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Kenny Woods
Kenny Woods (born October 22, 1969, in Los Angeles) is an American composer, producer, and musician. He has performed with various musical acts including: Beck, that dog, Steven Shane McDonald, The Steven McDonald Group, and Old Hickory (band) , Old Hickory. In the early 1990s, he worked in live music production and toured the world with various rock groups including, Melvins, Nirvana (band), Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Beck, Pavement, Hole, Redd Kross, and more. Shortly thereafter, Beck asked him to play guitar, but this union was short-lived when he left to form his own group Old Hickory (band), Old Hickory, a musical outfit at the center of the once burgeoning Silver Lake indie rock scene. In 1999, he began playing with various bands and musicians around East L.A., including his longtime friend Rob Zabrecky, Adam Siegel (The Blondes), Anna Waronker, Joey Waronker, and Josh Schwartz (Beachwood Sparks, Beachwood Sparks, Further, Painted Hills). Later he formed the pastoral folk gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Grenrock-Woods
Stacey Grenrock-Woods (born November 22, 1968, in Los Angeles) is an American writer, actress, and former correspondent on ''The Daily Show''. Her correspondent reports included an investigation of self-proclaimed “Rumpology” who were in the business of giving people psychic readings, psychic reading based on their rear ends. Grenrock-Woods is also a sex columnist in ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' magazine and co-editor of ''L.A. Innuendo'' magazine. After leaving ''The Daily Show'' in 2003, she had a recurring role as local news reporter "List of Arrested Development characters#Trisha Thoon, Trisha Thoon" on ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development''. The July 2007 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine featured a picture from her 1989 Playmate test, which was shot by Richard Fegley and written about in Woods's memoir, ''I California'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007). The accompanying text revealed that she had listed Mexican food, Mexican as her favorite kind of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie (commonly abbreviated to DCFC or Death Cab) is an American rock music, rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997. Death Cab for Cutie's music has been classified as indie rock, indie pop, and alternative rock. The band is currently composed of Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano), Nick Harmer (bass), Dave Depper (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), Zac Rae (keyboards, guitar), and Jason McGerr (drums). The band was originally a solo project by Gibbard, who expanded the project into a complete group upon getting a record deal. They released their debut album, ''Something About Airplanes'', in 1998. The band's fourth album, 2003's ''Transatlanticism'', broke into the mainstream both critically and commercially; its songs were featured in various TV series and films. The band's major label debut for Atlantic Records, 2005's ''Plans (album), Plans'', went platinum certification, platinum. Founding guitarist Chris Walla left the band in 2014 after 17 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brion
Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and The Grays (band), the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Love Jones (band), Love Jones, Eels (band), Eels, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Rhett Miller, The Crystal Method, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller. According to ''Stereogum,'' Brion's work on Mann's first solo albums "lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century". Brion's film scores include ''Hard Eight (film), Hard Eight'' (1996), ''Magnolia (film), Magnolia'' (1999), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' (2002), ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (both 2004), ''Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Lewis
Jennifer Diane Lewis (born January 8, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and keyboardist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley. Lewis gained prominence in the 1980s as a child actress, appearing in the films ''Troop Beverly Hills'' (1989) and ''The Wizard (1989 film), The Wizard'' (1989) and the television series ''Brooklyn Bridge (TV series), Brooklyn Bridge'' (1991–93). In the mid-1990s, Lewis semi-retired from acting to focus on her musical career, and formed Rilo Kiley in 1998 with fellow former child actor Blake Sennett. Rilo Kiley released four albums before they disbanded in 2014. Lewis has released five solo albums: ''Rabbit Fur Coat'' (2006), ''Acid Tongue'' (2008), ''The Voyager (Jenny Lewis album), The Voyager'' (2014), ''On the Line (Jenny Lewis album), On the Line'' (2019), and ''Joy'All'' (2023). In addition to Rilo Kiley and her solo career, Lewis has been a member of The Postal Service, #Jenny_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Mills
Blake Mathew Simon Mills (born September 21, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer based in California. He is known for production and guitar work on albums and singles by many artists, including Fiona Apple, Perfume Genius, Bob Dylan, Feist, Jack Johnson, Marcus Mumford, Laura Marling, Weyes Blood, John Legend, Alabama Shakes, Beck, Conor Oberst, and Bruce Hornsby; as a touring musician with artists such as Lucinda Williams, Band of Horses and Jenny Lewis; and his four solo albums. Biography Blake Mills was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Malibu, California. He attended Malibu High School with Taylor Goldsmith. Mills and Goldsmith began their musical careers in a band they co-founded called Simon Dawes. Simon Dawes released its debut EP ''What No One Hears'' in 2005, and its first LP ''Carnivore'' in September 2006 via Record Collection. After the band broke up in 2007, Goldsmith and his younger brother, Griffin, forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend are an American Rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 2006 and currently signed to Columbia Records. The band was formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij, drummer Chris Tomson, and bassist Chris Baio. Batmanglij departed the group in early 2016 but has continued to occasionally contribute to subsequent albums as a songwriter, producer, and musician. The band's debut album, ''Vampire Weekend (album), Vampire Weekend'' (2008), incorporated elements of indie pop, Afropop, and chamber music. Featuring charting singles and "Oxford Comma (song), Oxford Comma", it was acclaimed by critics and has been hailed as one of the greatest debut albums. Their second album, ''Contra (album), Contra'' (2010), was similarly acclaimed and garnered strong commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, and featuring well-received singles including "Holiday (Vampire Weekend song), Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Casablancas
Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the Rock music, rock band the Strokes, with whom he has released six studio albums since their founding in 1998. Casablancas released a solo studio album, ''Phrazes for the Young'', in 2009, and has released three albums with the experimental rock band the Voidz. A native New York City, New Yorker, he was born to businessman John Casablancas. His mother, Jeanette Christiansen, married a man who introduced him to the music of the band the Doors, introducing him to rock music. He met bassist Nikolai Fraiture at the age of six, and attended a Swiss boarding school where he met guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. He did not complete high school, but received a GED. After meeting guitarist Nick Valensi and drummer Fab Moretti at Dwight School in Manhattan, Manhattan, New York the group began experimenting with music together. After adding Hammond Jr., the Strokes wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nite Jewel
Ramona Gonzalez (known professionally as Nite Jewel) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California that is currently based in Oakland. Biography Ramona Gonzalez began as Nite Jewel in 2008 as the result of her juggling music with undergraduate studies.Breaking: Nite Jewel Rollingstone.com She cites artists such as and as her musical inspirations. With assistance from her then-husband, Cole M.G.N., she created songs on a portable eight-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Heron
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective "Lords" can refer to a group or body of peers. Etymology According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of English'', the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word ''hlāford'' which originated from ''hlāfweard'' meaning "loaf-ward" or "bread-keeper", reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers. The appellation "lord" is primarily applied to men, while for women the appellation "lady" is used. This is no longer universal: the Lord of Mann, a title previously held by the Queen of the United Kingdom, and female Lords Mayor are examples of women who are styled as "Lord". Historical usage Feudalism Under the feudal system, "lord" had a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lykke Li
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (born 18 March 1986), known as Lykke Li (), is a Swedish singer, songwriter, model and actress. Her music often blends elements of indie pop, dream pop and Electronic music, electronic. Her debut studio album, ''Youth Novels'', was released in 2008, and has been followed by ''Wounded Rhymes'' (2011), ''I Never Learn'' (2014), ''So Sad So Sexy'' (2018), and ''Eyeye'' (2022). She is best known for her biggest hit single to date, "I Follow Rivers". Early life Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson was born in Ystad, Skåne County, Skåne; her mother, , was a photographer, and her father, (stage name Zilverzurfarn), is a member of the Swedish punk-reggae band Dag Vag. Her younger brother, Zacharias Zachrisson ( Vacation Forever), is also a musician. The family moved to Stockholm when Zachrisson was a toddler and when she was six moved to a mountaintop in Portugal where they lived for five years. The family also spent time in Lisbon and Morocco, and winters in Nepal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Harper
Benjamin Charles Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records, and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner and seven-time nominee, with awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album in 2004 and Best Blues Album in 2013. At the 40th Blues Music Awards ceremony, Harper's joint composition with Charlie Musselwhite, "No Mercy in This Land", was named Song of the Year. Early life Harper was born in Pomona, California. His late father, Leonard Harper, was of African-American ancestry, and his mother, Ellen Harper Verdries ( Chase), is Jewish. His maternal great-grandmother was a Russian- Lithuanian Jew. His parents divorced when he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Gayl Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist. She recorded her first two albums, ''Ramblin' on My Mind (Lucinda Williams album), Ramblin' on My Mind'' (1979) and ''Happy Woman Blues'' (1980), in a traditional country and blues style that received critical praise but little public or radio attention. In 1988, she released her third album, Lucinda Williams (album), ''Lucinda Williams'', to widespread critical acclaim. Regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also features "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter for her 1992 album ''Come On Come On'', which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 36th Annual Grammy Awards, 1994. Known for working slowly, Williams released her fourth album, ''Sweet Old World'', four years later in 1992. ''Sweet Old World'' was met with further critical acclaim and was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in ''The Village Voice''s Pazz & Jop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
