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Phosphorescent (musician)
Phosphorescent is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Matthew Houck. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Houck began recording and performing under this nickname in 2001 in Athens, Georgia. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Overview Before recording under the name Phosphorescent, Matthew Houck toured under the name Fillup Shack and self-released a limited pressing of the album ''Hipolit'' in 2000. Houck later changed his stage name to Phosphorescent and released the full-length LP '' A Hundred Times or More'' in 2003 through Athens, Georgia-based independent label Warm Records. The following year, he released the EP '' The Weight of Flight''. Phosphorescent rose to wider critical acclaim after releasing ''Aw Come Aw Wry'' in August 2005 and ''Pride'' in October 2007. The latter was named the 12th best album of 2007 by ''Stylus Magazine'' and received an 8.0 rating from the online indie magazine ''Pitchfork''. In 2009, inspired by Willie Nelson's tribute ...
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Athens, Georgia
Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an Research I university, R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, Georgia, Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County where it is the county seat. As of 2021, the Athens-Clarke County's official website's population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville, Georgia, Winterville and a portion of Bogart, Georgia, Bogart) was 128,711. Athens is the Georgia (U.S. state)#Major cities, sixth-most populous city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, Athens metropolitan area, which had ...
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Stylus Magazine
''Stylus Magazine'' was an American online music and film magazine, launched in 2002 and co-founded by Todd L. Burns. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, ''Stylus'' had daily features like "The Singles Jukebox", which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and "Soulseeking", a column focused on personal responses in listening. Even though they never reached the readership of other music magazines such as PopMatters or Pitchfork, they still had a very consistent and fired-up audience . In 2006, the site was chosen by the '' Observer Music Monthly'' as one of the Internet's 25 most essential music websites. ''Stylus'' closed as a business on 31 October 2007. On 4 January 2010, with the blessing of former editor Todd Burns, ''Stylus'' senior writer Nick Southall launched ''The Stylus Decade'', a website with a new series of lists and essays reviewing music from the previous ten ...
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C'est La Vie (Phosphorescent Album)
''C'est La Vie'' is the seventh studio album by Phosphorescent. The album was released on Dead Oceans on October 5, 2018. Release On July 30, 2018, Matthew Houck - under his stage name ''Phosphorescent'' - announced the release of his seventh album, along with the first single "New Birth in New England". Critical reception ''C'est La Vie'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 19 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 21 reviews. Track listing Charts Personnel Credits adapted from AllMusic Musicians * Matthew Houck – primary artist, vocals, producer * Ricky Ray Jackson – guitar * Luke Reynolds – guitar * Christopher Marine – drums * Kevin Black – bass * Jo Schornikow – accordion, piano * Scott Stapleton – piano * Da ...
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Revelator (Phosphorescent Album)
''Revelator'' is the eighth studio album by American band Phosphorescent, released on April 5, 2024, as their label debut on Verve Records and their first studio album in six years, following '' C'est La Vie'' (2018). Background Lead member Matthew Houck recorded the album at his Nashville studio over the course of six months. Houck considers the album the best he has ever written, as it explores "unspoken truths" that come in the process of "navigating home, partnership, and family". It features contributions from Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs, Jim White of Dirty Three and his partner Jo Schornikow. The latter wrote the song "The World Is Ending" which marks the first song in the history of Phosphorescent not written by Houck. ''Revelator'' is set to be the band's debut album on Verve Records, after having released five albums under Dead Oceans. On January 23, 2024, Houck debuted several songs from the record at ''The Bitter End'' in New York City New York, often c ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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Muchacho (album)
''Muchacho'' (Spanish for "boy") is the sixth studio album by American indie rock act Phosphorescent, released on March 19, 2013 on Dead Oceans. Self-produced by Matthew Houck, the album was preceded by the single, "Song for Zula". "Song for Zula" was also featured in ''The Spectacular Now'', ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', and the series finale of '' Superstore'': "All Sales Final". ''Muchachos lyrical content was inspired by the various events that followed his tour in support of previous studio album, '' Here's to Taking It Easy'' (2010). Released to widespread critical acclaim, the album reached fifty-nine on the ''Billboard'' 200 and fifty-eight on the UK Albums Chart. Background and recording In 2012, Matthew Houck was forced, due to New York City re-zoning, to disassemble his studio in the Navy Yards area of Brooklyn, New York, and subsequently moved to Greenpoint, where he began work on ''Muchacho'' in his reassembled studio. Regarding his new recording space, Houck n ...
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Here's To Taking It Easy
''Here's to Taking It Easy'' is the fifth full-length album by Phosphorescent. It is his third on the Dead Oceans Dead Oceans, Inc., is an American independent record label founded in 2006 and based in Bloomington, Indiana. History On June 30, 2006, Phil Waldorf founded Dead Oceans with Chris Swanson. Swanson suggested the name Dead Oceans, which came fro ... label. It was released on May 11, 2010. Track listing #"It's Hard to Be Humble (When You're from Alabama)" - 4:28 #"Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)" - 4:49 #"We'll Be Here Soon" - 3:17 #"The Mermaid Parade" - 4:22 #"I Don't Care if There's Cursing" - 4:55 #"Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough)" - 4:37 #"Hej, Me I'm Light" - 4:38 #"Heaven, Sittin' Down" - 4:26 #"Los Angeles" - 8:48 Charts References 2010 albums Phosphorescent (band) albums Dead Oceans albums {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stub ...
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Dead Oceans
Dead Oceans, Inc., is an American independent record label founded in 2006 and based in Bloomington, Indiana. History On June 30, 2006, Phil Waldorf founded Dead Oceans with Chris Swanson. Swanson suggested the name Dead Oceans, which came from the lyrics of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (1963). Chris' brother Ben Swanson, Darius Van Arman, and Jonathan Cargill of Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar also helped to found the label.Dave Maher"Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar Birth Dead Oceans" ''Pitchfork Media'', February 19, 2007. The label was launched in 2007, and is part of Secretly Group. In 2017, the label released shoegaze band Slowdive's first album in 22 years. In 2018, Dead Oceans was listed as #7 on ''Paste'' magazine's top-10 record labels of 2018. Artists * A Place to Bury Strangers * Akron/Family * Alex Lahey * Bear in Heaven * Better Oblivion Community Center * Bill Fay * Bishop Allen * Bleached * Bowerbirds * Brazos * Bright Eyes * Cali ...
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To Willie
''To Willie'' is the fourth full-length album by Phosphorescent, and his second on the Dead Oceans label. The album is a tribute to Willie Nelson Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and activist. He was one of the main figures of the outlaw country subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restr ..., with cover artwork in the style of Nelson's '' To Lefty From Willie'', itself a cover album. Rhapsody praised the album, calling it one of their favorite cover albums.Rhapsody’s Favorite Covers Albums
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# "Reasons to Quit" - 3:13 # "Too Sick to Pray" - 2:37 # "Walkin'" - 3:44 # "It's Not Supposed to Be That Way" - 3:35 # "Pick Up the Tempo" - 3:17 # "I Gotta ...
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To Lefty From Willie
''To Lefty From Willie'' is a studio album by American country music singer Willie Nelson. Recorded in 1975, the album sat in the vaults of Columbia Records until 1977. It is Willie Nelson's tribute to fellow country singer Lefty Frizzell. Track listing 2003 bonus track #"If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" (Frizzell, Beck) – 1:39 Personnel *Willie Nelson – guitar, vocals *Jody Payne – guitar *Bee Spears – bass *Bobbie Nelson – piano *Rex Ludwig – drums * Paul English – drums *Mickey Raphael Michael Siegfried Raphael (born November 7, 1951) is an American harmonica player, music producer and actor likely best known for his work with Willie Nelson, with whom he has toured as part of The Family since 1973. He has performed or record ... – harmonica References 1977 albums Willie Nelson albums 1970s tribute albums Columbia Records albums {{1970s-country-album-stub ...
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