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Jacques De Fence
Kenny Anderson (born January 1967), known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland. To date, Anderson has released over forty albums, with his latest full length, '' I DES'', released in 2023. Anderson is also a member of Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In 2011, Anderson's collaborative album with Jon Hopkins, ''Diamond Mine'', was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the Scottish Album of the Year Award. ''Astronaut Meets Appleman'' was also longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award. Musical career After having featured in Scottish bands Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes, in 1995 Kenny Anderson launched the Fence record label and began recording albums under the name King Creosote. King Creosote was one of the original artists to contribute a t-shirt design for the Yellow Bird Project charity initiative, back in 2006. Anderson's design features an accordion, inscribed with the name "FENCE"; a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organisation, performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 22.4 million musical works. On a quarterly basis, BMI distributes the money to songwriters, composers, and Music publisher (popular music), music publishers as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. In FY 2022, BMI collected $1.573 billion in revenues and distributed $1.471 billion in royalties. BMI's repertoire includes over 1.4 million songwriters and 22.4 million compositions. BMI is the biggest performing rights organization in the United States and is one of the largest such organizations in the world. BMI songwriters create music in virtually every genre. BMI represents artists such as Patti LaBelle, Selena, Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne, Lil Nas X, Birdman (rapper), Birdman, Lady Gaga, Taylor S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "Record label#Major labels, big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly owned by Time Warner (later called WarnerMedia and its successor is Warner Bros. Discovery), the company sold WMG in 2004 to a group of private investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., in a move to alleviate Time Warner's debt load related to its merger with AOL. WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. As of 2025, Access Industries remains the company's largest shareholder, owning 72% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SxSW
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in both years there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW EDU and the SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural South by Southwest London, SXSW London will also take place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anstruther
Anstruther ( ; ) is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the north-shore of the Firth of Forth and south-southeast of St Andrews. The town comprises two settlements, Anstruther Easter and Anstruther Wester, which are divided by a stream, the Dreel Burn. With a population of 3,500, it is the largest community on the Firth of Forth's north-shore coastline known as the East Neuk. To the east, it merges with the village of Cellardyke. Description Founded as a fishing village, Anstruther is home to the Scottish Fisheries Museum. Recreational vessels are now moored in the harbour, and a Golf, golf course is situated near the town. Anstruther Pleasure Cruises operate sightseeing/wildlife cruises from the harbour to the Isle of May, the UK's primary puffin location, on board the vessel the ''May Princess'' from April to October. An abundance of other wildlife, including seal colonies, also inhabit the island. The Waid Academy, the local state comprehensive school, is a focu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Record Label
An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small and medium-sized enterprise, small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented by trade associations in their country or region, which in turn are represented by the international trade body, the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN). Many of the labels started as producers and distributors of specific genres of music, such as jazz music, or represent something new and non-mainstream, such as Elvis Presley in the early days. Indies release Rock music, rock, soul music, soul, R&B, jazz, blues, gospel music, gospel, reggae, Hip hop music, hip hop, and world music. Music appearing on indie labels is often referred to as indie music, or more specifically by genre, such as indie hip-hop. Overview Independent record labels are small Company, companies that produce and distribute Album, rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meursault (band)
Meursault are a Scottish indie rock band from Edinburgh, formed in 2006. Led by singer-songwriter Neil Pennycook, the band's musical style has been categorised as folktronica, alternative rock and indie folk. The band themselves have described their latest work as "epic lo-fi". The name of the band is a reference to the main character of ''The Stranger (Camus novel), L'Etranger'', the absurdism, absurdist novel by Albert Camus. Their releases to date have been generally well received by the music and entertainment media, both in Scotland and on a nationwide level. In 2009 ''The Skinny (magazine), The Skinny'' placed the band's debut album, ''Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues'', at No. 16 in their "Scottish Albums of the Decade" list; while their second full-length release, ''All Creatures Will Make Merry'', has been reviewed favourably by several notable media outlets, among them The ''BBC'', ''Pitchfork Media, Pitchfork'', ''Bearded'', ''Clash (magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Seeds
''Cold Seeds'' is a musical collaboration between Kenny Anderson (King Creosote), Frances Donnelly ( Animal Magic Tricks), and Neil Pennycook and Peter Harvey of Meursault. The term ''Cold Seeds'' refers to the project as a whole, encompassing the name of the group and the title of the album that emerged from the collaboration. The name is derived from Frances Donnelly's lyrics to ''Leave Me To Lie Alone in the Ground''. The album was recorded in the Autumn of 2009 at the Song, by Toad Records recording facility in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. Anderson, Donnelly and Pennycook all wrote songs for the project, which the group then recorded together — each singer often taking the lead vocal role on a song written by one of the other artists — while Harvey composed, arranged and performed the distinctive cello parts. A limited edition, hand-printed heavyweight-vinyl version of the album was released in March 2010 at Fence Records' annual "Home Game" festival in Anstruther, Fife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Nth Bit Of Strange In Umpteen Years
''My Nth Bit of Strange in Umpteen Years'' is a performance-only album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote, debuted in October 2009, at Fence Records' Hallowe'en Homegame Festival. Described as a "celebration of community, intimacy, exclusivity, rarity and physical artefact," the album is not available in any physical form, and was performed seven times, throughout March 2010, on the condition that audience members record the album on whatever recording device they own. '' The List'' stated that, "King Creosote won’t release these songs commercially. Audience members, however, have his blessing to share their personal copies." The album features "Bats in the Attic", which would subsequently appear on Creosote's Mercury Prize-nominated collaboration with Jon Hopkins, ''Diamond Mine''. Background Before its debut, Creosote stated, "Since 2005, I’ve watched my profile go up, my record sales go down, and my live audiences go down – despite there being more copies of my ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flick The Vs
''Flick the Vs'' is a studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote, released on 20 April 2009 on Domino Records and Fence Records. A limited edition version of the album includes a five-track bonus disc. The Fence Collective official website wrote the following upon release: The King returns with his millionth album, and comeback for Domino, ''Flick The Vs''. Ten tracks teaming with dry wit, suave one liners, stunning poise, great hair and a nice ass – all held together by that voice, accordion, guitar and drum machines. Produced by Paul Savage at Chem19, and recorded with Jon Hopkins, The Earlies, Steve Mason and some Fence Collective chums – it's got everything that you could possibly want from a King Creosote record but were afraid to dream of. Track listing ''All songs by Kenny Anderson, except where noted.'' #"No One Had it Better" #"Two Frocks at a Wedding" #"Camels Swapped for Wives" #"No Way She Exists" #"Fell an Ox" #"Coast on By" (Anderson/Stev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallam Foe
''Hallam Foe'' is a 2007 British drama film directed by David Mackenzie based on the novel written by Peter Jinks. The film was released in the United States as ''Mister Foe''. The screenplay was written by Ed Whitmore and David Mackenzie and produced by Gillian Berrie. ''Hallam Foe'' premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on 16 February 2007 and competed for the Golden Bear for Best Motion Picture. The film won the Silver Bear for Best Music. The film was released in the UK on 31 August 2007 and in the US on 5 September 2008. Plot Hallam Foe is a teenage loner who lives on his father Julius' large estate near Peebles. His hobby is spying on people from his tree house. Hallam is convinced that his stepmother, Verity, is responsible for his mother's death by drowning two years earlier. Hallam's sister Lucy leaves home to attend university and it becomes clear that Verity and his father want Hallam to move on as well. Hallam initially refuses due to his suspicion of Verity, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombshell (King Creosote Album)
''Bombshell'' is an album by King Creosote, released in 2007. Regarding the album, Kenny Anderson states that: The new ones are pretty much my insecurities or paranoia of whatever I'm going through at this part of my life. I've got a daughter now, she's 8 and there's a song "Church as Witness" about a fall out she and I had, and yeah, there's others coming from a sort of older period in time just about all different things really. They are some comedy things on there. A lot of it I suppose is relationship based and then I suppose there's "You've No clue Do You?" which is a kind of a "who-done-it?" in the grand "Cluedo ''Cluedo'' (), known as ''Clue'' in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt. The game was first manufactured by Waddingt ..." tradition. Track listing #Leslie #Home In A Sentence #You've No Clue Do You #Cowardly Custard #Church As Witness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
