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Dana Point, California
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Dana Point is a city located in southern Orange County, California. The population was 33,351 at the 2010 census and it has one of the few harbors along the Orange County coast, and with ready access via State Route 1, it is a popular local destination for surfing. The city was named after the headland of Dana Point, which was in turn named after Richard Henry Dana, Jr. author of Two Years Before the Mast, Dana described the locale, including neighboring San Juan Capistrano, as the only romantic spot on the coast. Although Dana described the anchorage as poor, it is now a developed harbor and contains a replica of his ship, the Pilgrim is used as a classroom by the Ocean Institute, which is located at the harbor. This area is designated California Historical Landmark #189, Dana Point was a popular port for ships involved with the hide trade with nearby Mission San Juan Capistrano. Trading reached its peak in the 1830s and 1840s, in 1818, Argentine sailor Hippolyte de Bouchard anchored there while conducting his raid on the mission. Richard Henry Dana then visited the area in 1835 while serving aboard the sailing brig Pilgrim on her voyage along the California coastline, sidney H. Woodruff, already a prominent Los Angeles homebuilder, was hired to lead the project. In 1926, Woodruff, Chandler, and Sherman created the Dana Point Syndicate and they invited other investors, company presidents, movie producers, and real estate investors to join them in purchasing 1,388 acres of land, some of which includes the Headlands of today. Promising tree-lined and paved streets, electricity, telephones, sidewalks, water mains, storm drains, sewers, and other amenities, Woodruff built 35 homes, most of these Woodruff houses are concentrated in the Dana Point historic core, also called Lantern Village. His crowning structure was to be the Dana Point Inn, a Mediterranean-like resort hotel on the cliffs overlooking the harbor. After a celebratory groundbreaking in 1930, a foundation was poured. The economic downturn of the Great Depression caused construction to halt, although Woodruff continuously sought financial support through the years, this project was abandoned in 1939. Subsequently, he sold the holdings of the Dana Point Syndicate. Thirty-four of the original Woodruff residences are still occupied, the entire harbor of Dana Point, including the Embarcadero Marina shops and restaurants are set for complete demolition and redevelopment. The current vintage nautical style is being abandoned for a Tech Minimalist concept using metal roofs as well as Minimalist landscaping, the Strands at Headlands is a luxury housing development built on land that was originally part of the Chandler Family holdings. For decades the land facing the beach was home to the Dana Strand Beach and Tennis Club, for years, access to the Strands beach was limited to hiking down a dirt trail where the mobile homes had stood. The Strands parcel included the actual headlands and bluff of Dana Point as well and was one of the last large coast properties available for development along the Orange County Coast. The improvements include stairs, restrooms, a beach-front sidewalk and a funicular to transport visitors from the lot to the beach
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Surf music
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Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California. It was especially popular from 1962 to 1964 in two major forms, the first is instrumental surf, distinguished by reverb-drenched electric guitars played to evoke the sound of crashing waves, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. The second is vocal surf, which took the original sound and added vocal harmonies backed by basic Chuck Berry rhythms. Dick Dale developed the sound from instrumental rock, where he added Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, a spring reverb. His regional hit Lets Go Trippin launched the surf music craze, the genre reached national exposure when it was represented by vocal groups such as the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and Bruce & Terry. Their vocal surf style drew more from African-American genres such as doo wop with its scat singing, Dale is quoted on such groups, They were surfing sounds surfing lyrics. In other words, the music wasnt surfing music, the words made them surfing songs. The real surfing music is instrumental, at the height of its popularity, surf music rivaled girl groups and Motown for top American popular music trends. It is sometimes referred to interchangeably with the California Sound, during the later stages of the surf music craze, many of its groups started to write songs about cars and girls, this was later known as hot rod rock. Surf music began in the early 1960s as instrumental music, almost always in straight 4/4 time. The outboard separate Fender Reverb Unit that was developed by Fender in 1961 was the actual first wet surf reverb tone and this unit is the reverb effect heard on Dick Dale records, and others such as Pipeline by the Chantays and Point Panic by the Surfaris. It had more of a wet plucky tone than the built in amp reverb, guitarists also made use of the vibrato arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward, electronic tremolo effects and rapid tremolo picking. Guitar models favored included those made by Fender, Mosrite, Teisco, or Danelectro, Surf music was one of the first genres to universally adopt the electric bass, particularly the Fender Precision Bass. Classic surf drum kits tended to be Rogers, Ludwig, Gretsch or Slingerland, some popular songs also incorporated a tenor or baritone saxophone, as on The Lively Ones Surf Rider and The Revels Comanche. Often an electric organ or an electric piano featured as backing harmony, by the early 1960s, instrumental rock and roll had been pioneered successfully by performers such as Link Wray, The Ventures and Duane Eddy. This trend was developed by Dick Dale, who added Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, the distinctive reverb, groups such as The Bel-Airs, The Challengers and then Eddie & the Showmen followed Dale to regional success. The Chantays scored a top ten hit with Pipeline, reaching number 4 in May 1963. The group also had two other hits, Surfer Joe and Point Panic
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Psychedelic rock
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Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often used indiscriminately. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called raga rock. In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre, the whimsical British pop-psychedelia, and the harder American West Coast acid rock. While acid rock is often deployed interchangeably with the psychedelic rock, it can also refer more specifically to the heavier. The genre bridged the transition from early blues- and folk-based rock to rock and hard rock. Since the late 1970s it has revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia. The term psychedelic was first coined in 1956 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as a descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy. As the countercultural scene developed in San Francisco, the acid rock. In the popular music of the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with form, arrangements, unnatural reverb. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spectors Wall of Sound production formula, there was no transition to be made. You go from things like Flying Purple People Eater to I Am the Walrus, music critic Richie Unterberger says that attempts to pin down the first psychedelic record are therefore nearly as elusive as trying to name the first rock & roll record. Some of the far-fetched claims include the instrumental Telstar and the Dave Clark Fives massively reverb-laden Any Way You Want It, the first mention of LSD on a rock record was the Gamblers 1960 surf instrumental LSD25. American folk singer Bob Dylan was an influence on mid 1960s rock music. He led directly to the creation of rock and the psychedelic rock musicians that followed. Molly Longman of mic. com writes that, in terms of bridging the relationship between music and hallucinogens, the Beatles and the Beach Boys were the eras most pivotal acts. The considerable success enjoyed by these two bands allowed them the freedom to experiment with new technology over entire albums. In Unterbergers opinion, the Byrds, emerging from the Californian folk scene, with their ominous minor key melodies, hyperactive instrumental breaks, and use of Gregorian chants. In the songs lyric, the requests, Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
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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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Synthpop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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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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The Black Keys
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The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, the bands raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbachs blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin Wolf, and Robert Johnson. Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college, after signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up, which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. Their third album, Rubber Factory, received acclaim and 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. Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received strong reviews and peaked at two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the bands career. The album and its hit single Lonely Boy won three Grammy Awards, in 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first met when they were eight or nine years old living in the same neighborhood of Akron. Auerbach and Carney both come from musical backgrounds, Auerbach is the cousin of guitarist Robert Quine, a veteran of New Yorks avant-rock scene. Carney is the nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Tom Waits albums, while attending Firestone High School, they became friends, though they were part of different crowds—Auerbach was captain of the high 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, after graduating, both briefly attended the University of Akron before dropping out. Auerbach attempted to make a living performing at small bars in town. To record one, he asked for help from Carney, who agreed to recording equipment. However, none of Auerbachs backing band showed up on the recording date, instead, Carney and Auerbach jammed, eventually leading to the duo forming a band in mid-2001. Together, they recorded a demo consisting of old blues rip-offs. On March 20,2002, the duo played their first live show at Clevelands Beachland Ballroom and Tavern to an audience of approximately eight people. The bands debut album, The Big Come Up, was recorded entirely in Carneys basement on an 8-track tape recorder in lo-fi and was released in May 2002, three months after they signed to Alive. Two tracks, covers of the blues standard Leavin Trunk and The Beatles song She Said
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Devendra Banhart
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Devendra Obi Banhart is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela and he began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Banhart released his album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels. Banhart was born May 30,1981 in Houston, Texas, to a Venezuelan mother, Maria Eugenia Risquez and his given name is a synonym for Indra, the king of Gods, which was suggested by Prem Rawat, an Indian religious leader whom Banharts parents followed. Banharts middle name Obi was modeled after Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Star Wars character, Banharts parents divorced two years after his birth and he moved with his mother to Caracas, Venezuela. His mother later remarried and Banharts stepfather moved the family to Los Angeles, Banhart cites Axl Rose, Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Ali Farka Toure as his inspirations to begin singing. When he found that he could not match their singing styles, he found success in singing in a “feminine style. ”In 1998, Banhart began studying at the San Francisco Art Institute on a scholarship while living in The Castro, San Franciscos gay neighborhood. He began to busk instead of attending classes and played his first show in a church at a gay wedding, performing Elvis Presleys Love Me Tender, Banhart dropped out of art school in 2000 and left San Francisco after the dot-com bust worsened the citys economy. He moved to Paris over the summer and opened shows for indie bands such as Sonic Youth. Leary and gave it to Gira, Banhart and Gira compiled an album from Banharts recordings, and in 2002, Oh Me Oh My, which was made up of short fragments, was published by Young God Records and received favorable reviews. He recorded two albums and an EP for the label, Rejoicing in the Hands, Niño Rojo, and The Black Babies. Banhart changed to XL Recordings in 2005 and released Cripple Crow, banhart’s albums offer a variety of musical sounds, and he is often called the leader of the musical movement termed “Freak Folk. ”His lyrics are fantastical, idealistic, and poetic with the occasional trace of innuendos. Additionally in 2005 Devendra collaborated with Antony and the Johnsons on the award-winning album I Am a Bird Now, Banhart sings the introduction to the song Spiraling and plays guitar on You Are My Sister in which Boy George also appears. Devendra was the first artist to design a t-shirt for the Yellow Bird Project and he chose to donate the profits from the sale of his T-shirt to the Teenage Cancer Trust. In 2007, he started a relationship with actress Natalie Portman and he recorded his second album for XL Records, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, at his home studio in Topanga, California. The album charted on the Billboard 200 at number 115, the albums song Lover was featured in the soundtrack of the movie Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist, which included a cameo appearance by Banhart. Banhart has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl opening for Gilberto Gil, as well as at Bonnaroo and he founded a record label, Gnomonsong, with Andy Cabic of Vetiver, in 2005. In 2007, he signed with Neil Youngs manager Elliot Roberts, Banhart released an album in 2008 entitled, Surfing, with Megapuss – a collaborative project with Gregory Rogove and Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes and Little Joy
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Night Beats
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Night Beats are an American psychedelic/garage rock band, formed in 2009 in Seattle, Washington. The band consists of singer and guitarist Danny Lee Blackwell, drummer James Traeger. With White Light Fever, who were initially called Japanese Auto Clinic, he released debut album Heavy Knife Blues in 2007, a second album Count All Your Father’s Wealth was seemingly abandoned. Raised Catholic and Hindu, Blackwell moved to Seattle to study comparative religion at the University of Washington, leaving Dallas, which he saw as a wasteland of music, he founded Night Beats in 2009. Named after the Sam Cooke album Night Beat, the solo self-recorded Street EP was released that year via Holy Twist Records. After trying out a couple of different lineups, he asked high school friend and former B. B Mercy drummer James Traeger who was studying in Austin, after playing a duo for a while, they recruited bassist Tarek Wegner in January 2010. Wegner, originally from Tacoma, Washington, had played with The Drug Purse. The Night Beats toured extensively early on, completing multiple North American tours during 2010 and were signed within weeks of self-releasing the H-Bomb EP, picked up by Chicagos Trouble in Mind Records. The re-release of the EP topped several radio charts competing with other Artists full-length efforts. In 2011, the released a split EP with The UFO Club on the Austin label The Reverberation Appreciation Society. On June 28,2011 Trouble In Mind released the bands self-titled debut album, in June 2012, The band released a split single with TRMRS on Volcom Vinyl Club. On September 24,2013, the released their second album Sonic Bloom via The Reverberation Appreciation Society. They toured North America, Europe, Israel, South Africa, in late 2014 Tarek Wegner left the band. No announcement was made, it becoming apparent when new press shots were released with a different bassist. He has since gone on to release solo material, in 2015, the band signed to London-based label Heavenly Recordings and released their third album Who Sold My Generation in January 2016. The album featured Black Rebel Motorcycle Club member Robert Levon Been on bass, the band recruited Jakob Bowden to tour the album. In September 2016, the band embarked on a UK/EU tour without drummer James Traeger, Vol.1 -2010 Portable Shrines Magic Sound Theatre Vol.1 -2011 Sailor Jerry Vol.4 -2011 Official Website
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Jonathan Richman
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Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band, since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, acoustic and electric, backing. Currently, he plays only acoustic to protect his hearing and he is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, into a Jewish family, Richman began playing music, failing at this, he returned to Boston. While in Boston, Richman formed the Modern Lovers, a garage rock band. Other notable members of the group were keyboard player Jerry Harrison and drummer David Robinson, who later joined Talking Heads, in 1972 they recorded a series of demos with producer John Cale. Among these songs were the seminal Roadrunner and Pablo Picasso which were released on the groups post-breakup album. The album was strange for its time, featuring Velvets-influenced basic three-chord rock at a time when glam, later in 1972, the group also recorded with producer Kim Fowley, these demos were eventually released in 1981 as The Original Modern Lovers. Despite playing live regularly, the Modern Lovers had a difficult time securing a recording contract and this stymied efforts to complete a debut album, and led to the breakup of the original Modern Lovers in February 1974. In 1975, Richman moved to California to record as a solo singer/songwriter with Beserkley Records, the albums produced by the new group found Richman turning away from electric rock music towards gentler acoustic textures, with a strong rooting in 1950s rock and roll. After several months as a trio, Richman found a new drummer, D. Sharpe, a jazz player on the Boston scene. Rock and Roll with the Modern Lovers was released in 1977 and, just as this began to climb the charts in Europe. A subsequent live album, Modern Lovers Live, was released in 1978, in the United Kingdom, Richman was recognised as a progenitor of the punk rock scene, and several of his singles became hits. Roadrunner reached Number 11 in the UK Singles Chart, and its follow-up, Egyptian Reggae was a version of Jamaican musician Earl Zeros reggae song None Shall Escape the Judgment, Zero was credited as co-writer on Richmans later versions of the track. Back in Your Life was released in 1979 under the Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers moniker, following the Modern Lovers final breakup, Richman went on sabbatical for a few years, staying in Appleton, Maine, and playing at local bars in Belfast, Maine. He returned to recording in 1983 with Jonathan Sings and these were followed up with US tours and a brace of pop recordings. In 1993, he contributed the track Hot Nights to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization, always possessing an ardent cult following, Richman has become better known in recent years thanks to a series of appearances on Late Night with Conan OBrien. He also appeared briefly in a bar scene in a previous Farrelly Brothers film, Kingpin, in 1998 a live album of Modern Lovers recordings from the early 1970s was released, Live at the Long Branch & More
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Rock in Rio
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Rock in Rio is a recurring music festival originating in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It later branched into other locations such as Lisbon, Madrid, the seventh Brazilian edition will happen from September 15 to 24,2017. In 2011, Rock in Rio returned to its location, Rio de Janeiro, with a new line-up of singers. The first edition of the festival was held from January 11–20,1985, Queen, George Benson, Rod Stewart, AC/DC and Yes were the headliners, each occupying top spot for two nights. About 1.4 million people attended the 10-day-long festival. Rock in Rio in numbers The City of Rock, which was built for the festival, covered an area of 250,000 m²1,600,000 liters of beverages were served, using 4 million plastic cups. McDonalds sold 58,000 hamburgers in a day, which was a Guinness World Record until the fourth edition in 2011. The full list of artists who performed at Rock in Rio, Both Queen shows were filmed and broadcast throughout Brazil by Globo. Each show was watched by nearly 200 million people in over 60 countries and in front of 350 and it was later broadcast in the United States on MTV as Queen, Live in Rio. Iron Maiden was the only act to play just one concert at the festival, due to other bookings. During the song Revelations, lead singer Bruce Dickinson hit himself accidentally with a guitar, Dickinson continued to sing in spite of heavy bleeding. They performed in front of a crowd of 350,000 people too, the Go-Gos broke up after their two Rock in Rio performances, though they would later reunite in the 1990s. The two Rock in Rio shows were the debut and swansong for short-tenured Go-Gos member Paula Jean Brown, chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, at the time Talking Heads drummer and bass player, respectively, took part at the B-52s concerts. They joined the band from the song on and played along with them for the remainder of the performance. The January 20 appearance of the B-52s would turn out to be their last with guitarist Ricky Wilson, initially, Def Leppard was scheduled to play at the festival. However, they dropped out two months before the event, due to delays on the recording process of the album Hysteria. Eleven days before the date Def Leppard would have played at the festival, the second edition was held from January 18–27,1991 at the Maracanã stadium. Headliners were Guns N Roses, Prince and George Michael, each being top billed for two of the nine nights
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Outside Lands
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Outside Lands was the name used in the 19th century for the present-day Richmond District and Sunset District in San Francisco, California. With few roads and no transportation, the area was covered by sand dunes and was considered inaccessible and uninhabitable. Today, after development, the area is home to Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach. Like all of California, the Outside Lands were a Mexican possession until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848 ceded it to the United States, the area was U. S. government land at the time of the Gold Rush. The City and County of San Francisco, which was growing rapidly, desired the land, after years of court battles, the U. S. government declared the area part of San Francisco in 1866. In 1866, the government upheld the city’s title to the Outside Lands against claims of squatters. The proposal won McCoppin the Mayor’s office, and gained the approval of the state legislature, enough bonds were sold to finance a topographical survey of Golden Gate Park and its approach. Surveyor and engineer William Hammond Hall won the contract to survey park land, completed his report on February 15,1871, initial work completed in 1871 included grading, fencing, drainage and irrigation work, and development of a park nursery. The following year,22,000 hardy and quick-growing trees were planted, park roads were built, western Neighborhoods Project - San Francisco History San Francisco Outside Lands Festival
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Rapping
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The components of rapping include content, flow, and delivery. Rap differs from spoken-word poetry in that rap is performed in time to a beat. Rapping is often associated with and an ingredient of hip-hop music. Rapping is also used in Kwaito music, a genre originated in Johannesburg, South Africa. Another form of rap that predates hip hop was boxer Muhammad Alis rhythmic poetry used to taunt his opponents in the 1960s and 1970s, rapping can be delivered over a beat, typically provided by a DJ, turntablist or Beatboxer, or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies an area between speech, prose, poetry, and singing. The word, as used to describe quick speech or repartee, the word had been used in British English since the 16th century. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning to converse, today, the terms rap and rapping are so closely associated with hip-hop music that many writers use the terms interchangeably. The English verb rap has various meanings, such as to strike, especially with a quick, smart, or light blow, as well to utter sharply or vigorously, to rap out a command. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives a date of 1541 for the first recorded use of the word with the meaning to utter sharply, vigorously and it is these meanings from which the musical form of rapping derives, and this definition may be from a shortening of repartee. A rapper refers to a performer who raps, by the late 1960s, when Hubert G. Brown changed his name to H. Rap was used to describe talking on records as early as 1971, on Isaac Hayes album Black Moses with track names such as Ikes Rap, Ikes Rap II, Ikes Rap III, Hayes husky-voiced sexy spoken raps became key components in his signature sound. Del the Funky Homosapien similarly states that rap was used to refer to talking in a manner in the early 1970s. Back then what rapping meant, basically, was you trying to convey something—youre trying to convince somebody, thats what rapping is, its in the way you talk. Rapping can be traced back to its African roots, centuries before hip-hop music existed, the griots of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation. Such connections have been acknowledged by modern artists, modern day griots, spoken word artists, mainstream news sources. Grammy-winning blues musician/historian Elijah Wald and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 1920s, Wald went so far as to call hip hop the living blues. A notable recorded example of rapping in blues music was the 1950 song Gotta Let You Go by Joe Hill Louis, not just jazz music and lyrics but also jazz poetry
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Hip hop
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Hip hop is a subculture and art movement developed by African-Americans and Latinos from the inner-city South Bronx neighbourhood in New York City in the late 1970s. Jamaican immigrant DJ Kool Herc also played a key role in developing hip hop music, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Herc mixed samples of existing records and DJed percussion breaks, mixing this music with his own Jamaican-style toasting to rev up the crowd and dancers. These youths mixed these influences with existing musical styles associated with African Americans prior to the 1970s, Hip hop music became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s, with the mainstream commercial success of gangsta rap. Critic Greg Tate described the hip hop movement as the only avant-garde still around, Hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the United States and subsequently the world. These elements were adapted and developed considerably, particularly as the art spread to new continents and merged with local styles in the 1990s. Sampling older culture and re-using it in a new context or a new format is called flipping in hip hop culture. Hip hop music follows in the footsteps of earlier African-American-rooted musical genres such as blues, jazz, rag-time, funk, cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into his stage performance. The group frequently performed with artists who would refer to this new type of music by calling them hip hoppers. The name was meant as a sign of disrespect, but soon came to identify this new music. The song Rappers Delight, by The Sugarhill Gang, released in 1979, begins with the phrase I said a hip, hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, and you dont stop. Lovebug Starski, a Bronx DJ who put out a single called The Positive Life in 1981, and DJ Hollywood then began using the term when referring to this new disco rap music. Bill Alder, an independent consultant, once said, There was hardly ever a moment when rap music was underground, one of the very first so-called rap records, was a monster hit. Hip hop pioneer and South Bronx community leader Afrika Bambaataa also credits Lovebug Starski as the first to use the hip hop. Bambaataa, former leader of the Black Spades gang, also did much to popularize the term. In the 1970s, an urban movement known as Hip Hop began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City. It focused on emceeing over breakbeats, house parties and neighbourhood block party events, Hip hop music has been a powerful medium for protesting the impact of legal institutions on minorities, particularly police and prisons. Jamaican-born DJ Clive Kool Herc Cindy Campbell pioneered the use of DJing percussion breaks in hip hop music, beginning at Hercs home in a high-rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the movement later spread across the entire borough. Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting, on August 11,1973 DJ Kool Herc was the DJ at his sisters back-to-school party
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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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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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy horror film directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard OBrien based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, music, book, the production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through early 1970s. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard OBrien himself, and Barry Bostwick along with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions. The story centres on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone to call for help, the castle is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is Frank N. Furter, the couple is seduced separately by the mad scientist and eventually released by the servants who take control. The film was shot in the United Kingdom at Bray Studios and on location at an old country estate named Oakley Court, a number of props and set pieces were reused from the Hammer horror films. Although the film is both a parody and tribute to many of the science fiction and horror films, costume designer Sue Blane conducted no research for her designs. Blane stated that costumes from the film have affected the development of punk rock fashion trends such as ripped fishnets. Although largely critically panned on release, it soon became known as a midnight movie when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976. Audience members returned to the cinemas frequently and talked back to the screen and began dressing as the characters, at almost the same time, fans in costume at the Kings Court Theater in Pittsburgh began performing alongside the film. This shadow cast mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, still in limited release four decades after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history. It is often close to Halloween. Today, the film has an international following. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2005, the films creative team also produced Shock Treatment in 1981, a standalone feature using the characters of Brad and Janet and featuring some of the same cast. Seeking a telephone, the walk to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange. They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank N. Furter, the ensemble of convention attendees also includes servants Riff Raff, his sister Magenta, and a groupie named Columbia. In his lab, Frank claims to have discovered the secret to life itself and his creation, Rocky, is brought to life. The ensuing celebration is interrupted by Eddie who rides out of a deep freeze on a motorcycle
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Die Antwoord
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Die Antwoord is a South African rap group formed in Cape Town in 2008. The group was formed by rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser, Die Antwoords image is based on a counterculture movement known as Zef in South Africa, and incorporated elements of the work of photographer Roger Ballen. Die Antwoord released their album, $O$, free online. After briefly signing with Interscope Records, in 2011 they founded their own label Zef Recordz and they released their fourth album, Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid, in 2016. Die Antwoords male vocalist, Ninja, was part of the South African hip-hop scene for years, fronting acts such as The Original Evergreen, MaxNormal. TV. Their debut album $O$ relates to their work, specifically Good Morning South Africa. Ninja told Rolling Stone, Everything I did before Die Antwoord was me experimenting, messing around, Die Antwoord observed that journalists and critics, particularly in the United States, frequently ask if their creative output is a joke or a hoax. When asked if he was playing a character, Ninja said, Ninja is, how can I say, the only difference is I dont take off this fokken Superman suit. They have described their work as documentary fiction and exaggerated experience designed for shock value, Ninja told Spin, People are unconscious, and you have to use your art as a shock machine to wake them up. Some people are too far gone, theyll just keep asking, Is it real. Thats a word we have in South Africa, dwanky and you have to be futuristic and carry on. You gotta be a guide to help people get away from dull experience. Die Antwoord is known for their following, in particular the unusually prolific creation of fan art by their followers. Some of their videos have incorporated artwork by the noted photographer Roger Ballen. Die Antwoords musical and visual style incorporates elements of a zef culture, described as modern and trashy, appropriating out-of-date, yo-Landi said, Its associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, youre poor but youre fancy, youre poor but youre sexy, youve got style. Their lyrics are performed in Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English and their name is Afrikaans for The Answer Their debut album $O$ was made available as a free download on their official website. $O$ features Cape Flats rappers Garlic Brown, Scallywag, Isaac Mutant, Jack Parow, the album cover was shot by photographer Clayton James Cubitt
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Grimes (musician)
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Claire Elise Boucher, better known by the stage name Grimes, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, music engineer and visual artist. Boucher released the studio albums Geidi Primes and Halfaxa in 2010 and her fourth studio album Art Angels was released in 2015 and like Visions, it received widespread critical acclaim. Art Angels was nominated for the Alternative Album of the Year, Boucher was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is of Québécois and Ukrainian descent and she was raised Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school. In 2006, Boucher relocated from Vancouver to Montreal to attend McGill University, according to the timestamps on her original MySpace page, Boucher began writing music under the name Grimes in 2007. Grimes later confirmed that she took her name from grime music after discovering the existence of the genre on Myspace. In interviews, Grimes explains that she was asked to do backing vocals for a friend, after this experience, she asked a friend of hers to teach her the basics of GarageBand in exchange for food and thereafter began writing her own experimental music. Bouchers debut album as Grimes, Geidi Primes, an album inspired by the Dune series, was released on cassette in 2010. Later in 2010, Boucher released her album, Halfaxa. After the release of Halfaxa, Boucher began publicly promoting Grimes, in 2011 Boucher released five songs on her side of the split 12 with dEon, Darkbloom. In 2011, she collaborated with DJ/producer Blood Diamonds, upon extensive touring and positive reception of her first two albums and her side of Darkbloom, Boucher signed with record label 4AD in January 2012. Widely considered Bouchers breakout record, Visions received critical acclaim from music critics, NME included it on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2013. Visions won the Electronic Album of the Year Award and Grimes was nominated for the Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Junos, Grimes also won the Artist of the Year Award at the 2013 Webbys. The albums second single, Oblivion, also received critical acclaim, Pitchfork Media ranked Oblivion number-one on their 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far in 2014. She described the process as being equally enjoyable and tortuous. When speaking about her preference to all her studio albums herself, she said, “I don’t wanna be the face of this thing I built. On December 17,2013, Boucher posted to her Tumblr that she had employed the services of Jay Zs management company, on August 21, Grimes posted a teaser for the video, directed by her and her brother, for Go. Rolling Stone ranked it number fourteen on their Best Songs of 2014 list, after Go had been released, Grimes said in an interview she scrapped an entire album she had been recording
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Gucci Mane
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Radric Delantic Davis, known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is an American hip hop recording artist from Atlanta, Georgia. In 2007, Gucci Mane founded 1017 Records and he helped pioneer the hip hop subgenre trap music, alongside fellow Atlanta-based rappers T. I. and Young Jeezy. In 2005, Gucci Mane debuted with Trap House, followed by his second and third albums, Hard to Kill and his fourth album, Back to the Trap House was released in 2007. In 2009, Gucci Mane released his studio album, The State vs. Radric Davis. Gucci Mane has released dozens of mixtapes and has worked with such as Drake, Lil Wayne, Omarion, Mariah Carey. His 2016 collaboration with Rae Sremmurd, titled Black Beatles, provided Gucci Mane with his first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, Radric Delantic Davis was born on February 12,1980 in Birmingham, Alabama. He later moved with his mother to Atlanta in 1989. He enjoyed writing poetry as a child, and began rapping at the age of 14, in 2001, Davis released La Flare on Str8 Drop Records. It was pressed onto about 1000 CDs and distributed on the streets, in 2002, Davis linked up with SYS Records as a member of the Sign Yourself Click. Gucci also linked up with producer Zaytoven and made his own label, after heading to New York in search of a distribution deal and returning home empty, he was introduced to Big Cat, the head of Big Cat Records. Securing a distribution deal with Tommy Boy Records, Gucci continued to work the underground while preparing for the release of his debut album, in 2005, Davis released his independent debut album entitled Trap House, which featured the single Icy with Young Jeezy. Trap House may not have arrived with the fanfare of other LP’s from that time, the album creeped into the top 20 of the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and landing at the top spot on the Billboard Heatseekers Album chart. Disputes over the rights to this caused a rift between the two artists. Hard to Kill followed in 2006, Hard To Kill included the hit single Freaky Gurl. The song peaked at number 12 on the Hot Rap Tracks, number 19 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and he also shot videos for the tracks Street Nigazzz and Pillz. The official remix of Freaky Gurl featuring Ludacris and Lil Kim was included on his 2007 commercial debut album Back to the Trap House, Gucci Mane appeared on OJ da Juicemans Make Tha Trap Say Aye and began working on various mixtapes. Gucci Mane signed to Warner Bros. Records in May 2009 and he appeared on remixes of the songs Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas, Obsessed by Mariah Carey and 5 Star Chick by Yo Gotti and made a guest appearance on Marios Break Up. Gucci Manes second studio album The State vs. Radric Davis was released under the label Warner Bros. Records on December 8,2009 and its first single, Wasted featuring Plies, was originally from Guccis 2009 mixtape Guccimania
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Mac DeMarco
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McBriare Samuel Lanyon Mac DeMarco is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known for his career, during which he has released four studio albums, Rock and Roll Night Club,2, Salad Days. His style of music has been described as blue wave, slacker rock. Mac DeMarco was born in Duncan, British Columbia and raised in Edmonton, during high school he was in several bands, including The Meat Cleavers, The Sound of Love and Outdoor Miners. His great-grandfather is Vernor Smith, Albertas former Minister of Railways and Telephones and his mother later changed his name to McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco. DeMarco is also of Italian descent, after graduating from Strathcona High School in Edmonton in 2008, he became a backer. After that, he moved to Vancouver, living in the Killarney neighbourhood, he released a self-produced album, Heat Wave, calling himself Makeout Videotape in 2009. The album sold out its 500-unit run, DeMarco worked on psychedelic video projects during this time. He was joined by Alex Calder and Jen Clement, signed to Unfamiliar Records, in 2011, DeMarco moved from Vancouver to Montreal to begin recording as a solo artist. Failing to find work as a musician, he participated in experiments for money. In early 2012, he released an EP titled Rock and Roll Night Club, the four-track-recorded album features skits and slowed-down vocals. It impressed his new label Captured Tracks enough that they agreed to release a full-length album and this release, entitled 2, was received well by critics, garnering a Best New Music designation from Pitchfork Media. One of his songs, Moving Like Mike, was licensed by U. S. retail outlet Target for a commercial and it was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. Captured Tracks has announced a series called The Wonderful World of Mac DeMarco 7 Club Vol.1. Subscribers will receive two 7 records every six to eight weeks containing various recordings by DeMarco, DeMarco made his first talk show appearance when he performed the song Let Her Go on Conan on March 30,2015. On April 22,2015, DeMarco announced the release of a mini album titled Another One. DeMarco describes the album to be a collection of love songs. On May 11,2015, Captured Tracks released the first single of Another One, Another One received a generally favorable response from music critics, scoring 75/100 on Metacritic
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The Drums
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The Drums are an American indie pop band from New York City. Founding members Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham became friends as children, some years later, they formed a short-lived electro-pop group initially named Goat Explosion, but eventually rechristened as Elkland. They released one album, Golden in 2005 and garnered interest with the single Apart. In 2008 Jonny and Jacob came up with the concept for The Drums, and Pierce moved to Kissimee, Florida, where Graham resided at the time, so that they could more readily collaborate. They then moved to Brooklyn, New York, in the spring of 2009, the band had their first gig within a week of arriving in Brooklyn at Cake Shop NYC as part of the NYC Pop Fest. In October 2009, the released their first EP, Summertime. In December 2009 the band was shortlisted as one of the 15 music acts for the BBC Sound of 2010, subsequently, they placed at No.5 in this list on 4 January 2010. In NMEs first issue of 2010 they were named number 1 in the top tips for the year as well as in Clash Magazines Tips for 2010. The Drums were also voted Best Hope for 2010 in Pitchfork Medias 2009 Readers Poll and they won the Hall Radar Award for 2010 and were the most Shazamed band of 2009. In June 2010 they played as one of the bands for Kings of Leon in Hyde Park. On May 7,2010, they appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and their debut album was officially released on June 7,2010, on Moshi Moshi and Island Records. On September 16,2010, it was announced on the bands Facebook page, the Drums released the single The New World on April 11,2011, with proceeds going to Japan disaster relief efforts. For their second LP, the band recorded quickly, again self-producing and they released Portamento on September 5,2011. The band has revealed that they almost split at the end of June due to stylistic disagreements. Jacob explained, I think our band is kind of fragile and probably on the verge of breaking up pretty constantly, in 2011, Jonny Pierce co-wrote In The Middle with Brooklyn artist Matthew Dear for his EP Headcage. His writing credits also include You Gave Me Nothing and Lose It which are included in Mark Ronsons album Record Collection, the Drums remained dormant for the most part during 2013, but had occasional performances throughout most of that year. In November 2012, Jonny Pierce announced he would be releasing an album in 2013. Now The Drums were made up of founding members Jonny Pierce, the Drums made their American television debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on February 15,2012
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Foxygen
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Foxygen is an American indie rock duo from Westlake Village, California, formed in 2005. The band consists of Jonathan Rado and Sam France and they have released four albums and a number of self-released EPs. Rado and France started their band in school when both were fifteen. After their formation in 2005, the band played music, influenced by psychedelia. They self-released four EPs between 2007 and 2011, in early 2011, they were discovered by producer Richard Swift after handing him one of their EPs at a Mynabirds show in New York. The group were signed on to Jagjaguwar Records and their first studio album. On January 22,2013, Jagjaguwar released Foxygens second album and this album was produced by Richard Swift and recorded at his National Freedom studio. The record was preceded by the single Shuggie, released on October 4,2012, in March 2013, Foxygen was named one of Fuse TVs 30 must-see artists at SXSW. The band has gained a reputation for its live shows. In 2014, for their tours promoting the sprawling double album …And Star Power, the band released their fourth LP, the theatrical Hang, on January 20,2017, via Jagjaguwar. The album features collaborations with The Lemon Twigs, the Flaming Lips Steven Drozd, the Irish Times described the album as “Theatrical is an apt description of this collection as a whole while noting that the album edges perilously close to pastiche. In January 2013, Pitchfork Media cited Foxygen under Best New Music in their review of the new album and their 2014 album, the Todd Rundgren-influenced. And Star Power received decidedly mixed reviews
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White Arrows
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White Arrows is a psych-pop group from Los Angeles, California. The band consists of Mickey Church, Andrew Naeve, John Paul Caballero, White Arrows, a psychedelic pop band, began on a whim when writing a song in New York City that immediately got attention from blogs including Nylon magazine. Mickey never thought of being in a band or playing music before this, soon thereafter, Mickey took the name to Los Angeles to form the band with Andrew Naeve, John Paul Caballero, Steven Vernet, and his younger brother Henry. Mickey and Andrew began writing, producing and remixing music together, Not long after, White Arrows began touring the world. Since their debut tour with Cults, they have toured many other bands, including White Denim, The Naked. Dry Land Is Not A Myth After having RAC do a mix of their song Coming Or Going, White Arrows debut LP, Dry Land Is Not A Myth, came out on June 19,2012 on Votiv, a Seattle based record label, and Dew-Process in Australia. White Arrows toured across three continents and ten countries in support of Dry Land Is Not A Myth
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Ghost (Swedish band)
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Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band that was formed in Linköping in 2008. In 2010, they released a 3-track demo followed by a 7 vinyl titled Elizabeth, the Grammis-nominated album was widely praised and increased their popularity significantly. Their second album and major label debut Infestissumam was released in 2013, debuted at one in Sweden. Its lead single, Cirice, earned them the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, Ghost is easily recognizable because of its eccentric on-stage presence. Five of the six members wear virtually identical, face-concealing costumes. The most distinguishable member is the vocalist, who is titled Papa Emeritus, each album cycle has brought about a change in the bands appearance. The vocalist is always portrayed as the same character, but has slight appearance changes. All of the members true identities were kept anonymous until 2017. The vocalist calls himself Papa Emeritus, and the current musicians are referred to only as Nameless Ghouls, a Nameless Ghoul said that Ghost formed in 2006, when the members were in another band together and he played a riff that would become Stand By Him to them. He said, I said that this is probably the most heavy metal riff that has ever existed, when the chorus came to me, it haunted my dreams. Every time I picked up the guitar, I ended up playing that progression, after choosing the name Ghost, the band decided to use their love of horror films and the traditions of Scandinavian metal in the bands imagery. A Nameless Ghoul said, Everything started with a bunch of songs and we knew very early that to make this material work we needed to fulfill our dream of putting a horror show together with music. In 2010, the band produced a demo and the vinyl-only single Elizabeth, before releasing their first studio album, Opus Eponymous. The album was well-received and was nominated for the 2011 Grammis Award for Best Hard Rock album, Ghost supported gothic metal band Paradise Lost on their Draconian Times MMXI tour in April 2011. On May 29, Ghost made their United States debut at the Maryland Deathfest, the band played at the annual Download Festival in the United Kingdom on the Pepsi Max Stage on June 11. Following their performance, Phil Anselmo, lead singer of the band Down, performed wearing a Ghost T-shirt, when Down closed their set, both guitars and drums were played by members of Ghost. Ghost took part in the Defenders of the Faith III tour with Trivium, In Flames and Rise to Remain for its UK and Europe shows. The band then embarked on their first United States tour,13 Dates of Doom beginning in New York on January 18,2012, Ghost joined Mastodon and Opeth as the opening act on the Heritage Hunter Tour throughout North America during April and May 2012
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Pauly Shore
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Paul Montgomery Pauly Shore is an American actor, comedian, director, writer and producer. Shore is best known for his roles in comedy films in the 1990s including Encino Man, Son in Law. He also hosted a show on MTV in the late 1980s. Shores acting career has declined since the late 1990s, he has appeared only infrequently in a number of films and has primarily focused on stand-up comedy. Shore was born Paul Montgomery Shore, the son of Mitzi Shore, who founded The Comedy Store, and Sammy Shore, Shore was raised Jewish, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1986, inspired by his parents work in comedy and show business, a 17-year-old Shore made his stand-up debut at the Alley Cat Bistro in Culver City. Everyone else in school was filling out their SAT applications, but I just passed mine back, I knew I wasnt going to go to college. Shore was mentored by Sam Kinison and opened several of his sets, while touring the comedy club circuit, Shore cultivated an alter ego persona, The Weasel. The Weasel involved Shore speaking in a surfer parlance, heavily peppered with dudespeak slang such as edged, melons and grinding as well as his catchphrase, Hey, Shores big break came as an on-air MTV VJ, a position he held from 1989 to 1994. At the height of his MTV fame, Shore had his own show, Totally Pauly and he also released a music video, Lisa, Lisa, the One I Adore. In 1992, Shore starred in Encino Man, which was a modest hit, the films success propelled Shore to star in additional personalized vehicles, albeit less successful, Son in Law, In the Army Now, Jury Duty, and Bio-Dome. In 1997, Shore starred in the eponymous TV show Pauly, Shore makes a cameo appearance in the American rock band Limp Bizkit music video N2 Gether Now, as a pizza deliveryman, and a briefer appearance in Break Stuff. In 2003, Shore produced, wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead, a semi-autobiographical mockumentary, in 2010, Shore starred in Adopted, which sees him traveling to Africa to adopt a child. In addition, he has several short films and multiple projects in the works such as his MTV pilot called The Shores. Official website Official website of Adopted Pauly Shore at the Internet Movie Database
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The Doors
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The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were unique and among the most controversial and influential acts of the 1960s, mostly because of Morrisons lyrics and charismatic. After Morrisons death in 1971 at age 27, the members continued as a trio until disbanding in 1973. Signing with Elektra Records in 1966, The Doors released eight albums between 1967 and 1971, All but one hit the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum or better. By the end of 1971, it was reported that The Doors had sold 4,190,457 albums domestically and 7,750,642 singles. The band had three million-selling singles in the U. S. with Light My Fire, Hello, I Love You, after Morrisons death in 1971, the surviving trio released two albums Other Voices and Full Circle with Manzarek and Krieger sharing lead vocals. The three members also collaborated on the spoken word recording of Morrisons An American Prayer in 1978, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore reunited in 2000 for an episode of VH1s Storytellers and subsequently recorded Stoned Immaculate, The Music of The Doors with a variety of vocalists. Although the Doors active career ended in 1973, their popularity has persisted, According to the RIAA, they have sold 33 million certified units in the US and over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The Doors have been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone, the Doors were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold and platinum LPs. In 2002, Manzarek and Krieger started playing again, branding themselves as the Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore opted to sit out and, along with the Morrison estate, sued the duo over proper use of the bands name and won. After a short time as Riders On the Storm, they settled on the name Manzarek-Krieger and continued to tour until Manzareks death in 2013 at the age of 74. Three of the studio albums, the self-titled debut, L. A. Woman, and Strange Days, were featured in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, at positions 42,362. According to The Washington Posts Martin Weil, the rose to the center of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs and with Manzareks encouragement sang Moonlight Drive. The members came from a musical background of jazz, rock, blues. In August, Densmore joined the group, which had renamed the Doors. This has circulated widely since then as a bootleg recording, in mid-1965, after Manzareks two brothers left, the group recruited guitarist Robby Krieger and the best-known lineup – Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore – was complete
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Bon Iver
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Bon Iver is an American indie folk band founded in 2007 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. Vernon released Bon Ivers debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July 2007, the majority of that album was recorded while Vernon spent three months in a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin. Bon Iver won the 2012 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album for their album Bon Iver, the name Bon Iver is derived from the French phrase bon hiver, meaning good winter, taken from a greeting on Northern Exposure. After the breakup of his band DeYarmond Edison, the ending of a relationship, and a bout with hepatitis, Vernon left Raleigh, North Carolina. He spent the winter months at his fathers cabin in Dunn County. According to Vernon, it was during this time that the Bon Iver moniker first entered his mind, while bedridden with mononucleosis, he began watching the 1990s TV series Northern Exposure on DVD. One episode depicts a group of citizens in Alaska, where the show is set, emerging from their homes into the first snowfall of the winter and wishing one another bon hiver. Vernon did not intend to write or record any music during the time, eventually a record began to evolve during this cathartic time of isolation. He had recently finished helping the band The Rosebuds do some recording and had with him some basic recording gear when he made his move to the cabin, Vernon played all the instruments during recording and each song was heavily edited with a large number of overdubs. Vernon wrote the lyrics for the album by recording a word-less melody, in an interview, Vernon said, Words like decision and intention arent words that float in my head because I just went, Vernon explains. I left North Carolina and went up there because I didnt know where else to go and I knew that I wanted to be alone and I knew that I wanted to be where it was cold. In another interview, Vernon describes what he used to record the album, I had a very light set-up, a small recording set-up, a Shure SM57. I had my brother drop off his old drums, some other small things – things I would make or find lying around. The record was almost not released and was intended as a group of demos to be sent out to labels. But after getting very encouraging reactions from a number of his friends, according to his manager Kyle Frenette, an initial run of 500 CDs were pressed. The original CD release show took place at the House of Rock in Eau Claire, Justin played an earlier all-ages show and an evening 21+ show to release the original pressing of the album in its card stock CD case. Of the 500 copies issued,17 were sent to press, the first significant attention the album received was from My Old Kentucky Blog in June 2007, after which point it snowballed, according to manager Frenette. Another further breakthrough came when, in October 2007, the received a very positive review from influential indie internet publication Pitchfork
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TLC (group)
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TLC is an American girl group whose original line-up consisted of Tionne T-Boz Watkins, Lisa Left Eye Lopes and Rozonda Chilli Thomas. Formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1991, the group was successful during the 1990s and early 2000s in spite of numerous spats with the law, each other. They scored nine hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles Creep, Waterfalls, No Scrubs. TLC also became the first R&B group in history to receive Million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan for FanMail, having sold over 65 million records worldwide, TLC is the best-selling American girl group and second worldwide to the English group Spice Girls. VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, Billboard magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios, as well as the seventh most successful act of the 1990s. The groups accolades include five career Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, twenty years after their debut, TLC was honored with Outstanding Contribution to Music at the 17th MOBO Awards and Legend Award at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Japan. All three members of TLC are considered irreplaceable by the members, and each of them have contributed equally to the group. Following Lopes death in 2002, instead of replacing her, the members chose to carry on as a duo. In 2017, they are set to release their album as TLC. Jones put out a call for two girls to join her in this trio. Calling the group 2nd Nature, Jones, Watkins, and Lopes began working with producers Jermaine Dupri, impressed by the girls, Reid renamed the group TLC-Skee, with TLC being an Initialism for the names Tionne, Lisa, and Crystal. Reid arranged an audition for them with local record label LaFace Records, run by Kenneth Babyface Edmonds and Reids then-husband, Antonio Reid saw potential in Watkins and Lopes as performers, but felt that Jones should be replaced. According to Jones, things began to unravel for her after Pebbles denied the group the opportunity to take home the contracts that Pebbitone had drafted, Jones did not want to sign before having the contract reviewed by others and perhaps a lawyer. In contrast, Watkins recollection of Jones departure is that both she and Lopes asked Jones to leave the group before their contracts were negotiated. On February 28,1991, Watkins and Lopes signed production, management, as they looked for a replacement for Jones, the two-member TLC-Skee made its first recorded appearance on a track for LaFace act Damian Dames self-titled 1991 LP. Pebbles found the third member in Rozonda Thomas, one of Damian Dames part-time backup dancers, Thomas was signed to the act in April 1991, at about which time the groups name was shortened to TLC. To maintain TLCs name as an acronym for the names, Watkins became T-Boz, Lopes became Left-Eye. The girls were signed to LaFace in May through the production deal with Pebbitone
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James Blake (musician)
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James Blake Litherland, known as James Blake, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer from London. He first received recognition in 2010 for a trio of dubstep-influenced EPs, and his second studio album Overgrown was released in 2013 and was awarded the Mercury Prize. His third studio album The Colour in Anything was released in 2016, Blake has also released remix work under the moniker Harmonimix. Blake received his second Grammy Award nomination at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, at the 2014 Brit Awards, Blake was nominated for the Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist. James Blake is the son of musician James Litherland, and showed a strong interest and he received classical training in piano as a child, and completed primary education at Grange Park Primary School, Winchmore Hill and secondary education at The Latymer School, Edmonton. Later on, he attended Goldsmiths, University of London, where he received a degree in Popular Music, while at school, Blake and friends hosted a series of Bass Society music nights that featured UK artists such as Distance, Skream and Benga. Blake began his career by releasing his debut 12 record, entitled Air & Lack Thereof in the United Kingdom during July 2009. Having been released on the imprint record label, Hemlock, the became a favourite of BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson. Soon after the release of the record Blake was invited by Peterson to do a mix on his international show. As a second-year composition assignment for his studies at Goldsmiths, he submitted the soon-to-be-released Klavierwerke EP, a third EP, entitled CMYK, was released through R&S Records during 2010. The title track, CMYK was selected by BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw as his Record of the Week, on 29 September 2010, Zane Lowe selected Blakes cover version of Limit to Your Love as his Hottest Record in the World. The song was written and originally recorded by Feist and appeared on her studio album, the single was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2010, where it debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 47. It was also revealed on 15 December 2010 that Blake had been made the runner-up behind singer-songwriter Jessie J at the BRIT Awards Critics Choice, in January 2011, Blake was awarded Single of the Year for CMYK at Gilles Petersons Worldwide Awards. Blake revealed in late December 2010 that his album would be self-titled, only days after the original announcement was made, the album was leaked onto the internet. On 9 January 2011, The Wilhelm Scream was trailed as the second single. In February 2011, James Blake first appeared on the cover of the publication The Fader and these included Deeds, Olivia Kept, and Evening Fell Hard for Us. During the final weeks of 2012, James Blake performed three intimate shows where he debuted new songs, later that year, Blake released both the Enough Thunder and Love What Happened Here EPs in 2011. These EPs, noticeably more structured than his previous releases, featured R&B-tinged work as opposed to the electronic style found on CMYK
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2 Live Crew
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The 2 Live Crew is an American hip-hop group from Miami, Florida. They caused considerable controversy with the themes in their work. The 2 Live Crew, although seen as a fixture in the Miami hip-hop scene, actually got their start in California & was created by DJ Mr. Mixx with fellow rappers Fresh Kid Ice. The group released its first single, Revelation, in 1985, Revelation was popular in Florida, so The 2 Live Crew relocated to Miami. Rapper Brother Marquis joined The 2 Live Crew for its next single What I Like, local rapper Luke Skyywalker gave The 2 Live Crew a record deal and worked as the groups manager and then lead vocalist. The 2 Live Crews debut album, The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are, was released in 1986. Alex Henderson of Allmusic commented that the album did take sexually explicit rap lyrics to a new level of nastiness, with such as We Want Some Pussy. With word-of-mouth attention, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, Bob Rosenberg of Will to Power remixed Beat Box and was billed King of Edits by Luke Skyywalker. In 1987, a Florida store clerk was acquitted of charges for selling the album to a 14-year-old girl. Move Somethin is the album by Miami hip hop group 2 Live Crew. The album was released in 1988 and it was also certified Gold and featured the singles Move Somethin and Do Wah Diddy Diddy. The album improved on the charts from the album, making in to #68 on the Billboard 200. Campbell decided to sell a separate clean version in addition to the version of the album, Move Somethin. A record store clerk in Alexander City, Alabama, was cited for selling a copy to a police officer in 1988. It was the first time in the United States that a store owner was held liable for obscenity over music. The charges were dropped after a jury found the record store not guilty, in 1989, the group released their album, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, which also became the groups most successful album. A large part of its success was due to the single Me So Horny, the American Family Association did not think the presence of a Parental Advisory sticker was enough to adequately warn listeners of what was inside the case. Jack Thompson, an affiliated with the AFA, met with Florida Governor Bob Martinez
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Violent Femmes
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Violent Femmes is an American folk rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active from 1980 to 1987 and again from 1988 to 2009. As of 2013, the band is active again, the band has performed as a trio, including singer, guitarist and songwriter Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and four drummers, Victor DeLorenzo, Guy Hoffman, Brian Viglione, and John Sparrow. Violent Femmes have released nine albums and fifteen singles during the course of their career. The band found success with the release of their self-titled debut album in early 1983. Violent Femmes went on to one of the most successful alternative rock bands of the 1980s. After the release of their third album The Blind Leading the Naked, the future was uncertain and they split up in 1987. However, they regrouped a year later, releasing the album 3, since then, Violent Femmes popularity continued to grow, especially in the United States where the songs Nightmares and American Music cracked the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. In its early days, the frequently played coffee houses. Chrissie Hynde invited them to play an acoustic set after the opening act. After their debut album Violent Femmes, they released Hallowed Ground, mark Van Hecke produced the bands first two efforts, but their third album, The Blind Leading the Naked, saw a change in the studio. This time, another fellow Milwaukee native Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads did the producing and it was more mainstream and pop-oriented, resulting in a minor hit with Children of the Revolution, originally by T. Rex. In 1985, Van Hecke ended his collaboration with the group and he would return later, however, to produce two more albums for the group. The Femmes briefly disbanded, with Gano releasing an album in 1987, Ritchie also released several solo LPs. The group came together in late 1988, releasing 3. Why Do Birds Sing. was released in 1991 after the band signed to Reprise and featured another hit, American Music. In 1993, DeLorenzo departed the group to act and make solo records, Guy Hoffman, formerly of the Oil Tasters and BoDeans, was brought in to tour what was to become one of their biggest-selling records, the Add It Up collection. The first full album with Hoffman on drums, New Times, was released in 1994. Rock. was released in 1995 in Australia only, though it has become available in the United States of America
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Future Islands
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Future Islands is an American synthpop band based in Baltimore, Maryland, and signed to 4AD. The band is composed of Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Future Islands formed in January 2006 in Greenville, North Carolina. The band met and formed while studying art at East Carolina University in Greenville and their first band was Art Lord & the Self-Portraits, which included Samuel T. Herring, William Cashion, Gerrit Welmers, Adam Beeby, and Kymia Nawabi. That band lasted from February 2003 until fall of 2005, in early 2006, Cashion, Herring, and Welmers formed Future Islands with Erick Murillo, who played an electronic drum kit. The name is meant to be vague and we were either gonna be called Already Islands or Future Shoes. Because, seriously, you dont know what future shoes look like, so after deciding Already Shoes was a bad name, we combined them to Future Islands. Future Islands released Little Advances in April 2006 and a self-released split CD with Welmers solo project Moss of Aura in January 2007 and they recorded their debut album Wave Like Home with Chester Endersby Gwazda at Backdoor Skateshop in Greenville, NC later that year. London-based label Upset The Rhythm released Wave Like Home in the Summer of 2008, the cover art was designed by Kymia Nawabi, a former member of Art Lord & the Self-Portraits. In late 2007/early 2008, the relocated to Baltimore. The Feathers and Hallways 7 was recorded in Oakland, California and their second album, In Evening Air, was recorded in the bands living room in the historic Marble Hill neighborhood in Baltimore. In 2009, the band signed to Chicago independent record company Thrill Jockey, following a year of solid touring, they recorded their third album On the Water in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and released it in the autumn of 2011. In early 2014, the announced they had signed to 4AD. The band made their network television début on March 3,2014, on The Late Show with David Letterman and their performance on the show, particularly Herrings onstage antics, became an internet success, and garnered millions of views on YouTube. Seasons was eventually named the best song of 2014 by Pitchfork Media, the Pazz & Jop critics poll, the band performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live in May 2014. They made an appearance on Later, with Jools Holland on September 30,2014. The band performed at the Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, June 28,2015, the band performed at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 24,2017. Keyboardist Gerrit Welmers has been creating solo as Moss of Aura since 2006, in 2008, Sam Herring and William Cashion started a parallel project called The Snails with members of other Baltimore bands. Their debut EP Worth the Wait came out in April 2013, in February 2016, they released their debut album Songs from The Shoebox
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Reel Big Fish
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Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit Sell Out. The band gained recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band lost mainstream recognition but gained a cult following. As of 2006, the band is no longer signed to a record label. After many line-up changes throughout the years, front man Aaron Barrett remains the founding member in the band. The group started as a band until they released a demo in 1992. With the departure of Ben Guzman soon after, then backup vocalist Aaron Barrett took his place as lead singer, the band then changed its genre to ska. Reel Big Fishs self-released debut album, Everything Sucks, was successful and became an underground hit spread by word-of-mouth, which led to the band signing a deal with Mojo Records. In August 1996, the released the album Turn the Radio Off on the new label, which appealed to fans of ska punk style. After the single Sell Out became well known in mainstream venues, including MTV, however, the ska revival was short-lived, and the groups 1998 album Why Do They Rock So Hard. failed to match the sales of the bands previous record. In 1998, the band appeared in the movie BASEketball, performing in the stands to rouse the crowd, the band also collaborated on the soundtrack with a cover of a-has Take On Me. Why Do They Rock So Hard. was the last album for two members of the band, trumpet player Tavis Werts left the band in 2001. The band fared much better on the charts in 2002 with the album. Former Suburban Rhythm drummer Carlos de la Garza and ex-Spring Heeled Jack U. S. A. trumpeter Tyler Jones, de la Garzas last concert with Reel Big Fish was on June 20,2003 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. That concert was released as a DVD in the The Show Must Go Off. Jones appeared in the Music Videos for Where Have You Been. and Monkey Man and he was replaced by trumpeter John Christianson, who had played with Barrett in The Forces of Evil. On April 5,2005, the band released its album on Mojo. Justin Ferreira was on drums for the recording, but left before the release to join the Orange County band Takota
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The Faint
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The Faint is an American indie rock band. Formed in Omaha, Nebraska, the band consists of Todd Fink, Jacob Thiele, Dapose, Joel Petersen, the Faint was originally known as Norman Bailer and included Conor Oberst. He quit shortly after the band was formed, though the Faint continued to share a spot with Bright Eyes on Saddle Creek Records. Growing up, Fink, Petersen, and Baechle skateboarded in their time until Fink developed knee problems. The band originally consisted of Clark Baechle, Todd Fink, and they signed to Saddle Creek Records and released a few singles, but were unable to establish widespread sales. After adding Matt Bowen, the Faint released Media, at the end of 1998 Jacob Thiele joined the band, and shortly thereafter Matt Bowen was replaced by Ethan Jones. They toured the U. S. playing what would become the songs that would comprise the album, Blank-Wave Arcade which had a more dance. Before recording the album, however, Jones left the band and was replaced on guitar by Joel Petersen. Partway through the creation of Danse Macabre, the Faint added Dapose and their next album, recorded with Mike Mogis and released in 2004, was called Wet from Birth. In May 2008, the Faint announced that they had split from Saddle Creek, the album, entitled Fasciinatiion, was released on August 5,2008 in the U. S. The first single from the album is The Geeks Were Right which was released on Boys Noize Records and it was also announced that the band would tour North America with British electronic group Ladytron during the spring. The band performed an original song Teach Me Teacher on the childrens show Yo Gabba Gabba. in the third-season episode School originally aired September 19,2010. The band announced that it would play Danse Macabre in its entirety along with fan favorites during a tour of 24 cities across North America and he is influenced by Merzbow’s work, the writings of Howard Bloom, and numerous classical composers. Vverevvolf Grehv lives and works in Omaha Nebraska, albums Zombie Aesthetics - Relapse Records 2008 Broken Spindles The Faint on FreeIndie
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The Pharcyde
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The Pharcyde is an American alternative hip hop group, formed in 1989, from South Central Los Angeles. The original four members of the group are Imani, Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, DJ Mark Luv was the groups first disc jockey, followed by producer J-Swift and then J Dilla. The group is perhaps best known for the hit singles Drop, Passin Me By and Runnin, as well as their first album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. Pharcyde group members Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, and Imani met as dancers in the late 1980s, around this time, Imani and Slimkid3 were in a group called As Is and later a group called the Play Brothers, whilst Bootie Brown was a backup dancer for Fatlip. Bootie Brown recalls that their earlier dancing careers influenced their rapping – sometimes the way I rap is almost like the way I used to dance. The group met Reggie Andrews, a local music teacher who worked with the Dazz Band and Rick James. The group also met producer J-Swift around this time, as he was Reggie Andrewss star pupil according to the book Check the Technique, the group, along with producer J-Swift, recorded their first album Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, which was released in September 1992. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1996, the album was highly acclaimed, and became one of the most praised and influential alternative hip hop albums of the 1990s. Their second single Passin Me By became a minor Billboard hit, the song was later featured in the hit movie Big Daddy and was also a crossover modern rock hit. The song is now considered a golden-era staple and is the groups most well known song. The album featured a couple of guest MCs, including Bucwheed on the tracks On The DL, problems between the group and producer J-Swift began during the recording of the debut, with infighting and personality conflicts. J-Swift started a crack habit, from which he is trying to recover. A documentary,1 More Hit, recorded his attempts to recover from his addiction, after the Bizarre Ride album was released, the group began touring with A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, culminating with an appearance at the Lollapalooza show in 1994. In 1994, Pharcyde appeared on the Red Hot Organizations compilation album, Stolen Moments, the album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as Album of the Year by Time Magazine. In 1995, The Pharcyde released their album, Labcabincalifornia. The album received mixed reviews, maybe due to a different musical direction from the light-hearted playfulness of their debut, the album included another big crossover hit, Runnin, peaking at No.55 on the Billboard Hot 100. This single was featured in the movie 8 Mile, as well as the More Music from 8 Mile soundtrack. Labcabincalifornia featured production from producers Jay Dee, member Slimkid3 has stated that the group met Jay Dee by way of Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, who handed them the tape that contained some of the production that would end up on the LP
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Julian Casablancas+The Voidz
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Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, or simply The Voidz, are an American rock band formed by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. The band consists of Casablancas as well as Jeramy Beardo Gritter, Amir Yaghmai, Jacob Jake Bercovici, Alex Carapetis, Jeff Kite, Jeff Kite, Alex Carapetis and Jake Bercovici had all worked with Casablancas previously. Kite and Carapetis appeared as part of the Sick Six live band, Kite and Carapetis, along with Bercovici, also worked on I Like the Night, a song Casablancas recorded as part of an advertising campaign he fronted for the French fashion label, Azzaro. Casablancas enjoyed working with the band, and chose to collaborate with musicians, in a similar format to the Sick Six. Casablancas, Carapetis, Bercovici and Kite, along with mutual friends Jeramy Gritter and Amir Yaghmai formed the Voidz, the bands debut album, Tyranny, was released on September 23,2014
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Gwar
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Such stagecraft regularly leads Gwar to be labeled a shock rock band by the media. Since their formation, Gwar have released thirteen albums, two live albums, and numerous singles among other recordings, and have sold over 820,000 records in the United States. Though the bands popularity declined by the end of the 1990s. Outside of music and video, Gwar has expanded their franchise into comic books, trading cards, a game, signature beers, barbecue sauces. The bands characteristic costumes are made of foam latex, styrofoam. The costumes cover very little of the band members bodies, the parts are accentuated with makeup. They further their production in concert by spraying their audiences with fluids, most of the fluids are made of water and powdered food coloring which, for the most part, flakes off or washes out easily. The thicker fluids are made from a seaweed extract called carrageenan which is also used in ice cream. Gwar does not use syrups or stage blood because they dry solid, another trademark of Gwars live show is their mutilations of celebrities and figures in current events. Victims have included O. J. Lordi, Sarah Palin, Snooki, Mitt Romney, Pope Francis, Justin Bieber, Tony Abbott, the band also makes frequent references to political and historical figures, fantasy literature, and mythology. For instance, the song Whargoul makes reference to Minas Morgul as well as the warrior of Michael Moorcock. Gwar also has references to H. P. Lovecraft themes. In addition, the title of their fifth album Ragnarok comes from Norse mythology and they were nominated for two Grammys, one for Best Metal Performance S. F. W. and one for Best Long Form Music Video Phallus in Wonderland. The band also performed fire dancing until the character Slymenstra Hymen left the band, Gwar is the end result of two separate projects merged into one. Dave Brockie was the vocalist and bassist for a band named Death Piggy that staged mini-plays. Bands would occasionally practice in a room at the Richmond Dairy, the hippies rented out interior areas to various artists and musicians. Jackson would create props for Death Piggy to use on stage, the name of the joke group was Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh. The members of Death Piggy began noticing that people were coming to see Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh
