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Trevor McNevan
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Trevor McNevan, also known as Teerawk, is a Canadian musician and lead singer/songwriter of Thousand Foot Krutch and pop punk side project FM Static along with Steve Augustine. His first band, Oddball, included former Thousand Foot Krutch members Dave Smith and Tim Baxter, Oddball released the 27-song record Shutterbug, in 1995, featuring half hip-hop and half rock songs. McNevan is the original member of Thousand Foot Krutch. He formed the band in Peterborough, Ontario in 1997, along with original guitarist Dave Smith, McNevan also co-produced the Thousand Foot Krutch album Welcome to the Masquerade and FM Statics album My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go. McNevan is a member of alternative metal band Thousand Foot Krutch and is the only remaining original member. The band has released eight albums and one live CD/DVD compilation. McNevan started the pop punk band FM Static with drummer Steve Augustine, Guitarist John Bunner, the band has released four studio albums. He also co-wrote the song Bring Em Out with the band for the movie Yours, Mine and Ours, McNevan also starred in Hawk Nelsons California music video as the driver of the jeep. McNevan has his own publishing company called Teerawk Music that houses his various songwriting, developing, the company is mentioned in KJ-52s song Run for Cover. McNevan is a friend of Nashville Predators NHL player Mike Fisher. McNevan also sang on Worth Dying Fors Through Your Eyes on the album Love Riot, as well as Three Days Graces song, from, Thousand Foot Krutch FM Static Teerawk Music Publishing Trevor McNevan talks about working at McDonalds with Three Days Grace
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Peterborough, Ontario
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Peterborough /ˈpiːtərbɔːroʊ/ PEE-tər-bur-oh is a city on the Otonabee River in Central Ontario, Canada,125 kilometres northeast of Toronto and about 270 kilometers southwest of Ottawa. According to the 2016 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 81,032 and it presently has the 33rd largest CMA in Canada. The current mayor of Peterborough is Daryl Bennett, Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, cottage country, a large recreational region of the province. It is named in honour of Peter Robinson, an early Canadian politician who oversaw the first major immigration to the area, the city is the seat of Peterborough County. Peterboroughs nickname in the distant past was The Electric City as it was the first town in Canada to use electric streetlights. Electricity was one of the reasons Quaker Oats moved to the city, first Nations groups probably entered into the area across Bering Sea, through Alaska, millennia ago. Woodland Natives inhabited the area circa 1000 BCE –1000 CE, followed by Iroquois, two of the more prominent sites surviving from this time are the petroglyphs at Petroglyphs Provincial Park and Serpent Mounds. The petroglyphs are located northeast of Peterborough and are believed to have been carved by the Algonquin people between 900 and 1400 CE. The Serpent Mounds are located near Keene, approximately 30 km southeast of Peterborough in Otonabee-South Monaghan township, in 1818, Adam Scott settled on the west shore of the Otonabee River. The following year he began construction of a sawmill and gristmill, the mill was located at the foot of present-day King Street and was powered by water from Jackson Creek. The site has an Ojibway name Nogojiwanong which means the place at the end of the rapids, the year 1825 marked the arrival of Irish immigrants from the city of Cork to Scotts Plains. In 1822, the British Parliament had approved an experimental emigration plan to transport poor Irish Catholic families to Upper Canada. Peter Robinson, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, Scotts Plains was renamed Peterborough in his honour. Robinson interviewed families and individual males to make the long voyage and these families had to meet specific criteria in order to be eligible for the voyage. The specifics required for Robinsons settlers were that they had to be Catholic, poor, males had to be less than forty-five years of age and in good health and families were unrelated. The majority of the Irish emigrants were chosen from Fermoy, North Cork, Robinson was urged by landlords to remove the pauper and undesirables. Most of them could read and write, thomas Poole, a nineteenth century writer, wrote that all 2024 passengers boarded nine ships in June 1825, with everything they owned, from Cork across the Atlantic Ocean to Quebec City. The journey took 30 days to cross the Atlantic and on board the ship they were provided with bunks, hard tack or ship biscuits were one of the many foods that were made to provide energy for the passengers
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Christian rock
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Christian rock is a form of rock music that promotes Jesus and is typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals and bands whose members focus the lyrics on matters of Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands, many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent. In 1952 Archibald Davison, a Harvard professor, summed up the sound of traditional Christian music, based upon Archibald Davisons statement it is easy to see how different these two genres of music are. Religious people in regions of the United States did not want their children exposed to music with unruly, impassioned vocals, loud guitar riffs and jarring. Rock and roll differed from the norm, and thus it was seen as a threat, often the music was overtly sexual in nature, as in the case of Elvis Presley, who became controversial and massively popular partly for his suggestive stage antics and dancing. However, Elvis was a person who even released a gospel album. Individual Christians may have listened to or even performed rock music in many cases and he Touched Me was a 1972 gospel music album by Elvis Presley which sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and earned Presley his second of three Grammy Awards. Not counting compilations, it was his third and final album devoted exclusively to gospel music, the song He Touched Me was written in 1963 by Bill Gaither, an American singer and songwriter of southern gospel and Contemporary Christian music. In the 1960s, rock music developed artistically, attained popularity and became associated with the radical counterculture. This further increased the Christian opposition to rock music, moreover, many saw the music as promoting a lifestyle of promiscuous sex, drugs and rock and roll, also reflected in the behavior of many rock stars. However, there was growing recognition of the musical and ideological potential of rock. One of his songs, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music, summarized his attitude and his quest to pioneer Christian rock music. Another Christian rock pioneer, Randy Stonehill, released his first album in 1971, in the most common pressing of the album, side one is entirely a live performance. Another early Christian rock album was Mylon by Mylon LeFevre, son of members of the gospel group The LeFevres. He recorded the album with members of Classics IV and released it through Cotillion Records in 1970, petra and Resurrection Band, two of the bands who brought harder rock into the early CCM community, had their origins in the early to mid-1970s. They reached their height in popularity in the late eighties alongside other Christian-identifying hard rock such as Stryper. The latter had played on MTV, one being To Hell with the Devil. Christian rock has proved successful in the UK and Europe, although such artists as Bryn Haworth have found commercial success by combining blues
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Nu metal
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Nu metal is a form of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, Nu metal rarely features guitar solos, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to play a heavier sound, DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling, Nu metal is one of the key genres of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, many heavy metal fans have criticized nu metal, and do not regard it as true heavy metal. Many nu metal musicians have rejected the nu metal label and also have rejected being labeled as heavy metal, Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal, MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock. Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene. Nu metal merges elements of metal music with elements of other music genres such as grunge, hip hop, funk. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, alternative metal. Some nu metal bands such as Static-X and Dope made nu metal music elements of industrial metal. Nu metal music is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs, mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. N its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo. Another contrast with other metal genres is nu metals emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music, Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to death metal guitar riffs. Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. sound a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper. Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on elements such as slap bass, a percussive style of playing in which the thumb slaps the low strings
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Tooth & Nail Records
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Tooth & Nail Records is a Christian rock record label founded by Brandon Ebel in California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington where it is situated today and it has been home to many well-known musical acts, including Underoath, Hawk Nelson, Emery, The Almost, FM Static, Family Force 5, and MxPx. Tooth & Nails first album released was Wish for Edens Pet the Fish, subsequent releases from The Juliana Theory, MxPx, and Starflyer 59 made Tooth & Nail a strong force in Christian music circles, as well as a niche underground subculture in itself. Prior to forming Tooth & Nail, Ebel worked for the Christian label Frontline, eight Tooth & Nail-affiliated albums have been RIAA-certified as Gold for sales of 500,000 or more copies. The label saw one of its greatest successes when Underoaths Define the Great Line debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200 in 2006, the label also released a limited edition hard cover book, with the proceeds going to benefit Music Cares. Solid State Records distributes metal and hardcore albums by such as Living Sacrifice, Demon Hunter, Haste the Day, Underoath. Uprok Records was a hip hop label that included many of the early successes, such as ILL Harmonics. It is dissolved, though hip hop albums distributed by BEC Recordings still bear its logo, Plastiq Musiq primarily signed electronic music artists. Tooth & Nail entered a partnership to distribute Plastiq Musiq albums in 1998 and 1999, Plastiq Musiq continues to release albums independently. Fugitive Recordings primarily is made up of artists marketed outside of the Christian market, including Denison Witmer, The Presidents of the United States of America, the label acquired Takehold Records, an independent record label, in 2002. This acquisition brought several bands to Tooth & Nail including Underoath, Further Seems Forever, Few Left Standing and it will retain the rights to all future releases with a new distributor, RED Distribution. Tooth & Nail Records Discography List of record labels Official site Interview with A&R Chad Johnson, HitQuarters Oct 2006 A list of past Tooth & Nail artists
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FM Static
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FM Static was a Canadian pop punk Christian duo based in Toronto, Ontario. The band was formed in 2003 as a project for Thousand Foot Krutch. Past members are Trevor McNevan and Steve Augustine, the original lineup included John Bunner on guitar and Justin Smith on bass. As of 2013, the band has released four albums, most recently My Brain Says Stop. Their first album What Are You Waiting For. was produced by Aaron Sprinkle, the album featured the hit singles Definitely Maybe, Something to Believe In, and Crazy Mary. FM Static toured through 2003 to 2005, John Bunner quickly retired after playing a few shows, on August 1,2006, FM Static released their second album titled Critically Ashamed, which featured the single Waste of Time. Originally, a cover of Vanilla Ices Ice Ice Baby was to be included on this album, the band did not tour in support of their second album because the Smith brothers had stopped playing for them. So FM Static became a band with studio musicians filling in for the other parts. While their second album featured only the single Waste of Time, the song Tonight had accumulated over thirteen million hits on YouTube as of November 2011, while Moment of Truth had nearly ten million. On April 7,2009, FM Static released their studio album Dear Diary. Written as an album, it details the fictional story of a boy facing the difficulties of life, love and faith. The entries themselves were released in a prior to the albums release. This album featured the singles Boy Moves to a New Town With An Optimistic Outlook, The Unavoidable Battle of Feeling On the Outside, Trevor announced in a TFK broadcast that FM Static planned to tour again in 2009 to promote the album. This was confirmed when FM Static was added to setlist of the Creation Festival tour alongside TFK as well as Jars of Clay, AA Talks, B. Reith and This Beautiful Republic. Due to the fact the Trevor and Steve could not play all instrumentals, Nick Baumhardt from TFK filled in on the tour, as well as Tom Beaupre on bass and keyboards. McNevan also posted on his Twitter account on February 5,2010, that he is in the process of finishing new songs for FM Static, which will appear on a new record. He stated originally that the title would be 4, but he later mentioned on his personal Facebook page that the title had been changed to My Brain Says Stop. At Lifest 2010, FM Static debuted a song from this album called Cinnamon & Lipstick, on November 23, FM Static released a triple pack called 3 Out of 4 Aint Bad
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Hawk Nelson
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Hawk Nelson is a Canadian Christian rock and pop punk band from Peterborough, Ontario. Formed in 2000, the band has released seven albums to date. In 2000, Dunn, Clark, and Paige founded a Peterborough-based group called SWISH, while Biro sang lead vocals for a group called the Cheese Monkeys from Planet Nine from Barrie. In 2000, SWISH released their first independent album, Riding Around the Park on Mime Radio, in January 2002, Biro moved to Peterborough to join Dunn, Clark and Paige and SWISH was renamed Reason Being, before finally settling with the name Hawk Nelson. In 2003, they released their independent album, Saturday Rock Action. McNevan, also from Peterborough, Ontario, is credited with discovering the band, in July 2004, Hawk Nelson released their debut album Letters to the President. It was produced by Aaron Sprinkle and McNevan, who also co-wrote the albums fourteen songs and he has also appeared on some of the bands songs, as well as in their video for the song California. The band has achieved success in the mainstream as well. They portrayed The Who on an episode of the NBC drama American Dreams and this song and another hit song The Show were both used on Sunday Night Football commercials. Things We Go Through from Letters to the President was also featured in Yours, Mine, Hawk Nelson plays the party band for the film Yours, Mine and Ours. On December 20,2005, Hawk Nelson released an EP titled Bring Em Out, Hawk Nelson continued to gain popularity and was voted Favorite New Artist by CCM Magazine in their February 2006 Readers Choice Awards. On April 4,2006, Hawk Nelson released Connect Sets EP with six tracks, including Bring Em Out, Thing We Go Through. The band released their studio album, Smile, Its the End of the World. The album was also co-written by Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch, the album won a GMA Canada Covenant Award for Modern Rock/Alternative Album of the Year in 2006. The albums first single, Everything You Ever Wanted, went on to hit No.1 for 9 weeks on the R&R Christian CHR chart, the band spent the middle of 2006 touring the major Christian music festivals, and also took part in Jeremy Camps Beyond Measure tour. Hawk Nelson released a three-track Christmas EP titled Gloria on November 21,2006, and then toured with TobyMacs Winter Wonder Slam tour along with The Afters, Family Force 5, in addition, Bob Carlisle, Leigh Nash, and The Send have all contributed exclusive tracks. Hawk Nelson performed in 2006 on the Fringe Stage at Creation Festival Northwest, in 2007, Hawk Nelson performed at Winter Jam with a variety of other Christian bands, including Newsong, Jeremy Camp, Steven Curtis Chapman, Sanctus Real, and Britt Nicole. Hawk Nelson also toured with MxPx, Run Kid Run, Project 86, The Fold, on March 27,2007, Hawk Nelson released a Double Take which includes selections from Letters to the President and Smile Its the End of the World
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Manafest
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Chris Scott Greenwood, better known by his stage name Manafest, is a Canadian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario. He has been nominated and won awards for the GMA Canada Covenant Awards, GMA Dove Awards. Signed for almost a decade with BEC Recordings, Manafest became fully independent as of early 2015 and continues to write and record music. Beginnings and early years After a skateboarding accident in 1998, Chris Greenwood shifted his focus to musical writing, in 2001, Manafest debuted with his EP, Misled Youth. The release garnered Modern Rock/Alternative Song of the Year for the song Freedom at the GMA Canada Covenant Awards in 2002, the following year, Manafest released his first full-length album My Own Thing and attracted the notice of Trevor McNevan of the Ontario-based rock band Thousand Foot Krutch. This led to his signing with a distributed label, BEC Recordings under the Uprok Records label. After signing on with BEC, Manafest released his second album Epiphany in 2005, the release achieved several nominations and awards. In 2006, Manafest released his third album Glory, the album received critical success and went on to win Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the 2007 GMA Canada Covenant Awards, as well as receiving the artist a nomination for Artist of the Year. The album also marked Manafests first release to be nominated in the Juno Awards, in 2008, Manafests fourth album Citizens Activ was debuted to similar success receiving many nominations, as well as awards. The album boosted Manafests fame and reputation in Japan immensely, mainstream breakthrough In 2010, Manafest debuted his fifth full-length album The Chase. The album was well-received with the single Avalanche charting on the Billboard Christian Songs, the album showcased a directional change for Manafest, moving from a more straight hip hop flare to a heavier rock-based rap style. In 2011, Manafest released his first live album Live in Concert, the album won Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the 33rd GMA Canada Covenant Awards. In 2012, Manafest released his studio album of Fighter. The album continued the previous releases heavy rock influence and garnered a nomination for Hip-Hop/Rap Album of the Year in the GMA Dove Awards, because of this albums release, Manafest fans have since become known officially as Fighters amongst themselves, as well as Manafest himself. In late 2013, Manafest released his first Christmas single California Christmas, the track was additionally featured BECs Christmas compilation release Christmastime All Year. In 2014, Manafest released his seventh album The Moment, the genre of the release deviated from his hard rock style and featured a more electronic hip hop sound. Reborn and Stones In late 2014, Manafest released the single Let Go, the track was a song that didnt make the final cut of The Moment and was later released by itself. The song was pulled from iTunes
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Three Days Grace
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Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band formed in Norwood, Ontario in 1997. Based in Toronto, the bands original line-up consisted of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer and backing vocalist Neil Sanderson, in 2003, Barry Stock was recruited as the bands lead guitarist. In 2013, Gontier left the band and was replaced by My Darkest Days vocalist Matt Walst, the band has a string of number one songs on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. Three Days Grace has its origins in a band called Groundswell, formed in Norwood, Ontario. Groundswell released one album, Wave of Popular Feeling. The bands line-up consisted of lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer Neil Sanderson, bassist Brad Walst, lead guitarist Phil Crowe, most of the members were attending high school when the band formed. By the end of 1995, the band had broken up, in 1997, Gontier, Sanderson, and Walst regrouped as Three Days Grace. According to Gontier, the name refers to a sense of urgency, once in Toronto, the band became acquainted with local producer Gavin Brown. The band gave him years of material which they had created. Brown and the band polished the songs, and created a demo album, the record label wanted to hear more material, and with Brown producing, the band created the song, I Hate Everything About You, which attracted the interest of several record labels. The band was signed to Jive Records after being sought out by the companys president. The band moved to Long View Farm, a studio in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, the self-titled album was finished in Woodstock, New York and released on July 22,2003. It was met with mixed to favourable reviews, dave Doray of IGN said of the album, Mistakes. To support the album, in 2003 Three Days Grace released its first single. The song received airplay and rapidly became a widely recognizable song. After Barry Stock joined as lead guitarist in late 2003, Three Days Grace toured continuously and extensively for two years in support of their major label debut. The release of I Hate Everything About You was followed by two single releases, Just Like You and Home. About this time, Gontier developed an addiction to the prescription drug OxyContin, while in treatment, Gontier began writing lyrics for songs regarding how he felt and what he was going through in rehabilitation
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Neil Sanderson
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Neil Christopher Sanderson is the drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the Canadian rock band, Three Days Grace. He cites his influences as John Bonham, Danny Carey and Stewart Copeland, Neil Sanderson was born on December 17,1978 in Peterborough, Canada. Sanderson took up the piano before he started school and he had an avid interest in music and worked with different instruments while he was in elementary school. He became enamored of drums during this time and he entered the Norwood, Ontario high-school in 1992. Before that, he attended Adam Scott C. V. I High School in Peterborough, Ontario, with bassist Brad Walst, they practiced writing and playing instruments. They created the band Groundswell with Phil Crowe and Joe Grant, Sanderson was also the drummer for the band Thousand Foot Krutch from 1996 to 1997. Groundswell reformed as Three Days Grace in 1997, under the name Three Days Grace the band played various concerts and locations in Toronto and eventually signed a recording contract with the American label, Jive Records. The bands first album, the self-titled Three Days Grace, was released in 2003, Three singles from the album, I Hate Everything About You, Just Like You, and Home became hits, each reaching No.1 on the US Rock Charts. This album has been certified Platinum, the band released a second album, One-X in 2006. That album reached fifth place on the Billboard Album Chart, Three singles from that album Animal I Have Become, Pain, and Never Too Late also reached first place on the US Rock charts. This album has also been certified Platinum, in 2006 Three Days Grace won an American Billboard Song of the Year award. In 2006, Three Days Grace served as the act for the Rolling Stones in Saskatchewan. Three Days Grace has toured in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Europe, speaking of the bands comeback from problems in 2007 Sanderson said, Now its all about maintaining that communication, and it makes so much easier and a so much more enjoyable experience. Sanderson was thrilled by the success of Three Days Grace, speaking in Greensboro, North Carolina during their 2008 tour, he said, We get to blow stuff up onstage now. We like to put in as much production and lights as we can, the seizure factor has gone way up. Speaking of the move to larger playing sites, he continued Its great to be able to see everybody in a smaller place. But the same people who were there in the days are still there for us. Speaking of fan response to album songs, he said, e also play a lot of tracks
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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Hamilton, Ontario
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Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Residents of the old city are known as Hamiltonians, since 1981, the metropolitan area has been listed as the ninth largest in Canada and the third largest in Ontario. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, McMaster University is ranked 4th in Canada and 94th in the world by Times Higher Education Rankings 2015-16 and has a well-known medical school. Possibly because of its environment, numerous TV and film productions have been filmed in Hamilton, regulated by the Hamilton Film. A growing arts and culture community garnered media attention in 2006 when the Globe and Mail published an article called Go West, the article highlighted local art galleries, recording studios and independent film production. In pre-colonial times, the Neutral Indians used much of the land but were driven out by the Five Nations who were allied with the British against the Huron. A member of the Iroquois Confederacy provided the route and name for Mohawk Road, which originally included King Street in the lower city. In 1784, about 10,000 United Empire Loyalists settled in Upper Canada, chiefly in Niagara, around the Bay of Quinte, and along the St. Lawrence River between Lake Ontario and Montreal. They were soon followed by many more Americans, some of not so much ardent loyalists but attracted nonetheless by the availability of inexpensive. At the same time, large numbers of Iroquois loyal to Britain arrived from the United States and were settled on reserves west of Lake Ontario. The town of Hamilton was conceived by George Hamilton, when he purchased farm holdings of James Durand, nathaniel Hughson, a property owner to the north, cooperated with George Hamilton to prepare a proposal for a courthouse and jail on Hamiltons property. Hamilton offered the land to the crown for the future site, Durand was empowered by Hughson and Hamilton to sell property holdings which later became the site of the town. As he had instructed, Durand circulated the offers at York during a session of the Legislative Assembly. Initially, this town was not the most important centre of the Gore District, a permanent jail was not constructed until 1832 when a cut-stone design was completed on one of the two squares created in 1816, Princes Square. Subsequently, the first police board and the limits were defined by statute on February 13,1833. Official City status was achieved on June 9,1846, by an act of Parliament,9 Victoria Chapter 73, the city had several interurban electric street railways and two inclines, all powered by the Cataract Power Co. Though suffering through the Hamilton Street Railway strike of 1906, with industrial businesses expanding, allan Skyway in 1958, and the first Tim Hortons store in 1964. Since then, many of the industries have moved or shut down operations and the economy has shifted more toward the service sector, such as transportation, education
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Aaron Sprinkle
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Aaron Sprinkle is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Seattle, Washington. His career in began in high school with a group called BellBangVilla. BellBangVilla became Poor Old Lu and they released a number of albums, Aaron Sprinkle also sang and played lead guitar in Rose Blossom Punch, and has produced albums independently. On his solo releases, he plays almost all instruments except drums and he was hired as producer for Tooth & Nail Records in 2001, and works out of Compound Recording Studios in Seattle, Washington. In 2005, Sprinkle formed the band Fair with Joey Sanchez, Nick Barber, Fair released its debut album The Best Worst-Case Scenario on Tooth & Nail Records in June 2006. He is the brother of Jesse Sprinkle, Aaron has production, engineering, or other credits on albums by the following bands, Official website Poor Old Lu Fair Interview @ Christianity Today from early 2004 Aaron Sprinkle on Pure Volume
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Mae
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Mae is an American rock band that formed in Norfolk, Virginia in 2001. The bands name is an acronym for Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience, based on a course taken by drummer Jacob Marshall while a student at Old Dominion University. Jacob Marshall and Dave Elkins began what would become Mae by writing their first song, Embers and Envelopes, the band signed with Tooth and Nail Records and released their first album, Destination, Beautiful, in 2003. They released their second album, The Everglow, in 2005. The band toured extensively to promote it, and also performed on the Vans Warped Tour, Mae re-released The Everglow in 2006, adding three new songs and a two-hour DVD. Later in 2006, the band signed to Capitol Records for their third full-length album, Mae began recording the album in the fall of 2006, working with producer Howard Benson. The album, titled Singularity, was released on August 14,2007, on June 19,2007, the band released the first single from Singularity, Sometimes I Cant Make It Alone. On September 24,2007 Padgett and Sweitzer parted ways with Mae, the following year, Mae announced that they had split ways with Capitol Records. They also stated that they would embark on a new, experimental project, each song would be available to download on their website for a minimum donation of $1, with proceeds going to humanitarian projects of Maes choosing. Additionally, they would be compiling the songs into three separate EPs entitled orning, fternoon and vening, respectively. In July 2009, Mae announced they were starting their own label called Cell Records through which they would release their three-EP set, in order to get in-store distribution Mae returned to their original label Tooth and Nail Records and signed a distribution agreement with the label. The orning EP was released in stores and online on September 22,2009, there was a limited edition scratch-and-sniff disk that was only available on their spring US tour and which was scented like the ocean. Mae released the fternoon EP in stores and online March 30,2010, the final EP, vening, was initially available in a limited edition on the bands Goodbye, Goodnight tour. The EP was then released in stores and online on March 8,2011 bundled with a DVD of their farewell show filmed at The Norva in Norfolk. The farewell show features 20 songs, with songs from each of their full-length records, on May 7,2010 word began spreading of Mark Padgett and Rob Sweitzer rejoining Mae for their upcoming fall tour. On June 19,2010, Mae played a show in Singapore, on June 22,2010, Maes Dave Elkins confirmed on the bands forums that Mark Padgett and Rob Sweitzer have reunited with Mae. On June 28,2010 Mae announced that their upcoming Goodbye, Goodnight Tour would be their last for the foreseeable future, on Saturday November 27,2010, the band played what was billed as its last show at the Norva in Norfolk, VA. The show was filmed to be released on DVD, what were believed at the time to be Maes actual final performances consisted of two shows played on February 23 and 24,2011 at the Shibuya and Shinsaibashi locations of Club Quattro in Japan
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Anberlin
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Anberlin is an American alternative rock band formed in Winter Haven, Florida in 1998 and disbanded in 2014. Since the beginning of 2007, the band consisted of lead vocalist Stephen Christian, guitarists Joseph Milligan and Christian McAlhaney, bassist Deon Rexroat, and drummer Nathan Young. Members of Anberlin originally formed a band under the name SaGoh 24/7 in 1998, Anberlin was formed in 2002, within a year of forming, they had signed with semi-independent record label Tooth & Nail Records and released their debut album, Blueprints for the Black Market. In 2005, the released their second album, Never Take Friendship Personal. The bands third album, Cities, was released in 2007, prior to the release of their fifth studio album, Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place, Anberlin had sold over 1,000,000 albums. Their sixth studio album Vital was released October 16,2012, lead singer Stephen Christian met bassist Deon Rexroat while they were both in high school, and they formed a punk band called SaGoh 24/7. Drummer Sean Hutson and guitarist Joseph Milligan joined the group as well, the band released two albums, Servants After Gods Own Heart, and Then I Corrupt Youth, both under Rescue Records. After the albums sold only 1,300 units, Hutson left the band to start a family, Christian, Milligan and Rexroat began working on a side project, marking the beginning of the end for SaGoh 24/7. The side projects sound transformed after a suggestion from Milligan to develop more of a sound for Anberlin. They used money left over from shows SaGoh had performed and teamed up with producer Matt Goldman to record five demos, the demos that were then posted on PureVolume. On the advice of friends, including Chad Johnson, and Timmy McTague from Underoath, Out of the five demos Anberlin recorded with Matt Goldman, three were eventually chosen to be reworked for the bands debut album, the lead single Readyfuels, Driving and Foreign Language. Barely a year after their formation, their first album as a new band was entitled Blueprints for the Black Market and it failed to chart, but spurred on by their debut single, Readyfuels, the album sold over 60,000 units. They toured steadily with other bands in their label, rhythm guitarist Joey Bruce was eventually ejected from the band. According to Christian, he was all about sex and drugs, after several failed replacements, Nathan Strayer from The Mosaic took over rhythm guitar duties. Anberlin released their follow-up to Blueprints, Never Take Friendship Personal, in early 2005, charting at No.144 on the Billboard 200, the album brought the band closer to the mainstream. NTFP was generally well received by critics than Blueprints for the Black Market. Before its release, the band promoted the album by releasing a track per week on their PureVolume and MySpace website accounts, Two singles were released from the album, A Day Late and Paperthin Hymn. Both were reasonably successful on rock radio, with the latter peaking at the No.38 position on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart
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MxPx
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MxPx is an American punk rock band from Bremerton, Washington founded in 1992 as Magnified Plaid. The band has skate punk leanings, with connections to the pop punk scene, current members include Mike Herrera on lead vocals and bass, Tom Wisniewski on guitar and backing vocals, and Yuri Ruley on drums. The bands discography includes nine studio albums, four EPs, four albums, a live album, a VHS tape. A number of the releases have charted on Billboard, including the Billboard 200. MxPx began in July 1992 with the name Magnified Plaid, initially, the band started playing music inspired by Descendents, Black Flag and other punk rock bands. Mike Herrera, Yuri Ruley, and Andy Husted were classmates at Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale, the name was a tribute to the original guitarists fascination with plaid shirts but did not fit on the bands posters. Consequently, the name was abbreviated to M. P, but in Yuri Ruleys handwriting, periods appeared as Xs, and since he made up the show posters for the band, the four-letter moniker stuck. MxPx caught the attention of Tooth & Nail Records when the played a showcase for the label in 1993 in Herreras parents back yard. The bands first major album, Pokinatcha, was released while the members were still in high school. The album, though classified as Christian punk, incorporated the quick styles of hardcore punk, the songs are characterized by their raw punk sound, catchy rhythm, and classic punk three-chord guitar style. Guitarist Andy Husted soon left the band and was replaced by Herreras longtime friend, despite only knowing power chords on guitar, Wisniewski was willing to be in the band. MxPx released two albums with Tooth & Nail, Teenage Politics in 1995, and Life in General in 1996. MxPx received a distribution deal with A&M Records. This deal first saw a re-release of Life in General, MxPx then released two more studio albums jointly distributed by Tooth & Nail and A&M, Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo was the first in 1998. It ranked at No.99 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold on January 27,2000 by the Recording Industry Association of America, at the Show is a live album recorded by MxPx, released in 1999. At the time of the recording, the band was touring in support of Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo as well as the B-sides collection Let it Happen and this was followed by The Ever Passing Moment in 2000. MxPx gained critical recognition for this album and landed a supporting for The Offspring. Responsibility proved to be a radio hit, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart
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Billy Talent
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Billy Talent is a Canadian rock band from Mississauga, Ontario. They formed in 1993 with Benjamin Kowalewicz as the lead vocalist, Ian DSa on guitar, bassist Jon Gallant, in the 13 years since their inception, Billy Talent sold well over one million albums in Canada alone and nearly 3 million albums internationally. The band existed for almost a decade before mainstream success, the members met and played in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School under the name Pezz and remained underground in Torontos indie music scene until 2001. The band renamed itself Billy Talent after running into trouble with the old name. It was then that Kowalewiczs connection with an employee of Warner Music Canadas A&R department landed the band a record deal and launched them into mainstream success. Since then, Billy Talent has made three records in Canada, and continues to expand their success overseas, this included touring for 20 months supporting their second album. They released their album, entitled Billy Talent III, on July 14,2009. Dead Silence was followed up by a full UK tour over the course of October and November 2012, to commemorate the longevity since the release of their first studio album, the band has released a greatest hits album entitled Hits on November 4,2014. The band regrouped and began to prepare material for its studio album. Just prior to entering the studio, drummer Aaron Solowoniuk made the decision to sit out the recording sessions while he continued his longstanding battle with multiple sclerosis. Fellow Canadian Jordan Hastings quickly recruited to play as Solowoniuks studio stand-in, and in early 2016 the group completed work on Afraid of Heights, the band got together during a high school talent contest. Pezz began writing, performing songs, and gaining attention and credibility at first locally and their first recording was a cheap 4-track demo. Soon after, in January 1995, they all put in money to another demo of better quality with engineer/producer Dave Tedesco at the Signal to Noise studio which they called Dudebox. Originally, two tracks from Demoluca and four recorded tracks were compiled onto it, but a year later the band recorded four more tunes live in the studio. After these releases and their performances in the immediate area, Pezz was gaining a following in Mississauga. DSa studied classical animation at Sheridan College, and even worked on Angela Anaconda as an animator, Gallant almost finished a business degree. Kowalewicz was in between jobs, one which included working at 102.1 the edge, but during this, each member found the time and finances to max-out their credit cards, and record their first full-length album in 1999. They laid down twelve tracks at a studio called Great Big Music, Kowalewicz started singing in melody with DSa
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Our Lady Peace
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Our Lady Peace is a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, in 1992. Headed by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band consists of Duncan Coutts on bass, Steve Mazur as lead guitarist. The band has sold millions of albums worldwide, won four Juno Awards and our Lady Peace are one of Canadas most popular bands and are also one of the few Canadian rock acts that managed to achieve success in both the 1990s and 2000s. They have released eight albums, one live album, and two compilation albums to date, with their 1997 album Clumsy often being considered their signature. Our Lady Peace enjoyed many hit singles, ranging from Starseed in 1994, the bands earlier albums are often praised for their unique sound and style, with lead singer Maida being called erratic and truly unrivaled as a vocalist. Their fifth album, Gravity, is noted to have been a radical departure from this distinctive style. Lead singer Maida has confirmed the difference, calling Gravity vastly different from their previous records, in late 1991, guitarist Mike Turner placed an ad in Toronto-based Now newspaper in search of musicians. Michael Maida, a student at the University of Toronto, was the first to reply. The two formed a band called As If, inviting Jim Newell as drummer and a friend of Turners, Paul Martin, to play bass. After they played a number of gigs in Oshawa with sets containing a mix of original and cover material, Martin departed soon after, Chris Eacrett, a business student at Ryerson University, replied and was accepted after an audition. During that time, Turner and Maida attended a music seminar where they met songwriter and producer Arnold Lanni, the band, with Lanni, commenced writing new material and recorded some material under the As If name. Soon thereafter, the name was changed to Our Lady Peace. With encouragement from their producer Lanni and his management team, the band performed some gigs in Eastern Ontario and it was during this time that Maida began using the stage name Raine instead of Mike to reduce confusion about having two Mikes in the band. He has used this name ever since, legally adding it. An independent music video of the debut song Out of Here was created in February 1992 by Sam Siciliano, a film student and friend of Turners, who produced, edited. The video was aired on MuchMusic on their Indie show, after returning to Arnyard Studios to continue writing and recording material, drummer Jim Newell departed the band. Writing and recording continued with session drummer John Bouvette, with managers Rob Lanni and Eric Lawrence of Coalition Entertainment representing the band, short showcases were arranged with Warner Music Canada, EMI Canada, and Sony Music Canada. Sony Music Canada head of A&R Richard Zuckerman liked what he heard, and saw the potential of the band, its producer, the band signed a record and publishing deal with Sony Music Canada in April 1993, and commenced writing for their debut album
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Finger Eleven
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Finger Eleven is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 1990. They have released seven studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream. They won the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2008 and it was later certified gold status in the US and multi platinum in Canada. They released their studio album, Life Turns Electric, on October 5,2010. They released their first single, Living in a Dream, adding a bit of more of funk rock and dance rock. Five Crooked Lines, their 7th studio album, was released July 31,2015, with Wolves, Finger Eleven first formed in their high school, Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario as Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They achieved a following in Canada throughout their time as a band. One of their first shows was at a school Christmas concert in 1990 and they released their first full album Letters from Chutney with money won from a rock band search contest on 97.7 CHTZ HTZ FMs Rocksearch competition. The group found a new management team in Coalition Entertainment in 1996, once they had realized their music changed and wanted to be taken more seriously, Rainbow Butt Monkeys became Finger Eleven. The name Finger Eleven comes from a version of the song Thin Spirits from the album Tip. Scott Anderson explains, when everything is pushing you in one direction and your instinct drives you in another thats finger eleven and their breakthrough album, Tip, was released on Mercury Records in Canada in 1997 and re-released by Windup Records in the United States in 1998. This marked a change in the bands sound, Tip was produced by Arnold Lanni. By then, they managed to tour alongside bands such as Creed, in 2000, Finger Eleven released The Greyest of Blue Skies, again produced by Arnold Lanni. They had success in Canada with this album going gold, in 2002 they recorded the song Slow Chemical for Superstar Kane as his entrance music, which he used from 2002 to 2008. It was also released on the 2004 album The Punisher, The Album and their 2003 release, self-titled album Finger Eleven was produced by Johnny K. This album includes the hit single One Thing which pushed the band into the mainstream. The song was a hit on rock, pop, and adult radio charts, One Thing reached No.16 in the U. S. and had exposure on TV series such as Scrubs, Smallville and Third Watch. It was used on World Wrestling Entertainments edition of June 25,2007 of Raw during a video featuring Chris Benoit who had killed himself on June 25
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Simple Plan
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A Big Package for You, 1999–2003 is a video album by Canadian rock band Simple Plan from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Meet Simple Plan Recording No Pads, No Helmets, experimenting in Bangkok SP Loves Going Down. Under, Australia 2002 Spring Break. Big Rock Show, SP Does Arenas Return to the Land of the Rising Sun The Perfect Video Punk Rock Summer Camp, crash and Burn One Day Id Do Anything
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Ken Andrews
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Ken Andrews is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Andrews was born in Seattle, Washington, and attended school in Los Angeles before his band Failure received a record deal from Slash Records. He is best known as co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, bassist and he has also played in Replicants, a cover band side project that also included members of Tool. After the breakup of Failure in 1997, he recorded music under the moniker ON. In 2014, Andrews reunited with Failure members Greg Edwards and Kellii Scott and they embarked on a North American tour, which included two dates performing alongside A Perfect Circle and Puscifer for the celebration of Maynard James Keenans 50th birthday. Also notable is his participation in the production of You Know My Name, in March 2007, Andrews released Secrets of the Lost Satellite, his first solo album under his own name, and helped oversee its release via his own label, Dinosaur Fight Records. Both Meldal-Johnsen and Zadorozny are listed as co-producers of Secrets of the Lost Satellite, Andrews went on tour that spring for the first time since 2003, with the opening band, San Diegos First Wave Hello, also serving as his backing band. The members of Failure and Tool have been friends since the early 1990s, Andrews is often credited for directing the music video for Tools Hush, but this is incorrect. He did, however, edit the video for their later single Prison Sex, Andrews is also mistakenly credited with involvement in the post-grunge arena-rock band Neon Steam Dreams, that Andrews is a different musician by the same name. In May 2014, the Cinquanta concert with Tool, A Perfect Circle and Failure was held as a 50th Birthday Celebration for Maynard James Keenan, Keenan stated, This was the perfect opportunity to tick off one of my bucket list items in the form of a Failure reunion. What better birthday present could one hope for. Failure, however, performed their first reunion show at the El Rey Theater on February 13,2014 and he was featured on an episode of WIRED Science discussing the pros and cons of digital vs. analog recording. Andrews argued that more can be done with digital while Steve Albini argued that he can accomplish just as much with analog, Ken Andrews Biography – Secrets of the Lost Satellite. Also available on Big Hassle, and Ken Andrews official web site, Ken Andrews – official site Dinosaur Fight Records on YouTube Ken Andrews interview at Silent Uproar
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Beck
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Beck Hansen, known mononymously as Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style. Today, he musically encompasses folk, funk, soul, hip hop, alternative rock, country and he has released 12 studio albums, as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music. Born in Los Angeles in 1970, Beck grew towards hip-hop and folk in his teens and began to perform locally at coffeehouses and he moved to New York City in 1989 and became involved in the citys small fiery anti-folk movement. Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single Loser, which became a hit in 1994, and released his first major album, Mellow Gold. Odelay, released in 1996, produced hit singles, topped critic polls and he released the psychedelic Mutations in 1998, and the funk-infused Midnite Vultures in 1999. The soft-acoustic Sea Change in 2002 showcased a more serious Beck and he is reportedly working on a thirteenth studio album, with the singles Dreams and Wow having already been released. Two of Becks most popular and acclaimed recordings are Odelay and Sea Change, the four-time platinum artist has collaborated with several artists and has made several contributions to soundtracks. Beck is married to actress Marissa Ribisi, and is an active Scientologist, Beck was born in Los Angeles, to David Campbell, a Canadian-born musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist and former Warhol superstar. Bibbes mother was half Jewish, while Bibbes father, Al Hansen, was partly of Norwegian descent, Beck has said that he was raised celebrating Jewish holidays, and that he considers himself Jewish. Becks mother grew up amid New Yorks Andy Warhol Factory art scene of the 1960s, but moved to California at age 17 and his father is a Canadian-born arranger, composer and conductor who worked on hundreds of albums and numerous films. Beck began life in a house near downtown Los Angeles. As a child, he lived in a neighborhood just off Hollywood Boulevard. By the time we left there, they were ripping out miles of houses en masse and building low-rent, giant apartment blocks, the lower-class family struggled financially, moving to Hoover and Ninth Street, a neighborhood populated primarily by Koreans and Salvadorian refugees. He was sent for a time to live with his grandparents in Kansas. Since his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music, Beck also spent time in Europe with his maternal grandfather, Al Hansen, a visual collage artist and a pioneer in the avant-garde Fluxus movement. Beck obtained his first guitar at 16 and became a street musician, during his teens, Beck discovered the music of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and X, but remained uninterested in most music outside folk until many years into his career
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Chris Cornell
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He has released four solo studio albums, Euphoria Morning, Carry On, Scream, Higher Truth and live album Songbook. Cornell was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and attended Christ the King Catholic elementary school and his parents are Ed Boyle and Karen Cornell. He has five siblings, older brothers Peter and Patrick, and younger sisters Katy, Suzy, Peter, Katy and Suzy all performed in the band Inflatable Soule in the 1990s. Peter was the frontman for the New York-based rock band Black Market Radio and released a new album, Champion. Katy performs as lead vocalist for the Seattle band Into the Cold, Cornell was a loner, however, he was able to deal with his anxiety around other people through rock music. During his teenage years, Chris spiralled in to depression, dropped out of school. Before becoming a musician, he worked at a seafood wholesaler and was a sous-chef at a restaurant named Rays Boathouse. In the early 1980s, Cornell was a member of a band called The Shemps that performed around Seattle. The Shemps also featured bassist Hiro Yamamoto, following Yamamotos departure from The Shemps, the band recruited guitarist Kim Thayil as its new guitarist. Cornell and Yamamoto stayed in contact, and after The Shemps broke up, Cornell and Yamamoto started jamming together, Soundgarden was formed in 1984 by Cornell, Thayil and Yamamoto with Cornell originally on drums and vocals. In 1985, the band enlisted Scott Sundquist as the drummer to allow Cornell to concentrate on vocals, the bands first recordings were three songs that appeared on a compilation for C/Z Records called Deep Six. In 1986, Sundquist, who by that point had a wife and he was replaced by Matt Cameron, the drummer for Skin Yard, who became Soundgardens permanent drummer. Soundgarden signed to Sub Pop, releasing the Screaming Life EP in 1987, the band subsequently signed with A&M Records, becoming the first grunge band to sign to a major label. In 1989, the released their second effort, and their first for a major label. Following the release of Louder Than Love, Yamamoto left the band to finish his masters degree in chemistry at Western Washington University. He was replaced by former Nirvana guitarist Jason Everman, Everman was fired following Soundgardens tour supporting Louder Than Love. In 1990, the band was joined by a new bassist, along with Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam, Soundgarden became one of the most successful bands from Seattles emerging grunge scene in the early 1990s. With Shepherd, the new line-up recorded Badmotorfinger in 1991, the album brought the band to a new level of commercial success, and Soundgarden found itself amidst the sudden popularity and attention given to the Seattle music scene
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Pete Yorn
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He is known for playing the bulk of the instruments on his records. Yorn was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, in the hospital as Yankees great Derek Jeter. Raised in Montville, New Jersey, the son of Joan, a school teacher and real estate agent, and Lawrence K. Yorn. His brother Rick is a talent manager in Hollywood, and was responsible for teaching 9 year old Pete to play the drums. His eldest brother Kevin Yorn is an entertainment lawyer, Pete attended Montville Township High School. After graduating, Yorn moved to Los Angeles, where he began to attract a following with his performances at Largo. Soon after, Yorn landed a job scoring all of the music to the film and also contributed the songs Strange Condition and Just Another to the film, Yorn has spoken of the busy time mixing both his debut record while working on the Farrellys scoring project. Just Another was also used in the soundtrack for Bandits, the 2001 bank-robbery film starring Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett, and Billy Bob Thornton. After experiencing this taste of success, Yorn released his 2001 LP debut, entitled musicforthemorningafter, rolling Stone Magazine named Yorn one of Ten to Watch in 2001 and gave the album a favorable four-star rating. Yorn went on to release the 2003 album Day I Forgot which has sold over 300,000 copies to date, in 2006, Yorn released his third album, Nightcrawler and toured extensively in support of it. He preceded every show with an instore appearance at an indie record shop in the town he was passing through. All of these performances were recorded, thus creating an extensive series of Live EPs. Nightcrawler was named one of the top 20 records of 2006 by Paste magazine, Yorn has shared bills with the Dave Matthews Band, R. E. M. Crowded House, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Coldplay, The Dixie Chicks, Semisonic, Yorn has played at Carnegie Hall on two occasions as part of tributes to Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. Yorn gave the 2011 commencement address to the Visual and Performing Arts class at his alma mater, Yorns song, Lose You can be heard just before the ending credits of the episode Simple Explanation during Kutners funeral on the Fox show House, MD. Sloan would later tour with Yorn in the US, in September 2006, in an interview with silentuproar. Yorn expressed that the trilogy was more of a diary of sorts, so its a sort of continuing analysis of those topics, and the Nightcrawler LP would represent a later phase, Yorn said. In 2008, Pete Yorn recorded and released a new song, a music video was shot for the single, and the song itself was released for free on Yorns official website for a short period of time
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Tenacious D
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Tenacious D is an American comedy rock duo that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jack Black and lead guitarist and vocalist Kyle Gass, Tenacious Ds studio releases, and its live performances, feature a full band lineup, including such musicians as guitarist John Konesky and bassist John Spiker. Drummer Dave Grohl has played on every studio release, the band first gained popularity in 1997 when they starred in their eponymous television series and began to support large rock acts. In 2001, they released Tenacious D, their debut album featuring a full band, the first single, Tribute, was the bands most successful achieving their only Top 10 in any chart, until they released The Metal, which was shown on Saturday Night Live. In 2006, they starred in, and recorded the soundtrack for, in support of the film, the band went on a world tour, appearing for the first time with a full band. They released their newest album Rize of the Fenix on May 15,2012, Tenacious Ds music showcases Blacks theatrical vocal delivery and Gass acoustic guitar playing abilities. Critics have described their fusion of vulgar absurdist comedy with music as mock rock. Jack Black and Kyle Gass initially met in Los Angeles in 1985, Black admits the duo did not see eye to eye due to animosity between the two as Gass – who was the main musician for the Actors Gang – felt threatened by Black. This all changed in 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the Edinburgh Fringe of 1989 and they were performing Tim Robbins and Adam Simons play Carnage. They would also work on productions at the group together regularly too. The two were just friends between 1989 and 1994 and did not play any concerts or record any music and their second song came about when Black was listening to Metallicas One in 1994 and told Gass that it was the best song in the world. Gass told Black that they couldnt write the best song in the world but Black put a twist on it and said they could write a tribute. Gass played an A minor chord at his apartment and the two spent three full days crafting the song, when it was done Gass mentioned they knew they had something, the song was comedic and evolved their comedy music persona. At their first concert, at Als Bar, the only played their one song Tribute. Black and Gass gave them the choice between Pets or Meat, Balboas Biblical Theatre and The Axe Lords Featuring Gorgazons Mischief. Tenacious D—a basketball term used by commentators to describe robust defensive positioning in basketball —did not get the majority of votes, however, cross, with Mr. Show writer Bob Odenkirk, continued his involvement with Tenacious D by producing three half-hour shows based on the band. The series, entitled Tenacious D, premiered on HBO in 1997, according to Gass, the series was cancelled after HBO requested ten episodes with the stipulation that he and Black would have to relinquish their role as executive producers, and only write songs. After the series aired, the continued to perform live
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Set It Off (Thousand Foot Krutch album)
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Set It Off is the first studio album released by Thousand Foot Krutch. The album features a fusion of rap metal and softer rap rock songs. Some of the songs were from their independent album, Thats What People Do, a remastered version of the disc including six extra tracks was issued in 2004. J. M. E. Studios - Ontario, Canada Additional Musicians Steve McCrumm - strings Ian Tanner - keyboards Christian Harvey - drums D. J, manufactured by Tooth & Nail Records, PO Box 12698, Seattle, WA98111. Distributed in USA by EMI CMG Distribution, everyone Like Me was recorded by the band in early 2004. On the original version and Intro on the 2004 version are the same song, rhime Animal, Small Town, Set It Off and Lift It were remade for the 2004 version. Both Supafly and Unbelievable made it to the Top 5 on ChristianRock. Net, Puppet was a No.1 at the same site. There is one music video for album, for the song Puppet. It features the playing in an alley and also shows the shadows of two puppets against an orange sky, with one puppet chasing the other. On 2005, the 2004 version of the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year at the 36th GMA Dove Awards
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Econoline Crush
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Econoline Crush is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada formed in 1992. They have released four albums as well as singles such as Wicked, Home, Surefire, All That You Are, Sparkle & Shine, You Dont Know What Its Like, Make It Right. After the release of their album, Brand New History. However, during 2007, the band reunited and started touring Canada with Alice Cooper and they released their latest album, Ignite, in 2008. Econoline Crush was formed in 1992 when singer Trevor Hurst moved to Vancouver, in 1993, the band signed a record deal with EMI Music Canada, after playing only 26 shows. In 1994, the released their first EP called Purge, with producer Dale Penner at the helm. The album garnered them a nomination for a Juno Award in Canada, one year later, they followed it with the full-length album, Affliction. This album was produced by Rhys Fulber, and they followed it with an extensive Canadian tour and they also toured Europe three times, with the Young Gods, Die Krupps, and Waltari, culminating in an appearance at the POP KOMM Festival in Köln, Germany with Filter. In 1996, the signed with the management group Bruce Allen Talent, and started recording at Sound City with producer Sylvia Massy, who had worked with Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers. A year later, they released The Devil You Know and they embarked on a tour with KISS, Foo Fighters, Green Day, The Tea Party and other bands. The album was released in the US in 1998 on Restless Records, some of bands songs appeared on television shows, including Melrose Place, Psi Factor, and ESPN, among others. The band received their second Juno nomination for their latest album, the album also received gold and platinum awards. The 1999 Sony PlayStation game Sled Storm featured mix versions of the songs Sparkle and Shine, Nowhere Now, the band went to California to work on their next album with producers John Travis, Bob Rock and DJ Swamp, which included collaborations with Chris Vrenna and Paul Raven. In 1999, the bands song You Dont Know What Its Like was released as a single and was included on Muchmusics Big Shiny Tunes 4, in 2001, the band released Brand New History to mixed reviews, despite some moderate commercial success. The album contained the singles You Dont Know What Its Like and Make It Right, the reception of their last album caused the band to disband, and each of the members dedicated time to other projects. During this time, frontman Trevor Hurst started working on a band of his own, in 2007, Hurst announced on his MySpace page that he was working on a new Econoline Crush record, while the band started touring with Hinder. The new lineup of the band was Brent Fitz, Scott Whalen, Kai Markus, Hurst and Markus co-wrote the songs for the new album, which was recorded at Radiostar Studios in California. The album, Ignite, was released on January 15,2008, shortly after, the band went on tour with Three Days Grace and Seether
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The Tea Party
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The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed Moroccan roll by the media. Active throughout the 1990s and up until 2005, the band re-formed in 2011, the Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records worldwide, and achieving a No.1 Canadian single Heaven Coming Down in 1999. The Tea Party toured Canada on twenty-one occasions and Australia on twelve, in November 2002, the band toured Canada with symphony orchestras reinterpreting a decades worth of shared songwriting. Breaking up in 2005 due to differences, band members nevertheless re-united in 2011 to play several Canadian tour dates during the summer. The band decided to continue after the tour and has now re-formed, the band has since released a double live album, recorded on their 2012 tour of Australia. Video shot during this tour was released as a Live DVD/Blu-ray, The Tea Party, the Tea Party has also been writing and recording new original material since Fall 2012, and their latest album, The Ocean at the End, was released in September 2014. The Tea Party was formed in 1990 by Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood, each member had previously played together during their teenage years in a number of different bands in Windsor, Ontario, where they were originally from. They had decided to name their new group The Tea Party after the infamous hash sessions of famous Beat generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, the Tea Party released their eponymous debut album in 1991, distributing it through their own label Eternal Discs. In 1993 The Tea Party signed to EMI Music Canada and released their first major label recording, the band employed open tunings and goblet drums to create Indian-style sounds, something they continued to employ throughout their career, while continuing in a blues influenced style. In 1994 the album released in Australia, with the single Save Me launching the career in the country. The band gained the support of radio station Triple J, enabling the bands first tour. Further developing The Tea Partys sound in 1995, The Edges of Twilight was recorded with an array of Indian, sister Awake, the third single from the album, defines what the band set out to do, combining three-piece rock compositions with music from the world. Sister Awake is an acoustically based arrangement on 12-string guitar, sitar, sarod, harmonium, the Edges of Twilight is The Tea Partys most commercially successful album, with sales exceeding 270,000 units, the album is certified double platinum in Canada and platinum in Australia. English folk musician Roy Harper appeared on The Edges of Twilight reciting a poem, Transmission released in 1997 saw The Tea Partys first foray into electronica with a sampled world music foundation and thrust. Transmission is a collection of aggressive songs influenced by upheavals around the band, the firing of their management, epitomising the feelings were the first single Temptation and the albums title song. Triptych followed in 1999, the first single Heaven Coming Down rose to No.1 on Canadian radio, the Tea Partys music took on a more orchestral sound, maturing from the blues base. Live at the Enmore Theatre, the bands first live album was released through Australian radio station Triple J during the tour for Triptych. The Tea Party released The Interzone Mantras later in 2001, the Interzone Mantras was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario
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Sum 41
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Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. In 1999, the signed an international record deal with Island Records and released its first EP, Half Hour of Power. The band released its album, All Killer No Filler in 2001. The album achieved success with its first single, Fat Lip. The albums following singles In Too Deep and Motivation also achieved commercial success, All Killer No Filler was certified Platinum in the United States, in Canada and in the United Kingdom. In 2002, the band released Does This Look Infected, which was also a commercial and critical success. The singles The Hell Song and Still Waiting both charted highly on the rock charts. The band released its album, Chuck, in 2004, led by singles Were All to Blame. The album proved successful, peaking at No.10 on the Billboard 200, in 2007, the band released Underclass Hero, which was met with a mixed reception, but gained some commercial success, becoming the bands highest charting album to date. It was also the bands last album on Aquarius Records, the band released the album Screaming Bloody Murder, on Island Records in 2011 to a generally positive reception, though it fell short of its predecessors commercial success. The bands sixth album, entitled 13 Voices was released on October 7,2016. Up to 2015, the band has sold 30 million albums worldwide, the band often performs more than 300 times each year and holds long global tours, most of which last more than a year. The group has been nominated for seven Juno Awards and have won twice, Sum 41 was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for the song Blood In My Eyes. Sum 41 was formed by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Deryck Whibley and drummer Steve Jocz, Jocz was a drummer in another band and Whibley was convinced that he was the best drummer around. The group went through several bassists before picking Jason McCaslin to complete the bands lineup, the group members decided to change the bands name for a Supernova show on September 28,1996, which happened to be the 41st day of their summer vacation. In 1998, the recorded a demo tape on Compact Cassette which they sent to record companies in the hope of getting a recording contract. These demo tapes are rare and the ones known to exist are with the lead singer and guitarist Deryck Whibley. From 1999 to 2000, the band recorded new songs
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Phenomenon (Thousand Foot Krutch album)
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Phenomenon is the second studio album by Christian rock band Thousand Foot Krutch, and their first project on Tooth & Nail Records. The album was released on September 30,2003 and it displays a different style than the bands previous album, with less rapping and instead, a fusion of modern rock and nu metal. All songs written by Trevor McNevan, Steve Augustine and Joel Bruyere, Trevor McNevan – vocals, guitar Joel Bruyere – bass guitar Steve Augustine – drums Aaron Sprinkle – producer, additional guitars Mixed by J. R. The album has sold over 250,000 units, both Phenomenon and Rawkfist were #1s on ChristianRock. Net in 2003-2004. Bounce, track #10, was also a #1 on ChristianRock. Net
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Rawkfist
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Rawkfist is a 2003 single from the Canadian group Thousand Foot Krutch. It is the track from their second album Phenomenon. ESPN Sports Center chose it to be played in the Ultimate Highlight sequences on their program and it was featured on the Smallville season 3 episode titled Velocity. Rawkfist is a rock song with edgy guitar and bass. The past rap influence on TFKs songs is evident as the lyrics are rapped as much as sang, also the area around the band will change from a bright room to a dark blue tunnel. The change is initiated by a flash of light emitted from McNevans hand, in 2004 Rawkfist peaked at No.28 on the Billboard US mainstream rock charts, it also peaked on the Active Rock Charts at No.23 and finished the year at number No.72
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Kutless
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Kutless is a Christian rock band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1999. Since their formation, they have released multiple albums and one live album. They have sold over 3 million records worldwide, the band was formed in Portland, Oregon, as a campus worship band named Call Box. They performed during the 1999–2000 school year at Warner Pacific College and their first guitarist, Andrew Morrison, decided to leave the band shortly before they signed with BEC records. James Mead replaced Andrew at lead guitar, the Band changed their name to Kutless in October 2001, before releasing their first three-track EP followed up by their full-length album in 2002 on BEC Recordings. Kutless chose their name because of a Bible verse, romans 6,23 says, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Because of this, the band says, He took our cuts for us, Kutless first two singles from their self-titled debut album were Your Touch and Run. The latter would hold the record for the song in the history of the R&R Top 40 charts. Kutless had their touring debut between February and April 2003 when they opened up for Audio Adrenaline and MercyMe, in 2004, Kutless released their second full-length album Sea of Faces. The album peaked at No.97 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, after selling over 250,000 copies, Kutless went on their first headlining tour, X2004. That year, Kutless was scheduled to perform at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece, in 2005, Kutless played a Katrina Benefit Relief Concert in Portland, Oregon. They also released their first worship album, Strong Tower that peaked at No.87 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and they were replaced with bassist Dave Luetkenhoelter and drummer Jeffrey Gilbert, who both came from the recently broken-up Christian rock band Seven Places. Kutless also went on the Strong Tower tour that year, the fourth album, Hearts of the Innocent, was released on March 21,2006, peaking at No.45 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. The band followed up with a tour, also featuring Stellar Kart, Disciple, on the March 28,2006, an episode of NBCs Scrubs, My Bright Idea, incorporated a significant portion of the song All the Words from Sea of Faces during the final scene. The episode hit a ratings high, and was among the first Scrubs episodes that could be downloaded on iTunes. Laura Hutfless from the William Morris Agency said, Placing the Kutless song, All the Words, on Scrubs was truly a team effort. We at William Morris were all pleased with the way the song was incorporated into the television show and are thrilled that millions of Americans have now been exposed to this incredible band. Im confident that this is only the beginning for Kutless as they continue to give their audience captivating and inspirational music, Kutlesss video Shut Me Out has been placed on an exclusive Microsoft/Wal-Mart DVD give-a-way
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Falling Up (band)
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Falling Up was an American experimental rock band from Albany, Oregon. Falling Up formed in October 2001, and released their album called Crashings in 2004. They were signed to BEC Recordings until they went independent in 2010, at the time of the bands break-up, lead singer Jessy Ribordy, bassist Jeremy Miller and drummer Josh Shroy were the only members to have recorded on every album. Falling Up debuted on February 24,2004 with their 12-track album, Crashings sold over 50,000 units by the end of 2004. Three songs from Crashings—Broken Heart, Escalates, and Bittersweet—all reached No.1 on the Christian rock charts at R&R and their second album, Dawn Escapes, was released on October 25,2005 through BEC Recordings. Produced by Michael Elvis Baskette, the album, though more melodic and hard rock-driven as a whole, Dawn Escapes pushed Falling Ups lifetime record sales to over 150,000 by the summer of 2006. Guitarist Tom Cox left the band shortly before the release, eventually going on to form his own band. On September 12,2006, Falling Up released Exit Lights, an album featuring remixes of the bands biggest hits and the new song Islander. Solomon Olds of Family Force 5, Thousand Foot Krutchs Trevor McNevan, Guitarist Joseph Kisselburgh left the band in May 2006 to focus on his solo project, The Send, which released its debut album on Tooth & Nail Records in July 2007. On the bands Myspace page, they announced the date for their project. Later on, they announced the release name Captiva, the album was released on October 2,2007. The first single from this album is Hotel Aquarium, which can be heard on the bands PureVolume and Myspace page, the band later also posted their second single Goodnight Gravity on PureVolume, followed by How They Made Cameras, Maps, and A Guide to Marine Life. They subsequently finished filming a video for Hotel Aquarium, which was featured in X2008. After the release of Captiva, Guitarist Micah Sannan departed Falling Up, the keyboardist Adam Taylor also departed in 2007, who then started managing the merchandise for Christian rock band Hawk Nelson. Falling Ups fourth studio album, entitled Fangs, was released March 24,2009, according to their MySpace page, Fangs was to be their heaviest album yet, something which was often disputed in the post-release period. One of the titles, Lotus and Languorous was released early. According to a BEC Recordings representative, a tour was supposed to coincide with the release, Jessy hired guitarists, keyboard players, and singers for the tour, and introduced them shortly. According to BEC Recordings and Falling Ups Myspace, Falling Up headlined the Fangs. tour in late April early May 2009 with Tooth and Nail artist Ruth, unlike past tours, the venues were strictly secular clubs
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Move (Thousand Foot Krutch song)
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Move is the second single from Thousand Foot Krutchs third studio album, The Art of Breaking. Although Move received less Christian radio play than the first single, Absolute, it did more mainstream radio play than Absolute, because of this. Move charted at No.16 on the Billboard charts, in the video, the band is shown playing in the cellar of an abandoned building. Also shown is a girl, who starts running once the song kicks in, the girl repeatedly bumps into various people and eventually ends up near where the band is playing. She then retraces her steps and finds that most of the people she ran into before now have some sort of metal implant, the audio in the video slightly varies from the album version. The difference is that in the beginning on the CD McNevan can be heard whispering in the song, also the chorus at the end of the song, in the video, is not repeated as often as it is in the CD version. The video was directed by Brandon Dickerson and produced by Erik Press, the song was nominated for a Dove Award for Short Form Music Video of the Year at the 37th GMA Dove Awards
