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Josiah Wolf
Josiah Wolf is a drummer and vocalist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is best known as the drummer, percussionist, and backing vocalist of the indie rock band Why? (American band), Why?, of which his brother Yoni Wolf, Yoni is the lead vocalist. History Josiah Wolf has been a member of Why? (American band), Why? since 2005. His solo debut album, ''Jet Lag (Josiah Wolf album), Jet Lag'', was released on Anticon in 2010. He toured the United States in promotion of the album. Discography Albums * ''Jet Lag (Josiah Wolf album), Jet Lag'' (2010) EPs * ''The Josiah EP'' (2003) Why? * ''Elephant Eyelash'' (2005) * ''Alopecia (album), Alopecia'' (2008) * ''Eskimo Snow'' (2009) * ''Mumps, Etc.'' (2012) * ''Moh Lhean'' (2017) Contributions * Clouddead – "JimmyBreeze" from ''Clouddead (album), Clouddead'' (2001) * Clouddead – "Dead Dogs Two" from ''Ten (Clouddead album), Ten'' (2004) * Jel (rapper), Jel – "All Day Breakfast" from ''Soft Money (album), Soft Money'' (2006) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati
Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio River, Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. It is the List of cities in Ohio, third-most populous city in Ohio and List of united states cities by population, 66th-most populous in the U.S., with a population of 309,317 at the 2020 census. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metro area and the Metropolitan statistical area, nation's 30th-largest, with over 2.3 million residents. Throughout much of the 19th century, Cincinnati was among the Largest cities in the United States by population by decade, top 10 U.S. cities by population. The city developed as a port, river town for cargo shipping by steamboats, located at the crossroads of the Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moh Lhean
''Moh Lhean'' is the sixth studio album by American band Why?. It was released by Joyful Noise Recordings on March 3, 2017. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Moh Lhean'' received an average score of 79 based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Paul Carr of ''PopMatters'' gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that "As with the band's previous albums, it is exceptionally difficult to categorize their sound as it veers from psychedelia to folk to pop all with an undercurrent of hip-hop." Marcy Donelson of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "The project remains a creative burst of sounds, grooves, and stylized observation that's uniquely refreshing to those open to its quirky complexity." Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. * Yoni Wolf – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, drums, percussion, production, mixing, artwor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Multi-instrumentalists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Money (album)
''Soft Money'' is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Jel. It was released on Anticon on February 20, 2006. "WMD / All Around" was released as a single from the album. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Soft Money'' received an average score of 67% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Brian Howe of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a 6.0 out of 10, describing it as "a murky palimpsest of disembodied samples and dirty beats, incantatory rhymes and live instrumentation, leftist rhetoric and absurdist non sequiturs, breathy female vocals and ephemeral melodies". Martin Longley of BBC said: "There are few dynamic surprises here, and no serrated edges, but this disc's strength lies in its building mass of lumbering, decelerated funk, its textures gluey and thick." Luciana Lopez of ''XLR8R'' said: "The album slices and dices genres throughout, and the music sounds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jel (rapper)
Jeffrey James Logan (born May 7, 1978), better known by his stage name Jel, is an American hip hop producer and rapper. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of Presage, Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God. Biography Jel released his first solo album, '' 10 Seconds'', on Mush Records in 2002. The album is titled after the limited sampling time of E-mu SP-1200. It features contributions from Dax Pierson, Odd Nosdam, Doseone, and Alias. His second solo album, '' Soft Money'', was released on Anticon in 2006. The album features contributions from Dosh, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, and Stefanie Böhm of Ms. John Soda, among others. He released his third solo album, '' Late Pass'', on Anticon in 2013. Style and influences Jel is primarily a producer. He is known for his use of SP-1200 and MPC2000XL to create drum beats with little or no sequencing like playing the drums live via the sampler pads. He has produced numerous tracks for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten (Clouddead Album)
''Ten'' is the second and final album by American hip hop trio Clouddead. It was released on March 8, 2004 on Big Dada in the United Kingdom and on March 16, 2004 on Mush Records in the United States. "Dead Dogs Two" was released as a single from the album. The album peaked at number 17 on the UK Independent Albums Chart, as well as number 16 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Ten'' received an average score of 74, based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Molloy Woodcraft of ''The Observer'' gave the album 4 stars out of 5, writing, "A mish-mash of odd found sounds, woozy synths and hip hop beats form a bed for a collective scattershot collage of musings on love, life and mortality". Ed Howard of ''Stylus Magazine'' said, "Having allowed hip-hop to fall pretty much entirely by the wayside, the trio has instead embraced the full strength of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clouddead (album)
''Clouddead'' (stylized as ''cLOUDDEAD'') is the debut album by American hip hop trio Clouddead. It was released on May 1, 2001 on Big Dada in the United Kingdom and on May 8, 2001 on Mush Records in the United States. It features guest appearances from Illogic, DJ Signify, Sole, the Wolf Bros., Mr. Dibbs, and the Bay Area Animals. Critical reception and legacy Stevie Chick of ''NME'' wrote, "This music takes the most abstract fallout of trip-hop as its starting point, working in white noise, telephone pranks and post-rock textures to create a disorientating mush you'll spend weeks getting lost in." Thomas Quinlan of ''Exclaim!'' stated that "Clouddead follows more along the lines of Frank Zappa or Captain Beefheart than it does hip-hop, but it remains rooted at all times in beats and samples." Clay Jarvis of ''Stylus Magazine'' gave the album a grade A, commenting that "No combination of adjectives could accurately portray what you'll hear and no second-hand gushing will prep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clouddead
Clouddead (styled as cLOUDDEAD) was an American experimental hip hop group, consisting of Doseone (Adam Drucker), Why? (Yoni Wolf) and Odd Nosdam (David Madson). The group's name came from a nonsensical knock-knock joke Drucker's sister told him when she was five years old. Style Clouddead's sound is notoriously hard to define, and although it is undoubtedly grounded in "traditional" hip-hop, influences as varied as ambient, electronica, psychedelic music, and indie rock can be heard. History Clouddead's first six 10-inch singles were compiled as a self-titled album, ''Clouddead (album), Clouddead'', in 2001. Printed on the sleeve of the single "Dead Dogs Two" is "this is cLOUDDEAD number 9 of ten," indicating that as of ''Ten (Clouddead album), Ten'' (2004), Clouddead have finished making music as a group. Discography Albums * ''Clouddead (album), cLOUDDEAD'' (2001) * ''Ten (Clouddead album), Ten'' (2004) EPs * ''The Peel Session'' (2001) Singles * "apt. A" (2000) * "and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumps, Etc
''Mumps, Etc.'' is the fifth studio album by American band Why?. It was released by Anticon in the United States on October 9, 2012 and by City Slang in Europe on October 8, 2012. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Mumps, Etc.'' received an average score of 62% based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Mike Lechevallier of ''Slant Magazine'' said, "''Mumps, Etc.'' isn't a career-defining moment like ''Alopecia'', but it's a celebratory return to form for Why?, reuniting the band with the key attributes that ignited their creativity in the first place." Ryan Reed of '' Paste'' called it "their most layered, headphone-friendly set to date, utilizing an eight-member choir and a string quartet, not to mention plenty of harps, flutes and ass-blasting rhythms." ''Alarm'' included it on the "50 Favorite Albums of 2012" list. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eskimo Snow
''Eskimo Snow'' is the fourth studio album by American band Why?. It was released by Anticon on September 22, 2009. Production The album was recorded in February 2007. When asked to compare it to his previous albums, Yoni Wolf said: "This record, ''Eskimo Snow'', is really the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with. I mean, they feel like song-songs with-- I don't want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they're song-songs." Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Eskimo Snow'' received an average score of 76% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, calling it "a dynamic, nearly poppy record that finds lead singer Yoni Wolf slightly less verbose and esoteric than in the past." She added, "''Eskimo Snow'' is a success, a resilient album that combines melody, abstract references, and intel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
