|
Arizona Baby
''Arizona Baby'' (stylized in all caps) is the third studio album by American rapper Kevin Abstract, released on April 25, 2019 by Question Everything, Inc. through RCA Records. The album was released cumulatively, with the eponymous first part (stylized as ''ARIZONA baby'') released on April 11, followed by a second part titled ''Ghettobaby'' on April 18. It was primarily produced by Jack Antonoff and Abstract's fellow Brockhampton member Romil Hemnani, with several other members of Brockhampton providing additional production, vocals, and instrumentation. Release and promotion Kevin Abstract teased the project in March 2019, sharing its artwork without explanation. On April 8, a music video for "Big Wheels" was released, under the video title "The 1-9-9-9 is Coming", alongside an image teasing the dates April 11, April 18 and April 25. On April 11, following a teaser video for "Georgia" the three-song project was released, with ''Ghettobaby'' announced to be forthcoming. On A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Abstract
Clifford Ian Simpson (born July 16, 1996), known by his stage name Kevin Abstract, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter known for his role as a founding member of Brockhampton. Releasing music since 2009, he released his debut album, '' MTV1987'', in 2014 to critical acclaim, and received attention from various major music blogs and magazine publications. Following the release of his second studio album, '' American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story'' in 2016, and his third studio album, '' Arizona Baby'' in 2019, he released his fourth studio album, ''Blanket'', in November 2023, a year after Brockhampton disbanded. He is set to release his fifth studio album, ''Blush'', on June 27, 2025. Early life Abstract was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 16, 1996. Abstract's mother was distant during his childhood, not even knowing what her profession was. As Abstract began to realize his sexuality, he isolated himself from his family, feeling ashamed. It is speculated that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Fike
Dominic David Fike (born December 30, 1995) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor. Fike first received recognition after releasing several popular songs to the website SoundCloud. Following the release of his debut extended play, '' Don't Forget About Me, Demos'' (2018), he signed to Columbia Records. Fike's song " 3 Nights" reached the top ten in multiple countries. He later collaborated with fellow American musicians Brockhampton and Halsey. His debut album, '' What Could Possibly Go Wrong'', was released in 2020. The album charted in the top 50 of multiple countries, including the United States and Australia. He recorded a cover of Paul McCartney's song " The Kiss of Venus" for the album '' McCartney III Imagined'' (2021). In 2022, Fike became a cast member of the second season of ''Euphoria'', in his first main acting role, playing Elliot, a drug-abusing teenager. In 2023, Fike released his second studio album, ''Sunburn'', preceded by singles " Dancing in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlado Meller
Vlado Meller (born in 1947 in Humenné as ''Vladimír Meller'') is a Slovak audio mastering engineer, currently with Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston, South Carolina. Meller works across many genres of music, with credits on rock, hip-hop, pop, jazz, metal, dance, opera, Broadway, and classical albums over 50+ year career. Albums that he engineered have won two Grammy Awards. Biography Meller was born in the former Czechoslovakia and received violin lessons at an early age. He graduated from high school in Košice, Slovakia and studied electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, Meller was a refugee in Austria and Italy before emigrating to the United States. In December 1969 he obtained an entry-level job at CBS Records in New York, and later received training in audio mastering. He worked with Sony/CBS for 38 years, and then joined Universal Mastering Studios in 2007 as senior mastering engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Elmhirst
Tom Elmhirst (born 8 June 1971) is a British mix engineer. He has worked with artists including Adele, Beck, David Bowie, Cage the Elephant, Lady Gaga, Residente, and Amy Winehouse, among many others. Elmhirst has received numerous accolades and nominations. He has won seventeen Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Music Producers Guild Awards for Mix Engineer of the Year. Having won six trophies at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017, he set the record for the most Grammys won by an engineer or mixer in one night. Elmhirst currently works out of PH Studios in New York City. Awards and nominations Selected production credits 1990s * 1999: '' Sly'' - Gay Dad 2000s * 2003: '' Black Cherry'' - Goldfrapp * 2003: '' Frank'' - Amy Winehouse * 2004: '' Lifeblood'' - Manic Street Preachers * 2005: '' Nightbird - '' Erasure * 2006: '' The Warning'' - Hot Chip * 2006: '' Alright, Still'' - Lily Allen * 2006: '' These Streets'' - Paolo Nutini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rascals (producers)
Leon George Thomas III (born August 1, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He began his career as a child actor on Broadway, appearing in the musicals ''The Lion King'', ''Caroline, or Change'' and ''The Color Purple'' across the 2000s. On screen, he provided the singing voice of Tyrone on the Nick Jr. animated series ''The Backyardigans'' (2006–2008) and played Andre Harris on the Nickelodeon series ''Victorious'' (2010–2013). Shifting focus onto his music career, Thomas achieved success in the 2010s as a member of the production duo The Rascals, winning a Grammy from two nominations. He has co-written and co-produced for several artists, including his ''Victorious'' co-star Ariana Grande, Babyface, Drake, Rick Ross, SZA, and Toni Braxton. As a solo musician, Thomas released three mixtapes and an extended play under Rostrum Records. In 2022, he signed with EZMNY and Motown, and released his debut studio album ''Electric Dusk'' (2023). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babyface (musician)
Kenneth Brian Edmonds (born April 10, 1959), better known by his stage name Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has written and produced 26 number-one Contemporary R&B, R&B hits and won 13 Grammy Awards. He was ranked number 20 on ''NME'' 50 of The Greatest Producers Ever list. Early life Edmonds was born on April 10, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, to Marvin and Barbara Edmonds. Barbara was a production operator at a pharmaceutical plant. Edmonds, who is the fifth of six brothers (including future After 7 band members Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, the latter of whom went on to have a modestly successful solo career), attended North Central High School (Indianapolis, Indiana), North Central High School in Indianapolis, and as a shy youth, wrote songs to express his emotions. When he was in eighth grade, Edmonds' father died of lung cancer, leaving his mother to raise her sons alone. Music career Edmonds later met funk performer Bootsy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Beatty
Ryan Kevin Beatty (born September 25, 1995) is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Clovis, California, and now resides in Los Angeles. His debut EP, ''Because of You'', was released in 2012. After a hiatus, Beatty began to re-emerge in 2017, first with collaborations on Brockhampton's albums ''Saturation II'' and ''Saturation III.'' Then, in 2018 he signed to Benny Blanco's imprint label at Interscope Records, Mad Love Records, and released his debut album, ''Boy in Jeans'', on July 20, 2018. He continued his work with Brockhampton on their 2019 album ''Ginger'' and member Kevin Abstract's third solo album, '' Arizona Baby''. Beatty has also collaborated with Tyler, the Creator on his 2019 album '' Igor'' and the EP '' Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. Seuss' The Grinch.'' He would go on to release his second album, ''Dreaming of David'', on January 31, 2020, and his third studio album, ''Calico'', on April 28, 2023. In 2024 Beatty co-wrote four songs on Beyoncé's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Line Of Best Fit
''The Line of Best Fit'' is an independent online magazine based in London, concentrating on new music. It publishes independent music reviews, features, interview, and media. Founded by Richard Thane in February 2007 and currently edited by Paul Bridgewater, the webzine's name derives from a song on Death Cab for Cutie's '' You Can Play These Songs with Chords''. Album reviews by the webzine are used for music review aggregate sites AnyDecentMusic? and Metacritic. ''The Line of Best Fit'' also publishes music premieres, exclusive live performances, podcast A podcast is a Radio program, program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Typically, a podcast is an Episode, episodic series of digital audio Computer file, files that users can download to a personal device or str ...s, and playlists. The webzine has its own record label, Best Fit Recordings, and since 2015, has hosted its own annual music festival in London, the Five Day Forecast. It al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highsnobiety
''Highsnobiety'' is a global fashion and lifestyle media brand founded in 2005 by David Fischer. The youth-focused company is difficult to pigeonhole, as it straddles the line between a media company that reviews fashion and lifestyle products, a clothing company that sells its own clothing lines, and a creative agency that advises other companies how to market their own fashion and lifestyle products. It was bought by Zalando in 2022. It is headquartered in Berlin and has offices in Amsterdam, London, Milan, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney. ''Highsnobiety'' has a digital-first publishing approach. The print magazine first launched in 2010, with quarterly issues published globally. Company activities Highsnobiety Shop, a multi-brand online fashion and lifestyle retailer, was launched in 2019. ''Highsnobiety'' launched their apparel collection in 2021. Since 2018, the brand publishes regular research papers in the fields of luxury and young consumer trends in collaboration w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording techniques, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously. Originating in the mid-1960s among British and American musicians, the sound of psychedelic rock invokes three core effects of LSD: depersonalization, dechronicization (the bending of time), and dynamization (when fixed, ordinary objects dissolve into moving, dancing structures), all of which detach the user from everyday reality. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic music, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments. Some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consequence Of Sound
''Consequence'' (previously ''Consequence of Sound'') is an independently owned New York-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television. History ''Consequence of Sound'' was founded in September 2007 by Alex Young, then a student at Fordham University in The Bronx, New York. The website took its original name from the Regina Spektor song " Consequence of Sounds". In January 2008, Michael Roffman became Editor-in-Chief. In October 2014, ''Consequence of Sound'' began covering film and became a part of the Chicago Film Critics Association. In 2016, ''Consequence of Sound'' was reorganized under the umbrella of Consequence Media, a digital media, advertising, and marketing firm. In 2018, ''Consequence of Sound'' launched the Consequence Podcast Network, averaging over 100,000 downloads in its first month. In 2019, ''Consequence of Sound'' partnered with Sony Music for the launch of a music documentary podcast series called The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
