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Altavoz
Altavoz ( es, Loudspeaker) is an American music distributor which serves independent entertainers, covering a variety of musical genres. A year after the company was founded, it was purchased by investor Nelson Jacobsen and relaunched in Rockville, Maryland. History Nelson Jacobsen established Altavoz.com after its acquisition. The website offered downloads of digital sound files (.wav) and fifteen-second introductions to music streams. By 1999, Altavoz had rolled out merchandise in big box stores such Best Buy and independent retailers nationwide. Their offerings expanded to vinyl records, books and more. By the time of the dot-com crash, Altavoz continued to provide stock to thousands of independent and big box stores and was receiving 1.2 million hits a day on the official website. In 2011, Jacobsen took a new leadership role in the company as its CEO. In 2013, Altavoz began online presentations for distribution deals exporting US-made music. Part of the incorporation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockville, Maryland
Rockville is a city that serves as the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, and is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The 2020 census tabulated Rockville's population at 67,117, making it the fifth-largest community in Montgomery County. Rockville, along with neighboring Gaithersburg and Bethesda, is at the core of the Interstate 270 Technology Corridor which is home to numerous software and biotechnology companies as well as several federal government institutions. The city, one of the major retail hubs in Montgomery County, also has several upscale regional shopping centers. History Early history Situated in the Piedmont region and crossed by three creeks ( Rock Creek, Cabin John Creek, and Watts Branch), Rockville provided an excellent refuge for semi-nomadic Native Americans as early as 8000 BC. By the first millennium BC, a few of these groups had settled down into year-round agricultural communities that exploited the native flora, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mack And The Heart Attack
Jack Mack and the Heart Attack is an American soul and R&B band that was formed in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. Their debut album, ''Cardiac Party'', was produced by Glenn Frey of Eagles (band), The Eagles on Irving Azoff's Full Moon Records/Warner Bros. label. They are known for performing in and writing songs for many major motion pictures and television shows as well as being the house band for Fox TV's ''The Late Show (1986 talk show), The Late Show''. They were the band that was performing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia when a pipe bomb exploded near the sound tower. This event is depicted in the film ''Richard Jewell (film), Richard Jewell'', directed by Clint Eastwood, which was released on December 13, 2019 as well as the Netflix TV series Manhunt (2017 TV series), ''Manhunt'' Season 2, released in 2020. Career Formation Jack Mack and the Heart Attack are a Los Angeles, California soul and R&B band that was formed in 1980 by guitarist Andrew Kastne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its " number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales – both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Indie Breakers Chart
The UK Independent Singles Breakers Chart and the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart are music charts based on UK sales of singles and albums released on independent record labels by musical artists who have never made the UK top 20. It is compiled weekly by the Official Charts Company (OCC), and is first published on their official website on Friday evenings. The chart was first launched on 29 June 2009, and, according to Martin Talbot, managing director of the OCC, would have benefited acts such as Friendly Fires and Grizzly Bear. History The UK Indie Breakers Chart runs alongside the similar UK Indie Chart. The UK Indie Chart was created in 1978 by Cherry Red Records founder Iain McNay, and, like the breakers chart, lists only albums and singles released by independent record labels in the UK. Until June 2009, a single was classed as "indie" if it was shipped by a distribution service that was independent of the four major record companies: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Warn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danity Kane
Danity Kane was an American girl group whose original and most well-known lineup comprised Aubrey O'Day, Aundrea Fimbres, Dawn Richard, Shannon Bex, and Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett. Its most recent iteration included O'Day and Richard as a duo after the departures of Bex in 2019, Fimbres in 2014 and Woods in 2008. Formed on the third iteration of MTV's ''Making the Band'' reality television series in 2005, they were originally signed to Bad Boy Records by Diddy from 2006 to 2009. Danity Kane's self-titled debut studio album was released in 2006 and achieved success in the United States, shipping a million copies domestically, while spawning two singles with top 10 single "Show Stopper" and the ballad " Ride for You". Their second studio album, '' Welcome to the Dollhouse'', was released in 2008 following the release of their second top 10 single "Damaged". The band became the first female group in ''Billboard'' history to debut their first two albums at the top of the charts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diddy Dirty Money
Dirty Money was a musical duo consisting of singer-songwriters and dancers Dawn Richard and Kalenna Harper in 2009; both artists having been signed to Bad Boy Entertainment.Sherwin, Adam (2010)Preview: Hello, Good Morning from Diddy and his Dirty Money", Beehivecity, May 14, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010.Ismael Abdu Salaam (2009)Diddy Forms New Group Dirty Money", Allhiphop.com, July 25, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2010. Together with record producer, rapper and label boss Sean Combs, they performed as Diddy – Dirty Money as a collaborative act on the Bad Boy label, releasing the highly acclaimed and successful album ''Last Train to Paris'' in December 2010. The group disbanded in 2012. History According to Combs, Diddy-Dirty Money was "a look, a sound, a movement, nda crew" and not about "drug money, illegal money, or anything negative ... for my new concept album ''Last Train to Paris'', I wanted to do something refreshing, something unique, something forward for myself as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldenheart
''Goldenheart'' is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Dawn Richard. It was released on January 15, 2013, by Our Dawn Entertainment. After her group Diddy – Dirty Money disbanded in 2012, Richard continued to develop her musical identity and worked with creative partner and manager Andrew "Druski" Scott, who co-wrote ''Goldenheart'' with her. It is the first in a trilogy of albums by Richard about love, loss, and redemption. ''Goldenheart'' is an eccentric R&B album that draws on dream pop, alternative, and dance genres. Its mostly midtempo songs have strong grooves and feature synthesizers, string settings, vintage keyboards, and an array of percussive sounds. A post-breakup concept album, Richard's songwriting poses relationships and personal subjects as epic tales through magical, medieval imagery and allusions to high fantasy and science fiction tropes. The album was released independently by Richard and promoted with the lead single "'86". It debute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get It Got It
''Get It Got It'' is the second independent album by the rapper Lady Cam Camille L. Blouin, better known by her stage name Lady Cam, is an American rapper, model and actress. Lady Cam is from Dallas, Texas. Career Over the years Lady Cam has been published in both online and print magazines and has appeared on the .... It was released on May 20, 2014, by Southern Stisles Records and Altavoz Entertainment. The album was supported by the single "Get It Got It" and received positive reviews. Coyote Music. Retrieved March 21, 2017. Track listing #Get It Started (The Party) – 3:36 #Holla – 4:19 #Get It Got It – 3:13 #Pocket Book – 3:30 #Queen Of A Queen – 3:49 #They Hate It – 4:00 #Never Give Up – 4:42 #Crush – 3:18 #On The Fly – 3:03 #My Story – 5:39 Refe ...
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So Many Days
''So Many Days'' is an album by Julie Doiron, released on October 23, 2012, on Aporia Records."Julie Doiron Announces 'So Many Days' Album" '''', September 17, 2012. It is Doiron's ninth solo album, and her third to be produced by her former Eric's Trip
Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s. The band had a minor hit in alternative ... bandm ...
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Abominator (album)
''Abominator'' is the debut album of the horror punk/ heavy metal band Doyle, founded and led by guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein of the Misfits Misfits or The Misfits may refer to: Film and television * ''The Misfits'' (1961 film), a film starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift * ''The Misfits'' (2011 film), a Mexican film * ''The Misfits'' (2021 film), an American .... The album was released in July 2013. Release It was digitally released on July 30, 2013, and physically on CD and vinyl of July that year. It was independently distributed and released on Doyle's own label, Monsterman Records. The CD version of the album included an additional track, "Drawing Down the Moon". Despite being released in 2013, due to Doyle's touring schedule in support of the album and use of social media sites, the album continues to sell and has sold just under 10,000 copies in the United States alone and has shipped 20,000 worldwide. Doyle continued to tour in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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