|
Sick Puppies
Sick Puppies are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1997. After releasing their debut album '' Welcome to the Real World'' in 2001, the band rose to prominence in 2006 when their song " All the Same" was uploaded, along with a video, to YouTube. The video supported the Free Hugs Campaign, which was launched in Sydney by Juan Mann, and has since received over 78 million views on the website. This success was followed up with their second studio album, '' Dressed Up as Life'', in 2007, which entered the ''Billboard'' 200 at number 181. Their third studio album, '' Tri-Polar'', came out in 2009. The band's fourth studio album, ''Connect'', was released in 2013. They released their fifth studio album, '' Fury'', in 2016 with new vocalist Bryan Scott after Shimon Moore was fired from the band in October 2014. History Early career (1997–1999) The band was formed by singer/lead guitarist Shimon Moore and bassist Emma Anzai in the music room of Mosman High School in 1997, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome To The Real World (Sick Puppies Album)
''Welcome to the Real World'' is the debut studio album by the Australian rock band, Sick Puppies. The album was released only in Australia on 3 September 2001 as an enhanced CD with the "Every Day" music video included. The album's 3,000 copies that were pressed were only sold in Australia, making it very valuable – and only available – on the second-hand market. The album was released with the "Every Day" single on some pressings. This is the band's only studio album to feature Chris Mileski on drums. Pre-release The band entered the Triple J Unearthed band competition in 2000 with a demo of their song, "Nothing Really Matters", and went on to co-win the Sydney-region along with Blue and Ariels.Spans.Earth. which led to a management deal with Paul Stepanek Management. This deal enabled the band to release the full album of ''Welcome to the Real World''. Along with "Nothing Really Matters", two other singles were released before the full album was made available; "Every Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tri-Polar (album)
''Tri-Polar'' is the third studio album by Australian rock band Sick Puppies, released on 14 July 2009. The album debuted at number 31 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart, selling around 16,500 copies. ''Tri-Polar'' has sold over 379,000 copies as of 2013. The band's first single titled " You're Going Down", was used by the WWE as the official theme song for their PPV event WWE Extreme Rules 2009, and the video game ''WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010''. The song was also used in the 2010 live-action film adaptation of ''Tekken'' and the trailer for '' My Soul to Take''. The song "War" was written for Capcom's video game ''Street Fighter IV'' and has been used in their respective advertisements for the game. The second single from the album, titled " Odd One", was released to rock radio on 10 November 2009. The third single, " Maybe", was released to rock radio on 22 June 2010. This is the band's most successful single to date. The fourth single from the album, " Riptide", wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Same
"All the Same" is a power ballad by Australian band Sick Puppies, released as the first single from their 2007 album '' Dressed Up as Life'', although it was first released on their self-titled EP a year before the album. It reached No. 8 on the US ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart and featured in the Free Hugs Campaign. The radio edit cuts off the middle of the second verse and end of the third verse, whereas there are no vocals in the third verse. Music videos The song has three music videos. The first is the video of Juan Mann, a man in Sydney famous for initiating the Free Hugs Campaign. The video which has received over 77 million hits on YouTube to date has helped the band gain airplay in the United States. The second is a video with both Juan Mann's Free Hugs Campaign and a live performance. The video went to No. 7 on Fuse TV's ''Number 1 Countdown''. The third is the first video without the Free Hugs Campaign The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen (; born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for middle grade readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films, and one has been made into a TV series. Hiaasen's adult novels are humorous crime thrillers set in Florida. They feature casts of eccentric, sometimes grotesque characters and satirize aspects of American popular culture. Many of the novels include themes related to environmentalism and political corruption in his native state. Early life and education The first of four children born to Odel and Patricia Hiaasen, Hiaasen was born in 1953 of Norwegian and Irish ancestry. Raised in Plantation, Florida, then a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale, he started writing at age six when his father gave him a typewriter for Christmas. After graduating from Plantation High School in 1970, he entered Emory U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sick Puppy
''Sick Puppy'' is a 2000 novel by Carl Hiaasen. Plot summary Robert Clapley, a former drug smuggler-turned-real estate developer, plans to build high-rise condominiums on Toad Island, the home to a large population of oak toads. The project requires the construction of a massive new bridge to the mainland to accommodate Clapley's cement trucks. On the recommendation of Richard "Dick" Artemus, a corrupt governor of Florida to whom Clapley has given large campaign contributions, Clapley hires lobbyist Palmer Stoat to expedite the government funding for the bridge construction. By random happenstance, Stoat becomes subject to the obsessive wrath of ecoterrorist Twilly Spree after he witnesses him litter the highway from his luxury Range Rover. Twilly tracks Stoat back to the Fort Lauderdale residence he shares with his wife, Desirata. Twilly arranges ironic prankshijacking a garbage truck and dumping its load into Desi's convertible, and filling Stoat's Range Rover with dung be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American Rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1991. It consisted of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk. They melded Rap metal, heavy metal and rap music, punk rock and funk with anti-authoritarian, Anti-capitalism, anti-capitalist, and revolutionary lyrics. As of 2010, they had sold over 16 million records worldwide. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. Rage Against the Machine released their Rage Against the Machine (album), self-titled debut album in 1992 to acclaim; in 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it number 368 on its list of the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 500 greatest albums of all time. They achieved commercial success following their performances at the 1993 Lollapalooza festival. Their next albums, ''Evil Empire (album), Evil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Day
Green Day is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990. In 1994, their major-label debut ''Dookie'', released through Reprise Records, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 20 million copies in the U.S. Green Day has been credited with reigniting mainstream interest in punk rock. Before taking its current name in 1989, the band was named Blood Rage, then Sweet Children. They were part of the Punk rock in California, late 1980s/early 1990s Bay Area punk scene that emerged from the 924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley, California. The band's early releases were with the independent record label Lookout! Records, including their first album, ''39/Smooth'' (1990). For most of the band's career, they have been a power trio with Cool, who replaced John Kiffmeyer in 1990 before the recording of the band's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silverchair
Silverchair was an Australian Rock music, rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, with Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars, Ben Gillies on drums, and Chris Joannou on bass guitar. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS TV show ''Nomad'' and ABC radio station Triple J. The band was signed by Murmur (record label), Murmur and were successful in Australia and internationally. Silverchair has sold over 10 million albums worldwide. Silverchair have won more ARIA Music Awards than any other artist in history, earning 21 wins from 49 nominations. They also received six APRA Awards (Australia), APRA Awards, with Johns winning three songwriting awards APRA Awards of 2008, in 2008. All five of their studio albums debuted at number one on the ARIA Charts, ARIA Albums Chart: ''Frogstomp'' (1995), ''Freak Show (album), Freak Show'' (1997), ''Neon Ballroom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosman, New South Wales
Mosman is a suburb on the Lower North Shore (Sydney), Lower North Shore region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mosman is located 8 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Municipality of Mosman. Localities In February 1997, a notice was published in the Government Gazette by Mosman Council advising that they had assigned ''Mosman'' as the only suburb in the Mosman Local Government Area. However, Mosman Council decided that residents should continue to be allowed to use the following traditional locality names if they wished: * Balmoral, New South Wales, Balmoral * Beauty Point, New South Wales, Beauty Point * Clifton Gardens, New South Wales, Clifton Gardens * Georges Heights, New South Wales, Georges Heights * Spit Junction, New South Wales, Spit Junction * The Spit, New South Wales, The Spit History Mosman is named after Archibald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fury (Sick Puppies Album)
''Fury'' is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band Sick Puppies. Released on May 20, 2016, through DrillDown Entertainment Group LLC, it is the band's first album with new vocalist Bryan Scott, who replaced original vocalist Shimon Moore. The lead single "Stick to Your Guns" was released on March 31, 2016. The album cover was revealed on April 15, 2016. Pre-orders for the album began on April 22, 2016. Track listing Personnel ;Sick Puppies *Bryan Scott – guitars, lead vocals *Emma Anzai – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Walls (You Changed)" * Mark Goodwin – drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ... Charts References {{Authority control 2016 albums Sick Puppies albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connect (Sick Puppies Album)
''Connect'' is the fourth studio album by Australian band Sick Puppies, released on 16 July 2013 by Capitol Records. This was the last album to feature lead vocalist and guitarist Shimon Moore prior to his dismissal on 20 October 2014. The album debuted at No. 17 on the ''US Billboard 200'' album chart, their highest charting position to date, with 18,195 copies sold. ''Connect'' sold 16,318 albums in its first week. A preview of the first single "There's No Going Back" was released on YouTube on 10 May 2013. The single was released on 20 May 2013. Music Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, Allmusic highlighted that "the trio's fourth album, are varied and its themes are ambitious, tackling disconnect and politics", but it "doesn't mean the Australian trio necessarily sounds ''adult'', however". Critical reception ''Connect'' garnered generally mixed reviews from Music journalism, music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called the album "a richer musical exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Sometimes, a recording act is remembered for its " number ones" that outperformed all other albums during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, acquiring its existing name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985), ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1991), and ''Billboard'' 200 Top Albums (1991–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales—both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, the tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
