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Money Sucks, Friends Rule
''Money Sucks, Friends Rule'' is the debut studio album by Dillon Francis, an American electronic music producer known for being one of the pioneers of moombahton and moombahcore. The album features collaborations from artists such as Major Lazer, Martin Garrix, Mad Decent label-mate DJ Snake, rapper Twista, Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and more. It was released on October 24, 2014, on Mad Decent in collaboration with Columbia Records. The album debuted on ''Billboard'' 200 at No. 40, and No. 2 on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart, selling 9,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 20,000 copies in the US as of July 2015. Background In 2013, Francis announced in a headlining Wurld Turr that he was working on a debut album and that it's set to be released on 2014. On April 22, 2014, he announced the name of his album ''Money Sucks, Friends Rule'', and on August 5, 2014, he revealed the released date of the album. On March 22, 2014, Francis announced via his offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillon Francis
Dillon Hart Francis (born October 5, 1987), also known as DJ Hanzel, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He played a key role in popularizing moombahton and later developed its heavier variants, moombahcore and EDM trap. Early life and education Dillon Hart Francis was born on October 5, 1987, in Los Angeles, California,Ahmed, Insanul (March 13, 2012Who Is Dillon Francis?Complex. Retrieved on March 31, 2013. to an American father who works in alternative medicine, and a Serbian- Croatian mother. He described his upbringing as sheltered, noting he did not learn swear words until the age of 15 and was only allowed to watch television after viewing two hours of ''Sesame Street''. He attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where he took a course that emphasized creative expression across various art forms. He then briefly enrolled at Santa Monica College before leaving to pursue a music career. With $500, he moved to Atlanta to work with a friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When We Were Young (Dillon Francis And Sultan + Shepard Song)
"When We Were Young" is a song by American electronic music producer Dillon Francis and Canadian electronic duo Sultan + Shepard featuring guest vocals of The Chain Gang of 1974. The song was written by Dillon Francis and The Chain Gang of 1974, with production handled by Dillon Francis and Sultan + Shepard. It was released as a digital download on 5 August 2014 and is the second single from his debut studio album ''Money Sucks, Friends Rule''. Francis released the music video on 21 October 2014 in YouTube. Background After confirming his new album name and release date, Dillon Francis collaborates with Sultan + Shepard and The Chain Gang of 1974 to launch together his new song on 5 August 2014 named, "When We Were Young". Later, Francis announced an EP that features the official remixes of "When We Were Young". On 21 October 2014, the music video for When We Were Young released on Dillon Francis' YouTube channel. The video features Dillon Francis playing a fictional three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendon Urie
Brendon Boyd Urie (born April 12, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is best known as the former lead vocalist and frontman of Panic! at the Disco, the only constant member throughout the band's 19-year run. Many of his songs have achieved commercial success, reaching high spots on ''Billboard'' charts and millions of sales. On January 24, 2023, Urie announced that he would be discontinuing Panic! at the Disco, since he and his wife are having a child. He currently plays drums in a band led by former Panic! At the Disco touring guitarist, Mike Viola. Early life Urie was born in St. George, Utah, and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was two years old. He is the fifth and youngest child born to Boyd and Grace Urie. He is of about one quarter Polynesian descent from Hawaii, through his mother's side. He was raised in an LDS family but renounced his faith around 17 due to displeasure with the church and not believing in its ideology. Urie a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic! At The Disco
Panic! at the Disco was an American pop rock band formed in Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2004 by high school friends Ryan Ross (guitar) and Spencer Smith (musician), Spencer Smith (drums), who recruited classmates Brendon Urie (vocals and guitar) and Brent Wilson (bass). Following several lineup changes, Panic! at the Disco operated as the solo project of frontman Urie from 2015 until its discontinuation in 2023. The band recorded their first demos while they were in high school. Shortly after, they recorded and released their debut studio album, ''A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'' (2005). Popularized by the second single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", the album was certified RIAA certification, triple platinum in the US. In 2006, Wilson was fired from the band during an extensive world tour and subsequently replaced by Jon Walker. The band's second album, ''Pretty. Odd.'' (2008), was preceded by the single "Nine in the Afternoon". The album marked a significant departure from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twista
Carl Terrell Mitchell (born November 27, 1973), better known by his stage name Twista (also known as Tung Twista), is an American rapper. He is best known for his Chopper (rap), chopper style of rapping and for once holding the title of fastest English-speaking rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 598 syllables in 55 seconds. In 1997, after appearing on Do or Die (group), Do or Die's hit single "Po Pimp", produced by the Legendary Traxster, Twista signed with Big Beat Records (American record label), Big Beat and Atlantic Records, where he released his third album ''Adrenaline Rush (album), Adrenaline Rush'' and formed the group Speedknot Mobstaz, in 1998. His 2004 album ''Kamikaze (Twista album), Kamikaze'' topped the U.S. Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, after the success of the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number-one single "Slow Jamz" (with Kanye West and Jamie Foxx). Early life Carl Terrell Mitchell was born o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moombahcore
Moombahton (, ) is an electronic dance music genre, derived from house music and reggaeton, that was created by American DJ and producer Dave Nada in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Nada coined the name as a portmanteau of "Moombah" (a track by Surinamese house DJ Chuckie and Dutch producer/DJ Silvio Ecomo) and reggaeton (itself a neologism combining reggae with the Spanish suffix ''-ton'', signifying big). Characteristics Identifying characteristics of moombahton include a thick and spread-out bass line, dramatic builds, and a two-step pulse with quick drum fills. Occasionally moombahton includes rave music synthesizers and a cappella rap samples. Musically, moombahton mixes the rhythmic origins of Dutch house or house music, the slow tempo of reggaeton, usually between 100-110bpm, accompanied by bouncy percussions from reggaeton. History Moombahton was created by Dave Nada in late 2009 while DJing his cousin's high school cut party in Washington, D.C. He blended the house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means (electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depend entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer: no acoustic waves need to be previously generated by mechanical means and then converted into electrical signals. On the other hand, electromechanical instruments have mechanical parts such as strings or hammers that generate the sound waves, together with electric elements including pickup (music technology), magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers that convert the acoustic waves into electrical signals, process them and convert them back into sound waves. Such electromechanical devices in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slant Magazine
''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival. History ''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and '' New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former '' Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012. In the media ''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film '' Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the '' Chicago Sun-Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rovi Corporation
TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. Now operating as Xperi, the company is primarily involved in licensing its intellectual property within the consumer electronics industry, including digital rights management, electronic program guide software, and metadata. The company holds over 6,000 pending and registered patents. The company also provides analytics and recommendation platforms for the video industry. In 2016, Rovi acquired digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc., and renamed itself TiVo Corporation. On May 30, 2019, TiVo announced the appointment of Dave Shull as the company's new president and CEO. On December 19, 2019, TiVo merged with Xperi; the combined firm operates as Xperi. History Macrovision Corporation was established in 1983 by Victor Farrow and John O. Ryan. The 1984 film '' The Cotton Club'' was the first video to be e ... [...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] |
Love In The Middle Of A Firefight
"Love in a Middle of a Firefight" is a song by American electronic music producer Dillon Francis, featuring vocals of American singer and Panic! at the Disco member Brendon Urie. The song was written by Dillon Francis and Brendon Urie, with production handled by Dillon Francis, Billboard and Ammo. The song is the sixth single of Francis’s debut album, ''Money Sucks, Friends Rule'', and was released for digital download on 16 October 2014. The song was originally intended to be the final single, however the song Not Butter took the place, released on 22 June 2015. Background Francis announced that he is working on the sixth single, in which will feature Panic! at the Disco main member Brendon Urie. The song was released by Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
