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Marquee Theatre
Marquee Theatre (originally known as the Red River Opry or the Red River Music Hall) is a music venue in Tempe, Arizona. The theater sits on the north side of Tempe Town Lake near the Mill Avenue Bridge, at the intersection of Mill Avenue and Washington Street, the primary business and entertainment district in Tempe. About The venue originally opened January 1993 as the "Red River Opry" (often referred to as the "Red River Music Hall") and catered for country music. The Opry filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and closed later that year. The venue was purchased by Nobody In Particular Presents in 2002. After a year of renovations, the theatre opened in March 2003. Tom LaPenna purchased the venue a year later. His company, Lucky Man Concerts (formerly Lucky Man Productions) has owned and operated the theatre since March 29, 2004. The theater features festival seating and the back of the house is approximately 80 feet from the stage. It is open to all ages and alcoholic beverages are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marquee Theatre - NEC - 2011-02-15
Marquee may refer to: * Marquee (overhang), a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building * Marquee (structure), a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel, theater, casino, train station, or similar building. * Pole marquee, a large tent, generally used as a temporary building * ''Marquee'' (TV series), 1979 Canadian drama television series * Marquee Cinemas, a movie theater chain in the United States * Marquee Club, commonly called the Marquee, a rock club in London * Marquee element, an HTML tag that makes text scroll across the page as if on a marquee * Marquee Sports Network, a Chicago-based regional sports cable channel * Marquee Theatre, a concert venue in Tempe, Arizona, US * "Marquee Sign" (song), a 2017 single by Sara Evans * "Marquee", a song by Superchunk from their 1997 album, ''Indoor Living'' * Marquee Broadcasting, a small American broadcasting company * The Marquee (mountain), a mountain in New Zealand See also * Marquee player, professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Of Horses
Band of Horses is an American Rock music, rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle, Seattle, Washington. Led by singer-songwriter Ben Bridwell, who has been the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes, the band's current line-up also includes longtime members Creighton Barrett (drums) and Ryan Monroe (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), alongside Matt Gentling (bass, backing vocals) and Brett Nash (guitar, backing vocals). For ten years, the band's most stable line-up featured guitarist Tyler Ramsey and bassist Bill Reynolds, who recorded and performed with the band between 2007 and 2017, before acrimoniously departing. To date, the band has released six studio albums: ''Everything All the Time'' (2006), ''Cease to Begin'' (2007), ''Infinite Arms'' (2010), ''Mirage Rock'' (2012), ''Why Are You OK'' (2016) and ''Things Are Great'' (2022), with ''Infinite Arms'' being nominated for a Grammy Award in 2011. History Formation and ''Everything All the Time'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongos (band)
Kongos (often styled as KONGOS) is a South African Americans, South African American band, now based in Austin, Texas. The alternative rock group consists of four brothers: Dylan (vocals, bass guitar, guitar), Johnny (accordion, keyboards, vocals), Jesse (drums, percussion, vocals) and Daniel Kongos (guitar, vocals). Beginnings They spent their childhoods in the city of East London, South Africa, East London, South Africa. They compose, record and perform in Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas. They graduated from Chaparral High School (Arizona), Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona and attended Arizona State University. The four men are the sons of recording artist John Kongos. They are of Greeks, Greek, Americans, American and Mexicans, Mexican origin and have attended the Greek Saheti school in Gauteng, South Africa. History ''Lunatic'' (2011–2015) The band's second album ''Lunatic (Kongos album), Lunatic'' was released in 2012. The single "I'm Only Joking" topped vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kings Of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, in 1999. The band includes brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew Followill. The band's early music was a blend of Southern rock and garage rock with blues influences, but it has evolved throughout the years to include a variety of music genres and a more alternative rock-based sound. Kings of Leon achieved initial success in the United Kingdom with nine UK Singles Chart, top 40 singles and two BRIT Awards in 2008, and all three of the band's albums at the time peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart. Their third album, ''Because of the Times'', reached No. 1. After the release of ''Only by the Night'' in September 2008, the band achieved chart success in the United States. The singles "Sex on Fire", "Use Somebody", and "Notion (Kings of Leon song), Notion" all peaked at number one on the Alternative Songs, Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album was their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Killers
The Killers are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001 by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards, bass) and Dave Keuning (lead guitar, backing vocals). After the band went through a number of short-term bassists and drummers, Mark Stoermer (bass, rhythm guitar, backing vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion) joined in 2002. The Killers have released seven studio albums, each of which topped the UK Albums Chart: ''Hot Fuss'' (2004), ''Sam's Town'' (2006), ''Day & Age'' (2008), ''Battle Born (album), Battle Born'' (2012), ''Wonderful Wonderful (The Killers album), Wonderful Wonderful'' (2017), ''Imploding the Mirage'' (2020), and ''Pressure Machine'' (2021). They have also released a B-sides and rarities compilation album, compilation, ''Sawdust (album), Sawdust'' (2007); a live album, ''Live from the Royal Albert Hall'' (2009); two Greatest hits album, greatest-hits albums, ''Direct Hits (The Killers album), Direct Hits'' (2013) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists in history, having sold over 143 million records worldwide. Perry is known for her influence on pop music and her Camp (style), camp style, being dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Camp" by Vogue (magazine), ''Vogue'' and ''Rolling Stone''. The Forbes list of the world's highest-paid musicians#Female, world's highest-paid female musician in 2015 and 2018, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' named her among the Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars#21st century, greatest pop stars of the 21st century. At 16, Perry released a gospel music, gospel record titled ''Katy Hudson (album), Katy Hudson'' (2001) under Pamplin Music, Red Hill Records, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 to venture into Secular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Mesa, Arizona, in 1993. The band is composed of lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind. They have released ten studio albums, all but the first featuring the current line-up. The four-piece's commercial breakthrough came with the release of several singles from their album ''Bleed American'' (2001), four of which charted within the top 20 positions of the Hot Modern Rock Tracks, Alternative Songs chart, with "The Middle (Jimmy Eat World song), The Middle" reaching No. 1. Their follow-up album, ''Futures (album), Futures'' (2004), featured the No. 1 song "Pain (Jimmy Eat World song), Pain". The Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA-certified ''Bleed American'' platinum and ''Futures'' gold, rewarding the two albums for selling over 1.5 million records between them. The band's sixth LP, ''Chase This Light'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He also wrote the 1968 song " Mr. Bojangles". Early life Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on March 16, 1942. His father, Mel, worked as a sports referee and bartender; his mother, Alma (Conrow), was a housewife. His maternal grandparents played for square dances in the Oneonta area – his grandmother, Jessie Conrow, playing piano, while his grandfather played fiddle. During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. After high school, Crosby joined the National Guard, but his thirst for adventure led him to go AWOL and he was eventually discharged. He went on to roam the country busking for a living in New Orleans and throughout Texas, Florida, and New York, often accompanied by H. R. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro-funk, electro styles using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this time that he released one of his best-known and most influential albums, ''Head Hunters''. Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man (composition), Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage (composition), Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon (composition), Chameleon", all of which are jazz standards. During the 1980s, he had a hit single with the electronic instrumental "Rockit (song), Rockit", a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Academy Awards, Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country musician and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting ''The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album. Born in Billstown, Arkansas, Campbell began his professional career as a session musician, studio musician in Los Angeles, spending several years playing with the group of instrumentalists later known as "The Wrecking Crew (music), The Wrecking Crew". After becoming a solo artist, he placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Hot Country Songs, ''Billboard'' Country Chart, Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, or Adult Contemporary (chart), Adult Contemporary Chart, of which 29 made the top 10 and of which nine reached number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wilcox (American Musician)
David Patrick Wilcox (born March 9, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter guitarist. He has been active in the music business since the late 1980s. Career Wilcox was born in Mentor, Ohio, Mentor, Ohio, and attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1976, where he began learning guitar. He later transferred to Warren Wilson College in North Carolina in 1981 and graduated in 1985. Wilcox appeared regularly at a Black Mountain, North Carolina, nightclub called McDibbs. His debut album ''The Nightshift Watchman'' was released in 1987 on Jerry Read Smith's label, Song of the Woods, and was reissued in 1996. He began touring regularly. After performing at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, he signed with A&M Records in 1989. He made several albums with this label. His albums were described by one ''Rolling Stone'' critic as "unjustly neglected". After his contract with A&M expired in 1994, Wilcox continued to write songs, tour and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Bells
Broken Bells is an American indie rock band composed of artist-producer Brian Burton (better known as Danger Mouse) and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band The Shins. Broken Bells compose and create as a duo, but are joined by Dan Elkan and Jon Sortland when performing live. The previous live band included Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band sidemen Nate Walcott and Nik Freitas, and Jonathan Hischke and Dan Elkan, both ex-members of Hella. Following their 2010 self-titled debut album, the duo released an EP, '' Meyrin Fields'', in 2011 and their second studio album, '' After the Disco'', in 2014. In 2022 they released a third studio album, '' Into the Blue''. History Brian Burton and James Mercer decided to work together after meeting at the Roskilde Festival in 2004 and finding they were fans of each other's work. By March 2008, Mercer and Burton began recording together in secret at Burton's Los Angeles–based studio. The pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
