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Welcome to the Monkey House
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of 25 short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in August 1968. The stories range from war-time epics to futuristic thrillers, given with satire, the stories are often inter-twined and convey the same underlying messages on human nature and present society. Where I Live Harrison Bergeron Who Am I This Time. P and it does appear in Vonneguts later collection Bagombo Snuff Box. In 1970 Christopher Sergel adapted the collection of stories into a play, the play was staged at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in 2010. In 1991, a television series titled Monkey House aired on the United States Showtime channel. It was based on Vonneguts stories and hosted by Vonnegut himself, happiness By The Kilowatt, a song by Canadian Post-Hardcore band Alexisonfire, makes several references to The Euphio Question. The Philadelphia-area based hardcore/post-hardcore band This Day Forward included a mostly-instrumental song Euphio Question on their 2003 release In Response, the liner notes of the 1997 Harrison Bergeron Bound 7 EP by The Judas Iscariot contains a very thorough analysis of the eponymous story and its relevance to modern times. American hardcore band Snapcase has a song titled Harrison Bergeron on their 1997 album Progression Through Unlearning and this collection includes all but one of the twelve stories in Vonneguts previous short story collection Canary in a Cat House, released 1961. Other short stories Vonnegut wrote during the time period are collected in a second anthology, Bagombo Snuff Box
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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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The Dandy Warhols
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The Dandy Warhols is an American rock band, formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1994 by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström. Keyboardist Zia McCabe and drummer Eric Hedford joined them, Hedford left in 1998 and was replaced by Taylor-Taylors cousin Brent DeBoer. The bands name is a play on the name of American pop artist Andy Warhol, the band gained recognition after they were signed to Capitol Records and released their major label album debut. The Dandy Warhols Come Down, in 1997. In 2001, the rose to new levels of fame after their song Bohemian Like You enjoyed extensive exposure thanks to it being featured in a Vodafone advertisement. The Dandy Warhols have released ten albums to date. The band was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994 by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Taylor-Taylor described the bands beginning as a group of friends who needed music to drink to. The Dandy Warhols performed in bars throughout Portland and became known for their nudity-filled live shows. At their first gig in 1994, they were approached by Tim/Kerr Records, the result was 1995s Dandys Rule OK, which combined elements of 1960s garage rock, the then-popular BritPop genre, and some of the earlier shoegaze music approach. Dandys Rule OK impressed Capitol Records, who decided to sign the band and it was their second attempt at a follow-up album, after their first attempt was rejected by Capitol, who claimed it didnt have any hits. Three singles were released for Come Down, all of which entered the Top 40 in the UK charts, in 1998, drummer Eric Hedford left the band after a dispute over royalties, and was replaced by Taylor-Taylors cousin Brent DeBoer. In 2000, the released their third studio album, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia. It was a critical and commercial success, mainly due to the single Bohemian Like You being featured in a popular Vodafone advertisement, the song was also featured in the DreamWorks/Aardman animated movie Flushed Away in a chase scene. The album featured a matured, less sound, with less overt psychedelia. Around this time, Taylor-Taylor took out a loan to acquire an industrial space in NW Portland, dubbed The Odditorium. The Odditorium is the bands rehearsal space and recording and mixing studio. It also serves as an art space and clubhouse for parties and it opened on November 15,2001. Becoming a fan of the band after seeing them play at the Glastonbury Festival in 2000, Bowie and the Dandy Warhols played a rendition of White Light/White Heat together as an encore to the July 29 gig, which was billed as The New Heathens Night. The band also supported David Bowie on his 2003 A Reality Tour, in September 2001, the band began work on their next studio album
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New wave music
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New wave is a genre of rock music popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with ties to 1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from smooth blues and rock and roll sounds to create pop music that incorporated electronic and experimental music, mod, initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop, college rock, common characteristics of new wave music include the use of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as diversity. In the mid-1980s, differences between new wave and other genres began to blur. New wave has enjoyed resurgences since the 1990s, after a rising nostalgia for several new wave-influenced artists, subsequently, the genre influenced other genres. During the 2000s, a number of acts explored new wave and post-punk influences, such as the Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and these acts were sometimes labeled new wave of new wave. The catch-all nature of new music has been a source of much confusion. The 1985 discography Whos New Wave in Music listed artists in over 130 separate categories, the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock calls the term virtually meaningless, while AllMusic mentions stylistic diversity. New wave first emerged as a genre in the early 1970s, used by critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground. It gained currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin Glue and newsagent music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. In November 1976 Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLarens term new wave to designate music by bands not exactly punk, the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about the Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977, the new wave. By the end of 1977, new wave had replaced punk as the definition for new music in the UK. As radio consultants in the United States had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad, like the filmmakers of the French new wave movement, its new artists were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most U. S. writers exclusively used the new wave for British punk acts. Music historian Vernon Joynson claimed that new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, in the U. S. the first new wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated with the New York club CBGB. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show of the band Television at his club in March 1974, said, furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads, New wave is much more closely tied to punk and came and went more quickly in the United Kingdom than in the United States
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Courtney Taylor-Taylor
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Courtney A. Taylor, known as Courtney Taylor-Taylor, is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the singer and guitarist of alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. The majority of the songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits We Used to Be Friends. Taylor-Taylor co-wrote a graphic novel titled One Model Nation about a fictional 1970s German krautrock band and this was accompanied by a studio album titled Totalwerks, Vol.1, a fake greatest hits album by the fictional band, released in 2012. Taylor-Taylor attended Sunset High School in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland and studied sociology, psychology and music at Cascade College and he recalls sticking out as a teenager, You dont fit in if youre a make-up-wearing weirdo, surrounded by large, clumsy guys and cheerleaders. He found refuge in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Kurt Vonnegut and it was here he met future bandmate Peter Holmström. After graduating, Taylor-Taylor worked as a mechanic while playing drums for the local band Neros Rome and he was also the drummer in the Portland-based glam rock-pop band The Beauty Stab. Taylor-Taylor appears in and narrates the film Dig, a documentary about the relationship between his band The Dandy Warhols and sometime friends and rivals The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Taylor-Taylor appeared in an episode of the season of the TV show Veronica Mars. He appeared in the 2009 music documentary film The Heart Is a Drum Machine as well as a 2011 episode of the Australian music quiz television show Spicks and Specks. Taylor-Taylor was one of the contributors to the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles, Taylor-Taylor informally added the second Taylor to his last name around 1999. On the issue of his surname, Taylor-Taylor has said. Its wonderfully silly and fun so lets keep it that way, Taylor-Taylor has also said that I was just tripping on the my parents are still married thing. Basically, when my friend Gina Williams started dating my other friend Kevin Williams, so she started calling herself Gina Williams-Williams and then I became Courtney Taylor-Taylor. Like his cousin and bandmate Brent DeBoer, Taylor-Taylor is of Dutch ancestry, as the chief songwriter for Bohemian Like You, Taylor-Taylor earned approximately 1. On December 22,2007, Taylor-Taylor married long-time girlfriend Lockett Albritton at the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Lockett Taylor is a yoga practitioner and instructor. On February 1,2010, she gave birth to their first child, Courtney Taylor-Taylor at the Internet Movie Database The Dandy Warhols official website One Model Nation website Interview with Courtney Taylor-Taylor April 20,2012
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Nick Rhodes
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Nick Rhodes is an English musician, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of the new wave band Duran Duran. He has also released albums with Arcadia in 1985, as well as The Devils in 2002 with Stephen Duffy the original singer of Duran Duran. In March 2013, he released the TV Mania side project with ex-Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, nicholas James Bates was the only child of well-off parents, the owners of a Birmingham toy shop. Bates attended Woodrush High School in Hollywood, Birmingham and he and John Taylor formed a band called RAF. Bates left school in 1978 at the age of sixteen, and founded Duran Duran with schoolfriends Stephen Duffy, John Taylor, and Simon Colley. He cited a dislike for being called Master Bates and chose the name Rhodes after the brand of electronic keyboard, as the band coalesced into its final line-up in 1979-80, Duran Duran started playing at a local Birmingham club called The Rum Runner. The club owners became the managers, and Rhodes began working at the club as a disc jockey. The band achieved success, and Rhodes was a driving force throughout. An unschooled musician, he experimented with the sounds his analogue synthesisers were capable of and he also popularised the Crumar Performer on the early records. Rhodes was also quick to recognise the potential of the music video, barely twenty when the band hit major stardom, he cultivated an androgynous and sometimes flamboyant image, wore heavy makeup, and changed his hair colour at whim. By the late 1990s, Rhodes had begun writing lyrics for Duran Duran and his digitally altered voice is heard on the title track to the 1997 album Medazzaland. In 2001, the five members of Duran Duran reunited to record new music. Rhodes studied production techniques while in the studio with Duran Duran, eventually helping to mix several tracks on the Rio album, in early 1983, he discovered the band Kajagoogoo and co-produced their debut single Too Shy which became a UK no.1. In 2002, Rhodes co-produced and played synthesizers in nine tracks of the album Welcome to the Monkey House by The Dandy Warhols. In 2004 he produced British-based pop group Riviera F for their debut EP International Lover, with his bandmates Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor, Rhodes formed the side project Arcadia while Duran Duran was on hiatus in 1985. The band had a moody, keyboard-heavy sound, far more atmospheric than Duran Duran, the band scored a major hit with Election Day and the bands only album, So Red the Rose, went platinum in the US but was less successful in their native UK. The band never toured and was dissolved when Duran Duran regrouped in 1986, in 1999, Rhodes reunited with Duran Durans original vocalist, Stephen Duffy, to create new music based on some of the earliest Duran music the two had written together. The result was the album Dark Circles, released under the name The Devils, also in 1999, Rhodes had a small guest appearance as a Canadian bomber pilot in South Park, Bigger, Longer & Uncut. In 2006 Rhodes and John Taylor collaborated on the compilation album Only After Dark, in 2011 Rhodes along with Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson remixed Depeche Modes Personal Jesus for the British electronic bands remix compilation Remixes 2, 81-11
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Tony Visconti
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Anthony Edward Tony Visconti is an American record producer, musician and singer. Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers, Visconti was born in Brooklyn, New York. He started to play the ukulele when he was five years old and he attended New Utrecht High School. By the age of 15 he focused his efforts playing in local Brooklyn bands, after leaving school he played guitar in a band called Ricardo & the Latineers in the Catskills, the band also included Artie Butler, later a leading arranger. In 1960 he played his first recording session, and over the few years became one of the leading guitarists in New York nightclubs. He played in lounge acts including the Ned Harvey band, and the Speedy Garfin Band, before joining a touring version of The Crew-Cuts, where he met his future wife. As Tony and Siegrid, the pair released two singles, the first, Long Hair, was a hit in New York in 1966. Visconti then became producer for his publisher, the Richmond Organization. Through this, he met British producer Denny Cordell in 1968 while he was working as Richmonds in-house music producer, Cordell asked him to assist in recordings for successful jazz vocalist Georgie Fame. Visconti moved to London—in a move that would soon become career-defining, one of his first production projects in England was with the Welsh group The Iveys. He produced several tracks for the bands first LP Maybe Tomorrow, the title track from this album was released as a single. More early production work on the album My People Were Fair, but Now Theyre Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows for the British outfit Tyrannosaurus Rex began a relationship with T. Rex that would last for their seven albums. One of Viscontis greatest successes was Electric Warrior, the album that made T, Rex frontman Marc Bolan a superstar and cemented Viscontis producing prowess. He produced the first two albums by influential rock band Gentle Giant. Shortly afterwards, Visconti began to work with David Bowie and, along with guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer John Cambridge, formed and toured with the band The Hype in which he played bass. Although the band name would be very short-lived, the line-up persisted and would go on to record the seminal album and single The Man Who Sold the World in 1970. He would further go on to work on the albums Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Heathen, Reality, The Next Day and he did orchestral arrangements for Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album Band on the Run
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Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
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Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia is the third studio album by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released on August 1,2000, through record label Capitol and it is considered their breakthrough album, largely owing to the song Bohemian Like You being featured in a notable Vodafone advertisement. Four singles were released from the album, Get Off, Bohemian Like You, Godless, recording of the album commenced in December 1998 and concluded in March 1999. On the making of the album, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor said that we felt like we needed to make the last classic rock album, a record that would be, sonically, shaped somewhere in-between All Things Must Pass and Workingmans Dead. The albums first single, Get Off, was released in May 2000, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia was released on August 1 by record label Capitol. It reached number 32 in the UK Albums Chart, a special edition of the album, titled Seven Tales for Urban Australia, was released at the bands Australian tour, containing a bonus disc of seven extra tracks. Two further singles were released, Godless, on July 17,2001, by 2003 the album had sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone. In 2013, a version of the album called the 13th Anniversary Edition was released. Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia was well received by critics and holds a score of 80 out of 100 on the aggregate site Metacritic. Club called the album an 800-pound gorilla of winning, eclectic rock n roll and wrote that it may be the most joyous, heather Phares of AllMusic called it a bakers dozen of their most focused and cohesive songs. Alternative Press called it a scattershot bagful of wild rides and demented ditties, the Phoenix New Timess Brian Baker wrote, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia is astonishing in its maturity and vision, coming from a band that is so young and so purposefully aimless. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a two-star honorable rating and remarked, Dandies have feelings too—no, strike that, All tracks written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, except as noted. Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia at the official website Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia at Discogs
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The Black Album/Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols
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The Black Album/Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols is a 2004 double album released by American alternative band, The Dandy Warhols. The two disc set was released on their own Beat the World Records label, initially, the album was only available to purchase through the bands website. It is now available to own via other sources, disc one marks the first, official release of the bands 1996 demo album which was described as lost. The album, recorded before. The Dandy Warhols Come Down, was rejected by Capitol Records, three songs that were included on the original recording of the album are not included on this release, namely, Traci Lords, Alien and You Get High. The second disc is the first compilation released by the band. It contains B-sides, covers, and previously unreleased material, glide Magazine stated that the cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youngs Ohio used droning synthesizers to produce an alt/psychedelia sound. All tracks written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, unless otherwise noted, the song Boys was later released as Boys Better. Early versions of the song Earth to the Dandy Warhols had been known as E Jams and/or Part 1, the song Thanks for the Show was formally released as Kinky. Neil Youngs first name is misspelled as Niel in the liner notes, the song One Saved Message was formally released as Phone Call. The song One Ultra Lame White Boy was formally released as One
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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We Used to Be Friends
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We Used to Be Friends is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released as the single from their fourth studio album Welcome to the Monkey House on 23 April 2003. The single failed to chart in the US but peaked at number 18 in the UK, the song bears a similar intro riff and vocal melody to that of a Feeder song Day In Day Out, and the band have listed Grant Nicholas as co-writer. NME praised the track, describing it as a synthetic chatter of robotic handclaps and tweaky guitar fuzz, in 2011, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional covered the song on his album Covered in the Flood. Alejandro Escovedo recorded a new version for the soundtrack of the 2014 film adaptation Veronica Mars
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You Were the Last High
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You Were the Last High is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in July 2003 as the single from their fourth studio album Welcome to the Monkey House. The music video is a parody of Duran Durans Planet Earth video, Duran Durans Nick Rhodes produced Welcome to the Monkey House. Released in July 2003 as the single from Welcome to the Monkey House. You Were the Last High was one of the nine songs in the film 9 Songs. The song also featured in the film Lara Croft Tomb Raider and you Were the Last High appeared on the bands greatest hits album The Capitol Years 1995–2007 under the shortened title The Last High. The song was received by critics, who generally cited it as a highlight of Welcome to the Monkey House. Pitchfork, in their negative review of Welcome to the Monkey House. Of the track, Dandy Warhols guitarist Peter Holmström has said, I think its the best song weve ever done
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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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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music, catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and a tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds, Soul music reflected the African-American identity and it stressed the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black, Soul music dominated the U. S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U. S. By 1968, the music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, by the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres, leading to psychedelic soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994, there are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music. The term soul had been used among African-American musicians to emphasize the feeling of being an African-American in the United States, according to another source, Soul music was the result of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the 60s. The phrase soul music itself, referring to music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961. The term soul in African-American parlance has connotations of African-American pride, gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz style that derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz, important innovators whose recordings in the 1950s contributed to the emergence of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Ray Charles is often cited as popularizing the genre with his string of hits starting with 1954s I Got a Woman. Singer Bobby Womack said, Ray was the genius and he turned the world onto soul music. Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style, little Richard and James Brown were equally influential. Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson are also acknowledged as soul forefathers. Cooke became popular as the singer of gospel group The Soul Stirrers
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Audio engineer
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An audio engineer works on the recording, manipulating the record using equalization and electronic effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the. technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the physical recording of any project is done by an engineer. Many audio engineers creatively use technologies to produce sound for film, radio, television, music, electronic products and computer games. Audio engineers also set up, sound check and do live sound mixing using an audio console, research and development audio engineers invent new technologies, equipment and techniques, to enhance the process and art of audio engineering. They might also be referred to as acoustic engineers, audio engineers in research and development usually possess a bachelors degree, masters degree or higher qualification in acoustics, physics, computer science or another engineering discipline. They might work in consultancy, specializing in architectural acoustics. Alternatively they might work in companies, or other industries that need audio expertise. Some positions, such as faculty require a Doctor of Philosophy, in Germany a Toningenieur is an audio engineer who designs, builds and repairs audio systems. The listed subdisciplines are based on PACS coding used by the Acoustical Society of America with some revision, audio engineers develop algorithms to allow the electronic manipulation of audio signals. These can be processed at the heart of audio production such as reverberation. Alternatively, the algorithms might carry out echo cancellation on Skype, or identify, architectural acoustics is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a room. For audio engineers, architectural acoustics can be about achieving good speech intelligibility in a stadium or enhancing the quality of music in a theatre, architectural Acoustic design is usually done by acoustic consultants. Electroacoustics is concerned with the design of headphones, microphones, loudspeakers, sound reproduction systems, examples of electroacoustic design include portable electronic devices, sound systems in architectural acoustics, surround sound in movie theater and vehicle audio. Musical acoustics is concerned with researching and describing the science of music, in audio engineering, this includes the design of electronic instruments such as synthesizers, the human voice, computer analysis of audio, music therapy, and the perception and cognition of music. Psychoacoustics is the study of how humans respond to what they hear. At the heart of audio engineering are listeners who are the final arbitrator as to whether a design is successful. The production, computer processing and perception of speech is an important part of audio engineering, ensuring speech is transmitted intelligibly, efficiently and with high quality, in rooms, through public address systems and through mobile telephone systems are important areas of study. Producer, engineer, and mixer Phil Ek has described audio engineering as the aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, the turning of pre-amp knobs
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Synthpop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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Duran Duran
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Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978. The band grew from alternative sensations in 1982 to mainstream pop stars by 1984, by the end of the decade, membership and music style changes challenged the band before a resurgence in the early 1990s. The group were a band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US. They have placed 14 singles in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, when they first emerged, they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, along with bands such as Spandau Ballet. Soon they would shed this image, using fashion and marketing to build a more refined and they were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The video age catapulted Duran Duran into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV, many of their videos were shot on 35 mm film, which gave a much more polished look than was standard at the time. They also collaborated with film directors to take the quality a step further. In 1984, the band were early innovators with video technology in their stadium shows. These five members featured the most commercially successful line-up, the reunion of the original five members in the early 2000s created a stir among the bands fans and music media. Andy Taylor left the once again in mid-2006, and guitarist Dom Brown has since been working with the band as a session player. John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in Birmingham, England in 1978, at the club they were doing jobs such as John working the door and with Nick deejaying for £10 a night. They began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue, There were many nearby nightclubs, and the one significant one, where bands such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash played gigs, was called Barbarellas. They would go on to name the band after a character from Barbarella, the character, played by Milo OShea, is named Dr. Durand Durand. The bands first singer was Stephen Duffy, Simon Colley soon joined Taylor, Rhodes and Duffy. Colley was the original bass player, as John Taylor was the guitarist at this point. This was the first complete line-up of the band played live shows. For drums and percussion, a drum machine belonging to Rhodes was used. Colley left the prior to the addition of Andy Taylor
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The Dandy Warhols Are Sound
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The Dandy Warhols Are Sound is a studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It is the mix of the bands 2003 album Welcome to the Monkey House. It was released on July 14,2009, through the bands own label Beat the World Records, the Elevado mix of Monkey House was shelved by Capitol Records and an alternate mix by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran was put out instead. Peter Holmstrom later said that Monkey House was not the version that he wanted released, in 2008, the band split from Capitol and formed their own label, Beat the World Records. With the band now on its own label, Holmstrom said the band decided the time was right to re-release the albums original mix, as Courtney Taylor-Taylor describes it, There are two different approaches to mixing. One is very slick and clean, and Welcome to the Monkey House fits more into that category, are Sound, however, has a sneakier profile. It seems very lo-fi and earthy, but the fact is, all tracks written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, except as noted. The album received a critical reception in comparison to Welcome to the Monkey House. Uncut magazine wrote, an LP that once raved shamelessly now shuffles, club, which praised Monkey House, called this mix basically a tasteful killjoy. The bass is reduced to levels, most of the synths are purged. The first Monkey House is full of consistently aggressive hook-mongering, this version is all deliberately becalmed jamming, the Dandy Warhols Are Sound at The Dandy Warhols official website The Dandy Warhols Are Sound at Discogs
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Veronica Mars
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Veronica Mars is an American teen noir mystery drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas. The series is set in the town of Neptune, California. The series premiered on September 22,2004, during television network UPNs final two years, and ended on May 22,2007, after a season on UPNs successor, The CW, Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Silver Pictures Television, Stu Segall Productions, and Rob Thomas Productions, Joel Silver and Rob Thomas were executive producers for the entire run of the series, while Diane Ruggiero was promoted in the third season. Veronica Mars is a student who progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father, in each episode, Veronica solves a different stand-alone case while working to solve a more complex mystery. The first two seasons of the series each had a season-long mystery arc, introduced in the first episode of the season, the third season took a different format, focusing on smaller mystery arcs that would last the course of several episodes. Filming began in March 2004, and the premiered in September to 2.49 million American viewers. The critically acclaimed first seasons run of 22 episodes garnered an average of 2.5 million viewers per episode in the United States, Veronica Mars appeared on a number of fall television best lists, and garnered several awards and nominations. During the series run, it was nominated for two Satellite Awards, four Saturn Awards, five Teen Choice Awards and was featured on AFIs TV Programs of the Year for 2005, following the cancellation of the series, Thomas wrote a feature film script continuing the series. Warner Bros. opted not to fund the project at the time, on March 13,2013, Bell and Thomas launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter and attained the $2 million goal in less than eleven hours. They accumulated over $5.7 million via Kickstarter, the film was released on March 14,2014. Season 1 revolves around Veronica Mars, a school student. As the daughter of well-respected County Sheriff Keith Mars, Veronicas biggest problem was getting dumped by her boyfriend, Duncan Kane, after Lillys murder, Veronicas life falls apart. Keith accuses Lillys father, popular software billionaire Jake Kane, of being involved in the murder and this provokes Neptunes wrath and Keiths ousting as sheriff in a recall election, replaced by Don Lamb. Veronicas mother, Lianne, develops a problem and leaves town. Veronicas 09er friends—wealthy students from the fictional 90909 ZIP code—force her to choose between them and her father, Veronica chooses her father, after being voted out as sheriff, Keith opens a private investigation agency, Mars Investigations, where Veronica works part-time. Veronica helps her father solve cases and conducts her own investigations on behalf of friends, Veronica discovers new evidence which suggests that Abel Koontz, the man imprisoned after confessing to Lillys murder, is innocent. As Veronica delves deeper into the case, she also works on other investigations, seeks her mothers whereabouts
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Veronica Mars (film)
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Veronica Mars is a 2014 American neo-noir mystery comedy-drama film produced and directed by Rob Thomas, who co-wrote the script with Diane Ruggiero. It is a film adaptation based on Thomas UPN/CW television series of the same name. Its executive producers are Joel Silver, Bell, and Jenny Hinkey, pictures opened the film in the United States in a limited release and through video on demand on March 14,2014. He is being bombarded for offers of representation from lawyers, and Veronica agrees to return to Neptune and she is reunited with her father Keith Mars, Neptunes former sheriff-turned-private investigator, who shows her how corruption and classism is rife under Sheriff Dan Lamb. Despite her claims that her stay will be brief and she will not get involved, during her investigation, Veronica is dragged to her ten-year high school reunion by friends Wallace Fennell and Cindy Mac MacKenzie. There, she learns that former outlaw biker Eli Weevil Navarro is now a family man. During the reunion, Veronica realizes Carries murder is connected to the death of Carries best friend, Susan Knight, after Veronicas nemesis Madison Sinclair plays a copy of Veronicas college sex tape with Piz, a fight breaks out. The reunion comes to an end as Veronica sets the sprinklers off. Meanwhile, while driving home from the reunion, Weevil stops to help a driver being harassed by bikers, only to be shot by the driver, the sheriffs department plants a gun so that Celeste can claim self-defense, and Keith agrees to prove Weevils innocence. Veronica concludes that those on Susans boat nine years ago covered up the circumstances of her death, compromising videos of Carrie are posted online and Veronica traces them back to Vinnie Van Lowe, who has been planting spyware on celebrities and selling the footage. Veronica uses Vinnies footage to prove Gia lured Logan out to Carries home the night of her murder, suggesting she and Luke killed Carrie, Lamb blatantly ignores her evidence and refuses to follow up, but unbeknownst to him Veronica records the conversation. Having stayed in Neptune longer than planned, Veronica calls Piz in New York to explain that she cannot return yet, truman-Mann rescinds their job offer, which results in an argument between Keith and Veronica about what shes doing with her life. Veronica and Logan sleep together, reaffirming their relationship, Veronica sends bugged flowers to Gias apartment and calls her, playing recordings of Carries voice, hoping to scare Gia into confessing to being the mastermind behind Carries death. Gia panics and calls Cobb, revealing his involvement, Veronicas bug broadcasts everything via a radio frequency which she believed to be unused, but which is actually that of a local radio station. Cobb hears their conversation over the radio from his apartment in the building opposite, then shoots and she calls the police and lures Cobb down to the basement before beating him unconscious with a golf club. Logan returns to duty in the Navy, but promises to come back to Veronica. Cobbs photo and the recording of Lamb refusing to investigate Veronicas claims leak online, forcing Lamb to arrest Cobb. Both Keith and Weevil recover from their injuries, but Weevil returns to the lifestyle he left behind
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut /kɜːrt ˈvʌnəɡət/, in full Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels and he is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, as part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and he was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he had three children and he later adopted his sisters three sons, after she died of cancer and her husband died in a train accident. Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952, the novel was reviewed positively, but was not commercially successful. In the nearly 20 years that followed, Vonnegut published several novels that were marginally successful, such as Cats Cradle and God Bless You. Vonneguts magnum opus, however, was his successful sixth novel. The books antiwar sentiment resonated with its readers amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, after its release, Slaughterhouse-Five went to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list, thrusting Vonnegut into fame. He was invited to give speeches, lectures, and commencement addresses around the country and received many awards, later in his career, Vonnegut published several autobiographical essays and short-story collections, including Fates Worse Than Death, and A Man Without a Country. After his death, he was hailed as a morbidly comical commentator on the society in which he lived, Vonneguts son Mark published a compilation of his fathers unpublished compositions, titled Armageddon in Retrospect. Numerous scholarly works have examined Vonneguts writing and humor, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11,1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the youngest of three children of Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and his wife Edith and his older siblings were Bernard and Alice. Vonneguts mother was born into Indianapolis high society, as her family, thus, they did not teach their youngest son German or introduce him to German literature and tradition, leaving him feeling ignorant and rootless. Vonnegut later credited Ida Young, his familys African-American cook and housekeeper for the first 10 years of his life, for raising him, gave me decent moral instruction and was exceedingly nice to me. So she was as great an influence on me as anybody, Vonnegut described Young as humane and wise, adding that the compassionate, forgiving aspects of beliefs came from her. The financial security and social prosperity that the Vonneguts once enjoyed were destroyed in a matter of years, the Lieberss brewery was closed in 1921 after the advent of Prohibition in the United States. When the Great Depression hit, few people could afford to build, Vonneguts brother and sister had finished their primary and secondary educations in private schools, but Vonnegut was placed in a public school, called Public School No
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Ron English (artist)
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Ron English is an American contemporary artist who explores brand imagery and advertising. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he is known for the use of color, one of the most prolific and recognizable artists alive today, English has produced images on the street, in museums, in movies, books and television. Other characters in English’s paintings, billboards, and sculpture include three-eyed rabbits, cowgirls and grinning skulls, Abraham Obama during the 2008 US Presidential Election is made with a portrait-fusion of the America’s 16th and 44th Presidents. English has also painted album covers including The Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House, the 2010 album Slash. Some of his paintings were used in the Morgan Spurlock documentaries Super Size Me, following the credits, he receives special thanks and is credited as The Greatest Living Artist. English has also collaborated with Daniel Johnston and Jack Medicine in the Hyperjinx Tricycle project, in 2010 he created the artwork for Art Nouveau Magazines first print issue. English is the subject of a Pedro Carvajal documentary titled Popaganda and he is also a subject of The Art Army action figures by Michael Leavitt. Englishs work has most recently shown in Seth Rogens film This is the End. Englishs oil painting skills are credited to his background as an art reproducer. English has initiated and participated in public art campaigns since the early 1980s. Culture jamming is one aspect of Englishs work, frequent targets of Englishs work include Joe Camel, McDonalds, and Mickey Mouse. English wrangles carefully created corporate, and are used against the very corporation they are meant to represent and he is also widely considered a seminal figure in the advance of modern contemporary art from traditional wild-style lettering and into clever statement. Englishs culture jamming technique forces the consumers of the world to take a look at corporation-dominated society. English does this by using his over emphasized, grotesque, and to some, offensive, characters to intrigue the consumer, recently English has refocused his culture jamming attention from billboards to another form of advertising, product packaging. He recreates several different kinds of packaging, to truth in advertising. Some of Englishs most popular product packaging designs include, Capn Corn Starch, Duncan High Hash Brownies, English is a fine art painter specializing in oils. He received his bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of North Texas in Denton, after receiving his MFA from The University of Texas he moved to New York City and apprenticed with several artists, gradually beginning to sell his own work. His dominant style is characterized by extreme photo realism, striking use of secondary color and he is considered by many to be one of the more skilled renderers of his generation
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Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in galleries in the late 1950s. He promoted a collection of known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression 15 minutes of fame. In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the rock band The Velvet Underground. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism and he is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. Warhol has been the subject of retrospective exhibitions, books. The Andy Warhol Museum in his city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art. Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable, the highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash, his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. A2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the bellwether of the art market, Warhol was born on August 6,1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the child of Ondrej Warhola and Julia, whose first child was born in their homeland. His parents were working-class Lemko emigrants from Mikó, located in todays northeastern Slovakia, Warhols father emigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhols grandparents. Warhols father worked in a coal mine, the family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church, Andy Warhol had two older brothers—Pavol, the oldest, was born before the family emigrated, Ján was born in Pittsburgh. Pavols son, James Warhola, became a childrens book illustrator. He became a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors, often bedridden as a child, he became an outcast at school and bonded with his mother. At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio, Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences. When Warhol was 13, his father died in an accident, as a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945
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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership
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Sticky Fingers
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Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and 11th American studio album by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. Sticky Fingers is widely regarded as one of the Rolling Stones best albums, with the end of their Decca/London association at hand, The Rolling Stones were finally free to release their albums as they pleased. The Rolling Stones in Concert has since been released solely by ABKCO Records, the band would remain incensed with Klein for decades for that act. When Decca informed The Rolling Stones that they were owed one more single, they submitted a track called Cocksucker Blues. Instead, Decca released the two-year-old Beggars Banquet track Street Fighting Man while Klein retained dual copyright ownership in conjunction with The Rolling Stones of Brown Sugar and Wild Horses. Although sessions for Sticky Fingers began in earnest in March 1970, sister Morphine, cut during Let It Bleeds sessions earlier in March of that year, had been held over from this release. Much of the recording for Sticky Fingers was made with The Rolling Stones mobile studio unit in Stargroves during the summer, early versions of songs that would eventually appear on Exile on Main St. were also rehearsed during these sessions. While the artwork was conceived by Warhol, photography was by Billy Name and design was by Craig Braun. Braun and his team had other ideas, such as wrapping the album in rolling paper - a concept used by Cheech & Chong in Big Bambu -. Execution was then handled as Warhol sent Braun Polaroid pictures of a model in tight jeans, among the candidates, Jed Johnson, Warhols lover at the time, denied it was his likeness, although his twin brother Jay is a possibility. Those closest to the shoot, and subsequent design, name Factory artist, Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro claims to have been the model. After retailers complained that the zipper was causing damage to the vinyl, the zipper was unzipped slightly to the middle of the record, for the initial vinyl release the album title and band name is smaller and at the top on the American release. The UK release the title and band name are in bigger letters, the album features the first usage of the tongue & lips logo of Rolling Stones Records, originally designed by John Pasche in 1970. Before the end of year his basic version was faxed to Craig Braun by Marshall Chess. The black & white copy was then modified by Braun and his team, resulting in todays most popular red version, the slim one with the two white stripes on the tongue. Critic Sean Egan has said of the logo, Without using the Stones name, it instantly conjures them, or at least Jagger and it quickly and deservedly became the most famous logo in the history of popular music. The tongue and lips design was part of a package that, in 2003 and this version was released on the compilation album Rarities 1971–2003 in 2005. The model appears to be female, Sticky Fingers hit the number one spot on the British charts in May 1971, remaining there for four weeks before returning at number one for a further week in mid June
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The Velvet Underground
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The Velvet Underground was a rock band formed in New York, America, by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise. The provocative subject matter, musical experimentation, and often nihilistic attitudes explored in the work would prove influential in the development of punk rock. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the band No.19 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 by Patti Smith. The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964, singer/songwriter/guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records. Reed met John Cale, a Welshman who had moved to the United States to study classical music upon securing a scholarship. Cale had worked with experimental composers Cornelius Cardew and La Monte Young, Youngs use of extended drones would be a profound influence on the bands early sound. Cale was pleasantly surprised to discover that Reeds experimentalist tendencies were similar to his own, the pair rehearsed and performed together, their partnership and shared interests built the path towards what would later become the Velvet Underground. Reed and Cale recruited Sterling Morrison—a college classmate of Reeds at Syracuse University—as a replacement for Walter De Maria, Reed and Morrison both played guitars, Cale played viola, keyboards and bass and Angus MacLise joined on percussion to complete the initial four-member unit. This quartet was first called the Warlocks, then the Falling Spikes, MacLise made a suggestion to adopt the title as the bands name. The band immediately and unanimously adopted the Velvet Underground as its new name in November 1965, the newly named Velvet Underground rehearsed and performed in New York City. Their music was much more relaxed than it would later become, Cale described this era as reminiscent of beat poetry. When he briefly returned to Britain, Cale attempted to give a copy of the tape to Marianne Faithfull, hoping shed pass it on to Mick Jagger, nothing ever came of this, but the demo was eventually released on the 1995 box set Peel Slowly and See. Manager and music journalist Al Aronowitz arranged for the groups first paying gig—$75 to play at Summit High School, in Summit, New Jersey, opening for the Myddle Class. When they decided to take the gig, MacLise abruptly left the group, protesting what he considered a sellout, he was unwilling to be told when to start. Angus was in it for art, Morrison reported, MacLise was replaced by Maureen Moe Tucker, the younger sister of Morrisons friend Jim Tucker. Her rhythms, at once simple and exotic, became a part of the groups music. The group earned a regular paying gig at the Café Bizarre, in 1965, after being introduced to the Velvet Underground by filmmaker Barbara Rubin, Andy Warhol became the bands manager and suggested they use the German-born singer Nico on several songs. Warhols reputation helped the band gain a higher profile and he helped the band secure a recording contract with MGMs Verve Records, with himself as nominal producer, and gave the Velvets free rein over the sound they created
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
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The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in March 1967 by Verve Records. It ranked 13th on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was added to the 2006 National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. In 1982, musician Brian Eno famously stated that while the album only sold 30,000 copies. Genres that were informed by the album include art rock, punk, garage, grunge, shoegaze, gothic, indie. The Velvet Underground & Nico was recorded with the first professional line-up of the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker. German singer Nico was also featured, having occasionally performed lead vocals for the band at the instigation of their mentor and manager, Nico sang lead on three of the albums tracks—Femme Fatale, All Tomorrows Parties and Ill Be Your Mirror—and back-up on Sunday Morning. In 1966, as the album was being recorded, this was also the line-up for their performances as a part of Warhols Exploding Plastic Inevitable. The bulk of the songs that would become The Velvet Underground & Nico were recorded in mid-April 1966, during a stint at Scepter Studios. This recording session was financed by Warhol and Columbia Records sales executive Norman Dolph, though the exact total cost of the project is unknown, estimates vary from $1,500 to $3,000. Eventually, the MGM Records-owned Verve Records accepted the recordings with the help of Verve staff producer Tom Wilson, who had recently moved from a job at Columbia. With the affirmation of a label, three of the songs, Im Waiting for the Man, Venus in Furs and Heroin, were re-recorded in two days at T. T. G, Studios during a stay in Hollywood, one month later in May 1966. When the records release date was postponed, Wilson brought the band into Mayfair Recording Studios in Manhattan in November 1966, to add a song to the track listing. There is some confusion as to who actually produced The Velvet Underground & Nico, although Andy Warhol was the only formally credited producer, he had very little direct influence or authority over the album beyond paying for the recording sessions. In fact, several individuals who worked on the album are often mentioned as the albums technical producer. Norman Dolph and John Licata are sometimes attributed to producing the Scepter Studios sessions, Dolph himself, however, admits John Cale as the albums rightful creative producer, as he handled the majority of the albums musical arrangements. And yet, Cale later recalled that it was Tom Wilson who actually produced nearly all the tracks on The Velvet Underground & Nico, the band never again had as good a producer as Tom Wilson, Cale told an interviewer. However, other band members Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed would cite Warhols lack of manipulation as a means of production. Morrison described Warhol as the producer in the sense of producing a film
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Beat the World Records
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Beat The World Records is The Dandy Warhols owned and operated Portland, Oregon-based record label, originally launched in 2008. In 2007 Portland, Oregon band The Dandy Warhols had the idea of starting their own label and signed Portland shoegaze outfit The Upsidedown, in 2008 The Dandy Warhols split with long-time record company Capitol Records and officially launched Beat The World Records as a Caroline Records EMI 3rd-Party label. Rockers Monstrous, indie pop boy band The Hugs, Los Angeles western rock group Spindrift, in 2008 The Dandy Warhols released. Earth to the Dandy Warhols. The first official release on Beat The World, shortly thereafter they put out an EP, Earth to the Remix E. P. Volume One, consisting of remixed versions of tracks from Earth and Earth to the Remix E. P. Volume Two a few months later, Logan Lynn released his critically acclaimed, full-length album From Pillar to Post on Beat The World Records in September 2009. The following month, the band released The Dandy Warhols Are Sound and this version of the record was the initial mix done by Grammy Award-winning soul producer Russell Elevado, which was rejected by Capitol Records and shelved for six years. Are Sound received a muted response, and fared poorly in comparison to the original album. After releasing an EP, an album and a single, the Hugs left the label at that same time, while opening for Lynn on tour. As a result of his departure, Lynn ended up self-releasing the album he had working on for Beat the World as a benefit for Portlands Q Center. In an interview from 2010 with Melbourne, Australias Daily Telegraph, Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor is quoted as saying We’re terrible at business and we don’t know what we’re doing. It’s like trying to have run a household. We need to hook up with indie label. ”In an interview with German magazine Catch Fire from later that same year, Logan Lynn is quoted as saying I love the Warhols and everybody had really great intentions going in. No radio, no real distribution, no licensing, no PR, without those things in place, artists fail. and my last record fell victim to that. Monstrous, The Hugs and Spindrift never officially released anything on Beat The World, Beat The World cut ties with Caroline Records EMI in 2010 and began working with The End Records in 2011. The Dandy Warhols released an album of new work titled This Machine on Beat The World Records on April 24,2012. Official site for Beat The World Records Official site for The Dandy Warhols Official site for Logan Lynn Official site for The Upsidedown Official site for The Hugs Official site for Spindrift
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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The A.V. Club
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Club was initially created in 1993 as a supplemental part of The Onion and had a minimal presence on The Onion’s website in its early years. However, a 2005 website redesign placed The A. V, Club in a more prominent position, allowing its online identity to grow. Unlike its parent publication, The A. V, the publication’s name is a reference to school audiovisual clubs, composed of a bunch of geeks who actually knew how to run the film strip and film projectors. In 1993, five years after the founding of The Onion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UWM student Stephen Thompson launched an entertainment section, Club, as part of the newspapers 1995 redesign. Both The Onion and The A. V, Club made their Internet debut in 1996. Club acquired its own Internet domain name in December 1999, in December 2004, Stephen Thompson left his position as founding editor of The A. V. Club website was redesigned in 2005 to incorporate blogs and reader comments, in 2006, concurrent with another redesign, the website shifted its model to begin adding content on a daily, rather than weekly, basis. According to Sean Mills, then-president of The Onion, the A. V, Club website received more than 1 million unique visitors for the first time in October 2007. In late 2009, the website was reported as receiving over 1.4 million unique visitors and 75,000 comments per month, the offending review was removed from The A. V. Club, and then-editor Keith Phipps posted an apology on the website, leonard Pierce, the author of the review, was terminated from his freelance role with the website. At its peak, the print version of The A. V, Club was available in 17 different cities. Localized sections of the website were also maintained, with reviews and news relevant to specific cities, the print version and localized websites were gradually discontinued alongside the print version of The Onion, and in December 2013, publication ceased in the final three markets. On 13 December,2012, long-time writer and editor Keith Phipps and he stated, Onion, Inc. and I have come to a mutual parting of the ways. On 2 April,2013, longtime editor and critic Scott Tobias stepped down from his role as film editor of The A. V. Club stating via Twitter, After 15 great years @theavclub, I step down as Film Editor next Friday. In the comments section of the announcing the departures, writer Noel Murray announced he would also be joining their project. On 30 May,2013, it was announced that the six writers would be a part of the staff of The Dissolve. In April and June 2014, senior staff writers Kyle Ryan, Sonia Saraiya and Todd VanDerWerff left the website for positions at Entertainment Weekly, Salon and Vox Media, in 2015, Ryan returned to Onion, Inc. for a position in development
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Robert Christgau
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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics. One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and is a visiting arts teacher at New York University. Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, first published in his Consumer Guide columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006 and he has written three books based on those columns, along with two collections of essays. He continued writing capsule reviews in MSN Music, Cuepoint, Christgau was born in Greenwich Village and grew up in Queens, the son of a fireman. He has said he became a rock and roll fan when disc jockey Alan Freed moved to the city in 1954. After attending a school in New York City, he left New York for four years to attend Dartmouth College. While at college his musical interests turned to jazz, but he returned to rock after moving back to New York. Christgau has said that Miles Davis 1960 album Sketches of Spain initiated in him one phase of the disillusionment with jazz that resulted in my return to rock and he was deeply influenced by New Journalism writers such as Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe. My ambitions when I went into journalism were always, to an extent, literary, Christgau initially wrote short stories, before giving up fiction in 1964 to become a sportswriter, and later, a police reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. He became a writer after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in New Jersey was published by New York magazine. He was asked to take over the dormant music column at Esquire, after Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to The Village Voice in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor. In early 1972, he accepted a job as music critic for Newsday. Christgau returned to the Village Voice in 1974 as music editor and he remained there until August 2006, when he was fired shortly after the papers acquisition by New Times Media. Two months later, Christgau became an editor at Rolling Stone. Late in 2007, Christgau was fired by Rolling Stone, although he continued to work for the magazine for three months. Starting with the March 2008 issue, he joined Blender, where he was listed as senior critic for three issues and then contributing editor, Christgau had been a regular contributor to Blender before he joined Rolling Stone. He continued to write for Blender until the magazine ceased publication in March 2009, in 1987, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Folklore and Popular Culture to study the history of popular music
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Kludge (magazine)
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Kludge was a Los Angeles-based online music magazine devoted to long-form music journalism, album reviews, music news and interviews. It included a section and a discussion forum. Founded in 2000 by editor-in-chief Arturo Perez, the magazine developed a reputation for its coverage of underground. Kludge had a staff of over twenty writers, editors, graphic designers. It included writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to first time writers, after its establishment, the site rapidly expanded to include live reviews, interviews, streams of albums, and year-end features. Kludge had frequently partnered with Virgin Megastores for presenting new works, while the sites readership numbers never reached the levels of Pitchfork Medias, it did receive many notices in the press for the quality of its writing. Kludge ceased publication in May 2006, but the website remained online until December 2009, archive of Kludge – from the Wayback Machine
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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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PopMatters
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PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. PopMatters launched in the fall of 1999 as a site providing original essays, reviews. Over time, the site went from a publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million, from 2006 onward, PopMatters produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. As of 2009, there are four different pop culture related columns each week, the PopMatters Book Imprint published Joss Whedon, The Complete Companion, edited by Mary Money, with Titan Books in May 2012. PopMatters publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in six continents and its staff includes writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Many of its writers are published authorities in various fields of study, notable former contributors include David Weigel, political reporter for Slate, Steven Hyden, staff writer for Grantland and author of Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation. And Rob Horning, executive editor of The New Inquiry, karen Zarker is the senior editor
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Q (magazine)
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Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Q was first published by the EMAP media group in October 1986, setting apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled The modern guide to music, originally it was to be called Cue, but the name was changed so that it wouldnt be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Qs 200th edition, is that a title would be more prominent on newsstands. In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer titles, including Q. The magazine has a review section, featuring, new releases, reissues, music compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio. It uses a system from one to five stars, indeed. While its content is non-free they host an archive of all of their magazine covers, much of the magazine is devoted to interviews with popular musical artists. It is well known for compiling lists and it has created many, ranging from The 100 Greatest albums to the 100 Greatest 100 Greatest Lists. Every other month, Q — and its magazine, Mojo — have a special edition. These have been about musical times, genres, or a very important/influential musician, often, promotional gifts are given away, such as cover-mounted CDs or books. The January 2006 issue included a copy of The Greatest Rock. Every issue of Q has a different message on the spine, readers then try to work out what the message has to do with the contents of the mag. This practice — known as the spine line — has since become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including Qs sister publication, Empire, on 4 March 2007, Q named Elvis Presley the greatest singer of all time. The magazine has a relationship with the Glastonbury Festival, producing both a free daily newspaper on site during the festival and a review magazine available at the end of the festival. In late 2008 Q revamped its image, with an amount of text. This Rolling Stone-isation has led to criticism from much of the traditional Q readership, in 2006, Q published a readers survey, the 100 Greatest Songs Ever, won by Oasis Live Forever. Q has a history of associating with charitable organisations, and in 2006 the British anti-poverty charity War on Want was named its official charity, in the April 2007 issue, Q published an article containing the 100 Greatest Singers, won by Elvis Presley
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Uncut (magazine)
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Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, a DVD magazine under the Uncut brand was published quarterly from 2005 to 2006. Uncut was launched in May 1997 as a magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies. Jones has stated that he idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with Melody Maker, according to IPC Media, 86% of the magazines readers are male and their average age is 37 years. Uncuts contents include lengthy features on old albums, interviews with directors, music and film news. Its music features tend to focus on such as Americana, rock. Each month the magazine includes a free CD, which may include new and older music. Uncut underwent a redesign in May 2006, as a result of which the magazine no longer catered for books. Allan Jones writes a monthly column, recounting stories from his long career in music journalism. Uncuts monthly circulation has dropped from over 90,000 in 2007 to 47,890 in the half of 2015. Uncut often produces themed spin-off titles celebrating the career of one artist and this series has been known as Uncut Legends. Artists who have so far had magazines entirely devoted to them include Radiohead, Kurt Cobain, U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Lennon magazine was produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the former Beatle. The majority of titles have been produced by magazine editor Chris Hunt. The series started in 2003 with an issue devoted to Bob Dylan. In 2008 Uncut launched their inaugural Uncut Music Award, which is described as a quest to find the most inspiring and rewarding experience of the past 12 months. A list of 25 nominees is selected by a panel of 10 judges, who are all musicians or music industry professionals, past winners have included Fleet Foxes, Tinariwen, Paul Weller and P. J. Harvey. In late 2005, Allan Jones and publishing director Andrew Sumner launched a spin-off of the movies and music magazine. Billed as the great movie magazine, Uncut DVD was designed to compete with such established titles as Ultimate DVD, DVD Review
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Sunday Herald
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The Sunday Herald is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, launched on 7 February 1999. Originally a broadsheet, it has published in compact format since 20 November 2005. The paper is known for having combined a centre-left stance with support for Scottish devolution, in July 2012, the decision was made by the newspapers publishers to classify both the Sunday Herald as a regional title, thus exempting it from the monthly biennially. Between July and December 2013, the Sunday Herald sold an average of 23,907 copies, after declaring support for Scottish independence, The Sunday Herald received a huge increase in sales, with circulation in September 2014 up 111% year on year. In October 1998 SMG, which owns the broadcaster STV. The paper was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of paper by the European Newspaper Congress in 2011. The Sunday Herald was the only Scottish newspaper to back a vote for independence in the Scottish independence referendum,2014. Jaspan assembled a team including former Hue & Cry singer Pat Kane, TV producer and presenter Muriel Gray. Other former BBC television and radio journalists who joined the title included Lesley Riddoch, Torcuil Crichton, the Sunday Herald was launched as a six-section newspaper with the slogan No ordinary Sunday on 7 February 1999. The use of the word fuck in the first edition of the magazine alienated older and more conservative readers and its web version gained a large readership in the United States because of its consistent anti-George W. Bush and anti-Iraq War line. After having over-paid for acquisitions during the era, Scottish Media Group was in serious financial trouble by 2002. That their goals were anti-competitive was confirmed when an unsigned leader written by Jaspan making these claims went unchallenged, determined to prevent the paper being acquired by tax exiles with no sympathy for its centre-left ethos, Jaspan led a campaign to keep it out of their hands. This included lobbying senior Labour Party politicians at their September 2002 conference in Blackpool, the campaign proved successful, with even the Financial Times questioning whether it was right for the Barclay twins to have a monopoly of quality papers published in Scotland. The Sunday Herald and related titles were sold instead to Newsquest for £216 million, the deal completed on 5 April 2003. Jaspan resigned in 2004 to become editor of The Age in Melbourne, Richard Walker was appointed as his successor. Walker, a production journalist on both the Daily Record and Scotland on Sunday had been with the title since its launch and had served as deputy to Jaspan for five years. Walker took the Sunday Herald tabloid in November 2005 which brought a temporary uplift in circulation, sales settled at 58,000, and readership at 195,000. The week before the Sunday Herald was launched in February 1999 and this has since plummeted to c.46,000, about 50% higher than the circulation of the Sunday Herald
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