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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Post-hardcore
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Like post-punk, the term has been applied to a broad constellation of groups. Hardcore punk typically features very fast tempos, loud volume, and heavy bass levels, additionally, many of these bands vocalists were just as likely to deliver their lyrics with a whispered croon as they were a maniacal yelp. Allmusic also claims that post-hardcore bands find creative ways to build and release tension rather than airing their dirty laundry in short, sharp, british post-punk of the late 1970s and early 1980s has been seen as influential on the musical development of post-hardcore bands. As the genre progressed some of these groups also experimented with an array of influences, including soul, dub, funk, jazz. Groups such as Saccharine Trust, Naked Raygun, and The Effigies, during the early to mid-1980s, the desire to experiment with hardcores basic template expanded to many musicians that had been associated with the genre or had strong roots in it. Many of these also took inspiration from the 1980s noise rock scene pioneered by Sonic Youth. Some bands signed to the independent label Homestead Records, including Squirrel Bait, a reviewer noted that the groups 1989s release Wrong was one of the most aggressive and powerful opuses in post-hardcore ever made. During the years 1984 and 1985 in the scene, a new movement had swept over. When The Faith put out the EP Subject to Change in 1983 it marked an evolution in the sound of D. C. hardcore. This movement has been widely known as the Revolution Summer. Other bands have been perceived as taking inspiration from such as funk. According to Eric Grubbs, a nickname was developed for the new sound, with some considering it post-harDCore, the latter, mentioned in skateboarding magazine Thrasher, would come up in discussions around the D. C. area. In the nearby state of Maryland, similar bands that are categorized now as post-hardcore would also emerge and this group has also been considered as one of the earliest emo acts. The second half of the 1980s saw the formation of bands in D. C. which included Shudder to Think, Jawbox, The Nation of Ulysses. MacKaye described this period as the busiest that the Dischord Records label had ever seen. Most of these acts, along with ones, would contribute to the 1989 compilation State of the Union. It has also noted that the groups ever-evolving sound would signal a more experimental turn in hardcore that paved the way for later Dischord releases. Similarly, the debut studio album, 1990s Repeater, has also been generally regarded as a classic
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Metalcore
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Metalcore is a broad fusion genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The word is a blend of the names of the two genres, among other genres blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages that are conducive to moshing. Pantera and Sepultura have been influential to the development of metalcore in the 2000s. Black Flag and Bad Brains, among the originators of hardcore, British street punk groups such as Discharge and the Exploited also took inspiration from heavy metal. The Misfits put out the Earth A. D. album, nonetheless, punk and metal cultures and music remained fairly separate through the first half of the 1980s. Cross-pollination between metal and hardcore eventually birthed the crossover thrash scene, which gestated at a Berkeley club called Ruthies, the term metalcore was originally used to refer to these crossover groups. Hardcore punk groups Corrosion of Conformity, D. R. I. and Suicidal Tendencies played alongside thrash metal groups like Metallica and Slayer. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York hardcore, which began in 1984. The Cro-Mags were among the most influential of these bands, drawing equally from Bad Brains, Motörhead, Cro-Mags also embraced straight edge and Krishna consciousness. Another New York metal-influenced straight edge group of time period is the Crumbsuckers. 1985 saw the development of the breakdown, an amalgamation of Bad Brains reggae and metal backgrounds. Agnostic Fronts 1986 album Cause for Alarm, a collaboration with Peter Steele, was a watershed in the intertwining of hardcore, between 1984 and 1995, a new wave of bands emerged. Hogans Heroes are the earliest metallic hardcore group and were formed in 1984. Other bands include Integrity, Biohazard, Hoods, Earth Crisis, Converge, Shai Hulud, All Out War, Madball, Starkweather, Judge, Strife, Rorschach, Vision of Disorder Hatebreed, and Disembodied. Integrity drew influence from the hardcore band G. I. S. M. Earth Crisis, Converge and Hatebreed borrowed from hardcore punk and death metal. Earth Crisiss 1995 album Destroy the Machines was particularly influential to the development of the genre, Biohazard, Coalesce and Overcast were also important early metalcore groups. Journalist Lars Gotrich wrote, Along with key records by The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch, at the risk of sounding too reductive — metalcore was the natural progression where extreme metal and hardcore met, but with spiraling time signatures that somehow felt more aggressive. Shai Huluds 1997 album Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion became especially influential in the part of the decade
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Electronic music
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In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions for instruments were composed. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds, Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers for the purpose of composing music, algorithmic composition was first demonstrated in Australia in 1951. In America and Europe, live electronics were pioneered in the early 1960s, during the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music. In the 1980s, electronic music became dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines. Electronically produced music became prevalent in the domain by the 1990s. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. Today, pop music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form. At the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments and these initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments, while some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium accurately synthesized the sound of orchestral instruments. It achieved viable public interest and made progress into streaming music through telephone networks. Critics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments, ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises, developments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s, from the late 1920s, the increased practicality of electronic instruments influenced composers such as Joseph Schillinger to adopt them
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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop
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Ska
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Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and it is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off-beat. Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement Coxsone Dodd, some suggest ska dates to earlier times, however. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods, later it became popular with many skinheads. There are multiple theories about the origins of the word ska, ernest Ranglin claimed that the term was coined by musicians to refer to the skat. skat. skat. Ranglin asserted that the difference between R&B and ska beats is that the former goes chink-ka and the latter goes ka-chink, a further theory is that it derives from Johnsons word skavoovie, with which he was known to greet his friends. Jackie Mittoo insisted that the called the rhythm Staya Staya. Dominos rhythm, accentuating the offbeat as in the song Be My Guest, was a particular influence, to meet the demand for that music, entrepreneurs such as Prince Buster, Coxsone Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems. Drums kept 4/4 time and the drum was accented on the third beat of each 4-triplet phrase. The snare would play side stick and accent the third beat of each 4-triplet phrase, the upstroke sound can also be found in other Caribbean forms of music, such as mento and calypso. One theory about the origin of ska is that Prince Buster created it during the recording session for his new record label Wild Bells. The session was financed by Duke Reid, who was supposed to get half of the songs to release, the guitar began emphasizing the second and fourth beats in the bar, giving rise to the new sound. The drums were taken from traditional Jamaican drumming and marching styles, to create the ska beat, Prince Buster essentially flipped the R&B shuffle beat, stressing the offbeats with the help of the guitar. The first ska recordings were created at facilities such as Studio One and WIRL Records in Kingston, Jamaica with producers such as Dodd, Reid, Prince Buster, and Edward Seaga. Until Jamaica ratified the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and this created a large number of cover songs and reinterpretations. One such cover was Millie Smalls version of the R&B/shuffle tune, Smalls rhythmically similar version, released in 1964, was Jamaicas first commercially successful international hit. With over seven million copies sold, it one of the best selling reggae/ska songs of all time. The Wailers covered The Beatles And I Love Her, and radically reinterpreted Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone and they also created their own versions of Latin-influenced music from artists such as Mongo Santamaria
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Concert tour
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Skateboard
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A skateboard is a type of sports equipment or toy used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. It usually consists of a specially designed maplewood board combined with a coating used for making smoother slides. Most skateboards are made with 7 plies of this wood, a skateboard is moved by pushing with one foot while the other remains on the board, or by pumping ones legs in structures such as a bowl or half pipe. A skateboard can also be used by standing on the deck while on a downward slope and allowing gravity to propel the board. If the riders leading foot is their right foot, he/she is said to ride goofy, if the leading foot is their left foot. If the rider is regular but chooses to ride goofy, he/she is said to be riding in switch. Recently, electric skateboards have also appeared and these no longer require the propelling of the skateboard by means of the feet, rather an electric motor propels the board, fed by an electric battery. There is no governing body that declares any regulations on what constitutes a skateboard or the parts from which it is assembled. Historically, the skateboard has conformed both to contemporary trends and to the array of stunts performed by riders/users, who require a certain functionality from the board. Of course, the shape depends largely upon its desired function. Longboards are a type of skateboard with a wheelbase and larger, softer wheels. The two main types of skateboards are the longboard and the shortboard, the shape of the board is also important, the skateboard must be concaved to perform tricks. Longboards are usually faster and are used for cruising and racing. See, Skateboarding The following descriptions cover skateboard parts that are most prevalent in popular, many parts exist with exotic or alternative constructions. A traditional complete skateboard consists of the deck, trucks, wheels, bushings, nuts and bolts to fasten the truck, older decks also included plastic parts such as side, tail, and nose guards. Modern decks vary in size, but most are 7 to 10.5 inches wide, wider decks can be used for greater stability when skateboarding. Standard skateboard decks are usually between 28 and 33 inches long, the underside of the deck can be printed with a design by the manufacturer, blank, or decorated by any other means. Long boards are usually over 36 inches long, plastic penny boards are typically about 22 inches long
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Vans
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Vans is an American manufacturer of shoes, based in Cypress, California, owned by VF Corporation. The company also produces apparel and other such as T-shirts, hoodies, socks, hats. As of August 2013, the brand is active in the sports industry and sponsors skateboard, surf, snow, BMX. Since 1996, the company has also been the sponsor of the annual Vans Warped Tour traveling rock festival. The business manufactured shoes and sold directly to the public. On that first morning, twelve customers purchased Vans deck shoes, nevertheless, the twelve customers selected the colors and styles they desired, and were asked to return later in the afternoon to pick up their purchases. Paul Van Doren and Lee then rushed to the factory to manufacture the selected shoes, when the customers returned that afternoon to pick up their shoes, Paul Van Doren and Gordon C Lee realized that they had forgotten to maintain a cash reserve to provide change to customers. The customers were given the shoes and asked to return the following day with their payments. All twelve of the customers returned the day to pay for their items. The original version of the Vans skateboard logo was designed in Costa Mesa, the son of then President- and co-owner James Van Doren, Mark designed the logo as a stencil to be spray painted on his skateboards. Initially introduced for the tab on an early Vans’ skateboard shoe, the Style 95. In 1989, many manufacturers of counterfeit Vans shoes were apprehended by the US and Mexican officials, in 2004, Vans announced it would merge into North Carolina based VF Corporation. Vans has sponsored the Warped Tour for over 20 years, returning in 2017, the tour is taking on a new element asking fans to complete a survey requesting which acts they should book. The company became the sponsor of the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. The first skate park was opened in 1998 at the Outlets of Orange and it features a 20, 000-square-foot indoor street course, a Combi pool, which is 12 feet deep, an area for amateurs, mini ramps, an outdoor street course, and an arcade. The park was updated in 2009, the company built its first free skate park in Huntington Beach, California which was opened to the public in 2014. It includes a 17, 500-square-foot skate bowl and a 25, the park is 42,500 square feet and Vans pays the city US$1 per year for the 20-year lease. This park is open 7 days a week, there is also a skate park in London, in The Old Vic Tunnels called House of Vans
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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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Chula Vista, California
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The population was 243,916 as of the 2010 census. Chula Vista is so named because of its location between the San Diego Bay and coastal mountain foothills. Founded in the early 19th century, fast population growth has recently observed in the city. In the year 3000 BCE, people speaking the Yuman language began movement into the region from the Lower Colorado River Valley, later the Kumeyaay tribe came to populate the land, on which the city sits today, who lived in the area for hundreds of years. In the year 1542 CE, a fleet of three Spanish Empire ships commanded by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, sailed into San Diego Harbor, early explorations by Spanish conquistadors, such as these, led to Spanish claims of the land. The historic land on which Chula Vista sits became part of the 1795 land grant known as Rancho del Rey or The Kings Ranch, the land eventually was renamed Rancho de la Nación. During the Mexican-American War, California was claimed by the United States, though California was now under the jurisdiction of the United States, land grants were allowed to continue in the form of private property. The San Diego Land and Town Company developed lands of the Rancho de la Nación for new settlement, the town began as a five thousand acre development, with the first house being erected in 1887, by 1889, ten houses had been completed. Around this time, the lemon was introduced to the city, Chula Vista can be roughly translated from Spanish as beautiful view. The 1888 completion of the Sweetwater Dam allowed for irrigation of Chula Vista farming lands, Chula Vista eventually became the largest lemon-growing center in the world for a period of time. The citizens of Chula Vista voted to incorporate on October 17,1911, although the Great Depression affected Chula Vista significantly, agriculture still provided considerable income for the residents. In 1931, the lemon orchards produced $1 million in revenue, the relocation of Rohr Aircraft Corporation to Chula Vista in early 1941, just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, changed Chula Vista. The land never returned to being orchard groves again, the population of post-World War II Chula Vista tripled from 5,000 residents in 1940 to more than 16,000 in 1950. After the war, many of the workers and thousands of servicemen stayed in the area resulting in the huge growth in population. The last of the groves and produce fields disappeared as Chula Vista became one of the largest communities in San Diego County. From 1960 to 2013, the South Bay Power Plant, a 700 megawatt four boiler plant, in 1944, the state of California attempted to seize land in Chula Vista owned by Kajiro Oyama, a legal Japanese resident who was then interned in Utah. Oyama was correctly charged with putting the property in his son Freds name with the intent to evade the Alien Land Law because Fred was a native-born citizen. The case went to the U. S. Supreme Court as Oyama v. California where the court found that Kajiros equal protection rights had been violated, in January 1986, Chula Vista annexed the unincorporated community of Montgomery, which had previously rejected annexation in 1979 and 1982
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Dropkick Murphys
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The Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. The 2004 single Tessie became the bands first mainstream hit and one of their biggest charting singles to date, the band is known for their loud, energetic live shows. In 2007, the band began releasing music through their own imprint label,6, giving the band their highest-charting album to date. The bands ninth album,11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory was released on January 6,2017, the band was named after Dr. John Dropkick Murphys alcohol-detoxification facility. The Dropkick Murphys, first started playing in the basement of a barbershop and soon began to tour. They received their first big break when The Mighty Mighty Bosstones selected them as the act for their 1997 tour in support of Lets Face It. After putting out a series of EPs, they were signed by Hellcat Records in 1997, in 1998 they released their first full-length album, Do or Die, which was produced by Rancids Lars Frederiksen. Lead singer Mike McColgan left the band in 1998 during the middle of a US tour with The Business, according to McColgan he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and join the Boston Fire Department, which he eventually would do in 2001. We apologize to anyone who was a fan of Mike as our singer, however contrary to popular rumor, Mike left the band because he is no longer interested in being a member of this band or the movement of which we are a part. The band goes on to explain that their music is serious to them. Even Mike felt that the band deserved a singer who was invested in the music. Mike would later return to the scene in 2003 as singer of the Street Dogs. Following McColgans departure, the searched for a replacement however were not having much luck. Barr went in to audition for the band, first performing a new song titled 10 Years of Service and was offered the job right away, Barrs first release with the band was the 19987 single for Curse of a Fallen Soul. On March 9,1999, the released their second studio album and first with Barr. The album featured more of a punk sound closer to that of Barrs former band, The Bruisers. The band gained their first mainstream exposure when the video for their single 10 Years of Service received airplay on the MTV show 120 Minutes, the band set out on a year-long tour to support the album. In late 1999, the band along with The Business, released a single titled
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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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Street punk
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Street punk is a working class-based genre of punk rock which took shape in the early 1980s, partly as a rebellion against the perceived artistic pretensions of the first wave of British punk. Street punk emerged from the Oi. style, performed by such as Sham 69, Blitz, The Business, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects. However, street punk continued beyond the confines of the original Oi. form with such as GBH, Chaos UK, Discharge, The Anti-Nowhere League. Street punks generally have a more ostentatious and flamboyant appearance than the working class or skinhead image cultivated by many Oi. groups. Street punk music is characterized by single-note guitar lines and short solos, unlike similar genres, such as hardcore punk, street punk bands often consisted of two guitarists, one of which plays guitar melodies while not singing. Street punk also makes frequent use of vocals and sing–along choruses. Street punk lyrics commonly address topics including fighting, drinking, partying, street punk bands sometimes express political viewpoints, typically of a left-wing variety, although some street punks eschew politics altogether in favor of a more hedonistic, nihilistic outlook. Punk veteran Felix Havoc said, It was aggressive, yet had melody, as opposed to todays melodic punk it still had a lot of energy. There is and was a feel that this was the music, from the streets. As opposed to the anarcho bands its message was more bleak, the music was not a-political, just a less intellectual expression of political views of working class youth. The music was marketed as being of and by the working class, I suspect this was not universally the case. Still most middle and upper class kids cringe at frank discussions of violence as evidenced in a typical Blitz song, early 80s UK punk was catchy as hell, it has sing-a-long choruses and hooky riffs. UK82 took the existing punk sound and added the incessant, heavy drumbeats, the term UK82 is taken from the title of a song by The Exploited. Cross-pollination existed between this era of British street punk and American hardcore punk, the lyrics of UK82 bands tended to be much darker and more violent than the lyrics of earlier punk bands. They tended to focus on the possibilities of a nuclear holocaust, the other mainstay of the lyrics of the era was unemployment, and the policies of the Conservative Party government. Lyrics frequently denounced the Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher in the way that American hardcore punk bands addressed the Ronald Reagan administration. The three most prominent UK82 bands, according to Ian Glasper, are The Exploited, Discharge, the Exploited were controversial due to their aggressive lyrics and rowdy concerts, and were considered by Glasper to be cartoon punks. Discharges early work proved to be influential, providing the blueprint for an entire subgenre
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The Casualties
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The Casualties are an American street punk band which was formed in New York City in 1990. It was formed by vocalist Jorge Herrera, Hank, Colin Wolf, Mark Yoshitomi, Herrera is the only remaining member of the original lineup, although the band has not had any changes in members since 1998. The Casualties were formed in 1990, with original members Jorge Herrera, Hank, Colin Wolf, Mark Yoshitomi and Yureesh Hooker. The members aimed to return to what they viewed as the era of street punk. During the early years, the lineup was fluid, with several changes and that first year, Colin stepped out for several months to finish his education while Rachel, TheRivits singer, took his place. In early 1991 Hank left the band, to be replaced by Fred on guitar to record Political Sin in March 1991 for the Benefit for Beer compilation, soon more changes were in the works, with new guitarist Fred heading off to school. C Squats Scott temporarily filled Freds shoes until he returned a short time later, during this period, guitarist Hank filled in for a couple of shows, and Steve Distraught also played briefly with the group on second guitar. The Casualties stabilized long enough to record the first demo in the fall of 1991 and the 40 oz Casualty EP in the spring of 1992,1994 sees the recording of the 4 song EP, Drinking Is Our Way Of Life, however it would not be released. The songs would appear on the Casualties early years 1990-1995 CD in 1999. In 1995, the second release, the 4 track A Fuckin Way Of Life E. P. was released on Eyeball Records. After recording A Fuckin Way of Life, Shawn left the band, the line-up of Jorge, Jake, Mike and Meggers continued until 1997. In 1996 the Casualties became the first American band to appear at the Holidays in the Sun Festival in London. 1997 saw the release of the debut album, For the Punx is released on Tribal War Records. Mike left the band in 1998, to be replaced with Johnny Rosado and they released their second LP that year, Underground Army, and begin a world tour. Jon leaves the band during the European leg of the tour, after the world tour, Dave would be replaced by Rick Lopez from the band, Manix. The line-up was now solidified for the band, and would continue to the present day, the 2000s have seen the band to continue to tour and produce albums. They have toured with other bands, such as The Exploited, GBH, Cockney Rejects, Slaughter & the Dogs. In December 2009, The Casualties toured alongside Hatebreed, The Acacia Strain, Crowbar, later that year, The Casualties released their new album titled Resistance through Season of Mist
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The Unseen (band)
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The Unseen is an American punk rock band that was formed in 1993 in Hingham, Massachusetts. One of the prominent bands to revive street punk, The Unseen were originally called The Extinct. The Unseen formed in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1993 and they then moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Along with other punk bands, they set out to revive the English street punk sound of the 1980s. The quintet also released a compilation for the European market in June 2000 titled Totally Unseen, The Best Of The Unseen. Most shows would begin with Russo and Tripp singing lead, and then the show would end with Paul playing drums, Russo went on to play in The Pinkerton Thugs as well as a solo project called The Strings. He is currently playing in a band called Broken Stereo. Mark Unseen, who played drums on the bands first few albums and he also formed and currently runs ADD Records. However shortly after his departure he and Unseen guitarist Scott along with Mike Graves, in 2010 Civitarese started a punk rock band called Ashers in and released a 7 vinyl and full-length album Kill Your Master. More recently Civitarese joined up with various member of Bostons hardcore scene to form the hardcore/metal band Tenebrae, there has been some controversy concerning the band, including allegations that in recent years they have sold out. Also that the band should have called it quits after losing Paul Russo, Darkbuster, a band from The Unseens area of origin, even released a joke song called I Hate The Unseen. Members of Darkbuster and The Unseen are friends and they have toured Europe, North America, Australia, Japan, and Mexico with many punk bands from The Bouncing Souls and Rancid to decidedly more hardcore outfits like Hatebreed and Sick of It All. 2006 also saw the release of Tripps book So This Is Readin, which details the life and hardships of being in an underground band with dry comedy. It started as a lengthy band history on the bands website, in May 2006, The Unseen announced on their official website that they would begin writing their sixth studio full-length album during the summer of that year. The album, titled Internal Salvation, was released on July 10,2007, the first song released from that album is a track titled Right Before Your Eyes which was followed up by the track Break Away, for which the band shot a music video. In support of the new album, the joined the thirteenth Warped Tour in 2007. The Unseen remained inactive, until May 25,2015, when played at Punk Rock Bowling at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas. Mark Unseen makes a appearance in the music video Used to Be by fellow Boston punk band The Have Nots
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Anti-Flag
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Anti-Flag are an American punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The band is known for political activism, focusing on anti-war activism, anti-imperialism, class struggle, human rights. Anti-Flag is known also for their advocacy of political action groups such as Greenpeace. Most recently, the band has declared solidarity with the global Occupy Together movement, Anti-Flag was formed in 1988 by singer/guitarist Justin Sane and drummer Pat Thetic. During the bands early years, various guitarists and bassists moved in and out of the band, including Justins sister, the band failed to solidify, and it fell apart after playing just one show. In 1992, Justin and Pat reformed the band, now with Andy Flag on bass, a 17-song demo album called 17 Songs was released the same year. In 1996, the released their first album, Die For the Government. Andy Flag left the band in the summer of 1996 because of disputes between himself and Justin. For a brief time after Andys departure in 1996, Sean Whelan of Pittsburgh band the Bad Genes filled in on bass and it was during this time that Sean was also playing in another band with guitarist Chris Head, whom he introduced to the band. In early 1997, Pittsburgh guitarist Chris Head began filling in on bass, in late 1997, Jamie Cock took over as the new bassist, moving Chris Head over to second guitar, which he preferred. The current line-up finalized in 1999 when Chris Barker, also known as Chris No,2, replaced Jamie Cock on bass. In 1998, the released their second full-length release, Their System Doesnt Work For You. The album contained all nine Anti-Flag songs from the 1996 Anti-Flag/d. b. s, split album North America Sucks, as well as 10 new unreleased songs. The band decided to release the album independently, and Their System Doesnt Work For You became the release for the bands own A-F Records. In 1999, Anti-Flag released the album A New Kind of Army on Go-Kart Records/A-F Records, the album addressed topics such as abortion, political corruption, racism, fascism, troubled youth, police brutality, and unity within the American youth. The cover art page unfolded into a poster featuring the phrase Too smart to fight, in addition to this, the band had a disclaimer at the bottom of its album cover saying, Anti-Flag does not mean Anti-American. In 2000, Anti-Flag was invited to participate in Vans Warped Tour, during this time, the members of Anti-Flag met NOFXs Fat Mike, owner of the Fat Wreck Chords record label. This meeting spawned a friendship that would lead to Anti-Flags release of two albums on the label, in 2001, Anti-Flag teamed with punk music producer Mass Giorgini to record the album Underground Network, released on Fat Wreck Chords
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Bad Religion
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Bad Religion is an American punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1979. To date, Bad Religion has released sixteen albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, three EPs and two DVDs. They are considered to be one of the punk rock acts of all time. Bad Religion had built a following in the United States with their early albums before signing to Atlantic Records in 1993. They rose to fame that year with their seventh studio album and major-label debut Recipe for Hate. Shortly before the release of Stranger than Fiction, Gurewitz left Bad Religion to run his label Epitaph on a full-time basis, the band is expected to release their seventeenth studio album in 2017. Bad Religion was formed in Los Angeles in 1979 by high school students Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Jay Ziskrout, according to bassist Jay Bentley, Bad Religion started around November or December 1979, but no one can remember exactly. Greg Graffin wanted the year 2000 to be Bad Religions 20th birthday and their first public performance was playing 6 or 8 songs at a Fullerton, California or Santa Ana, California warehouse opening for Social Distortion. Their first official show was on November 11,1980 at Joey Kills Bar in Burbank, in 1981, the band released their initial eponymous album on the newly formed label, Epitaph Records, which was and continues to be managed and owned by Gurewitz. Also in 1981, the began recording their first full-length album. During the recording of album, drummer Jay Ziskrout quit the band. Released in 1982, How Could Hell Be Any Worse. was also distributed by the band under the Epitaph label, in 1983, the band released Into the Unknown, a keyboard-driven progressive hard rock album with a slightly slower pace. Almost all of the albums the band produced were out of the warehouse they were housed in without the bands knowledge. This incident, as well as band members increasingly divergent personal lives, soon after, Graffin reassembled Bad Religion with Circle Jerks guitarist Greg Hetson replacing Gurewitz, who had gone into rehab for his drug problem. Bad Religion returned to a mellower, rock and roll version of their original sound with the Back to the Known EP. Eventually the band split toward the middle of 1985, Bad Religion slowly reformed in 1986 out of the Back to the Known line-up when Graffin called Bentley and asked him to return. Bentleys response was tentative, but after being assured that the setlist consisted mostly of tracks from How Could Hell Be Any Worse and he agreed to return for one show, and ended up staying on because he had so much fun. A freshly rehabilitated Gurewitz was eventually convinced to come back aboard and this lineup recorded the bands third album, Suffer, which was released in 1988
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NOFX
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NOFX /ˌnoʊɛfˈɛks/ is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They were formed in 1983 by vocalist/bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin, drummer Erik Sandin joined NOFX shortly after, and El Hefe joined the band in 1991 to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out the current line-up. NOFXs mainstream success was signified by a growing interest in punk rock during the 1990s, NOFX has released thirteen studio albums, sixteen extended plays and a number of seven-inch singles. The band rose to popularity with their studio album Punk in Drublic. Their latest studio album, First Ditch Effort, was released on October 7,2016, the group has sold over 8 million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful independent bands of all time. NOFX broadcast their own show on Fuse TV entitled NOFX, Backstage Passport, in 1983, guitarist Eric Melvin met bassist/vocalist Mike Burkett and started the band under the name NO-FX, after a Boston hardcore punk band called Negative FX. At this time, they were joined by drummer Erik Smelly Sandin, nOFXs first recording was a demo from 1984, entitled Thalidomide Child produced by Germs drummer Don Bolles, which did not sell many copies, but is now an incredibly rare collectors item. Fat Mike once claimed that no copies existed and it was announced in 2011 that the demo would be re-released and in 2012 it finally saw a release. The group released its debut extended play NOFX on Mystic Records in 1985. Mystics Mark Wilkins, who handled promotion on their first national tour with Dr. Know told Wild Times I knew those guys had something special. In the middle of the tour Dr. Knows van broke down forcing them to quit the tour but NOFX kept on going and that was very rare and in my mind an example of the kind of discipline it takes to be successful. The bands line-up had undergone a number of changes, however, for a year, Erik Smelly Sandin left the band and was replaced by Scott Sellers, and later by Scott Aldahl. Dave Allen was in the band for four months, until he died in a car accident. In 1986, the released the extended play So What If Were on Mystic. Dave Casillas joined the band on guitar in 1987 and was featured on the extended play The P. M. R. C. Can Suck on This, attacking the PMRCs campaign for music censorship, the original cover was an edited S&M photo, the cover for the re-released version was changed to a photo of Eric Melvin. Prior to the release of Liberal Animation, a compilation of 14 early NOFX songs was released on Mystic Records, the album was self-titled, and featured the songs from the NOFX and So What If Were on Mystic. extended plays. The album is rare and only printed around 1,000 copies
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Alternative Press (magazine)
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Alternative Press is an American music magazine based in Cleveland, Ohio. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, information on upcoming releases and it was founded in 1985 by Mike Shea, who is the current president. Joe Scarpelli is the current general manager, jason Pettigrew is editor in chief. The first issue of Alternative Press was simply a punk rock fanzine, distributed at concerts in Cleveland, Ohio beginning in June 1985 by APs founder. He disliked the music that was then being broadcast on stations and believed that bands playing underground music should be given more media coverage all in the same spot. He said, It has really always been about covering music for the misfits, Shea began working on his first issue in his mothers house in Aurora, Ohio. Shea and a friend, Jimmy Kosicki, targeted the Cleveland neighborhood of Coventry, I took my high school newspaper from Aurora High that looked nice and clean and offset print. Id walk into these flower shops and Hallmark shops, and Id say Were going to put out an entertainment publication, and theyd look at my high school newspaper and say, Its really professional. Thats how we got enough money to make the first issue, financial problems plagued AP in its early years. However, by the end of 1986, publication had ceased due to its financial problems, with the growth of alternative rock in the early 1990s, circulation began to increase. APs covers included bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Soundgarden, by 1994, the magazine was doing cover stories on Beastie Boys, Henry Rollins and Love and Rockets. Did we sometimes protest too much, maybe, but we were up against a lot, we were underfinanced and still underappreciated in some corners of the music business, so we had to fight scrappily and mean when it was called for. Nobody takes you seriously unless you take yourself seriously, and thats what Norman brings to his position to this day. By the early 2000s, after resisting attempts to purchase the magazine, when asked the magazines audience, Shea said, It went from heartfelt emo, to screamo, to post-hardcore, to metalcore… but, there will always be a suburban kid full of angst. At the time of its 20th anniversary in 2005, AP had grown to a size of 112 pages per issue. AP introduced its own ceremony in 2014. In 2015, the ceremony was moved to Clevelands Quicken Loans Arena. It featured hosts Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat of All Time Low and performances by Rob Zombie, New Found Glory with Hayley Williams of Paramore, Panic. at the Disco, due to the Republican National Convention, the 2016 APMAs were moved to Columbus Value City Arena
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Creative Artists Agency
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Creative Artists Agency or CAA is an American talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles, California. It is regarded as a dominant and influential company in the talent agency business, in March 2016, CAA had 1,800 employees. Creative Artists Agency was formed by a handful of agents at the William Morris Agency in 1975, at a dinner, Mike Rosenfeld, Michael Ovitz, Ron Meyer, William Haber, and Rowland Perkins decided to create their own agency. According to one report, the agents were fired by William Morris before they could obtain financing and their firm was incorporated in Delaware and had a $35,000 line of credit and a $21,000 bank loan and rented a small Century City office. Within a week, they sold a show called Rhyme and Reason, the Rich Little Show. Representing numerous A-list actors and having about $90 million in bookings in the late 1980s. By the mid-1990s, CAA had 550 employees, about 1,400 of Hollywoods top talent, in the 1990s, CAA was owned mostly by several key agents, including Michael Ovitz, Bill Haber, and Ron Meyer. Haber was credited for the revival of top TV producer Aaron Spelling, Ovitz expanded the agency into advertising and telecommunications. In 1992, the Coca-Cola company placed CAA in charge of much of its marketing campaign, in 1995, CAA was described as the industrys most powerful agency. In the middle 1990s, however, there were changes in management. In 1995, Ron Meyer was appointed as the head of MCA, the departure of Ovitz and Meyer brought an exodus of some of CAAs top-marquee names. Talent agent Jay Moloney was originally part of the transition but due to his addiction, he was fired. In 1996, several CAA agents defected to rival agency William Morris Endeavor, the partners founded the CAA Foundation in 1996 to create positive social change by encouraging volunteerism, partnerships, and donations. In 2012, it worked with Insight Labs for education reform, the agency continued to grow in the 21st century. In 2003, it opened a New York City office to manage theatre clients, from 2005 to 2015, CAA developed greater fiscal discipline, with more emphasis on profits, possibly as the result of the influence of private equity firms. During these years, CAA doubled in size, from 750 to 1,500 employees, in 2010, new technological developments such as the digital distribution of movies put strains on the industry. There was pressure to diversify into television, publishing, concerts, in that year, private equity firm TPG Capital invested substantial sums in CAA, it invested $165 million with an additional $200 million in debt financing. Agents are the core of the business, the players, putting together deals, while the public focus is on the moviemakers and actors and TV
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Kilimanjaro Live
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Kilimanjaro Live is a live event promotions company specialising in music concerts, based in the United Kingdom. They are one of the largest event promoters in the UK and they own or operate Sonisphere Festival, Wakestock Festival and Warped Tour. The company was founded by music promoter Stuart Galbraith in 2008 as a joint venture with AEG Live, in 2012 the organisation was restructured leaving Galbraith as sole owner of Kilimanjaro Live. Previously Galbraith worked as Managing Director of Live Nation and was responsible for the creation of Download Festival, Wireless Festival, Hyde Park Calling, see, Sonisphere Festival Sonisphere is a rock/metal touring festival taking place across Europe between June and August. The festival was created in 2009 by Kilimanjaro Live and John Jackson and it is jointly promoted by Kilimanjaro Live and K2. The festival has hosted heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Slayer, Alice Cooper. On 29 March 2012 the UK leg of the festival was cancelled, Sonisphere continues to run in Italy, France and Spain yearly. See, Wakestock Festival Wakestock is Europes largest wakeboard music festival, combining the cultures of music and it is held on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, in between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog. Founded by Mark Durston, the began in Abersoch, North Wales back in 2000. In 2008 the festival was bought by Kilimanjaro Live, the festival is split over three sites - the main festival site at Penrhos, Pwllheli Marina hosts the main wakeboard competition and Abersoch Bay hosts the Big Air Classic competition. The festival prides itself as being at the foot of the Snowdonia Mountains, previous headline music acts have included Ellie Goulding, Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, Ed Sheeran, Bastille, The 1975, Example and James. See, Warped Tour Warped Tour was created in 1994 by Kevin Lyman, the music/sports festival toured the USA for many years before Kilimanjaro Live licensed the European operations of Warped Tour in 2012. In the United Kingdom, Warped Tour is hosted at Alexandra Palace in North London, in 2012 the headliners were Lostprophets and Bring Me the Horizon, in 2013 the currently scheduled headliners are Enter Shikari, Rise Against, Parkway Drive and Billy Talent
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West Hollywood, California
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West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip, as of the 2010 census, its population was 34,399. It is considered one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States, the citys irregular boundary is featured in its logo, it was largely formed from the unincorporated Los Angeles County area that had not become part of the surrounding cities. West Hollywood benefits from a dense, compact urban form with small lots, mixed land use. According to Walkscore, a website that ranks cities based on walkability, commercial corridors include the nightlife and dining focused on the Sunset Strip, along Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Avenues of Art & Design along Robertson, Melrose, and Beverly Boulevard. Major intersecting streets typically provide amenities within walking distance of adjacent neighborhoods, West Hollywood has a Subtropical-semi-arid climate with year-round warm weather. The record high temperature of 111 °F was recorded September 26,1963, snow is rare in West Hollywood, with the last accumulation occurring in 1949. Rainfall is sparse, and falls mainly during winter months, around 5,000 of the indigenous inhabitants from the Tongva Indian tribe canoed out to greet Juan Cabrillo. The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their reverence of dance, by 1771, these native people had been severely ravaged by diseases brought in by the Europeans from across wide oceans. The Spanish mission system changed the name to Gabrielinos, in reference to the Mission de San Gabriel. The Gabrielinos are believed to have burned the pitch for fuel, by 1780, what became the Sunset Strip was the major connecting road for El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and all ranches westward to the Pacific Ocean. This land passed through the hands of owners during the next one hundred years. Most of this area was part of the Rancho La Brea, Sherman became the location of the railroads main shops, railroad yards, and car barns. Many working-class employees of the railroad settled in this town and it was during this time that the city began to earn its reputation as a loosely regulated, liquor-friendly place for eccentric people wary of government interference. Despite several annexation attempts, the town elected not to part of the City of Los Angeles. For many years, the area that is now the city of West Hollywood was an area in the midst of Los Angeles. Because gambling was illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but still legal in Los Angeles County and these businesses were immune from the sometimes heavy-handed law-enforcement of the L. A. Some people connected with movie-making were attracted to this area of the County
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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T.S.O.L.
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T. S. O. L. is a punk rock band formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California. Although most commonly associated with punk, T. S. O. L. s music has varied on each release, including such styles as deathrock, art punk, horror punk. Formed in 1978 in Long Beach, T. S. O. L, originated as a punk band, developing from earlier bands SS Cult and Johnny Koathanger and the Abortions. The original lineup consisted of vocalist Jack Grisham, guitarist Ron Emory, bassist Mike Roche, later in 1978, Grisham and Barnes formed Vicious Circle, and T. S. O. L. T. S. O. L. s debut five-song EP, T. S. O. L. was released in spring 1981 by Posh Boy Records and this first release was harshly political, featuring tracks such as Superficial Love, World War III and Abolish Government. Their first full-length album, Dance with Me, was released later in 1981 on Frontier Records, amid personal turmoil, Grisham, Barnes and Kuehn all left the band in 1983. Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley briefly joined in 1983 before Roche returned, Joe Wood and Mitch Dean joined on vocals and drums, respectively. This new lineup released three albums on Enigma, Change Today, all three albums featured a more polished production style, with Hit and Run reaching No.184 on the Billboard 200 charts, and the band toured globally to support the releases. The bands first live album, Live, was issued by Enigma in 1988, the band became friends with Guns N Roses, and T. S. O. L. T-shirts were seen in the video for that bands Sweet Child o Mine, Emory left the band in 1988, during the recording of demos for Strange Love, leaving Roche as the sole remaining original member. Though Emory was given a credit on the track Blow by Blow. Were joined briefly by guitarist Scotty Phillips, who quit before the band started recording the follow-up to Hit and they eventually hired former Dinos Revenge guitarist and actor Marshall Rohner. They released an album, Strange Love, in 1990. Roche quit shortly before the release, leaving the band with no original members. A compilation album titled Hell and Back Together 1984–1990 was issued in 1992 with an emphasis on their metal era, murphy Karges replaced Roche on bass, he was then replaced by touring bassist Josh Also. This late-80s lineup was popular enough to garner bookings in Brazil and Argentina, in 1996, Wood and Dean were joined by guitarists Mike Martt and Drac Conley, and bassist Dave Mello, with Dean subsequently replaced by Steve Sully O’Sullivan. Also in 1996, Wood formed ongoing blues band Joe Wood & the Lonely Ones, Wood later recorded as Orange Wedge in 1993 and Cisco Poison in 1995. Meanwhile, the members began playing shows under the name T. S. O. L
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Sing It Loud
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Sing It Loud was an American pop rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brown officially brought the group together after his previous band called it quits and he was the former singer and guitarist for local legends The Semester. Frustrated with their lack of success, The Semester played one final show in the Minneapolis suburb Savage. The band was offered a contract with Epitaph Records after playing seven shows together. Their debut release for Epitaph was an EP produced by Josh Cain of Motion City Soundtrack, a full-length produced by Cain and mixed by Mark Trombino was released on Epitaph on September 23,2008. The album features guest appearances from Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack, come Around hit No.44 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The band spent the summer of 2009 on Warped Tour 2009 on the Hurley Stage, Pat Brown recently announced during a live acoustic performance online that Sing It Loud will be releasing their new album in May. Sing It Louds upcoming album includes a track called Shadows that features vocals by Kieren Smith. This will be the first time the two have switched roles. The new Sing It Loud album is titled Everything Collide, containing 11 tracks it came out May 11,2010, the album reached No.28 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. On September 14,2010, after three years as a band, the decided to go their separate ways. The split was announced via their MySpace page and their final show was played on October 9,2010 at Station 4 in their hometown. The band have announced that they will be playing a show on October 6,2012 in Minneapolis. They will be joined by Steve Salazar, The Role Call, Love Out Loud, and William Beckett
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TAT (band)
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TAT is a rock/punk band hailing from London, England. The band, originally a quartet, was founded in 2003 by a 15-year-old Tatiana DeMaria, both Single/EP were released independently through EX Records in conjunction with the Extreme Sports Channel. As the band started making ripples, they earned a slot with The Offspring and HorrorPops in Paris. Throughout 2005, TAT experienced several changes which eventually saw the band become a trio, with the inclusion of bassist Nick Kent. After more UK touring, they flew to Poland to join Coalition For Kids,2006 saw the release of their next single, Champagne Cocaine & Strawberries, which they released and distributed themselves. During this period, Jake Reed briefly left the band and was replaced by former drummer Robin Guy until his return, for this reason, Robin can be seen in the promotional video for Champagne Cocaine & Strawberries. It was later this year that the band embarked on the Vans Warped Tour for the first time, playing the second month of the travelling festival on the ShiraGirl stage. In 2007, TAT toured the UK and Europe with such notable acts as NOFX and The Bouncing Souls as well as Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, The Draft. In October, they spent three weeks in Atlanta, GA where they recorded the bulk of their debut album, TAT released their album preview EP entitled This Is. TAT in 2008. They completed the Vans Warped Tour and embarked on several other North American/Canadian tours with Alice Cooper, Lagwagon and MxPx. Soho Lights, the bands long-awaited debut album, was released on 28 October 2008 through their own label, Red Wagon Records, however, the album was not initially released in the UK, which caused frustration for both the band and their home fans. The album later found a digital UK release through iTunes, after a short break over the festive period and playing a one off homecoming show in London, The band returned to the USA in February for a Californian tour with Pennywise and Authority Zero. Nick Kent was unable to attend the tour due to a wrist operation and was replaced by Nick Stagnaro of Good Guys In Black for all shows. In March and April, TAT embarked on their first solo American tour, a fall tour with Social Distortion was scheduled and promoted, however, TAT later announced that due to unforeseen circumstances they would be unable to perform. In September, the band started writing material for their second full-length album, Tatiana also lent her vocals to Reel Big Fishs 2009 album of covers, Fame, Fortune, and Fornication, where she sang a duet with Aaron Barrett on Talk Dirty to Me. In December 2011 the band self-released the EP Somewhere Between Heaven, the EP contained previously unreleased songs that didnt appear on Soho Lights and songs that would not appear on the follow up album. In 2015 TAT released a new song titled Anxiety and embarked on the full 2015 Vans a Warped Tour through the US, TAT are currently in the studio finishing up their follow up album scheduled for a 2017 release
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The Novo by Microsoft
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The Novo is an intimate indoor club located at L. A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, California, the clubs seating capacity is 2,300. The venue opened in November 8,2008 as Club Nokia with back-to-back concerts by the musician Beck and its name was changed in March 2016, several months after the neighboring Nokia Theaters name was changed to the Microsoft Theater. The theater continues to be booked by Goldenvoice, Club Nokia The Novo This is a list of notable concerts held or to be held at The Novo. Live List of music venues in Los Angeles List of music venues Official website The Novos Google+ Page
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Falling in Reverse
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Falling in Reverse is an American rock band based in Las Vegas, Nevada and formed in 2008, signed to Epitaph Records. The band is led by vocalist Ronnie Radke alongside lead guitarist Christian Thompson, rhythm guitarist Derek Jones, and bassist Zakk Sandler. The group released its album, The Drug in Me Is You, on July 26,2011. The bands second album, Fashionably Late, was released on June 18,2013. The band released their third album Just Like You on February 24,2015 and their latest album Coming Home was released on April 7,2017. The band has toured extensively in support of its releases with musical groups such as Escape the Fate, Chelsea Grin, Atreyu, Attila, Metro Station. I See Stars, among several others, in 2008, lead singer Ronnie Radke was involved in an altercation in Las Vegas that resulted in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Cook. While Radke did not shoot Cook, he was indicted on battery charges and these charges, combined with Radkes past troubles with narcotics and rehab, led to a sentence of five years with probation. He failed to report to his officer and as result he was arrested in June 2008. At the time, Ronnie Radke was the singer of post-hardcore band Escape the Fate. Following Radkes incarceration, Escape the Fate kicked him out of the band, Max Green, bassist of Escape the Fate, stated about Radkes law problems that, First we couldnt tour out of the country, then out of the state. Radke was released on December 12,2010, Radke stated in an interview, They make a whole album called This War Is Ours, and then they try to say, We didnt name that album after you, dude. I could be wrong, they could be talking about the war on terrorism or something, but I just have a feeling that record name was about me. It is always about forgive and forget, but theres some things that I would like to say, in 2009 with Radke still in prison he came to launch a demo of his band, due to contacts with several musicians he had. The demo contains four songs that were not put on the debut album The Drug in Me Is You, the original lineup consisted of Radke and bassist Nason Schoeffler, who helped find guitarist Jacky Vincent and rhythm guitarist Derek Jones. The band went through several drummers, nick Rich was later replaced by Oscar Garcia, Khaled Biersack, and former LoveHateHero member Scott Gee, as official members, before finding former the Bigger Lights drummer Ryan Seaman. Schoeffler quit the band in April 2011 and was replaced by Mika Horiuchi, formerly of the band Cellador, in January 2010, the band began recording for the first time. The group announced on December 20 that it would go to Orlando, the band also confirmed that Radkes friend, Michael Baskette, who has worked on Blessthefalls album Witness and Radke on Escape the Fates debut Dying Is Your Latest Fashion, would produce the album
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The Used
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The Used is an American rock formed in Orem, Utah, in 2001. The group consists of vocalist Bert McCracken, guitarist Justin Shekoski, bassist Jeph Howard, the group signed to Reprise Records and rose to fame in June 2002 after releasing their self-titled debut album. They followed up with their album, In Love and Death, in September 2004 and their third album, Lies for the Liars. Shallow Believer, an EP that featured most of the bands B-sides, was released in February 2008 and they spent 2008 working on their fourth studio album, Artwork, which was released in August 2009. A fifth album, titled Vulnerable, was released in March 2012 through the independent label Hopeless Records, in summer 2013 they released another EP titled The Ocean of the Sky. Their sixth album, Imaginary Enemy, released in April 2014 and their next studio album is planned for summer 2017. The Used have enjoyed success with most of their albums achieving gold. The Used formed in January 2001 with the recruitment of members Branden Steineckert, Quinn Allman and they had music already prepared, but did not have lyrics and required a vocalist. They held auditions at Howards residence, but the band was not satisfied any of the vocalists. Allman then asked Bert McCracken if he was interested in joining the band, McCracken was impressed with the material the band had created. After being given music that the band had written, McCracken wrote the lyrics to what would become Maybe Memories, McCracken was then officially confirmed as being the bands vocalist. Throughout all of this, the band suffered from poverty, homelessness. The members decided upon the name Used after friends claimed they used when contact with the band members waned as they became more engrossed in the project. The Used continued to write together and recorded a demo album in drummer Steineckerts bedroom titled Demos from the Basement. Steineckert sent their songs to producer John Feldmann from the ska group Goldfinger, on hearing the song A Box Full of Sharp Objects, Feldman helped The Used find a record label. Feldmann flew the band to Los Angeles, taking out of their home state for the first time in their lives. They played for various record executives, but received little interest, eventually, after sending copies of their demo to many record companies, they began to receive offers. They decided to sign to Reprise Records the first week of January 2002, in 2002, it was discovered that a Boston band had already trademarked the name Used
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Yellowcard
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Yellowcard was an American pop punk band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and were based in Los Angeles beginning in 2000. The band is known for its singles Ocean Avenue, Only One. The groups music is distinctive within its genre because it features the prominent use of a violin, the band released ten studio albums, with its most recent and final one, Yellowcard, released on September 30,2016. The band played its final show on March 25,2017, at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. Yellowcard was formed in 1997 in Jacksonville, Fla. after meeting at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. ”The original lineup featured Ben Dobson on vocals, Todd Clary on guitar and vocals, Ben Harper on guitar, Warren Cooke on bass, and Longineu Parsons III on drums. Modern Amusement frontman Ryan Key appeared as a guest, on background vocals, Key had also been in California band Craigs Brother. Yellowcard recorded its first album, Midget Tossing, at the Music Factory in Jacksonville Beach with Michael Ray FitzGerald at the board, where We Stand, Yellowcards second album, featured the same lineup as Midget Tossing, and Mackin was brought in for more songs. Soon, however, the band fired Dobson and replaced him with former guest vocalist Key and this changed the bands style from hardcore punk to pop punk. In early 2000, the band recorded the Still Standing EP, soon after Still Standing EP was released, Todd Clary left the band. Key then filled both Clarys and Dobsons duties, guitar and vocals respectively, the group released its third album, One for the Kids, in 2001 and followed up with The Underdog EP in 2002. Both of these were well received by fans, however, soon after The Underdog EP was released, Warren Cooke left for personal reasons on July 16,2002. The band then asked Pete Mosely from Inspection 12, to play bass, shortly after releasing The Underdog EP, Yellowcard signed with Capitol Records, which was looking to sign pop punk groups at the time. The group began recording its debut in February 2003. During the recording of Ocean Avenue, Mosely left Yellowcard, devoting his time to his first band, Inspection 12, and finishing the bands album, Get Rad. The members of Yellowcard began the search for a new player and chose Alex Lewis, whose sister, Alieke Wijnveldt. After Lewis joined, the band filmed a music video for the song Powder. The video was put on the enhanced version of the bands next album. The band released its first single from the album, Way Away, the song did well on MTV2 and rock radio, peaking at No.25 on the modern-rock charts
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Dead Sara
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Dead Sara received the Best New Rock Group award at the third annual Vegas Rocks. Magazine Music Awards 2012” on August 26,2012, Weatherman topped Loudwires 10 Best Rock Songs of 2012 list, beating several major bands including Three Days Grace, Stone Sour and Deftones. And both Emily and Siouxsie were nominated as top ten finalists in the vocalist and guitarist categories respectively in Loudwires 2012 top vocalist, additionally Emily was nominated as one of six nominees for the 2012 rock Goddess of the year award. Pocket Kid Records released Dead Saras second album, Pleasure To Meet You, Emily Armstrong and Siouxsie Medley both began their foray into music as guitarists and singer-songwriters. Before Dead Sara, Armstrong was both a solo artist with a focus on music, as well as a member of several school bands that she formed. However, according to Armstrong she was at first primarily a songwriter and guitarist, at this point her voice was able to form a clear and steady vibrato at various pitches, giving her a naturally powerful and in-key voice even when sing-screaming. Armstrong and Medley met through a friend, Diva Gustafsson. The pair began writing together in 2003, and in 2004 their song “Changes” became the duo’s first recorded collaboration. The group expanded to a four-piece shortly thereafter, both Armstrong and Medley have publicly cited Stevie Nicks, the singer-writer of the song Sara, as a primary influence. Around this time Medley began styling her first name as Siouxsie, as a nod to the Sioux Indians tribe, in 2007 Dead Sara began their first tour as the opening act for Endless Hallway, financed by early band benefactor Tal Kapelner. Shortly after, their first EP, an album entitled The Airport Sessions, was released in 2008 by Viscount Records. In 2009 Armstrong was commissioned by Hole frontwoman Courtney Love to sing backing vocals on Loves 2010 album Nobodys Daughter, in 2011, when singer Grace Slick was asked by The Wall Street Journal which contemporary female singers she admires, Slick named Emily Armstrong. Radio stations KYSR-FM, KTBZ-FM, and WCCC are credited with initially breaking Dead Sara on the radio, WCCCs Karolyi was in California at Michele Clark s Sunset Sessions convention where Staind was also premiering their documentary. However, overhearing Dead Sara, he skipped the event and checked them out instead, when he returned to Connecticut he played the bands single Weatherman, giving the group greater exposure. In fact Weatherman which had not been released anywhere else yet, in September 2011, the band went on tour with Bush, and in February 2012 the band released Weatherman as the lead single for their upcoming début album. In April 2012, the released their debut eponymous album through the label, Pocket Kid Records. The album peaked at No.16 on Billboards Heatseekers Albums chart, soon after, Weatherman was used by Fiat in their Fiat 500 Abarth Burning up the desert advertisement. After performing spring dates with Chevelle and The Used, the spent the summer of 2012 touring as part of the Vans Warped Tour in the US
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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Chelsea Grin
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Chelsea Grin is an American deathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah. Formed in 2007, the group is signed to Rise Records and have released two EPs and four full-length albums, Chelsea Grin was originally formed by Alex Koehler and former band mates under the name Ahaziah. The bands first members were Alex Koehler, guitarist Chris Kilbourn, bassist Austin Marticorena, Marticorena introduced Andrew Carlston to Chelsea Grin and assisted in rewriting their songs as well as the creation of new material. This writing process lead to the tracks on their first release, early on in the bands career, they released the songs Crewcabanger and Lifeless as singles, both of which were received well by listening audiences on Myspace. Since then the band released two more full-lengths, Ashes to Ashes in 2014 and Self Inflicted in 2016, the band recruited Jake Harmond to temporarily fill in on bass while the band found a permanent member. Not long after this, the band ousted drummer Andrew Carlston, shortly thereafter, Jake Harmond once again filled in for the band, this time as substitute rhythm guitar player. The band then was added to a small, week-long Canadian run in June 2009 with The Agonist, A Plea for Purging, Arsonists Get All the Girls and Statik Factory labelmates, the album was produced by As I Lay Dying vocalist and studio founder, Tim Lambesis. Whilst in the studio the band inked a deal with Artery Recordings, after recording their debut record, Desolation of Eden, the band embarked on their first full US tour featuring Dr. Acula, American Me, and Attila. Desolation of Eden was released on February 16,2010 and reached number 21 on The Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart selling 1,500 copies its first week. With the success of their debut, the band was featured and praised in Alternative Press, Utah newspapers. Koehler was rushed from the venue to receive surgery, despite this, the band still carried out their two-week tour with Blind Witness and Attila on during September 2010, which had Koehler substituted with Adam Warren of Oceano. One song that debuted on the bands self-titled EP, Cheyne Stokes, was re-recorded for Desolation of Eden, the album has also peaked at 24 on the Billboard New Artists Chart. There are currently two music videos from the record, Sonnet of the Wretched and Recreant. The music video for Sonnet of the Wretched was filmed on June 4,2010 as the band headlined a show at The Boardwalk in Orangvale, CA. Chelsea Grin confirmed Chris Zeuss Harris as the producer for the recording of their follow-up album to My Damnation. Chelsea Grin finished writing and recording their second album in June 2011. It was released the month on July 19,2011. On April 17 Artery Recordings released the track as the albums lead single off the album
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Chiodos
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Chiodos was an American post-hardcore band from Davison, Michigan. Chiodos released their first full-length album, titled Alls Well That Ends Well and their second album, Bone Palace Ballet, was released in North America on September 4,2007 and debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Independent Albums. Warner Bros. Records released Bone Palace Ballet on January 26,2009 and they released their third studio album, Illuminaudio in 2010, and it was the only studio album to feature Brandon Bolmer as lead vocalist and Tanner Wayne as drummer. The band released their fourth and final album, Devil on April 1,2014, the original members of Chiodos assembled while attending high school in their hometown of Davison, Michigan during 2001. Initially, they got their start playing shows at the Flint Local 432, the Flint Local 432 also helped develop other nationally recognized alternative acts such as The Swellers, Cheap Girls, and Empty Orchestra. The debut record was released on July 26,2005 through Equal Vision Records and it reached #3 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and #164 on the Billboard 200 chart upon its release. Chiodos headlined some shows on their own before joining Alternative Presss 2006 Invisible Sideshow tour, following that tour, they supported Matchbook Romance on the Sub City Take Action tour in Spring 2006. That summer, they toured with Fear Before the March of Flames, in fall 2006, Chiodos appeared on Atreyus World Championship Tour, alongside From First to Last and Every Time I Die, as well as 3 and 36 Crazyfists. Chiodos toured alongside Linkin Park and Coheed and Cambria in early 2008, the band also toured with Nine Inch Nails and Alice in Chains in Australia during early 2009. They played Warped Tour 2009 on the stage alongside bands The Devil Wears Prada, Bad Religion, Silverstein, Saosin. On September 24,2009 the band announced on their MySpace page that they had let go of lead singer, on February 1,2010, the band announced that they were set to record their third album with acclaimed producer, Machine, that month. Entering the studio with Bell will be members Jason Hale, Pat McManaman, Matt Goddard, Bolmer later revealed to AP that he was the new Chiodos vocalist and he would no longer be a part of Yesterdays Rising. In the May issue of Alternative Press the band stated they and Derrick Frost parted ways at the due to his. The band let Frost go over Owens, and only months later let Owens go and they also stated they had considered bringing Frost back. On June 9,2010 a demo featuring Owens on vocals was leaked onto the internet, the demo was recorded in September, just before Owens parted ways from the band. The band released a version of song on their new CD Illuminaudio renaming it Stratovolcano Mouth. Released their version on their debut album. This was confirmed on August 9,2010, in a release from their label
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Gin Wigmore
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Virginia Claire Gin Wigmore is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is known for her high and raspy voice, inspired by David Gray’s album White Ladder, Wigmore wrote her first song, Angelfire, at the age of 14. Two years later her father died of cancer and Wigmore stopped writing and playing music and she went to Argentina on an exchange program to teach at a kindergarten. On her return to New Zealand, she wrote Hallelujah, a tribute to her father and she also won the Teen category with Angelfire. Hallelujah was my way of telling my family I had dealt with dads passing and honestly, I wanted the moment for myself and my family. — Gin Wigmore Extended Play was Wigmores first EP and it was produced by Tony Buchen and contains the tracks Hallelujah, These Roses, SOS, Under My Skin, and Easy Come Easy Go. Australian musician John Butler played ukulele on song SOS, released in 2008, the EP peaked at number ten in the New Zealand charts. It was certified Platinum in New Zealand on 2 May 2010, Extended Play was released in Australia on 2 August 2008 by Island Records. Wigmore was the first artist signed with Island Records, a company with Universal Music Group. She toured with Australian artist Pete Murray on his tour in August/September 2008. Wigmore toured in 2008, including at the Cross Town Revue in Auckland and her hit single Under My Skin was featured on an Air New Zealand advertising campaign, Nothing to Hide. Wigmore featured in the 2009 song and video of Brother by new group Smashproof, in 2009, Wigmore released her debut full-length album Holy Smoke, recorded with The Cardinals of Ryan Adams & the Cardinals fame. The first single from the album, Oh My, debuted on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twenty-one on 24 August 2009, moving to number seven the following week. The fourth single taken from Holy Smoke was Too Late For Lovers, and despite hitting no.3 on the NZ40 Airplay chart, Wigmores single Hey Ho appeared during the closing scenes of the Weeds Season 6 Finale. In September 2011, Home Improvement Retailer Lowes began a new campaign featuring Wigmores single Dont Stop. Her song Stealing Happiness appeared in the TV movie Tangiwai, in September 2011, Wigmore revealed the title and release of her new album Gravel & Wine on her official Facebook page. The first single was slated to be Black Sheep, it was released 26 September 2011, the album was released on 7 November 2011. It debuted at #29 on the Australian Albums Chart, Wigmore released music videos for Man Like That and If Only
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MC Lars
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Andrew Nielsen, known professionally as MC Lars, is an American rapper. He is one of the originators of lit-hop and was one of the first rappers to sample and reference post-punk. He is the founder and CEO of the independent record label Horris Records and he has recorded for Truck Records in the UK, Sidecho Records in the United States, Big Mouth Records in Japan, and Shock Records in Australia. He was formerly known as MC Lars Horris but changed his pseudonym to MC Lars in 2004 for purposes of simplicity, in 2006, he released the single Download This Song, which entered the Australian Singles Chart at number 29. Originally releasing tracks under the name Lars Horris, Nielsen eventually dropped Horris, Lars plays with a laptop and occasionally a punk rock band to back him up, which he refers to as post-punk laptop rap. Samples from bands such as Supergrass, Piebald, Brand New, Fugazi, Hearts That Hate, whose song Cry Tonight is sampled in Lars Signing Emo, is a fictional group created by the rapper. The Grammy-nominated Texan band Bowling for Soup performed as Hearts That Hate when MC Lars has supported them on tour, a full version of Cry Tonight is available as a B-side to the UK Signing Emo single. MC Lars has also shown an interest in using lyrics and song titles based on English, rapbeth references William Shakespeares play Macbeth, whilst Mr. Raven is inspired by Edgar Allan Poes The Raven. Ahab is about the novel Moby Dick and Hey There Ophelia on This Gigantic Robot Kills retells the story of Shakespeares Hamlet, in early 2006, his song Download This Song was featured on the pop-culture CBC Radio show Definitely Not The Opera. In 2006, Lars worked with the Canadian independent record label Nettwerk Records to release The Graduate, following this release, Lars toured extensively throughout the US, then he toured UK and did shows in Japan, and Australia. This led to Nettwerk executive Terry McBride and a team of major-label artists managed by Nettwerk to support the Greubels with their case, MC Lars returned to the UK in October 2006. In May, MC Lars toured the UK on the installment of the Good To Go Tour. In July Lars and Brown recorded new songs, two of which would appear on This Gigantic Robot Kills. In November, Lars returned to the UK on tour with pop-punk band Last Letter Read who performed their own set and then on stage with Lars, following 2004s the Laptop EP, Lars continued to grow his independent record label Horris Records. Horris served as an imprint of Nettwerk and Oglio before becoming self-distributed, in 2008, Horris signed a two-record distribution deal with Crappy Records, founded by Jaret Reddick, from the American rock band Bowling For Soup. In 2011, Horris signed Weerd Science, having his own label allowed Lars to experiment creatively. Lars Attacks. was a return to basics, with less punk elements and more standard hip-hop stylings, funded by Kickstarter, featuring cameos from KRS-One, Sage Francis and Mac Lethal. MC Lars used Kickstarter to fund a Greatest Hits album on vinyl to commemorate his ten-year anniversary, on November 6,2015, Lars released the Zombie Dinosaur LP, his fourth official album
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Craig Owens
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Craigery Craig Owens is an American musician best known as the former lead vocalist of Chiodos. A founding member, Owens is as of March 2017 not active anymore with Chiodos and he has recorded as a solo artist and appeared in the 2012 film K-11. He currently performs under the stage name badXchannels, in 2001, Owens joined Bradley Bell, Pat McManaman, Jason Hale, Matt Goddard and Derrick Frost to form a band in Davison, Michigan. Originally named Chiodos Bros. in tribute to special effects trio The Chiodo Brothers and they continued thereafter, recording and touring. On April 26,2012, Owens announced his return to Chiodos, subsequently, on April 27, the remaining members of D. R. U. G. S. Chiodos first live appearance after their reunion took place on August 9,2012 in a performance at Flint Local 432 in Michigan. As of that date, the members had tentative plans for a new album, on which they have been working separately but not yet begun to coordinate. On November 1,2016 in an interview with Billboard, vocalist Craig Owens stated in regards to Chiodos that, Its done, there were just kind of, not necessarily bad vibes, but we came to the realization that we cant do it full-time. I think it just stopped becoming a passion for most of us so we said, Alright, thus bringing an end to Chiodos fifteen-year career. Owens is now performing under the stage moniker badXchannels and is touring in support of his new solo album WHYDFML, Owens featured as vocalist in the supergroup, The Sound of Animals Fighting. Owens featured on the album Lover, the Lord Has Left Us. released in 2006, Owens appeared in the groups live line up We Must Become the Change We Want to See in 2006 along with 11 other members. During this work with Chiodos, Owens and Bell formed the side project Cinematic Sunrise as a place to music that didnt fit Chiodos style. When the band signed with Equal Vision, in March 2008, its line-up had included Owens, Bell, Bryan Beeler, Marcus Vankirk, Cinematic Sunrise released an EP later that Spring, A Coloring Storybook and Long Playing Record. The supergroup premiered their first songs during an interview on January 18,2009. The bands EP, The Hearts of Lonely People, was released on March 9,2010. theres no set plans right now, on September 15,2009, Owens released a solo EP, Με την αγάπη, through Equal Vision Records. For the next months, Owens maintained a low profile, taking personal time. On August 17, Owens announced via Twitter that the new band would be named D. R. U. G. S. On February 21,2011, with the band lineup including Matt Good of From First to Last and Adam Russell of Story of the Year and production by John Feldmann
