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R. B. Korbet
R.B. Korbet (born Rebecca Bronwyn Korbet) is an American musician. She is perhaps most well-known for her contributing drumming and vocals to the first incarnation of art rock band King Missile, and was a member of Bush Tetras, having joined them on bass guitar in 2020. After first joining Even Worse as lead vocalist in 1981, Korbet would go on to play guitar or bass and sing in bands such as Chop Shop, Hit by a Truck, Missing Foundation, Pussy Galore, Big Stick, Navigator, Madgodz, Bubba Zanetti, Sloth, Hellvis, the Floyds of Flatbush, The Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Judas Livingston Seagull, Verona Downs, and Um. From 2019 to 2022, she played bass and sang backups with the Carvels NYC. In the duo Silk Cut, with King Missile's John S. Hall, she plays all instruments (except ukulele) and produces their recordings. In 2020, Korbet contributed the track "The Power Broker" to Marc Sloan's compilation project ''Reel to Real Vol. 1''. She also joined Bush Tetras the same year, brough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Stick (band)
Big Stick is an American musical duo formed in New York in 1985 by John Gill (guitar, vocals) and Yanna Trance (vocals, percussion, keyboards). Known mostly for their unconventional approach to songwriting and recording, Big Stick's music varies and jumps through different genres and categories, touching on punk rock, industrial music, and art rock and brutally simple performance style. History Big Stick achieved domestic and foreign cult status with their rock-punk-pop debut release, the ''Drag Racing'' EP in 1986. It was instantly recognizable for Yanna Trance's catchy voice repeatedly speaking the line "''In the summer I wear my tube top, and Eddie takes me to the dragstrip''" throughout the track. It was one of the 142 singles in BBC DJ John Peel's Record Box that he'd picked to leave behind in case of a fire. "Drag Racing" was later featured in the "John Peel's Record Box" BBC TV production and aired in conjunction with the UK Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame awards. Artist e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John S
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Music
This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2019 in music. Specific locations *2019 in African music, African music *2019 in American music, American music *2019 in Asian music, Asian music *2019 in Australian music, Australian music *2019 in Brazilian music, Brazilian music *2019 in British music, British music *2019 in Canadian music, Canadian music *2019 in Chinese music, Chinese music *2019 in Czech music, Czech music *2019 in Danish music, Danish music *2019 in European music, European music *2019 in Finnish music, Finnish music *2019 in French music, French music *2019 in German music, German music *2019 in Icelandic music, Icelandic music *2019 in Indian music, Indian music *2019 in Indonesian music, Indonesian music *2019 in Irish music, Irish music *2019 in Japanese music, Japanese music *2019 in Latin music, Latin music *2019 in Malaysian music, Malaysian music *2019 in Mongolian music, Monogolian music *2019 in Norwegian music, Norwegian music *2019 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Music
This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2020 in music. Specific locations *African music * American music *Asian music *Australian music *Brazilian music * British music * Canadian music *Chinese music * Czech music * Danish music *European music *Finnish music *French music * German music *Icelandic music *Indian music *Indonesian music *Irish music *Japanese music *Latin music * Malaysian music * Mongolian music *Norwegian music * Philippine music * Polynesian music *Scandinavian music * South Korean music * Swedish music *Taiwanese music *Vietnamese music Specific genres * Classical *Country * Electronic *Jazz *Latin * Heavy metal *Hip hop *Rock *K-pop K-pop (; an abbreviation of "Korean popular music") is a form of popular music originating in South Korea. It emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians taking influence from Western Electronic dance music, danc ... *2020 in Japanese music, J-pop Albums released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Guitar
The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer neck (music), neck and scale length (string instruments), scale length. The electric bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are also built. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has replaced the double bass in popular music due to its lighter weight, smaller size, most models' inclusion of Fret, frets for easier Intonation_(music), intonation, and electromagnetic pickups for amplification. Another reason the bass guitar replaced the double bass is because the double bass is "acoustically imperfect" like the viola. For a double bass to be acoustically perfect, its body size would have to be twice as that of a cello rendering it unplayable, so the double bass is made smaller to make it playable. The elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band (rock And Pop)
A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre. A four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music. In the early years, the configuration was typically two guitarists (a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist, with one of them singing lead vocals), a bassist, and a drummer (e.g. the Beatles and KISS). Another common formation is a vocalist who does not play an instrument, electric guitarist, bass guitarist, and a drummer (e.g. the Who, the Monkees, Led Zeppelin and U2). Sometimes, in addition to electric guitars, electric bass, and drums, also a keyboardist (especially a pianist) plays. Additionally, rock and pop bands can also include boy bands or girl bands, which many times have bands where the members do not play any instruments but sing and dance instead. Such is the case of Menudo, the Spice Girls and K-pop groups, for example. Etymology The usage of band as "group of musicians" origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drum Kit
A drum kit or drum set (also known as a trap set, or simply drums in popular music and jazz contexts) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The drummer typically holds a pair of matching Drum stick, drumsticks or special wire or nylon brushes; and uses their feet to operate hi-hat and bass drum pedals. A standard kit usually consists of: * A snare drum, mounted on a snare drum stand, stand * A bass drum, played with a percussion mallet, beater moved by one or more foot-operated pedals * One or more Tom drum, tom-toms, including Rack tom, rack toms or floor tom, floor toms * One or more Cymbal, cymbals, including a ride cymbal and crash cymbal * Hi-hat cymbals, a pair of cymbals that can be played with a foot-operated pedal The drum kit is a part of the standard rhythm section and is used in many types of popular and traditional music styles, ranging from rock music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musician
A musician is someone who Composer, composes, Conducting, conducts, or Performing arts#Performers, performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general Terminology, term used to designate a person who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters, who write both music and lyrics for songs; conductors, who direct a musical performance; and performers, who perform for an audience. A music performer is generally either a singer (also known as a vocalist), who provides vocals, or an instrumentalist, who plays a musical instrument. Musicians may perform on their own or as part of a Musical ensemble, group, band or orchestra. Musicians can specialize in a musical genre, though many play a variety of different styles and blend or cross said genres, a musician's musical output depending on a variety of technical and other background influences including their culture, skillset, life experience, education, and creative preferences. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Americans
Americans are the Citizenship of the United States, citizens and United States nationality law, nationals of the United States, United States of America.; ; Law of the United States, U.S. federal law does not equate nationality with Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity but rather with citizenship.* * * * * * * The U.S. has 37 American ancestries, ancestry groups with more than one million individuals. White Americans form the largest race (human classification), racial and ethnic group at 61.6% of the U.S. population, with Non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic Whites making up 57.8% of the population. Hispanic and Latino Americans form the second-largest group and are 18.7% of the American population. African Americans, Black Americans constitute the country's third-largest ancestry group and are 12.4% of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 6% of the American population. The country's 3.7 million Native Americans i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wharton Tiers
Wharton Tiers (born 1953, in Philadelphia) is an American audio engineer, record producer, drummer and percussionist. Biography After receiving a diploma from Villanova University (Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania), he moved to New York City in 1976 and was part of the No Wave scene. As an audio engineer, record producer and mixer, he has worked on projects with artists such as Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Biohazard, Das Damen, Hole, Prong, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Born Against, Teenage Fanclub, Unsane, Dinosaur Jr, White Zombie, Quicksand, An Albatross, Nausea, Yo La Tengo, Christian Marclay, Swans, Mark Eitzel, Shudder To Think, The Dentists, Unrest, Borbetomagus, Gumball, among many others. To date he has produced and recorded over 200 records, including Helmet's ''Meantime'', for which he received a gold record in 1993. He is also known as a percussionist and drummer for Theoretical Girls, Laurie Anderson Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pussy Galore (band)
Pussy Galore was an American garage rock band formed by students at Brown University in 1984. They had a constantly fluid line-up until their demise in 1990, with vocalist-guitarist Jon Spencer as the sole member through the band's history. They took their name from the character in the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'', and their sound was an irreverent experimental blues rock influenced by The Rolling Stones and Einstürzende Neubauten. History The band's earliest incarnation consisted of guitarist and vocalist Jon Spencer, guitarist and occasional vocalist Julia Cafritz and drummer John Hammill, though this line-up both changed and expanded in later years. Spencer and Cafritz were both students at Ivy League college Brown when the band formed in 1984. Following the self-released 7" '' Feel Good About Your Body'', they added guitarist Neil Hagerty. The new line-up recorded the EP '' Groovy Hate Fuck''. This EP, like all of their early releases, would be self-released on their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
