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SonaBLAST!
sonaBLAST! Records is a Louisville, Kentucky-based independent record label founded by film producer Gill Holland in 2002. Artist roster * Andrew T. Hunt * Bastion * Beady * Belushi Speed Ball * Ben Arthur (musician) * Ben Sollee * Broken Chord * Builder of The House * Block * Builder of the House * Carousel Beach * Ceiri Torjussen * Cheyenne Marie Mize * Chives * Collider * Corrina Repp * Et Tu Brucé * GRLwood * Heidi Howe * Hoots And Hellmouth * Jack Harlow * James Lindsey * Jamie Barnes * Jaxon Lee Swain * Joel Henderson * John Grover * Jonathan Glen Wood * Justin Paul Lewis * Kelley McRae * Kyle James Hauser * Leigh Ann Yost * Love Jones * Lucky Pineapple * Mark Geary * Max Gabriel * Michael Whitis * Mickey Clark * Misha Feigin * Nerves Junior * Peter Searcy * Phourist & The Photons * Pleaser * Quiet Hollers * Roy Ruiz Clayton * Shannon Brackett * Teddy Abrams ft. Jim James * Ted Stevens * Teneia Sanders * The Broken Spurs * The Debauchees * The Fervor * The Instruc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Geary
Mark Geary is an Irish singer-songwriter born in Dublin, Ireland, into a large family with seven siblings, one of whom is actor Karl Geary. In 1992 he emigrated to New York City with a one-way ticket after winning a lottery green card. Living in New York's East Village, Mark honed his craft and sang alongside the best of them in Sin-é cafe, including the late Jeff Buckley. Time Out NY said, "His delicate songs about love and defiance recall Richard Thompson and John Lennon." Career When Geary arrived in New York he had the chance to jump right in at the famous Sin-é bar. However, he felt a little intimidated at that early stage in his career. "It was a huge amount of pressure," said Geary. "I walked in and saw Jeff Buckley, Katell Keineg, Sinéad O'Connor." So Geary began to seek out gigs at less exalted local spots. He built a reputation playing at Sidewalk Café and won a regular slot at the Pink Pony. Eventually, working his way back to Sin-é, where he found himself on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Block
Jamie Block is a New York City-based musician, known for being a prominent member of New York's anti-folk movement. Style and Lyrics Block has been considered one of the early participants in New York's anti-folk movement, a raw and subversive form of folk music that is inspired heavily by punk rock and indie rock. Block includes a multitude of instruments and sounds within each album, including elements of punk rock, electronica, jazz and hip hop. Lyrically, Block focuses heavily on personal experiences and observations living in New York City. Early career Block grew up on Long Island, New York. He went to college to study English in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but dropped out and relocated to New York City, where he began his music career as a subway busker. In 1996, Block self-released his debut album, ''Lead Me Not Into Penn Station'', which was well received by critics. In reviewing the album, Laurel Bowman of Alternative Press wrote that Block "practices the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collider (band)
Collider was an electroclash punk rock band formed in New York City in 1997 by singer and keyboardist Jed Davis and guitarist Sean Gould. The duo's combination of electronic beats and synthesizers with rock guitars and pop song structure made Collider an early entrant to the Electroclash movement. In fact, as the genre had not yet been named, Davis and Gould referred to their style as "electropunk". Between 1997 and 1999, Collider performed regularly across New York state but concentrated mainly on Manhattan's Lower East Side. In addition to frequent gigs at CBGB, the Mercury Lounge and the Spiral, the duo also played monthly at Coney Island High. Collider's first two albums, ''Blowing Shit Up'' (1998) and ''Physics'' (1999), were released by New York label Eschatonality, the latter in conjunction with MP3.com. In 2000, Davis and Gould added a rhythm section of Chris DeRosa on Drums and Tom Kaz on Bass and toned down the electronic elements as the band moved towards straight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Builder Of The House
Builder of the House is an American folk pop band formed in Portland, Maine, in 2011, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Rob Cimitile and drummer Elliot Heeschen. Cimitile began performing under the name Builder of the House in 2010, but the group was cemented after Rob and Elliot met as members of a Zimbabwean marimba band. The band's musical style includes elements of Americana, roots, folk, and African music in a modern pop idiom augmented with electronic sounds. In performance, the band utilizes live looping, samples, and synthesizers, as well as acoustic instruments. The band has opened for Kaleo (band), Dylan LeBlanc, Pearl and the Beard, and Kristeen Young. According to Rob Cimitile, the band's name is derived from a Buddhist parable about the root of human suffering. Since the release of two EP's and their first full-length album, Ornaments (sonaBLAST! Records 2017), the band's music has been featured several films including ''Don't Think Twice'', '' Better ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Sollee
Ben Sollee is an American cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his political activism. His music incorporates banjo, guitar, and mandolin along with percussion and unusual cello techniques. His songs exhibit a mix of folk, bluegrass, jazz, and R&B elements. Sollee has also composed longer instrumental pieces for dance ensembles and for film. Sollee revealed on Twitter that, in the fall of 2020, he contracted COVID-19. The following year, he tweeted that, as a result, he now suffers from Long Covid. Early life and education Sollee was raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and attended public schools where he was introduced to the cello in the fourth grade. Yates Elementary School orchestra teacher Ellen Dennison brought a collection of musical instruments to her class and demonstrated them for students. Sollee was quickly charmed by what he called the "growly" sound of the cello and chose it as the instrument to learn to play and he eventually became the only cello player i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheyenne Marie Mize
Cheyenne Marie Mize is an American folk singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky. Biography Mize's ''Before Lately'' album was released in 2010 on sonaBLAST! Records as an introspective, meditative affair followed by the ''We Don't Need'' EP in 2011 featuring more dynamic moods and experimentation. Her music has been described by ''The New York Times'' as "tough, dreamy, cloudy-sky country and chamber pop," with a "rare voice, sweet without being cloying, and weary without hopelessness." NPR described Mize in ''All Songs Considered'' as "lovely -- very much in that Sharon Van Etten, smoky, pretty folk realm. It was just beautiful." Mize is also associated with acts Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore and Jim James of My Morning Jacket with their Appalachian Voices tour in support of the Dear Companion album - their collaborative Sub Pop release in early 2010. Subsequently, they performed at Austin's South By Southwest festival where Cheyenne Marie Mize was chosen as one of NPR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim James
James Edward Olliges Jr. (born April 27, 1978), professionally known as Jim James or Yim Yames, is an American vocalist, guitarist, producer, and primary songwriter of the rock band My Morning Jacket. He has also released several solo albums. Early life James grew up in the Highlands–Douglass neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. He attended St. Martha grade school and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1996. James briefly attended the University of Kentucky. Career Prior to forming My Morning Jacket, James was the vocalist and guitarist of Month of Sundays, currently known as Mont de Sundua. As the vocalist, frontman, producer, and lead songwriter for My Morning Jacket, James has been instrumental in defining the sound of the band. He was given an "Esky" for best songwriter in ''Esquire'''s 2006 Esky Music Awards in the April issue. James typically plays rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, and occasional lead guitar on My Morning Jacket songs. He played the role of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Abrams
Edward "Teddy" Paul Maxwell Abrams (born May 6, 1987) is an American conductor, pianist, clarinetist, and composer. He is currently Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and the Britt Festival Orchestra. Early life and education Abrams was born in Berkeley, California to non-musician parents, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Abrams is a fourth-generation American; his ancestors immigrated to the US from Russia, Poland, and Hungary. Abrams started improvising on piano at age 3, and began formal lessons at age 5. At age 8, Abrams began playing clarinet in elementary school band, and developed an interest in conducting after seeing a San Francisco Symphony performance at age 9. He began studying conducting and musicianship with Michael Tilson Thomas, the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, at age 12. Abrams never attended middle or high school; he took general education courses at community colleges in the Bay Area, including Laney College and Foothill Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Searcy
Peter Searcy is a musician from Louisville, Kentucky. Spin Magazine, Scott Irwin, and Amanda Green have compared Searcy's straightforward songwriting style and voice to those of Paul Westerberg. Like Paul Westerberg of The Replacements, Searcy is a veteran of the hardcore scene. Searcy was the frontman of the Louisville hardcore punk group Squirrel Bait in the 1980s. After Squirrel Bait disbanded, Searcy (along with Squirrel Bait drummer Ben Daughtrey) formed a funk-rock group called Fanci Pantz. Fanci Pantz garnered a lot of praise and major label attention, but they broke up before they could record an album. After the demise of Fanci Pantz, Searcy joined Big Wheel in 1989, which released three albums (two on Mammoth Records) before breaking up in 1993. His next band, Starbilly, released only one album, after which Searcy began performing solo. He released one album, produced by Tim Patalan entitled, "Could You Please and Thank You," on Time Bomb Recordings in 2000. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerves Junior
Nerves Junior were an American indie rock band based in Louisville, Kentucky. Over its six-year life, the band released a full-length album, ''As Bright As Your Night Light'' in September 2011 to favorable reviews. An EP ''Craters EP'' was released in 2013, before the band came to an end in May 2015. History The group Nerves Junior formed in 2009 sharing a love for fringe garage rock and pop. Their music has been described as expansive, eclectic, experimental psychedelic rock. The band has garnered comparisons to Radiohead with "effects-heavy lead guitar and the adventurous electronic beats". Their sonaBLAST! Records sonaBLAST! Records is a Louisville, Kentucky-based independent record label founded by film producer Gill Holland in 2002. Artist roster * Andrew T. Hunt * Bastion * Beady * Belushi Speed Ball * Ben Arthur (musician) * Ben Sollee * Broken C ... 2011 release ''As Bright As Your Night Light'' was Pretty Much Amazing's Best Reviewed Album of the Year for 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Clark
Mickey Clark is an English financial journalist, currently working for the London ''Evening Standard'' and BBC Radio 5 Live. Clark re-joined the ''Evening Standard'' in 1999, writing for ''The Times'' and the '' Daily Express'' in the interim period. His first role as a television presenter was on Channel 4's ''Business Daily'' from its launch in September 1987. He then presented on ''The Channel 4 Daily'' until 1991. After presenting on CNBC, Sky News and London Weekend Television, he presented three series of BBC 2's ''Pound for Pound''. Since its launch, Clark has co-presented ''Wake Up to Money'' on BBC Radio 5 Live, formerly with Adrian Chiles, then with Andrew Verity, and later with Adam Parsons. Clark shared the co-hosting responsibility with a range of presenters. In February 2020, Clark's contract, and that of financial analyst Louise Cooper Louise Cooper (29 May 1952 – 21 October 2009) was a British fantasy writer who lived in Cornwall with her husband, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Jones (band)
Love Jones is an American band from Louisville, Kentucky formed in 1990 and consists of Ben Daughtrey (vocals, percussion), Barry Thomas (bass), Chris Hawpe (vocals, guitar), Jonathan Palmer (vocals), and Stuart Johnson (drums). Love Jones was prominent among the "Cocktail Nation" groups of the early 1990s. The genre — which included Combustible Edison, The Cocktails and Donkey — was a reaction to the grunge music of the early 1990s. Cocktail Nation bands celebrated the aesthetics and music of the 1950s and early 1960s — lounge jazz, crooning pop, and martinis. Love Jones played any sort of pop music that fit within that label: pop, blues, R&B, bossa nova, doo wop. Love Jones formed in Louisville in 1990, along with bands like Slint and Palace Brothers, demonstrating the diversity of the Louisville music scene. In 1992, Love Jones moved to Los Angeles and staged a weekly Thursday night residency show at the famed nightclub Largo. The show featured frequent guest perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
