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Vetiver (band)
Vetiver is an American folk band headed by songwriter Andy Cabic. History Vetiver was formed in San Francisco in 2002. The band released their self-titled debut album in 2004 on the small indie folk label DiCristina. Since the album's release, Vetiver has toured extensively, opening for and collaborating with Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Vetiver released another album, '' To Find Me Gone'', on DiCristina in 2006. Banhart and Cabic also launched their own label, Gnomonsong Recordings, releasing Jana Hunter's ''Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom'' in 2005 and ''There's No Home'' in 2007. The label also released in 2008 Vetiver's '' Thing of the Past'', a collection of cover songs that have influenced Cabic's aesthetic. Sub Pop Records (US) and Bella Union (UK) released Vetiver's '' Tight Knit'' (2009) ''The Errant Charm'' (2011), and ''Complete Strangers'' (2015). The band shared the bill with Vashti Bunyan on her US tour in early 2007. Over the years, the band has toured ... [...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] |
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Texas and raised in Venezuela and California. In 2000, he dropped out of the San Francisco Art Institute to pursue a musical career. In 2002, Banhart released his debut album and is best known for his albums in the late 2000s such as '' Cripple Crow'' and '' Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon''. He has since expanded his career to incorporate his interest and training in the visual arts. Early life Banhart was born in Houston, Texas, to a Venezuelan mother, María Eugenia Rísquez, and an American father, Robert Gary Banhart. His mother worked as a model. His given name is a synonym for Indra, suggested by Indian religious leader Prem Rawat (whom Banhart's parents followed), and his middle name Obi takes after Obi-Wan Kenobi, a ''Star Wars'' character. His parents divorced in 1983, after which Rísquez and he moved to Caracas, Venezuela. Rísquez later remarried and wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Sundance Film Festival
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah. 64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions. Non-competition features Midnight * '' Black Rock'' * '' Excision'' * '' Grabbers'' * '' John Dies at the End'' * '' The Pact'' * '' Shut Up and Play the Hits'' * '' Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'' * '' V/H/S'' Awards * Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - '' The House I Live In'' * Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Beasts of the Southern Wild'' * World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - '' The Law in These Parts'' * World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Violeta Went to Heaven'' ''(Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)'' * Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - '' The Invisible War'' * Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - ''The Surrogate'' (retitled '' The Sessions'') * World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - '' Searching for Sugar Man'' * World Cinema Audience Award: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smashed (film)
''Smashed'' is a 2012 American drama film, drama film directed by James Ponsoldt, written by Ponsoldt and Susan Theresa Burke, Susan Burke, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul. Winstead and Paul play a married couple, Kate and Charlie Hannah, both alcoholism, alcoholics. After a series of embarrassing incidents caused by her drinking habit, Kate decides to get sober with the help of a coworker and a sponsor from Alcoholics Anonymous. The script was partly based on Burke's own experience of giving up alcohol at a young age, since she felt that her narrative had not yet been told on film. She and Ponsoldt wrote the script over six months, and the main roles were cast in September 2011. The film's US$500,000 budget was financed by independent investors including Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf. It was shot in Los Angeles in October 2011. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2012 and was released by Sony Pictures Classics on October 12, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilco
Wilco is an American Rock music, rock band based in Chicago. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo after singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup changed frequently during its first decade, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt remaining from the original incarnation. Since early 2004 the lineup has been unchanged, consisting of Tweedy, Stirratt, guitarist Nels Cline, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, keyboard player Mikael Jorgensen, and drummer Glenn Kotche. Wilco has released thirteen studio albums, a live double album, and four collaborations: three with Billy Bragg and one with the Minus 5. Wilco's music has been inspired by a wide variety of artists and styles including Bill Fay, the Beatles, and Television (band), Television; in turn the band has influenced music by many modern alternative rock acts. The band continued in the alternative country style of Uncle Tupelo on its debut album ''A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruit Bats (band)
Fruit Bats is an American indie rock band formed in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois, as the project of singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson. Johnson is the band's sole permanent member, with various musicians joining the band in live and studio settings. History Early years and ''Echolocation'' In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Eric D. Johnson was teaching guitar and banjo at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, and fronting an indie rock band called I Rowboat. In early 2000 he joined the experimental folk group Califone as a multi-instrumentalist. He had also been making homemade cassettes since 1997 under the name Fruit Bats. He describes coming up with the band name as a joke of sorts, describing it as "this dumb fake punk rock name that I put on a four-track tape." The members of Califone ran a small record label called Perishable, and after hearing some of the Fruit Bats recordings, agreed to release a proper full-length album. The subsequent album, ''Echolocation'', was produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shins
The Shins are an American indie rock band formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1996. The band is the project of singer-songwriter James Mercer, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes. The band's current line-up consists of Mercer, alongside Yuuki Matthews (bass, keyboards), Mark Watrous (guitar, keyboards, lap steel), Patti King (keyboards), and Jon Sortland (drums). They are based in Portland, Oregon. The band was formed by Mercer as a side project to Flake Music, who were active from 1992 to 1999. Flake Music released two 7-inch singles and a full-length album, '' When You Land Here, It's Time to Return'', on Omnibus Records and were touring with Modest Mouse when the Shins became signed to Sub Pop Records. The Shins' first two records, '' Oh, Inverted World'' (2001) and '' Chutes Too Narrow'' (2003), performed well commercially and received critical acclaim. The single " New Slang" brought the band to mainstream attention wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. The band currently consists of Robin Pecknold (vocals, guitar), Skyler Skjelset (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), Casey Wescott (keyboards, mandolin, backing vocals), Christian Wargo (bass, guitar, backing vocals), and Morgan Henderson (upright bass, guitar, woodwinds, violin, percussion, saxophone). Founding members Pecknold and Skjelset have been the only constants through the group's history, with the former serving as leader and principal songwriter. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP '' Sun Giant'' and their eponymous debut album on Sub Pop, both of which met with widespread critical acclaim. Their second album '' Helplessness Blues'' (2011) earned further praise and became their greatest commercial success to date, reaching number 4 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Following a three-year break, Fleet Foxes reconvened in 2016 to record their third album ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vashti Bunyan
Jennifer Vashti Bunyan (born 2 March 1945) is an English singer-songwriter. She began her career in the mid-1960s and released a debut album, '' Just Another Diamond Day'', in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, the album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, beginning the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She released two more albums, '' Lookaftering'' in 2005, and '' Heartleap'' in 2014. Early life and education Bunyan was born in South Tyneside in 1945, the youngest of three children of John Bunyan and Helen Webber. She was told that she was named after a boat that had belonged to her father. 'Vashti' was a nickname for her mother, inspired by the Biblical Persian queen Vashti. She has been said to be descended from John Bunyan, author of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', but she has denied this. The family moved to London when she was six mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tight Knit
''Tight Knit'' is a full-length album by Vetiver. It was released on February 17, 2009, under Sub Pop Sub Pop is an independent record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana (band), Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the gru ... Records. Track listing All songs written by Andy Cabic. # "Rolling Sea" – 5:19 # "Sister" – 3:44 # "Everyday" – 3:49 # "Through the Front Door" – 4:27 # "Down from Above" – 3:54 # "On the Other Side" – 3:10 # "More of This" – 4:01 # "Another Reason to Go" – 3:44 # "Strictly Rule" – 4:29 # "At Forest Edge" – 5:48 # "Pay No Mind (Bonus Track)" References 2009 albums Vetiver albums Sub Pop albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thing Of The Past
''Thing of the Past'' is the third studio album by the American folk band Vetiver, released in 2008 by Gnomonsong in the U.S. and FatCat Records in the UK. The album consists of cover songs originally performed by songwriters that frontman Andy Cabic considers influential in his music and life. Several of the original authors appear as guests on their respective songs, including Michael Hurley. Recorded in spring 2007 in Sacramento and Los Angeles, the basic tracks, including all the guitars, drums, bass and some of the vocals, were recorded live in the studio. Cabic considered it his best album up to that point, calling it an "experiment" which offered him both "restraint and freedom". Rhapsody praised the album, calling it one of their favorite covers albums. Track listing #"Houses" (Elyse Weinberg) – 3:43 #"Roll on Babe" (Derroll Adams) – 4:27 #"Sleep a Million Years" (Dia Joyce) – 2:54 #"Hook & Ladder" (Norman Greenbaum) – 3:10 #"To Baby" (Biff Rose) – 4:26 #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blank Unstaring Heirs Of Doom
Jana Hunter is an American songwriter and musician based in Baltimore. Early life Hunter was born in Texas. His family is Catholic, but he no longer follows Catholicism. Recording and band membership Hunter was signed to Gnomonsong, a record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver (band), Vetiver's Andy Cabic. Hunter's solo debut album ''Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom'' was the label's debut release. In 2007 Hunter founded an independent record label based in Houston, Texas, Feow! Records, with musicians Matthew Brownlie of Bring Back the Guns and Arthur Bates of Houston band Wicked Poseur. Hunter was the singer and primary songwriter for Lower Dens. After releasing their debut, ''Twin-Hand Movement'', on Gnomonsong in 2010, Lower Dens were one of the first bands signed to the Domino Recording Company#Ribbon Music, Ribbon Music label and released their second album, ''Nootropics (album), Nootropics'', on Ribbon in 2012. Hunter has performed and/or recorded as a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
