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Coral Gables, Florida
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Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami. The United States Census Bureau estimates conducted in 2013 yielded the city had a population of 49,631, Coral Gables is home to the University of Miami. The city of Coral Gables has its own newspaper, Coral Gables News, Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is infamous for its strict zoning regulations, the city was developed by George Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The citys architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival style, including the Coral Gables Congregational Church, the domed, Catholic Church of the Little Flower was built somewhat later, in a similar Spanish Renaissance style. By 1926, the city covered 10,000 acres and had netted $150 million in sales, Merrick meticulously designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles long. The main artery bisected the business district, Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. During World War II many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables, Coral Gables is located at 25°43′42″N 80°16′16″W. It is bordered on the west by Red Road north of Sunset Drive and West 49th Avenue and it is bordered on the north by Tamiami Trail/U. S. Route 41, except for a section that extends north of 8th Street for eight blocks between Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Douglas Road. S. 1 to Battersea Road, and by Biscayne Bay south of Battersea Road, on the south, it is bordered by the Charles Deering Estate. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 37.2 square miles. 13.1 square miles of it is land and 24.0 square miles of it is water. 4% were vacant, in 2000,24. 45% had children under the age of 18 living with them. In Coral Gables,61. 11% were family households,17. 3% had a householder with no husband present. The average household size was 2.36, and the household had 1.68 vehicles. In 2000, the city population was out with 17. 4% under the age of 18,14. 58% from 18 to 24,25. 02% from 25 to 44,27. 01% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.44 years, the population consisted of 51. 31% females and 48. 69% males. In 2000, the income for a household in the city was $77,890
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Noise rock
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Noise rock is a diverse style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Some groups are tied to song structures, such as Sonic Youth, while the music had been around for some time, the term noise rock was coined in the 1980s to describe an offshoot of punk groups with an increasingly abrasive approach. An archetypal album is the Velvet Undergrounds White Light/White Heat, treblezines Joe Gross credits the cult classic with being the first noise rock album, accordingly, perhaps it’s an obvious starting point, but it’s also the starting point. Sonic Youths Thurston Moore explained, Noise has taken the place of punk rock, people who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the folk scene have replaced it. Starting in the 1990s, noise punk developed mostly as a form of party music, with the band Lightning Bolt serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in Providence, Rhode Island
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Experimental rock
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Experimental rock is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it wasnt until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended, in 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with avant-garde, later in the 1970s, significant musical crossbreeding took place in tandem with the developments of punk and new wave, DIY experimentation, and electronic music. Funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music. The first wave of 1980s experimental rock groups had few precedents for their sound. Later in the decade, avant-rock pursued a psychedelic aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, during the 1990s, a loose movement known as post-rock became the dominant form of experimental rock. As of the 2010s, the experimental rock has fallen to indiscriminate use, with virtually every modern rock band being categorized under prefixes such as post-, kraut-, psych-. Although experimentation had always existed in music, it wasnt until the late 1960s that new openings were created from the aesthetic intersecting with the social. In 1966, the boundaries between pop music and the avant-garde began to blur as rock albums were conceived and executed as distinct, self-taught rock musicians in the middle and late 1960s drew from the work of composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio. In addition, The Quietus Ben Graham described duos the Silver Apples, calling attention to the very recordedness of the album. This would also be reflected in contemporary experimental rock LPs, such as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Smile, the Whos The Who Sell Out and Tommy. The Velvet Underground were a group in experimental rock, according to Rosenberg. Peppers inspired a new consideration for experimental rock as commercially viable music, as progressive rock developed, experimental rock acquired notoriety alongside art rock. By 1970, most of the musicians which had been at the forefront of rock had incapacitated themselves. Groups such as Can, Faust, Neu, the ideas of minimalism and composers such as Stockhausen would be particularly influential. During this era, funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music, some groups who were categorized as post-punk considered themselves part of an experimental rock trajectory, with This Heat as one of the prominent players. Anderson claims that the no wave scene represented New York’s last stylistically cohesive avant-rock movement, steve Redhead noted the resuscitation of New Yorks avant-rock scene, including artists such as Sonic Youth and John Zorn, in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, avant-rock pursued a frazzled, psychedelia-tinged, blissed out aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, the UK shoegaze scene was seen by some as a continuation of an experimental rock tradition
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Caroline International
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Caroline Records is an American record label that started as a subsidiary of Richard Bransons Virgin Records America during the early to mid-1970s. It specialized in inexpensive LPs by mainly progressive rock and jazz artists that lacked commercial appeal, the first release was Outside the Dream Syndicate by Tony Conrad and Faust in 1973. The logo was a variation of Virgins Twins logo designed by Roger Dean. Both the US and UK branches of Caroline Records are subsidiaries of Caroline Music, Caroline has or had a number of subsidiary labels including Astralwerks, Gyroscope, Caroline Blue Plate, Rocks the World, Scamp, and Passenger. On February 20,2014, it was revealed that American rapper 50 Cent had signed with the label, steven Wilson joined the labels roster in April 2017, ahead of the release of his fifth studio album. Artist Shop Caroline Records Caroline Distribution Official website Discogs Caroline Records Discogs Gyroscope EMI Group Website links
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Matador Records
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Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of mainly indie rock, but also punk rock, experimental rock, alternative rock, electronic and other artists. Matador was created in 1989 by Chris Lombardi in his New York City apartment, Lombardi brought the Austrian duo H. P. Zinker into Wharton Tiers’ Fun City studio to record Matadors first release. Lombardi continued to add artists to the labels roster, with bands like the Dustdevils, Railroad Jerk and Superchunk, before being joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy in 1990. The two of them have run it together since, Matador experienced its first taste of crazed media attention & big sales with the North American release of Teenage Fanclub’s debut record, A Catholic Education in 1990. In 1992 Matador released Pavements debut studio album Slanted and Enchanted, in 1996, Capitol Records purchased a 49 percent stake in Matador, which Lombardi and Cosloy bought back in 1999. Beggars Group purchased 50% of Matador in 2002 and took over the worldwide marketing. Over the years, the label has moved from shoebox sized offices to larger and larger complexes, Matador Europe supervises the promotion, sales and marketing of Matador titles in Europe. The London based office also licensed recordings from some of North America’s most acclaimed new artists, M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few. The roster has also grown with the label and has helped artists such as Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Cornelius, Solex, Pizzicato Five, Helium and the Arsonists reach audiences worldwide. In 1994 Patrick Amory became Matadors label manager, and has progressed to label President, as well as a partner of Lombardi. In the early 2000s, Matador had to sidestep unwanted involvement in the current Recording Industry Association of America dispute over Peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Matadors Patrick Amory contacted the RIAA multiple times in order to ensure that an erroneous listing on the website of Matador as an RIAA member was removed. After several attempts, the name of the independent label was removed from the membership list, Matador acquired True Panther Sounds as an imprint in 2009. Cosloy, speaking through the Matador blog, stated that True Panther Sounds will continue to be managed by label founder Dean Bein. And that the reason Matador acquired True Panther Sounds was simply, As Victor Kiam once explained his decision to purchase the Remington Shaver operation, “I liked it so much, during the event Many of the artists stated their opinions and admiration of Matador. We fell ass-backwards into being on one of the top indie labels of all time, mike Hadreas said, To me, signing to Matador was like getting into a really good school. Its a hard thing to talk about without resorting to clichés, said Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo Matador has continued to sign bands of various genres including Iceage, Lower, Algiers, Majical Cloudz and Car Seat Headrest
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Ecstatic Peace!
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Is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans. The labels name is borrowed from a line in Tom Wolfes 1968 nonfiction novel The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Include TAMHush Arbors, be your own PET, Awesome Color, Black Helicopter, Free Kitten, Notekillers, Magik Markers, Tall Firs, Pagoda, Monotract, in February 2006, Moore signed a deal with Universal to distribute the labels albums. List of record labels Ecstatic Peace Library A perfect partner, An interview with Ecstatic Peace’s Andrew Kesin Saucer Like interview Official site
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DGC Records
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The label was created as a response to the success Geffen had with the harder rock acts on its roster. The label also released early titles by hip hop band The Roots, in 1999, during the consolidation of Geffen’s Universal Music Group parent and PolyGram, the DGC label ceased operations. The retained acts would go on to record for the main Geffen label, in the years to follow, the DGC title and logo would occasionally appear on reissues of its past catalog items. In 2007, the label was revived as a brand for Interscope Records, since its reactivation, it has released albums by Weezer, Beck, Counting Crows and Rise Against. As of late, DGC Records, in partnership with MySpace Records and indie Lucky Ear Music, the following artists have recorded for DGC Records, List of record labels DGC Rarities Vol.1 DGC Records Official Website
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SST Records
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SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was formed in 1966 by Ginn at age 12, as Solid State Tuners. Ginn repurposed the company as a label to release material by his band Black Flag. Music writer Michael Azerrad wrote, Ginn took his label from a cash-strapped, cop-hassled store-front operation to easily the most influential and these labels presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging. SST initially focused on releasing material by hardcore punk groups from Southern California, after a peak release schedule in the late 1980s, SST began venturing into jazz releases. SST is now based in Taylor, Texas, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr. and the Meat Puppets have reclaimed the rights to the SST material after leaving the label. Greg Ginn created Solid State Tuners at the age of 12, SST was a mail-order business that sold modified World War II surplus radio equipment. The business was small but thrived well into Ginns early adulthood, in 1976 Ginn formed the punk rock band Panic. Panic recorded eight songs in January 1978, but no labels were interested in releasing the music aside from Los Angeles, California record label Bomp. By late 1978 Bomp had still not formally agreed to release the music on record, SST Records released the music recorded by Ginns band as the Nervous Breakdown EP in January 1979. Many early Black Flag shows ended in violence, often involving the Los Angeles Police Department, as a result, the police tapped the labels phones and kept the SST office under surveillance. Ginn claims undercover police posing as homeless people sat close to SSTs front door, the band were unable to hire a lawyer because of a lack of money, Ginn later explained, I mean, we were thinking about skimping on our meals. … There was no place to go, by 1980, L. A. clubs had begun to ban hardcore punk shows, adding to SSTs troubles. SST issued the Minutemens debut EP Paranoid Time as its release in 1980. The songs were recorded and mixed in a night for $300. Minutemen bassist Mike Watt recalled, It was at that point we realized all you had to do was pay for the pressings, maybe it was from Gregs experience with ham radios, but he believed if you try, you can get things beyond your little group. Facing hostility towards hardcore punk, SST groups like Black Flag, Black Flag began traveling up the California coast to play Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, making seven trips in total. SST house record producer Spot went along as sound-man and tour manager, Ginn decided to release the first Black Flag album Damaged via a mainstream distributor
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Sonic Youth
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Sonic Youth was an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. In their early career Sonic Youth were associated with the no wave art, the band is considered to be a pivotal influence on the alternative and indie rock movements. In 2011 Ranaldo announced that the band was ending for a following the separation of married couple Gordon. Thurston Moore updated and clarified the position in May 2014, Sonic Youth is on hiatus, the band is a democracy of sorts, and as long as Kim and I are working out our situation, the band can’t really function reasonably. Gordon refers several times in her 2015 autobiography Girl in a Band to the band having split up. Shortly after guitarist Thurston Moore moved to New York City in early 1977, he formed a group, Room Tone, with his roommates, after the breakup of the Coachmen, Moore began jamming with Stanton Miranda, whose band, CKM, featured Kim Gordon. Moore and Gordon formed a band, appearing under names like Male Bonding and Red Milk, the name came from combining the nickname of MC5s Fred Sonic Smith with Youth from reggae artist Big Youth. Gordon later recalled that as soon as Thurston came up with the name Sonic Youth, the band played Noise Fest in June 1981 at New Yorks White Columns gallery, where Lee Ranaldo was playing as a member of Glenn Brancas electric guitar ensemble. Their performance impressed Moore, who described them as the most ferocious guitar band that I had ever seen in my life, the new threesome played three songs at the festival later in the week without a drummer. Each band member took turns playing the drums, until they met drummer Richard Edson, Branca signed Sonic Youth as the first act on his record label Neutral Records. In December 1981 the group recorded five songs in a studio in New Yorks Radio City Music Hall, the material was released as the Sonic Youth that, while largely ignored, was sent to a few key members of the US press, who gave it uniformly favorable reviews. After their first release, Edson quit the group for a career and was replaced by Bob Bert. During their early days as part of the New York music scene, the bands came to share the same rehearsal space, and Sonic Youth embarked on its first tour, a two-week journey through the southern United States starting in November 1982, supporting Swans. During a second tour with Swans of the Midwest the following month, tensions ran high and Moore constantly criticized Berts drumming, Bert was fired afterwards and replaced by Jim Sclavunos, who played drums on the bands first studio album, 1983s Confusion Is Sex. Sonic Youth set up a tour of Europe for the summer of 1983. Sclavunos, however, quit after only a few months, the group asked Bert to rejoin, and he agreed, on the condition that he would not be fired again after the tours conclusion. Sonic Youth found themselves well received in Europe, but the New York press largely ignored the noise rock scene. After a substandard September concert in New York, another critic from The Village Voice panned it, Gordon wrote a scornful letter to the newspaper, criticizing it for not supporting its local music scene, to which Christgau responded by saying they are not obligated to support them
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Swans (band)
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Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. Since 1990, all Swans records have been released through Giras own label, Michael Gira has repeatedly stated he took the moniker Swans as it described the sound he wanted best. Giras summation of the name follows along the lines of, Swans are majestic, jon Tessler also played percussion and tape loops. Hanels only recordings with the group are on the compilation Body to Body, Job to Job, Kane stated that Sue was the most fearsome guitarist wed ever heard in New York. Hanel did not stay long in the group, and by the time of their recording debut she had replaced by Bob Pezzola. This lineup of the group also featured saxophonist Daniel Galli-Duani, who had played with Kane as the avant-garde duo Transmission. The debut EP, Swans, released on Labor, is different from anything they would do later. The plodding tempos and distorted, detuned guitar work is reminiscent of such post-punk outfits as Joy Division, Kane compares Swans to blues icon Chester Burnett, a. k. a. Some similarities worth noting—the music of early Swans was often based on a single riff, some of Burnetts songs—especially the songs penned by Burnett himself—have a similar structure and quality. Their early music was typified by slow and grinding guitar noise, critics have described Swans early recordings as aggressive beyond words. Their first full-length release, Filth, featured driving, choppy rhythms, Filth was the first album to feature guitarist Norman Westberg, who would play a vital role in much of Swans music and would feature on every subsequent studio album apart from Love of Life. Cop and the originally untitled Young God EP were both released in 1984 and re-released together on CD in 1992, Young God has been known by several names, usually by one of its two A-sides, such as I Crawled or, notoriously, as Raping a Slave. This release is often confused with their self-titled debut, the music continues in the same vein as Filth, and is again vaguely reminiscent of heavy metal music played in extreme slow motion. Swans were, in this era, Gira on vocals, Westberg on guitar, Harry Crosby on bass guitar, Giras vocals had changed slightly, becoming slowly more melodic, although the snarl still remained. Some of the songs on the EP, particularly Young God and I Crawled, have a vocal melody, if rudimentary. Young God is considered by many to be the best of their releases for this reason. Justin Broadrick shared this impression of the group, One of the trademarks of Swans early period was playing at painfully loud volumes during concerts and this lent a reputation to the name Swans which was one of the contributing factors in Giras retirement of the band in 1997. Since Swans re-formation, Gira has made a point of maintaining the intensity of their live show and he has also sometimes turned off the air conditioning before Swans performed and compared the experience to a Native American sweat lodge
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Don Fleming (musician)
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Donald Gene Don Fleming is an American musician and producer. Besides fronting a number of his own bands, Fleming has produced Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Fleming started his musical career with the art/garage/punk group The Stroke Band of Adel, Georgia in the late 1970s. They released one album, Green and Yellow, in 1978 on Abacus Records, after The Stroke Band, Don relocated to Norfolk, Va. in 1979 and formed the punkish/new wave group Citizen 23 with Elaine Barnes, Mark Myers, and, Stephen Soles. Their only recorded output was on the compilation album No Room to Dance in 1980, the Velvet Monkeys line-up featured Fleming on guitar & vocals, Barnes on keyboards and vocals, Stephen Soles on bass, and a drum machine called Dr. Rhythm providing the beat. The Velvet Monkeys would go through many incarnations over the next 10 years, in July 1982 the band released their debut -- Everything is Right—on cassette tape. This album was re-released in on CD in 2011 and this lineup released the album Future on Fountain of Youth Records in 1983. In 1985, ousting all but Spiegel and himself, Fleming brought on guitarist Malcolm Riviera of D. C. s Grand Mal and bassist Rob Kennedy, formerly of D. C. s The Chumps and NYCs The Workdogs. By 1988, Fleming and Spiegel had re-located to New York City where they teamed up with former Shockabilly bass player, after that groups acrimonious demise, the trio of Fleming, Riviera and Spiegel reunited to form the next iteration of the Velvet Monkeys. Fleming expanded the band with such celebrities as John Hammill (of Pussy Galore, Thurston Moore, J Mascis. This supergroup recorded the final album, a soundtrack parody called Rake that paid tribute to the 1970s Blaxploitation film Shaft. The band has never broken up, and Fleming continues to revive the group when the time is right. A series of recordings found their way to the record and CD bins through the 1990s as well, after Fleming and Spiegels group B. A. L. L. Broke up in 1990, the duo briefly joined Dinosaur Jr. the two left Dinosaur Jr. shortly after the release of the single. In 1990 Jay Spiegel approached his friend Eric Vermillion, a member of Camp Hill, PAs The Stump Wizards, about playing with himself, vermilion agreed and subsequently quit The Stump Wizards. After less than a rehearsal, the new trio played its first show. Their first release came our shortly thereafter, an eponymous 12 inch EP on Paperhouse Records/Sire Records in England. In 1991 the band released the album Special Kiss, also on Paperhouse, and embarked on a tour with Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, in 1991, Gumball signed a two-album deal with Columbia Records and re-entered the studio to record their major-label debut, Super Tasty. The sessions were done in Wisconsin with producer Butch Vig, Gumball released their second album for Columbia, Revolution on Ice, in 1994 and toured in support of it throughout that year
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Chelsea Light Moving
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Chelsea Light Moving is an American alternative rock band formed in 2012 in New York. The band consists of Samara Lubelski, John Moloney, Thurston Moore, the bands eponymous debut album was released in 2013 on Matador Records. The bands songs feature prominent references to avant garde artists, the 1960s counterculture movement and he talked about Philip Glass starting a moving company. Had a van and he took a classified ad out in a local paper and he started the moving company so he could make some coin to rent out a concert hall to put on a performance. As soon as I saw that, I really liked it, current countercultural movements are also addressed by Chelsea Light Moving, notably the Occupy Wall Street on the song Lip, Those lyrics do have a certain cynicism to them. I wrote them during the Occupy Wall Street protests, which I was completely supportive of, I like the attempts at anarchy, and the idea of it being sort of a street-school of ideas. I thought it was contemporary and defining itself outside of the old guard of protests, I was really inspired and impressed by it. Lip was written about wanting to give power to anger in the face of injustice
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Spin (magazine)
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Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine, in its early years, the magazine was known for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard and it pointedly provided a national alternative to Rolling Stones more establishment-oriented style. Spin prominently placed newer artists such as R. E. M, Spins extensive coverage of hip-hop music and culture, especially that of contributing editor John Leland, was notable at the time. Editorial contributions by musical and cultural figures included Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, David Lee Roth, the magazine also reported on cities such as Austin, Texas, or Glasgow, Scotland, as cultural incubators in the independent music scene. A1990 article on the country blues scene brought R. L. Burnside to national attention for the first time. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Associates, in 1997, Guccione sold Spin to Miller Publishing. In February 2006, Miller Publishing sold the magazine to a San Francisco-based company called the McEvoy Group LLC and that company formed Spin Media LLC as a holding company. The new owners replaced editor-in-chief Sia Michel with Andy Pemberton, an editor at Blender. The first issue to be published under his command was the July 2006 issue—sent to the printer in May 2006—which featured Beyoncé on the cover. Pemberton and Spin parted ways the next month, in June 2006, the following editor, Doug Brod, was executive editor during Michels tenure. For Spins 20th anniversary, it published a book chronicling the prior two decades in music. The book has essays on grunge, Britpop, and emo, among other genres of music, as well as pieces on musical acts including Marilyn Manson, Tupac Shakur, nirvana, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit, and the Smashing Pumpkins. In July 2012, Spin was sold to Buzzmedia, which renamed itself SpinMedia. The September/October 2012 issue of Spin was the magazines last print edition, in December 2016, Eldridge Industries acquired SpinMedia via the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group for an undisclosed amount. In 1995, Spin produced its first book, entitled Spin Alternative Record Guide, although the book was not a sales success, it inspired a disproportionate number of young readers to pursue music criticism. Notable contributors to Spin have included, SPIN began compiling year-end lists in 1990, note, The 2000 album of the year was awarded to your hard drive, acknowledging the impact that filesharing had on the music listening experience in 2000. Kid A was listed as number 2, the highest ranking given to an actual album,1994 roadside attack on Spin magazine journalists Anon
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Lee Ranaldo
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Lee Mark Ranaldo is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, in May 2012, Spin published a staff selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1. Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, studied art and he has three sons, Cody, Sage and Frey, and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer. Ranaldo started his career in New York in several bands, in 1981, he and David Linton briefly joined the band Plus Instruments formed by Truus de Groot. With this line-up they recorded the album February - April 1981, after the release of the album, Ranaldo left the band and started Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In 1987, Ranaldo released his first solo album, From Here to Infinity, the second side of the album also featured an unplayable engraving by Savage Pencil. Among Ranaldos solo records are Dirty Windows, a collection of texts with music, Amarillo Ramp, pieces for the guitar. His books include several with art or photography by Leah Singer, including Drift, Bookstore, Road Movies, Ranaldo has also published Jrnls80s, as well as a book of poems, Lengths & Breaths, with photography by Cynthia Connolly. His most recent book of poetry, Against Refusing, was published by Water Row Press in April 2010 with cover artwork by Leah Singer. His visual and sound works have shown at galleries and museums in Paris, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vienna. After Sonic Youth went on hiatus in 2011, Ranaldo released Between the Times, the record was the first under his own name to feature comparatively straightforward, vocal pop rock songs. Contributors to the record include Jim ORourke, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, former Sonic Youth drummer Bob Bert, Wilcos Nels Cline, Alan Licht, John Medeski, in 2012, he performed a solo concert at La Maroquinerie, for which he was photographed by Jean-Pierre Domingue. To tour for the album, Ranaldo organized The Dust as his group, featuring Licht, Shelley. In 2013, his follow-up album Last Night on Earth was released, credited to Lee Ranaldo, Ranaldo has produced albums for artists including Babes in Toyland, You Am I, Magik Markers, Deity Guns, and Dutch art rock-ensemble Kleg. He has edited a volume of journals from the 1995 Lollapalooza tour written by himself, Thurston Moore, Beck, Stephen Malkmus, Courtney Love. Ranaldo has worked with jazz drummer William Hooker on improvised music and his main side projects are Drift and Text of Light. Drift is a duo with his wife Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with improvised music, since then the pair have been performing a new piece entitled iloveyouihateyou, a combination installation and performance work that has been presented in the US and Europe. In 2005 Drift released a box set with a DVD and a book, Text of Light was founded in 2001 by Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Ulrich Krieger, Christian Marclay and William Hooker
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Chelsea Light Moving (album)
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Chelsea Light Moving is the eponymous debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Chelsea Light Moving, released on March 5,2013 on Matador Records. Upon its release, Chelsea Light Moving and its three singles—Burroughs, Groovy & Linda and Frank OHara Hit—received positive critical acclaim, the album charted in Belgium and the United States, peaking at number 12 on Billboards Heatseekers Album Chart. In support of its release, the band embarked on an international tour, Chelsea Light Moving was recorded across two quick fire sessions at Sonelab in Easthampton, Massachusetts in the middle of 2012. The sessions were produced and engineered by Justin Pizzoferrato, who mixed the album. The album was recorded entirely on analog equipment, Chelsea Light Moving contains nine original songs written and composed by vocalist and guitarist Thurston Moore and a cover of the GermsCommunist Eyes, written by Darby Crash and Pat Smear. The band has described the music on the album as Burroughs rock, the song, Burroughs, is based on the writers reported last words, Love. Most natural painkiller what there is, according to Moore, Burroughs was ruminating on the emotion of love. And for William S. Burroughs to talk about love is a thing to begin with. The album is laden with references to avant garde artists. The title of both the album and the band is a reference to the Chelsea Light Moving Company, a company run by cash-strapped composers Philip Glass. Moore noted that Frank OHara Hit alludes to the death of the poet Frank OHara, Moore praised OHara as knowing poetry in all its formalist glory and like John Cages ear to music liberated it for writers for an unending time. Empires of Time is a tribute to Roky Erickson, vocalist and guitarist of The 13th Floor Elevators, Chelsea Light Moving was released on March 5,2013 on Matador Records. It was made available as on CD, LP and digital download, prior to its official release, NPR made Chelsea Light Moving available for online stream on February 25,2013. Three singles were released from Chelsea Light Moving, Burroughs, released on June 22,2012, Groovy & Linda, released on July 10,2012, all of the albums singles were made available as free MP3 downloads from Matador Records official blog. Chelsea Light Moving was a commercial success. The album charted on both of Belgiums Ultratop album charts in Flanders and Wallonia, peaking at number 103 and 192 respectively and it debuted on the United States Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart at number 12. In support of the release, Chelsea Light Moving began an international tour in March 2013. The band toured Europe for the first time throughout June and July 2013, performing individual shows, the European leg of the bands tour began at Hulen in Bergen, Norway on June 7 and concluded at the Cactus Festival in Bruges, Belgium on July 12
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Bethel, Connecticut
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Bethel is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about 69 miles from New York City. Its population was 18,584 at the 2010 census, the town center is defined by the U. S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place. The core area of the center has also been designated as a historic district. The town is near Interstate 84 and has a station on the Danbury Branch of Metro-Norths New Haven Line. Bethel was first settled around 1700, the first houses built in Bethel were in the 1730s or 1740s, they are located at 27 Grassy Plain Street and 63 Grassy Plain Street. 1759 – church members such as Ebenezer Hickok, Lemuel Beebe, Isaac Hoyt, Thomas Starr and they petitioned the General Assembly to form two distinct ecclesiastical societies, the First and Second Congregational Societies, creating a new second parish in the eastern portion of Danbury. The new area was called Bethel,1760 –71 people were members of the church. Bethel ran most of its affairs through the church,1760 – Captain Benjamin Hickock built the house at 245 Greenwood Avenue and used it as a tavern. 1777 – the citys records were burned by the British in the British raid on Danbury, late 1700s – P. T. Barnum’s grandfather built one of the towns earliest hotels, the Barnum Tavern. Greenwood Avenue Historic District — Roughly along Greenwood Ave. P. T. Barnum Sq, depot Pl. and South St. Rev. John Ely House —54 Milwaukee Ave. Seth Seelye House —189 Greenwood Ave. Captain Benjamin Hickock house —13 Blackman Ave. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 16.9 square miles, of which 16.8 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles. The CDP corresponding to the center has a total area of 4.1 square miles. Bethel borders Redding to the south, Danbury to the west, Brookfield to the north, the first meeting of the Young Communist League was held in Bethel in May 1922. Battery manufacturer Duracell is headquartered in Bethel, in 1934, Rudolph Kunett started the first vodka distillery in the U. S. after purchasing rights to the recipe from the exiled Smirnoff family. Bethel High School is home to an award-winning NJROTC unit, yano Anaya, former child actor, owned a shop in town. Marian Anderson, singer, was married to Orpheus Fisher in Bethel in July 1943 by Rev. Jack Grenfell, matt Barnes pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, grew up in Bethel. P. T. Barnum was born in Bethel at 55 Greenwood Avenue and he expanded the home during his youth after a fire destroyed the front of the building
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Western Connecticut State University
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Western Connecticut State University is a public university located in Danbury, Connecticut. WCSU is also home to the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies, the university’s Westside campus also houses the Ives Concert Park, one of the premier performance venues in the area. Western started as a college, training the primary and secondary school educators for Connecticuts Fairfield County. The schools name has changed over the years as it has focused on areas of study. First named the Danbury Normal School, in the 1950s it was called the Danbury State Teachers College, the college was renamed Danbury State College in 1959, then Western Connecticut State College in 1967, and finally, in 1983, Western Connecticut State University. In 2011, governance of the University was transferred to the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, in 2012, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso visited the university for two public talks. The Sikyong of Tibet, Lobsang Sangay, also lectured at the universitys midtown campus earlier that year, in 2005, former President Bill Clinton visited WCSU to personally thank students for their fund-raising efforts in the wake of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia. Western has two campuses located three miles apart and connected by a shuttle service. The Midtown Campus is the campus, located on White Street near Downtown Danbury. It is home to the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Professional Studies, dormitories on this campus include Fairfield Hall, Litchfield Hall, and Newbury Hall. The Midtown student center is located on this campus, the West Side Campus is located on land purchased in 1969 on the outskirts of Danbury. This 439-acre lot is home to the Ancell School of Business, the School of Visual and Performing Arts, the Westside Nature Preserve, the West Side also houses the athletic facilities, including the ONeill Center. On January 23,2007 the new West Side Campus Center was officially opened and this new facility serves as a student center, meeting, and banquet facility for the West Side Campus. On January 23,2007, the Westside Campus Center was officially opened and this new facility serves as a student center, meeting and banquet facility for the Westside campus. In August 2014, the Westside campus saw the opening of the new Visual and Performing Arts Center, a major improvement program was started in the mid-1990s to beautify the campus. Several parking lots became green space, and improvements were made to the landscaping, while a significant improvement, the full extent of this beautification is not immediately apparent and will take several years to reach full maturity. In April 2013, startup of a newly installed fuel cell unit for the Science Building on the university’s Midtown campus began. The PureCell System, provided by ClearEdge Power, will support the university to reap significant energy cost savings and enhanced electricity, the Midtown campus Science Building was the first state-funded building project to seek LEED Silver certification from the U. S. Green Building Council
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Patti Smith
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Patricia Lee Patti Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the punk poet laureate, Smith fused rock and poetry in her work and her most widely known song is Because the Night, which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, on November 17,2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former roommate and partner. In Rolling Stone magazines list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010 and she is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize. Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago and her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. The family was of Irish ancestry and she spent her early childhood in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, before her family moved to Pitman, New Jersey and later to The Woodbury Gardens section of Deptford Township, New Jersey. Her mother was a Jehovahs Witness, man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964 and went to work in a factory and she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26,1967, and chose to place her for adoption. In 1967, she left Glassboro State College and moved to Manhattan and she met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had a romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with times of poverty. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most important people in her life, Mapplethorpes photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpes death in 1989. In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started busking and doing performance art, when Smith returned to Manhattan, she lived in the Hotel Chelsea with Mapplethorpe, they frequented Maxs Kansas City and CBGB. Smith provided the spoken word soundtrack for Sandy Daleys art film Robert Having His Nipple Pierced, the same year Smith appeared with Wayne County in Jackie Curtiss play Femme Fatale. Afterward, she starred in Tony Ingrassias play Island. Marks Poetry Project, she spent the early 1970s painting, writing, in 1971 she performed – for one night only – in Cowboy Mouth, a play that she co-wrote with Sam Shepard. She wrote several poems, for sam shepard and Sam Shepard,9 Random Years about her relationship with Shepard, Smith was briefly considered for the lead singer position in Blue Öyster Cult
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William S. Burroughs
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William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer. Burroughs was a figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories, five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and he was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. He was born into a family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the inventor and founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs I. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence, but did not begin publicizing his writing until his thirties and he left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studied English, and anthropology as a postgraduate, and later attended medical school in Vienna. With Brion Gysin, he popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy. In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, J. G. Burroughs had one child, William S. Burroughs, Jr. with his second wife Joan Vollmer. William Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, after suffering an attack in 1997. Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs and Laura Hammon Lee. His was a prominent family of English ancestry in St. Louis and his grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughss mother was the daughter of a minister whose family claimed to be related to Robert E. Lee and his maternal uncle, Ivy Lee, was an advertising pioneer later employed as a publicist for the Rockefellers. His father ran an antique and gift shop, Cobblestone Gardens, first in St. Louis, then in Palm Beach, as a boy, Burroughs lived on Pershing Ave. in St. Louiss Central West End. He attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis where his first published essay and he then attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which was stressful for him. The school was a school for the wealthy, where the spindly sons of the rich could be transformed into manly specimens. Burroughs kept journals documenting an erotic attachment to another boy, according to his own account, he destroyed these later, ashamed of their content. He became a well-known homosexual writer after the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, some say that he was expelled from Los Alamos after taking chloral hydrate in Santa Fe with a fellow student. Yet, according to his own account, he left voluntarily, Burroughs finished high school at Taylor School in Clayton, Missouri, and in 1932, left home to pursue an arts degree at Harvard University, where he was affiliated with Adams House
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Dan Graham
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Daniel Dan Graham is an American artist, writer, and curator. Graham grew up in New Jersey, in 1964 he began directing the John Daniels Gallery in New York, where he put on Sol LeWitts first one-man show, and in groups shows, exhibited works of Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Robert Smithson. Like these artists, Graham considered himself a writer-artist, publishing essays and reviews on music, Dwight D. Eisenhowers paintings. His earliest work dealt with the page, predating but often associated with Conceptual art. His work often focuses on phenomena, and incorporates photography, video, performance art, glass. He lives and works in New York, Dan Graham was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of a chemist and an educational psychologist. When he was 3, Graham moved from Illinois to Winfield Township, New Jersey and he had no formal education after high school and is self-educated. During his teens, reading included Margaret Mead, Claude Lévi-Strauss, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler and he wanted to be a writer, loved rock music which he wrote about critically and because he couldnt afford art supplies his early art took the form of magazine articles. Graham began his art career in 1964, at the age of 22 and he worked there until 1965, when he started creating his own conceptual pieces. During his time at the gallery, he exhibited works by minimalist artists such as Carl André, Sol LeWitt—LeWitts first solo show, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Dan Flavin. In the past thirty years, Dan Graham has proved himself to be a wide-ranging artist and his work consists of performance art, installations, video, sculpture, and photography. Few of Graham’s works have been commissioned or exhibited in the United States. In fact, the major work commissioned in the U. S. in the last decade was the Rooftop Urban Park Project, in which he designed the piece Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube. Some other commissions in the U. S. are Yin/Yang at MIT, the labyrinth at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and at Middlebury College, Grahams work was always firmly based within conceptual art practice. Early examples were photographs and numerological sequences, often printed in magazines, for example Figurative, with the latter Graham draws on the actual physical structure of the magazine in which it is printed for the content of the work itself. As such the same work changes according to its location within the world. Other works include Site Effects/Common Drugs and Detumescence, after this Graham broadened his conceptual practice development with performance, film, video and sculpture including Rock My Religion and Performer/Audience/Mirror. His installations such as Public Space/Two Audiences or Yesterday/Today further inspired his move to the indoor and outdoor pavilions he most recently designs
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Hardcore punk
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Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock, New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the music industry and anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock. Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Boston—as well as in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Hardcore has spawned the straight movement and its associated submovements, hardline. Hardcore was heavily involved with the rise of the independent record labels in the 1980s and it has also influenced various music genres that have experienced widespread commercial success, including alternative rock, thrash metal, emo and metalcore. While traditional hardcore has never experienced mainstream success, some of its early pioneers have garnered appreciation over time. In 2011, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke placed Greg Ginn of Black Flag 99th place in his 100 Greatest Guitarists list, although the music genre started in English-speaking western countries, notable hardcore scenes have existed in Italy, Brazil, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. The origin of the hardcore punk is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D. O. A. may have helped to popularize the term with the title of their 1981 album, Hardcore 81. C. Hardcore historian Steven Blush said that the term hardcore is also a reference to the sense of being fed up with the existing punk, Blush also states that the term refers to an extreme, the absolute most Punk. One definition of the genre is a form of exceptionally harsh punk rock, like the Oi. subgenre of the UK, hardcore punk can be considered an internal music reaction. According to one writer, distressed by the artificiality of much post-punk, lacking the art-school grace of post-punk, hardcore punk favor low key visual aesthetic over extravagance and breaking with original punk rock song patterns. One of the important philosophies in the scene is authenticity. The pejorative term poseur is applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy. Joe Keithley, the vocalist of D. O. A. said in an interview, in the vein of earlier punk rock, most hardcore punk bands have followed the traditional singer/guitar/bass/drum format. The songwriting has more emphasis on rather than melody. Critic Steven Blush writes The Sex Pistols were still rocknroll. like the craziest version of Chuck Berry, Hardcore was a radical departure from that
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Glenn Branca
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Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Branca started playing the guitar at age 15. He also created a number of sound art collage pieces for his own amusement. After attending York College in 1966–1967, he started the cover band The Crystal Ship with Al Whiteside. In the early 1970s, Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston, in 1973, he moved from Boston to London with his then girlfriend Meg English. After moving back to Boston in 1974, he met John Rehberger, while there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theatre in 1975. Working out of a loft on Massachusetts Avenue they wrote and produced the music/theater piece Anthropophagoi for a two-week run, in 1976, The Bastard Theatres second production was What Actually Happened at a new loft in Central Square, Cambridge and later at The Boston Arts Group. Considering the unconventional and sometimes confrontational nature of the productions, the shows still received interested reviews from the Phoenix, all music for Bastard Theatre productions were original compositions by Branca or Rehberger and were performed live by the actor/musicians. In 1976 Branca moved to New York City to continue in experimental theater and he encountered the N. Dodo Band and watched their rehearsals in Chelsea, hoping to use the space for a theater production. Branca spent time with one of its members, Jeffrey Lohn, the two began forming a theater group when Branca decided he wanted to form a band, which he called the Static and later Theoretical Girls. Branca put up posters to recruit members, and after seeing one of the posters, lohns girlfriend Margaret De Wys joined the band as its bassist, and they borrowed drummer Mike Anthol from the N. Dodo Band. Artist Dan Graham booked the band at Franklin Furnace for its first performance, the group reformed in 1977 with Wharton Tiers as its drummer. In 1982, Branca launched his own label, Neutral Records, releasing Y Pants LP. In the early 1980s, he released his first album under his own name, in the same year, he composed several medium-length compositions for electric guitar ensembles, including The Ascension and Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses. The Ascension appeared on his second same titled album in 1981. 3, he began to compose for the harmonic series. In this project, Branca was initially influenced by the writings of Dane Rudhyar, Hermann von Helmholtz and he also built several electrically amplified instruments of his own invention, expanding his ensemble beyond the guitar. A few of these instruments were third bridge zithers he called harmonic guitars, in the early 1990s, David Baratier attempted to document Brancas teaching style in They Walked in Line
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Wire (band)
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Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, and Robert Gotobed. They were originally associated with the rock scene, appearing on The Roxy London WC2 album – a key early document of the scene – and were later central to the development of post-punk. Inspired by the burgeoning UK punk scene, Wire are often cited as one of the more important rock groups of the 1970s and 1980s. Critic Stewart Mason wrote, Over their brilliant first three albums, Wire expanded the boundaries of not just punk, but rock music in general. Wire are an art punk and post-punk ensemble, mostly due to their richly detailed and atmospheric sound. The group exhibited a steady development from an early raucous punk style to a complex, structured sound involving increased use of guitar effects. The band gained a reputation for experimenting with song arrangements throughout its career, field Day for the Sundays, for example, is only 28 seconds long. Chairs Missing followed in 1978, and found Wire stepping back from the stark minimalism of Pink Flag, with longer, more atmospheric songs, Outdoor Miner was a minor hit, peaking at number 51 in the UK singles chart. The experimentation was more prominent on 154. In addition, many of the featured bassist Graham Lewis on lead vocals instead of Colin Newman. The LP came packaged with an EP of a different performance of new material. Between 1981 and 1985, Wire ceased recording and performing in favour of solo and non-Wire collaborative projects such as Dome, Cupol, Duet Emmo, in 1985, the group re-formed as a beat combo, with greater use of electronic musical instruments. Wire announced that they would perform none of their older material, the Ex-Lion Tamers played Wires older material, Wire played their new material. They released IBTABA in 1989, an album of mostly reworked versions of songs from The Ideal Copy and A Bell Is a Cup, heavily rearranged, edited. A new song from the album, Eardrum Buzz, was released as a single, Gotobed left the band in 1990, after the release of the album Manscape. After his departure, the band dropped one letter from its name, becoming Wir, there followed a further period of solo recordings, during which Newman founded the swim ~ label, and later Githead with his wife, while Wire remained an occasional collaboration. It was not until 1999 that Wire again became a full-time entity, with Gotobed back in the line-up, the group initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a performance at Royal Festival Hall on 26 February 2000. Wires reception during a tour in early May of the US
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The Raincoats
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The Raincoats are a British post-punk band. Ana da Silva and Gina Birch formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, the line-up included Ross Crighton on guitar and Nick Turner on drums for the bands first gig on 9 November 1977. Kate Korus, from The Slits and later The Mo-dettes, joined briefly but was replaced by Jeremie Frank, Nick Turner left to form The Barracudas and Richard Dudanski sat in on drums and film maker Patrick Keiller replaced Jeremie Frank on guitar. Rough Trade released the bands self-titled debut album in November 1979 with much acclaim from the press, palmolive had left the band in September shortly before The Raincoats came out, and teenager Ingrid Weiss joined the band on drums. The Raincoats second album Odyshape was released in 1981 and features Weiss and contributions from Robert Wyatt, the basic theme in rocknroll is what goes on between men and women. Rocknroll is based on black music. And its based in the exclusion of women and the ghettoization of blacks, which is why we want to put a bit of distance between what we do and the rocknroll tradition. — The Raincoats interviewed by Greil Marcus In December 1982 The Raincoats recorded an album at The Kitchen arts space in New York. The Kitchen Tapes was released on cassette by ROIR in 1983, the Raincoats recorded Moving in 1984. Tired of constant touring and pulling in different musical directions the band began work on solo projects shortly after the albums release. Gina Birch and Vicky Aspinall formed Dorothy and Ana da Silva worked with choreographer Gaby Agis on a series of dance projects, Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in the liner notes of Nirvanas Incesticide album. In late 1993 Rough Trade and DGC Records released the three albums with liner notes by Cobain and Kim Gordon, if it werent for the luxury of putting that scratchy copy of The Raincoats first record, I would have had very few moments of peace. I suppose I could have researched a bit of history about the band but I feel its important to delineated the way I feel. When I listen to The Raincoats I feel as if Im a stowaway in an attic, violating, rather than listening to them I feel like Im listening in on them. Were together in the old house and I have to be completely still or they will hear me spying from above and. — Cobains liner notes for The Raincoats I loved the Slits because of their boldness and that actually had commercial songs. They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music, — Gordons liner notes for Odyshape Later, Kurt Cobain listed the Raincoats LP 20th on his Top 50 favorites albums. Shirley OLoughlin persuaded Birch and da Silva to play a show at the Garage in London in March 1994 with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth on drums and Anne Wood on violin to celebrate the album releases. They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1s John Peel, which was released on Paul Smiths Blast First, Cobain invited them to play on Nirvanas planned UK tour in April, but he died a week before the tour began
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The Slits
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The Slits were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by members of the groups The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The groups early line-up consisted of Ari Up and Palmolive, with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members Kate Korus and their 1979 debut album, Cut, has been called one of the defining releases of the post-punk era. The group supported fellow punk band The Clash on their 1977 White Riot tour along with the Buzzcocks, the Prefects, club performances of The Slits during this period are included in The Punk Rock Movie. In November 1978, The Slits toured with the Clash again on the Sort it Out Tour and were joined by The Innocents who opened the shows, number One for me at the moment are the Subway Sect. But like everyone, they need to do thirty gigs in thirty days, captured on a Peel Session, the Slits originally raw and raucous live sound was cleaned up and polished by the time of their debut album. Their Dennis Bovell-produced debut album Cut was released in September 1979 on Island Records, the albums sleeve art depicted the band naked, except for mud and loincloths. She was replaced by the drummer Budgie, formerly of The Spitfire Boys and later of Siouxsie, the band toured widely and released another album, Return of the Giant Slits before breaking up in early 1982. Ari Up went on to be part of the New Age Steppers, Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt reformed the band with new members in 2005, as Viv Albertine was unwilling to rejoin, and in 2006 released the EP Revenge of the Killer Slits. The EP featured former Sex Pistols member Paul Cook and Marco Pirroni as both musicians and co-producers, in fact, Cooks daughter Hollie played with the band, singing and playing keyboards. Other members of the band were No on guitar, German drummer Anna Schulte. The band toured the United States for the first time in years during 2006s States of Mind tour. In 2007, they toured Australia as well as returning to the US, in their first visit to Japan, the band undertook a short tour in October 2007. In 2008, the band again toured America, Adele Wilson left the band and No was replaced by American guitarist Michelle Hill. In November 2008, the band played Ladyfest in Manchester, in January 2009, the Los Angeles-based Narnack Records announced they had signed the band to a recording contract. The Story of the Slits by Zoe Street Howe was published in the UK by Omnibus Press in July 2009, a full-length album entitled Trapped Animal was released in 2009, and the band continued to perform live. Group founder Ari Up died in October 2010, the bands final work, the video for the song Lazy Slam from Trapped Animal, was released posthumously according to Ari Ups wishes. The Story of The Slits, Omnibus Press,2009, archived from the original on 2006-09-25. Earthbeat, In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, official website Media related to The Slits at Wikimedia Commons
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Public Image Ltd
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Public Image Ltd are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon, guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker. The groups personnel has changed frequently over the years, Lydon has been the sole constant member, following the breakup of the Sex Pistols, Lydon was eager to pursue a more experimental project and formed PiL in 1978. Later that year, the group released its debut First Issue, featuring an abrasive, bass-heavy sound and drawing on elements of dub, noise, and progressive rock. Their second album Metal Box pushed their sound further into the avant-garde, by 1984, both Levene and Wobble had departed, and the group came under the direction of Lydon, who released a number of subsequent albums, including This Is What You Want. After a late 1990s hiatus, Lydon reformed the group and has released further albums. Branson also flew American band Devo to Jamaica, aiming to install Lydon as lead singer in the band, upon returning to England, Lydon approached Jah Wobble about forming a band together. The pair had been friends since the early 1970s when they attended the school in Hackney. Lydon and Wobble had previously played together during the final days of the Sex Pistols. Both had similarly broad musical tastes, and were fans of reggae. Lydon assumed, much as he had with Sid Vicious, that Wobble would learn to play guitar as he went. Wobble would prove to be a natural talent, Lydon also approached guitarist Keith Levene, with whom he had toured in mid-1976, while Levene was a member of the Clash. Lydon and Levene had both considered themselves outsiders even within their own bands, Jim Walker, a Canadian student newly arrived in the UK, was recruited on drums, after answering an ad placed in Melody Maker. PiL began rehearsing together in May 1978, although the band was still unnamed, in July 1978, Lydon officially named the band Public Image, after the Muriel Spark novel The Public Image. PiL debuted in October 1978 with Public Image, a song written while Lydon was still a member of the Sex Pistols, the single was well received and reached number 9 on the UK charts, and it also performed well on import in the US. The photography for the album was shot by Dennis Morris who also created the iconic PiL logo, in preparing their debut album, Public Image, First Issue, the band spent their recording budget well before the record was completed. As a result, the album comprised eight tracks of varying sound quality, half of which were written. Wobble had also beaten up producer Bill Prices assistant engineer, inciting Price to ban the group from their preferred Wessex Studios, the album was considered ground-breaking on its release in December 1978. Grounded in heavy dub reggae, Wobbles bass tone was called impossibly deep by contemporary reviews, levenes sharp guitar sound, played on an aluminium Veleno guitar, inspired most notably The Edge of U2 according to the guitarist
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Kim Gordon
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Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, songwriter, and visual artist. Born in Rochester, New York, Gordon was raised in Los Angeles, California, Gordon also formed the musical project Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz in the 1990s, and debuted as a producer on Holes debut album Pretty on the Inside. Gordon also worked on a line called X-Girl in 1993. Gordon has collaborated with Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibon, Kathleen Hanna, and Chris Corsano. In 2012, after the breakup of Sonic Youth, Gordon formed Body/Head with friend Bill Nace, Gordons memoir, Girl in a Band, was published in February 2015, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books. Gordon was born in Rochester, New York, where her father, at age five, her family relocated to Los Angeles, California when her father was offered a professorship in the sociology department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gordon described her mother was a homemaker with creative tendencies and she attended a progressive elementary school that was attached to UCLA, which she described as, “It was learn by doing. So we were always making African spears and going down to the river and making mud huts, or skinning a cowhide and drying it and throwing it off the cliff at Dana Point. ”In her memoir, Gordon recounts spending summers with her family in Klamath, California, near the Oregon border. In Los Angeles, Gordon attended University High School, and after graduating and she was also briefly a student at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she played in her first band. She briefly worked for Larry Gagosian during her study as a side-job, after graduating from art school, Gordon moved to New York City and became interested in no-wave bands, When I came to New York, I’d go and see bands downtown playing no-wave music. It was expressionistic and it was also nihilistic, punk rock was tongue-in-cheek, saying, ‘Yeah, we’re destroying rock. ’ No-wave music is more like, ‘NO, we’re really destroying rock. ’ It was very dissonant. I just felt like, Wow, this is really free, in New York City, she joined the short-lived band CKM, with Christine Hahn and Stanton Miranda, and met her future Sonic Youth bandmates Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore through Miranda. Gordon began dating Moore and, together with Ranaldo, the then formed Sonic Youth in 1981. Originally the band released their first two albums, Confusion is Sex and Bad Moon Rising on Neutral and Homestead Records, respectively, before signing with SST to release EVOL, in October 1988, the band released Daydream Nation album through Enigma Records. In 1989, the band signed onto DGC Records, a subsidiary of Geffen, and released Goo, Gordon is known for a fascination with Karen Carpenter and Sonic Youth wrote the song Tunic about the musician. Gordon provided insight into the song in a 2010 interview, I was trying to put myself into Karens body. It was like she had so little control over her life, also I think she lost her identity, it got smaller and smaller. And there have been times when I feel I’ve lost mine, when people come and ask me about being famous or whatever and I don’t feel that, it’s not me
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White Columns
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White Columns is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space. White Columns is known as a showcase for up-and-coming artists, and is devoted to emerging artists who are not affiliated with galleries. All work submitted is looked at by the director, some of the artists receive studio visits and some of those artists are exhibited. White Columns maintained a registry of emerging artists, which is now an online curated artist registry. White Columns was founded in 1970 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City by Jeffrey Lew and it was then known as 112 Workshop/112 Greene Street. In 1979 it relocated to Spring Street, in SoHo, and was renamed White Columns, directors of White Columns have included Josh Baer, Tom Solomon, Bill Arning, Paul Ha, Lauren Ross, and current director Matthew Higgs. In 1991 it moved to Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, to this day, White Columns continues its support for artists with an ongoing program of exhibitions and to hundreds of other artists through their online Artist Registry. Noise Festival Tape TSoWC White Columns Krenz, Marcel
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Richard Edson
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Richard Edson is an American actor and musician. Edson was born in New Rochelle, New York and his father, Arnold, was one of the first Marine officers to land at Guadalcanal in August 1942. His mother, Marian, a school teacher, resides with his father in New Rochelle. In 1979, Richard was a member of the San Francisco art rock band The Alterboys with Snuky Tate, Tono Rondone, Richard Kelly and JC Garrett. From 1981 to 1982, he was Sonic Youths original drummer, after the release of Sonic Youths self-titled debut album, Edson left the band to play with Konk full-time. Edson also played trumpet with San Francisco band The Offs on the groups eponymous 1984 album, following his music career, Edson has worked as an actor, appearing in over 35 movies. He also appeared in Platoon, Good Morning, Vietnam, Dirty Dancing, Tougher Than Leather Let It Ride and he starred in the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros as Spike, King Koopas cousin. Edson played the role in three films directed by Raphael Nadjari, The Shade, I am Josh Polonskis Brother and Apartment #5c. In 2003, he appeared in the video for Cave Ins single. Edson played the character of the video, a depressed man walking down the street with his feet encased in cement blocks. His television appearances include The Adventures of Pete & Pete and the season finale of Homicide. Edson appeared in a 2007 TV commercial for The Travelers Companies Inc. in which he plays the personification of risk. In total, Edson has appeared in about 85 movies/television shows. O. V
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Homestead Records
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Homestead Records was a Long Island, New York-based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading. It was founded in 1984 by Sam Berger, who was the American independent buyer for Dutch East India Trading, Berger was finding that many bands who had perhaps released their own first 45 were having difficulty coming up with the finances to press followups. He was able to convince the owner of the company to press and distribute records for bands that already had recorded an album and it is considered instrumental in launching the post-hardcore and noise rock genres. When Berger left to work with Midnight Records, he recommended 18-year-old Gerard Cosloy, whom he knew from Boston, Cosloy went on to sign many of the notable acts. Cosloy was succeeded by Ken Katkin and later by Steven Joerg, the labels last release was Ivo Perelmans Cama de terra in 1996. List of record labels Matador Records Label discography
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Protest Records
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Protest Records is a subversive, online record label that creates mp3 compilation albums, which are released for free download. The label was founded by Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth with Stephan Said and this plan was rejected when the label owners realized it would be cost prohibitive. The label intended to release at least ten volumes or compilation albums, some well-known artists who have been released on Protest Records include Beastie Boys, Cat Power, Sonic Youth, DJ Spooky, Saul Williams, Mudhoney, Chumbawamba, and Allen Ginsberg. The motto of the label is, use em for yrself
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Maryanne Amacher
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Maryanne Amacher was an American composer and installation artist. She is known for working extensively with a family of psychoacoustic phenomena called auditory distortion products, Amacher was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano, Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania on a full scholarship where she received a B. F. A in 1964. While there she studied composition with George Rochberg and Karlheinz Stockhausen and she also studied composition in Salzburg, Austria, and Dartington, England. Subsequently, she did work in acoustics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While in residence at the University of Buffalo, in 1967, she created City Links, Buffalo, there were 21 other pieces in the City Links series, and more information can be found in the brochure for an exhibition on the series by Ludlow 38 in NYC. Neuhaus was involved with the original 1967 work in Buffalo, by using many diffuse sound sources she would create the psychoacoustic illusions of sound shapes or presence. She was invited while doing a fellowship at the Harvard University, the collaboration resulted with a storm soundtrack for Cage’s multimedia “Lecture on the Weather” and a work on sound environment “ Close Up” for a 10 hour solo voice work for Cage “Empty Words”. She also produced along side other works, “Torse” for Cunningham from 1974 to 1980, Amacher worked extensively with a set of psychoacoustic phenomena known as auditory distortion products, put simply, sounds generated inside the ear that are clearly audible to the hearer. These tones have a history in music theory and scientific research. In music, they are most commonly known by the name of combination tones, difference tones, and sometimes Tartini tones. Occurring in response to two pure tones presented simultaneously to the ear, these appear to localise in or around the head. Amacher was the first to explore the musical use of these phenomena using electroacoustic sound technologies. The subtitle of her first Tzadik Records album Sound Characters is a reference to them, discover they are producing a tonal dimension of the music which interacts melodically, rhythmically, and spatially with the tones in the room. Tones dance in the space of their body, around them like a sonic wrap, cascade inside ears. Your ears are not behaving strange or being damaged and these virtual tones are a natural and very real physical aspect of auditory perception, similar to the fusing of two images resulting in a third three dimensional image in binocular perception. I want to release music which is produced by the listener. Over the years she received major commissions in the United States and Europe with occasional work in Asia and Central
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Lydia Lunch
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Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. The Boston Phoenix named Lunch one of the 10 most influential performers of the 1980s and her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic operating independently of major labels and distributors. Lunchs moniker was given to her by Willy DeVille because she stole food for her friends, Lunch was born in Rochester, New York. She moved to New York City at the age of 16 and eventually moved into a household of artists. Soon Willy DeVille gave her the name Lunch because she often stole lunches for the Dead Boys, after befriending Alan Vega and Martin Rev at Maxs Kansas City, she founded the short-lived but influential no wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, with James Chance. Both Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and the Contortions, Chances subsequent band, played on the no wave compilation No New York, Lunch later appeared on two songs on James White and the Blacks album, Off-White. In the mid-1980s, she formed her own recording and publishing company called Widowspeak Productions, on which she continues to release her own material, from music to spoken word. Two albums published by Lunchs label were released in 2013, Collision Course & Trust The Witch, by Big Sexy Noise, Lunch released her studio album Smoke in the Shadows in November 2004, through Atavistic Records and Breakin Beats, after a six-year break from music. Nels Cline, the lead guitarist of rock band Wilco, was featured on the album. Smoke in the Shadows was met with reviews by Allmusic, PopMatters. In 2009 Lunch formed the band Big Sexy Noise, the group features Lunch on vocals, James Johnston, Terry Edwards, and Ian White. Johnston, White and Edwards are members of the British band Gallon Drunk. A six-track eponymous EP was released on June 1,2009, through Sartorial Records, and included a cover of Lou Reeds song Kill Your Sons, as well as The Gospel Singer, a song co-written with Gordon. The debut, self-titled album, Big Sexy Noise, was released in 2010, for both albums, Lunch and her band completed tours throughout Europe. In 2010, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project launched We Are Only Riders, the album features interpretations of Pierces work by friends, collaborators, and admirers, including Lunch. Lunch also contributed to the album from the project, The Journey is Long. Although the Pierce Sessions Projects third and final album, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us, was due for release in late 2012, the schedule was changed after the release of the second installment. Glitterhouse Records, the producing the collection, instead released a third album titled Axles & Sockets in May 2014
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DJ Spooky
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He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author. He borrowed his name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a Professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the Executive Editor of Origin Magazine, Spooky began writing science fiction and formed a collective called Soundlab with several other artists. In the mid-1990s, Spooky began recording a series of singles and his debut LP was Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Spooky contributed to the AIDS benefit albums Offbeat, A Red Hot Soundtrip and Onda Sonora, riddim Warfare included collaborations with Kool Keith and other figures in indie rock like Sonic Youths Thurston Moore. He returned in 2002 with Modern Mantra and that same year saw the release of Optometry, a collaboration with avant-jazz players Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Guillermo E. Brown and Joe McPhee. In a classical vein, he collaborated with the ST-X Ensemble in performances of the music of Iannis Xenakis, DJ Spooky collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto on projects including The Discord Symphony. The concert and album were released as an enhanced CD containing both an audio program and multimedia computer files. It features spoken-word performances by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Patti Smith, David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, David Torn and he collaborated with Iannis Xenakis on the recording of Kraanerg, with the STX-Ensemble in 1997. 2005 saw the release of Drums of Death, DJ Spookys CD based on sessions he recorded with Dave Lombardo of Slayer, other guest artists include Chuck D. of Public Enemy and Vernon Reid of Living Colour. The record was co-produced by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto, DJ Spooky joined the 9th and 11th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians careers. He was also a judge for the 3rd Independent Music Awards, DJ Spooky has said that much of his work deals with the notion of the encoded gesture or the encrypted psychology of how music affects the whole framework of what the essence of humaness is. In 2007 his work appeared in the Africa Pavilion in the 52nd Venice Biennial and this remix of music from Africa was also distributed freely online, and promoted by the blog Boing Boing. You give away an amount of your stuff, and then the cultural economy of cool kicks in. In 2006, the song Battle of Erishkigal, co-written by DJ Spooky, in 2010, Miller formed The Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, a contemporary arts organization dedicated to exploring dialog between Oceania and the rest of the world. In 2011, Miller collaborated with Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills on a work titled Echo Boom as part of The Mozart Project
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Daniel Carter (musician)
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Daniel Carter is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s. A review of a recent recording describes Carters timbre as an almost Lee Konitz-like cool and he is a member of the cooperative free jazz groups Test, Other Dimensions In Music, odon, Ghost Moth and Dissipated Face. With Whit Dickey Emergence With William Parker Painters Spring With Matthew Shipp Cosmic Suite With odon odon Discography A2001 Interview, Discussing anarchism, etc
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Christian Marclay
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Christian Ernest Marclay is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality, Marclays work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek. His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of, Christian Marclay was born on January 11,1955 in San Rafael, Marin County, California, to a Swiss father and an American mother and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure dArt Visuel in Geneva, the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in the Studio for Interrelated Media Program, as a student he was notably interested in Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Long based in Manhattan, Marclay has in recent years divided his time between New York and London, citing the influence of John Cage, Yoko Ono and Vito Acconci, Marclay has long explored the rituals around making and collecting music. Drawn to the energy of rock, he began creating songs. Unable to recruit a drummer for his 1979 performances with guitarist Kurt Henry and these duos with Henry might be the first time a musician used records and turntables as interactive, improvising musical instruments. In 1998 he claimed never to have more than US$1 for a record. Some of Marclays musical pieces are recorded and edited plunderphonics-style. He was filmed performing a duo with Erikm for the documentary Scratch and his scene didnt make the final cut, but is included among the DVD extras. Marclay released Record Without a Cover on Recycled Records in 1985. designed to be sold without a jacket, accumulating dust and fingerprints would enhance the sound. In Five Cubes, he melted vinyl records into cubes, in the 1980s and early 90s, he invented album covers. The Sound of Silence is a photograph of the Simon & Garfunkel single of the same title. In a series of cyanotypes, white negatives against a blue background, Marclay began dating curator Lydia Yee in 1991, and the couple married in 2011. Newsweek responded by naming Marclay one of the ten most important artists of today, accepting the Golden Lion, Marclay invoked Andy Warhol, thanking the jury for giving The Clock its fifteen minutes. Christian Marclay –1987 – The Clocktower, P. S,1 Museum, New York City, USA Directions, Christian Marclay –1990 – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Limited edition of 90 numbered and signed copies and 10 artist’s proofs, voir mfc-michèle didier Seiler+Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Upcoming Exhibits
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Mike Watt
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Michael David Mike Watt is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter. CMJ New Music called Watt a seminal post-punk bass player, in November 2008, Watt received the Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award, presented by Flea. Watt was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, when he was young, Watts family moved to San Pedro, California, where he became good friends with D. Boon. Watt and Boon picked up bass and guitar, respectively, Watt was a fan of T Rex and Blue Öyster Cult, while Boons exposure to rock music was limited to Creedence Clearwater Revival, another Watt favorite. In 1978, Watt and Boon formed a band called The Reactionaries with drummer George Hurley, after signing with SST Records in 1980, Minutemen began touring constantly, releasing a number of albums along the way. Their music was based on the speed, brevity and intensity of punk, but included elements of jazz, folk, in 1984, Watt met Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler during a Black Flag/Minutemen tour. They soon became involved, and subsequently began collaborating on songs. They also formed a duo, Dos, and have since recorded and released three records. Minutemen ended tragically on December 22,1985, when Boon was killed in an crash while driving to Arizona with his girlfriend. Their fifth full-length album, 3-Way Tie had already scheduled for release at the time of the accident. Minutemen were also planning to record an album with the working title 3 Dudes,6 Sides,3 Studio,3 Live as way to counteract bootleggers. After Boons death, Watt was profoundly depressed, he and Hurley initially intended to quit music altogether, Watt cites this period as critical in inspiring his post-Minutemen career saying, The first thing I did was Thurston asked me to play bass on Evol. That was a big highlight, man, like, What, you want me to play without D. Boon. Subsequently, Ed Crawford, a Minutemen fan who drove to San Pedro from Ohio, after three releases on SST, Firehose was signed to Columbia Records by A&R man Jim Dunbar. Shortly after the release of 1993s Mr. Machinery Operator, the decided to call it quits. Watt and Kira married in 1987, but their marriage ended not long after Firehoses break-up, however, both their friendship and Dos have remained intact, they even recorded their third album, Justamente Tres, not long after their divorce. After working with Firehose, Watt began a solo career and his first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat. The album and its tour were Watts first taste of mainstream fame
