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Double Infinity
''Double Infinity'' is the forthcoming sixth studio album by the American band Big Thief, scheduled for release on 5 September 2025 on 4AD. Produced and mixed by longtime collaborator Dom Monks, the album was recorded live over the span of three weeks at the Power Station recording studio in New York City. Recorded as a three-piece, with additional instrumentation from guest musicians, it will be the band's first album without bassist and founding member Max Oleartchik, following his departure in 2024. Background After extensive touring in support of the band's 2022 double album, ''Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You'', Big Thief announced the departure of bass guitarist and founding member Max Oleartchik on July 11, 2024. The three remaining members – Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia – released a statement, noting: "After many beautiful years together, Max is no longer in Big Thief. Our love for each other is infinite, and we are so grateful for all we h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Thief
Big Thief is an American indie folk band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2015. The lineup comprises vocalist-guitarist Adrianne Lenker, guitarist Buck Meek and drummer James Krivchenia. Founding bassist Max Oleartchik left the band in 2024. Big Thief's debut album, ''Masterpiece'', was released on Saddle Creek Records in 2016. Their second studio album, '' Capacity'', was released in 2017. In 2019, the band signed to 4AD and released two studio albums: '' U.F.O.F.'' in May 2019 and '' Two Hands'' in October 2019. Both albums received critical acclaim; ''U.F.O.F.'' was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, and the song " Not", was nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. The band's fifth studio album, '' Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You'', was released in February 2022. A double album, it reached the top ten in the Netherlands and was also nominated for Best Alternative Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Station (recording Studio)
Power Station at BerkleeNYC is a recording studio located at 441 West 53rd Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It was originally founded in 1977 as Power Station and known as Avatar Studios from 1996 to 2017. Renowned for its exceptional acoustics, the studio has been the site of hundreds of gold, platinum, and Grammy Award-winning recordings. History Background Producer Tony Bongiovi and former Mediasound Studios co-worker engineer Bob Walters partnered to open the recording studio, putting together a team of people that included engineer Ed Stasium, Ed Evans, and Bob Clearmountain. They located an abandoned building at 441 West 53rd Street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, which Bongiovi purchased from New York City for $360,000 as part of a building rehabilitation program. Bongiovi, Walters, and their team worked with Stephen B. Jacobs Associates to design a studio that would a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
''Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You'' is the fifth studio album by the American band Big Thief, released as a double album through 4AD on February 11, 2022. Produced by drummer James Krivchenia, the album features 20 songs which were recorded over five months in five different locations across the United States. The album was supported by six singles. It is also the last album to feature bassist and founding member Max Oleartchik before his departure in 2024. It received universal acclaim from critics upon release and entered the top forty in several territories, including Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom; it reached the top ten of the albums charts in Belgium and the Netherlands. The album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Best Alternative Music Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. Background In 2019, Big Thief left Saddle Creek Records, Saddle Creek and signed to 4AD, relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Album
A double album (or double record) is an audio album that spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc. A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium. Recording artists often think of double albums as being a single piece artistically; however, there are exceptions, such as John Lennon's '' Some Time in New York City'' (which consisted of one studio record and one live album packaged together), OutKast's '' Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' (effectively two solo albums, one by each member of the duo), and Red Hot Chili Peppers' '' Stadium Arcadium'' (which Disc 1 has half of the album and Disc 2 has the other half). Since the advent of the compact disc, albums are sometimes released with a bonus disc featuring additional material as a supplement to the main album, with live tracks, studio out-takes, cut songs, or older unreleased material. One inn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrianne Lenker
Adrianne Elizabeth Lenker (born July 9, 1991) is an American musician. She is the lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of the band Big Thief, as well as an established solo artist. She has released several solo albums, including ''Abysskiss'' (2018), ''Songs and Instrumentals, Songs'' and ''Songs and Instrumentals, Instrumentals'' (both 2020), and ''Bright Future (Adrianne Lenker album), Bright Future'' (2024), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. Early life and education Lenker was born in Indianapolis and was raised in a Christianity, Christian cult until the age of four, but primarily grew up in Minnesota. When Lenker was 5 years old, she was hospitalized after a railroad spike fell from the roof of a makeshift treehouse in the yard of her family's rented home in Nisswa, Minnesota, Nisswa, lodging itself into her skull and nearly killing her. She recounts the incident in the song "Mythological Beauty" from Big Thie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck Meek
Alexander Buckley "Buck" Meek (born July 10, 1987) is an American musician from Wimberley, Texas, best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist of Big Thief. He has released three solo albums: ''Buck Meek'' (2018), '' Two Saviors'' (2021) and '' Haunted Mountain'' (2023). Early life Meek was raised in Texas and was introduced to the guitar at a young age, playing blues and folk at local venues in his youth. Similarly to the other members of Big Thief, Meek attended Berklee College of Music, but he did not form a band with his future bandmates until after they had graduated. After Berklee, Meek moved to New York City, busking at the 14th Street-Union Square and Bedford Avenue subway stations to pay his rent. Career In 2014, Meek released two EPs with Adrianne Lenker, ''a-sides'' and ''b-sides.'' The following year Meek formed Big Thief with Lenker and Max Oleartchik after they met Oleartchik in Bushwick, Brooklyn, recognising him from Berklee College. Meek has recorded fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Krivchenia
James Foster Krivchenia (born December 8, 1988) is an American musician and producer, best known as the drummer of the indie rock band Big Thief. Krivchenia joined Big Thief in 2015 following his work with the band as a sound engineer. He later produced the band's fifth studio album, ''Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You'' (2022), which received a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. In addition to his work with Big Thief, he is a regular collaborator of Mega Bog as a longtime engineer, co-producer and percussionist and has released four solo albums: ''No Comment'' (2018), ''A New Found Relaxation'' (2020), ''Blood Karaoke'' (2022) and ''Performing Belief'' (2025). Early life and education Krivchenia was born in Minneapolis and raised in Chicago. He began playing drums in his elementary school music class and went on to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. Career Krivchenia moved to New York following his graduation from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucker Zimmerman
Brian Tucker Zimmerman (born February 14, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Early life At age four, Zimmerman began violin lessons, on a violin made by his grandfather. When he was seven, Zimmerman moved with his family to Healdsburg, a rural town in the Wine Country region of Sonoma County, California. 1966 he moved to Europe to study composition in Rome. After two years in London where he recorded his first album, he began living in Belgium. 1970 he married his wife Marie Claire. Career In December 1968 Zimmerman recorded and released his first album ''Ten Songs'', produced by Tony Visconti. It was later described by David Bowie as one of his favourite albums. One track from the album, 'Fourth Hour of My Sleep' was later recorded by Mick Ronson's band Ronno. In 1967, he collaborated with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on the song "Droppin' Out". The song appeared on the Butterfield Band album ''The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw.'' In 1985, Zimmerman turned to wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divorce
Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the Marriage, bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state. It can be said to be a legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body. It is the legal process of ending a marriage. Divorce laws Divorce law by country, vary considerably around the world, but in most countries, divorce is a legal process that requires the sanction of a court or other authority, which may involve issues of distribution of property, child custody, alimony (spousal support), child visitation / access, parenting time, child support, and division of debt. In most countries, monogamy is required by law, so divorce allows each former partner to marry another person. Divorce is different from annulm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. ''The Independent'' won the Brand of the Year Award in The Drum Awards for Online Media 2023. History 1980s Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at ''The Daily Telegraph'' who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural Information Society
Natural Information Society is a music ensemble described as “ecstatic minimalism”. The group formed in 2010 and is led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joshua Abrams. NPR called the group a "staple" of the underground music scene in Chicago. Their performances often include the paintings of Lisa Alvarado. According to ''Musicworks'', Natural Information Society's performances place "a singular emphasis on the human and the humane in music in the midst of a galloping digitized industry". ''The Guardian'' gave the group's album '' Simultonality'' four out of five stars, ''The New York Times'' described it as "at once tensile and hypnotic", while ''Rolling Stone'' named it to their list of the "20 Best Avant Albums of 2017". ''Pitchfork'' named their double album ''Magnetoception'' #2 on their "Best Experimental Albums of 2015". '' The Stranger'' called the group's release '' Automaginary'' one of the "Top 10 Records of 2015" and it was also named by ''Spin'' as one of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laraaji
Laraaji (born Edward Larry Gordon, 3 May 1943) is an American multi-instrumentalist specializing in piano, zither and mbira. His albums include the 1980 release ''Day of Radiance, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance'', produced by Brian Eno as part of his ''Ambient'' series. Early life and career Born Edward Larry Gordon in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C., where he studied composition and piano. After studying at Howard University, Howard, he spent time in New York City pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian and actor, as well as playing Fender Rhodes electric piano in a jazz-rock band ‘Winds of Change’. In the early 1970s, he began to study Eastern mysticism and believed he had found a new path for his music and his life. It was also at this time he bought his first zither from a local pawn shop. Converting it to an electronic instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
