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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking. She is the wife and widow of singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles. Ono grew up in Tokyo, and studied at Gakushuin and she withdrew from her course after two years and rejoined her family in New York in 1953. She spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College, and then involved in New York Citys downtown artists scene. She first met Lennon in 1966 at her own art exhibition in London and she brought feminism to the forefront in her music, influencing artists as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith Monk. Ono achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, public appreciation of Onos work has shifted over time, helped by a retrospective at a Whitney Museum branch in 1989 and the 1992 release of the six-disc box set Onobox. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009, as Lennons widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded Strawberry Fields in New York City, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and she has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace, Philippine and Japan disaster relief, and other causes. In 2012 Yoko Ono received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award endowed by Alexandra Hildebrandt, the award is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights. Ono continues her activism, inaugurating a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002. She has a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from her marriage to Anthony Cox, Ono was born on February 18,1933, in Tokyo, to Isoko Ono and Eisuke Ono, a banker and former classical pianist. Isokos father was ennobled in 1915, isokos maternal grandfather Zenjiro Yasuda was an affiliate of the Yasuda clan and zaibatsu. Eisuke came from a line of samurai warrior-scholars. The kanji translation of Yokos first name Yoko means ocean child, Two weeks before Yokos birth, Eisuke was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after, with Yoko meeting Eisuke when she was two and her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. Yoko was enrolled in piano lessons from the age of 4, in 1937, the family was transferred back to Japan and Ono enrolled at Tokyos Gakushuin, one of the most exclusive schools in Japan. In 1940, the moved to New York City. The next year, Eisuke was transferred from New York City to Hanoi, Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the Mitsui family
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Plastic Ono Band
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The Plastic Ono Band is a band formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 as a vehicle for their collaborative and solo projects. Lennon and Ono had begun a personal and artistic relationship in 1968, following their marriage in 1969, they decided that all of their future endeavours would be credited to a conceptual and collaborative vehicle, Plastic Ono Band. After the Lennons move to New York, they began collaborating with Elephants Memory, Lennons collaborations continued under similar names, until the winding down of the concept in 1974. Since 2009, Ono and her son Sean Lennon have led a new incarnation of the group, known as the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met in 1966. Lennon was a member of the Beatles, and Ono was an avant-garde artist. By 1968, the two established a relationship and they began collaborating on a number of musical projects. They first recorded together in May 1968 and these recordings would be released in November as the experimental album Unfinished Music No.1, Two Virgins. The pair also worked throughout the summer on Revolution 9, a piece that appeared on the Beatles White Album. Lennon and Ono continued with their experimental releases parallel to Lennons activities in the Beatles,2, Life with the Lions in May 1969. On 20 March 1969, Lennon and Ono married, and subsequently began their first Bed-in for Peace event, the event saw the new couple using press coverage of their marriage to advocate for peace. Recordings made around this time would be released as their third and final experimental album, following the success of the first bed-in, Lennon and Ono held a second in Montreal in May. During the Bed-in, the couple and their guests recorded the Lennon-penned song Give Peace a Chance and these were released on 4 July as a single credited to the Plastic Ono Band. It was the first single released by Lennon outside of the Beatles, although an independent composition and release by Lennon, his Beatles writing partner Paul McCartney was still credited, as both a contractual and personal agreement of sharing credit. The single was preceded by a launch for the Plastic Ono band on 3 July. According to Ono, the name was coined by Lennon as a result of Onos use of stands for recording. Press material outlined the band as a movement, not limited to a strict membership like a normal band. Lennon and Ono also stated that the audience were members, with the accompanying slogan YOU are the Plastic Ono Band, the Plastic Ono Band remained dormant for most of the summer of 1969 as the Beatles worked on completing Abbey Road. On 12 September, Lennon received a call from John Brower, organizer of the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, Lennon offered instead to perform at the festival
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Art rock
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Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from teen entertainment to an artistic statement, influences may be drawn from genres such as experimental rock, avant-garde music, classical music, and jazz. The genres greatest level of popularity was in the early 1970s through British artists, art rock is most associated with a certain period of rock music, beginning in 1966–67 and ending with the arrival of punk in the mid 1970s. After, the genre would be infused within later popular music genres of the 1970s–90s, in the rock music of the 1970s, the art descriptor was generally understood to mean aggressively avant-garde or pretentiously progressive. Art rock is used synonymously with progressive rock. Historically, the term has been used to describe at least two related, but distinct, types of rock music, art rock emphasizes Romantic and autonomous traditions, in distinction to the aesthetic of the everyday and the disposable embodied by art pop. Common characteristics include album-oriented music divided into compositions rather than songs, with complicated and long instrumental sections. Its music was used within the context of concept records. Compared to progressive rock, art rock is more challenging, noisy and unconventional and less classically influenced, art rock can also to refer to either classically driven rock, or a progressive rock-folk fusion. S. Eliot than to Carl Perkins or Willie Dixon, the boundaries between art and pop music became increasingly blurred throughout the second half of the 20th century. The first usage of the art rock, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. As pop musics dominant format transitioned from singles to albums, many rock bands created works that aspired to make grand artistic statements, as it progressed in the late 1960s – in tandem with the development of progressive rock – art rock acquired notoriety alongside experimental rock. According to biographer Richard Williams, created a new concept, the producer as overall director of the creative process, Spector transformed rock music as a performing art to an art which could only exist in the recording studio, which paved the way for art rock. The Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson is also cited as one of the first examples of the music producer. Like Spector, Wilson was known as an eremitic studio obsessive who laboriously produced fantastical soundscapes through his mastery of recording technology. Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Wilson was the forerunner of a new kind of art-rock that would combine the transcendent possibilities of art with the accessibility of pop music. According to journalist Richard Goldstein, many musicians from California desired to be acknowledged as artists. They yearned for fame, as only needy people can, but they wanted to make art
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Electronic music
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In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions for instruments were composed. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds, Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers for the purpose of composing music, algorithmic composition was first demonstrated in Australia in 1951. In America and Europe, live electronics were pioneered in the early 1960s, during the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music. In the 1980s, electronic music became dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines. Electronically produced music became prevalent in the domain by the 1990s. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. Today, pop music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form. At the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments and these initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments, while some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium accurately synthesized the sound of orchestral instruments. It achieved viable public interest and made progress into streaming music through telephone networks. Critics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments, ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises, developments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s, from the late 1920s, the increased practicality of electronic instruments influenced composers such as Joseph Schillinger to adopt them
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Sean Lennon
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Sean Taro Ono Lennon is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9,1975, his fathers 35th birthday. He is of Irish, Welsh, and English descent on his fathers side, julian Lennon is his half-brother, and Kyoko Chan Cox is his half-sister. After Seans birth, John became a husband, caring for his young son until his death on December 8,1980. He attended Columbia University for three semesters before dropping out to focus on his music, in January 1984, when Steve Jobs was visiting Manhattan, he attended a party that his mother was throwing for Lennon, and Jobs gave him one of the very first Macintosh computers. His parents kick-started his musical career, his debut into the world came at age five. From childhood into his teen years, Lennon continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving credit on her solo albums Its Alright, Starpeace. At 16 Lennon co-wrote the song All I Ever Wanted with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said, by 1995 Lennon had formed the band IMA to play alongside his mother on her album Rising. Lennon also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jacksons 1988 Moonwalker, Escher prints in Sonys 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher. In 1996, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto were invited by Ono to remix the song Talking to the Universe for a Rising remix EP Rising Mixes and they met Lennon and invited him to join them on tour as a bass player. This eventually led to Lennons contributing to their side-project Butter 08 and he continued to play with them on tour, joining them on television and providing bass guitar and vocals on their EP Super Relax. Through his association with Cibo Matto, Lennon was approached by Adam Yauch, regarding Grand Royal, Lennon has said, I think I found the only label on the planet who doesnt care who my parents are and what my name is. Its a good feeling to know that I wouldnt have gotten the offer if they wouldnt have liked my songs, thats pretty rare in the music business. Lennons solo debut Into the Sun, was released in 1998, a music video for Home, a single from the album, was directed by Spike Jonze and enjoyed extended airplay on MTV. The album was produced by fellow Cibo Matto member Yuka Honda and they struck up a personal relationship as well as a creative one. He went on to tour supporting Into the Sun, during this period he appeared on radio programs such as The Howard Stern Show and KCRWs Morning Becomes Eclectic. He later recalled promoting the album as a bitter experience due to the focus on his family rather than his own music. In 1999, Lennons EP Half Horse, Half Musician was released featuring new such as Heart & Lung
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Yes, I'm a Witch Too
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Yes, Im A Witch Too is a collaboration and remix LP from Yoko Ono. The street date is February 19,2016 via Manimal Vinyl Records, the LP features remixes and collaborations from Death Cab for Cutie, Moby, Portugal. The Man, Sparks, Peter Bjorn and John, Miike Snow, Sean Lennon, Cibo Matto, the album was set to be released as a double vinyl set, CD and various digital formats. The LP features cover art with an image of Ono by Karl Lagerfeld and it is a sequel to 2007s acclaimed Yes, Im a Witch, which featured remixes from Cat Power, Flaming Lips and others. The reworkings of Forgive Me My Love and Soul Got Out of the Box have been released as singles in 2015. The Miike Snow remix of Catman, which was published on Approximately Infinite Universe in 1973 as Catman, was released on January 22,2016. All songs written by Yoko Ono, – No Bed For Beatle John Moby – Hell in Paradise
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Cornelius (musician)
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In 1997, he released the album Fantasma, which landed him praise from American music critics, who called him a modern day Brian Wilson or the Japanese Beck. Oyamada was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan and his first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flippers Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene. Following the disbandment of Flippers Guitar in 1991, Oyamada donned the Cornelius moniker and he chose his pseudonym in tribute to the character of the same name from the movie Planet of the Apes. He commissioned a song, about himself, on Momus 1999 album Stars Forever, in 2005, The Spinto Band referenced him in their song Japan Is An Island on their album Nice and Nicely Done. As of September 2006, he was no longer signed to Matador Records, in 2010, he contributed the song Katayanagi Twins Battle Song to the film Scott Pilgrim vs. In 2013, he participated with Taku Satoh and Yugo Nakamura directing the music for the exhibition Design Ah. at 2121 Design Sight in Tokyo, the music of Cornelius could be described as experimental and exploratory, and often incorporates dissonant elements alongside more familiar harmonically pleasing sounds. This tension, plus his practice of bringing in sounds and samples from mass culture, pure electronic tones, Oyamada married fellow musician and collaborator Takako Minekawa in 2000 and they have one child, Milo, named after the son of Cornelius in Planet of the Apes. He is a cousin of Joi Ito. The discography of Cornelius consists of seven albums, three soundtracks, eight remix albums, three extended plays, twelve singles and seven video albums. Ghost in the Shell, Arise – JP #33 The Cat That Lived A Million Times Ghost in the Shell, – JP #62 Holidays in the Sun EP JP #12 Cornelius Works 1999, rare CD-R promo from 3-D Corporation Ltd. Performing a version of his song Count Five or Six as a way to teach kids how to count and this can be seen on the episode titled Share. Count Five or Six appears on the soundtrack to the TV series Spaced, composed music played by the Katayanagi Twins characters in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. A May 2007 Associated Press/asap written and video piece about Cornelius, Cornelius at Shepherd Bush Empire - Dominic Haley from Spoonfed Media writes about the intrigue of the unexpected in Cornelius music. Interview with Oyamada Keigo - Manny Santiago goes to the 3D Studio in Nakameguro, Cornelius discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs Cornelius discography at MusicBrainz
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Nels Cline
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Nels Courtney Cline is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004 and he first came to prominence in the 1980s playing jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex Cline, a drummer. Since then, he has worked with a range of musicians in punk and alternative rock, notably Mike Watt. He also leads the groups the Nels Cline Singers and Nels Cline Trio, Cline was named the 82nd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2011. Cline began to play guitar at age 12 when his twin brother, the pair developed musically together, playing in a youth rock band they dubbed Homogenized Goo and both graduated from University High School. He cites hearing a recording of Jimi Hendrix performing Manic Depression as a moment in his decision to become a guitarist. Cline is known for his work and for the diversity of his musical projects, as well as his use of effects pedals. In 1983, Nels was asked by drummer Chris Mancinelli and bassist Steuart Liebig to join the formation of BLOC. The trio developed musical ideas for about a year, at this point they added another guitarist Nicholas Kirgo and vocalist Camille Henry. The quintet became a Los Angeles club favorite and garnered praise from the local press. Practically every major label was interested at some point but no major label seemed to have a clue how to promote the multi-talented group, in 1990 with Tony Peluso producing, they were signed with A&M Records after turning down a previous offer from Atlantic Records. The album In the Free Zone was released in early 1991, A&M at this point was in the middle of being sold to Polygram and there was little support at the label for the band. They were bought out of their 2-album deal and promptly dropped a month after the albums release, after 8 years of performing and recording the group decided to break up and move on. In the years 1984-1986 Nels was a member of the JAH Band, members of this group were Julius Hemphill, Alex Cline, Jumma Santos and Steuart Liebig. In 1984 they recorded Georgia Blue, also Bill Frisell and Allan Jaffe played some gigs as additional guitarist with the JAH Band. He frequently participates in projects with his twin brother, Alex, however their first actual duo together was in Culver City, California. Clines first appearance on an album was on Vinny Golias 1978 record, Openhearted, in the late 1980s, Cline formed the Nels Cline Trio, which featured his guitar playing complemented by Mark London Sims at bass and Michael Preussner at drums. The trio released several 7 inch demos and one album, before replacing Sims with Bob Mair at bass
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Tune-Yards
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Tune-Yards is the music project of New England native Merrill Garbus. When performing live, Garbus creates drum loops on the spot and layers these with ukulele and vocals, Garbus was born in 1979 and was raised in New York City and in New Canaan, Connecticut. She was a puppeteer for the Sandglass Theater in Vermont and lived in Montreal where she played ukulele in the band Sister Suvi with guitarist Patrick Gregoire, merrills sister Ruth Garbus is also a musician who has played solo and in the band Happy Birthday. After releasing her first Tune-Yards album in 2009, she moved to Oakland, California, the first Tune-Yards album, Bird-Brains was originally self-released by Garbus on recycled cassette tape. It was recorded using only a voice recorder. A limited edition vinyl was released in June 2009, via the Portland-based imprint Marriage Records, in July 2009, it was announced that Tune-Yards had signed to 4AD, and a limited edition pressing of Bird-Brains was released on August 17,2009. A full worldwide release followed on November 16,2009, the autumn 2009 pressing was remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Christian Wright, and includes two new bonus tracks, Want Me To and Real Live Flesh. A second album, Whokill, was released on April 19,2011, a single from it, Bizness, came out in February 2011. It was produced by Garbus and engineered by Eli Crews at New, Improved Studios in Oakland, applying the live approach to Garbus studio work for the first time, Garbus works with bass player Nate Brenner, who co-wrote some of the albums songs. The album as well as singles Bizness and Gangsta received mention on many top 2011 album and song lists, including Time, Rolling Stone, Spin, and the New York Times. In early 2012, the Village Voices annual Pazz and Jop poll of critics named Whokill the No.1 album of 2011, Garbus started recording material for her third LP during the latter half of 2013, with a working title of Sink-o. A May 6,2014 release date was announced with the title Nikki Nack. S
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Questlove
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Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known professionally as Questlove, is an American percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, record producer, and occasional actor. He is best known as the drummer and joint frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots and he is also one of the producers of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He is the cofounder of Okayplayer and Okayafrica, additionally, he is an adjunct instructor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University. He has produced recordings for artists including Elvis Costello, Common, DAngelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa, and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse, and John Legend. He is a member of the teams the Soulquarians, The Randy Watson Experience, The Soultronics, The Beat Biters. Ahmir Khalib Thompson was born in Philadelphia on January 20,1971 and his father was Lee Andrews of Lee Andrews & the Hearts, a 50s doo-wop group. His mother, Jacquelin Thompson, together with his father, was part of the Philadelphia-based soul group Congress Alley. His parents did not want to leave him with babysitters, so took him on tour with them. He grew up in backstages of doo-wop shows, by the age of seven, Thompson began drumming on stage at shows, and by 13, had become a musical director. Questloves parents then enrolled him at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative, by the time he graduated, he had founded a band called The Square Roots with his friend Tariq Trotter. He attended senior prom with Larrieux, after graduating from high school, he took jazz and composition classes at Settlement Music School. Thompson began performing on South Street in Philadelphia using drums, while Tariq rhymed over his beats, Thompson and Jay Lonick, a childhood friend, were known for improvisational call and response percussion battles with plastic buckets, crates, and shopping carts. This style translated into Thompsons usual drumset arrangement, with most drums and cymbals positioned at waist level, the Roots lineup was soon completed, with Questlove on percussion, Tariq Trotter and Malik B on vocals, Josh Abrams on bass, and Scott Storch on keyboards. While the group was performing a show in Germany, they recorded an album entitled Organix, the group continued recording, releasing two critically acclaimed records in 1995 and 1996, Do You Want More. and Illadelph Halflife, respectively. In 1999, The Roots had mainstream success with You Got Me, the song helped fuel the success of their Things Fall Apart album, which has since been hailed as a classic, eventually selling platinum. He also served as producer for DAngelos 2000 album Voodoo, Slum Villages album Fantastic, Vol.2 and Commons albums Like Water for Chocolate. He played drums on Christina Aguileras song Loving Me 4 Me for her 2002 album Stripped, in 2002, he and The Roots released the critically acclaimed Phrenology, which went gold. In 2003, he played drums on John Mayers song Clarity from his second album Heavier Things and he also arranged and drummed on Joss Stones cover of the White Stripes Fell in Love with a Girl
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Ad-Rock
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Adam Keefe Horovitz, better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known as a member of the hip hop group the Beastie Boys and he is married to musician and feminist activist Kathleen Hanna. Horovitz was born and raised on Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York and he has denied internet listings that he was born in South Orange, New Jersey. His sister is film producer Rachael Horovitz and his father is Jewish, and his mother, who was of Irish descent, was Roman Catholic. Horovitz began his career with a stint in the punk rock band the Young and the Useless. In 1982, Beastie Boys guitarist John Berry quit and Horovitz replaced him and he was only 16 at the time. After Horovitz joined the band, the Beastie Boys changed their sound, the band was signed to Def Jam, and released their debut album Licensed to Ill in 1986. The album was a commercial success, and spawned six hit singles. Seven further albums followed, and by 2010 the Beastie Boys had sold 22 million records in the United States alone, in 2012, the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to his work with the Beastie Boys, Horovitz also remixes numerous tracks for artists under the alias 41 Small Stars. He plays bass in The Tender Moments, the band of New York-based cabaret performer Bridget Everett. Horovitz has also acted in motion pictures and television shows. Some of his roles include Tim Chino Doolan in Lost Angels, Sam in Roadside Prophets, Repulski in Godspeed, in the late 1980s, Horovitz was in a relationship with American actress Molly Ringwald. They met on the set of The Pick-up Artist, Horovitz was married to actress Ione Skye from 1992 to 1995. They separated in 1995 and divorced in 1999, since 1997 he has been involved with riot grrrl artist Kathleen Hanna, they married in 2006. He wore a medical alert bracelet after having a seizure in 2003. His best friend since childhood is actress Nadia Dajani, the two met at P. S
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Mike D
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Michael Louis Diamond, better known as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician and producer, best known as the founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Diamond raps, sings, and plays drums and he has provided remixes for Moby and Björk. A product of the arts-oriented Saint Anns School, Diamond was born in New York City to a Jewish household, in 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. By 1983, Adam Horovitz joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip hop, in 1992, Diamond founded the Beastie Boys now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper, it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea. A year after the passing of Yauch in 2012, Diamond told Rolling Stone he was excited about making new stuff again, a remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Bands Bad Dancer by Diamond and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with additional beats, programming and other curve balls, in October 2014, Diamond stated that he had been working in the studio with American rock band Portugal. He has also produced English punk outfit Slaves second studio album, Take Control, in 1993, Diamond married film, television and music video director Tamra Davis, they have two children, Davis Diamond and Skyler Diamond. With Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill Pauls Boutique Check Your Head Ill Communication Hello Nasty To the 5 Boroughs The Mix-Up Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Diamonds wallpaper portfolio
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Lenny Kravitz
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Leonard Albert Lenny Kravitz is a Bahamian American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His retro style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop, folk, in addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all of the instruments himself when recording. He has been nominated for and won awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, Brit Awards. On December 1,2011, Kravitz was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and he played Cinna in the Hunger Games film series. Kravitz was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of actress Roxie Roker and his father was from a Jewish family. His mother was of Bahamian and African-American descent, and was from a Christian family, Kravitz is the cousin of television weather presenter Al Roker. During his early years, Kravitz did not grow up in a religious environment, after a spiritual experience when he was 13, he started attending church, becoming a non-denominational Christian. Kravitz was named after his uncle, Private First Class Leonard M, in 2014, he posthumously received the Medal of Honor in a ceremony that awarded it to 23 other servicemen who were passed over because of their ethnicity. Kravitz grew up spending weekdays on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, with his parents,6 for elementary school, and weekends at his grandmother Bessie Rokers house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Kravitz began banging on pots and pans in the kitchen, playing them as drums at the age of three, at the age of five, he wanted to be a musician. He began playing the drums and soon added guitar, Kravitz grew up listening to the music his parents listened to, R&B, jazz, classical, opera, gospel, and blues. My parents were supportive of the fact that I loved music early on. Around the age of seven, he saw The Jackson 5 perform at Madison Square Garden and his father, who was also a jazz promoter, was friends with Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Miles Davis and other jazz greats. Ellington even played Happy Birthday for him one year when he was about 5, Kravitz often went to see New York theater, where his mother worked. His mother encouraged his dreams of pursuing music, in 1974, the Kravitz family relocated to Los Angeles when Kravitzs mother landed her role on The Jeffersons. At his mothers urging, Kravitz joined the California Boys Choir for three years, where he performed a repertoire, and sang with the Metropolitan Opera. He took part in Mahlers Third Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl, I was attracted to the cool style, the girls, the rock n roll lifestyle, Kravitz said. Kravitzs other musical influences at the time included Fela Kuti, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis, John Lennon, Kravitz attended Beverly Hills High School
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Medium (website)
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Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, and launched in August 2012. It is legally owned by A Medium Corporation, Williams developed Medium as a way to publish writings and documents longer than Twitters 140-character maximum. It eventually grew into a platform independent of Twitters brand. Williams created Medium from the ground up, with the idea of encouraging users to create longer posts than the 140-character standard of Twitter, when it launched in 2012, Williams stated, Theres been less progress toward raising the quality of whats produced. By April 2013, Williams reported there were 30 full-time staff working on the platform, including a vacancy for a Storyteller role, and that it was taking 98 percent of his time. By August, Williams reported that the site was small, though he was still optimistic about it. Medium has been focusing on optimizing the time visitors spend reading the site, in 2015, Williams criticized the standard web traffic metric of unique visitors as a highly volatile and meaningless number for what we’re trying to do. In 2016, Medium introduced advertising, and gained several publishers as customers to host their content on the platform, in January 2017, Williams announced that Medium was cutting its staff by 50 employees, and closing its offices in New York and Washington D. C. At that time, the company had raised $134 million in investment from venture capital firms and Willliams himself, the platform software provides a full WYSIWYG user interface when editing online, with various options for formatting provided as the user edits over rich text format. Once an entry is posted, it can be recommended and shared by other people, posts can be upvoted in a similar manner to Reddit, and content can be assigned a specific theme, in the same way as Tumblr. Users can create a new account using an address or a Twitter, Facebook. A specific difference from Williams earlier service Blogger is that posts are sorted by topic rather than writer, publications on Medium are distributing hosts that carry articles and blog posts, like a newspaper or magazine. The articles published or saved on can be assigned editors, cuepoint, Mediums music publication, is edited by Jonathan Shecter, a music industry entrepreneur and co-founder of The Source magazine. Medium also publishes a publication called Backchannel, edited by Steven Levy. On February 23,2016, it was announced that Medium had reached a deal to host the new Bill Simmons website, reviewing the service, The Guardian enjoyed some of the collections that had been created, particularly a collection of nostalgic photographs created by Williams. TechCrunchs Drew Olanoff suggested the platform might have taken its name from being a medium sized platform in between Twitter and full-scale blogging platforms such as Blogger, however, the service has suffered criticism from writers, with some confused about exactly what it is expected to provide. In January 2016, Medium received a notice from the Malaysian Communications. The Sarawak Report had been hosting its articles on Medium since July 2015, the site declined to take the content down until directed to do so by an order from a court of competent jurisdiction
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The Guardian
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, the Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders, the Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardians print edition had a daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US, the newspapers online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers, notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowlers phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UKs biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, in 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Camerons links to offshore bank accounts. The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors. The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle and they launched their paper after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they better than those that do. When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, the prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty. Warmly advocate the cause of Reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and. Support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, in 1825 the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian the foul prostitute, the Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labours claims. The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators –, if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. CP Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised and he was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylors son in 1907. Under Scott, the moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting William Gladstone when the Liberals split in 1886
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Mojo (magazine)
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Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title that would cater for the burgeoning interest in rock music. Mojo was first published on 15 October 1993, in keeping with its classic rock aesthetic, noted for its in-depth coverage of both popular and cult acts, it acted as the inspiration for Blender and Uncut. Many noted music critics have written for it including Charles Shaar Murray, Greil Marcus, Nick Kent, the launch editor of Mojo was Paul Du Noyer and his successors have included Mat Snow, Paul Trynka and Pat Gilbert. While some criticise it for its frequent coverage of rock acts such as the Beatles and Bob Dylan, it has nevertheless featured many newer. It was the first mainstream magazine in the UK to focus on the White Stripes, Mojo regularly includes a covermount CD that ties in with a current magazine article or theme. In 2004 it introduced the Mojo Honours list, a ceremony that is a mixture of readers. Two hundred photographers and writers from Mojo and Bauers other music magazines, more recently, the magazine has taken to publishing many Top 100 lists, including the subjects of drug songs, rock epics, protest songs and even the most miserable songs of all time. To celebrate 150 issues, the published an Top 100 Albums of Mojos Lifetime list. The list was compiled and voted on by a panel of superstars, including Björk, Tori Amos, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Pete Wentz. Little Richards 1955 hit Tutti Frutti took the one spot. Richards record, dubbed a torrent of filth wailed by an alien, beat the Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand. The magazines editors claimed that the 100 albums, singles and 78s that made up the list make up the most influential and inspirational recordings ever made. Hailing Tutti Frutti as the sound of the birth of rock n roll, three of the most successful were the series telling the story of the Beatles – one thousand days at a time. Other special editions have focused on Pink Floyd, Psychedelia, Punk, the company behind the magazine, Bauer, also produced a digital radio station. This station was called Mojo Radio, and was transmitted on the television networks in the UK. The output of the station was based on that of the magazine and it was announced on 5 November 2008 that Mojo Radio would cease broadcasting on 30 November 2008 in order to save Bauer the financial outlay. The magazines current editor-in-chief, Phil Alexander, has a show on the UK digital radio station Planet Rock entitled Mojo Rocks where he follows a Mojo-inspired playlist
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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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PopMatters
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PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. PopMatters launched in the fall of 1999 as a site providing original essays, reviews. Over time, the site went from a publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million, from 2006 onward, PopMatters produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. As of 2009, there are four different pop culture related columns each week, the PopMatters Book Imprint published Joss Whedon, The Complete Companion, edited by Mary Money, with Titan Books in May 2012. PopMatters publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in six continents and its staff includes writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Many of its writers are published authorities in various fields of study, notable former contributors include David Weigel, political reporter for Slate, Steven Hyden, staff writer for Grantland and author of Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation. And Rob Horning, executive editor of The New Inquiry, karen Zarker is the senior editor
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Q (magazine)
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Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Q was first published by the EMAP media group in October 1986, setting apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled The modern guide to music, originally it was to be called Cue, but the name was changed so that it wouldnt be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Qs 200th edition, is that a title would be more prominent on newsstands. In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer titles, including Q. The magazine has a review section, featuring, new releases, reissues, music compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio. It uses a system from one to five stars, indeed. While its content is non-free they host an archive of all of their magazine covers, much of the magazine is devoted to interviews with popular musical artists. It is well known for compiling lists and it has created many, ranging from The 100 Greatest albums to the 100 Greatest 100 Greatest Lists. Every other month, Q — and its magazine, Mojo — have a special edition. These have been about musical times, genres, or a very important/influential musician, often, promotional gifts are given away, such as cover-mounted CDs or books. The January 2006 issue included a copy of The Greatest Rock. Every issue of Q has a different message on the spine, readers then try to work out what the message has to do with the contents of the mag. This practice — known as the spine line — has since become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including Qs sister publication, Empire, on 4 March 2007, Q named Elvis Presley the greatest singer of all time. The magazine has a relationship with the Glastonbury Festival, producing both a free daily newspaper on site during the festival and a review magazine available at the end of the festival. In late 2008 Q revamped its image, with an amount of text. This Rolling Stone-isation has led to criticism from much of the traditional Q readership, in 2006, Q published a readers survey, the 100 Greatest Songs Ever, won by Oasis Live Forever. Q has a history of associating with charitable organisations, and in 2006 the British anti-poverty charity War on Want was named its official charity, in the April 2007 issue, Q published an article containing the 100 Greatest Singers, won by Elvis Presley
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Uncut (magazine)
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Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, a DVD magazine under the Uncut brand was published quarterly from 2005 to 2006. Uncut was launched in May 1997 as a magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies. Jones has stated that he idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with Melody Maker, according to IPC Media, 86% of the magazines readers are male and their average age is 37 years. Uncuts contents include lengthy features on old albums, interviews with directors, music and film news. Its music features tend to focus on such as Americana, rock. Each month the magazine includes a free CD, which may include new and older music. Uncut underwent a redesign in May 2006, as a result of which the magazine no longer catered for books. Allan Jones writes a monthly column, recounting stories from his long career in music journalism. Uncuts monthly circulation has dropped from over 90,000 in 2007 to 47,890 in the half of 2015. Uncut often produces themed spin-off titles celebrating the career of one artist and this series has been known as Uncut Legends. Artists who have so far had magazines entirely devoted to them include Radiohead, Kurt Cobain, U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Lennon magazine was produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the former Beatle. The majority of titles have been produced by magazine editor Chris Hunt. The series started in 2003 with an issue devoted to Bob Dylan. In 2008 Uncut launched their inaugural Uncut Music Award, which is described as a quest to find the most inspiring and rewarding experience of the past 12 months. A list of 25 nominees is selected by a panel of 10 judges, who are all musicians or music industry professionals, past winners have included Fleet Foxes, Tinariwen, Paul Weller and P. J. Harvey. In late 2005, Allan Jones and publishing director Andrew Sumner launched a spin-off of the movies and music magazine. Billed as the great movie magazine, Uncut DVD was designed to compete with such established titles as Ultimate DVD, DVD Review
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The Wire (magazine)
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The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on jazz and improvised music. Since then it has covered hip hop, modern classical, free improvisation, post-rock, richard Cook succeeded Anthony Wood as editor, and was himself succeeded in June 1992 by Mark Sinker. Sinker was removed as editor in early 1994, though he continued as a contributor for some years, since then, the magazine has been edited successively by Tony Herrington, Rob Young, Chris Bohn, and Derek Walmsley. A series of new music compilation CDs called The Wire Tapper has been away with the magazine since 1998. In addition to the Wire Tapper CDs, subscribers receive label, country and it also features the avant music scene of a particular city every issue. In addition to its focus, the magazine likes to investigate cover art. Owned for many years by Naim Attallahs Namara Group, it was out by its six full-time members of staff in 2001 and is now published independently. Gonzo, Flemish magazine on avant garde music Official site
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Robert Christgau
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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics. One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and is a visiting arts teacher at New York University. Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, first published in his Consumer Guide columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006 and he has written three books based on those columns, along with two collections of essays. He continued writing capsule reviews in MSN Music, Cuepoint, Christgau was born in Greenwich Village and grew up in Queens, the son of a fireman. He has said he became a rock and roll fan when disc jockey Alan Freed moved to the city in 1954. After attending a school in New York City, he left New York for four years to attend Dartmouth College. While at college his musical interests turned to jazz, but he returned to rock after moving back to New York. Christgau has said that Miles Davis 1960 album Sketches of Spain initiated in him one phase of the disillusionment with jazz that resulted in my return to rock and he was deeply influenced by New Journalism writers such as Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe. My ambitions when I went into journalism were always, to an extent, literary, Christgau initially wrote short stories, before giving up fiction in 1964 to become a sportswriter, and later, a police reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. He became a writer after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in New Jersey was published by New York magazine. He was asked to take over the dormant music column at Esquire, after Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to The Village Voice in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor. In early 1972, he accepted a job as music critic for Newsday. Christgau returned to the Village Voice in 1974 as music editor and he remained there until August 2006, when he was fired shortly after the papers acquisition by New Times Media. Two months later, Christgau became an editor at Rolling Stone. Late in 2007, Christgau was fired by Rolling Stone, although he continued to work for the magazine for three months. Starting with the March 2008 issue, he joined Blender, where he was listed as senior critic for three issues and then contributing editor, Christgau had been a regular contributor to Blender before he joined Rolling Stone. He continued to write for Blender until the magazine ceased publication in March 2009, in 1987, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Folklore and Popular Culture to study the history of popular music
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Will Hermes
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Will Hermes is an American author, broadcaster, journalist and critic who has written extensively about popular music. He is a contributor to Rolling Stone and to National Public Radios All Things Considered. His work has appeared in Spin, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Believer, GQ, Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Details, City Pages, The Windy City Times. He is the author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire, Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever, in the late 1980s Hermes began writing for Option, a Los Angeles-based small-press magazine that covered a wide range of music. In 1993 he became the Arts & Music Editor for City Pages, in 1997 was hired as a Senior Editor for Spin magazine in New York City. Hermes began contributing regularly to Rolling Stone in the ‘00s and became a frequent voice in the review section. Hermes co-edited SPIN,20 Years of Alternative Music, an anthology of writing from Spin magazine published in 2006, with Sia Michel and his writing was included in Da Capos Best Music Writing 2006 and Best Music Writing 2007. It was selected as the top book of 2011 by NPR, and it was an Editor’s Choice title in The New York Times Book Review. Spin,20 years of music, original writing on rock, hip-hop, techno. Love Goes To Buildings On Fire, Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever, farrar, Straus and Giroux/Faber and Faber,2011. Love Goes To Buildings On Fire blog NPR review of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire New York Times review of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire
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Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
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Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is the avant-garde debut studio album by Yoko Ono. The album came after recording three experimental releases with John Lennon and a album as a member of The Plastic Ono Band. Also recorded on this day were Dont Worry Kyoko which ended up on the next album Fly, and Between the Takes which was released on Flys 1998 CD reissue. Initially on Apple Records, through EMI, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was released to considerable critical disdain in 1970, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band failed to chart in the UK but reached number 182 in the US. Notable exceptions were the estimations of Billboard who called it visionary, more recently, the album has been credited with having an influence, particularly on musicians, grossly disproportionate to its sales and visibility. The covers of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band albums are nearly identical, the photos were taken with a cheap Instamatic camera on the grounds of Tittenhurst Park by actor Daniel Richter, who was working as their assistant. The album was reissued on CD by Rykodisc in 1997 with three tracks from the era and an LP replica special edition was issued by V2 Records in Japan in 2007. The album will be reissued on LP, CD, and digitally by Secretly Canadian on November 11th,2016 with bonus tracks, all songs written by Yoko Ono
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Fly (Yoko Ono album)
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Fly is the second album by Yoko Ono, produced by her and John Lennon, and released in 1971. It was a complete package in a gatefold sleeve that came with a full-size poster. Notable songs include the singles Midsummer New York and Mrs. Lennon, Hirake aka Open Your Box and Dont Worry, Kyoko, dedicated to Onos daughter Kyoko Cox. Airmale is the soundtrack to Lennons film Erection, showing a building being erected in time lapsed photography, the album was recorded around the same time as Lennons Imagine. Trousers, skirt, legs, and thighs were changed to houses, church, lakes, Lennon and Ono didnt complain about the change of words, and only wanted to get the record out, as a spokesman said. Will You Touch Me was first recorded during the Fly sessions sometime in November 1971, the original version ended up on the Rykodisc reissue of Fly in 1998. Each edition of the US, UK and Japanese albums utilized that countrys distinctive telephone ring in the track Telephone Piece - the Rykodisc CD edition used the US variation, Fly peaked at number 199 in the Billboard charts. On 1 February 1972, Lennon and Ono Lennon recorded Midsummer New York backed by Elephants Memory for an episode of The Mike Douglas Show which aired on 15 February, all songs written by Yoko Ono. Side one Midsummer New York –3,51 Mind Train –16,52 Side two Mind Holes –2,47 Dont Worry, Kyoko –4,55 Mrs
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Feeling the Space
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Feeling the Space is Yoko Onos fourth solo album, her last one on Apple Records and her last release of the 1970s. The entire album adopts a feminist theme, focusing on the plights of women in the 1970s and its liner notes parody adult advertising, giving the telephone numbers, birthdates and vital statistics of the male band members. Lennon played guitar on the tracks Woman Power and She Hits Back, lennons album, Mind Games, was released around the same time as Feeling the Space, in November 1973. The album was planned to be a double until EMI/Apple demanded it be edited. The entire released album, plus the songs intended for the double release, is included as the Run, Run, Run disc on the Onobox set. All songs written by Yoko Ono
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Season of Glass
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Season of Glass is a 1981 album by Yoko Ono, her first solo recording after the murder of her husband John Lennon. The album was released less than six months after Lennons death and deals with it directly in songs such as Goodbye Sadness, Season of Glass charted at number 49, making it Onos highest-charting solo album to date. The front cover features Lennons bloodstained glasses positioned next to a glass of water. A young Sean Lennon features on the track Even When Youre Far Away, a music video was created for Goodbye Sadness featuring footage of John and Yoko together. The video was screened on the first episode of Saturday Night Lives seventh season, the 1997 Rykodisc reissue added bonus tracks of the single Walking on Thin Ice and an a cappella demo of I Dont Know Why, recorded the day after Lennons death. The unreleased 1974 album A Story also contained songs that were later re-recorded for Season of Glass, such as She Gets Down On Her Knees. It was also released by Rykodisc in 1997, three songs from this recording were reworked by other artists on the remix tribute album Yes, Im a Witch in 2007. Antony Hegarty reworked Toyboat, The Apples in Stereo reworked Nobody Sees Me Like You Do and Jason Pierce from Spiritualized reworked Walking on Thin Ice
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It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
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Its Alright is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second release after the death of husband John Lennon. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemporary photo of Yoko and Sean. This album marks her first foray into new sounds and 1980s pop production. It charted at #98 in the US, all songs are written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc, all tracks written by Yoko Ono. Freedman, Sammy Figueroa, Roger Squitero Tabla - Roy Badal Tuba/Baritone Saxophone - Howard Johnson Photography - Bob Gruen
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Starpeace
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Starpeace is Yoko Onos 1985 concept album, designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagans Star Wars missile defense system. As with most Ono albums it did not chart extensively but the release of Hell in Paradise reached #16 on the US dance charts. In 1986, Ono set out on a tour to accompany the albums message. The CD reissue by Rykodisc in 1997, includes a recording of Imagine from the sellout Budapest show of the tour. An a cappella version of Now or Never from the show was also a bonus track on A Story. Words, music, concept, and vocals by Ono, the 1984 video documentary release Yoko Ono, Now & Then includes footage of the recording sessions for Starpeace. Over the end credits, Ono performs a song apparently entitled Rainbow Time. A12 promo single was released for the song Cape Clear, the album was generally poorly received by critics. Sounds gave it a one star review, calling it a slab of pretentious AOR offal, allmusic writer Richie Unterberger gave it two stars, stating that the tracks were often imbued with a kind of sappy utopianism. Peter Buckley, in The Rough Guide to Rock, described the album as a rather bombastic error of judgement, rick Shefchik, in the Charlotte Observer called it the same old 60s hippie drivel. Rolling Stone also reviewed the album positively, with Anthony Decurtis writing that Starpeace seamlessly fuses artistic daring, there can be no denying that this fifty-two-year-old pop star now fully deserves to be reckoned with on her own demanding terms. She returned to music with the critically acclaimed Rising in 1996, all songs written by Yoko Ono. Ono refused to tour with a sponsor and personally financed the endeavour herself. The media were largely unfair in their coverage of the tour, in one case, a photo of Ono rehearsing to an empty hall before the show was printed as if nobody had come to the actual concert. A German DJ was also encouraging people to turn up and throw bottles at her. However, the fans loved the shows, critics praised her for her performances. That said, planned US tour dates were postponed and eventually cancelled due to disappointing ticket sales, rykodiscs 1997 CD reissues of Onos albums made available live versions of Imagine and Now or Never from the tour
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Rising (Yoko Ono album)
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Rising is a 1996 album by avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Released on 18 January, on Capitol Records, it features the backing band IMA, which included Onos son Sean Lennon, Timo Ellis, the album has sold 11,000 copies in the US to date. All songs written by Yoko Ono. Warzone -1,55 Wouldnit -3,02 Ask the Dragon -4,12 New York Woman -2,07 Talking to the Universe -3,31 Turned the Corner -2,58 Im Dying -6,18 Where Do We Go from Here. -3,02 Kurushi -7,59 Will I -2,27 Rising -14,28 Goodbye My Love -2,22 Revelations -5,35 Talking to the Universe The Source Ask the Dragon Where Do We Go from Here. Rising Franklin Summer * Keiji Haino, Masonna, Monde Bruits, Incapacitants, hanatarash, MSBR, and The Gerogerigegege are also credited as performers in the Rising remix. A vinyl promo version was released with the listing, - Ask the Dragon Talking to the Universe The Source Where Do We Go from Here. discogs. com/fr/Yoko-Ono-Ima-Rising/release/486555
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A Story
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A Story is an album by Yoko Ono, recorded in 1974, during the lost weekend sessions in which John Lennon produced Walls and Bridges. It was unreleased until the 1992 box set Onobox, which featured material from A Story on disc six and it was only properly released as an individual album in 1997, with the reissuing of Onos back catalogue by Rykodisc. The reissue added three bonus tracks, including demos and a live recording from the Starpeace tour. Bonus tracks Many of the tracks on A Story made it onto subsequent albums in re-recorded form, Loneliness, will You Touch Me, Dogtown and She Gets Down on Her Knees were included on Season of Glass. Hard Times Are Over was included on Double Fantasy and it Happened was released as a different mix as the B-side to Walking on Thin Ice. Yes, Im a Witch was included on, and gave its title to, Yes, Im a Witch, Yoko Ono, Vocals, backing vocals Ann E. discogs. com/fr/Yoko-Ono-A-Story/release/2204613
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Blueprint for a Sunrise
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Blueprint for a Sunrise is a concept album of experimental feminist rock by Yoko Ono. It features live tracks, samples and remixes of recordings. The recurring theme throughout is the suffering of women, in the liner notes, Ono talks about the continuing relevance of feminism and waking up in the middle of the night hearing thousands of women screaming. It did not chart but was acclaimed and became an underground hit. The album has sold around 3,000 copies in the USA, all tracks written by Yoko Ono. In addition, this song was performed live at the Itsukushima Shrine in Japan 1995
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Between My Head and the Sky
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Between My Head and the Sky is an album by Yoko Ono released on Chimera Music in September 2009. This is her first studio album to be released as Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band since 1973s Feeling the Space, the new Plastic Ono Band lineup features Cornelius, Yuka Honda and Onos son Sean Lennon as band leader and producer. All songs written by Yoko Ono, waiting for the D Train –2,46 The Sun Is Down. –2,57 Memory of Footsteps –3,30 Moving Mountains –3,00 CALLING –4,19 Healing –4,25 Hashire, Hashire –3,35 BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY –5,33 Feel the Sand –6,02 Watching the Rain –5,30 Unun
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John Lennon
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful and musically influential band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a songwriting partnership. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the craze as a teenager, his first band, the Quarrymen, first became the Silver Beatles. After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he added Ono as one of his middle names, Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release, Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. By 2012, Lennons solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and, as writer, co-writer, or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth and, in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and in 1994 as a solo artist. Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman of Irish descent and his parents named him John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John Jack Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill. When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, after her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpools Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946 Lennons father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, Julia followed them—with her partner at the time, Bobby Dykins—and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her, according to author Mark Lewisohn, Lennons parents agreed that Julia should take him and give him a home as Alf left again. A witness who was there that day, Billy Hall, has said the scene often portrayed with a young John Lennon having to make a decision between his parents never happened. It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again, Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence he lived at Mendips,251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own. His aunt purchased volumes of stories for him, and his uncle. In September 1980, Lennon commented about his family and his rebellious nature, Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society, but I cannot be what I am not. I was the one who all the other boys parents—including Pauls father—would say, the parents instinctively recognised I was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their children, which I did. I did my best to disrupt every friends home, partly out of envy that I didnt have this so-called home
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Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins
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1, Two Virgins is the first of three experimental albums released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Apple Records. It was the result of a session of musical experimentation with Yoko in Johns home studio at Kenwood, while his wife. In an attempt to avoid controversy, the LP record was sold in a paper bag, and distributed by Track and Tetragrammaton in the United Kingdom. Two Virgins, while failing to chart in the UK, reached number 124 in the US, the album was followed six months later by Unfinished Music No. John Lennon met Yoko Ono in November 1966 at the Indica Gallery in London after he received an invitation from its owner, John Dunbar, Lennon described the exhibition as positive and kept in touch with Ono. Two years later, Cynthia Lennon, feeling miserable and increasingly distanced from her husband, decided to go on holiday to Greece with her friends Jenny Boyd, whilst on his own, Lennon called Ono and invited her over for the night. Lennon then played her some of his tapes which consisted of recordings and electronic sounds. After hearing the tapes, Ono insisted that they make their own recording, Cynthia returned home unexpectedly the next day to find them sitting cross-legged on the floor in matching white robes, staring into each others eyes. The Unfinished Music series was an attempt by the pair to keep a record of their life together, with Onos Grapefruit in mind, they had imagined that the sound was not etched into the vinyls grooves but was meant to be created by the listeners mind. Lennon described Unfinished Music as saying whatever you want it to say and it is just us expressing ourselves like a child does, you know, however he feels like then. What were saying is make your own music, both of them had experience in avant-garde music, Ono had staged various multimedia events in New York during the early 1960s, and Lennon had worked on audio experimentation in the Beatles. Lennons longtime friend Peter Shotton recalled later in his memoir that many of the heard on the album were made by John. Lennon recorded directly to two-track stereophonic, but much of the material was monophonic. The song Together, written by George Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, shortly after the release of the Two Virgins, John stated in an interview that he believed the album can change people, as others have changed my head, just with their records. He then claimed thats what Yoko and my singing is, to change it like that. Lennon talked about making the album and Onos influence on him, in an interview in 1980 with Playboys David Sheff, Well, after Yoko and I met, I was still thinking it was an artistic collaboration, as it were – producer and artist, right. And Yoko came to visit me, instead of making love, we went upstairs and made tapes. I had this room full of different tapes where I would write and make strange loops, so we made a tape all night
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Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions
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2, Life with the Lions is the second of three experimental albums of avant-garde music released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in May 1969 on Zapple, a sub label of Apple. It was a successor to 1968s highly controversial Unfinished Music No.1, Two Virgins, the album peaked in the United States at number 174. The Cambridge performance, to which Ono had been invited and to which she brought Lennon, was Lennon, a few of the albums tracks were previewed by the public, thanks to Aspen magazine. The album was remastered in 1997, beatle John Lennon and Yoko Onos Unfinished Music series was an attempt by Lennon and Ono to make a record of their life together. With Onos Grapefruit in mind, Lennon and Ono imagined that the sound wasnt printed into the vinyls grooves, Lennon described Unfinished Music as saying whatever you want it to say. It is just us expressing ourselves like a child does, you know, what were saying is make your own music. A few of the tracks ended up on the album were released as a mono 8 square flexi record that was given away with copies of the American magazine Aspen. The record, which featured mostly Ono on the first side, with Lennon contributing the second side as one track. Before Lennon and Ono were together as a couple, Ono was asked to perform at a jazz concert in Lady Mitchell Hall at Cambridge University. Ono, who was going to cancel her performance, was persuaded by Lennon to perform, Lennon and Ono had their first performance together for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus film, where they were part of the band The Dirty Mac. Concepts from Fluxus art were used for the album, Ono has used ideas from it before, the piece takes up all of side one and consists of Onos vocalisations and screaming accompanied by electric guitar feedback from Lennon. Saxophonist John Tchicai and percussionist John Stevens join Ono and Lennon near the end of the piece, throughout the performance, Lennon kept his back to the audience. The original version of the piece was longer, in a 2010 interview with Cambridge News, Tchicai said that the concert was split in two, the first set was Lennon and Ono, and the other consisted of jazz improvisation players. Recalled Tchica, Lennon and Ono said to the players, If you would like to us for some improvisation. Barnett said that Lennon had been trying to show off and be more avant-garde than anyone in avant-garde music. Side two of the album was recorded on a tape in their suite at Queen Charlottes Hospital in London.1, Two Virgins because of its controversial sleeve. Babys Heartbeat is an infant mortality recording, made with a Nagra microphone. Ono first referenced infant mortality in her book Grapefruit, then in her song Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City from her album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, babys Heartbeat is similar to the Beatles I Want You in that both end suddenly
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Wedding Album
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Wedding Album is the final in a succession of three experimental albums by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 1, Two Virgins and Unfinished Music No, the album was released as by John and Yoko, without last names mentioned. The two recorded on individual speakers, Lennon described the heartbeats as being like African drums, and the piece being like an extended, very extreme John and Marsha that was out years ago by Stan Freberg. It really makes your hair stand on end, Lennon edited the two together on May 1,1969. Amsterdam, the side, had been recorded first, in a hotel room at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, Holland. The piece consists of explaining their campaign for peace, conversations. An early form of what would become John John Lets Hope for Peace forms the beginning of Amsterdam, there were also four other musical interludes including Lennon performing a blues-style composition on acoustic guitar, featuring the words Goodbye Amsterdam Goodbye. Ono sings Grow Your Hair, a song regarding peace, Lennon sings a brief excerpt in a cappela of the Beatles song Good Night. The last interlude is a recitation of the words Bed peace. Outtakes and interviews from Lennon and Onos Bed-In were released as promo 7 vinyl acetates by Bell, Wedding Album was initially released on Apple on 20 October 1969 in the US, and 7 November 1969 in the UK. It also included a bag that had Bagism printed on it. The album did not chart in the UK, but managed to peak at number 178 in the US, regarding the limited success, Lennon later addressed it saying, It was like our sharing our wedding with whoever wanted to share it with us. We didnt expect a hit out of it. It was more of a. thats why we called it Wedding Album and you know, people make a wedding album, show it to the relatives when they come round. What you call fans, or people that follow us outside, so that was our way of letting them join in on the wedding. The album was available on vinyl, cassette tape and 8-track tape, the album was also advertised through magazine print advertisements, which Lennon and Onos previous two albums had not been. The album was reissued in 1997 through Rykodisc with three bonus cuts – two of them B-sides by The Plastic Ono Band composed by Ono. When Wedding Album was released, at least one music press reviewer was led to believe that the album was more experimental than it actually was
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Some Time in New York City
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Some Time in New York City is a studio album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Elephants Memory, and paired with the live album Live Jam as a double album. Released in 1972, it is Lennons third post-Beatles solo album, fifth with Ono, Some Time in New York City fared poorly critically and commercially compared to Lennons previous two albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York City in September 1971 and continued their involvement in political, peace, the Lennons also spoke out on the Attica Prison riots, jailing of Angela Davis and oppression of women. On 12 November, Lennon taped numerous demos of The Luck of the Irish, which was filmed, on 9 December, Lennon and Ono flew to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the John Sinclair rally, which was due to start the following day. On the morning before the rally, Lennon was recorded playing the song Chords of Fame with Phil Ochs. At the rally itself, Lennon and Ono played tracks that would end up on Some Time in New York City, Attica State, The Luck of the Irish, Sisters O Sisters and John Sinclair. The performance was filmed, and included in the short film Ten for Two which was shown at Ann Arbor sometime in December. Lennon and Ono, along with David Peel, performed Peels The Ballad of New York, on The David Frost Show and this episode was recorded on 16 December 1971 and broadcast on 13 January 1972. By January 1972, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had opened a file on the Lennons, fearing they would organise the youth vote, soon, the government would begin deportation proceedings against the couple, and the FBI began intense surveillance, documenting their every move. In addition to Lennon and Ono, as part of the group among others was former-Beatle George Harrison, The Whos drummer Keith Moon, Delaney & Bonnie, Billy Preston. Harrison, who before the performance had been touring with Delaney & Bonnie, was excited by Lennons proposal over a call when asked if he wanted to play with him. The ballroom had its cover by posters declaring WAR IS OVER, if you want it, love John. For Cold Turkey, Ono had sat inside a bag which was located near Lennons feet, while for Dont Worry Kyoko, Ono jumped out of the bag, facing the crowd. As the latter song got towards the end of its performance, an early mix of the two tracks was arranged by the Abbey Road Studios engineers on 26 November 1970, and was sent to Lennon and Ono. The performance was documented after Ono had arranged for someone to film it, klaus Voormann overdubbed his bass at a later date. Throughout January, until the 21st, Lennon personally mixed the live album, Lennon once again brought in Phil Spector to co-produce the new studio album, which was completed on 20 March 1972. Around this time, Lennon and Ono were producing Elephants Memorys self-titled album, the Lennons went to great lengths to explain that the word nigger was not meant as an affront to black people. A quote from Ron Dellums, referring to the use of the word nigger, appeared in an issue of Billboard
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