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Person L
Person L was an American rock music, rock band fronted by Kenny Vasoli, of the pop punk band The Starting Line. Vasoli formed Person L in the winter of 2006 as an outlet to explore other musical styles. The group also consisted of drummers Brian Medlin and Ryan Zimmaro (previously of the band The Prize Fight), bassist Charles Schneider (previously of the band The Suicide Pact) and keyboardist and guitarist Nate Vaeth. History Person L was founded by the Starting Line vocalist/bassist Kenny Vasoli in winter 2006. Vasoli then brought members of the Minor Times, Inkling, the Prize Fight and the Suicide Pact into the group. The band performed their first show on December 22 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Person L released a split single with Weatherbox in May 2008. He initially wrote the song, "Storms", while on the road with The Starting Line. Person L's debut record ''Initial (album), Initial'' was released on August 5 on Vasoli's own label, Human Interest. During the summer of 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowery Ballroom
The Bowery Ballroom is a New York City live music venue located at 6 Delancey Street in Manhattan's Bowery neighborhood. The venue has enjoyed a fabled reputation among musicians as well as audiences. In 2013, industry insiders polled by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine named it the best club in America, describing it as "both intimate and grand, with consistently great sound and sightlines, and touches of old-school class." ''Consequence of Sound'' named it the second-best music venue in the United States. It has a capacity of 575 people. History The Bowery Ballroom was founded in 1998 by Michael Swier, Michael Winsch, and Brian Swier, who still own and operate the business. The club was the team's second music venue after Mercury Lounge, The Mercury Lounge. The building at 6 Delancey Street was built to be a high-end shoe store and haberdashery just before the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929. It stood vacant until the end of World War II, when it housed a series of shops. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circa Survive
Circa Survive was an American rock music, rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that formed in 2004. Founded by singer Anthony Green (musician), Anthony Green and guitarist Colin Frangicetto, the band consisted of former members from This Day Forward and Taken. Circa Survive quickly made a name for themselves in the indie music scene in little over two years with their 2005 debut album, ''Juturna (album), Juturna'', and second album, ''On Letting Go'', released in 2007. Both albums were released on Equal Vision Records. Their third album, ''Blue Sky Noise'', was released via Atlantic Records in 2010. After parting ways with Atlantic Records, the band's fourth album, ''Violent Waves'', was released independently in 2012. Their fifth album, ''Descensus (Circa Survive album), Descensus'', was released by Sumerian Records in 2014, and their sixth, The Amulet, with Hopeless Records in October 2017. The band would follow with two EPs on Rise Records: ''A Dream About Love'' in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PureVolume
PureVolume (formerly Unborn Media) was a website for uploading and streaming of music files, the first independently run of its type. PureVolume was created by Unborn Media, Inc; Mitchell Pavao; Brett Woitunski; and Nate Hudson, all from the University of Massachusetts. PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. The mission was to give artists a new promotion tool. Each artist had a profile that typically contains basic info, updates, photos, shows and music for streaming. Artists had the option of making each of their songs available for free download. Listeners and fans were also able to create profiles to interact with artists and each other, as well as track and share music they liked. PureVolume went through several layout changes and a change from orange to blue, but the layout from the homepage to the artist profiles remained essentially the same since 2003. The focus is on promoting "indie" music groups and artists, but som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MySpace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated Whitespace character#Substitute images, open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga, RockYou, and Photobucket, among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world. In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million; in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $800 million in revenue. At its peak in April 2008, Myspace had 115 million monthly visitors; by that time, the recently emerg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Positives (album)
''The Positives'' is the second and final full-length studio album by American rock band Person L, released through Academy Fight Song on November 17, 2009. Background and production On January 24, 2008, "I Sing the Body Electric" was posted on the group's Myspace profile, followed by "Goodness Gracious" on February 4. In February 2009, it was revealed that the band's next album would be released later in the year. ''The Positives'' was produced and engineered by Aaron Marsh, with recording starting on February 10. On March 2, frontman Kenny Vasoli posted an update from the studio: "I have four more songs to sing, ndthere are a few guitars left to track along with some general what-have-yous." On March 9, it was announced that recording was finished. 14 songs were tracked, with 12 of them appearing on the album. The album was mixed at the end of the month by Matt Goldman, and mastered by Alex Lowe. Composition The first single from the album is "Untitled", which remained without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Bazaar
''Brooklyn Bazaar'' is Scott Tixier's debut album recorded in Brooklyn in September 2011 and co-produced by Jean-Luc Ponty and Mark Feldman. It was released in March 2012 by Sunnyside Records and was well received by critics (NPR "Song of the day"; "Coup De Coeur" Fnac; The New York City Jazz Record;). ''Brooklyn Bazaar'' was listed in the ''JazzTimes'' Top 50 CDs of 2012. Track listing All songs by Scott Tixier #"Keep in Touch" – 6:02 #"Bushwick Party" – 5:45 #"Arawaks" – 4:12 #"Elephant Rose" – 6:38 #"String Theory" – 6:06 #"Miss Katsu" – 4:58 #"Facing Windows" – 7:20 #"Shopping with Mark F" – 5:17 #"Roach Dance" – 5:16 Personnel *Scott Tixier – violin *Douglas Bradford – guitars *Jesse Elder – electric keyboards and acoustic piano *Massimo Biolcati – bass *Arthur Vint – drums *Emilie Weibel – vocal Technical Credits *Dave Darlington (2 Grammy Awards) - Mixing/Mastering *François Zalacain - Executive Producer *Rob Mosher - Producer *Mike Marcian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacationer (band)
Vacationer is an American electropop and dream pop band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is composed of Kenny Vasoli (lead singer/bass), Ryan Zimmaro (drums), Michael Mullin (keyboards/backing vocals), Greg Altman (guitar/backing vocals). Song writing is done primarily by Kenny Vasoli. History Vasoli expressed interest to Matt Watts, his manager and friend, about doing an electronic project after being inspired by LCD Soundsystem and other acts at the 2010 Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Watts connected Vasoli to the band Body Language (band), Body Language which had a studio based in the neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn called Landau Audio Design (LAD). After one session the song "Great Love" was started and the musical relationship was established. Subsequent instrumental recordings were started in Brooklyn and sent to Vasoli, who would add vocals and bass guitar. The songs started to take on tropical qualities due to Young's coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra is an American indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, that formed in 2004. The group's current line-up is composed of lead singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist Andy Hull, lead guitarist Robert McDowell, bassist Andy Prince and drummer Tim Very. Hull is the band's only original member, having overseen every iteration of the band to date. Former drummer Jeremiah Edmond parted ways with the band in January 2010 to focus on his family and on running the band's record label, Favorite Gentlemen. The band's original bassist, Jonathan Corley, parted ways with the band in 2013. Keyboardist/percussionist Chris Freeman announced his departure from the band in September 2016. Manchester Orchestra has released several extended plays and six studio albums to date: '' I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child'' (2006), '' Mean Everything to Nothing'' (2009), '' Simple Math'' (2011), ''Cope'' (2014) (as well as its accompanying acoustic version, ''Hope''), '' A Black Mile to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nolan (musician)
John Thomas Nolan (born February 24, 1978) is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Taking Back Sunday, and the former lead singer, pianist, and guitarist of Straylight Run. Nolan left Taking Back Sunday in 2003 along with bassist Shaun Cooper, with whom he formed Straylight Run. During March 2010, he and Cooper rejoined Taking Back Sunday, reforming the ''Tell All Your Friends''-era lineup. Nolan is also a solo artist and has recorded an album called ''Height'' and "Live at Looney Tunes." Biography John Thomas Nolan was born in Baltimore, Maryland, then at three, moved to Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York, United States. As member of the band Taking Back Sunday he performs lead guitar, vocals and keyboards, in Straylight Run he performs lead vocals, piano, and guitar. Taking Back Sunday In 1999, John was recruited into Taking Back Sunday by Jesse Lacey. He later would invite Adam Lazzara to join the band. In 2002 the band woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business
I Can Make a Mess, formerly I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, is an American acoustic/alternative rock band, the side project of Ace Enders, lead singer and guitarist of the Early November. History Self-titled album (2004) Though the self-titled album was originally the only planned official release under the name I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, time would prove otherwise. The project spawned from Enders' desire to make music different from the Early November. Background noises, such as a television playing, are heard throughout the album until the eleventh track, "End of Background Noise" to symbolize the background noises in one's daily life. The main image in the album artwork is a yard rake, which symbolically counters the maple leaf that is associated with the Early November. The last track, "Salvy", is named after Enders' grandfather. The song "The Best Happiness Money Can Buy" appeared in a movie trailer for '' Must Love Dogs''. Revival of the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copeland (band)
Copeland is an American rock band formed in 2001 by the singer, pianist Aaron Marsh (who also plays guitar) with his friend, the bass guitarist and backing vocalist James Likeness, in Lakeland, Florida. History Inception Aaron Marsh and Bryan Laurenson signed a record deal with the independent label The Militia Group in 2002 and released their first album, '' Beneath Medicine Tree'', a year later. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, they performed at the annual Cornerstone Florida Festival in Orlando, Florida. '' In Motion'', Copeland's second full-length album, was released on March 22, 2005. It was produced by Matt Goldman and Aaron Marsh, and mixed by Ken Andrews. The early copies of ''In Motion'' included a four-song acoustic EP (a compilation of lo-fi versions of songs from ''In Motion'' itself), as well as "Beneath Medicine Tree". 2006 to 2008 '' Beneath Medicine Tree'' has a heavy medical theme. Aaron Marsh stated that the lyrics in this album were inspired by the hospitali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace Enders
Arthur Carl "Ace" Enders III (born April 19, 1982) is an American musician who is the lead singer and guitarist of the band The Early November. He is also the lead musician, songwriter and co-producer in his band I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business. He has also released music under the name Ace Enders and a Million Different People. Biography Introduction to music and The Early November Enders began playing guitar after being inspired by watching his step dad, Robert Gazzara, play in a band. Enders taught himself how to play his step dad's old guitar. In February 2001, Enders along with guitarist Jim Sacco, bassist Sergio Anello and drummer Jeff Kummer formed The Early November. In 2003, after the release of their first two EPs For All of This, and The Acoustic EP, the band released their debut full-length album ''The Room's Too Cold''. In 2004, Enders started his own solo project I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, releasing the I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
