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2012 Bonnaroo Music Festival
The 2012 Bonnaroo Music Festival was held June 7–10, 2012 in Manchester, Tennessee, United States, and marked the 11th time the festival has been held since its inception in 2002. On March 12, six more artists were added to the line up. Danzig Legacy (featuring music by Danzig, Samhain and Danzig/Doyle performing The Misfits), The Temper Trap, Santigold, Puscifer, fun. and The Cave Singers. The Festival announced on April 11 that four more artists would be added to the lineup: Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A., the Sam Bush Band, Michael Kiwanuka and Black Box Revelation. Phish also played a second full set. Attendance at the 2012 festival surpassed 100,000, a record for Bonnaroo. Line-up Thursday, June 7 (artists listed from earliest to latest set times) *This Tent: ** The Dirty Guv'nahs **The Lonely Forest ** Danny Brown **Yelawolf **Kendrick Lamar **Alabama Shakes *That Tent: **K.Flay **Mariachi El Bronx **Orgone ** Moon Taxi ** SOJA **Big Gigantic *The Other Tent: ** EMA ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Earnhardt Jr
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born October 10, 1974) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, team owner, author, and an analyst for ''NASCAR on NBC''. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for his team JR Motorsports and part-time in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour, driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro for his team JR Motorsports. He is the son of Dale Earnhardt Sr., who was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He is also the grandson of NASCAR driver Ralph Earnhardt, the brother of Kelley Earnhardt-Miller, the half-brother of former driver Kerry Earnhardt and the uncle of driver Jeffrey Earnhardt. Earnhardt's success at Daytona International Speedway throughout his career earned him the nickname "Pied Piper" of Daytona. He is a two-time Daytona 500 winner ( 2004 and 2014), and has won the Most Popular Driver Award fifteen consecutive times from 2003 to 2017. After driving the No. 8 Chevrole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as [adult swim] and often abbreviated as [as]) is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house production studio, Williams Street. It is part of American media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. Adult Swim runs nightly from 9 p.m. – 6 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, ET/Pacific Time Zone, PT. Debuting in 2001, Adult Swim served as the nighttime identity of Cartoon Network, and it was established as alternative programming during late night hours when Cartoon Network's primary target audience would normally be sleeping. By 2005, Adult Swim would be granted its own separate Nielsen ratings report from Cartoon Network due to its targeting a different audience. The block features stylistically varied animated and live-action shows, including original programming, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, anime, and short fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Voltage
High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage. In certain industries, ''high voltage'' refers to voltage above a certain threshold. Equipment and conductors that carry high voltage warrant special safety requirements and procedures. High voltage is used in electrical power distribution, in cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to produce electrical arcs, for ignition, in photomultiplier tubes, and in high-power amplifier vacuum tubes, as well as other industrial, military and scientific applications. Definition The numerical definition of depends on context. Two factors considered in classifying a voltage as high voltage are the possibility of causing a spark in air, and the danger of electric shock by contact or proximity. The International Electrotechnical Commission and its national counterparts ( IET, IEEE, VDE, etc.) define ''high voltage'' as above 1000 V for alternating curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Benson
Douglas Steven Benson (born July 2, 1962) is an American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host and actor, best known for hosting the podcasts and TV series ''Doug Loves Movies'' (2006-present), ''The Benson Interruption'' (2010-2013), ''Getting Doug with High'' (2013-2019) and ''The High Court with Doug Benson'' (2017). As a comedian, he has released 10 comedy albums, starting with ''Professional Humoredian'' in 2008, and has regularly appeared on TV shows including ''Comedy Central Presents'', ''Best Week Ever'' and ''@midnight''. In 2007, he was a contestant on the Last Comic Standing (season 5), 5th season of the reality competition show ''Last Comic Standing''. In 2007, he starred in the film ''Super High Me'', a documentary about marijuana usage. He has also acted in small roles in numerous TV shows, including ''Trailer Park Boys'' and ''You're the Worst'', as well as several films, including serving as the voice of Bane (DC Comics), Bane in ''The Lego Batman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chasing Ice
''Chasing Ice'' is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of nature photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) to publicize the effects of climate change. The film was directed by Jeff Orlowski. It was released in the United States on November 16, 2012. The documentary includes scenes from a glacier calving event that took place at Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, lasting 75 minutes, the longest such event ever captured on film. Two EIS videographers waited several weeks in a small tent overlooking the glacier and finally, were able to witness of ice crashing off the glacier. "The calving of a massive glacier believed to have produced the ice that sank the Titanic is like watching a city break apart." Synopsis Environmental photographer James Balog heads to Greenland, Iceland and Alaska in order to capture images that will help to convey the effects of global warming. Balog was initially skeptical about climate change when the issue entered scientific discussio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Brains
Bad Brains are an American rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1976. Originally a jazz fusion band under the name Mind Power, they are widely regarded as pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members have objected to the use of this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of other genres like funk, heavy metal, hip hop, and soul. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine called them "the mother of all black hard-rock bands", and they have been cited as a seminal influence to numerous subgenres of heavy metal, including thrash/speed metal, alternative metal, funk metal and rap/nu metal. Bad Brains are followers of the Rastafari movement. Bad Brains have released nine studio albums. They have broken up and reformed several times over their career, sometimes with different singers or drummers. Their classic lineup includes singer H.R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer, and drummer Earl Hudson. This lineup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubblebucket
Rubblebucket is an American art-pop and indie-rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The primary members are musical couple (now separated) Annakalmia Traver and Alex Toth. Formation Alex Toth (trumpet, band leader) and Kalmia Traver (vocals, saxophone) first met at the University of Vermont where they were both enrolled as music majors. Upon graduating in 2006, they began touring the United States as members of different projects. The band began performing primarily in the Northeast, in major cities and college towns, earning a reputation for their raucous energy. Toth had been developing a dance band that merges psychedelic indie rock, upbeat dance, and left field arrangements. In June 2007, the pair met percussionist Craig Myers; the improvised music they made at a party was arranged and elaborated on to become the first contribution to the band's repertoire. Career In March 2008, Rubblebucket self-released their debut album, ''Rose's Dream'', under the name Rubblebucket Orchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miller Lite
Miller Lite is a 4.2% ABV light American lager beer sold by Molson Coors (previously MillerCoors) of Chicago, Illinois. The company also produces Miller Genuine Draft and Miller High Life. Miller Lite competes mainly with Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light. Miller Lite is the official beer sponsor of the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears, and Bellator MMA. History Miller Lite was the first successful mainstream light beer in the United States. After its first inception as "Gablinger's Diet Beer", developed in 1967 by Joseph L. Owades, PhD, a biochemist working for New York's Rheingold Brewery, the recipe was given by Owades to Chicago's Peter Hand Brewing. That year, Peter Hand Brewing was purchased by a group of investors, renamed Meister Brau Brewing, and Lite was soon introduced as Meister Brau Lite, a companion to their flagship Meister Brau. Under the new management, Meister Brau Brewing encountered significant financial pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Gethard
Christopher Paul Gethard (; born May 23, 1980) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He was the host of ''The Chris Gethard Show'', a talk show based in New York City, which aired from 2011 to 2018. He hosts the podcasts ''Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People'' and ''New Jersey is the World''. Early life Gethard grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, the son of Sally and Ken Gethard, and attended West Orange High School. Career Gethard is an improvisational actor who works largely out of Manhattan's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2000 while he was a student at Rutgers University. In 2013, the Independent Film Channel asked Gethard to write a pilot based on his book, ''A Bad Idea I'm About to Do''. IFC gave Gethard a year, in addition to writing his pilot, to market for them at festivals and produce web content. In August 2016, Gethard participated for the first time in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Kinane
Kyle Christian Kinane (born December 23, 1976) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor from Addison, Illinois. Career Kinane's first television appearance was on ''The Nanny'' playing "Young Roger Clinton". His debut album ''Death of the Party'', recorded at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles and released in 2010 on AST Records, was met with critical acclaim. Kinane was named in ''Variety''s "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010". Kinane has had a longstanding relationship with the cable channel Comedy Central, including serving as the voice for their on-air announcements since 2011. His first ''Comedy Central Presents'' half-hour special was on February 25, 2011. Other Comedy Central programs on which he has appeared include ''Drunk History'' (on which he retold the story of the Haymarket affair while drunk), the game show ''@midnight'', which he has won seven times, and the 2014 animated series '' TripTank''. Kinane's first stand-up comedy DVD special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Holmes
Peter Benedict Holmes (born March 30, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster. Musings on spirituality and religion are frequent themes in his works. Holmes gained recognition in the early 2010s as a stand-up comic, during which he launched his long-running podcast ''You Made It Weird'' (2011–present), released his first comedy special, and worked as an actor and television writer. Subsequently, he began his own late-night talk show ''The Pete Holmes Show'' (2013–2014), which ran on TBS for two seasons in the time-slot after ''Conan'', a frequent champion of his work. During the decade, he released four comedy specials: ''Impregnated with Wonder'' (2011), ''Nice Try, The Devil'' (2013), ''Faces and Sounds'' (2016), and ''Dirty Clean'' (2018). Holmes is most widely known for starring and creating the semi-autobiographical scripted comedy series ''Crashing'', which aired on HBO for three seasons (2017–2019). He has also worked as a voice actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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