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Vundabar
Vundabar is an American indie rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of Brandon Hagen (vocals, guitar), Drew McDonald (drums, synthesizer), and Zack Abramo (bass). Vundabar is most well known for their song "Alien Blues", which went viral on TikTok in 2021. Vundabar released their first full-length album in 2013 titled ''Antics''. In 2015, they released their second full-length album titled ''Gawk''. In February 2018, Vundabar released their third full-length album titled ''Smell Smoke'' which was recorded by Keith Abrams at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia. Their fourth album ''Either Light'' was released in 2020. Vundabar released their fifth full-length album ''Devil for the Fire'' on 15 April 2022. On September 16, 2022, they released a musical compilation entitled ''Good Old,'' which consisted of seven songs recorded between the releases of ''Gawk'' and ''Smell Smoke'' and four acoustic versions of previously released songs. On May 5, 2023, they released the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loma Vista Recordings
Loma Vista Recordings is a record label founded by Tom Whalley, former chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records and Executive of A&R at Interscope Records. The label was initially a joint venture with Republic Records and is based in Beverly Hills and Brooklyn. In July 2014, the label announced it had changed strategic partners and was now part of Concord Music Group. ''Loma vista'' is a Spanish phrase that roughly translates to ''hill view'' in English. Label roster Current artists *Action Bronson *Andrew Bird *Common *Chelsea Wolfe *Denzel Curry * DJDS *Ghost * Grey Daze *Health *Iggy Pop *Killer Mike *Korn *Local Natives *Manchester Orchestra *Mastodon *Margo Price * Meechy Darko * Militarie Gun *Miloe * Overcoats * PlayThatBoiZay * The Revivalists *Rhye *Rise Against *Robert Glasper * Sampa the Great * Show Me the Body * Skegss *Sleater-Kinney *Soccer Mommy *Sylvan Esso * Vundabar Former artists *Alice Glass *Cut Copy *Damian Marley *Injury Reserve *Little Dragon *Marily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headroom Studios
Headroom Studios is a music recording studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was originally started by Kyle Pulley and Joe Reinhart in 2008 in a room in a live/work artist warehouse collective, located in North Philadelphia, until it moved to its current location in a commercial building in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington. Pulley and Reinhart were college classmates who were active in the Philadelphia DIY punk scene who decided to partner after graduation in order create the studio to start their careers in music. In addition to being producers, Pulley and Reinhart are active musicians playing in Thin Lips (Pulley) and Hop Along (Reinhart). Artists such as Modern Baseball, Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader, Remo Drive, Adult Mom, Shamir, The Districts, Alex G, Frances Quinlan, Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Beach Bunny, Joyce Manor, Diet Cig, Kississippi, Thin Lips, Bad Moves, Mal Blum, Field Mouse, The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poitiers
Poitiers is a city on the river Clain in west-central France. It is a commune in France, commune, the capital of the Vienne (department), Vienne department and the historical center of Poitou, Poitou Province. In 2021, it had a population of 90,240. Its conurbation had 134,397 inhabitants in 2021 and is the municipal center of an urban area of 281,789 inhabitants. It is a city of art and history, still known popularly as "Ville aux cent clochers" (literal translation: "City of hundred bell towers"). With more than 30,000 students, Poitiers has been a major university town since the creation of its University of Poitiers, university in 1431, having hosted world-renowned figures and thinkers such as René Descartes, Joachim du Bellay and François Rabelais, among others. The plaza of the town is picturesque; its streets including predominantly preserved historical architecture and half-timbered houses, especially religious edifices, commonly from the Romanesque architecture, Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and frequency modulation synthesis. These sounds may be altered by components such as filters, which cut or boost frequencies; envelopes, which control articulation, or how notes begin and end; and low-frequency oscillators, which modulate parameters such as pitch, volume, or filter characteristics affecting timbre. Synthesizers are typically played with keyboards or controlled by sequencers, software or other instruments, and may be synchronized to other equipment via MIDI. Synthesizer-like instruments emerged in the United States in the mid-20th century with instruments such as the RCA Mark II, which was controlled with punch cards and used hundreds of vacuum tubes. The Moog synthesizer, developed by Robert Moog and first so ... [...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] |
Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or Plucked string instrument, plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A guitar pick may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either Acoustics, acoustically, by means of a resonant hollow chamber on the guitar, or Amplified music, amplified by an electronic Pickup (music technology), pickup and an guitar amplifier, amplifier. The guitar is classified as a chordophone, meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood, with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tame Impala
Tame Impala is the psychedelic music project of Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker (musician), Kevin Parker. In the recording studio, Parker writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project's music. As a touring act, Tame Impala consists of Parker (vocals, guitar, synthesiser), Dominic Simper (guitar, synthesiser), Jay Watson (synthesiser, vocals, guitar), Cam Avery (bass guitar, vocals, synthesiser), and Julien Barbagallo (drums, vocals). The group has a close affiliation with fellow Australian psychedelic rock band Pond (Australian band), Pond, sharing members and collaborators, including Nick Allbrook, formerly a live member of Tame Impala. Originally signed to Modular Recordings, Tame Impala is now signed to Interscope Records in the United States and Fiction Records in the United Kingdom. Parker originally conceived the project in Perth in 2007. After a series of singles and EPs, Tame Impala's debut studio album, ''Innerspeaker'', was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burial (musician)
William Emmanuel Bevan, known by his recording alias Burial, is a British electronic musician from South London. Initially remaining anonymous, Burial became the first artist signed to Kode9's electronic label Hyperdub in 2005. He won acclaim the following year for his Burial (Burial album), self-titled debut album, an influential release in the UK's dubstep scene which showcased a dark, emotive take on UK rave music styles such as UK garage and 2-step garage, 2-step; it was named the album of the year by ''The Wire (magazine), The Wire''. Burial's second album, ''Untrue (album), Untrue'', was released to further critical acclaim in 2007, earning recognition as a landmark work of electronic music. In 2008, Bevan's identity was revealed by ''The Independent'' and confirmed by Hyperdub. In the following years, he went on to collaborate with artists such as Four Tet, Massive Attack, Thom Yorke, Zomby, and Kevin Martin (British musician), The Bug, in addition to releasing a series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osees
Osees is an American rock music, rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1997, now based in Los Angeles, California. Originally the solo recording project of John Dwyer (musician), John Dwyer, the band has evolved through numerous line-up and name changes since its founding, with Dwyer serving as the band leader and primary songwriter throughout. Alongside Dwyer, the band's current line-up includes longtime members, Tim Hellman (bass), Butch Sunset (bongos), Paul Quattrone (drums) and Tomas Dolas (keyboards). The group's sound draws from a wide variety of influences, including garage rock, krautrock, psychedelic music, psychedelia, and folk music. Osees are noted for their prolific recording output, energetic live shows, and whimsical visual aesthetic. The group has released twenty-eight studio albums, to date, alongside various EPs, singles and compilations. Initially a solo freak folk recording project, Dwyer evolved the project into a full garage rock band, featurin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Dale
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American Rock music, rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scale (music), scales and experimenting with reverb effect, reverb. Dale was known as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of King of the Surf Guitar, his second studio album. Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s. Most of the leading bands in surf music, such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and The Trashmen, were influenced by Dale's music, and often included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums. His style and music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen and Brian May. He has been credited with popularizing Alternate picking, tremolo picking on electric guitar, a technique that is now widely used in many musical genres (such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Math Rock
Math rock is a style of Alternative rock, alternative and indie rock with roots in bands such as King Crimson and Rush (band), Rush. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), counterpoint, odd time signatures, and extended chords. Bearing similarities to post-rock, math rock has been described as the "opposite side of the same coin". Opting for a "rock music, rockier" approach to songwriting and timbres, the style is often performed by music ensemble, smaller ensembles which emphasize the role of the guitar. Polvo, Don Caballero, Slint, Bitch Magnet, Bastro and Ruins (Japanese band), Ruins are considered by some to be the genre's pioneers. History and precursors The albums ''Red (King Crimson album), Red'' and ''Discipline (King Crimson album), Discipline'' by King Crimson, as well as ''Spiderland'' by Slint, are generally considered seminal influences on the development of math rock. The Canadian punk rock g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
