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Laredo, Texas
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Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, located on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Its metropolitan area is the 178th-largest in the U. S. and includes all of Webb County, Laredo is also part of the cross-border Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 636,516. Because Laredo is 95.6 percent Hispanic and Latino, it is one of the least ethnically diverse cities in the United States. When economic diversity, household diversity and social diversity, are considered. Laredos economy is based on trade with Mexico. Most major transportation companies have a facility in Laredo, the citys location on the southern end of I-35 close to the manufacturers in northern Mexico promotes its vital role in trade between the two nations. Laredo International Airport is within the Laredo city limits, while the Quetzalcoatl International Airport is nearby in Nuevo Laredo on the Mexican side, Laredo has the distinction of flying seven flags. Founded in 1755, Laredo grew from a village to the capital of the brief Republic of the Rio Grande to the largest inland port on the Mexico–United States border, today, it has four international bridges and one railway bridge. Laredo has a soccer team, the Heat, baseball team, the Laredo Lemurs, and a womens full contact football team. Texas A&M International University and Laredo Community College are located in Laredo, the biggest festival, Washingtons Birthday Celebration, is held during the later part of January and the majority of February, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists. The European colonial settlement of Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was founded in 1755 by Don Tomás Sánchez while the area was part of the Nuevo Santander region in the Spanish colony of New Spain. Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was named after Laredo, Cantabria, in 1840, Laredo was the capital of the independent Republic of the Rio Grande, set up in opposition to Antonio López de Santa Anna, it was brought back into Mexico by military force. In 1846 during the Mexican–American War, the town was occupied by the Texas Rangers, after the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ceded the land to the United States. A referendum was taken in the town, which voted to petition the American military government in charge of the area to return the town to Mexico. When this petition was rejected, most of the population, who were Tejano and had been in the area for generations, moved across the river into Mexican territory, in 1849, the United States Army set up Fort McIntosh. Laredo was rechartered as a city in 1852, Laredo is one of the oldest crossing points along the Mexico–United States border, and the nations largest inland port of entry. In 2005, Laredo celebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding, the origin of name of the original Spanish town of Laredo is unclear. Some scholars say the name stems from Glaretum which means sandy, others state that Laredo stems from a Basque word meaning beautiful pastures
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Springfield, Massachusetts
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Springfield is a city in western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers, the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 153,060. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two areas in Massachusetts, had an estimated population of 698,903 as of 2009. The first Springfield in the New World, it is the largest city in Western New England, and the urban, economic and it is the third-largest city in Massachusetts and fourth-largest in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, lies 23.9 miles south of Springfield, bradley International Airport, which sits 12 miles south of Metro Center Springfield, is Hartford-Springfields airport. Springfield was founded in 1636 by English Puritan William Pynchon as Agawam Plantation under the administration of the Connecticut Colony, in 1641 it was renamed after Pynchons hometown of Springfield, Essex, England, following incidents that precipitated the settlement joining the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From 1777 until its closing during the Vietnam War, the Springfield Armory attracted skilled laborers to Springfield, arsenal at Springfield during Shays Rebellion of 1787 led directly to the formation of the U. S. Springfield is located at 42°6′45″N 72°32′51″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 33.2 square miles, of which 32.1 square miles is land and 1.1 square miles is water. Once nicknamed The City in a Forest, Springfield features over 4, aside from its rivers, Springfields 2nd most prominent topographical feature is the citys 735 acres Forest Park, designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Forest Park also borders Western Massachusetts most affluent town, Longmeadow, Springfield shares borders with other well-heeled suburbs such as East Longmeadow, Wilbraham, Ludlow and the de-industrializing city of Chicopee. The small cities of Agawam and West Springfield, Massachusetts lie less than a mile from Springfields Metro Center, across the Connecticut River. The City of Springfield also owns the Springfield Country Club, which is located in the city of West Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield, like other cities in southern New England, has a continental climate with four distinct seasons. Winters are cold with a average in January of around 26 °F. During winter, noreaster storms can drop significant snowfalls on Springfield, Springfields summers are very warm and sometimes humid. During summer, several times per month, on hot days afternoon thunderstorms will develop when unstable warm air collides with approaching cold fronts, the daily average in July is around 74 °F. Usually several days during the summer exceed 90 °F, constituting a heat wave, Spring and fall temperatures are usually pleasant, with mild days and crisp, cool nights
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Alternative metal
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Alternative metal is a music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s, other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of genres, such as hip hop, funk, hardcore. They also remarked that alternative metal was originally a style united by its nonconformist sensibility rather than any immediately classifiable sound, one of the main characteristics of alternative metal and its subgenres are heavily downtuned, mid-paced chug-like guitar riffs. However, funk metal bands use a more conventional riffing style influenced by 1980s thrash metal. Alternative metal features clean and melodic vocals, influenced by those of alternative rock, later bands frequently incorporated vocal styles that alternated between clean singing, growls and screaming. Examples include alternative metal bands associated with the nu metal movement, such as Korn and Deftones, jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1990 Just as rock has an alternative, wing-bands like the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. -so does metal. Alternative metal is alternative music that rocks, and alternative metal these days can reach 10 times the audience of other alternative rock. Janes Addiction plays an intense brand of 70s-influenced arty metal, so does Soundgarden, in fact, the arty meanderings of Sab and the Zep themselves would be considered alternative metal. Houston Press has described the genre as being a compromise for people for whom Nirvana was not heavy enough but Metallica was too heavy. The first wave of metal bands emerged from many backgrounds, including hardcore punk, noise rock, Seattles grunge scene, stoner rock, sludge metal. These bands never formed a movement or scene, rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences. Fudge Tunnels style of alternative metal included influences from both sludge metal and noise rock, other early bands in the genre also came from hardcore punk backgrounds. During the 1980s, alternative metal appealed mainly to rock fans. Several bands associated with the genre denied their status as metal bands, Helmet drummer John Stanier said We fell into the whole metal thing by accident, we always hated it when people mentioned metal in conjunction with us. Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork Media stated bands like Faith No More, Soundgarden, Primus, Helmet, the Rollins Band, and dozens more were initially marketed as quasi-metal acts. This was only possible in a climate where record labels, journalists, many established 1980s metal bands released albums in the 1990s that were described as alternative metal, including Anthrax, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. It resulted in a standardized sound among alternative metal bands, in contrast to the more eccentric
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Nu metal
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Nu metal is a form of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, Nu metal rarely features guitar solos, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to play a heavier sound, DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling, Nu metal is one of the key genres of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, many heavy metal fans have criticized nu metal, and do not regard it as true heavy metal. Many nu metal musicians have rejected the nu metal label and also have rejected being labeled as heavy metal, Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal, MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock. Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene. Nu metal merges elements of metal music with elements of other music genres such as grunge, hip hop, funk. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, alternative metal. Some nu metal bands such as Static-X and Dope made nu metal music elements of industrial metal. Nu metal music is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs, mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. N its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo. Another contrast with other metal genres is nu metals emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music, Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to death metal guitar riffs. Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. sound a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper. Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on elements such as slap bass, a percussive style of playing in which the thumb slaps the low strings
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Post-grunge
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Post-grunge is a style of rock music that began in the 1990s and is considered a subgenre of alternative rock and hard rock. Originally, post-grunge was an informal and even pejorative label used to describe bands that emulated the sound of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, such as Bush, Candlebox. In the late 1990s, post-grunge morphed into a clearly defined style that married the sound. Post-grunge rose to prominence in the 1990s and continued to remain popular in the 2000s, Post-grunge bands such as Foo Fighters, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Nickelback, Creed and Matchbox Twenty all achieved mainstream success. During the 1990s, a post-grunge sound emerged which emulated the attitudes and music of grunge, particularly its thick, distorted guitars, Post-grunge music tends to be in mid-tempo and is noted for having a polished, radio-ready production. Post-grunge tends to feature melodies and song structures that are common in pop music, sometimes post-grunge music features both an electric guitar and an acoustic guitar playing simultaneously. Post-grunge lyrics also tend to be about such as relationships, romance. According to Geffen, grunges frontmen posed with their addictions, post-grunges songwriters sought redemption for them, according to Geffen, artists such as Alanis Morissette, No Doubt and Sarah McLachlan all crystallized the songwriting strategy that would form the emotional core of the post-grunge moment. Post-grunge tends to have quality that is higher and cleaner than the quality in grunge. When grunge became a mainstream genre because of such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. According to Tim Grierson of About, during the late 1990s, post-grunge morphed, becoming a derivative of grunge that combined characteristics of grunge with a more commercially accessible tone. During this time, post-grunge bands such as Creed and Nickelback emerged, Grierson wrote, Creed and Nickelback espoused a more conventional, almost conservative worldview built around the comforts of community and romantic relationships. Grierson also wrote, Post-grunge was a musical style, but bands like Nirvana. Post-grunge, by comparison, seemed to exist in order to court that very audience, in late 1992, Cobain was photographed in a T-shirt with Grunge is Dead printed on its front and the genres decline started to be widely discussed. The death of Cobain in 1994, as well as Pearl Jams touring problems, problems of addiction for Layne Staley of Alice in Chains led to the band cancelling scheduled dates in 1995. When grunge was mainstream, major labels began signing and promoting bands emulating the genre. In spite of the fact that such as Bush and Candlebox have been categorized as grunge. Collective Soul and Live are two other bands categorized as post-grunge that emerged along with Bush and Candlebox and its song Far Behind peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Elektra Records
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Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of folk music. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMGs Atlantic Records Group, after five years of dormancy, the label was revived as an imprint of Atlantic in 2009. The label has been run by Gregg Nadel since 2015 who officially became its president in 2017, Elektra was formed in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt in Holzmans St. Johns College dorm room. The usual spelling of the Greek mythological Pleiad Electra was changed, Holzman famously explained, I gave her the ‘K’ that I lacked. He found the C in the name too soft but liked the solid bite of the letter K. The first Elektra LP, New Songs, was a collection of Lieder and similar art songs, Holzman also recorded Josh White, who was without a record deal as a result of McCarthyite blacklisting. In 1964, Elektra launched Nonesuch Records and this classical budget label was the best-selling budget classical label of the era. In 1965, Elektra began a joint venture with Survey Music called Bounty Records which was Elektras first foray into pop music. The most notable signing for Bounty was the Paul Butterfield Band who was moved over to Elektra when Bounty folded, the labels most important signings were the Chicago-based Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Los Angeles bands Love and The Doors, and the Detroit bands The Stooges and MC5. Included in Elektras LA signings were Tim Buckley and Bread, in 1968, the label also signed pioneering rock guitar soloist Lonnie Mack to a three-album deal. Also in 1967, Elektra launched its influential Nonesuch Explorer Series, excerpts from several Nonesuch Explorer recordings were later included on the two Voyager Golden Discs which were sent into deep space in 1977 aboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes. Elektra, along with its Nonesuch Records subsidiary, was acquired by Kinney National Services in 1970, soon afterwards, Kinney consolidated their label holdings under the Warner-Elektra-Atlantic umbrella. Holzman remained in charge of Elektra until 1972, when it merged with Asylum Records to become Elektra/Asylum Records, Asylums founder, David Geffen, would head the newly combined label. Holzman, in the meantime, was appointed vice president and chief technologist for Warner — ushering the company into home video. Holzman also went on to acquire Discovery Records, in 1975, Geffen stepped down due to health problems. He would be replaced by Joe Smith, who went on to become CEO of Capitol Records. Although the company was listed as Elektra/Asylum Records on the label credits
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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity
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Roadrunner Records
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Roadrunner Records is a major record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and hard rock bands. It is a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City, the label was launched in 1980 in the Netherlands. Roadrunners initial business was importing North American metal-band recordings into Europe, in 1986, Roadrunner opened its US headquarters in New York City and later opened offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Russia and the latest in Canada. Early successes included albums from King Diamond and Annihilator, the label also handled early Metallica releases in the Scandinavian region. The end of the 1980s saw the release of two albums that are now considered classics of their genres, Obituarys Slowly We Rot. The 1990s saw the arrival of such as Life of Agony, Machine Head, Suffocation, Type O Negative. As the 1990s wore on, several of Roadrunners bands managed to make an impact on the mainstream, most notably Sepultura, Sepulturas 1993 album, Chaos A. D. became the first Roadrunner band to crack the Top 40 on the Billboard album chart. Type O Negative became the first Roadrunner band to receive a certification from the RIAA, this was a Gold award for the 1993 album Bloody Kisses, the band also became the first Roadrunner band to receive radio play. In 2000, Slipknot became the first Roadrunner band to go Platinum, nickelback were also very successful on the label. Derek Shulman ran the label in the late 90s, beginning in 2001, Roadrunner was distributed by the Universal Music Group through a share of the label owned by The Island Def Jam Music Group. On December 18,2006, Warner Music Group signed an agreement to purchase a majority in shares of Roadrunner Records parent company and this deal became finalized on January 29,2007 after receiving regulatory approval in Germany. On June 11,2008, Roadrunner Records was voted as the Best Metal Label by Metal Hammer at their Golden Gods Awards, the award was accepted by Sharon Den Adel and Ruud Jolie of Within Temptation, one of Roadrunners biggest acts. However, Roadrunner has also accused of being a label only interested in current or trendy alternative music, reflected by their roster of mainly popular. One of the earliest names on the label, King Diamond, left the label due to alleged lack of support for the 1990 King Diamond release. In 2008, punk cabaret chanteuse Amanda Palmer was told by the label that wanted to re-edit her video for Leeds United to make her look slimmer. On April 6,2010, Palmer announced on her Twitter account that Roadrunner had dropped her, the most recent complaints about Roadrunner have come from one of the labels biggest bands Megadeth. Roadrunner Records was significantly affected by Warner Music Groups legal dispute against YouTube, most of the videos on their channel, however, are still viewable. There is even a disclaimer talking about Warners dispute right on the channel, on November 11,2010, Warner Music Group announced they had acquired the remaining of Roadrunners stock
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Aaron Lewis
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Aaron Lewis is an American musician and songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock band Staind, with whom he has released seven studio albums. He has since ventured into music with his debut solo EP Town Line. Lewis first full-length solo release, The Road, was released by Blaster Records on November 13,2012, in 2006, Lewis was ranked at number 49 in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader. Lewis grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and then moved to the Forest Park section of nearby Springfield from 8th grade through high school and his hobbies include fishing, playing golf, riding his motorcycle and dirt bike, and hunting. He has worked in landscaping, cleaned hotel rooms, and played acoustic sets in bars, pool halls, restaurants. Before Staind, Lewis was in a known as J-CAT with Tori Sands, Chris Ballini. An album surfaced on the internet with nine of J-CATs performances at Club Infinity in Springfield, the performances were recorded while Dysfunction was being recorded. Two of Stainds popular singles—Outside and Its Been Awhile—were both originally performed by J-CAT with somewhat different lyrics, Lewis has stated in multiple interviews that music has always been his outlet for getting the feeling off his chest. He met Staind lead guitarist Mike Mushok at a Christmas party in 1993, Mike told him about plans on starting a band, however, around that time, Lewis was actually homeless in the New England area. They were going to name the band Staind with the correct spelling of stained. Lewis says out of respect for the band, they dropped the e in the word stained for their own signature band name, Lewis music has often focused on his familys issues and his struggles of growing up. He wont comment much on his childhood, but says he had low self-esteem back then, most fans whove met Lewis say he can be shy when hes not on-stage but friendly, down-to-earth, and one who possesses an upbeat attitude about life. Hes an outdoor kind of person and is very family-oriented and his feelings on raising a child of his own were expressed in the Staind song he wrote about his daughter, Zoe Jane. He calls it the song hes most proud of writing, on August 1,2014, Lewis was on hand to roll the first dice and perform at the opening of The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Sioux City, Iowa. Lewis has been performing acoustic shows since he was 17. He has written and performed songs that have never been officially released such as Angel, Something Like Me, Bonghits for Breakfast. In July 2010, Lewis finished recording a country music EP entitled Town Line that was released March 1,2011 on Stroudavarious Records, Lewis released his first full solo album, The Road, in November 2012. Its debut single, Endless Summer, has made the country charts
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Mike Mushok
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Michael Mike Mushok is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the alternative metal band Staind. In addition to Staind, Mushok has also been a member of the bands Newsted and Saint Asonia Mike Mushok was born in Ludlow, in 1995, Mushok joined Staind with Aaron Lewis, Johnny April, and Jon Wysocki in Springfield, Massachusetts. That same year, they self-released their debut album Tormented, soon after that, the band received a concert slot through Aaron Lewis cousin Justin Cantor with Limp Bizkit. Shortly before the performance, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst confronted the band about their albums graphic cover art, but, Durst ended up being impressed by Stainds performance. In 2014, Staind began to tour again briefly before going on a second hiatus, as of right now, the bands future is unknown. In 2013, Mushok joined the metal band Newsted, fronted by former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted. After Newsted disbanded in 2014, Mike joined Saint Asonia in 2015, Mike Mushok has a distinctive playing style. He is known for using baritone guitars and experimenting with tunings, but also uses standard guitars, Mushok incorporates several different techniques into his playing, including single-note lead lines, power chords, and octave chords. In addition to guitar, Mushok also has performed vocals on the Staind album Tormented. He cites Tony MacAlpine, Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and he also used a custom seven-string guitar tuned to on the Staind self-titled album as well as the debut Saint Asonia album. Throughout his career, Mushok has used Marshall, Rivera, and Diezel amplifiers, as well as Marshall speaker cabinets. Mushok does not use effects very often, but has used a phaser on the song Fade by Staind, and also has used a Boss OC-3 Super Octave pedal, a Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor pedal, Mushok is married and has two children
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Tormented (Staind album)
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Tormented is the debut studio album by the American rock band Staind, self-released in 1996. The album was only available in limited quantities in New England, United States. Tormented was later re-released on CD in 2004, the album contains an early version of Mudshovel, named Mudshuvel, the song which would give Staind into mainstream rock success in 1999. In 1993, Staind vocalist Aaron Lewis and Staind guitarist Mike Mushok met each other at a Christmas party in the New England area, Mushok brought drummer Jon Wysocki into the fold and Lewis had a connection with a bassist, starting the early lineup. In November 1995, Staind officially formed in Springfield, Massachusetts, touring in the Northeast helped Staind obtain a cult following. Described as alternative metal by AllMusic, Tormented is somewhat of an album that tells the story of a depressed person who eventually commits suicide. The album helped get Staind a record deal with Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst, Durst was initially appalled when he saw the albums graphic and Satanic cover art, but signed Staind nonetheless after being impressed with the bands performance. In 1993, Staind vocalist Aaron Lewis and Staind guitarist Mike Mushok met at a Christmas party in the New England area, Mushok brought drummer Jon Wysocki into the fold and Lewis had a connection with a bass player, completing the early lineup. On November 24,1995, Staind officially formed in Springfield, extensive touring in the Northeast helped Staind acquire a cult following. The songs on Tormented are about such as pain, animosity, suicide. Author Tommy Udo wrote Tormented is one long rush of hardcore brat-rage, described as alternative metal by AllMusic, Tormented is also somewhat of a concept album that tells the story of a depressed person who eventually commits suicide. This is hinted by someone saying the line, its been like this forever. The lyrics on Tormented are influenced by Staind member Aaron Lewis life, Aaron Lewis spoke about it, saying, My life, up to a point was shit. I grew up in a park in Vermont. That was the shit I got out of me in Tormented and Dysfunction, but the title, Break the Cycle, says it all. AllMusic described Tormented as grittier and more raw than Stainds subsequent releases, Tormented has been compared to the heavy metal band Pantera. Despite being a heavy metal record, Stainds Tormented album features an acoustic song called Four Walls. In 2008, Staind guitarist Mike Mushok noted his lack of appreciation for the album, We have a lot of fans who say, im like, Have you ever listened to it
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Dysfunction (album)
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Dysfunction is the second studio album by American rock band Staind. It is also the groups first release on any label at all, suffocate, Just Go, Mudshovel, and Home were released as singles. The song Mudshovel can also be found on the previous album, Tormented, albeit in a slightly different form. It would serve as Stainds breakout single, peaking at number 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart, the album was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA. Despite trying to remove Staind from opening for Limp Bizkit at a 1997 concert, after hearing their four-song demo, Durst signed Staind to Flip/Elektra to record the bands album Dysfunction. However, Durst suggested Staind would become more melodic, Durst and Staind then traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to begin developing new songs, and after a meeting with Flip, Staind recorded a three-track sampler in Los Angeles, California. By February 1998, they acquired a contract and after performing on the summer Warped Tour began recording Dysfunction in December. Stainds vocalist, Aaron Lewis, has stated he feels that, considered nu metal and alternative metal, Dysfunction is known for having both singing and screaming. The album is known for having songs with slow parts that then turn into aggressive parts with screaming. The albums lyrics are noted for being angry or depressing. Staind toured with Kid Rock in the spring before joining the Family Values Tour 1999 along with various nu metal, three tracks were performed live during the bands MTV Unplugged performance in 2002, Me, and Home, and the hidden track Excess Baggage. All lyrics written by Aaron Lewis, all composed by Staind. Notes The hidden track Excess Baggage starts with Staind frontman, Aaron Lewis, walking into, presumably and he sits down on the toliet with the seat down, and you can hear some metal clanging and then the metal falls to the floor. No one really knows what made the noise, then Aaron takes a sip of a beverage, or wine, from a wine glass. Then he starts playing the song, an intresting thing is that Aaron was unaware he was being recorded. No one knows who had secretly recorded Aaron
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Break the Cycle
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Break the Cycle is the third studio album by American rock band Staind, released through Elektra Entertainment and Flip Records in 2001. It is Stainds most successful album to date, and was the album that broke them into the mainstream and it sold at least 4 million copies in 2001. The album was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA, a total of 5 singles were released from this album, Its Been Awhile, Fade, Outside, For You and Epiphany, all of which did reasonably well. There were videos made for each of these songs, the first four singles had varying degrees of success in the UK, Its Been Awhile charting the highest of the four released in both countries. The album also includes a track called Waste dedicated to a fan who committed suicide. Like Stainds previous album Dysfunction, Break The Cycle has nu metal, however, the album also shows the bands softer post-grunge sound, an element that the band wished to progress further with more acoustic and soft ballad tracks. This included a rendition of the entire album as a second disc. There is also a track on the album. In the United States, the track is an acoustic version of Its Been Awhile. However, on the Australian and European editions, the track is a live acoustic version of Outside, performed with Fred Durst in Biloxi. Break the Cycle debuted at one on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of at least 716,000 copies. It remained at the top the following week with 329,299 copies, in the third week it was number one again with 244,698 copies. In the fourth week it dropped to number 2 with 221,179 copies and it sold over 1,000,000 copies in the first 3 weeks. As of June 2006, it sold 5,467,000 copies in the U. S. alone, Break the Cycle also topped the UK charts, where it was certified platinum, in New Zealand and in Canada, where it had the multi-platinum status. The world sales are around 8 million copies, initial critical response ranged from mixed to average. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. All lyrics written by Aaron Lewis, all music by Staind, except where noted
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14 Shades of Grey
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14 Shades of Grey is the fourth studio album by American rock band Staind, released on May 20,2003. It is the bands last album to be released from Elektra Records, the album featured four singles and debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 220,000 copies. By July 2003,14 Shades of Grey had been certified gold then later platinum, after finishing their tour schedule, Staind allowed Lewis and his wife to conceive their first child and settle for a few months. They then took five weeks to write new songs before they began recording in Los Angeles. The band also spent a week developing the songs at producer Josh Abrahams house, guitarist Mike Mushok noted it as the first time Staind has actually written in the studio. In January 2003, Staind planned on a May 6 release date for their fourth album. This date persisted into March during which a title was announced. However, this would have to be delayed a few weeks, Aaron Lewis elaborated on the lighter direction of 14 Shades of Grey, Its kind of a logical progression where were getting older now. Mike is married, and Im married now with a kid and were much deeper into figuring out as far as lyrically goes. Guitarist Mike Mushok described the title in a 2003 interview, I think its kind of referring to how in life theres black and white. I think the older you get you start to realize that things are grey and not so much black. The song Layne is a tribute to Layne Staley, late Alice in Chains singer, the song Zoe Jane honors Aaron Lewis firstborn daughter. Some shots of Zoe Jane are featured in the video for So Far Away, first editions of the album included a limited edition bonus DVD featuring home videos and footage of the band from their early years to the present, along with album lyrics and new band photos. For a time, fans could use the CD to download an acoustic song Let it Out from the Staind website. The song was included on the deluxe edition of the bands next album. A DVD-Audio edition of the album was released, featuring a 5.1 surround sound version of the album. The single Price to Play was released in anticipation of the albums debut. Three more singles were released over the several months with accompanying music videos
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Chapter V (Staind album)
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Chapter V is the fifth studio album by American alternative metal band Staind. It was released on August 9,2005, debuted at number 1 with first week sales of 185,000 copies, falling and Everything Changes have also been released with accompanying videos. It also showcases a heavier side to the band on selected tracks, since its release, it has sold 1,200,000 copies in the United States and 1,500,000 worldwide. However, it marked Stainds lowest debut so far in the UK, all the same, it was regarded as one of the most anticipated albums of the year in the U. S. before its release. A special edition, with five tracks, an extra booklet. Even after a year, it remained fairly consistent on the Billboard 200. Aaron Lewis has said in relation to this in the booklet of the Special Edition of the album, nobody can ever take away that fact. O. D. The band have toured with 3 Doors Down, Hurt, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin. Initial critical response ranged from mixed to average, at Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 48, based on 10 reviews. All lyrics written by Aaron Lewis, all composed by Staind
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The Illusion of Progress
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The Illusion of Progress is the sixth studio album by American rock band Staind. It was released on August 19,2008, the Illusion of Progress was produced by Johnny K and recorded in lead singer Aaron Lewis home studio. It debuted at No.3 in the Billboard 200 with 91,800 units sold, the lead single was Believe, topping the Alternative Songs chart on September 13,2008. It accumulated three weeks at number one, the second single was All I Want, came out on November 24. The video continued the story of the first single video and was available on Stainds Myspace on December 12, in Europe the second single was The Way I Am, and its video was available on the Official Staind Website as of December 24. This Is It has been released as the last single off the album, the album has sold over 500,000 units in the United States alone. Lewis commented, We went into the studio with the mindset of making our heaviest record yet and we didnt use the same rigs that we use onstage, we used all vintage guitars and amps, and Im pretty psyched about it. The songs are pretty timeless in their texture, the band calls the new project the most musical CD theyve recorded to date. To promote the album, Staind treated their fans to a series of intimate, behind-the-scenes webisodes posted on staind. com, Staind also premiered the song Believe worldwide on U. S. station KYSR in Los Angeles. Staind also released the song, This Is It, on early as a single. This Is It was released as a track for the video game Rock Band on July 29 for the Xbox 360. This Is It was also featured on the soundtrack for the 2009 film Transformers, initial critical response ranged from mixed to average. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. All lyrics written by Aaron Lewis, all music written & composed by Staind, note, The Japanese edition of The Illusion of Progress lists the two bonus tracks Something Like Me and The Truth as both recorded live at the Hiro Ballroom. They are actually the studio versions recorded during the Chapter V album sessions. com Staind on iTunes Lyrics
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Staind (album)
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Staind is the eponymous seventh studio album by American alternative metal band Staind, released on September 13,2011. The album marks the return to Stainds more aggressive sound that was predominant on the earlier albums Tormented, Dysfunction. The album also returns the guitar solos of Stainds first album Tormented, drummer Jon Wysocki left the band after the recording sessions in May 2011. Rapper Snoop Dogg appears on the remix of the song Wannabe, the making of Staind was a stressful experience for the group. As lead singer Aaron Lewis stated, By the end of the first month we werent even recording in the same places anymore, a number of factors created some dissension within the group during recording. In addition Lewiss working relationship with drummer Jon Wysocki broke down completely, wysockis departure from the group was announced on their website in May 2011. Many songs were released before the official release date. The lead single, Not Again, was available as a streaming video on the bands official website on July 12,2011. It was released to radio stations on July 19,2011, the Bottom was released on the Transformers, Dark of the Moon soundtrack. Additionally, Eyes Wide Open was released on June 30, the official music video for Not Again premiered August 30,2011. The single topped the Mainstream Rock Songs chart for seven non-consecutive weeks, the second single has been confirmed as Eyes Wide Open. Something to Remind You, despite not being a single, peaked at No.19 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 and it would be released as the fourth single later on. On September 15 Staind played a concert for the September 11 victims. Eight of the ten songs were performed, excluding Take a Breath. The band views the album as a return to the aggressive sound heard on earlier albums such as Dysfunction. Mike Mushok said Its like Dysfunction 2011, the music goes back to where we started, but theres still melody. We were ready to make an album that was heavy from beginning to end, bassist Johnny April said Theres a deeper anger to the vocals and music. Some of the riffs Mike came up with were challenging and incredibly different, weve grown so much, and at the same time managed to find out way back to our roots
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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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It's Been Awhile
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Its Been Awhile is a song recorded by American rock band Staind. It was released in March 2001 as the single from their album Break the Cycle. The song is Stainds most successful and is their song, becoming a No.5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The narrator is someone who takes stock of his life and makes references to his previous drug addiction problem, the narrator mentions their father, though they believe that they only have themselves to blame for their problems. Lewis called the song, an acknowledgement of the past, eric Aiese of Billboard reviewed the song favourably, saying that the group handles the ballad well and packs a lot of punch into the cut. Aiese said that the song may be the groups greatest splash yet and its Been Awhile Its Been Awhile Suffocate The music video begins with Aaron Lewis going through some old photographs, one of which happens to be the picture of his wife. The video then switches between him writing a letter to his wife and the band performing casually in a full of candles. There are brief shots of Aaron alone in the streets and looking at himself in the mirror while having second thoughts, throughout the video, Aaron is seen continuously smoking cigarettes. At the end of the video, one of those cigarettes falls onto the floor, the video was directed by Limp Bizkit frontman, Fred Durst. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Fade (Staind song)
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Break the Cycle is the third studio album by American rock band Staind, released through Elektra Entertainment and Flip Records in 2001. It is Stainds most successful album to date, and was the album that broke them into the mainstream and it sold at least 4 million copies in 2001. The album was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA, a total of 5 singles were released from this album, Its Been Awhile, Fade, Outside, For You and Epiphany, all of which did reasonably well. There were videos made for each of these songs, the first four singles had varying degrees of success in the UK, Its Been Awhile charting the highest of the four released in both countries. The album also includes a track called Waste dedicated to a fan who committed suicide. Like Stainds previous album Dysfunction, Break The Cycle has nu metal, however, the album also shows the bands softer post-grunge sound, an element that the band wished to progress further with more acoustic and soft ballad tracks. This included a rendition of the entire album as a second disc. There is also a track on the album. In the United States, the track is an acoustic version of Its Been Awhile. However, on the Australian and European editions, the track is a live acoustic version of Outside, performed with Fred Durst in Biloxi. Break the Cycle debuted at one on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of at least 716,000 copies. It remained at the top the following week with 329,299 copies, in the third week it was number one again with 244,698 copies. In the fourth week it dropped to number 2 with 221,179 copies and it sold over 1,000,000 copies in the first 3 weeks. As of June 2006, it sold 5,467,000 copies in the U. S. alone, Break the Cycle also topped the UK charts, where it was certified platinum, in New Zealand and in Canada, where it had the multi-platinum status. The world sales are around 8 million copies, initial critical response ranged from mixed to average. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. All lyrics written by Aaron Lewis, all music by Staind, except where noted
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So Far Away (Staind song)
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So Far Away is a song by American band Staind. It was released in June 2003 as the single from their fourth album 14 Shades of Grey. The song also became the bands second Top 40 Hit on the Billboard Hot 100, bram Teitelman of Billboard reviewed the song favorably, predicting a rock radio smash due to the lyrics sunny disposition and a return to the sonic qualities that radio previously embraced. Teitelman called it a midtempo song anchored by frontman Aaron Lewis expressive vocals, the music video is a collage of clips of the bands live performances, some shots of Aaron Lewis daughter Zoe Jane, and other videos. So Far Away So Far Away Novocaine Zoe Jane So Far Away Mudshovel Home-Grown Promo Footage Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Right Here (Staind song)
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Right Here is the first single from Stainds fifth album Chapter V in 2005. Right Here has been Stainds third-most successful single chartwise, peaking at No.1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the two previous singles also hit No.1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart but Right Here failed to accomplish this feat. But it still was successful peaking at No.3 and it is also Stainds first entry into the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and the Hot Digital Songs charts. The song was used in a video package by World Wrestling Entertainment commemorating wrestler Edge after he won his first WWE Championship. The music video features all four members in one house in four separate rooms, cameras capture all the members except Aaron Lewis in the same room playing their instruments, while Lewis is featured in multiple rooms. Right Here Open Wide Come Again Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Korn
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Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. Korn was originally formed by three of the members of the band L. A. P. D, Korn released their first demo album, Neidermayers Mind, in 1993. The band later went on to release their debut album in 1994. The band experienced success with Follow the Leader and Issues. The bands mainstream success continued with Untouchables, Take a Look in the Mirror, a compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol.1, was released in 2004, spanning a decade of singles and concluding the bands recording contract with Immortal Records and Epic Records. They signed to Virgin Records, releasing See You on the Other Side in 2005, and an untitled album in 2007. Korns other recent albums, Korn III, Remember Who You Are and The Path of Totality, were released via Roadrunner Records, The Paradigm Shift being released via Prospect Park and their latest album, The Serenity of Suffering, was released on October 21,2016. As of 2012, Korn had sold around 35 million copies worldwide, twelve of the bands official releases have peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200, eight of which have peaked in the top five. Korn has released seven albums and thirty-nine music videos. The band has released singles, twenty-eight of which have charted. Korn has earned two Grammy Awards out of seven nominations and two MTV Video Music Awards out of eleven nominations, before Korn was formed, three of the original members of the band were associated with the band L. A. P. D. – James Shaffer, Reginald Arvizu, and David Silveria, originally consisting of Richard Morrill, James Shaffer, and Reginald Arvizu, David Silveria joined when he was 16. When the band moved from Bakersfield, California to Los Angeles, Silveria dropped out of high school, when Shaffer reunited with the band, they found a manager and released an EP entitled Love and Peace Dude in 1989 through Triple X Records. Released their first full-length studio album on May 3,1991 which consisted of eleven tracks, the album was entitled Whos Laughing Now. The logo was designed by vocalist Jonathan Davis, Silveria explained, the music makes the name, because Korns a dumb name. But once we get established, it makes the name cool, Korn rented a studio from Jeff Creath, called Underground Chicken Sound, in Huntington Beach, California. While they were recording at Underground Chicken Sound, a crowd had been loitering outside the studio, the band began playing a prelude to a later song, Clown, resulting in a larger crowd gathering. Arvizu said the crowd gathered because it sounded so different, Korn started performing at gigs in the summer of 1993, with members saying that touring was a pain-in-the-ass
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Rage Against the Machine
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Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group consists of rapper and vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk. They draw inspiration from heavy metal instrumentation, as well as hip hop acts such as Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys. Rage Against the Machine is well known for the members leftist and revolutionary political views, as of 2010, they had sold over 16 million records worldwide. In 1992, the band released its debut album, which became a commercial and critical success. In 2003, the album was ranked number 368 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the band did not release a follow-up record until 1996, with Evil Empire. The bands third album, The Battle of Los Angeles, followed in 1999, and in 2003, during their initial nine-year run, they became one of the most popular and influential bands in music history, according to music journalist Colin Devenish. They were also ranked No.33 on VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, the band had a large influence on the nu metal genre which came to prominence during the second half of the 1990s. In 2000, the released the cover album Renegades. The same year, growing tensions over the direction of the band prompted de la Rocha to quit, the same year, Rage Against the Machine announced a reunion and performed together for the first time in seven years at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2007. Up until 2011, the continued to perform at more live venues. In 2016, Morello, Commerford and Wilk formed a new band, Prophets of Rage, with Chuck D, Tom soon contacted Brad Wilk, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for Lock Up. This line-up went on to form Rage Against the Machine, the newly christened Rage Against the Machine named themselves after a song de la Rocha had written for his former popular underground hardcore punk band, Inside Out. Kent McClard, with whom Inside Out were associated, had coined the phrase rage against the machine in a 1989 article in his zine No Answers. Shortly after forming, they gave their first public performance on October 23,1991, at The Quad of California State University, not all 12 songs made it onto the final album—two were eventually included as B-sides, while three others never saw an official release. Several record labels expressed interest, and the band signed with Epic Records. Morello said, Epic agreed to everything we asked—and theyve followed through and we never saw a conflict as long as we maintained creative control. The Fuck You version, which contains 17 iterations of the word fuck, was accidentally played on the BBC Radio 1 Top 40 singles show on February 21,1993
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Pearl Jam
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the bands line-up has comprised Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, the bands fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar has also been a member with the band since 2002. Drummers Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons are former members of the band, formed after the demise of Gossard and Aments previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame, to date, the band has sold nearly 32 million records in the United States and an estimated 60 million worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as the most popular American rock & roll band of the 90s. Pearl Jam is to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7,2017, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of pioneering grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success but disbanded in 1987 due to a division between the pair and bandmates Mark Arm and Steve Turner. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing with Malfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood, in 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest and found the support of the PolyGram record label, which signed the band in early 1989. Mother Love Bones debut album, Apple, was released in July 1990, Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Gossard spent his time writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously. After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band, Shadow, had broken up, after practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band, Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his basketball buddy, San Diego, California singer Eddie Vedder. Vedder was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio and he listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him. He then recorded the vocals to three of the songs in what he described as a mini-opera entitled Momma-Son. Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition, within a week, Vedder had joined the band. With the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, the band took the name Mookie Blaylock, the band played its first official show at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle on October 22,1990, and soon signed to Epic Records and renamed themselves Pearl Jam. In a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story however, Vedder admitted that this story was total bullshit, Pearl Jam entered Seattles London Bridge Studios in March 1991 to record its debut album, Ten
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Tool (band)
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Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the groups line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, justin Chancellor has been the bands bassist since 1995, replacing their original bassist Paul DAmour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries. Due to Tools incorporation of visual arts and very long and complex releases, the band is described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock, psychedelic rock. The relationship between the band and todays industry is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship. During the 1980s, each of the members of Tool moved to Los Angeles. Both Paul DAmour and Adam Jones wanted to enter the film industry, Danny Carey and Keenan performed for Green Jellÿ, and Carey played with Carole King and Pigmy Love Circus. Keenan and Jones met through a friend in 1989. After Keenan played a recording for Jones of his previous band project. They started jamming together and were on the lookout for a drummer, Carey happened to live above Keenan and was introduced to Jones by Tom Morello, an old high school friend of Jones and former member of Electric Sheep. Carey began playing in their sessions because he felt sorry for them. Tools lineup was completed when a friend of Jones introduced them to bassist DAmour, early on, the band fabricated the story that they formed because of the pseudophilosophy lachrymology. Although lachrymology was also cited as an inspiration for the name, Keenan later explained their intentions differently, Tool is exactly what it sounds like. Your tool, use us as a catalyst in your process of finding out whatever it is you need to find out, or whatever it is youre trying to achieve. After almost two years of practicing and performing locally in the Los Angeles area, the band was approached by record companies, in March 1992, Zoo published the bands first effort, Opiate. Described by the band as slam and bang heavy music and the hardest sounding six songs they had written to that point, the bands first music video, Hush, promoted their dissenting views about the then-prominent Parents Music Resource Center and its advocacy of the censorship of music. The video featured the band members naked with their genitalia covered by parental advisory stickers and their mouths covered by duct tape. The band began touring with Rollins Band, Fishbone, and Rage Against the Machine to positive responses, which Janiss Garza of RIP Magazine summarized in September 1992 as a buzz and a strong start
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Alice in Chains
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Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr, although widely associated with grunge music, the bands sound incorporates heavy metal elements. Since its formation, Alice in Chains has released five studio albums, the band is known for its distinctive vocal style, which often included the harmonized vocals of Staley and Cantrell. Alice in Chains rose to fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s, along with other Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam. The band was one of the most successful acts of the 1990s, selling over 20 million records worldwide. In 1992 the bands album, Dirt, was released to critical acclaim and was certified quadruple platinum. Their third album, Alice in Chains, was released in 1995 and has been certified double platinum and it achieved No.1 position on the Billboard 200 chart. The band has had 14 top ten songs on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, although never officially disbanding, Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from 1996 onwards due to Staleys substance abuse, which resulted in his death in 2002. The band reunited in 2005 for a benefit show, performing with a number of guest vocalists. They toured in 2006, with William DuVall taking over as lead vocalist full-time, the new line-up released the bands fourth studio album, Black Gives Way to Blue, in 2009. The album received gold certification by the RIAA, in 2013, the band released The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, its fifth studio album. The band has toured extensively and released videos in support of these albums. Alice in Chains is currently working on their studio album. Other members of this group at that time were guitarists Johnny Bacolas and Zoli Semanate, drummer James Bergstrom and this was prompted by a conversation that Bacolas had with a singer from another band about backstage passes. Staley met guitarist Jerry Cantrell while working with Alice N Chains at Music Bank rehearsal studios, the two struggling musicians became roommates, living in a rehearsal space they shared. Alice N Chains soon disbanded, and Staley joined a band that also required a guitarist at the time. Staley asked Cantrell to join as a sideman, Cantrell agreed on condition that Staley join Cantrells band, which at the time included drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr. Local promoter Randy Hauser became aware of the band at a concert, however, one day before the band was due to record at the Music Bank studio in Washington, police shut down the studio during the biggest cannabis raid in the history of the state
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Faith No More
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Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979. Before settling on their current moniker in 1982, the band performed under the names Sharp Young Men, bassist Billy Gould and drummer Mike Bordin are the longest remaining members of the band, having been involved with Faith No More since its inception. The band underwent several lineup changes early in their career, along with major changes later on. The current lineup of Faith No More consists of Gould, Bordin, keyboardist Roddy Bottum, guitarist Jon Hudson, after releasing six studio albums, Faith No More officially announced their breakup on April 20,1998. They have since reunited, embarked on The Second Coming Tour from 2009 to 2012, Faith No More was originally formed as Sharp Young Men in 1979 by bassist Billy Gould, drummer Mike Bordin, vocalist Mike Morris, and keyboardist Wade Worthington. Mike Morris described the name as a piss-take on all the groups at the time. Later on Morris proposed the name Faith In No Man but eventually the band settled on Bordins suggestion Faith No Man and they recorded Quiet in Heaven/Song of Liberty, released in 1983. They changed their name to Faith No Man for the release of the single, Bottum, Gould and Bordin quit the band shortly after and formed Faith No More. They chose the name to accentuate the fact that The Man was No More and they didnt have any constant guitarists or vocalists until they eventually settled on Chuck Mosley in 1983 and later Jim Martin. After the name change, the band started recording We Care a Lot without backing from a record label and, after pooling their money. It was the first official release for both the band and the label, in late 1986, Faith No More was signed to Los Angeles label Slash Records by Anna Statman. The label had recently sold to the Warner Music Group subsidiary London Records. Introduce Yourself was released in 1987, and a version of their debut albums title track We Care a Lot saw minor success on MTV. Mosleys behaviour had started to increasingly erratic, particularly during a troubled tour of Europe in 1988. Mosley was eventually fired after the band returned home from Europe, Billy Gould reflected There was a certain point when I went to rehearsal, and Chuck wanted to do all acoustic guitar songs. It was just so far off the mark, the upshot was that I got up, walked out and quit the band. I Just said, ‘I’m done – I can’t take this any longer, the same day, I talked to Bordin, and he said, ‘Well, I still want to play with you’. It was another one of these ‘firing somebody without firing them’ scenarios, Chuck Mosley was replaced with singer Mike Patton in 1988
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Pantera
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Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. The group was formed in 1981 by the Abbott brothers – drummer Vinnie Paul, bassist Rex Brown joined the band the following year, replacing the original unofficial bass guitarist Tommy D. Bradford. Having started as a metal band, Pantera released four albums during the 1980s. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera replaced Glaze with Phil Anselmo in late 1986, with its fifth album, 1990s Cowboys from Hell, Pantera introduced a groove metal sound. Panteras sixth album, 1992s Vulgar Display of Power, exhibited an even heavier sound, Far Beyond Driven debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Tensions began to surface among the members when Anselmo became addicted to heroin in 1995. These tensions resulted in the sessions for The Great Southern Trendkill being held separately. The ongoing tension lasted for seven years, during which only one studio album. Pantera went on hiatus in 2001, but was disbanded by the Abbott brothers in 2003 amid communication problems, the Abbott brothers went on to form Damageplan, while Anselmo continued work on several side projects, including Down in which Rex Brown joined as well. On December 8,2004, Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed on stage by a mentally unstable fan during a Damageplan concert in Columbus, Ohio, in 1982, the band was renamed Pantera in order to shorten the name and to settle an agreement between all band members. Hart left the band and Terry Glaze became the groups vocalist, later, Glaze stopped playing guitar, leaving Darrell as the sole guitarist. Later that year Bradford also departed and was replaced by Rex Brown, Pantera became an underground favorite, though its regional tours in this era never took them beyond Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The band began supporting fellow heavy metal acts such as Stryper, Dokken, and Quiet Riot. Metal Magic was released on the record label of the same name in 1983 and produced by the Abbott brothers father, Jerry Abbott. The following year, Pantera released its second album, Projects in the Jungle. Though still very much a glam metal album, the band members crafted songs that had less overbearing melodic influences than songs from Metal Magic, another change was Terry Glazes name, as he was henceforth credited as Terrence Lee. In addition, a video for the albums lead track. Projects in the Jungle was also released on the bands independent Metal Magic Records label, in 1985, Pantera again released a full-length album on Metal Magic Records, titled I Am the Night
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Limp Bizkit
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Limp Bizkit is an American rap rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed in 1994. Their lineup consists of Fred Durst, Sam Rivers, John Otto and their music is marked by Dursts angry vocal delivery and Borlands sonic experimentation. Borlands elaborate visual appearance, which includes face and body paint, masks and uniforms, the band has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, have sold 40 million records worldwide and won several other awards. Borland left the group in 2001, but Durst, Rivers, Otto and Lethal continued to record and tour with guitarist Mike Smith. Following the release of their album, Results May Vary, Borland rejoined the band and recorded The Unquestionable Truth with Durst, Rivers, Lethal and they are currently recording their seventh studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants. Fred Durst grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where he took an interest in breakdancing, hip hop, punk rock and he began to rap, skate, beatbox and deejay. While mowing lawns and working as a tattoo artist, he developed an idea for a band that combined elements of rock and hip hop. Durst played with three bands, Split 26, Malachi Sage, which were unsuccessful, and 10 Foot Shindig. Durst told Sam Rivers, the bassist for Malachi Sage, You need to quit this band and start a band with me thats like this, rappin and rockin. Rivers suggested that his cousin, John Otto, who was studying jazz drumming at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and playing in local avant garde bands, Durst, Rivers and Otto jammed and wrote three songs together, and Wes Borland later joined as a guitarist. Durst named the band Limp Bizkit, because he wanted a name that would repel listeners, according to Durst, The name is there to turn peoples heads away. A lot of people pick up the disc and go, Limp Bizkit and those are the people that we dont even want listening to our music. Other names that were considered by Durst included Gimp Disco, Split Dickslit, Bitch Piglet, every record label that showed an interest in the band pressured its members to change its name. Limp Bizkit developed a following in the underground music scene, particularly at the Milk Bar. The bands local popularity was such that Sugar Ray, who had a label contract. Milkbar owner, Danny Wimmer, stated that Limp Bizkit had the biggest draw for a local band and they went from playing ten people to eight hundred within months. Fred was always marketing the band and he would go to record stores and get people involved, he was in touch with high schools. However, the band knew that to achieve success, they would have to distinguish themselves in their live performances
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Fred Durst
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William Frederick Fred Durst is an American musician and film director. Durst is best known as the vocalist of the band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, since 2006, Durst has periodically worked on independent films. He co-starred in the film Population 436, and made his debut in 2007 with the film The Education of Charlie Banks. Durst directed a film, The Longshots, in 2008. Durst was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, and grew up in Casey Plaza, Jacksonville, at the age of 12, Durst took an interest in breakdancing, hip hop, punk rock and heavy metal. He began to rap, skate, beatbox and DJ, leaving the Navy after just two years, Durst moved to Jacksonville where he worked as a landscaper and a tattoo artist while developing an idea for a band that combined elements of rock and hip hop. Before forming Limp Bizkit, Durst played with three bands, Split 26, Malachi Sage, and 10 Foot Shindig, in 1994, Durst, Malachi Sage bassist Sam Rivers, and Rivers cousin John Otto jammed together and wrote three songs. Durst named the band Limp Bizkit because he wanted a name that would repel listeners, Limp Bizkit developed a cult following in the underground music scene when its covers of George Michaels Faith and Paula Abduls Straight Up began to attract curious concertgoers. Later, when Korn performed in town as the act for Sick of It All. He was able to persuade bassist Reginald Arvizu to listen to demos of the songs Pollution, Counterfeit, Korn added a then-unsigned Limp Bizkit to two tours, which gave the band a new audience. DJ Lethal, formerly of the hip hop group House of Pain, joined the band as a turntablist, Dursts disagreements with Borland led the guitarist to quit and rejoin the band. In 1997, Limp Bizkit signed with Flip Records, a subsidiary of Interscope Records, Durst was appointed Senior Vice President of A&R at Interscope. On October 23,1997, Durst met the band Staind, cavalera stated that producer Ross Robinson recommended that he work with Durst. Durst also made an appearance on Korns album Follow the Leader, jonathan Davis had intended to write a battle rap with B-Real of Cypress Hill, but the latters label wouldnt let him do it, and Durst was tapped instead. Davis and Durst wrote the lyrics for All in the Family, Davis and Durst would often offer suggestions for each others lyrics, a lyric written by Durst as tootin on your bagpipe was changed to fagpipes by Davis, who stated I helped him bag on me better. Limp Bizkit achieved mainstream success with the albums Significant Other and Chocolate Starfish, in the summer of 1999, Limp Bizkit played at the highly anticipated Woodstock 99 festival in front of approximately 200,000 people. Violence occurred during and after their performance, including fans tearing plywood from the walls during the song Break Stuff, several sexual assaults were reported in the aftermath of the concert. Durst stated during the concert, People are getting hurt, but I dont think you should mellow out
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Theistic Satanism
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The individual belief systems under this umbrella are practiced by loosely affiliated or independent groups and cabals. Another characteristic of Theistic Satanism is the use of ceremonial magic, most actual theistic Satanist religions exist in relatively new models and ideologies, many of which even claim to be independent of the Abrahamic religions. The internet has increased awareness of different beliefs among Satanists, but Satanism has always been a pluralistic and decentralised religion. A small, now-defunct Satanist group called Children of the Black Rose equated Satan with the pantheistic the All, some may choose to live out the myths and stereotypes, but Christianity is not always the primary frame of reference for theistic Satanists. Their religion may be based on dark pagan, left hand path, Theistic Satanists who base their faith on Christian ideas about Satan may be referred to as “reverse Christians” by other Satanists, often in a pejorative fashion. However, those labeled by some as “reverse Christians” may see their concept of Satan as undiluted or sanitized and they worship a stricter interpretation of Satan, that of the Satan featured in the Christian Bible. This is not, however, shared by a majority of theistic Satanists, the diversity of individual beliefs within theistic Satanism, while being a cause for intense debates within the religion, is also often seen as a reflection of Satan, who encourages individualism. A notable group that outwardly considers themselves to be traditional Satanists is the Order of Nine Angles and this group became controversial and was mentioned in the press and in books, because they promoted human sacrifice. The O9A believes that Satan is one of two eternal beings, the other one being Baphomet, and that Satan is male. A group with different ideology to the ONA is the Satanic Reds. However, they are not theistic Satanist in the manner of believing in Satan as a god with a personality, but believe in dark deism, one other group is the Temple of the Black Light, formerly known as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order prior to 2007. The group espouses a philosophy known as “Chaosophy”, chaosophy asserts that the world that we live in, and the universe that it lives in, all exists within the realm known as Cosmos. Cosmos is made of three dimensions and one linear time dimension. Cosmos rarely ever changes and is a materialistic realm, another realm that exists is known as Chaos. Chaos exists outside of the Cosmos and is made of infinite dimensions and unlike the Cosmos, it is always changing. Members of the TotBL believe that the realm of Chaos is ruled over by 11 dark gods, the highest of them being Satan and this higher being is known as Azerate, the Dragon Mother, and is all of the 11 gods united as one. The TotBL believes that Azerate will resurrect one day and destroy the Cosmos, the group has been connected to the Swedish black/death metal band Dissection, particularly its front man Jon Nödtveidt. Nödtveidt was introduced to the group “at an early stage”, the lyrics on the bands third album, Reinkaos, are all about beliefs of the Temple of the Black Light
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Soundgarden
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Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the bands drummer in 1986, while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. Soundgarden was one of the bands in the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle. In 1997, the broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. After more than a decade of working on projects and other bands, Soundgarden reunited in 2010 and their studio album. As of 2012, Soundgarden had sold more than 10.5 million records in the United States, vH1 ranked Soundgarden at number 14 in their special 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Soundgardens origins can be found in a band called The Shemps, which performed around Seattle in the early 1980s, following Yamamotos departure, the band recruited guitarist Kim Thayil as its new bassist. Soundgarden was formed in 1984 by Cornell, Yamamoto, and Thayil, Cornell originally played drums while singing, but in 1985 the band enlisted Scott Sundquist to allow Cornell to concentrate on vocals. The band traveled around playing various concerts with this line-up for about a year and their first recordings were three songs that appeared on the 1986 compilation album for C/Z Records called Deep Six. It also featured songs by fellow grunge pioneers Green River, Skin Yard, Malfunkshun, The U-Men, in 1986, Sundquist left the band to spend time with his family, and was replaced by Matt Cameron, the drummer from Skin Yard. KCMU DJ Jonathan Poneman was impressed after seeing Soundgarden perform one night, later saying, Poneman offered to fund a release by the band, so Thayil told him to team up with Bruce Pavitt. Poneman offered to contribute $20,000 in funding for Sub Pop, Soundgarden signed to Sub Pop, and the label released Hunted Down in 1987 as the bands first single. Through Sub Pop, the released the Screaming Life EP in 1987. A combination of the two was issued as Screaming Life/Fopp in 1990, though the band was being courted by major labels, in 1988 it signed to the independent label SST Records for its debut album, Ultramega OK, released on October 31,1988. Cornell said that the band made a mistake with Ultramega OK since they used a producer suggested by SST who didnt know what was happening in Seattle. On that album, Soundgarden demonstrates, according to Steve Huey of AllMusic, the bands first music video, Flower, was directed by Mark Miremont, and aired regularly on MTVs 120 Minutes. Soundgarden supported Ultramega OK with a tour in the United States in the spring of 1989 and a tour in Europe, Ultramega OK earned the band a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal Performance in 1990. After touring in support of Ultramega OK the band signed with A&M Records, Thayil said, In the beginning, our fans came from the punk rock crowd
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Deftones
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Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, U. S. Formed in 1988, the band was founded by Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, during the groups first five years, the bands lineup changed several times, but stabilized in 1993 when Cunningham rejoined the group after his departure in 1990. Cunningham replaced John Taylor, who had replaced Garcia after he had switched to drums in 1990, the lineup remained stable for fifteen years, with the exception of keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado being added in 1999. In 2008, Cheng was involved in an accident that ended his stint with Deftones. He has been replaced by Sergio Vega, the band is known as one of the most experimental groups to have come from the alternative metal music scene. Deftones have released eight albums since their inception, after the lineup settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album, Adrenaline, in 1995. Promoting the album by touring exhaustively with other bands in the scene and their sophomore album, Around the Fur, was released in 1997. The album and its singles reached chart positions, and the album was the bands first to receive certification from the RIAA, the band found even further success with their third album, White Pony, in 2000. It showed a transition away from the earlier sound into a more experimental direction. Its lead single, Change, is the groups most commercially successful single, White Pony was the bands first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. Their self-titled fourth album was released in 2003, while the groups mainstream success continued, sales proved to be lackluster compared to White Pony. The follow-up, Saturday Night Wrist, was released in 2006 after a falling out within the band due to creative tensions. Its completion was delayed by personal issues within the band. In 2008, while Deftones were working on an album tentatively titled Eros, as a result, he was left in a minimally conscious state until his death in 2013 of cardiac arrest. During that time, Deftones halted production on Eros and released Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan in 2010 and 2012 respectively, in 2016, the band released a followup, titled Gore. When Stephen Carpenter was 15 years old, he was hit by a car while skateboarding, confined to a wheelchair for several months, he began teaching himself guitar by playing along to bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. Carpenter, Cunningham and Chino Moreno were friends from their childhood, All three went to McClatchy High School in Sacramento and remained friends through the citys skateboarding scene. While Carpenter was a fan of metal, Moreno was also interested in hardcore punk bands such as Bad Brains and post-punk
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Eddie Vedder
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Eddie Vedder is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the grunge band Pearl Jam, with whom he performs lead vocals and is one of three guitarists. He is known for his baritone vocals. He is also involved in making music and contributes to albums by other artists, in 2007, Vedder released his first solo album as a soundtrack for the film Into the Wild. His second album Ukulele Songs and a live DVD titled Water on the Road were released in 2011, Vedder will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7,2017. Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, on December 23,1964, to Karen Lee Vedder and Edward Louis Severson and his parents divorced in 1965, when Vedder was an infant. His mother soon remarried, to a man named Peter Mueller, Vedder was raised believing that Mueller was his biological father, and he went by the name Edward Mueller for a time. Vedders ancestry includes German and Danish, while living in Evanston, Vedders family fostered seven younger children in a group home. In the mid-1970s, the family, including Vedders three younger half-brothers, moved to San Diego County, California and it was at this point that Vedder, who had received a guitar from his mother on his twelfth birthday, began turning to music as a source of comfort. He particularly found solace in The Whos 1973 album, Quadrophenia and he said, When I was around 15 or 16. I was all alone—except for music and his mother and Mueller divorced when Vedder was in his late teens. His mother and brothers moved back to the Chicago area, after the divorce, Vedder learned the truth about his parentage, Mueller was really his stepfather. Vedder had met his father briefly as a child, but had believed that Severson was merely an old friend of his parents. By the time Vedder learned the truth, Severson had died of multiple sclerosis, by his senior year at San Dieguito High School, Vedder was on his own, living in an apartment and supporting himself with a nightly job at a drug store in Encinitas. He eventually dropped out of school in his senior year due to the pressures of balancing school with working. He joined the rest of his family in Chicago, and it was at time that he changed his name to Eddie Vedder, Vedder being his mothers maiden name. In the early 1980s, while working as a waiter, Eddie earned his high school GED, in 1984, Vedder returned to San Diego, with his girlfriend, Beth Liebling. He kept busy recording demo tapes at his home and working various jobs, Vedder had several stints in San Diego area bands, including Surf and Destroy and The Butts. One of those bands, called Indian Style, included future Rage Against the Machine, in 1988, Vedder became the vocalist for the San Diego progressive funk rock band Bad Radio
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Mudshovel
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Mudshovel is a song by the American rock band Staind. It was released in October 1999 as the single from their 1999 studio album, Dysfunction. It reached number 14 on the US Modern Rock Charts and number 10 on the Mainstream Rock charts and it originally appeared in a heavier form as Mudshuvel on their debut album Tormented. The new version was given a makeover with beefed up production, less screaming, palm muted guitar. According to Songfacts, Mudshovel is about a relationship in which the significant other has hurt the victim in some way, musically, Mudshovel relies on a distinctive three-note bass line that shifts into a rumbling low. It opens the song and is preceded by tense vocals and an ensemble of flanging guitar. The chorus features chunky guitar riffs and a repeated murmuring of the song title, a music video was filmed for the single. It mostly consists of the playing in an enclosed arena on an elevated glass stage above a mosh pit. Interspersed with this is a storyline involving a man being cheated on by his wife/girlfriend, young cannibals. html Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Crystal Method
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The Crystal Method is an American electronic music and keyboardist duo formed in Las Vegas, Nevada by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. Like The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy and others, are pioneers of the big beat genre, the Crystal Methods music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. Their album Vegas, was certified platinum in 2007, the Crystal Method is made up of two members, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. Ken taught Scott how to DJ, and when Ken moved to L. A. to work for a producer, Scott followed Ken out to L. A. and they formed The Crystal Method in 1993. By the early 90s, both Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland had moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, Ken and Scott bought a house together, in La Crescenta, Glendale, California, which had a small underground shelter beneath the front lawn. Originally intending to turn the shelter into a studio, it proved to be an unrealistic idea and they subsequently named their studio The Bomb Shelter. They were interviewed on the front lawn of the house in the documentary Better Living Through Circuitry, after The Bomb Shelter was built, a tape of The Crystal Methods music found its way to a British DJ named Justin King. King was interested in starting a label that would showcase American electronic dance acts. King teamed up with a Scot named Steve Melrose to form the record label City of Angels, the first official release from the City of Angels label was The Crystal Methods Now is the Time. The Crystal Method were signed to Outpost Recordings in 1996, after the band signed with Outpost, they began working on their debut album. The groups second single on City of Angels was Keep Hope Alive and their next release was on the Mortal Kombat, More Kombat soundtrack, Come2gether. On September 8,1997, The Crystal Method released their best-selling album, Vegas peaked at number 92 on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold by the RIAA in 1998, then platinum in 2007, five of the albums ten tracks were released as singles, Trip Like I Do, Busy Child, High Roller, Comin Back, and Keep Hope Alive. In 1999, the band went into the studio to record their studio album, Tweekend. The album was released in July 2001, and peaked at number 32 on the Billboard 200, four singles were released from Tweekend, Wild, Sweet and Cool, Murder, Blowout, Name of the Game. Jordan and Kirkland used to have a show called Community Service which aired Friday nights on radio station Indie 103.1. They played music and hosted guests, like Death in Vegas and their show came back on air in 2011 and airs weekly on Sirius XMs Channel 52. A year after the release of Tweekend, The Crystal Method released a mix album based on their radio show
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Sevendust
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Sevendust is an American alternative metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1994 by bassist Vince Hornsby, drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly. After their first demo, lead vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and guitarist Clint Lowery joined the group, following a few name changes, the members settled on the name Sevendust and released their self-titled debut album on April 15,1997. They have attained success with three consecutive RIAA gold certified albums and have sold millions of albums worldwide, the self-titled album sold 311 copies in its first week. However, through touring and TVT support, the album gained charting success through Billboard, since formation, Sevendust has released ten studio albums, earned additional charting success and gold sales certifications. They have also re-released their self-titled album as Sevendust, Definitive Edition which contains five new tracks, bassist Vince Hornsby joined drummer Morgan Rose in 1994 in a band called Snake Nation. John Connolly, a drummer, left his band and joined Snake Nation as a guitarist. Not happy with vocals, however, Snake Nation spent a year searching for a new singer before finding Lajon Witherspoon, six months passed, Clint Lowery joined the band, and they renamed themselves Rumblefish. Rumblefish was short-lived, however, because they found another band with the same name and they renamed themselves Crawlspace, and released My Ruin on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack album entitled More Kombat through TVT Records in 1996. Shortly after, another band named Crawlspac sent notice that they wanted $2,500 for the rights to their name, rather than purchase the rights, the band members chose to rename themselves Sevendust, a name inspired by the commercial insecticide brand Sevin Dust. The song Rumble Fish was included on the second album. Black became the song for nearly every Sevendust concert until 2004. The debut album contains the song My Ruin, from the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Sevendust appeared on the Billboard 200, remained there for sixteen weeks, the album went gold on May 19,1999. In 1998, Sevendust performed at Dynamo Open Air and Ozzfest 1998, in the same year they released a compilation called Live and Loud which featured live footage of the bands performance of September 16,1998 at Chicagos Metro. On August 24,1999, they released their second album, the album peaked at 19 on the Billboard 200 and featured Skin from Skunk Anansie and Chino Moreno from Deftones as guest vocalists. The two singles from the album, Denial and Waffle, gave the band moderate chart success, in 1999, they gained European exposure by opening for Skunk Anansie at various shows in Germany. Skin from Skunk Anansie provided guest vocals on the track Licking Cream off Home and they also opened with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent for Metallica on New Years Eve in 1999 at the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit, Michigan. They also joined Slipknot, Coal Chamber and other bands on the Tattoo the Earth Tour in June 2000, also in 2000, the song Fall was recorded by producer Sylvia Massy in 1998 at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, Georgia
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Rolling Rock Town Fair
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The Rolling Rock Town Fair was an annual alternative rock music festival and tour from 2000 to 2005 sponsored by Rolling Rock beer of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The event was created and produced by Executive Producer, Andrew Cohen and Darin Wolf, starting on August 5,2000, the event featured such groups as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Moby, and Fuel. The August 4,2001 lineup featured the Stone Temple Pilots, Live, Deftones, Incubus, Staind, Oleander, Throe, U. P. O. the July 27,2002 show included Godsmack, Outkast, Nickelback, P. O. D. Alien Ant Farm, Sevendust, Default, Injected, and Tommy Lee, alien Ant Farm cancelled Rolling Rock Town Fair 2002 following their bus accident. Tommy Lee was the replacement for them, for August 6,2005 show, the event was scaled back to its roots, with a sole performance in Western Pennsylvania at Jennerstown Speedway in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania. The event featured many Pennsylvania-based bands such as The Clarks, Live, Rusted Root, The Juliana Theory, Rolling Rock did not continue the event in 2006, after making a deal to sponsor a series of concerts by Steven Van Zandt
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Mississippi Coast Coliseum
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Mississippi Coast Coliseum is an 11, 500-seat reserved seating,15,000 festival seating, multi-purpose arena in Biloxi, Mississippi. It hosted WCW Beach Blast 1993 and the Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball tournament in 1992 and 1993, the Metro Conference mens basketball tournaments were contested there in 1990 and 1994. The first concert held at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum was by the rock band Foghat on April 27,1978, the Mississippi Coast Coliseum also holds one of the largest crawfish festivals in America. This event is every year, over two weekends in April. It was previously home to the Mississippi Sea Wolves ice hockey team, due to damages to the arena by heavy flooding and winds from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the Sea Wolves cancelled their 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 seasons. Repairs are now complete, and the Sea Wolves returned to the ice on October 27,2007. On March 30,2009, the Sea Wolves announced they had suspended operations once again and it was home to the Gulf Coast Bandits, a basketball team that played in the World Basketball Association. The Bandits cancelled their 2006 season for the reasons as the Sea Wolves. The Coliseum also hosted the Mississippi Coast Gamblers of the United States Basketball League in 1994, on October 13,2013, the New Orleans Pelicans hosted the Atlanta Hawks in a preseason NBA game. Nearly 4,000 spectators came to the game, won by the Pelicans, the coliseum hosted the 1990 and 1994 Metro Conference Mens Basketball Tournament. The Mississippi Beach Kings, under the leadership of general manager Roy Turner and coach Gary Hindley, Hindley was voted coach of the year for the second-place finish. The Beach Kings won their first playoff series over the Huntsville Fire, two games to one, and lost the game to the regular-season champion Lafayette Swampcats. The EISL folded the next year, the Mississippi Fire Dogs of the National Indoor Football League also played at the arena, folding in 2003. It also holds a rock festival, known to the locals as THE CPR FESTIVAL. It is presented by the radio station 97.9 WCPR-FM. It consists of popular rock artists. Such bands as Three Days Grace, Hinder, and Staind have performed at the event, in 2007, Daughtry, Saliva, and Puddle of Mudd performed. WWE has held events, including WWE Smackdown TV and WWE Raw
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Outside (Staind song)
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Outside is a song by American alternative metal band Staind. It was released in May 2001 as the single from their second album Break the Cycle. Outside was originally performed live during the 1999 Family Values Tour in Biloxi, Mississippi, with Aaron Lewis on the stage by himself and Limp Bizkits Fred Durst providing backing vocals. Lewis was asked to perform a solo and he decided at the last moment to play a song he had been working on since the early days of Staind. He finished the lyrics to Outside on the spot while singing the song live and its really an accidental phenomenon, Lewis explains. Ive been playing it for some time. In the early days of the band, any money we made went back into the band, outside was one of the songs I played, but it wasnt really finished, so I made up different words every time. We almost put it on Dysfunction, then, one night on the Family Values Tour, ten minutes before going onstage, we decided to do it. There was never any thought of releasing it this way, outside also showed a much softer side of Lewis and Staind that would be explored further in Break the Cycle and would also fully replace their original nu metal sound on 14 Shades of Grey. The studio version managed to have moderate success due to the popularity of both the live performance and their breakthrough hit, Its Been Awhile. The studio recorded version hit number 11 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, a music video was released for the original live performance of the song which, upon its debut, saw frequent airings on MTV2. The studio recorded version of the song had a music video as well. The song was featured on these TV shows, Lost, episode Collision, without A Trace, episode Silent Partner. Cane, episodes Time Away, The Exile, and Family Business, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus did a live acoustic cover of the song on their live EP AOL Sessions Undercover-EP. Weird Al Yankovic uses part of the song on Angry White Boy Polka, joe Budden sampled the chorus of the song on his mixtape Mood Muzik 2, Can It Get Any Worse. on a track which he named after the band. Charles Hamilton used the chorus of Outside on his mix tape song of the same name, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
