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The Good Life (band)
The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek Records. Started as a solo project of Cursive's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit stylistically in with his long-running band Cursive. Kasher fronts the group and plays the part of the singer/songwriter. The other members of the band include Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis. The Good Life has its core in those four musicians, but besides Kasher can be a rotating cast of characters involving many from Saddle Creek Records. The band's name came from the original state slogan for Nebraska, the home of Kasher and Saddle Creek, before 2003, when the slogan was changed. The Good Life released their fifth album, ''Everybody's Coming Down,'' on August 14, 2015. Band members ; Current members * Tim Kasher – vocals, guitars, keyboards * Stefanie Drootin � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saddle Creek Records
Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). Mogis soon turned over his role in the company to Robb Nansel. The label is named after Saddle Creek Road, a major street which cuts through midtown Omaha and also the beginnings of a scene whose members included Justin's brother Conor Oberst (at the time a solo artist and now from Bright Eyes (band), Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Desaparecidos (band), Desaparecidos, and Monsters of Folk), Tim Kasher (then of Slowdown Virginia, currently of Cursive (band), Cursive and The Good Life (band), The Good Life), and others. Collectively, they were known unofficially as the "Creekers". Saddle Creek first appeared in print on a show flyer, offering to "Spend an evening with Saddle Creek" (later to be the title of the label's DVD.)Spend an Evening With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Kasher
Timothy J. Kasher (born August 19, 1974) is an American musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and the Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha-based record label Saddle Creek Records. Music Slowdown Virginia Slowdown Virginia was formed in Omaha in 1993 by Kasher with Matt Maginn, Steve Pedersen, and Casey Caniglia after the dissolution of a previous band called The March Hares. With a sound described as a heartland Pavement and into the Pixies, Slowdown Virginia recorded and released one album, ''Dead Space'', on Lumberjack Records, with the help of funding from friends. The band was short lived, breaking up in 1995, but it inspired other bands to form in Omaha like The Faint and Bright Eyes, the formation of Saddle Creek Records out of Lumberjack Records, and the name of Omaha's indie music venue, Slowdown. Cursive Kasher, Maginn, and Pedersen formed a new band, Cursive, in 1995, adding Clint Schnase to the band. The ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiha Lee
Jiha Lee is the former keyboardist of the Good Life and has performed with Bright Eyes. Having left the Good Life after their second album, '' Black Out'', she returned to record the track "Inmates" for '' Album of the Year''. Her recordings with Bright Eyes include vocals and flute on tracks from '' Fevers and Mirrors'', '' Lifted'', and ''Digital Ash in a Digital Urn''. She also played the flute on the track "Hail To Whatever You Found in the Sunlight That Surrounds You" on the Rilo Kiley album ''The Execution of All Things''. Album appearances * Bright Eyes - '' Fevers and Mirrors'' (2000 · Saddle Creek) *Sorry About Dresden - '' The Convenience of Indecision'' (2001 · Saddle Creek) * The Good Life - '' Black Out'' (2002 · Saddle Creek) * Bright Eyes - ''There Is No Beginning to the Story'' (2002 · Saddle Creek) * Bright Eyes - ''Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground'' (2002 · Saddle Creek) *Rilo Kiley - ''The Execution of All Things'' (2002 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunset Alliance
Sunset Alliance Records is an independent record label based in Mesa, Arizona. It is owned and operated by David Jensen. History After the release of a couple LPs featuring local rock bands, original owner and founder Steve Lefever had plans to let the label die.Garcia, Gilbert ''Speed Kills'', The Phoenix New Times, Jan. 17, 2002retrieved 01-09-12 Then, in 2000, he approached the then-frontman of Before Braille, Dave Jensen, who had been working for two years to create a compilation album for the benefit of a local Phoenix art house and music venue, Modified Arts, and invited him to join in the management of Sunset Alliance and release that compilation on the label.Sunset Alliance Official Site: Story retrieved 02-17-12 While Dave Jensen's origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wishing Tree
A wish tree (or wishing tree) is a tree, usually distinguished by species, location or appearance, which is used as an object of wishes and offerings. Such trees are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value. Postulants make votive offerings in hopes of having a wish granted, or a prayer answered, from a Animism, nature spirit, saint or goddess, depending on the local tradition. Practices Coin trees One form of votive offering is the token offering of a coin. Coin trees are found in parts of Scotland, Northern England, and Wales. Folklorist Ceri Houlbrook observed actions at a coin tree in Aira Force, Cumbria, noting that a succession of at least twelve families passed by the site and decided to hammer coins into it using a piece of limestone lying around; she commented that this custom appeared to offer "little variation: it is imitative, formulaic, homogeneous". In 2019 the National Trust for Scotland said 'For many years people have hammered coins in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amos House Collection
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Saddle Creek 50
''Saddle Creek 50'' is a compilation by Saddle Creek Records in honor of being the label's 50th album release. It was released in 2003 and features one album track and one non-album track by each of the bands then recording for the label. Track listing CD version Disc 1 # The Faint – "Worked Up So Sexual" from Blank-Wave Arcade # The Faint – "Take Me to the Hospital" # Now It's Overhead – "Wonderful Scar" from their Now It's Overhead (album), self-titled # Now It's Overhead – "Dark Cycle" # Rilo Kiley – "With Arms Outstretched" from The Execution of all Things # Rilo Kiley – "Jenny, You’re Barely Alive" # Cursive (band), Cursive – "The Martyr" from Domestica (Cursive album), Cursive's Domestica # Cursive (band), Cursive – "Nonsense" # Son, Ambulance – "A Book Laid on Its Binding" from Euphemystic # Son, Ambulance – "The Moral of Rosa, Parolee" Enhanced CD content: All 45 of Saddle Creek's online weekly movies from 2002. Disc 2 # Desaparecidos (band), Desap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Matinee, No
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Lovers Need Lawyers
Lover or lovers may refer to a person having a sexual or romantic relationship with someone outside marriage. In this context see: * Sexual partner * Mistress * Premarital sex * Extramarital sex Lover or Lovers may also refer to: Geography * Lover, Wiltshire, England * Lover, Pennsylvania, US * Lover, frazione of the comune of Campodenno, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy * ''Lővér'', the Hungarian name for Luieriu village, Suseni Commune, Mureș County, Romania People * Ed Lover or James Roberts (born 1963), American rapper, actor, musician and radio personality * Eddy Lover or Eduardo Mosquera (born 1985), Panamanian singer-songwriter * Latin Lover (wrestler) or Victor Manuel Resendiz Ruiz (born 1967), Mexican professional wrestler and actor * Samuel Lover (1797–1868), Anglo-Irish songwriter, novelist and portraitist * Seth Lover (1910–1997), American inventor of the humbucker * Vector Lovers or Martin Wheeler, British musician Film and television * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Help Wanted Nights
''Help Wanted Nights'' is the fourth album by the Omaha-based band The Good Life, released on September 11, 2007 on Saddle Creek Records. Currently, frontman Tim Kasher has moved to Los Angeles and has written a screenplay entitled ''Help Wanted Nights''. He has stated that the screenplay acts as a 'counterpart' to the album: I tried to have the songs be less storytelling, and less narrative...since I was writing this fictionalized counterpart to this thing, I kind of liked the idea of writing songs to xistmore as ideas that complement something else that was written. I tried to focus less on narrative and more on those big ideas. In regards to the content of the album, Kasher reveals that the new album involves: "Roughly a week in a bar in a small town where a stranger's car breaks down...so, he fraternizes with the regulars, getting too wrapped up in their sordid lives. Something like that." Release ''Help Wanted Nights'' was made available for streaming on September 5, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album Of The Year (The Good Life Album)
''Album of the Year'' is the third album by The Good Life. The limited edition release includes a second disc with an acoustic version of the album. The enhanced CD comes with footage of videos recorded February 3, 2004, at O'Leavers in Omaha, Nebraska. This album is the 64th release of Saddle Creek Records. Concept The album is a concept record chronicling the end of a relationship and the emotions that come with it. The first track begins in April. The entire story is summarized in the first track, "Album of the Year." The main male character is dating a bartender, as referenced in the songs "Album of the Year" (''She got a job at Jacob's/serving cocktails to the local drunks'') and "Night and Day" (''Night and day she tends to her bar/She pours the drinks, they pour out their hearts''). The first three songs talk mainly about the main character and his girlfriend, at the beginning of their relationship. "You're No Fool" is a glimpse into the ridicule the main character's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Out (The Good Life Album)
''Black Out'' is the second album by Omaha indie rock band The Good Life. It was released on March 4, 2002 by Saddle Creek Records. It contains 14 songs, running approximately 50:08. Many of the songs deal with the aftermath of the bitter divorce that Tim Kasher experienced. Much of his divorce is also documented on the 2000 Cursive album ''Domestica''. The album ''Black Out'' was referred to in the song "Nothing Gets Crossed Out", on Bright Eyes's 2002 album '' Lifted'': ''Yeah, Tim, I heard your album and it's better than good./When we get off tour I think we should hang and Black Out together...'' This album is the 43rd release of Saddle Creek Records Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). Mogis soon turned over his .... Track listing #"Black Out" – 1:35 #"Beaten Path" – 3:00 #"Some Bul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
