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South by Southwest
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South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in scope and size every year. In 2011, the conference lasted for 10 days with SXSW Interactive lasting for 5 days, Music for 6 days, SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official YouTube channel. The music event has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to over 28,000 registrants, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, most recently bringing over 51,000 registrants to Austin every March. Bands must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event, All performers are offered a cash payment or a wristband package that allows access to all music events. SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference panels and sessions, programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions and more, with expert filmmakers and industry leaders. In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programmed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers, the SXSW Film Festival runs nine days, simultaneously with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. The SXSW Film Awards, which occur on the last day of the Film Conference, honor films selected by the Feature, in 2015, the SXSW Film Festival programmed 150 feature films and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 submissions. Past notable world premieres include Furious 7, Neighbors, Chef,21 Jump Street, The Cabin in the Woods, Bridesmaids and Insidious, and the TV series Girls, Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful. SXSW Interactive is focused on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a ground for new ideas. The festival includes a show, speakers, parties. According to a festival organizer Louis Black, SXSW Interactive has probably been the biggest of its kind in the world since 2007, Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, the event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it an event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came. Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked was the keynote speaker at the 1992 South by Southwest. In 1993, SXSW moved into the Austin Convention Center, where it is still held, in 1994, SXSW added a component for film and other media, named the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. Johnny Cash was the keynote speaker and that year, the three brothers of the band Hanson were brought to SXSW by their father in order to perform impromptu auditions for music executives, in the hopes of getting industry attention
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Akron, Ohio
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Akron /ˈækrən/ is the fifth-largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau. As of the 2015 Census Estimate, the city proper had a population of 197,542. The Akron, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Summit and Portage counties and it is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area, which in 2013 had a population of 3,501,538, ranking 15th. Co-founded along the Little Cuyahoga River in 1825 by Simon Perkins and Paul Williams, it was done so being a point at the summit of the developing Ohio. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point, due to Eliakim Crosby founding North Akron in 1833, South was added to its name until the two merged into an incorporated village in 1836. Neighboring settlements Kenmore and Ellet became annexed in 1929 and it is a setting for several movie films, television shows and novel stories, and is the origin of fictional characters. Residents of the city are called Akronites and it has had many nicknames, three of which are Rubber Capital of the World, Rubber City and City of Invention. Akron became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the canal, as well as being connected to numerous others and railroad lines. The city is home to the All-American Soapbox Derby, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron City Hospital, the Goodyear Polymer Center, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Listed by Newsweek as one of ten Information Age high tech havens, it was awarded by the National Civic League, residents Frank and Charles Menches have a disputed claim of inventing the hamburger thus the annual national festival is hosted in the city. A creature often referred to as the Kenmore Grassman is reported through history, Notable historical events that occurred in the city includes the Akron School Law of 1847 creating the K-12 system, and Sojourner Truth giving her Aint I A Woman. Resident Ferdinand Schumacher supplied the Union Army with quaker oats during the American Civil War. Akron is known for the rubber, tire, and airship industries among others, including the trucking, stoneware, sewer pipe, fishing tackle, farming equipment, mining, match, zipper, and toy industries. With a population increase of 201. 8% during the 1910s, three major civil unrest events took place during the riot of 1900, rubber strike of 1936, and the Wooster Avenue riots of 1968. Du Bois and President Bill Clinton gave speeches on race relations in the city, while visiting during August 1914, Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In 1971, James R. Williams founded Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc. to build the Channelwood Village area of Akron. During a 2016 march on West Market Street, purple heart Vietnam War veteran, Notable criminal history includes mobster Rosario Borgio headquartering the areas black hand operations, and Pretty Boy Floyds Walker-Mitchell mobs activities
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Garage rock
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Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada. The term derives from the perception that groups were made up of young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage. The style, a precursor to rock, is characterized by aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics and delivery. In the US and Canada, surf rock—and later the Beatles, hundreds of acts produced regional hits, and some had national hits. Though largely associated with North America, counterparts were present elsewhere as part of the beat boom of the era. As critics of the period began to prescribe a scope for genre, they used the term punk rock. Garage rock has experienced various revivals in the years and continues to influence acts who prefer a back to basics. In the early- to mid-1980s, several garage revival scenes sprung up featuring acts that consciously attempted to replicate the look, in the 2000s, a wave of garage rock revival acts associated with the post-punk revival emerged, and a handful achieved airplay and commercial success. The term garage rock comes from the perception that its performers were young and amateurish, while numerous bands were made up of middle-class teenagers from the suburbs, others were from rural or urban areas or were composed of professional musicians in their twenties. The term garage band often refers to acts in this genre. Garage bands performed in a variety of venues, less-established groups typically played at parties, school dances, and teen clubs. For acts of legal age, bars, nightclubs, and college fraternity socials also provided regular engagements, occasionally, local groups had the opportunity to open at shows for famous touring acts. Some garage rock bands went on tour, particularly better-known acts, groups often competed in battles of the bands, which gave musicians an opportunity to gain exposure and a chance to win a prize, such as free recording time in a local studio. Battles of the bands were held, locally, regionally and nationally, and two of the most prestigious contests were held annually by the Tea Council of the U. S. A. and the Music Circus. Performances often sounded amateurish, naïve or intentionally raw, with typical themes revolving around the traumas of high school life, instrumentation was characterized by electric guitars often distorted through a fuzzbox, teamed with bass and drums. Guitarists sometimes played using aggressive-sounding bar chord riffs, sometimes referred to as power chords, organs such as the Farfisa were commonly used as well as mouth harmonicas or hand-held percussion such as tambourines. Occasionally, the tempo sped up in certain passages, sometimes referred to as raveups, Garage rock acts were diverse in both musical ability and in style, ranging from crude two- and three-chord music to near-studio musician quality. There were also variations in flourishing scenes, such as in California
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Blues rock
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Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with similar to electric blues. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock, Southern rock, Blues rock continues to be an influence, with performances and recordings by several popular artists. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago-style blues songs, such as those by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the US, Johnny Winter, the Allman Brothers Band, and ZZ Top represented a hard rock trend. Although around this time, AllMusic commented, the lines between rock and hard rock were barely visible, there was a return to more blues-influenced styles. Groups, such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the White Stripes, brought an edgier, more diverse style into the 2000s, Blues rock bands borrow the idea of an instrumental combo and loud amplification from rock & roll. It is also played at a fast tempo, again distinguishing it from the blues. The core blues rock sound is created by the guitar, bass guitar. Often bands also included a harmonica, usually called a harp, the electric guitar is usually amplified through a tube guitar amplifier or using an overdrive effect. While 1950s-era blues bands would still use the upright bass, the blues rock bands of the 1960s used the electric bass. Keyboard instruments, such as the piano and Hammond organ, are occasionally used. As with the guitar, the sound of the Hammond organ is typically amplified with a tube amplifier. Vocals also typically play a key role, although the vocals may be equal in importance or even subordinate to the guitar playing. As well, a number of rock pieces are instrumental-only. Blues-rock pieces often follow typical blues structures, such as blues, sixteen-bar blues
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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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Fat Possum Records
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Fat Possum Records is an American independent record label based in Water Valley and Oxford, Mississippi. At first Fat Possum focused almost entirely on recording previously unknown Mississippi blues artists, recently, Fat Possum has signed younger rock acts to its roster. The label has been featured in The New York Times, New Yorker, The Observer, a Sundance Channel production, a piece on NPR, and a 2004 documentary, You See Me Laughin. Fat Possum was founded in 1991 by Living Blues editor Peter Lee—Used more often than Peter Redvers-Lee. --> was born July 2,1960, in Estcourt and he came to University of Mississippi for his MA studies in Journalism, and became editor of Living Blues in 1987. He planned on starting a label and picked the name with another student. Johnson, who grew up in the state was a student at the University of Mississippi, by 1994 or so Lee left, and freelance recording engineer Bruce Watson assumed his managerial role. An early investor was John Hermann of Widespread Panic, who also pitched Robert Palmers name as producer, the label initially specialised in discovering blues players from the North Mississippi region, many of whom had never recorded before. At Fat Possums behest some artists, particularly R. L. Burnside and this led to a fair amount of controversy among blues purists, a group in which Johnson was largely uninterested. Many of the artists for Fat Possum were picked with the aid of Palmer. Disputes between the artist and label resulted in Hoffman buying back the master and selling it to Evidence Records Fat Possum was perennially strapped for cash. Word of mouth and artist compilations, such as Not the Same Old Blues Crap 3 and All Men Are Liars, gradually pulled Fat Possum out of the red, even if only for brief periods of time. A legal fight with Capricorn Records, who were to be their distributor, drained Fat Possums funds, Burnside proved early on to be the labels biggest money maker. A remix of the R. L. Burnside song, Its Bad You Know, was featured prominently on The Sopranos. With time, many of the artists have died. Asie Payton, King Ernest, and Charles Caldwell died before their records could be released, kimbrough died in 1998 and Burnside 2005. T-Model Ford and Robert Belfour joined in the 2010s, responding to the first deaths, Fat Possum begun to release more archival records. They acquired the Al Green catalog including his 1975 Greatest Hits, the successful band The Black Keys released their second album Thickfreakness on Fat Possum, and left the label after their third album Rubber Factory. Solomon Burkes comeback album, Dont Give Up On Me, won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album, in 2013, Fat Possum released Ready To Die by Iggy and the Stooges
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Nonesuch Records
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Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City, founded by Jac Holzman in 1964 as a budget classical label, Nonesuch has developed into a label that records critically acclaimed music from a wide range of genres. Robert Hurwitz has been president of the company since 1984, Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce fine records at the same price as a trade paperback, which would be half the price of a normal LP. To achieve this he initially licensed European recordings of music as it would be too expensive to record new material. Originally the label concentrated heavily on chamber and baroque music, often with unique repertory, upon its formation, Nonesuch operated as a subsidiary label of Elektra Records, which Holzman had launched in 1950. In 1970, Holzman sold Elektra and Nonesuch to Kinney National Company, in 2004, Warner Music Group became an independently owned, publicly traded company. Sterne oversaw several firsts for the label, including early electronic releases, under Sterne, Nonesuch helped spark a ragtime revival in the United States with the release of a series of Scott Joplin piano rags performed by Joshua Rifkin. Sterne also launched the groundbreaking Explorer Series, building the foundation for the field of world music, Sterne was replaced by the founders younger brother, Keith Holzman, a production chief who, for the next five years, operated the label from Los Angeles. Records-distributed jazz label ECM Records, to run Nonesuch Records, within the first two years under Hurwitzs leadership, Nonesuch released albums by such new music pioneers as Steve Reich, John Adams, Philip Glass, John Zorn, and Kronos Quartet. Hurwitz established a roster at the label, which included Zorn, Wayne Horvitz. In 1994, Hurwitz hired David Bither, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elektra Records, bithers first signing, Emmylou Harris, signaled a new direction for the label. Harris, previously signed to Warner Bros. Records and Elektra Records, though she had long been a highly regarded interpreter of other writers’ songs, her Nonesuch debut was distinguished by being her first album to primarily feature self-penned compositions. In the decade that followed, k. d, laurie Anderson has put out three discs with the label, and Nonesuch reissued her seminal Big Science album, an avant-garde project that became an unlikely pop hit in 1982. That recounting of the life and loves of former Filipino leader Imelda Marcos, was turned into an Off-Broadway musical at The Public Theater in the spring of 2013. Forward-thinking traditional groups Carolina Chocolate Drops and Punch Brothers also joined the label, the Chocolate Drops, a group exploring the African-American roots of old-time music, won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for its Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig. Mandolinist and composer Chris Thile of Punch Brothers was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, receiving one of 23 “genius” grant awards to extraordinary practitioners in a variety of creative fields. As a solo artist, he has joined the classical ranks of the label. Nonesuch has been building a catalog of Broadway cast recordings, including works by multiple Tony
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V2 Records
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V2 Records is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, and then by PIAS Entertainment Group in 2013. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI, the label was owned 95% by Morgan Stanley, the chief financier of the company, and 5% by Branson. Over the years V2 acquired Gee Street Records, Junior Boys Own, Blue Dog Records, the label also distributed many labels, such as WichitaWichita, Luaka Bop, City Slang and Modular. Stereophonics were the first band to sign to the label, V2 now operates in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. It was distributed in the US by BMG, however it left for WEA shortly after the formation of Sony BMG. Its headquarters were located at 14 East 4th Street in Manhattan, the former US home of Island Records, in 2006 Branson sold V2 North America to Sheridan Square Entertainment LLC for $15 million. SSE then merged its label Artemis Records into V2 North America, the new label was effectively divested from the Virgin Group. On 12 January 2007, V2 North America announced that it was undergoing restructuring to focus on its back catalogue, as a result, their employees were let go and their roster of artists left as free agents. V2 Benelux was founded by Richard Branson in 1997 as part of the V2 International group with affiliates in USA, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux. In February 2007 the directors of V2 Benelux, Chris Boog and Tom Willinck, rounded off a management buy out together with their distributor. In August 2007, V2 Music Group was sold for £7 million to Universal Music Group, Cooperative Music has had significant success with various acts such as Fleet Foxes, Phoenix and The Black Keys. In 2009, the newly formed IndieBlu Music Holdings LLC acquired SSEs business, including V2 North America, IndieBlu was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010. In early 2013, PIAS acquired Cooperative Music from Universal Music Group, since its formation, PIAS Cooperative has had success with albums from Factory Floor, Temples, Maximo Park, John Grant, The Eels, and Midlake. Acoustic 07, an album released by V2 List of record labels Official website Cooperative Music
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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Blakroc
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Blakroc is a studio album by American rock band The Black Keys, in collaboration with Damon Dash, co-founder and former co-owner of Roc-A-Fella Records, who oversaw the project. The album features guest appearances from hip hop and R&B acts, namely Mos Def, Nicole Wray, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris. Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, Jim Jones and NOE of ByrdGang, as well as Raekwon, RZA and the late Ol Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan. After Damon Dash began listening to Ohio-based rock duo The Black Keys, Dash suggested they enter the studio with his friend and associate, New York City-based rapper Jim Jones, with whom Dash had recently partnered to form Splash Records. While recording with co-producer and engineer Joel Hamilton at Studio G, Brooklyn-bred rapper Mos Def, interrupted the session, with new artists being called in to work on the album, it was completed after eleven weeks of recording. In order to release Blakroc, Dash founded an independent record label in conjunction with the band, Damon Dash, co-founder of the project has endorsed BlakRoc Camaros, limited edition Chevrolet Camaro automobiles to promote the album and brand. The Black Keys have stated they did not take part in the promotion, the song What You Do to Me was featured in a 2011 Zales Diamonds Valentines Day commercial and the fourth-season premiere of True Blood as well as the True Blood volume three soundtrack. The album was received well by critics. There are no plans for that, carney said that the trailer is actually an unauthorized video that was pieced together about two years ago. They recorded about eight songs two years ago, but the album was never completed, a publicist has confirmed that there is no release date set for Blakroc 2. The trailer was posted on the YouTube channel of Damon Dashs DD172 media collective, official website Interview with Blakroc co-producer and engineer Joel Hamilton
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The Rentals
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The Rentals are an American rock band fronted by vocalist Matt Sharp, best known as the former bassist for Weezer. Sharp has been the only consistent member since the groups inception, the band is best known for their 1995 single Friends of P. The Rentals released two albums, Return of the Rentals and Seven More Minutes on Maverick Records before quietly splitting in 1999 following a world tour. The group reformed in 2005 and have released several EPs and a third full-length album, Lost in Alphaville. Due to the nature of studio and live collaborators, determining who is actually an official member of the group at any one point is difficult. The group is known for their quirky, Moog-driven melodies and a mix of male and female vocals, the accompanying music video was shot with antiquated equipment, on black and white film stock, with a total budget of less than $1,000. Upon its release, the video was added to MTVs playlist in early November 1995, early next year, Waiting was released as the follow-up single, and it was also chosen to be featured on the soundtrack to the MTV Films comedy Joes Apartment. The music video that had already shot for Waiting was edited together with clips of footage from the movie. Both versions of the video were eventually released and can be viewed on video websites like YouTube. Band members on Return of the Rentals included Patrick Wilson on drums, Rod Cervera, Tom Grimley, Petra Haden, petras triplet sister Rachel Haden appears as an additional vocalist. After Sharp left Weezer, Wilsons studio replacement on the drums was Kevin March, maya Rudolph, of Saturday Night Live fame, also handled keyboard and backing vocals for the groups first tours in support of its debut album. The group headlined its own shows, and also hit larger venues, as the opening act for such well-established acts as Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Blur. Sharp reformed The Rentals in 1997 and 1998 to record their second album, maya Rudolph made a guest appearance on two songs. Members of Blur, Ash, Elastica, and Lush also made guest appearances, the album was released in April 1999. It was well received by fans and critics, but The Rentals record company, Reprise and Maverick, Sharp formed a completely new lineup, including former Elevator Drops guitarist Josh Hager, replacing Rod Cervara, for a brief tour of Japan. The Japanese tour consisted of a set featuring no Moogs or female harmonies. This tour resulted in the Internet-only double live album Live in Japan and these sessions resulted in an EP and an album in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Acoustic tours also occurred in 2002–5, sometimes with Hager and Brown, sometimes with just Sharp, and sometimes with the band Goldenboy
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The Arcs
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The Arcs is an American garage rock band formed by Dan Auerbach, the guitarist and vocalist of the Black Keys. Auerbach announced this project after performing on the Governors Ball in 2015. The groups first album, Yours, Dreamily, was released on September 4,2015, members include Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, Richard Swift, and Kenny Vaughan along with contributions from Mariachi Flor de Toloache. The Arcs performed at the 2016 Coachella Festival
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Danger Mouse (musician)
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Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album and he formed Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green and produced its albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. In 2009 he collaborated with James Mercer of the rock band The Shins to form the band Broken Bells. In addition, Burton worked with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom and released the album The Mouse, as a producer Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005s Demon Days, as well as Becks 2008 record Modern Guilt and three albums with The Black Keys. In 2016, Danger Mouse produced, performed on and co-wrote songs for the studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers titled The Getaway. Danger Mouse has also produced and co-written albums by Norah Jones, Electric Guest, the Man, Adele, and ASAP Rockys. He has been nominated for 19 Grammy Awards and has won 6, hes been nominated in the Producer of the Year category five times, and won the award in 2011. Brian Joseph Burton was born in White Plains, New York, to an African American father and he spent much of his childhood in Spring Valley, New York. Burton also lived in Athens, Georgia for a while, where his trip hop work was released under the name Pelican City and he also remixed work by several local artists, including Neutral Milk Hotel and DJd for University of Georgia radio station WUOG-FM. From 1998 to 2003, Burton also created a series of remix CDs and he performed in a mouse outfit because he was too shy to show his face, and took his name from the British cartoon series Danger Mouse. Afterwards, Burton approached CeeLo Green, a member of Goodie Mob and it would be several years before the pair made contact again, but the two would eventually collaborate as Gnarls Barkley. Burton moved to Britain for a couple of years, living in New Cross in London, while there, he sent a demo to Lex Records, which signed him. He discussed his feelings about any controversy the album may have created in the documentary Alternative Freedom, Danger Mouse was also named among the Men of the Year by GQ in 2004 and won a 2005 Wired Rave Award. The Grey Album also got the attention of Damon Albarn, who enlisted Danger Mouse to produce the Gorillaz second studio album, Demon Days earned Burton a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. Danger Mouses next project was The Mouse and the Mask, a collaboration with MF DOOM about, the two had previously collaborated on the Danger Mouse remix of Zero 7s Somersault, on the Prince Po track Social Distortion, and on Gorillaz November Has Come. A year later, DANGERDOOM released a follow-up EP called Occult Hymn, the 7-track EP featured new songs as well as remixes of tracks from The Mouse & The Mask and was released exclusively as a free download on Adult Swims site. In 2006, Danger Mouse and CeeLo released their first album, St. Elsewhere, Crazy became the first UK number-one single based solely on downloads. Gnarls Barkley set out on tour and was one of the opening acts on the Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium World Tour
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Dan Auerbach
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Daniel Quine Dan Auerbach is an American musician and record producer best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the band, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced seven studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney, in 2009, Auerbach released a solo album entitled Keep It Hid. In early 2015, Auerbach announced a new side-project, the Arcs, the group released their debut album, Yours, Dreamily, on September 4,2015, via Nonesuch Records. Alongside with Action Bronson and Mark Ronson, Auerbach created the track Standing In The Rain, in December 2016, Auerbach announced his second album, scheduled for an early 2017 release. In March 2017, Auerbach released the single Shine on Me for his solo album Waiting on a Song scheduled on June 2,2017 on Auerbachs new label Easy Eye Sound. Auerbach was born in Ohio, and is the son of Mary Little, a teacher of French, and Charles Auerbach and his father is of Polish Jewish descent and his mother is of part Manx descent. His maternal cousin, twice removed, was philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, Auerbach grew up in a family with musical roots. His second concert was a Grateful Dead show with his father at the Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland and he was influenced early-on by his mothers side of the family, notably his uncles who played bluegrass music. Auerbach described himself as a teenager in high school who smoked marijuana. For a year, he attended McGill University in Montreal and he was heavily influenced by Junior Kimbrough in college, eventually resulting in his dropping out to pursue the guitar more seriously. Ive listened to him so much, its just how I hear it, getting Fs in college, when I shouldve been studying, I was listening to Junior Kimbroughs music instead. Auerbach is best known for his work with The Black Keys, Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first met when they were eight or nine years old while living in the same neighborhood of Akron, Ohio. Carney is the nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Tom Waits albums, while attending Firestone High School, Carney and Auerbach became friends, though they were part of different crowds. Auerbach was captain of the school soccer team, while Carney was a social outcast. Encouraged by their brothers, the duo began jamming together in 1996, as Auerbach was learning guitar at the time and Carney owned a four-track recorder and a drum set. After signing with indie label Alive, they released their album, The Big Come Up in 2002. Their third album, Rubber Factory was released in 2004 and received acclaim, it boosted the bands profile. The groups commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single Tighten Up, won three Grammy Awards including Best Alternative Album of the Year
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Patrick Carney
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Patrick James Carney is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He also has a rock band called Drummer. Carneys father, Jim, was a reporter until his retirement from the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio and his mother, Mary Stormer, is an Akron Municipal Court deputy clerk and is a former member of the Akron Board of Education. His stepfather, Barry Stormer, owns B. A. Stormer Construction Services and his uncle, Ralph Carney, is a professional sax player, and has played with Tom Waits, among others. Dan Auerbach also lived in this neighborhood, and the two met and played tag football with Auerbachs friends, although they did not become friends until high school, as a teenager, Carney was musically influenced by bands such as Pavement, Captain Beefheart and fellow Akron band Devo. In 2001 Carney and Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist, formed The Black Keys and this was followed by Thickfreakness in 2003 and Rubber Factory in 2004. The bands fourth album Magic Potion was released in 2006, attack & Release, their critically acclaimed fifth album was released in 2008, with a follow up in 2010 titled Brothers. In 2011, the released the album El Camino. The bands latest album is Turn Blue, released in 2014, both Carney and Auerbach record with Nonesuch Records. In 2009, Carney joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to support independent musicians careers, Carney has produced records for Beaten Awake, Houseguest, Churchbuilder, and The Black Keys. He is the founder of Audio Eagle Records, in 2009, while fellow Black Keys member Dan Auerbach was on his solo tour, Carney formed a new band called Drummer in which he played bass. Each of the members had played drums in another band. They released Feel Good Together, their album in the same year. In 2012, he produced the album for Canadian rockers The Sheepdogs. Atlantic Records released it on September 4 of that year, in 2011, he produced the second studio album by Tennis, titled Young & Old, which was released on Fat Possum Records on February 14,2012. Carney also contributed the title music to the 2014 Netflix show BoJack Horseman. Carney is the drummer on The Rentals 2014 album Lost in Alphaville, in 2005, Carney created Audio Eagle Records, an independent record label. It signed acts such as Houseguest, Royal Bangs and Carneys own side-project Drummer, Carney shut the label down in 2010
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Ohio
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Ohio /oʊˈhaɪ. oʊ/ is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, the states capital and largest city is Columbus. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, the name originated from the Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning great river or large creek. Partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the state was admitted to the Union as the 17th state on March 1,1803, Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes. Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives, Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. Six Presidents of the United States have been elected who had Ohio as their home state, Ohios geographic location has proven to be an asset for economic growth and expansion. Because Ohio links the Northeast to the Midwest, much cargo, Ohio has the nations 10th largest highway network, and is within a one-day drive of 50% of North Americas population and 70% of North Americas manufacturing capacity. To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles of coastline, Ohios southern border is defined by the Ohio River, and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohios neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario Canada, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Ohio has only that portion of the river between the rivers 1792 low-water mark and the present high-water mark, the border with Michigan has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River. Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with a flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills, in 1965 the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region. This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia, the worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, as a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States. Grand Lake St. Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the era of 1820–1850. For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles, was the largest artificial lake in the world and it should be noted that Ohios canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their emergence to location on canals. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold, precipitation in Ohio is moderate year-round
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Drum kit
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A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some also include electronic instruments and both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the drum kit is usually played while seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs from instruments that can be used to produce pitched melodies or chords, even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or guitar. The drum kit is part of the rhythm section used in many types of popular and traditional music styles ranging from rock and pop to blues. Other standard instruments used in the section include the electric bass, electric guitar. Many drummers extend their kits from this pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals. Some performers, such as some rockabilly drummers, use small kits that omit elements from the basic setup, some drum kit players may have other roles in the band, such as providing backup vocals, or less commonly, lead vocals. Thus, in an early 1800s orchestra piece, if the called for bass drum, triangle and cymbals. In the 1840s, percussionists began to experiment with foot pedals as a way to them to play more than one instrument. In the 1860s, percussionists started combining multiple drums into a set, the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks. Double-drumming was developed to one person to play the bass and snare with sticks. With this approach, the drum was usually played on beats one. This resulted in a swing and dance feel. The drum set was referred to as a trap set. By the 1870s, drummers were using an overhang pedal, most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal. Companies patented their pedal systems such as Dee Dee Chandler of New Orleans 1904–05, liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played with the foot of a standing percussionist. The bass drum became the central piece around which every other percussion instrument would later revolve and it was the golden age of drum building for many famous drum companies, with Ludwig introducing
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2010s in music
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This article describes trends in popular music in the 2010s. See also, 2010s in the music industry, in North America, Europe, and Oceania, synthpop, electronic, alternative rock, dance, electronic dance, and hip hop have been popular. Country remains popular in areas of the United States and Canada. By the mid-2010s, the style of vocals popular in indie pop have become widespread among pop instrumentalists as they are commonly used by younger ones, like Lorde. The saxophone has been used in multiple top 40 songs from the decade, the Edge of Glory from Lady Gagas 2011 album Born This Way is credited with popularizing the use of saxophone early in the decade. Other rock subgenres, like djent, stoner rock, and metalcore, have also been successful, progressive and experimental rock have started to become widespread, mainly in the second half of the decade. Considering rise of popularity of futurepop with bands like VNV Nation, remixing songs has also been a popular trend in electronic. The genres of Europop and Eurodance have also achieved commercial success. Some of the songs of the decade, including Only Girl. Teen pop has made a significant comeback throughout the decade, with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Nick Jonas, throughout the mid to-late-2000s, most of these stars were exclusively associated or with Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. A new generation of girl groups was ushered in by acts such as Little Mix. Dubstep and drumstep became widespread subgenres in the early 2010s on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, especially in its native United Kingdom, there, other electronic subgenres, like grime and trap, have also been growing in popularity. Drumstep has continued its success while hardstyle has become mainstream in Australia and United States due to the success of music festivals, such as The Sound of Q-dance, in Asia, popular music has continued to be influenced by Western pop music. As with the past several decades, J-pop and K-pop has continued to be successful in the Far East, in J-pop, image songs and the influence of anime on widespread music have grown since the late 2000s. K-pops popularity has continued to increase around the world, with acts, in India, Indian pop, rock, and filmi have continued to be mainstream. In Latin America, Latin pop has remained the main subgenre, tropical, reggaeton, and moombahton have also been popular genres while pop rock continues to be successful. Pop has made a significant comeback due to dance-pop, electropop, synthpop, Adele and Taylor Swift both have four #1 singles at their name, Adele spending 24 weeks at the top and Swift 15. Kesha and Justin Bieber both earned three #1 singles this decade so far, Kesha spend 13 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and Bieber six
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Blues
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Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs, spirituals, Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Blue notes, usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch, are also a part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove, Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times, Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating the troubles experienced in African-American society. Many elements, such as the format and the use of blue notes. The origins of the blues are closely related to the religious music of the Afro-American community. The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and, later and it is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century, the first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908. Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a variety of styles and subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues, World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a form called blues rock evolved. The term blues may have come from blue devils, meaning melancholy and sadness, the phrase blue devils may also have been derived from Britain in the 1600s, when the term referred to the intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal. As time went on, the phrase lost the reference to devils, by the 1800s in the United States, the term blues was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase blue law, which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, in lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood. The lyrics of traditional blues verses probably often consisted of a single line repeated four times. Two of the first published songs, Dallas Blues and Saint Louis Blues, were 12-bar blues with the AAB lyric structure. Handy wrote that he adopted this convention to avoid the monotony of lines repeated three times, the lines are often sung following a pattern closer to rhythmic talk than to a melody
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Junior Kimbrough
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David Junior Kimbrough was an American blues musician. His best-known works are Keep Your Hands off Her and All Night Long, Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, and lived in the north Mississippi hill country near Holly Springs. His father, a barber, played the guitar, and Junior picked his guitar as a child and he was apparently influenced by the guitarists Lightnin Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Eli Green. In the late 1950s Kimbrough began playing the guitar in his own style, using mid-tempo rhythms and this style would later be cited as a prime example of hill country blues. His music is characterized by the tricky syncopation between his bass strings and his midrange melodies. His soloing style has been described as modal and features languorous runs in the middle, the result was described by music critic Robert Palmer as hypnotic. In solo and ensemble settings it is often polyrhythmic, which links it to the music of Africa, north Mississippi bluesman and former Kimbrough bassist Eric Deaton suggested similarities between Kimbroughs music and that of Fulani musicians such as Ali Farka Touré. In 1966 Kimbrough traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to record for Goldwax Records, owned by the R&B, Claunch was a founder of Hi Records and is known as the man who gave James Carr and O. V. Wright their starts. Kimbrough recorded one session at American Studios, Claunch declined to release the recordings, deeming them too country. Some forty years later, Bruce Watson, of Big Legal Mess Records, approached Claunch to buy the original master tapes and these songs were released by Big Legal Mess Records in 2009 as First Recordings. Kimbroughs debut release was a version of Lowell Fulsons Tramp issued as a single on the independent label Philwood in 1967. On the label of the record his name was spelled incorrectly as Junior Kimbell, the B-side was You Cant Leave Me. Among his other recordings are two duets with his childhood friend Charlie Feathers in 1969. Feathers counted Kimbrough as an influence, Kimbrough gave Feathers some of his earliest lessons on the guitar. Kimbrough recorded little in the 1970s, contributing a version of Meet Me in the City to a European blues anthology. With his band, the Soul Blues Boys, he recorded again in the 1980s for High Water, the label recorded a 1988 session with Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys, releasing it in 1997 with his 1982 single as Do the Rump. In 1987 Kimbrough made his New York debut at Lincoln Center and this performance was recorded in 1990, in the Chewalla Rib Shack, a juke joint he opened in that year east of Holly Springs to divert crowds from his packed house parties. Beginning around 1992, Kimbrough operated Juniors Place, a joint in Chulahoma, near Holly Springs
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Howlin' Wolf
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Chester Arthur Burnett, known as Howlin Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi. With a booming voice and looming physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists. Musician and critic Cub Koda noted, no one could match Howlin Wolf for the ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits. Producer Sam Phillips recalled, When I heard Howlin Wolf, I said and this is where the soul of man never dies. Several of his songs, including Smokestack Lightnin, Back Door Man, Killing Floor, in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 51 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Burnett was born on June 10,1910, in White Station, Mississippi and he was given the name Chester Arthur, after Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States. His physique garnered him the nicknames Big Foot Chester and Bull Cow as a man, he was 6 feet 3 inches tall. The blues historian Paul Oliver wrote that Burnett once claimed to have given his nickname by his idol Jimmie Rodgers. Burnetts parents separated when he was one year old and his mother, Gertrude, threw him out of the house while he was a child for refusing to work on the farm. He then moved in with his uncle, Will Young, who treated him badly, when he was 13, he ran away and claimed to have walked 85 miles barefoot to join his father, where he finally found a happy home with his fathers large family. In 1930, Burnett met Charlie Patton, the most popular bluesman in the Mississippi Delta at the time and he would listen to Patton play nightly from outside a nearby juke joint. There he remembered Patton playing Pony Blues, High Water Everywhere, A Spoonful Blues, the two became acquainted, and soon Patton was teaching him guitar. Burnett recalled that the first piece I ever played in my life was, a tune about hook up my pony and saddle up my black mare—Pattons Pony Blues. Burnett would perform the tricks he learned from Patton for the rest of his life. He played with Patton often in small Delta communities, Burnett was influenced by other popular blues performers of the time, including the Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, Blind Blake, and Tommy Johnson. Two of the earliest songs he mastered were Jeffersons Match Box Blues and Leroy Carrs How Long, country singer Jimmie Rodgers was also an influence. Burnett tried to emulate Rodgerss blue yodel but found that his efforts sounded more like a growl or a howl, I couldnt do no yodelin, and its done me just fine. His harmonica playing was modeled after that of Sonny Boy Williamson II, lockwood, Willie Brown, Son House and Willie Johnson
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Robert Johnson
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Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, Johnsons shadowy and poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend. One Faustian myth says that he sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads of Mississippi highways to achieve success. As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, after the reissue of his recordings in 1961, on the LP King of the Delta Blues Singers, his work reached a wider audience. Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style and he is credited by many rock musicians as an important influence, the blues and rock musician Eric Clapton has called Johnson the most important blues singer that ever lived. Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first induction ceremony, in 1986, as an influence on rock. In 2010, David Fricke ranked Johnson fifth in Rolling Stone magazines 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8,1911, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson. Julia was married to Charles Dodds, a prosperous landowner and furniture maker. Charles Dodds had been forced by a mob to leave Hazlehurst following a dispute with white landowners. Julia left Hazlehurst with baby Robert but after two years sent the boy to Memphis to live with her husband, who had changed his name to Charles Spencer, about 1919, Robert rejoined his mother in the Mississippi Delta area around Tunica and Robinsonville, Mississippi. Julias new husband, known as Dusty Willis, was 24 years her junior, Robert was remembered by some residents as Little Robert Dusty, but he was registered at Tunicas Indian Creek School as Robert Spencer. In the 1920 census he is listed as Robert Spencer, living in Lucas, Arkansas, with Will, Robert was at school in 1924 and 1927. The quality of his signature on his marriage suggests that he was relatively well educated for a boy of his background. A school friend, Willie Coffee, who was interviewed and filmed in later life, recalled that as a youth Robert was already noted for playing the harmonica and jaw harp. Coffee recalled that Robert was absent for long periods, which suggests that he may have been living and studying in Memphis. After school, Robert adopted the surname of his natural father and she died in childbirth shortly after. Surviving relatives of Virginia told the blues researcher Robert Mack McCormick that this was a punishment for Roberts decision to sing secular songs. McCormick believed that Johnson himself accepted the phrase as a description of his resolve to abandon the life of a husband
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The Big Come Up
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The Big Come Up is the debut studio album by the American rock duo The Black Keys, released in 2002 on Alive Records. The blues-rock duo includes singer and guitarist, Dan Auerbach, and drummer, the album was created in Akron, Ohio, also known as the Rubber City. As the two began to grow up, they realized that rubber companies, such as Goodyear, were a dying industry and they knew they were not guaranteed an automatic job by achieving a college degree, so the two dropped out of college to pursue their musical career. They began producing The Big Come Up in their basement, Carney and Auerbach recorded the album in Carneys basement, using two microphones bought off of eBay. They recorded their album on an 8-track tape recorder because there was no longer a need for a needle, it did not break or shatter, the cheap equipment gave the album a grainy, lo-fi sound, almost as if it had been recorded in the 1960s. This made their album sound unprofessional, but in turn, gave them a sense of authenticity that was based on other popular rock artists. Eight of them were their own tracks, and five were cover songs. These cover songs included covers of Muddy Waters, Junior Kimbrough and they also released an EP that included covers of the blues song Leaving Trunk and the Beatles song She Said, She Said. The song Ill Be Your Man was used as the song for the HBO series Hung. Ill Be Your Man also appeared on the FX series Rescue Me, Alive Records re-presses this album regularly, often several times a year on different coloured vinyl or with altered sleeve artwork. These are usually marketed as limited editions, Alive Records had released The Big Come Up on vinyl on at least 14 separate occasions, opening themselves up to criticism, particularly in regard to the marketing term limited edition. 240 Years Before Your Time becomes silent at about 1,39 into the track on the CD version, according to Nielsen Soundscan, the album only sold around 139,000 copies. The two did not make money off of the album, so they had trouble paying for a tour. Therefore, they raised money by mowing lawns for their landlord, although the album sold poorly, it gained a cult following and attracted critics. In 2005 music critic Chuck Klosterman singled out The Big Come Up as one of 21 high-quality albums from the three years. As the two blues-rock singers began to gain attention, they caught the eye of American Independent record label, all tracks written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney except where noted
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Rubber Factory
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Rubber Factory is the third studio album by American rock duo The Black Keys. It was self-produced by the band and was released on September 7,2004 on Fat Possum Records, the album was recorded in an abandoned tire-manufacturing factory in the groups hometown of Akron, Ohio. Rubber Factory received positive reviews and was the bands first album to chart on the Billboard 200 in the United States, the Black Keys recorded their first two studio albums in drummer Patrick Carneys basement. For their third album, the band was forced to find a new recording location. They decided to set up a studio in a dilapidated factory in their hometown of Akron. The band rented the second floor of the building for $500 per month. General Tire closed the factory in 1982, though space in the building was still being leased out at the time of recording, of the factory, Carney said it was not really ideal in any way. For recording, the group used a mixing console that Carney purchased on eBay from a sound technician for Canadian rock band Loverboy. Frequent malfunctions with the console stretched the sessions nearly five months, the album was recorded on recycled tape provided by the bands record label Fat Possum from its studios in Mississippi. In 2009 Carney stated the factory was to be removed, the factory was located on the corner of S Seiberling St and Little Cuyahoga River in East Akron. The vacant lot in which the factory used to stand appears on the cover of the bands 2011 single Lonely Boy, the sleeve artwork for Rubber Factory was designed by the groups creative director Michael Carney, the brother of Patrick Carney. The song When the Lights Go Out was used in the film Black Snake Moan and their version of Grown So Ugly can be heard during the party scene in the movie Cloverfield. Girl Is on My Mind was used on a commercial for Sony Ericsson mobile phones, stack Shot Billy was performed on Late Show with David Letterman. Rubber Factory was met with acclaim from critics. According to review aggregator website Metacritic, the received an average critic score of 81 out of 100. In an enthusiastic article, David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the album an A, jonathan Zwickel of Pitchfork Media gave the record an 8. The album was the groups first to chart on the Billboard 200, after the commercial success of their 2011 studio album El Camino, Rubber Factory re-entered the chart in May 2012, peaking at number 131. All tracks written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney except where noted
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Attack & Release
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Attack & Release is the fifth studio album by American rock duo The Black Keys. It was produced by Danger Mouse and was released on April 1,2008, leading up to the recording sessions, drummer Patrick Carney wanted to change up the sound of his drums and envisioned two approaches to doing so. He said, I had one of the Bonham reissue kits, and then I knew I wanted a kind of 70s dead sound too, so I did the whole towels on the drums thing. Attack & Release debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200, the album was ranked 83 on Rolling Stones list of the greatest albums of the 2000s. The song I Got Mine was number 23 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008, in 2012, the album was certified gold in Canada. All tracks written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, except Things Aint Like They Used to Be by Dan Auerbach, notes Things Aint Like They Used to Be features a duet between Dan Auerbach and then 17-year-old bluegrass/country singer Jessica Lea Mayfield. The Black Keys Dan Auerbach – vocals, guitars, etc. Patrick Carney – drums, percussion, etc
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Brothers (The Black Keys album)
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Brothers is the sixth studio album by American rock duo The Black Keys. Co-produced by the group, Mark Neill, and Danger Mouse, the second single, Howlin for You, went gold as well. In April 2012, the album was certified platinum in the US by the RIAA for shipping one million copies. It also went double-platinum in Canada and gold in the UK, in 2011, it won three Grammy Awards, including honors for Best Alternative Music Album. Tensions had grown within the band by 2009, and the two embarked on side projects, the sessions became Auerbachs solo debut Keep It Hid, which was released in February 2009 on Nonesuch Records to positive reviews. Drummer Patrick Carney, who had not been informed of Auerbachs solo plans, was livid, Everybody knew, I was mad at our manager. Carney was afraid Auerbach had moved on and was on the verge of quitting the band, Auerbach said, I really hated her from the start and didnt want anything to do with her. Carney realized his anger was misdirected as he was coming off a rough divorce and he and Grollmus were married for two years but together for nine. According to the drummer, his ex-wife slept with his best friend, lied to him for several years, by the end of the relationship, Carney was depressed, drinking heavily, and had gained 25 pounds. Homeboy was miserable, Auerbach said of his bandmate He was being manipulated mentally and emotionally, Carney eventually broke off the relationship with a phone call while his wife was in Europe. Eventually, Auerbach and Carney met to discuss how important the band was to both of them, then we hugged and made up and its been all good ever since, said Auerbach. The duo soon met at Neills La Mesa home and got to work on ideas, notably recording These Days. Things moved carefully in La Mesa when conversations shifted to Neills old studio in Georgia, the three began discussing heading down South to complete the bulk of the album in a historic old studio. Sun Studio and Phillips Recording in Memphis, as well as Robin Hood Studios in Tyler, Texas were contenders, the band desired, most of all, to get out of town and have the tracks imbued with a Southern kind of atmosphere. Logistical problems immediately surfaced with both Sun and Phillips, and Auerbach suggested Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, the studio was closed in 2005 and had not seen recording in nearly 30 years, most recently having operated as a poorly maintained museum. The studio was on a short list of venues where Auerbach had always wanted to record. So we knew right from the start that we really would be trucking in our own equipment, Neill, Auerbach, and Carney arrived at Muscle Shoals Sound on August 16, 2009—coincidentally 40 years to the day singer-songwriter R. B. Greaves cut Take a Letter Maria at the studio, the first hit record to originate from the building, the group hauled a truckload of Auerbachs equipment from Easy Eye Sound System in Akron, as well as Neills personal gear from California
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Tighten Up (The Black Keys song)
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Tighten Up is a song by American rock band The Black Keys. It is the track on their 2010 album Brothers and was released as the records first single on April 23,2010. Dan Auerbach told The Sun how the song originated, That was the last song we did for the record and we always have a blast when the three of us get together. Rolling Stone put the song on its list of the 15 Best Whistling Songs of All Time, at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011, the song won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, while also receiving a nomination for Best Rock Song. Musically, the song is in the key of F sharp minor, the original music video for the song was a low budget clip starring a puppet dinosaur named Frank who is standing beside a plant. The video shows him dancing and miming the words a little, whilst subtitles go on explaining different facts about the video, the band and he is a puppet, not a real dinosaur. This goes along the direction of using sort of obvious or simple ways to say things like the album cover does. This is a song by the Black Keys, Its from an album called Brothers, the video was made by director Chris Marrs Piliero as the label asked them to do a placeholder video for Tighten Up as a teaser for Brothers. Piliero was inspired by both stupid kid shit that could still be for adults, like Yo Gabba Gabba. and all these weird and sometimes creepy old-school puppet stuff from the 50, considering at first an ALF doll before settling on the dinosaur. He later made a teaser video for Next Girl, where Frank interacts with bikini-clad models. The official music video, also directed by Piliero, was released on May 18,2010 and it shows Auerbach and his fictional son walking to the park. Auerbach sits next to Carney on a bench while their sons play with toy trucks. Auerbachs son looks up on the playground to see a little girl and he climbs up on the playground and goes in to kiss her but then he opens his eyes to realize Carneys son has lured her away. After he attempts to kiss her, the two begin to fight. After Auerbach and Carney attempt in vain to break up the fight, they see the mother of the girl, played by Spanish actress Carlotta Elektra Bosch and they hit each other using mostly Carneys drum kit and after the woman sees them fighting, she walks away in disgust. Their boys come to them and shake their heads at them with disappointment, the official music video won the 2010 MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video, and it appears on Pitchforks top music videos of 2010. On the week ending November 6,2010, Tighten Up debuted at #93 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it re-entered at #87 on the week ending January 22,2011. The single also achieved success on rock radio, hitting #1 on both the Alternative Songs chart and the Rock Songs chart
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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El Camino (The Black Keys album)
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El Camino is the seventh studio album by American rock duo the Black Keys. It was co-produced by Danger Mouse and the group, and was released on Nonesuch Records on December 6,2011, the record was the bands follow-up to their commercial breakthrough, Brothers, and was their third collaboration with Danger Mouse. El Camino draws from genres of the 1950s to 1970s, such as rock and roll, glam rock, rockabilly, surf rock. Danger Mouse contributed as a co-writer on each of the 11 songs alongside guitarist Dan Auerbach, the album was recorded from March to May 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, at Easy Eye Sound Studio, which Auerbach opened the year prior. The band approached writing and recording differently than on previous albums, as they entered the studio without having written any material, after struggling to translate the slower songs from Brothers to a live setting, the band wrote more uptempo, hook-laden tracks for El Camino. The albums cover art depicts a similar to one the group toured in early in their career. A faux newspaper advertisement and parody car commercial playing on this joke were used to promote the record prior to release. Lonely Boy was released as the single in October 2011 and became the groups highest-charting single in several countries, including the United States, Australia. The album received reviews from critics and was ranked by many publications as one of the years best albums. It debuted at two on the US Billboard 200 and reached the top five of the album charts in Australia, Canada, Belgium. The album was certified platinum in France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the US, as well as multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, the Black Keys supported the album with the El Camino Tour, their first headlining arena tour. Four additional singles were released, including Gold on the Ceiling and Little Black Submarines, among other accolades, El Camino won the award for Best Rock Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, while Lonely Boy received honors for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. The album has sold 1.4 million copies in the US, from 2001 to 2009, the Black Keys experienced underground success, but after the release of their critically acclaimed sixth studio album, Brothers, the group achieved a commercial breakthrough. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200 chart and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, including 870,000 copies in the US. The band also gained exposure by continuing to license their songs in popular media. At the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2011, the band won awards for Best Alternative Music Album, the bands sudden success proved overwhelming, as they found themselves booking additional promotional commitments and facing demand for additional touring dates. In January 2011, the group canceled concerts in Australia, New Zealand, drummer Patrick Carney said, Weve been touring long enough to know when were about to hit our breaking point. The desire to record another album soon after Brothers also led to the decision, Carney spoke of how the success of Brothers impacted the follow-up record, For me, there were physical jitters about everything that was going on
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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El Camino Tour
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The El Camino Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American rock duo The Black Keys in support of their 2011 studio album, El Camino. The tour, which spanned 129 shows, began on January 23,2012 and it was the groups first tour playing arenas as a headlining act. The tour grossed $12.7 million in 2012, in December 2011, The Black Keys announced a 2012 concert tour, their first playing arenas as a headlining act. The tour opened in Europe on January 23,2012 with three weeks of shows, before visiting North America from March to May, the tour made multiple return visits to Europe and North America throughout the year, while also visiting Australasia from October through November. In total, the group played 112 shows in 2012, among the support acts that accompanied the band were Band of Skulls, Arctic Monkeys, and Tegan and Sara. After tickets went on sale, The Black Keys concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City sold out in 15 minutes, the tour ended on July 13,2013, after 129 shows. Guitarist Dan Auerbach explained the decision for the live band. It was just that we could afford to do it and our songs deserved it and we wanted to finally present the songs like wed written them. During the middle portion of concert, Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney played older material as a duo without the backing musicians. Many critics singled these performances out as the shows highlights, the concert stage used an austere setup with a lighting system and video projections designed by Karl Lemieux. The lighting comprised four banks of on-stage vintage spotlights, along with two balls and a lighted sign bearing the bands name that were lowered for the encores. Lemieuxs video, which was projected onto a sheet at the stages rear, incorporated black-and-white footage of junkyards, deserts. Carney explained that the band was aiming for an aesthetic, saying, We kind of wanted to make the whole stage look like an old-school rock n roll show. Were referencing bands in the 70s, what they were doing when they were playing arenas, moreover, the footage was meant to pay homage to the groups origins. Auerbach said, We wanted it to represent our music and the Midwest where were from and we find that stuff beautiful and uplifting
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Lonely Boy (The Black Keys song)
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Lonely Boy is a song by American rock band The Black Keys. It is the track from their 2011 studio album El Camino and was released as the records lead single on October 26,2011. The song is also the A-side of a promotional 12-inch single that was released in commemoration of Record Store Days Back to Black Friday event, the single was accompanied by a popular one-shot music video of a man dancing and lip-synching the lyrics. Lonely Boy became one of the groups most successful singles and it topped several rock radio charts, including the Alternative Songs and Rock Songs charts in the US, and the Alternative Rock and Active Rock charts in Canada. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, the song won awards for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song, Lonely Boy is 3,13 in length. The song was written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with producer Danger Mouse, the song is played in the key of E minor, with only three chords used throughout the song. Lonely Boy is set in the signature of common time with a tempo of 171 beats per minute. According to Auerbach, the riff was inspired by Johnny Burnettes cover of Train Kept A-Rollin. The guitar line features a dive bomb although Auerbach uses a Boss Super Shifter pedal to achieve the effect, the promotional music video for Lonely Boy features actor/musician/part-time security guard Derrick T. Tuggle dancing and lip-syncing to the song in a motel near Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The video, shot in a take, went viral. The video originally had a script and a cast of more than 40 people, Auerbach said, A couple of weeks after we shot it they sent us the edit and it was awful. They sent us another edit and it was terrible, thats when we said what about that one guy, the extra who had that one dance scene and thats the video – the most expensive single shot ever recorded. Tuggle was originally cast as an extra who would be handed a set of keys to the motel room by Auerbach. While on set, Tuggles improvised dancing drew the attention of director Jesse Dylan and he said, The director just sort of noticed me dancing and asked me, Can you perform. He added, It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing, the video was nominated for a 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Best Rock Video. Tuggles performance later earned him an appearance in the music video for Happy by Pharrell Williams. The cover of the release features an image of a bulldozer sitting on an empty tract of land. The lot was filled by the factory at which the groups 2004 album Rubber Factory was recorded
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Turn Blue (album)
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Turn Blue is the eighth studio album by American rock duo the Black Keys. It was co-produced by Danger Mouse and the band, and was released on Nonesuch Records on May 12,2014. The record was the fourth collaboration with Danger Mouse, following their previous studio album, El Camino. For Turn Blue, Danger Mouse reprised his role from El Camino as a songwriting partner alongside guitarist Dan Auerbach. The sessions coincided with Auerbachs divorce from his wife, which inspired much of the albums lyrics, the resulting material was more melancholy and slower paced than the uptempo, hook-laden songs from El Camino. The album exhibits influences from rock and soul, further departing from the raw. In addition to representing the records moody tone, the title was selected as a homage to the turn blue catchphrase used by 1960s horror host Ghoulardi. The band announced the album in March 2014 via a tweet by retired boxer Mike Tyson, the song Fever was released as the lead single in March, and it charted in several countries. Four additional singles were released, including Gotta Get Away, which was a radio success in North America. Turn Blue received favorable reviews from critics, many of whom commented on Danger Mouses growing influence on the band, the album debuted at number one in the United States, Australia, and Canada, becoming the groups first record to top the charts in those countries. In May 2014, they embarked on a tour in support of the album. At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, Turn Blue was nominated for Best Rock Album, while Fever received nominations for Best Rock Performance, in December 2011, the Black Keys released their seventh studio album, El Camino. It was co-produced and co-written by the frequent collaborator Brian Danger Mouse Burton. El Camino comprised mostly uptempo, hook-laden tracks and featured a sound that drew from several genres of the 1950s–1970s, such as rock and roll, glam rock, rockabilly, surf rock. In the US, it debuted at two on the Billboard 200 and sold 206,000 copies in its first week, the highest single-week sales. The album also reached the top five of the charts in Australia, Canada, Belgium. Many publications, such as Rolling Stone and Time ranked El Camino among the best albums of the year. The album was certified double-platinum in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, platinum in the US, UK, and Ireland, and gold in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France
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Experimental rock
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Experimental rock is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it wasnt until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended, in 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with avant-garde, later in the 1970s, significant musical crossbreeding took place in tandem with the developments of punk and new wave, DIY experimentation, and electronic music. Funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music. The first wave of 1980s experimental rock groups had few precedents for their sound. Later in the decade, avant-rock pursued a psychedelic aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, during the 1990s, a loose movement known as post-rock became the dominant form of experimental rock. As of the 2010s, the experimental rock has fallen to indiscriminate use, with virtually every modern rock band being categorized under prefixes such as post-, kraut-, psych-. Although experimentation had always existed in music, it wasnt until the late 1960s that new openings were created from the aesthetic intersecting with the social. In 1966, the boundaries between pop music and the avant-garde began to blur as rock albums were conceived and executed as distinct, self-taught rock musicians in the middle and late 1960s drew from the work of composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio. In addition, The Quietus Ben Graham described duos the Silver Apples, calling attention to the very recordedness of the album. This would also be reflected in contemporary experimental rock LPs, such as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Smile, the Whos The Who Sell Out and Tommy. The Velvet Underground were a group in experimental rock, according to Rosenberg. Peppers inspired a new consideration for experimental rock as commercially viable music, as progressive rock developed, experimental rock acquired notoriety alongside art rock. By 1970, most of the musicians which had been at the forefront of rock had incapacitated themselves. Groups such as Can, Faust, Neu, the ideas of minimalism and composers such as Stockhausen would be particularly influential. During this era, funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music, some groups who were categorized as post-punk considered themselves part of an experimental rock trajectory, with This Heat as one of the prominent players. Anderson claims that the no wave scene represented New York’s last stylistically cohesive avant-rock movement, steve Redhead noted the resuscitation of New Yorks avant-rock scene, including artists such as Sonic Youth and John Zorn, in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, avant-rock pursued a frazzled, psychedelia-tinged, blissed out aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, the UK shoegaze scene was seen by some as a continuation of an experimental rock tradition
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Ralph Carney
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Ralph Carney is an American singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. While his primary instruments are various saxophones and clarinets, Carney also collects and plays many instruments, Carney grew up in Akron, Ohio, and listened to music on a windup record player. His father and a brother and sister worked in polyester research. Carney showed an early interest in art, but turned to music in the eighth grade and he started learning five string banjo, violin and harmonica and played bluegrass and country blues. At age 15 he started to play saxophone and he also worked in the mall record store. Carney got his start as a musician as a founding member of the band Tin Huey. Carney has released solo albums and was a member of the Oranj Symphonette with fellow Waits alumni Joe Gore. He also heads up San Franciscos Carneyball Johnson, playing on saxophones, Turkish clarinet, piccolo, trumpet, percussion, the band also features Channel 23 alumnus Kimo Ball on guitar and vocals, Scott Johnson on drums and vocals, and Allen Whitman on bass and vocals. Carney collaborated with the Black Keys on their album Attack & Release and he occasionally joined them on stage when they toured that record. In 2014, he collaborated with his nephew Patrick for the BoJack Horseman theme song and he toured with They Might Be Giants in the fall of 2009. He recorded and performed with Black Francis in 2008 a score for the Silent film Der Golem, he guested with Yo La Tengo and he recorded on a T Bone Burnett-produced project the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County with Marc Ribot and Elvis Costello, as yet unreleased. Carney composed music for two records on Paris Records. One was with poet Robert Creeley called Really and he also did music for an Ira Cohen record called the Stauffenberg Cycle. In 1994 Ralph performed on the Kathy Acker record Redoing Childhood and he did some songs for some flash Web Premiere Toons cartoons on CartoonNetwork. com in 2001. His old band Tin Huey put out a compilation CD of unreleased material in 2009 on Smog Veil Records and he did a collaboration with David Greenberger who puts out the Duplex Planet called Oh Pa that came out in late 2011. Since 2009 he has been recording and playing gigs with his Ralph Carneys Serious Jass Project, a new record Seriously was issued in July 2011 on Smog Veil Records. A documentary film has been in the works for the past few years about him called This Is, Ralph Carney, which is named after his 2003 album. Carneys nephew Patrick Carney is the drummer for the Black Keys, the two collaborated on the theme music to the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman
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Tom Waits
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Thomas Alan Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and he also starred in Jim Jarmuschs 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on One from the Heart. Waits lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places and he has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more artists, Jersey Girl, performed by Bruce Springsteen, Ol 55, by the Eagles. Although Waits albums have met with mixed success in his native United States. He has been nominated for a number of music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he is also included among the 2010 list of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers, as well as the 2015 list of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Waits lives in Sonoma County, California, with his wife Kathleen Brennan, Waits was born at Park Avenue Hospital in Pomona, the son of schoolteachers Alma Fern McMurray and Jesse Frank Waits. After his parents divorced in 1960, he lived with his mother in Whittier, Waits, who taught himself how to play the piano on a neighbors instrument, often took trips to Mexico with his father, who taught Spanish. He would later say that he found his love of music during these trips through a Mexican ballad that was probably a Ranchera, you know, on the car radio with my dad. By 1965, while attending at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista and he later admitted that he was not a fan of the 1960s music scene, stating, I wasnt thrilled by Blue Cheer, so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby. Five years later, he was working as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub in San Diego, where artists of every genre performed, when he did his first paid gig for $6. A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin Wolf, in 1971, Waits moved to the Echo Park neighborhood of L. A. and signed with Herb Cohen at the age of 21. From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of recordings for Zappa and Cohens Bizarre/Straight label. These early tracks were released 20 years later on The Early Years, Volume One, Waits signed to Asylum Records in 1972, and after numerous abortive recording sessions, his first record—the jazzy, folk-tinged Closing Time—was released in 1973. Lee Hazlewood became one of the first major artists to cover a Tom Waits song, using the title variation Those Were Days Of Roses on his album for Capitol, Poet, Fool, or Bum. Also in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained another version of Waits song Martha from Closing Time
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Association football
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies making it the worlds most popular sport, the game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal, players are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play, unless they are goalkeepers. Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, the team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, the Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football, the first written reference to the inflated ball used in the game was in the mid-14th century, Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word soccer was split off in 1863, according to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford -er abbreviation of the word association. Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. People in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand use either or both terms, although national associations in Australia and New Zealand now primarily use football for the formal name. According to FIFA, the Chinese competitive game cuju is the earliest form of football for which there is scientific evidence, cuju players could use any part of the body apart from hands and the intent was kicking a ball through an opening into a net. It was remarkably similar to football, though similarities to rugby occurred. During the Han Dynasty, cuju games were standardised and rules were established, phaininda and episkyros were Greek ball games. An image of an episkyros player depicted in low relief on a vase at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens appears on the UEFA European Championship Cup, athenaeus, writing in 228 AD, referenced the Roman ball game harpastum. Phaininda, episkyros and harpastum were played involving hands and violence and they all appear to have resembled rugby football, wrestling and volleyball more than what is recognizable as modern football. As with pre-codified mob football, the antecedent of all football codes. Non-competitive games included kemari in Japan, chuk-guk in Korea and woggabaliri in Australia, Association football in itself does not have a classical history. Notwithstanding any similarities to other games played around the world FIFA have recognised that no historical connection exists with any game played in antiquity outside Europe. The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England
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Jam session
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A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp on tunes, songs and chord progressions. To jam is to music without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements. Original jam sessions, also free flow sessions, are used by musicians to develop new material. Both styles can be used simply as a gathering and communal practice session. Jam sessions may be based upon existing songs or forms, may be based on an agreed chord progression or chart suggested by one participant. When Bing Crosby would attend these sessions, the musicians would say he was jammin the beat, since he would clap on the one, thus these sessions became known as jam sessions. The New York scene during World War II was famous for its after-hours jam sessions, one of the most famous was the regular after-hours jam at Mintons Playhouse in New York City that ran in the 1940s and early 1950s. The Mintons jams had competitive cutting contests, in which soloists would try to keep up with the house band and outdo each other in improvisational skill. During the 1950s these descargas became the basis of a new genre of improvised jams based on the son montuno with notable jazz influences pioneered by the likes of Julio Gutiérrez and Cachao. During the 1960s, descargas played an important role in the development of salsa, however, they can be shorter on the recorded version. Some notable recorded jams and jam-inspired performances in the idiom, Led Zeppelin live shows almost always contained extended, improvised solos. Notable examples include Dazed and Confused from both The Song Remains the Same and How the West Was Won both include 3 way jamming for up to 20 minutes. As a result of this jam, guitarist Duane Allman was invited to join the Dominos after having recorded three songs, and he made a major contribution to the resulting LP. The soundtrack for Tonite Lets All Make Love in London features 2 improvised jams titled Interstellar Overdrive, the latter is complete improvisation around the beat of the drums provided by drummer Nick Mason. The farewell Last Waltz concerts led by The Band in 1976 included two late-night jam sessions featuring Neil Young, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and others along with members of The Band. These performances were not included in the film or original recordings of the officially released for the first time as part of a 2002 box set. The third disc of George Harrisons 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass, titled Apple Jam, the Velvet Undergrounds Sister Ray, Some Kinda Love and Foggy Notion, had extensive live versions. Nirvanas improvised hidden track Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip from the album In Utero, bluesbreaker by Brian May and Friends recorded during the Star Fleet Project and featuring Eddie Van Halen, Phil Chen, Alan Gratzer and Fred Mandel
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