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Ryen Slegr
Ryen Slegr is an American musician best known for being a member of the rock band Ozma. He is also affiliated with The Rentals, Weezer, and Rachel Haden. The Rentals In 2006, Slegr performed with The Rentals on their U.S. tour with Ozma. He also engineered and played guitar on The Rentals' 2014 Polyvinyl release ''Lost in Alphaville''. Weezer Slegr co-wrote the song "Eulogy for a Rock Band" on Weezer's 2014 Universal Records release '' Everything Will Be Alright in the End''. Miscellaneous In 2012, Slegr played guitar and keyboards for Rachel Haden at several shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco in a band with Adam Phaler of Jawbreaker and Warren Defever of His Name is Alive. Education Slegr graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in history. He also studied Japanese court music called Gagaku at UCLA and took various music classes at Pasadena City College, including Spud Murphy's Equal Interval System. Discography Ozma * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named after the Greek island of Ithaca (island), Ithaca. As of 2020, the city's population was 32,108. A college town, Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League university, and Ithaca College. Nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), located in Dryden, New York, Dryden. History 17th century Native Americans lived in this area for thousands of years. When reached by Europeans, this area was controlled by the Cayuga people, Cayuga tribe of Indians, one of the five tribes comprising the Iroquois, Iroquois Confederacy. Society of Jesus, Jesuit missionaries from New France in present-day Quebec had a mission to convert the Cayuga as early as 1657. 18th century Saponi and Tutelo peoples ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Little Life EP
''The Last Little Life EP'' is the first EP by American rock band The Rentals and is a collection of new material from the band in more than 8 years. Recorded by drummer Dan Joeright out of his Hollywood studio (dubbed - Outer Space Studio), The Last Little Life EP was released on August 14, 2007. In addition to three brand new tracks, the EP also includes a new reworking of "Sweetness and Tenderness" originally from the group's 1995 debut ''Return of the Rentals''. Their third full-length album was to follow after the EP's release, But it was replaced by the multimedia project '' Songs About Time'' in 2009. A third album, named ''Lost in Alphaville'', was eventually released in 2014 to positive reviews. The title ''The Last Little Life'' comes from the first word of the three new songs on the album: "Last Romantic Day," "Little Bit of You in Everything," "Life Without a Brain." Track listing Personnel *Matt Sharp – vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizers *Rachel Haden – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boomtown (Ozma Album)
''Boomtown'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Ozma, funded entirely by a Pledge Music campaign and released on February 11, 2014. Writing and Info Boomtown was Ozma's first effort in seven years following 2007's Pasadena. It opens with "Around The World In 80 Seconds," Ozma's first instrumental since The Doubble Donkey Disc's "Korobeiniki." "Nervous" is notable as the first Ozma song written by drummer Kenn Shane, and the first lead vocal by keyboardist Star Wick. "Out The Window" is only the second Ozma song (the other being The Doubble Donkey Disc ''The Doubble Donkey Disc'' is the second studio album by American rock band Ozma. Originally self-released in 2001, it was rereleased by Kung Fu Records in 2002. The album is composed of two EP concepts; the Russian Coldfusion EP (tracks 1-5) ...'s "Immigration Song") to feature rhythm guitarist Jose Galvez on lead vocals. Track listing References Ozma (band) albums 2014 albums {{2010s-indie-rock-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena (album)
''Pasadena'' is the fourth studio album by American rock band Ozma, released in 2007. Production The album took five months to record and was mixed by Matt Hyde. Critical reception ''PopMatters'' wrote that the album is "more like Weezer's green self-titled album than anything, eager to live up to an ideal and doing a good job of it." The ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...'' called the band "underrated," writing that the album is "more muscular and mature than the crunchy power-pop that gained Ozma a large Southland following over its first three albums." The ''Northern Express'' praised the "well-written, catchy indie compositions." Track listing Personnel *Daniel Brummel - vocals, bass References {{Authority control Ozma (band) alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spending Time On The Borderline
Ozma is an American rock band from Pasadena, California. The band's sound is a mix of nostalgic new wave–influenced power pop and contrapuntal Casiotone-driven melodies sustained by heavy guitar riffs. Since their formation in 1995, Ozma has released five studio albums and toured the U.S., Japan and Canada more than thirty times, including extensive touring with stylistically similar groups including Weezer, Nada Surf, Rilo Kiley, Superdrag, The Rentals, The Get Up Kids, Piebald, Saves The Day, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, and Rooney. History Early years (1995–2001) Ozma was formed in September 1995 by Ryen Slegr (vocals/guitar), Jose Galvez (guitar/vocals), Patrick Edwards (drums) and Daniel Brummel (vocals/bass), Galvez introduced Brummel to the others, whom he met on AOL while Brummel was looking for a band to join. In 1996, the still-unnamed band were joined by Katherine Kieckhefer on keyboards, before deciding on the name "Ozma" (taken from the L. Frank Baum books on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doubble Donkey Disc
''The Doubble Donkey Disc'' is the second studio album by American rock band Ozma. Originally self-released in 2001, it was rereleased by Kung Fu Records in 2002. The album is composed of two EP concepts; the Russian Coldfusion EP (tracks 1-5) and the Bootytraps EP (tracks 6-10). Track listing Personnel * Daniel Brummel – vocals, bass, balalaika * Pat Edwards – drums * Jose Galvez – guitar, vocals * Ryen Slegr Ryen Slegr is an American musician best known for being a member of the rock band Ozma. He is also affiliated with The Rentals, Weezer, and Rachel Haden. The Rentals In 2006, Slegr performed with The Rentals on their U.S. tour with Ozma. He ... – vocals, guitar, balalaika * Star Wick – keys, flute References 2002 albums Ozma (band) albums {{2000s-indie-pop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll Part Three
''Rock and Roll Part Three'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Ozma. It was self-released by Ozma's own imprint Tornado Recordings on January 1, 2000 and re-released for national distribution by Kung Fu Records on August 21, 2001. Music and lyrics Often classified as power pop or geek rock, ''Rock and Roll Part Three'' relies heavily on uptempo songs with distorted guitar and keyboards. A strongly nostalgic album, many of the songs contain backward-looking lyrics and catchy choruses. Comparisons are often drawn with Weezer, The Rentals, and The Get-Up Kids. Reception Bradley Torreano, writing for Allmusic, stated that with this album, Ozma has "arguably written the best Weezer album of 2001 (and yes, the real thing also had an album come out the same year)." The "11 slabs of infectiously singable power pop on this little-album-that-could" compelled Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo to insist that Ozma open two nationwide tours for Weezer in 2001 and 2002. In an " Ask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spud Murphy
Miko Stephanovic (August 19, 1908 – August 5, 2005), better known as Lyle 'Spud' Murphy, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger. He studied clarinet and trumpet, and has been recorded playing the oboe, among other jazz instruments. Early life Born Miko Stephanovic to parents in Berlin, Germany, Murphy grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he took the name of a childhood friend. Music career Murphy studied clarinet and saxophone when young, and took trumpet lessons from Red Nichols' father. Murphy worked with Jimmy Joy in 1927–28 and with Ross Gorman and Slim Lamar in 1928. He worked in the early 1930s as a saxophonist and arranger for Austin Wylie, Jan Garber, Mal Hallett, and Joe Haymes, then became a staff arranger for Benny Goodman from 1935–1937. During this time, he also contributed arrangements for the Casa Loma Orchestra, Isham Jones, and Les Brown. From 1937–1940 Murphy led a big band, and from 1938–39 recorded for Decc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena City College
Pasadena City College (PCC) is a Public college, public community college in Pasadena, California. It was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College. History Pasadena City College was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College. It originally operated on Pasadena High School (California), Pasadena High School's campus as an extended learning program of the high school. In 1928, PJC and Pasadena High School (California), Pasadena High School formally merged. From 1928 to 1953, it operated as a four-year junior college, combining the last two years of high school with the first two years of college. In 1946, John Muir College was founded due to PJC's enlarged enrollment. The following year, Pasadena Junior College was renamed Pasadena City College. While at John Muir, Fred Phelps was profiled in ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine for preaching against "sins committed on campus by students and teachers ... promiscuous petting ... evil language ... profanity ... cheating ... teache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagaku
is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances. was developed as court music of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and its near-current form was established in the Heian period (794–1185) around the 10th century.History of gagaku Nihon gagakukai Today, it is performed by the Board of Ceremonies in the . Gagaku consists of three primary repertoires: #Native [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San Jose State University, San José State University. The branch was transferred to the University of California to become the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley. UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually. It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, the most of any Higher education in the United States, university in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
