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Midnight Machines
''Midnight Machines'' is the fifth extended play recorded by Canadian electropop singer-songwriter Lights. It was released April 8, 2016 through Warner Bros. Records. The collection serves as a companion to her 2014 album, ''Little Machines'', featuring six acoustic versions of tracks from that album alongside two newly-recorded songs. ''Midnight Machines'' received praise from critics for its maturity and earned Lights her sixth top ten album in Canada. Release and promotion ''Midnight Machines'' was announced and became available for pre-order on March 4, 2016. The acoustic version of "Meteorites" was released to digital retailers that day as the EP's only promotional single. An official music video for the song also premiered March 4. The EP was released April 8, 2016 in digital, physical, and vinyl formats. Critical reception Matt Collar of AllMusic rated the EP four stars out of five and wrote that the "folky, intimate nature" of ''Midnight Machines'' allows Lights to "wrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lights (musician)
Lights Valerie Anne Poxleitner-Bokan (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner; April 11, 1987), known Mononymous person, mononymously as Lights (previously stylized in all caps), is a Canadian musician, singer, comic book author and artist, and songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Listening (Lights album), The Listening'' (2009), included the singles "Drive My Soul" and "Saviour (Lights song), Saviour". Her second album, ''Siberia (Lights album), Siberia'', which featured the single "Toes (Lights song), Toes", was released in 2011. Her work has earned multiple Canadian Independent Music Awards, and Juno Awards including Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year, Pop Album of the Year for her third album ''Little Machines'', which included the single "Up We Go", and fourth album ''Skin & Earth'', in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Lights' fifth studio album, ''Pep (album), Pep'', was released in 2022. Her newest record ''A6'' was released May 2, 2025. Biography 1987–2007: early years Lights was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 EPs
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Drew Pearson (songwriter)
Andrew William Pearson is a Grammy-nominated American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Selected songwriting discography Selected production discography Awards and nominations Grammy Awards *Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media – "Where The River Goes" by Zac Brown Band (Nominated) Juno Awards * Pop Album of the Year – '' Little Machines'' by Lights (Won) * Pop Album of the Year – ''Party For Your Life'' by Down With Webster Down with Webster is a Canadian rap rock band from The Beaches area of Toronto who signed with Universal Motown in April 2009. The band first achieved commercial success with the release of the 2009 EP, '' Time to Win, Vol. I'' which consisted ... (Nominated) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pearson, Drew Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Songwriters from Ohio Record producers from Ohio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Running With The Boys
"Running with the Boys" is a song recorded by Canadian electropop artist Lights for her third studio album, ''Little Machines'' (2014). It was co-written by Lights and the album's producer, Drew Pearson. The song was first released September 9, 2014 as the album's second countdown single through iTunes, and was later serviced to Canadian radio on January 26, 2015, as the second official single. Composition "Running with the Boys" is a new wave-inspired song with a duration of four minutes and twelve seconds. Its instrumentation features prominent percussion beats, and additionally consists of synthesizers, guitars, and bass. The song's nostalgic lyrics express a feeling of freedom and "being a kid again," according to Lights. Music video The video for "Running with the Boys" was directed by Amit Dabrai and was shot in Stouffville, Ontario. It premiered via MuchMusic on January 26, 2015, and was added to her Vevo account on January 30. Featuring the singer's real-life friends ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason "Human Kebab" Parsons
Jason Parsons is a Canadian DJ and producer who works under the name Human Kebab. He is best known as one half of the rock/electronic duo USS, alongside Ash Buchholz. In 2023, he launched a new project, title DIVIIDEDBY, together with Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier. Biography Raised in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada, Parsons formed one half of the alternative rock band USS, until their final show, in 2022. Parsons has contributed writing and production to all USS recordings as well as to fellow Canadian artist Lights on her second album, ''Siberia'', and her subsequent release, ''Little Machines'', in 2014. As Human Kebab, Parsons hosts and DJ's two alternative rock radio remix shows. The first, ''SubSONiC'', began in 2013 in Edmonton, Alberta on Sonic 102.9, followed by ''Rock Paper Mixers'' on KXRN-LP in Laguna Beach, California three years later. Parsons has performed multiple times as a DJ alongside Canadian hip hop artist Maestro Fresh-Wes. Peaking at No. 27 on C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up We Go
"Up We Go" is a song recorded by Canadian electropop artist Lights for her third studio album, ''Little Machines'' (2014). Written by Lights in collaboration with songwriter-producer Tawgs Salter, the song was released July 22, 2014 via LIGHTS Music as the lead single from the album. In the United States, it was released to modern rock radio through Warner Bros. Records on September 9, 2014. The song has enjoyed commercial success - it reached number 31 on the ''Billboard'' Canadian Hot 100 and the top ten on multiple airplay formats, and was certified Gold by Music Canada in January 2015 - and was also met with positive reviews from contemporary music critics, being described as "impossibly catchy." Composition "Up We Go" is a synthpop song that combines Lights' signature electro-influenced pop production style with "lush" guitars. Jeff Benjamin of ''fuse'' described the style as a compromise between the lighter synths of her debut and the grittier electropop territory explored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinyl Albums
The ''Billboard'' charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in ''Billboard'' magazine. ''Billboard'' biz, the online extension of the ''Billboard'' charts, provides additional weekly charts, as well as year-end charts. The three most important charts are the ''Billboard'' Global 200 for songs globally, the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for songs in the United States of America and the ''Billboard'' 200 for albums in the United States of America, and other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 or Global 200 (though the latter globally) song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. For the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales. The weekly sales and streams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Sometimes, a recording act is remembered for its " number ones" that outperformed all other albums during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, acquiring its existing name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985), ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1991), and ''Billboard'' 200 Top Albums (1991–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales—both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, the tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Albums Chart
The ''Billboard'' Canadian Albums is the official record chart A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, ofte ... ranking the 100 most popular music albums and extended plays in Canada. It is compiled weekly (every Monday) by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Luminate, and published every Tuesday by American music and entertainment magazine ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard''. The albums are compared across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales of tracks from albums. History Prior to October 27, 2015, the Canadian albums charts were determined only by pure album sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, and published by ''Jam!'' Canadian Online Explorer, Canoe, issued every Sunday. The move to the newly named Canadian Albums c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renowned For Sound
''Renowned for Sound'' is an Australian online magazine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the comput ... that publishes music reviews, articles, and interviews with artists. The website was founded on 1 March 2013 by Australian music journalist Brendon Veevers and technical director Robert Lee. Rating system ''Renowned for Sound'' operates a simple five-star rating system, starting at 1 and allowing for intervals. Users are not allowed to vote. References External linksOfficial Website Music review websites Australian music websites Internet properties established in 2013 {{webzine-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
