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A Still Heart
'' A Still Heart ''is the second compilation album from New Zealand electronic music band The Naked and Famous. The album was released on 2 March 2018 in Australia and New Zealand, and 9 March in the United States. It features acoustic performances of several of the songs from previous studio albums. Background After touring in support of ''Simple Forms'', their third studio album, the ensemble returned to Los Angeles to begin an acoustic project. In September 2017, the ensemble released the title track "A Still Heart", a portmanteau of songs " A Stillness" and " Hearts Like Ours". " Punching in a Dream" was released at the end of 2017. In February 2018, the band announced the release date for the compilation. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from digital booklet. * Ken Andrews – mixing * Bradley Hale – artwork * Joel Kefali – artwork * Joe LaPorta Joseph J. LaPorta (born ) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New Jersey.http://www.all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked And Famous
The Naked and Famous are a New Zealand indie electronic band from Auckland, formed in 2007. The band currently consists of Alisa Xayalith (vocals, keyboards) and Thom Powers (vocals, guitars). The band has released four studio albums: '' Passive Me, Aggressive You'' (2010), ''In Rolling Waves'' (2013), ''Simple Forms'' (2016) and '' Recover'' (2020). Since 2012, the band has been based in Los Angeles, California. History Xayalith (born 1986 in Auckland) is the daughter of Laotian refugees and was raised together with a younger brother. Her father introduced her to his native folk music and, at the age of 13, she taught herself guitar. Powers had been playing in local bands from an early age after he had been taught to play guitar by his father. 2007–2008: Early years The band formed in 2007 when Powers and Xayalith were working on what became two extended plays—''This Machine'' and ''No Light''—that they recorded with engineer Aaron Short, a fellow student at Aucklan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisa Xayalith
Alisa Xayalith (born 24 August 1986) is a New Zealand musician, and is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player for New Zealand indie electronic band The Naked and Famous. Early life Xayalith was born in New Zealand, and is the daughter of Laotian refugees. She has one older sister, one older brother, and two other brothers. Shortly after Alisa's seventh birthday, her mother passed away from breast cancer. Having grown up in South Auckland, New Zealand, her father was a vocalist in a local Laotian ensemble. The Naked and Famous In 2006, Xayalith met Thom Powers and Aaron Short at the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand. Shortly thereafter, Powers and Xayalith began dating. It was from this encounter, that in 2007, pop band The Naked and Famous was formed. In 2012, the quintet moved to Los Angeles, California, United States. In 2014, Powers and Xayalith ended their romantic relationship, but both continued to remain as members in the band. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe LaPorta
Joseph J. LaPorta (born ) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New Jersey.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/joe-laporta-mn000199340/credits/date-asc/ Career Born and raised in New York, LaPorta graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in Music Technology. He began his mastering career at The Lodge and then joined Sterling Sound in 2013 as a senior engineer. He has amassed a body of work that includes artists like David Bowie, Kid Cudi, The Weeknd, Foo Fighters, Vampire Weekend, FKA Twigs, The Killers, Carrie Underwood, Tiesto, Imagine Dragons, Shawn Mendes, Fleet Foxes, Bon Jovi, 21 Savage, Future (rapper), Run the Jewels, Young Thug, Gunna (rapper), Beach House and others. In addition to mastering, LaPorta also works as a music consultant on forensic musicology/copyright infringement cases. He has consulted on cases for The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Prince, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Shakira, Guns N' Roses, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Andrews
Ken Andrews (born Kenneth Andrew Doty; June 18, 1967) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Andrews was born in Seattle, Washington, and attended film school in Los Angeles before his band Failure (band), Failure received a record deal from Slash Records. Career He is best known as co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter of the alternative rock band Failure (band), Failure. He has also played in Replicants (band), Replicants, a cover band side project that also included members of Tool (band), Tool. After the breakup of Failure in 1997, he also recorded music under the Nickname, moniker On (band), ON, and later assembled and fronted the band Year of the Rabbit (band), Year of the Rabbit. He has performed as a solo artist, as well as collaborating in a self-described "digital band" called Digital Noise Academy with Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Sharky Laguana (Creeper Lagoon), Jordon Zadorozny, and Charlotte Martin (whom Andrews married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Blood (The Naked And Famous Song)
"Young Blood" is a song by New Zealand band The Naked and Famous from their debut studio album, ''Passive Me, Aggressive You'' (2010). It was released on 7 June 2010 as the album's second single. "Young Blood" debuted at number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song received the 2010 Silver Scroll for Song of the Year. Composition "Young Blood" is a synth-pop song, featuring a buzz-guitar riff. Kevin Harley of BBC Music compared the song to the work of MGMT. According to Godfrey de Grut of ''NZ Musician'', "Young Blood" is set in the key of F#, and follows the chord progression of B–F–B–F–C–B–F–B–Dmin–C. The theme of "Young Blood" is that of "spirit of youth" and its loss, and contains a "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" hook. Critical reception The song received critical acclaim by music critics. AllMusic's Matt Collar noted "Young Blood" as one of the top tracks from ''Passive Me, Aggressive You'' and described it as "layered and shimmering". Tom Cardy from '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Fraser
Elizabeth Davidson Fraser (born 29 August 1963), is a Scottish singer, songwriter and musician. Hailing from Grangemouth, Scotland, she is best known as the vocalist for the pioneering dream pop band Cocteau Twins who achieved international success primarily during the fifteen years from the mid–1980s to late 1990s. Their studio albums '' Victorialand'' (1986) and '' Heaven or Las Vegas'' (1990) both reached the top ten of the UK Album Charts, as well as other albums including ''Blue Bell Knoll'' (1988), ''Four-Calendar Café'' (1993) and ''Milk & Kisses'' (1996) charting on the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts in the United States as well as the top 20 in the UK. She also performed as part of the 4AD group This Mortal Coil, including the successful 1983 single "Song to the Siren", and as a guest with Massive Attack on their 1998 single " Teardrop". The album ''Heaven or Las Vegas'' was included in the book '' 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'', and was voted number 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Vowles
Andrew Lee Isaac Vowles, also known as Mushroom, is an English musician, known for being a founding member of the trip hop/abstract art collective Massive Attack, along with Robert Del Naja (3D), Adrian Thaws (Tricky) and Grantley Marshall (Daddy G). Early years Vowles was born in Bristol. Prior to Massive Attack, Vowles, along with Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Nellee Hooper, Adrian Thaws and others were the Wild Bunch crew, named after the western film of the same name by Sam Peckinpah. Several members of the Wild Bunch formed Massive Attack. Vowles' nickname "Mushroom" comes from the arcade game ''Centipede''. The game was installed at Special K's Cafe, a popular hang-out spot in the mid-1980s for Vowles and his Wild Bunch peers. Career Vowles remained a member of Massive Attack until shortly after the release of their third full-length album, ''Mezzanine'', in 1998. Interviews with band members have pointed to differences of opinion in the creative direction the ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daddy G
Grantley Evan Marshall (born 18 December 1959), also known by the stage name Daddy G, is a British DJ and a founding member of the band Massive Attack. Biography Born in Bristol to West Indian parents, Marshall joined the Bristol music scene as a member of the sound system the Wild Bunch in the 1980s. The sound system included the other three founding members of Massive Attack, Robert del Naja, Adrian Thaws and Andrew Vowles. At the time he was one of the youngest DJs in the city. In 1986, The Wild Bunch disbanded. Del Naja, Vowles, and Marshall then formed the trip hop group Massive Attack in 1988, which are considered to have pioneered the Bristol Sound along with Portishead and Tricky. Between 2001 and 2005, Marshall was mainly absent from Massive Attack, with '' 100th Window'' being the only album he did not have major input on. Reuniting (minus Vowles) for ''Heligoland Heligoland (; german: Helgoland, ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , da, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Del Naja
Robert Del Naja (; born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is a British artist, musician, singer and songwriter. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective the Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member and sole consistent member of the band Massive Attack, with which he is still active. In 2009, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Music Del Naja started rapping with the Wild Bunch in Bristol in the mid-1980s. He is one of the founding members of Bristol trip hop collective Massive Attack, with Daddy G (Grant Marshall), Tricky (Adrian Thaws) and Andrew Vowles, as a music producer and the only vocalist to feature on all their albums and EPs. The band received critical acclaim with their first album ''Blue Lines'', released in 1991. In 1997–98, Del Naja was the band's main producer in the recording sessions that made ''Mezzanine'', Massive Attack's most commercially successful album, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teardrop (song)
"Teardrop" (also formatted as "Tear Drop") is a song by English trip hop group Massive Attack. Vocals are performed by Elizabeth Fraser, former lead singer of Cocteau Twins, who also wrote the lyrics. It was released on 27 April 1998 as the second single from the group's third studio album, ''Mezzanine'' (1998). A harpsichord-driven track, "Teardrop" was originally set to feature vocals from Madonna, whom Massive Attack turned down in favour of Fraser. In the United Kingdom, "Teardrop" peaked at number 10, becoming the group's highest-charting single and only top-ten hit in their native country. It reached number one in Iceland and became a top-twenty hit in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, as well as in Denmark in 2012. The music video, directed by Walter Stern, features a foetus singing in the womb, and the song has been featured in various television programmes, including as the opening theme for the U.S. television show ''House''. Development "Teardrop" was first de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Kill Giants (song)
"I Kill Giants" is a promotional single from ''In Rolling Waves'', the second studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ... from The Naked and Famous. Premise According to vocalist Alisa Xayalith, the song is about her losing her mother to breast cancer at a very young age, admitting that " hefelt insecure singing about something so infinitely painful and blatantly autobiographical." The title comes from a comic book of the same name by Joe Kelly. Though intended for inclusion on debut album '' Passive Me, Aggressive You'', the tune was not finished in time for that album. Video The music video, which debuted on the same day, features two women performing theatrical dance in front of a church congregation, and was directed by Joel Kefali. Critical rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
