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Dirty Ghosts
Dirty Ghosts are a San Francisco rock band formed in 2006 by Allyson Baker, Carson Binks and Baker's then-husband Ian Bavitz, known professionally as Aesop Rock. After the departure of Binks and Bavitz, Baker remained as the driving force in the band. History The band formed after the dissolution of Baker and Binks' prior band Parchman Farm, with Baker's then-husband Bavitz providing beats via drum machine. The first song "Battle Slang" released in 2009 was described by Pitchfork as "riff-tastic with stuttering snares and a gritty bass pulse." The demos and singles they recorded eventually became the ''Metal Moon'' album, released in 2012 on Last Gang Records. Baker explained what influenced the sound of ''Metal Moon'' to CMJ "The idea of music based on the beat, with the guitar and bass working around each other yet together in a really minimal and non-linear way. The first album had more of that type of influence, and definitely my surroundings played a role in that—living wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesop Rock
Ian Matthias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American rapper and producer from Long Island, New York. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it went on hiatus in 2010. In a 2010 retrospective, betterPropaganda ranked him at number 19 at the ''Top 100 Artists of the Decade''. He released his first album, '' Music for Earthworms'', in 1997, with '' Float'' following three years later. '' Labor Days'', his third studio album, was released in September 2001. His next release, titled '' Bazooka Tooth'', released 2 years later in September 2003. His fourth studio album, '' None Shall Pass'', was released in August 2007. Its titular song became one of Ian's most popular and well-known songs. His sixth record, '' Skelethon'', was released in July 2012. His seventh release, '' The Impossible Kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork Media
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered Alternative rock, alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential Music magazine, music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical Hipster (contemporary subculture), hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Gang Records
Last Gang Records is a record label formed by Canadian music industry lawyer Chris Taylor and concert promoter Donald K. Tarlton in the fall of 2003 at the Pop Montreal Music Festival. Last Gang was nominated as Independent Record Label of the Year at the Canadian Music Awards in 2006. It was acquired by Entertainment One in March 2016, with Taylor being appointed the new president of eOne Music, now MNRK Music Group. Last Gang Publishing Founded in 2006, Last Gang Publishing is a music publishing company with primary operations based in Toronto, Canada, and Los Angeles, USA. Last Gang Publishing represents both external clients, such as Dubmatix, Egyptrixx, and Hiawatha, and internal Last Gang Records recording artists, such as Mother Mother, Silver Starling, and O'Luge. Artists Last Gang Records has released albums by: Gold and Platinum Certifications Metric ''Old World Underground: Where Are You Now?'' Death From Above, 1979 ''You're A woman; I'm A Machine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duran Duran
Duran Duran () are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor (bass guitarist), John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's line-up settled in May 1980 as Rhodes, Taylor, singer Simon Le Bon, guitarist Andy Taylor (guitarist), Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer), Roger Taylor. Emerging as members of the New Romantic scene, Duran Duran were innovators of the music video and a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. By 1984, the band had achieved levels of fame similar to Beatlemania. The band's first major hit was "Girls on Film" (1981), from their Duran Duran (1981 album), self-titled debut album, the popularity of which was enhanced by a controversial music video. The band's breakthrough second album was ''Rio (Duran Duran album), Rio'' (1982), a worldwide hit. The songs "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio (song), Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devo
Devo is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs ( Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 ''Billboard'' chart hit in 1980 with the single " Whip It", the song that gave the band mainstream popularity. Devo's music and visual presentation (including stage shows and costumes) mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor and mordantly satirical social commentary. The band's namesake, the tongue-in-cheek social theory of "de-evolution", was an integral concept in their early work, which was marked by experimental and dissonant art punk that merged rock music with electronics. Their output in the 1980s embraced synth-pop and a more mainstream, less conceptual style, though the band's satirical and quirky humor remained intact. Their music has proven influential on subsequent movements, particularly on new wave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stranglers
The Stranglers are an English rock music, rock band formed in 1974. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 20 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene. Formed as the Guildford Stranglers in Guildford, Surrey, in early 1974, they originally built a following within the mid-1970s Pub rock (United Kingdom), pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre, and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave music, new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti-pop of some of their 1980s output. They had major mainstream success with their 1982 single "Golden Brown". Their other hits include "No More Heroes (The Stranglers song), No More Heroes", "Peaches (The Stranglers song), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeycut
Honeycut is a San Francisco–based band, part of the Quannum Projects. Its members are Bart Davenport (voice), RV Salters (keys and samples) and Tony Sevener (beats, MPC drum machine). The band was formed in 2003. It released its first album in 2006 ('' The Day I Turned to Glass'') and shortly after received the 17th annual SF Weekly music award in the category Best Soul/Funk Band. Its music has been influenced by rock, indie-pop, soul and funk and their sound is very rich for a three-man band. Bart Davenport and Tony Sevener originate from California, while RV Salters was born in Paris and lived in France until joining the Quannum Projects Quannum Projects (also known as Quannum MCs) is an American hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been active since 1992, when it was formed at UC Davis under the moniker Solesides Records. It is also the name of the i ... in 1999. RV Salters displays a unique style of dancing while playing keyboard during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summercamp
Summercamp is an alternative rock quartet from Santa Barbara, California, United States, where, in 1987, vocalist/guitarists Tim Cullen and Sean McCue met in high school. Another fellow student, bass guitarist Misha Feldmann, joined soon after; and drummer Tony Sevener signed on in 1994, making the line-up complete. With Chris Shaw producing, the band issued its first LP, ''Pure Juice'', in 1997 on Maverick Records. They charted with the single "Drawer" in the U.S. and "Should I Walk Away" reached the Top 10 in Japan. Summercamp toured the US, Europe and Japan in support of their release, including the second stage of the 1997 Lollapalooza, the 1997 Pukkelpop, and appearing at the very first Fuji Rock Festival in Japan in 1997. The band also toured with Failure, Poster Children, Tonic and fellow Santa Barbarans, Toad the Wet Sprocket. After coming off the road in support of ''Pure Juice'', the band started work on a second album that was finished and for which a promotional vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derrick Beckles
Derrick Beckles is a Canadian writer, director, actor, punk rock singer and comedian from Scarborough, Ontario. He is the creator and host of the Adult Swim television show ''Hot Package'', creator of the "TV Carnage" compilations, helped found Vice TV. He also hosted the Adult Swim show '' Mostly 4 Millennials,'' after starting off fronting the Toronto banBlack Jello TV Carnage Beckles recognized the appeal of poor programming in 1994 when he began releasing VHS mashups of spray-on hair infomercials, squirrel cooking shows, and public access freaks performing like no one’s watching. These compilations led to the creation of TV Carnage, a bootleg home-video series in which Beckles distills all the strangest clips from late-night infomercials, local-access programs and found videos, into hour-long DVDs. While Beckles had been editing together Tex Avery cartoons with The Stooges songs to entertain his friends while in high school, the ''TV Carnage'' format didn't evolve into its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as [adult swim] and [as]) is an American adult-oriented television programming block that airs on Cartoon Network which broadcasts during the evening, prime time, and Late-night television, late-night Dayparting, dayparts. The channel features stylistically varied Adult animation, animated and live-action series targeting an adult audience. The block's content includes List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim, original programming, which are particularly comedies and action series, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, and short films with generally minimal or no editing for content. Adult Swim is programmed by Williams Street, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios that also produces much of the block's original programming. Launched on September 2, 2001, Adult Swim has frequently aired animated sitcoms, adult animation features, parody, satire, Mockumentary, mockumentaries, sketch comedy, and Television pilot, pilots, with many of its programs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song " Anyone Else but You" landing a spot in multiple acclaimed indie film soundtracks. " Anyone Else but You" as performed by Michael Cera and Elliot Page charted on the Billboard Hot 100 after its prominent inclusion in the 2007 film '' Juno'', the soundtrack of which includes several songs by Dawson and her associated musical acts. The song remains Dawson's highest charting single to date. In addition to their work with the Moldy Peaches, Dawson has released seven solo studio albums and collaborated with various other artists from a diverse range of genres, including Aesop Rock, They Might Be Giants, The Mountain Goats, and Third Eye Blind. Career Dawson became well known as co-founder of the Moldy Peaches alongside Adam Green. Since the Moldy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El-P
Jaime Stuart Meline (born March 2, 1975), better known by the stage name El-P (shortened from his previous stage name El Producto), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Starting his career as a member of Company Flow, he has been a driving force in alternative hip hop since the mid-1990s, producing for rappers including Aesop Rock, Cage (rapper), Cage, and Mr. Lif. He was a member of The Weathermen (hip hop group), The Weathermen and was the co-founder, owner, and CEO of the Definitive Jux record label. After releasing four solo studio albums that were critically acclaimed''Fantastic Damage'' (2002), ''High Water (El-P album), High Water'' (2004), ''I'll Sleep When You're Dead'' (2007), and ''Cancer 4 Cure'' (2012)El-P began experiencing mainstream success in 2013 when he formed the hip hop superduo Run the Jewels with fellow rapper Killer Mike. They have released four studio albums for free, all of which have received widespread acclaim: ''Run the Jewels (alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
