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Dolly Varden (band)
Dolly Varden is a Chicago band built around the singing and songwriting of husband and wife duo Steve Dawson and Diane Christiansen. Their music combines elements of folk, rock and pop and country. The band has released 5 albums, along with several collections and side projects. Early Days Christiansen and Dawson first came to prominence in Chicago with a twang-punk band, Stump the Host. The two founded Dolly Varden in 1993 when Stump The Host disbanded. They originally started as a quartet comprising Dawson, Christiansen, Lisa Wertman Crowe (bass) and Matt Thobe (drums). This lineup recorded a 4-song cassette EP with Brad Wood at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago. After a few months Mark Balletto was added as an additional guitarist. This lineup recorded 3 more songs with Brian Deck and released them along with the Idful recordings as "Pet Me", a 6-song cassette. In 1994 the group recorded an EP with Doug McBride at Gravity studios in Chicago that has never been released. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, IL
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Uncut (magazine)
''Uncut'' is a monthly magazine based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections. A DVD magazine under the ''Uncut'' brand was published quarterly from 2005 to 2006. The magazine was acquired in 2019 by Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies, and has been published by NME Networks since December 2021. ''Uncut'' (main magazine) ''Uncut'' was launched in May 1997 by IPC as "a monthly magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies", edited by Allan Jones (former editor of ''Melody Maker''). Jones has stated that " e idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with ''Melody Maker''. There was a publishing initiative to make the audience younger; I was getting older and they wanted to take the readers further away from me", specifically referring to the then dominant Britpop genre. According to IPC Media, 86% of the magazine's readers are ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pravda Records
Pravda Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, representing a diverse roster of indie rock, soul, pop, and experimental artists. History Pravda Records was founded by Kenn Goodman in 1984. Pravda's first release was a five song cassette by The Service entitled ''Foma.'' In 1986, Pravda Records opened a retail store at 3730 N. Clark Street in the storefront of Metro Chicago. Until 1992, the retail store focused on imports and other independent music. Goodman closed the retail store to shift emphasis back to the label and its artists. To date, Pravda Records has over 100 releases in a variety of genres from artists such as Grammy Award-nominated Susan Voelz, Glenn Mercer of The Feelies, and late Motown legend Andre Williams. In 1993, Goodman started a subsidiary label Bughouse Records focusing on outsider artists performing live in Chicago. Artists on Bughouse include, Tiny Tim, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Cordell Jackson, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Panic Bell
''The Panic Bell'' is the fifth studio album by Chicago based alt-country band Dolly Varden. Released in February 2007 it was their first album since '' Forgiven Now'' in 2002. The album was recorded over a period of about a year after the band had taken a long hiatus from playing together. It includes songs influenced by the continuing violence in Iraq and the prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib, which led to some of the band's rawest recordings. Track listing #Complete Resistance #Everything #Small Pockets #All Gonna Change #The Truth Is Told #You Never Will #Sad Panda Clown's Lament #Triumph Mine, Idaho #Your Last Mistake #Good Provider Personnel *Steve Dawson - lead vocals, guitar, piano, lap steel guitar *Diane Christiansen - lead vocals *Mark Balletto - guitar, lap steel guitar, backing vocals *Mike Bradburn - bass, backing vocals *Matt Thobe - drums, percussion, backing vocals Reception * No Depression senior editor Don McLeese described the album as being "steeped in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgiven Now
''Forgiven Now'' is the fourth studio album by Chicago based alt-country band Dolly Varden and was released in 2002. Like the previous release, ''The Dumbest Magnets'', this album was recorded in Nashville with producer Brad Jones. Track listing # Surrounded By The Sound #Trying To Live Up #Forgiven Now #The Lotus Hour #Overwhelming #Wish I Were Here #There's A Magic #Time For Me To Leave #Disappear #1000 Men Like Cigarettes #Meant To Be Personnel *Steve Dawson - lead vocals, guitar *Diane Christiansen - lead vocals, guitar *Mark Balletto - guitar, backing vocals *Mike Bradburn - bass, bcking vocals *Matt Thobe - drums, percussion, backing vocals Reception *"With its fourth album, Chicago's Dolly Varden has taken the formidable strengths of each recording and combined them in a seamless, breathtaking collection of rock and pop songs that embrace country music's gloriously complex heart without calling into play any of its cultural clichés" (Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com) *"A hypnot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Reader
The ''Chicago Reader'', or ''Reader'' (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. It was founded by a group of friends from Carleton College. The ''Reader'' is recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative nonfiction and its commercial scheme. Richard Karpel, then-executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, wrote: e most significant historical event in the creation of the modern alt-weekly occurred in Chicago in 1971, when the ''Chicago Reader'' pioneered the practice of free circulation, a cornerstone of today's alternative papers. The ''Reader'' also developed a new kind of journalism, ignoring the news and focusing on everyday life and ordinary people. After being owned by same four founders since 1971, by the early 2000s profits and readership of the ''Reader'' were dropping, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dumbest Magnets
''The Dumbest Magnets'' is the third studio album by Chicago based alt-country band Dolly Varden and was released in 2000. This album was recorded in Nashville with producer Brad Jones. Reception *"''The Dumbest Magnets'' blurs the lines between alt-country and pop the way the Jayhawks do on "Smile," only Dolly Varden does it better. Thoughtful lyrics, soaring melodies and killer hooks make Magnets giddily addictive, and as good as any album heard this year" (Eric Fidler, Associated Press) *"the album is an elegant and soothing extension of the band's sumptuous 1998 effort, The Thrill of Gravity. The arrangements are more sweeping, the lyrics more refined, and the husband-and-wife vocal harmonies of Stephen Dawson and Diane Christiansen more dramatic than before" (Michael Bertin, ''The Austin Chronicle'') *"''The Dumbest Magnets'' echoes the rustic simplicity of The Band's "Music from Big Pink", plumbs some of the moral depths of Bob Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" and embraces th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For A While (album)
''For A While'' is the sixth studio album by Chicago based alt-country band Dolly Varden and their first album since the 2007 '' The Panic Bell'' release. The official release date for the album was January 21, 2013 but pre-release copies were made available as early as October 2012. Steve Dawson took over all the song writing duties for this album and the songs have been described as some of his most accessible, autobiographical and cohesive. Dawson himself described the album as the "most contented thematically", citing agitation and frustration in some of the previous Dolly Varden albums, and as having themes of "mortality, retrospection and gratitude." Track listing #Del Mar, 1976 #For A While #Done (Done) #Girl In A Well #Walking The Chalkline Again #Mayfly #The Milkshake Incident, Part 1 #Temperamental Complement #Saskatchewan To Chicago #Why Why Why #Favorite Friend #Thank You Personnel *Steve Dawson - guitar, lead vocals *Diane Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Fulks
Robert "Robbie" Fulks (born March 25, 1963) is an American alternative country singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and long-time Chicago, Illinois resident. He has released 13 albums over a career spanning more than 30 years. His 2016 record ''Upland Stories'' was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album and the song "Alabama at Night" was nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Song. Early life Fulks was born in York, Pennsylvania, the son of a school teacher father. He grew up small towns in southeastern Pennsylvania, the Blue Ridge Mountains area of Virginia, and the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Fulks' family moved often when he was young, until they eventually settled in North Carolina when he was 12. Fulks considers North Carolina his childhood home. Fulks has a younger brother named Jubal. Fulks was exposed to music through his family, where everyone played a different instrument, from his Aunt Stella on banjo, his Aunt Mildred on violin, his mother on au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Town School Of Folk Music
The Old Town School of Folk Music is a Chicago teaching and performing institution that launched the careers of many notable folk music artists. Founded by Folk musicians Frank Hamilton and Win Stracke, and Dawn Greening, the School opened in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago in 1957 (the original location at 333 west North Avenue has since been demolished). It began by offering guitar and banjo lessons in a communal teaching style and hosting performances by well-known folk musicians. Currently the school has an enrollment of about 6,000 students per week, 2,700 of them children. History Founding The Old Town School of Folk Music was originally established by Dawn Greening in her family dining room. With her incredible warmth, and skill at building relationships, Greening and her family acted as a support system to a vast community of struggling folk artists. Doc Watson, Pete Seeger and Odetta were among the artists that were always welcome in their home and treated as f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Waterga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
