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The Dream Synopsis
''The Dream Synopsis'' is an extended play by English supergroup the Last Shadow Puppets, released on 2 December 2016 by Domino Recording Company. It was produced by Patrick Higgins in Hudson, New York and contains re-recordings of two songs from the band's second album, ''Everything You've Come to Expect'', as well as four cover versions that the band played during their 2016 tour. The album artwork features a still picture of the band recording the music video for their cover of " Is This What You Wanted". It was the final release of the band's second period of activity. Background and recording ''The Dream Synopsis EP'' was recorded in one day at Future-Past Studios in August 2016. The songs featured on the release were recorded live in the studio. Release and promotion On 17 October 2016, the band announced the EP was going to be released on 2 December of that same year, digitally, on CD, and on a limited edition red vinyl. Singles and Music videos The lead single, a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Last Shadow Puppets are an English supergroup consisting of Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Miles Kane ( the Little Flames, the Rascals), James Ford (Simian, Simian Mobile Disco), and Zach Dawes ( Mini Mansions). The Last Shadow Puppets were formed by co-frontmen, Alex Turner and Miles Kane, in 2007, after they became friends when the Little Flames supported Arctic Monkeys on tour in 2005. They bonded over their shared love of Scott Walker and David Bowie, and decided to write songs inspired by their music. They have released two records, '' The Age of the Understatement'' (2008), and following a lengthy hiatus, '' Everything You've Come to Expect'' (2016). Both of their albums reached number one in the UK charts. They were nominated for a BRIT Award in the ''British Breakthrough'' category, and shortlisted for a Mercury Prize in the ''Best Album'' category, for ''The Age of the Understatement''. History 2007: Formation In August 2007 ''NME'' magazine reported that ... [...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] |
Tyler Parkford
Tyler Davis Parkford is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist and vocalist for Los Angeles–based band Mini Mansions. He is also one half of the lounge pop duo Mister Goodnite, and a touring member of the British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. Early life Parkford grew up in Long Beach, California. He studied classical piano as a child and later learned to play the guitar. He attended film school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It was there that he met future bandmate Zach Dawes. Along with Queens of the Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman, the trio formed Mini Mansions in 2009. Career In 2013, Parkford teamed up with Drab Majesty’s Alex Nicolaou to form Mister Goodnite, a pop act that layers vocals over samples of retro pop, prog, and psych records. He described the concept behind the project as a man who dies and is doomed to spend eternity in purgatory as a lounge singer. Mister Goodnite's first mixtape, ''Songs About Love And Lack Thereof'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach Dawes
Zachary Edwin Dawes (born July 2, 1985) is an American musician, producer, engineer, and technician, best known as the bassist for the bands Mini Mansions and The Last Shadow Puppets. He has also worked extensively with Brian Wilson, Lana Del Rey, Sharon Van Etten, among other musicians and songwriters. He composes and music supervises for many film and television shows including The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Big Door Prize, and worked with frequent collaborator Este Haim on the hit Netflix show Nobody Wants This. His producing work with Lana Del Rey on Norman Fucking Rockwell and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard earned him two Grammy nominations for Album of the Year. Early life Dawes grew up in Encino, California. He majored in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a child, Dawes learned to play the piano, but switched to bass when he discovered that the band he was starting needed a bass player. Career Dawes sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ford (musician)
James Ellis Ford (born 11 December 1978) is an English record producer and songwriter, known for being a member of Simian Mobile Disco and the Last Shadow Puppets as well as his production work with Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Haim, Gorillaz, Klaxons, Jessie Ware, Kylie Minogue, Declan McKenna, the Pet Shop Boys, Pulp and Geese (band). In 2023 he released a solo album '' The Hum'' on Warp Records. Biography James Ellis Ford was born on 11 December 1978 in Staffordshire. Ford went to Manchester University, along with other members of Simian. Ford was a founding member of the group Simian and later a member the spin-off duo Simian Mobile Disco. He produced the Klaxons album '' Myths of the Near Future'' in 2007 which won the Mercury Prize. Also that year, he produced the Arctic Monkeys second album. He has done at least part of the production on each of the band's subsequent albums. In 2008, he formed the Last Shadow Puppets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Chapman (musician)
Rob Chapman (born 1954) is an English music journalist and rock musician, best known as the vocalist for the defunct post-punk band the Glaxo Babies. Biography He was the singer with the Bristol-based band the Glaxo Babies and with the British alternative rock band The Transmitters, a music journalist for Mojo and other magazines and newspapers, he made some broadcasting with the BBC National Network, wrote some books, including an acclaimed Syd Barrett Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, ... biography, ''Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head'' (2010), and a rock-novel, ''Dusk Music'' (2008). In 2007 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Music Journalism at the University of Huddersfield. Discography Vocals, with the Glaxo Babies * ''This Is Your Life'', EP, Heartbeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Scanlon
Craig Antony Scanlon (born 7 December 1960 in Manchester) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of the Fall between 1979 and 1995. During his tenure he was a stalwart member for 17 albums and co-wrote over 120 of the group's songs; singer Mark E. Smith and bass player Steve Hanley excepted, this tally is unmatched by any other musician to have passed through the group. Career Craig Scanlon joined the band following the departure of previous guitarist Martin Bramah. He and guitarist Marc Riley had previously played together in The Sirens before Riley joined the Fall. Scanlon and bassist Steve Hanley then formed Staff 9 who supported the Fall several times. Whilst Riley was dismissed by Smith, Scanlon and Hanley would form the Fall's musical backbone throughout the 1980s and well into the 1990s with Scanlon occasionally adding vocals and keyboards to his role as well as being a strong song-writing presence. In 1992, in an interview with ''Volume'' magazine (issue 4) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Riley
Marc Riley (born 10 July 1961) is an English radio DJ, alternative rock critic, musician, and former music businessman. He currently presents on BBC Radio 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he co-owned a record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger for bands such as Massive Attack, Pixies, Cocteau Twins and Happy Mondays.Smith, Mark E. & Middles, Mick (2003) ''The Fall'', Omnibus Press, , p. 261 Riley has worked in radio since about 1991; for 14 years of that he worked with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 5 and BBC Radio 1, during which time he was known as Lard. He joined 6 Music in April 2004. Musical career Riley was born on 10 July 1961 in Manchester. Raised in Manchester, Riley was in a band at school called the Sirens with Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley (both of whom were later members of the Fall). Riley was an early fan of the Fall, and worked for the group as a roadie.Cumming, Tim (2004)Wild Thing, ''The Guardian'', 19 January 2004, retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark E
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally Wired
"Totally Wired" is a song by The Fall (band), the Fall. Released in September 1980, the single became one of their signature tracks. The track subsequently appeared on CD reissues of their album ''Grotesque (After the Gramme)''. The track reached no. 2 in the UK Independent Chart, UK Independent Singles Chart and no. 25 in New Zealand. Release The track appeared in John Peel's Festive Fifty in both 1980 and 1981, reaching 21 and 56 respectively and number 34 on All Time Festive Fifty broadcast in 2000. Subsequently it appeared at #57 on the "100 Greatest Singles of the Post-Punk Era" published by Uncut (magazine), Uncut in 2001, in Gary Mulholland's book ''This is Uncool – The 500 Greatest Singles since Punk and Disco'', published in 2003 , and in the Guide To the (500) Greatest Songs from Punk To the Present published by Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork published in 2014. In a dismissive review on its release, Danny Baker said in ''NME'': "''Totally Wired'' is ugly, and terribly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Lanzmann
Jacques Lanzmann (4 May 1927 – 21 June 2006) was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc. Early life Lanzmann spent the early part of his life in Auvergne. His parents, Paulette (Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann, divorced shortly before World War II and, at the age of 12, he became a farmhand. Lanzmann was Jewish and, following the Battle of France, he, his mother and his siblings, pretended to be Moroccan Arabs to escape persecution by the Vichy regime. In 1943, Lanzmann and his elder brother Claude (later a noted documentary-maker) joined the Communist resistance. Jacques was taken captive by the Germans and was due to be executed by firing squad, but escaped. Lanzmann's father was one of the leading local figures in the rival ''Mouvements Unis de la Résistance'', but Jacques and Claude were not aware of this until February 1944. After the war, Lanzmann worked in Paris as builder a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Kane
Miles Peter Kane (born 17 March 1986) is an English singer and musician, best known as a solo artist and the co-frontman of the Last Shadow Puppets. He was also the former frontman of the Rascals, before the band announced their break-up in August 2009. He has focused on a solo career since 2011 and remains a member of the Last Shadow Puppets (2007-present) alongside Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner. His debut solo album, '' Colour of the Trap'', was released on 9 May 2011 and the follow-up, '' Don't Forget Who You Are'' was released on 3 June 2013. His third solo album, '' Coup De Grace'', was released on 10 August 2018 via Virgin EMI. His fourth studio album, ''Change The Show'', was released on 21 January 2022 via BMG Rights Management. His latest solo album, '' One Man Band'', was released on 4 August 2023 through Modern Sky. Early life Miles Peter Kane was born in Birkenhead, Wirral and was raised in nearby Meols. He played the saxophone as a child. His cousins, Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
