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Lewis Lazar
Lewis Lazar is a musician, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter based in Paris. He has been active around three musical projects: under his own name, Oracle Sisters and formerly the supergroup Summer Moon. Prints from his illustrated book, ''The Book of JibJab'', were displayed at the Crypt gallery in London in association with black&BLUE in 2014 and subsequently sold in the UK. His band, Lewis Lazar and the Hydras, performed residencies at Happy Ending and the Leadbelly, and around New York City. He recorded and self released numerous recordings including ''The Time of the Assassins'' (2012), produced by Gordon Raphael, and ''The King O' The Cats'' (2013). In 2015 Lewis Lazar signed with Japanese independent record label MAGNIPH and Hostess to release his self produced record Razzmatazz recorded in New York City in Chinatown. The album was completed in 2016 and released in stores in Japan on Saint Patrick's day in 2017 Two singles off the album have been re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Lazar Throwing A Chair
Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * " Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead from ''My Iron Lung'' Places * Lewis (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon * Isle of Lewis, the northern part of Lewis and Harris, Western Isles, Scotland United States * Lewis, Colorado * Lewis, Indiana * Lewis, Iowa * Lewis, Kansas * Lewis Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts * Lewis, Missouri * Lewis, Essex County, New York * Lewis, Lewis County, New York * Lewis, North Carolina * Lewis, Vermont * Lewis, Wisconsin Ships * USS ''Lewis'' (1861), a sailing ship * USS ''Lewis'' (DE-535), a destroyer escort in commission from 1944 to 1946 Science * Lewis structure, a diagram of a molecule that shows the bonding between the atoms * Lewis acids and bases * Lewis antigen system, a human blood group system * Lewis number In fluid d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oracle Sisters
The Oracle Sisters is a Paris-based indie rock, indie folk, and indie pop band formed in 2017. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Lewis Lazar, Christopher Willatt, and Julia Johansen. They were featured as one of NME's Essential New Artists for 2019. The name "Oracle Sisters" was inspired by the film The Warriors. Lazar said in an interview with Clash Magazine, "We were trying to find a gang name that connotated the type of music we were writing at the time. The Oracle Sisters was inspired by that concept of all these games. Like The Baseball Furies – the two words put together describe an entity. We were looking for our own warriors gang." History Despite being based in Paris, none of the members of the band is of French origin. Lewis Lazar is from Denmark, Chris Willatt is from Northern Ireland, and Johansen is from Finland. Lazar and Willatt met at school aged 15 or 16 in Brussels but diverged afterwards to New York and Scotland, respectively. The pair met Juli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Raphael
Gordon Raphael is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington and New York (state), New York, currently living in Hebden Bridge (UK), after a 15 years in Berlin. Gordon runs a website calleGordotronicwhich features his own original music, artwork and writings. In the year 2022 he published his first book, "The World Is Going To Love This (Up From The Basement With The Strokes)" thougWordville Pressin London. Raphael is most widely known for his work with The Strokes, whom he met while attending an early show at Luna Lounge on Ludlow Street, New York City. He produced their debut EP ''The Modern Age'' as well as their first two albums ''Is This It'' and ''Room on Fire''. The EP and first album were recorded entirely in his basement studio Transporterraum NYC (co-owned by Jimmy Goodman). He has also produced songs for The Cribs, Sarah Maguire, Skin (musician), Skin, Mexico's top rock band Fobia, Satellites (from Mallorca), and ''Soviet Kitsch'' by Regina Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Fraiture
Nikolai Philippe Fraiture (born November 13, 1978) is an American musician best known as the bassist of the rock band The Strokes. Since co-founding the band in 1998, he has released six studio albums with them. Among other creative projects, Fraiture released a solo record under the name Nickel Eye in 2009 and has been the frontman of the band Summer Moon since 2016. Early life Fraiture was born in New York City to a French-Russian mother and French father. He was raised with his older brother Pierre and younger sister Elizabeth in the Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side. Fraiture met future bandmate Julian Casablancas at the age of six while attending the Friends School and Lycée Français de New York, from which he graduated in 1997. Through Casablancas, Fraiture met future Strokes members Nick Valensi and Fabrizio Moretti while they were teenagers. Fraiture later attended Hunter College with Valensi. Fraiture received his first bass at 16 when his grandfather ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American Rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1998. The band is composed of lead singer and primary songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, Jr., Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. They were a leading group of the early-2000s garage rock revival and post-punk revival movements. The release of their debut EP ''The Modern Age'' in early 2001 sparked a bidding war among minor labels, with the band eventually signing to RCA Records. That summer, they released their debut album, ''Is This It'', to widespread critical acclaim and strong sales. It has since appeared on numerous "greatest albums" lists. It was followed by ''Room on Fire'' (2003) and ''First Impressions of Earth'' (2005), both of which sold well but failed to match ''Is This It'' in immediate critical success, despite positive reviews nonetheless. Following a five-year hiatus, they released ''Angles (The Strokes albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Thomas
Tennessee Thomas (born 17 December 1984) is a British drummer. She is best known as the drummer of bands The Like and Nice as Fuck. As an actress, she has played drummers in fictional bands. Early and personal life Thomas is the daughter of Pete Thomas (drummer), Pete Thomas, drummer for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, and first started playing the drums at the age of 13. She was raised in both London and Los Angeles, forming band The Like when she was in high school in LA. She was dating Mark Ronson in 2009. Career Thomas was a founding member and drummer of the indie rock group The Like. The band formed in 2001, when the group were teenagers; all three of the founding members are daughters of music industry veterans. She deejayed at the Rachel Antonoff show at New York Fashion Week in 2011. By 2014, The Like were taking a "seemingly permanent hiatus". With a group of female activists and artists, including Lena Dunham, Alexa Chung and Alia Penner, she performed to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Au Revoir Simone
Au Revoir Simone is an American indie pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2003. The group is composed of Erika Forster (vocals/keyboard), Annie Hart (vocals/keyboard/bass) and Heather D'Angelo (vocals/drum machine/keyboard). The band's name comes from a line Pee-wee Herman says to a minor character (named Simone) in Tim Burton's 1985 film '' Pee-wee's Big Adventure''. The group's musical inspirations were compared by the band's European label, Moshi Moshi Records, to "a dutifully mined musical thrift store"; these diverse influences include Modest Mouse, Stereolab, the Mountain Goats, Louis Prima, Pavement, the Beach Boys, Björk, Broadcast, Belle & Sebastian, David Bowie, Bee Gees and Billie Holiday. History Au Revoir Simone formed in late 2003 when Forster (formerly of Dirty on Purpose) and Hart met on a train ride home to New York from Vermont and decided to form an all-keyboard band. They were soon joined at practices by D'Angelo and a fourth memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby's All Right
Baby's All Right is a bar and music venue in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. The venue is known as a hub for Brooklyn's indie music scene, and its programming ranges from rock and jazz to electronic and experimental. Notable acts have included SZA, Billie Eilish, A$AP Rocky, and Ariel Pink. History Baby's All Right opened in 2013 in the former production facility of Hygrade Food Products, a historic hot dog manufacturer. The venue was co-founded by bookers Zachary Mexico and Billy Jones and constructed by Hecho, Inc. The venue was part of an indie music revival in Williamsburg that included the openings of several small venues in 2012 and 2013. The venue has cultivated a reputation for booking acts at the forefront of indie music; ''Byline'' called it a leading presenter of the 2020s "indie sleaze revival." In 2017, the venue's commercial success led its owners to pursue a location in Los Angeles' Chinatown neighborhood; it is not clear if the new venue ever opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father John Misty
Joshua Michael Tillman (born May 3, 1981), better known by his stage name Father John Misty, is an American musician. He is known for his satirical lyrics and eccentric performance style. Tillman began his career in Seattle in the early 2000s. One of his demos reached Damien Jurado, and in 2003 he opened for him on his tour. Tillman began performing and releasing studio albums under the name J. Tillman. The albums were characterised by their folk sound and intimate lyrics. In 2008 Tillman joined the band Fleet Foxes as their drummer during the tour for their first record; he went on to play on their second album, '' Helplessness Blues'' (2011). Tillman left the band soon after the record was completed and started a new solo project, now under the name Father John Misty, releasing his first record, '' Fear Fun,'' in 2012. The album was a radical departure from his previous output, featuring a more marked, indie rock sound and satirical lyrics. His second album, '' I Love You, Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Musicians
French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), a 2008 film * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a type of military jacket or tunic * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French (catheter scale), a unit of measurement * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French Revolution (other) * French River (other), several rivers and other places * Frenching (other) Frenching may refer to: * Frenching (automobile), recessing or mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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