Records was placed within the Interscope Geffen A&M label, DreamWorks was folded into Geffen Records in 2004. Its country music division, meanwhile, remained operational until January 29,2006, between 1998 and 2005, DreamWorks also operated a division in Nashville, Tennessee for country music acts. Among the artists signed to the DreamWorks Nashville division were Jessica Andrews, Emerson Drive, Toby Keith, Randy Travis, Jimmy Wayne, after DreamWorks Records dissolution, former executive Scott Borchetta formed Big Machine Records in late 2005, signing several country music acts to the label. Borchetta also signed Show Dog Records in partnership with Toby Keith, meanwhile, Borchetta signed Taylor Swift to DreamWorks Records. The latter label merged with Universal South Records to become Show Dog-Universal Music, DreamWorks Records discography List of DreamWorks Records artists List of record labels Video Interview with Lenny Waronker, former President of DreamWorks Records
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Vagrant Records
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Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California. It was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan, and is run by President Jon Cohen. The label focuses on rock but features artists in a variety of genres including folk, soul, electronic. Originally, Vagrant Records was mostly focused on emo bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, in 2014, it was acquired by BMG Rights Management. The first band signed by Vagrant Records was Boxer and their album, the pop-punk album notably featured drummer Chris Pennie, who would go on to play with Dillinger Escape Plan and Coheed and Cambria. In 1999, Vagrant Records signed Kansas City, Missouri, band, The Get Up Kids, Egan and Cohen borrowed US$50,000 from Cohens parents to fund the recording of the Get Up Kids album, derived from the mortgaging of the family house. The album was successful, and single-handedly made Vagrant Records one of the top independent labels in the country. Dashboard Confessionals video for Screaming Infidelities, directed by Maureen Egan and Matthew Barry, Rich Egan is cited as saying the MTV Video Music Award win changed everything for the label. The label then went on to release material from The Replacements frontman, Paul Westerberg, signifying an initial departure from its roots of nineties punk. They soon signed Eels and released their album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, in 2005 the label acquired New York City indie label Startime International, with whom they co-released albums from The French Kicks and The Futureheads. During that time Vagrant signed The Hold Steady and The Lemonheads, in 2006 Vagrant formed a childrens label imprint, Poquito Records and released Vagrant artist The New Amsterdams side-project The Terrible Twos debut album If You Ever See an Owl. In 2007 Vagrant formed another imprint label, Density Records, which will release heavier material than has traditionally released on the label. On August 5,2009, Rammstein, the Berlin-based industrial metal sextet, well known for its controversial and fiery performances, signed a US marketing. List of record labels Vagrant Records
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Razor & Tie
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Razor & Tie is an American entertainment company which consists of a record label and a music publishing company. It was established in 1990 by Craig Balsam and Cliff Chenfeld, based in New York City, Razor & Tie releases are distributed by Universal Music Group. Razor & Tie initially focused on albums and re-issues. Directly marketed through television spots, the label had success with 70s, 80s and 90s-themed albums. A retail label was launched in 1995 to release new albums from established and developing artists, including Dar Williams, Graham Parker, in 2001, Balsam and Chenfeld created Kidz Bop, a series of albums with young singers covering pop hits. Releases on Razor & Tie have cumulatively exceeded sales of 45 million physical and digital albums, singles, videos, a music publishing division was founded in 2007, and in 2014 Razor & Tie launched Washington Square Records, an alternative leaning label. In 2015 Concord Bicycle acquired an undisclosed percentage of Razor & Tie, which now operates as Razor & Tie Enterprises LLC, Razor & Tie was founded by Craig Balsam and Cliff Chenfeld, who met while in law school at NYU. Musicians as well as fans, they played and wrote songs together while pursuing their degrees. Following several years of practicing separately at large, corporate firms, Balsam and we really didn’t enjoy practicing law as much as we enjoyed music. So we began to think about ways we could maybe change our careers, in 1990, they founded Razor & Tie, naming the company after a song they had written while working as lawyers. In late 1990, working out of Chenfelds apartment, Razor & Tie released their first record, Those Fabulous 70s and it was sold through a late-night television spot presented by The 70s Preservation Society, an obviously fictitious entity which Balsam and Chenfeld had created to market the album. Through the commercial—which featured a fellow with a tie so wide you could land a helicopter on it—the album sold in excess of 100,000 copies. Those Fabulous 70s was followed by a series of genre-specific 70s records and 80s compilations. Living in the 90s, released in 1995, was the bestselling album of the period. Razor & Ties early business model focused on reissues. It was great because we were allowed to get into a lot of music that we loved, and it was a business scale that worked very well for us. At the time, if we sold twenty thousand copies of something we could make that work, the first album Razor & Tie reissued was The Up Escalator by Graham Parker and the Rumour. In 1995, with an office in Greenwich Village, Razor & Tie launched a new music division, the first new artist signed to Razor & Tie was Dar Williams, who released her debut album The Honesty Room in February,1995
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Say Anything (band)
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Say Anything is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 2000 by Max Bemis and his friends, in 2003, the band signed with their first label, Doghouse Records. A year later, they released. Is a Real Boy, Say Anything signed with J Records in 2005 and, following Bemis successful rehabilitation, re-released. Is a Real Boy on J Records. They went on co-headlining tours with Saves the Day in 2006, on October 23,2007, the band released their third full-length album, In Defense of the Genre. In 2008, Say Anything went on a tour across the US and UK. Their fourth album, entitled Say Anything, was released on November 3,2009, the band was formed in 2000 by Max Bemis and four of his friends as Sayanything. Within two years, they self-released two EPs, Junior Varsity and In Your Dreams, and the full-length Baseball, An Album by Sayanything, sometime around 2002, Sayanything added a space to their name to become Say Anything. In late 2002, Bemis and Linder recorded the Menorah/Majora EP, by this point, Say Anythings releases had generated a major bidding war. Drive-Thru Records pursued the band and called Max Bemis the next Bob Dylan, brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records recorded A Boston Peace, one of the dorm-room demos, with the band. In early 2003, Say Anything signed with Doghouse Records stating sarcastically that Doghouse put out such obscure, after signing with the label, Bemis began writing songs for his bands Doghouse debut. With tremendous self-created pressure, he threw himself into pushing the boundaries of the band and maturing their sound, incorporating elements of math-rock, indie-pop. He and Linder also started the search for a producer, the two met several producers but eventually decided on Tim OHeir and Stephen Trask. Bemis originally intended the album to be an opera with a full script, narration. However, Bemis became overwhelmed by the process of writing and playing most of the instruments and had a breakdown. I literally lost my mind while we were recording, stated Bemis regarding the breakdown, the breakdown was precipitated by a mockumentary discussed by Bemis and OHeir. After recovering, Bemis decided to focus solely on the music, around July 2003, the band began recording. Is a Real Boy, their first album with Doghouse Records. Bemis said the two people he wanted to outdo with. Is a Real Boy were Andy Warhol and Jesus, in addition to working with OHeir and Trask, Say Anything worked with Forrest Kline to record the For Sale. The band also worked with ECA Records to record an album that was never released. Is a Real Boy was released August 3,2004
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Pete Parada
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Peter Pete Parada is an American drummer who has been a member of several notable musical acts. Paradas drumming career began in 1996 when he joined Steel Prophet, subsequently he joined Face to Face and Saves the Day, and in 2007 became the new drummer for The Offspring. Parada was also associated with the metal band Engine and Rob Halfords solo project Halford and he was also a member of Hot Mess. After auditioning 25 different drummers to replace Rob Kurth, Parada officially joined Face to Face in 1998 and he was present on four albums with the band, Ignorance is Bliss, Standards & Practices, Reactionary and How to Ruin Everything. Cited as a seminal California punk group, Face to Face were active until 2003, the group had since gone on indefinite hiatus. When frontman Trever Keith resurrected Face to Face in 2008, Parada did not participate because of touring commitments with The Offspring and he was replaced by Danny Thompson. Prior to Face to Faces break up, Parada joined Saves the Day in 2002 to replace former drummer Bryan Newman and he recorded two of the bands albums, In Reverie and Sound the Alarm. He also recorded Bug sessions volume one, the first in a series of releases containing acoustic versions of their songs, on March 28,2007, it was announced that Parada had left the band. He had this to say, After four and a half years with Saves The Day, I wish them all the best of luck and look forward to starting fresh with a new band. On July 27,2007, The Offspring announced on their website that Parada would be the bands new drummer, replacing Atom Willard. Josh Freese actually filled in as drummer in the studio for then-upcoming Offspring album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, Parada toured with The Offspring in support of that album. In June 2009, The Offspring guitarist Noodles told Billboard. com that The Offspring were planning to release an album in 2010. Titled Days Go By, the album was released on June 26,2012. He became the first official Offspring drummer to play on an Offspring album since Ron Welty in 2000, Parada only played on four tracks on that album, while Josh Freese played on the rest. According to Holland, Freese played on the majority of tracks due to him living in California other than Parada who was busy with some additional projects during the recording of Days Go By. In 2010, Parada joined a rock band called Hot Mess. It consists of Storey Condos on vocals, Ryan Maker on guitar back-up vocals, Marc Anderson on lap steel, Daniel Nelson on keyboards, Hypatia Runcie on bass, Hot Mess released their debut Learn to Sleep With the Light On on April 22,2011. As of January 2012 he is no longer in Hot Mess, in 2011, Parada played 5 shows with the band DEVO
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Can't Slow Down (Saves the Day album)
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Cant Slow Down is the first album by American rock band Saves the Day, released on August 25,1998, by Equal Vision Records. Saves the Day formed in late 1997, the album was produced by Steve Evetts purely because Evetts had previously worked with Lifetime – a band vocalist Chris Conley loved. It was recorded during the break of Conleys senior year of high school. This album was the guitar player Sean McGraths only recording with Saves the Day. Unlike their later releases, this album has a hardcore sound. Saves the Day went on their first full tour of U. S. with Bane, Cant Slow Down was released by Equal Vision on August 11,1998. The album sold 8,000 copies by the time Through Being Cool was released, three Miles Down inspired the band to record Im Sorry Im Leaving after a fan who was also an employee at Equal Vision suggested that they make an acoustic EP after hearing the song. All songs written by Chris Conley, footnotes Citations Cant Slow Down at MySpace
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Through Being Cool
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Through Being Cool is the second studio album by American rock band Saves the Day, released on November 2,1999 by Equal Vision. The songs on Through Being Cool were written while the members attended New York University. The album was recorded in 11 days and represented the transition from a melodic hardcore sound to a more pop punk style. It was produced by Steve Evetts at Trax East Recording Studio in South River, the bands members dropped out of college to tour alongside Snapcase, New Found Glory, Hot Water Music, and Face to Face, among others. A music video was filmed for the song Shoulder to the Wheel which the band later regretted making, eventually selling 50,000 copies, the success of Through Being Cool helped Saves the Day to sign with Vagrant Records. It was named one of Alternative Press 10 most influential albums of 1999, to celebrate the albums 15th anniversary, the band played the album front-to-back on tour and Equal Vision re-pressed the album on vinyl. Vocalist Chris Conley considers it the most important record that we did, Saves the Day formed in late 1997. Their debut album, Cant Slow Down, was released through Equal Vision in August 1998, the album helped the band to gain fans, mainly in the New Jersey area. The band promoted the album with two tours helping to expand its fan base, initially, they were heckled at each appearance. Drummer Bryan Newman said that the group was out of place among the other bands on the tour. Saves the Day had three different lineup changes while touring in support of Cant Slow Down, leaving vocalist Chris Conley, Saves the Days guitarist had left at the end of their first full tour of the U. S. Guitarist Dave Soloway, who had driven the band to their gigs during high school, was added to the band, Conley described Soloway as a kid who came from bluegrass and his family would sit around singing folk songs and stuff at home. Guitarist Ted Alexander was the bands roadie, and spent so much time with the band that they eventually just gave him a guitar, sean McGrath, bassist on the bands first album, was kicked out of the band and replaced by Eben DAmico. The group played gigs with bands, one of which DAmico was in. Conley called him a sick bassist and decided to get in touch with him, through Being Cool was recorded with producer Steve Evetts in June 1999 at Trax East Recording Studio in South River, New Jersey. Newman was close to having a breakdown on a few occasions, as he was nervous, Evetts always kept the band in line. Definitely the guru of the thing, Newman revealed. Recording and mixing was done over a total of eleven days, the two half-days were booked as a result of Conley losing his voice recording the vocals
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Stay What You Are
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Stay What You Are is the third album release from the American rock band Saves the Day, released in 2001. In an issue of CMJ New Music Report dated May 2000, it was announced the band had signed to Vagrant, while on tour, in March 2000, the band got into a van accident that almost ended the bands career. The van accident was somewhat of an inspiration for the bands songwriting, as Your Ghost Takes Flight is about a friends heroin addiction. The band played on a few Warped Tour dates before heading into the studio, the band worked with producer Rob Schnapf. Conley escribed Schnapf as a mellow, laid back guy. Him being relaxed just made for a nice, creative environment in the studio, at the time of the recording, Saves the Day consisted of Chris Conley, Dave Soloway, Ted Alexander, Eben DAmico and Bryan Newman. The album was a shift from the previous power chord-based sound and featured more intricate guitar work. Stay What You Are was released in July 2001 on Vagrant, the band headlined the Vagrant America Tour between early July and early September. Following this tour, drummer Bryan Newman left the band to study at college and his position was temporarily filled by Damon Atkinson of Hey Mercedes. In February 2002, the band supported Weezer on their tour of the U. S, the band supported on Blink-182 and Green Day on their co-headlining Pop Disaster Tour in May and June. In August, the band went on the Vagrant America arena tour, the band gained some exposure with the single At Your Funeral, which the video featured a creative way of motion control, similar to Requiem for a Dream. In May 2002, a video was filmed for Freakish. The album sold 15,000 copies in the first week, by March 2002, the album had sold over 120,000 copies, becoming one of Vagrants best-selling releases. Stay What You Are reached number 100 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, in the years since its release, Stay What You Are is widely regarded as a classic and a highly influential piece of music for the emo and pop punk genres. NME listed the album as one of 20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood The Test Of Time, the band played the album in full at FYF Fest in August 2016. All songs written by Bryan Newman, Chris Conley, David Soloway, Eben DAmico and Ted Alexander
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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MTV2
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MTV2 is an American digital cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel was initially broadcast over-the-air in selected markets, where the former all-request music channel known as The Box was broadcast, the channel launched initially as a constant, commercial-free music videos, once the original MTV had started to change its direction to reality television and serial documentaries. During the 2000s, the changed as well on MTV2, music video programming has been moved gradually away from MTV. In February 2015, approximately 79,416,000 American households received MTV2, MTV2 began broadcasting as simply M2 on August 1,1996 – MTVs 15th anniversary – with Becks Where Its At being the first video to air. Upon M2s launch, the new 24-hour music video proved to be as popular with viewers as MTV hoped. M2 also broadcast live over the internet during its early years, as digital cable expanded nationwide, MTV2 continued its own inexorable growth. During M2s first year, music videos were programmed to run on a 24-hour basis without repeating, leading to reports of marathon viewing sessions at college campuses across the country. However, once it became clear M2s market growth was being thwarted by the cable companies obstinance. The most obvious change—and the most upsetting to viewers—was the decision to end M2s popular 24-hour no repeat policy, predictably, this new format was as disappointing and frustrating to M2 fans as it was to the network itself. At its launch, M2 had three VJs, Jancee Dunn, Matt Pinfield and Kris Kosach, each of whom appeared on-screen 3-5 times per hour over the course of their individual 4-6 hour host segments. To many long-time MTV viewers, Pinfield was well known for hosting the seminal MTV show 120 Minutes, while Kosach, Pinfield eventually left to host other shows on MTV, while Kosach moved on to TechTV, Dunn, ever popular, remained at the channel through 2001. This unprecedented mandate gave programmers the freedom to showcase obscure and/or emerging artists, or connections between the videos themselves, e. g. the director, common themes, visual effects, etc. In addition, record companies asked to have new artists appear on the channel in taped segments with the VJs because M2 viewers were considered tastemakers and early-adopters. Even an act as huge as the Spice Girls made their first American TV appearance on M2, as did their video for Wannabe, which was a number-one hit worldwide. Starting on January 1,2000, in honor of the millennium, while a majority of videos were played, many were skipped over. The special ended in mid-April 2000, in 1997, Viacom, MTV and MTV2s parent company, bought out the independent, viewer-requested jukebox music video channel known as The Box. Starting on January 1,2001, all households that had received The Box began to receive MTV2 in its place, MTV2 also began adding television commercials to its broadcasts, beforehand, cable or satellite providers interrupted MTV2s feed to insert their own ads. MTV2 also began to separate the types of videos it played by genre, hip-hop and soul music was played for one hour every weekday at 10 a. m. and 10 p. m
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In Reverie
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In Reverie is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Saves the Day. In Reverie was released in mid-September through DreamWorks, shortly after its release, DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope Records, resulting in the band being dropped from the label. In July 2001, Saves the Day released Stay What You Are through Vagrant, the albums first single, At Your Funeral, became the bands breakthrough hit. The album would go on to sell over 120,000 copies by early 2002, frontman Chris Conley was, according to Gigwises David Renshaw, hailed as a hero with his lyrics about broken hearts and relationships. Comparing the material for In Reverie to that of Stay What You Are and he called the chords a lot more complex. What Went Wrong is about a kid who is being strip-searched despite having done nothing wrong, prior to recording, the group wished to capture the songs as best as they could, according to Conley. Conley later revealed that the created a record were proud of. On June 10,2003, In Reverie was announced for release, anywhere with You was released to radio on August 12. In Reverie was released through DreamWorks on September 16, a few days later, In Honor, A Compilation to Beat Cancer, a tribute to the bands former bassist Sean McGrath, was released, featuring an In Reverie outtake Dont Go Outside. DreamWorks was aiming to beat the sales of Stay What You Are, I was like, How is this possible. A few weeks after In Reveries release, the label was absorbed by Interscope Records, shortly afterwards, Saves the Day was dropped from the label. In April 2009, the band was planning to re-release the album with up to 12 additional tracks, including demos. In Reverie is Saves the Days highest-charting album to date, reaching number 27 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, the album was a commercial disappointment for the band and would soon change the bands direction in their next two albums Sound the Alarm and Under the Boards. All lyrics written by Chris Conley and all written by Saves the Day. It was available as a download for those who owned the In Reverie CD Zebra, played live on early 2004 tour Sister Sophia Citations Sources In Reverie at YouTube
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New Jersey
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the statistical areas of New York City. New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, in the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. New Jersey was the site of decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa. The pressure of the collision between North America and Africa gave rise to the Appalachian Mountains, around 18,000 years ago, the Ice Age resulted in glaciers that reached New Jersey. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind Lake Passaic, as well as rivers, swamps. New Jersey was originally settled by Native Americans, with the Lenni-Lenape being dominant at the time of contact, scheyichbi is the Lenape name for the land that is now New Jersey. The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors. These clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign, Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf and they first encountered the Dutch in the early 17th century, and their primary relationship with the Europeans was through fur trade. The Dutch became the first Europeans to lay claim to lands in New Jersey, the Dutch colony of New Netherland consisted of parts of modern Middle Atlantic states. Although the European principle of ownership was not recognized by the Lenape. The first to do so was Michiel Pauw who established a patronship called Pavonia in 1630 along the North River which eventually became the Bergen, peter Minuits purchase of lands along the Delaware River established the colony of New Sweden. During the English Civil War, the Channel Island of Jersey remained loyal to the British Crown and it was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York, the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the area was named the Province of New Jersey. Since the states inception, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic, New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scots Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants
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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes
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I'm Sorry I'm Leaving
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Im Sorry Im Leaving is an acoustic EP released by American rock band Saves the Day, released by Immigrant Sun on July 1,1999. It differed from the album by having a lighter acoustic sound, the EP was recorded in one week in 1998. Saves the Day formed in late 1997, their debut album, the album helped the band gain fans, but only in the New Jersey area. The band promoted the album with two tours, which helped the band expand their fan base, Saves the Day had three different line-up changes while touring Cant Slow Down, leaving vocalist Chris Conley and Newman as the only original members left. Im Sorry Im Leaving was recorded and mixed at Shoulder to the Wheel Studio in March 1999, the EP was mastered by M. J. R. at Metropolis Mastering Ltd. Im Sorry Im Leaving was released on Immigrant Sun Records on July 1,1999 and it includes a cover of Modern Englishs I Melt with You. All songs written by Chris Conley, except I Melt with You by Modern English, CD version Im Sorry Im Leaving –2,48 Hold –2,22 Jessie & My Whetstone –2,06 Take Our Cars Now. –2,38 I Melt with You –2,577 vinyl version Im Sorry Im Leaving Hold The Way His Collar Falls Personnel per booklet, citations Sources Im Sorry Im Leaving at MySpace
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan OBrien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical, Late Night aired weeknights at 12,37 am Eastern/11,37 pm Central and 12,37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as OBriens sidekick, following his departure, the shows house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2,2009. Upon Johnny Carsons retirement from The Tonight Show in 1992, executives at NBC announced that Carsons frequent guest-host Jay Leno would be Carsons replacement, NBC later said that Lettermans high ratings for Late Night were the reason they kept him where he was. Letterman was bitterly disappointed and angry at not having been given The Tonight Show job and, at Carsons advice, CBS signed Letterman to host his own show opposite The Tonight Show. He moved his show over to CBS virtually unchanged, taking most of the staff, skits, however, NBC owned the rights to the Late Night name, forcing Letterman to re-christen his show Late Show with David Letterman. NBC was not prepared to replace both Letterman and Late Night, aside from the name, it needed to build a new show. Both Dana Carvey and Garry Shandling declined to host it, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was brought in to develop the new show and comedians Jon Stewart, Drew Carey, and Paul Provenza auditioned to host. Michaels suggested to Conan OBrien, a writer for The Simpsons and former writer for Saturday Night Live. Despite having about 40 seconds of television-performance experience as an extra on Saturday Night Live sketches. His guests were Jason Alexander and Mimi Rogers, and the took place on the set of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. OBrien was offered the show on April 26, and made his first meaningful television appearance later that day when Leno introduced him on Tonight, on the final episode of his 16-year run, OBrien stated that he owed his career to Lorne Michaels. OBriens Late Night debuted on September 13,1993, with Andy Richter chosen as OBriens sidekick, the premiere episode featured John Goodman, Drew Barrymore, and Tony Randall. The episode featured a cold open of OBriens walk to the studio with constant reminders that he was expected to live up to Letterman, after seeming to be unaffected by the comments, OBrien arrives at his dressing room and cheerfully prepares to hang himself. However, a warning that the show is about to start causes him to abandon his plans, OBriens inexperience was apparent and the show was generally considered mediocre by critics in terms of the hosts ability. The Chicago Sun-Times Lon Grankhe called OBrien nervous, unprepared and generally geeky and Tom Shales wrote As for OBrien and he giggles and titters, jiggles about and fiddles with his cuffs. He has dark, beady little eyes like a rabbit, hes one of the whitest white men ever
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The Late Late Show (U.S. TV series)
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The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS. It first aired in January 1995, with host Tom Snyder, followed by Craig Kilborn and it is currently hosted by James Corden. The show originates from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, the show differed from most of the other extant late-night talk shows during its first two decades on air in that it did not use a house band or an in-studio announcer. While Craig Kilborn opened with a monologue it tended to be shorter than used by other late shows. Cordens approach to the monologue has been a hybrid of topical punchline jokes, Tom Snyder hosted the program from its inception in January 1995 until March 1999. The time slot on CBS previously carried repeats of Crimetime After Primetime, Snyder departed CNBC to host the Late Late Show on CBS. Snyders show featured a mix of celebrities, politicians and other newsmakers, without the need for an audience, the show originated from the intimate Studio 58 at CBS Television City. m. When Snyder was on vacation, the featured guest hosts such as Jon Stewart or Janeane Garofalo. Saxophonist David Sanborn composed and performed the music and several other songs featured on the show, all of which were smooth jazz pieces to fit the shows low-key. Sanborn had previously been a guest saxophonist in The Worlds Most Dangerous Band during Late Night with David Letterman. Unlike other late-night shows, The Late Late Show did not have a band or any announcer, except for the last episode. Letterman had offered the Late Late spot to Garry Shandling, a permanent guest host of the Tonight Show. Letterman then insisted on Snyder despite CBS wanting a younger host with a comedy background, Snyder would return to CBS to guest-host some episodes of the Late Show while Letterman recuperated from heart surgery in 2000. Longtime late night television producer Peter Lassally was executive producer of Snyders iteration of the program, when Snyder announced he was leaving, the show was reformatted to resemble Letterman and other major late-night talk programs. Craig Kilborn took over in March 1999, having left The Daily Show to become the new Late Late Show host, Tonight, and then the guests were announced, backed by the shows theme song, composed by Neil Finn. Then Kilborn was presented, Ladies and gentlemen, *pause* Mister Craig Kilborn, after Kilborns stand-up monologue, he walked to his Bavarian oak desk while Finns theme song continued playing with the chorus The Late Late Show is starting. The Late Late Show is starting now, the Desk Chat was said to be Craigs favorite part of the show. During later seasons, the opening consisted of shots of various Los Angeles hotspots accompanied by a new song performed
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The Muppets
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The Muppets are an ensemble cast of puppet characters known for their self-aware, burlesque, and meta-referential style of variety-sketch comedy. The Muppets debuted on the television program Sam and Friends, which aired from 1955 to 1961, after appearing on skits in several late night talk shows and advertising commercials during the 1960s, the Muppets began appearing on Sesame Street in 1969. In the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the Muppets diversified into theatrical films, including The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper. The Walt Disney Company began involvement with the Muppets in the late 1980s, Disney acquired the rights to the Muppets in 2004, allowing the characters to gain broader public exposure than in previous years. Under Disneys control, the Muppets enjoyed revitalized success, starring in two films—The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted —as well as a primetime television series on ABC. The Muppets were created by puppeteer Jim Henson in the 1950s, beginning with Kermit the Frog, in 1955, the Muppets were introduced on Sam and Friends, a television program that aired on WRC-TV in Washington D. C. Instead, Henson utilized the natural four-sided frame of a set that viewers would already be watching through as the programs theatre. During the 1960s, the characters—notably Kermit and Rowlf the Dog—appeared on skits in several late-night talk shows and advertising commercials, Rowlf became the first Muppet with a regular spot on network television when he began appearing as Jimmy Deans sidekick on The Jimmy Dean Show. In 1966, Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett began developing a television program targeted towards children. Produced by the Childrens Television Workshop, the show debuted as Sesame Street in 1969, by the early 1970s, the Muppets continued their presence in television, namely appearing in The Land of Gorch segments during the first season of Saturday Night Live. As his involvement with Sesame Street continued, Henson mused about the possibility of creating a television series featuring the Muppets. Two pilot specials, The Muppets Valentine Show and The Muppet Show, Sex and Violence, aired on ABC in 1974 and 1975, respectively. Debuting in 1976, The Muppet Show introduced characters such as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and Animal, as well as showcasing regulars Kermit and Rowlf. Through its syndication, The Muppet Show became increasingly popular due to its sketch comedy variety format, unique brand of humor, the show went on to receive twenty-one Primetime Emmy Award nominations during its run, and winning four awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series in 1978. Altogether, the three films received four Academy Award nominations, by 1983, Henson had introduced another television series, Fraggle Rock, which ran on HBO in the United States until 1987. By the late 1980s, Henson entered discussions with Michael Eisner and The Walt Disney Company, in which the latter would acquire Jim Henson Productions and in turn, Disney was interested in purchasing the company for $150 million. In addition to the company and Muppet characters, Eisner expressed a desire to include the Sesame Street characters as part of the acquisition, Henson, declined the proposal, however, consistently referring to such a motive as a non-starter for the deal. As discussions between the two continued, Henson and Walt Disney Imagineering preemptively began developing Muppet-themed attractions for the Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World
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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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Alternative Press (magazine)
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Alternative Press is an American music magazine based in Cleveland, Ohio. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, information on upcoming releases and it was founded in 1985 by Mike Shea, who is the current president. Joe Scarpelli is the current general manager, jason Pettigrew is editor in chief. The first issue of Alternative Press was simply a punk rock fanzine, distributed at concerts in Cleveland, Ohio beginning in June 1985 by APs founder. He disliked the music that was then being broadcast on stations and believed that bands playing underground music should be given more media coverage all in the same spot. He said, It has really always been about covering music for the misfits, Shea began working on his first issue in his mothers house in Aurora, Ohio. Shea and a friend, Jimmy Kosicki, targeted the Cleveland neighborhood of Coventry, I took my high school newspaper from Aurora High that looked nice and clean and offset print. Id walk into these flower shops and Hallmark shops, and Id say Were going to put out an entertainment publication, and theyd look at my high school newspaper and say, Its really professional. Thats how we got enough money to make the first issue, financial problems plagued AP in its early years. However, by the end of 1986, publication had ceased due to its financial problems, with the growth of alternative rock in the early 1990s, circulation began to increase. APs covers included bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Soundgarden, by 1994, the magazine was doing cover stories on Beastie Boys, Henry Rollins and Love and Rockets. Did we sometimes protest too much, maybe, but we were up against a lot, we were underfinanced and still underappreciated in some corners of the music business, so we had to fight scrappily and mean when it was called for. Nobody takes you seriously unless you take yourself seriously, and thats what Norman brings to his position to this day. By the early 2000s, after resisting attempts to purchase the magazine, when asked the magazines audience, Shea said, It went from heartfelt emo, to screamo, to post-hardcore, to metalcore… but, there will always be a suburban kid full of angst. At the time of its 20th anniversary in 2005, AP had grown to a size of 112 pages per issue. AP introduced its own ceremony in 2014. In 2015, the ceremony was moved to Clevelands Quicken Loans Arena. It featured hosts Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat of All Time Low and performances by Rob Zombie, New Found Glory with Hayley Williams of Paramore, Panic. at the Disco, due to the Republican National Convention, the 2016 APMAs were moved to Columbus Value City Arena
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Chico, California
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Chico is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 86,187, Bidwell Park makes up over 17% of the city. Other cities in close proximity to the Chico Metropolitan Area include Paradise and Oroville, while towns and villages include Durham, Cohasset, Dayton, Nord. The Chico Metropolitan Area is the 14th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in California, the nickname City of Roses appears on the Seal of the City of Chico. The city has designated a Tree City USA for 31 years by the National Arbor Day Foundation. The original inhabitants of the now known as Chico were the Mechoopda Maidu Native Americans. The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by John Bidwell, a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. During the American Civil War, Camp Bidwell, was established a mile outside Chico, by Lt. Col. A. E. Hooker with a company of cavalry and two of infantry, on August 26,1863. By early 1865 it was being referred to as Camp Chico when a post called Camp Bidwell was established in northeast California, the city became incorporated January 8,1872. Chico was home to a significant Chinese American community when it was first incorporated, old Hutch Hutchinson identified five events as the most seminal in Chico history. Several other significant events have unfolded in Chico more recently, Chico is at the northeast edge of the Sacramento Valley, one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. The Sierra Nevada mountains lie to the east, with Chicos city limits venturing several miles into the foothills, to the west, the Sacramento River lies 5 miles from the city limits. Chico sits on the Sacramento Valley floor close to the foothills of the Cascade Range to the north, Big Chico Creek is the demarcation line between the ranges. The citys terrain is flat with increasingly hilly terrain beginning at the eastern city limits. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 27.8 square miles. The city is bisected by Bidwell Park, which runs 5 miles from the city center deep into the foothills. The city is traversed by two creeks and a flood channel, which feeds the Sacramento River. They are named Big Chico Creek, Little Chico Creek, the downtown area of Chico is located generally between Big Chico Creek and Little Chico Creek
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Glassjaw
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Glassjaw is an American post-hardcore band from Long Island, New York. The band is fronted by vocalist Daryl Palumbo and guitarist Justin Beck, the band formed in the summer of 1993 after Palumbo and Beck met each other at camp. Of the band name, Beck has said, We had a list of names, at the time there were a bunch of bands coming out with two names in one like that, like mouthpiece, curbjaw, stuff like that. We were going down the list, and the first name that I liked was Swiftkick, im all like, that’s a sick name. But for some reason Glassjaw stuck, theres really no reason behind it, it just sounded cool. The band played their first show in 1994 in Oceanside, NY, in the early days, Beck and Weinstock were also playing with Jewish straight edge metalcore band, Sons of Abraham. Sons of Abraham constitute an important influence on Glassjaw, songs such as Hurting and Shoving by Glassjaw drawing particularly on earlier Sons of Abraham releases, Palumbo was in his own straight-edge band called XbustedX. The groups line-up changed constantly in their early years while they played in the local New York hardcore scene. From 1994-1999 the band did several demo recordings of songs that would eventually appear on their official releases. The band recorded the five-song Kiss Kiss Bang Bang EP in 1997, the record was released independently on the label 2 Cents a Pop, and saw a re-release in 2001 without label affiliation. The line-up on this record was Daryl Palumbo, Justin Beck, Todd Weinstock, Kris Baldwin, Star Above My Bed, from the EP, is still in the bands set lists to this day. A significant recording came in 1999 working with Don Fury, showcasing songs that appeared on their debut LP Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence, on being signed, Ross showed up at a practice, Beck recounts. Ross stands up, waving his hands and hes like, Its over, I want to do this, youve got a deal. The line-up on this record was Palumbo, Beck, Todd Weinstock and it is alleged that Roadrunner would not allow Palumbo to leave the tour to rest. Larry Gorman of Orange 9mm officially took over drumming duties part-way through touring, which saw dates with Deftones, the line-up continued to rotate following the conclusion of the tour when Manuel Carrero was kicked out by Roadrunner for being the only member to have date conflicts with touring. The album will be pressed on vinyl for 2009, limited to 10,000 copies, in 2001, the band entered the studio in secret with Ross Robinson and began recording their follow-up album Worship and Tribute, which would see release the following year. The album was engineered and mixed by Mike Fraser and they left Roadrunner, finding them problematic, and shipped the album to other labels and ended up signing a deal with Warner Bros. Ross Robinson does not use a track when recording drummers
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Sound the Alarm (Saves the Day album)
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Sound the Alarm is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Saves the Day. After signing to DreamWorks, the band released In Reverie in late 2003, however, shortly afterwards DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope, resulting the band being dropped from label. Following a line-up change, the band started working on Sound the Alarm, while self-funding the sessions, the band worked with Steve Evetts at their own studio, Electric Ladybug Studios. In early January the band re-signed with Vagrant, after touring with Circa Survive and Moneen in spring 2006, Sound the Alarm was released in April. The albums release was preceded by the stream of two songs, The End and Shattered, the band performed as part Warped Tour, before going on to tour with I Am the Avalanche, Pistolita and Say Anything. Sound the Alarm has received mixed to positive reviews, and has sold over 49,000 copies. The album peaked at number 67 on the Billboard 200 chart, in 2003, Saves the Day signed to major label DreamWorks. In Reverie was released in September of that year, through DreamWorks, I was like, How is this possible. A few weeks after the release, DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope Records and not long after. Using all the money they had, the decided to build their own studio. Conley explained, if we have a place to make cheap records, however, before they began working on new material, Conley was self-doubting himself. He completely lost faith in myself following the lack of success with In Reverie, when that happened, a chamber got opened up inside me, sometime after, Conley locked himself in a room, forcing himself to write new material. Conley explained that all of a sudden, the storm came. And there was plenty of material -- just frustration and rage and desperation, following the completion of new songs in February 2005, the group planned to start recording in May, with a projected fall release for the new album. Prior to the sessions, bassist Eben DAmico was replaced by Glassjaw bassist Manuel Carrero. Conley reasoned DAmico was not on the same page creatively as him, guitarist David Soloway, on August 4,2005, the band began pre-production, and the following day were now in full swing, blazing through songs in rehearsal in preparation for recording. By this point, the group had 18 songs, aiming to record 14 of them, the group called this material short and fast and angry, naming several songs they were working on, Head for the Hills, Sound the Alarm, Diseased and Eulogy. The recording sessions for Sound the Alarm was self-funded by the band and he said the band considered themselves lucky enough to have enough capital to start recording
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Bug Sessions
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Bug Sessions is a compilation album of three EPs by indie rock band Saves the Day. The EPs consist primarily of acoustic renditions of the bands songs, the first Bug Sessions volume was announced in February 2006, and was sold on the bands 2006 tour dates with Moneen and Circa Survive as well as on the 2006 Warped Tour. The EPs were originally intended to be full-band acoustic studio recordings, the tracks were recorded at the bands studio, The Electric Ladybug. All songs are played on the guitar, and some also include drums. Volumes 2 and 3 of the Bug Sessions were recorded on the acoustic tour in fall 2007 with only lead singer/guitarist Chris Conley. The two volumes were released simultaneously in 2008, all tracks on the two volumes are acoustic-only. Only a limited number of all 3 volumes were made available, in early 2009, the Bug Sessions compilation of all three EPs was released on the iTunes music service. All tracks written by Saves the Day
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Under the Boards
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Sound the Alarm is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Saves the Day. After signing to DreamWorks, the band released In Reverie in late 2003, however, shortly afterwards DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope, resulting the band being dropped from label. Following a line-up change, the band started working on Sound the Alarm, while self-funding the sessions, the band worked with Steve Evetts at their own studio, Electric Ladybug Studios. In early January the band re-signed with Vagrant, after touring with Circa Survive and Moneen in spring 2006, Sound the Alarm was released in April. The albums release was preceded by the stream of two songs, The End and Shattered, the band performed as part Warped Tour, before going on to tour with I Am the Avalanche, Pistolita and Say Anything. Sound the Alarm has received mixed to positive reviews, and has sold over 49,000 copies. The album peaked at number 67 on the Billboard 200 chart, in 2003, Saves the Day signed to major label DreamWorks. In Reverie was released in September of that year, through DreamWorks, I was like, How is this possible. A few weeks after the release, DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope Records and not long after. Using all the money they had, the decided to build their own studio. Conley explained, if we have a place to make cheap records, however, before they began working on new material, Conley was self-doubting himself. He completely lost faith in myself following the lack of success with In Reverie, when that happened, a chamber got opened up inside me, sometime after, Conley locked himself in a room, forcing himself to write new material. Conley explained that all of a sudden, the storm came. And there was plenty of material -- just frustration and rage and desperation, following the completion of new songs in February 2005, the group planned to start recording in May, with a projected fall release for the new album. Prior to the sessions, bassist Eben DAmico was replaced by Glassjaw bassist Manuel Carrero. Conley reasoned DAmico was not on the same page creatively as him, guitarist David Soloway, on August 4,2005, the band began pre-production, and the following day were now in full swing, blazing through songs in rehearsal in preparation for recording. By this point, the group had 18 songs, aiming to record 14 of them, the group called this material short and fast and angry, naming several songs they were working on, Head for the Hills, Sound the Alarm, Diseased and Eulogy. The recording sessions for Sound the Alarm was self-funded by the band and he said the band considered themselves lucky enough to have enough capital to start recording
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Daybreak (Saves the Day album)
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Daybreak is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Saves the Day. It is also the bands first album since Cant Slow Down without long-time guitarist David Soloway, the album also features Spencer Peterson on drums for the first time, before leaving the band prior to the albums release. The album is the third in a trilogy that began with Sound the Alarm in 2006, on September 17,2009, the band announced on Twitter that the album was almost finished and on September 25 announced the track listing. After several delays in 2009 and 2010, the album was released by Razor & Tie in 2011, on May 31,2011, the band released the first single from the album Living Without Love. It was available for download after signing up for the bands mailing list. Pre-orders became available on June 2, and allowed customers to download the songs Living Without Love. The first showing of the video for Deranged & Desperate was on September 8. All lyrics written by Christopher Conley, all written by Saves the Day. Fucked Up Past the Point of Fixing III
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The Offspring
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The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, bassist Greg K. lead guitarist Kevin Noodles Wasserman and drummer Pete Parada. The Offspring went through lineup changes over the years, and Holland. The band is often credited—alongside fellow California punk bands Green Day, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise and they have sold over 40 million records worldwide, being considered one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time. To date, the Offspring has released nine studio albums and their first three albums for the independent record labels Nemesis and Epitaph earned them a cult following. Splinter was followed five years later by Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, the Offspring is currently in production of their tenth studio album, which is due for release in 2017. The foundations for the Offspring began with guitarist/vocalist Bryan Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel playing music together in a garage in Cypress, at a party, and following a riot at a 1984 Social Distortion show, they decided to form a band called Manic Subsidal. Holland changed his role from drums to guitar, and the band was rounded out by singer Doug Thompson, marcus Parrish briefly joined as a second guitarist, however, no recordings were made at this point. After Thompson was forced out, Holland took over vocals, in 1985, school janitor Kevin Noodles Wasserman joined as a second guitarist, allegedly because he was old enough to purchase alcohol for the other members, who were under the legal drinking age. In 1986, after changing their name to The Offspring, the released their first single. They released the single on their self-made Black Label record company, an earlier version of Ill Be Waiting, which was then known as Fire and Ice, appeared on the long-out of print Subject to Blackout compilation tape, which was also released in 1986. Also in 1986, the Offspring recorded a tape, which received a positive review in Maximum Rocknroll magazine. Lilja left the Offspring in 1987 to pursue a career in gynecology, and was replaced by Ron Welty. After recording another demo in 1988, The Offspring signed a deal with a small-time label. In March 1989, the band teamed up with producer Thom Wilson to record their first album, the album was released in limited numbers by the label, only on the 12 vinyl and cassette formats, and was not released on CD until 1995. A six-week national tour followed, but Noodles was later stabbed during a performance at a Hollywood anti-nuclear benefit, in 1991 the Offspring teamed up with Wilson again to produce the Baghdad 7 EP and a third demo tape. This EP and demo were instrumental to the signing with Epitaph Records. In 1992 Thom Wilson and the Offspring returned to the studio to record their second album Ignition, the band went on U. S. tours with Pennywise and Lunachicks, and a European tour with NOFX
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ITunes Store
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ITunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28,2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010. It offers over 35 -40 million songs,2.2 million apps,25,000 TV shows, iTunes Stores revenues in the first quarter of 2011 totaled nearly US$1.4 billion, by May 28,2014, the store had sold 35 billion songs worldwide. On January 6,2009, Apple announced that DRM had been removed from 80% of its catalog in the US. As of June 2013, iTunes Store possesses 575 million active user accounts, before iTunes Store, most of the online music was download through websites like Napster. Steve Jobs expressed concern that people were illegally obtaining music because it was the option they had. In 2002, Steve Jobs made an agreement with the five major record labels to offer their content through iTunes, iTunes Store was introduced by Steve Jobs at a Worldwide Developers Conference to give music listeners a legal alternative to peer-to-peer file sharing networks. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to songs from all five major record labels. At first, it was available on Mac OS X. Following the introduction of iTunes Store, individual songs were all sold for the same price, Music in the store is in the Advanced Audio Coding format, which is the MPEG-4-specified successor to MP3. Originally, songs were available with DRM and were encoded at 128 kbit/s. At the January 2009 Macworld Expo, Apple announced that all music would be made available without DRM. Previously, this model, known as iTunes Plus, had available only for music from EMI. Users can sample songs by listening to previews, ninety seconds in length, some Apps cost money and some are free. Developers can decide which prices they want to charge for apps, from a pre-set list of pricing tiers, when someone downloads an App,70 percent of the purchase goes to the developer, and 30 percent goes to Apple. At the Macworld 2008 keynote, Steve Jobs, who was Apples CEO at the time, movies are available for rent in iTunes Store on the same day they are released on DVD, though iTunes Store also offers for rental some movies that are still in theaters. Movie rentals are only viewable for 24 hours or 48 hours after users begin viewing them, iTunes Store also offers one low-priced movie rental a week, in the United States, this rental costs 99 cents. Movie rentals are not yet available in all countries but it is available in the United States, Mexico, there is a weekly promotion in which one to three songs are available to download for free to logged-in users
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Saves the Day
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Saves the Day is an American emo band from Princeton, New Jersey, formed in 1994. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Chris Conley, guitarist Arun Bali, bassist Rodrigo Palma, after forming under the name Sefler in 1994, Saves the Day released their debut studio album, Cant Slow Down, in 1998. It was followed by Through Being Cool, which featured their first single, Stay What You Are was released in 2001, peaking at number 100 on the Billboard 200. It spawned two music videos on MTV2, for the singles At Your Funeral and Freakish, and has since sold 300,000 copies. After the success of Stay What You Are, Saves the Day signed to Dreamworks Records, the album peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Independent Albums chart. Their latest, self-titled LP was released in 2013, Saves the Day originally performed in the New Jersey area under the name Sefler as a four-piece band with Chris Conley on bass guitar and vocals. The band changed their name in late 1997, of the original lineup, only Conley remains today. The band has gone through numerous changes over the years and has only recorded two consecutive albums with the same lineup, with Conley as the only permanent fixture. The bands first proper release, Cant Slow Down, was recorded and released through Equal Vision Records in 1998 while the members were still in high school, using their own resources, Saves the Day released a five-song acoustic EP, Im Sorry Im Leaving, in early 1999. Later that year, they released their second full-length with Equal Vision, Through Being Cool, the band began drawing attention from some of the larger independent labels, eventually signing with Vagrant Records. In 2001, the band moving away from their roots with the release of Stay What You Are. The album had a poppier feel with more guitar work. The band gained exposure with a video for the song At Your Funeral. The band also released a video for Freakish in April 2002, shortly after the albums release, guitarist Ted Alexander left the band and Conley took over guitar duties. The album was original drummer Bryan Newmans last recording with the band. With the success of Stay What You Are, the signed with major label DreamWorks Records, who would co-release their next album with Vagrant. The 2003 release of In Reverie saw the band experiment with their sound. The drastic change in sound was alienating among fans, and the album received support from DreamWorks
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Arun Bali
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Arun Bali is an Indian actor who has worked in numerous films and television series. In the 2000s, he known for his grandfatherly roles like that of Harshwardhan Wadhwa in Kumkum and has even garnered popular awards for the same. He is also a National Award winning producer and he hails from a Punjabi Muhiyal Family. In 2001, the writer, actor and director Lekh Tandon counted Bali amongst one of his favorite actors. He is married and has three daughters and a son, saugandh Yalgaar Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman Heer Ranjha Khal Nayak Kayda Kanoon Phool Aur Angaar Judge Aa Gale Lag Jaa Mohanlal Aaja Meri Jaan Ram Jaane. Commissioner Sabse Bada Khiladi Return of Jewel Thief Raajkumar Satya, home Secretary Dand Nayak|Commissioner of police Shikari Hey Ram. Inders Father Om Jai Jagadish Aankhen Zameen, razas Dad Lage Raho Munna Bhai. 2ND innings resident Mere Jeevan Saathi Gumnaam - The Mystery Munde U. K. De, shamaldas Chanchad Sat Sri Akal Barfi. Oh My God Kaum De Heere Punjab 1984 PK Utopia Bhaag Johnny, acharya Ji Airlift 1920 London Baaghi as Father of Ronnie Doosra Kewal Neem ka Ped 1990-1994 Dastoor 1996 Dil dariya Chanakya. King Porus Zee Horror Show Sidhhi, prof. Asutosh. Jayate Judge Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand Aamrapali Kumkum. Harshwardhan Wadhwa Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki Maayka Maryada, Lekin Kab Tak, babuji I Luv My India. Premnath Devon Ke Dev. Mahadev Kaisa Yeh Ishq Hai. Ajab Sa Risk Hai The Great Maratha - Mughal Emperor Alamgir II Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do, ustad Rehmat Ali Khan Jai Ganesha… Lord Brahma P. O. W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke… Harpal Singh Arun Bali at the Internet Movie Database Filmography Bollywood Hungama
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Fall Out Boy
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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, lead guitarist Joe Trohman, the band originated from Chicagos hardcore punk scene, with which all members were involved at one point. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop side project of the members respective hardcore bands. The group went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording the debut album. The album became a success and helped the band gain a dedicated fanbase through heavy touring. Take This to Your Grave has commonly cited as an influential blueprint for pop punk music in the 2000s. Fall Out Boy received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2006 Grammy Awards, the bands 2007 follow-up, Infinity on High, landed at number one on the Billboard 200 with 260,000 first week sales. It produced two hit singles, This Aint a Scene, Its an Arms Race and Thnks fr th Mmrs. Folie à Deux, the fourth album, created a mixed response from fans. Following the release of Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits, the took a hiatus from 2009 to 2012 to decompress. The band regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll, which gave the band its second number one. 1, making it the bands third No.1 album, Fall Out Boy was formed in 2001 in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Illinois by friends Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman. Wentz was growing dissatisfied with the mores of the community. With enthusiasm in Arma Angelus waning, he created a pop side project with Trohman as an easy. Trohman met Patrick Stump, then a drummer for grindcore band Xgrinding processX, while discussing Neurosis with a friend, Stump interrupted the conversation to correct their classification of the band in a conversation that soon shifted to the new band. Stump, viewing it as an opportunity to try out with local hardcore celebrity Wentz, directed Trohman to his MP3. com page, which contained sung-through acoustic recordings. Stump intended to try out as a drummer, but Trohman urged him to bring out his acoustic guitar, while Wentz wanted Racetraitor bandmate Andy Hurley in the group as drummer, Hurley appeared uninterested and too busy. The bands first public performance came in a cafeteria at DePaul University alongside Stilwell, Wentz and Stump argued over band names, the former favored verbose, tongue-in-cheek names while the latter desired to reference Tom Waits in name
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Pete Wentz
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Peter Lewis Kingston Pete Wentz III is an American musician. He is best known for being the bassist, primary lyricist, before Fall Out Boys inception in 2001, Wentz was a fixture of the Chicago hardcore scene and was notably the lead vocalist and lyricist for Arma Angelus. During Fall Out Boys temporary hiatus in 2009–12, Wentz formed the experimental, electropop and he owns a record label, DCD2 Records, which has signed bands including Panic. at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes. Fall Out Boy returned in February 2013, Wentz has also ventured into other non-musical projects, including writing, acting, and fashion, in 2005 he founded a clothing company called Clandestine Industries. He also hosts the TV show Best Ink and runs a production company called Bartskull Films. His philanthropic activities include collaborations with Invisible Children, Inc. and UNICEFs Tap Project, people magazine states that no bassist has upstaged a frontman as well as Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy. Wentz was born Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III, in Wilmette, Illinois and he is the son of Dale, a high school admissions counselor, and Pete Wentz II, an attorney. He is of English and German descent on his fathers side and he has a younger sister, Hillary, and a younger brother, Andrew. His black maternal grandfather, Arthur Winston Lewis, served as the U. S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Wentz parents met while campaigning for former Vice President Joe Biden in the 1970s. Wentz recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that his earliest musical memory was listening to The Foundations song Build Me Up Buttercup in the back of his fathers car, Wentz attended New Trier High School and North Shore Country Day School, where he was an all-state soccer player. He considered pursuing a career in the sport, but decided that music was a more fulfilling choice. But it didnt feel like an adventure, Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting. During his first year of school, he began skipping school regularly and smoking marijuana with friends. He later quit his job at Subway to go play bass guitar full-time with Fall Out Boy in 2003, Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s. These included First Born, Birthright, Extinction, Arma Angelus, Yellow Road Priest and he and Arma Angelus bassist Joe Trohman founded the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy after Trohman introduced Pete to a musical acquaintance, Patrick Stump. Andy Hurley agreed to drum part-time, but only joined the band full-time later, in 2002, Arma Angelus, the band in which Wentz was the vocalist, played its last show. In 2002, Fall Out Boy released an EP called Fall Out Boy/Project Rocket Split EP, soon after, in 2003, the band released their mini-LP Fall Out Boys Evening Out with Your Girlfriend on Uprising Records. This album would later be digitally remastered and reissued after the third, successful full-album release From Under the Cork Tree
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Electropop
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Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound. The genre has seen a revival of popularity and influence since the 2000s, the media in 2009 ran articles proclaiming a new era of different electropop stars and indeed, saw a rise in popularity of several electropop artists. In the Sound of 2009 poll of 130 music experts conducted for the BBC, lady Gaga had major commercial success since 2008 with her debut album The Fame. Music writer Simon Reynolds noted that Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, the second album by British singer Lily Allen released in 2009 called Its Not Me, Its You is largely electropop as opposed to her first ska album. Other female electropop acts that emerged were Ladyhawke, Kesha, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Elly Jackson of La Roux and Perfume. The Korean pop music scene has become dominated and influenced by electropop, particularly with boy bands and girl groups such as Super Junior, SHINee, F. Male acts that have emerged included British writer and producer Taio Cruz, who charted well in the U. S. along with one-man act Owl City, who had a U. S. number-one single, DJ Kaskade, and LMFAO. Singer Michael Angelakos of the Passion Pit said in a 2009 interview that while playing electropop was not his intention, so everything weve been put on to is electronic in nature. Music Projects with Propellerhead Reason, Grooves, Beats and Styles from Trip Hop to Techno
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Black Cards
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Black Cards was an American electronic duo that formed in July 2010 as Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentzs new main project following the bands indefinite hiatus. Originally conceived as an electropop band, Wentz played bass guitar and wrote the bands lyrics. The pair met when Wentz and producer Sam Hollander overheard Rexha recording demos at their studio, Nate Patterson and Spencer Peterson completed the lineup with guitar and drums respectively. Shortly after forming, the released songs to YouTube. Initially the band had planned to write and record a full-length LP to be released in Summer 2011, however, in January 2012, after multiple delays and uncertainty about the bands future, the project came to a halt. Rexha left the band to pursue a career and Wentz reevaluated the bands future. Shortly after, the released a statement saying that they were starting over and on January 26. Wentz also hinted at the possibility of an upcoming tour, since that time, the duo has played at various shows and festivals across the U. S. and released a remix mixtape. In July 2012, Use Your Disillusion EP was released which they worked on with Twice as Nice, Black Cards became inactive as Fall Out Boy secretly recorded an album towards the end of 2012 and announced the end of their hiatus on February 4,2013. Black Cards was formed in July 2010 by Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy went on hiatus in late 2009, with Wentz announcing his desire to take a break from music and concentrate more on being with his wife and child. However, Wentz eventually ventured into another musical project, this time experimenting a lot more going to a more electronic dance-ska direction with the music. Wentz had said he was taking time off with his family, Wentz then contacted producer Sam Hollander and discussed the idea with him to mash up ska, dance and reggae with 80s British rock and pop to create a new experimental sound. Wentz did not want to attempt to replace Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz originally maintained a level of secrecy around the identity of other members. In an interview with MTV. com on July 20,2010, Wentz later revealed the identity of the bands drummer as Spencer Peterson and the bands guitarist as Nate Patterson through his blog. The band has put up two snippets from songs the band has been working on, on their official website, the songs working titles are Beating in My Chest and Club Called Heaven. The title of Beating in My Chest has since then changed to Dirty Little Fingerprints. The bands first European tour took place between October 25–31,2010 and they played at 5 venues in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Berlin and Paris. Black Cards have released Club Called Heaven as their first single through MySpace, YouTube, the song features rapper Chiddy of the group Chiddy Bang
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Motion City Soundtrack
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Motion City Soundtrack was an American rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997. The bands line-up consisted of vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre, lead guitarist Joshua Cain, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthew Taylor, over the course of their nearly twenty-year career, the group toured heavily and released six studio albums, the majority on independent label Epitaph Records. The bands sound, at times described as pop punk or emo, the group was formed in 1997 by Cain and Pierre, and it took several years to form a stable lineup. The band signed to Epitaph in 2003, which released the debut album. Their breakthrough album, Commit This to Memory, arrived in 2005, the band briefly signed to major label Columbia for their fourth album, My Dinosaur Life, and rejoined Epitaph for Go in 2012, after which Thaxton left the group and was replaced by Claudio Rivera. Their final album Panic Stations was released in 2015, in 2016, the band announced their split and the So Long, Farewell tour, for which Thaxton rejoined the band. Motion City Soundtrack was formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997 by singer-songwriter Justin Pierre, by 1997, the duo had already played in a number of bands. Prior to founding Motion City Soundtrack, Cain was in a group named the Saddest Girl Story, after other members left, Cain recruited Pierre to join the band as a singer. After Cain moved on from Boxcar, they founded Motion City Soundtrack together, the bands name, as well as the name of their debut album, were created by Cains brother, Brian. Their early days were difficult, as they found it hard to break out of their local Minneapolis scene, when they could get weeks off from their jobs, they would tour. According to Cain, the members of the band realized that there wasnt really anywhere to play in Minneapolis. The band went through lineup changes. Through these, Cain and Pierre would often have to take over keyboard duties during shows, the groups first release was a 7 single, Promenade / Carolina, released in 1999. Their next two releases, both extended plays—Kids for America and Back to the Beat—were released the following year, over the course of the early 2000s, the band continued to tour and shuffle through members. In late 2001, while touring in Milton, Pennsylvania with the band Submerge, Thaxton initially took about a year to convince to join the band. Jesse Johnson, a friend and co-worker of Cains, joined the band as keyboardist just three weeks before the recorded their first album. Johnson had never played the keyboard before but Cain taught him the parts that had already been written. After their first attempt at self-recording an album failed, the band culled together $6,000 to record with producer Ed Rose, best known for his work with the Get Up Kids
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PledgeMusic
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Broadly speaking it bears some similarities to such platforms as ArtistShare, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, RocketHub and Sellaband. PledgeMusic considers itself a direct-to-fan platform as opposed to a crowdfunding website, if a target is not reached, fans are not charged. In preorder campaigns, fans are charged immediately, and the artist is paid directly upon project completion, PledgeMusic is reported to have a 90% campaign success rate, with most artists raising an average 140% of their goal. PledgeMusic artists have the option of donating a percentage of their total or post-goal revenue to a charity of their choice, currently, 67% of projects are linked with a charity. Artists without a cause in mind are able to meet with the companys charity outreach specialist to pair them up with charities, PledgeMusic Recordings and PledgeMusic Publishing are both affiliated companies providing the traditional services of a record label and a publishing company to select Artists. PledgeMusic has hosted showcases with CMJ, PledgeMusic was nominated for the 2010 BT Digital Music Awards in the category Best Innovation or Gadget. While discussing the Digital Economy Bill Lord Errol, in the UK House of Lords, has described PledgeMusic as a clever idea in the context of new ways of releasing music. PledgeMusic was nominated for the 2011 Music Week Awards in the category Consumer-Facing Digital Music Service of the Year, PledgeMusic was nominated for the 2011 BT Digital Music Awards in the category Best Innovation or Gadget. Ginger Wildheart was awarded the 2012 Classic Rock Awards Event Of The Year award for his PledgeMusic campaign, PledgeMusic was noted as one of Billboards Five digital startups to watch in 2013. PledgeMusic won the Grammy Music Technology Lab in 2013, PledgeMusic was nominated for SoundCtrls 2013 Best in Artist Support award. Co-founders Benji Rogers and Malcolm Dunbar were named to The Hospital Club 100 list in 2013 in the category of Music, the documentary features footage and interviews from SXSW and interviews with artists such as Nicole Atkins and San Fermin. Comparison of crowd funding services Fan Funded Crowdsourcing Netlabel Social commerce Web 2.0 Music 2.0 Official website
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Weezer
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Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992, consisting of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell, and Scott Shriner. Weezer has sold 9.2 million albums in the US, after signing to Geffen Records in 1993, the band released its debut self-titled album, also known as the Blue Album, in 1994. Backed by successful music videos for the singles Buddy Holly, Undone – The Sweater Song and Say It Aint So, both the Blue Album and Pinkerton are now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s. Following the tour for Pinkerton, bassist Matt Sharp left the band, in 2001, Weezer returned with another self-titled album, also known as the Green Album, with new bassist Mikey Welsh. With a more pop sound, and promoted by singles Hash Pipe and Island in the Sun, after the albums release, Welsh left the band and was replaced by current bassist Scott Shriner. Weezers fourth album, Maladroit, was released in May 2002 to mostly positive reviews, in June 2008, Weezers third self-titled album, also known as the Red Album, featuring TR-808s, synths, Southern rap, and baroque counterpoint, was released to mixed reviews. Its lead single, Pork and Beans, became the third song to top the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Weezers seventh and eight albums Raditude and Hurley, featuring more pop production and songs co-written with other artists, achieved further mixed reviews. The bands ninth and tenth albums, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, vocalist and lead guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Matt Sharp and guitarist Jason Cropper formed Weezer in 1992. The band had its first practice on February 14 of that year, Weezer signed with Geffen Records on June 25,1993 and the group recorded its debut album with producer Ric Ocasek at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. During the recording, Cropper left the band and was replaced by guitarist Brian Bell, Weezer was released in May 1994. Geffen originally did not wish to release a single, to see what sales could be generated by word-of-mouth alone, DJ Marco Collins of the Seattle radio station The End started playing Undone – The Sweater Song, leading Geffen to release it as the first single. The music video was directed by Spike Jonze, filmed in an unbroken take, it featured Weezer performing on a sound stage with little action, bar a pack of dogs swarming the set. The video became an instant hit on MTV, Jonze also directed the bands second video, Buddy Holly, splicing footage from the 1970s television sitcom Happy Days with Weezer performing in a remade Arnolds Drive-In. The video achieved heavy rotation on MTV and went on to win four MTV Video Music Awards, including Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Music Video, the video was also featured on the companion CD for the Microsoft Windows 95 computer operating system. A third single, Say It Aint So, followed, Weezer is certified triple platinum in the United States, making it Weezers best-selling album. It is certified platinum in Canada. In 1994, Weezer took a break from touring for the Christmas holidays, Cuomo traveled to his home state of Connecticut and began recording demos for Weezers next album
