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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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