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Be The Cowboy Tour
Be the Cowboy Tour was a concert tour by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Mitski, in support of her fifth studio album ''Be the Cowboy'' (2018). The tour began on August 12, 2018, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States and concluded on September 8, 2019, in New York City, United States. Background In mid-2018, Mitski embarked on a concert tour called A Solo Tour of Beautiful Places. She visited cities that she did not usually get to play on tour in United States where she played solo without full-band. On June 4, 2018, she announced the European and North American tour dates, in support of ''Be the Cowboy''. Katie Von Schleicher, Caroline Rose, EERA and Jessica Lea Mayfield were announced as the tour openers. On August 2, 2018, Mitski expanded North American tour with the opening act Sidney Gish. Mitski was announced to perform at the 2019 St Jerome's Laneway Festival, touring Australia and New Zealand, as well as sideshows. On November 26, 2018, she announced the tour dat ...
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Mitski
Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990), known professionally by the mononym Mitski, is a Japanese-born American singer-songwriter. Mitski self-released her first two albums, '' Lush'' (2012) and '' Retired from Sad, New Career in Business'' (2013), while studying studio composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. These albums were created originally as her senior project at Purchase. She released her third studio album, ''Bury Me at Makeout Creek'', in 2014 through Double Double Whammy after graduating. She then signed with Dead Oceans in 2015 and released her critically acclaimed albums ''Puberty 2'' (2016), ''Be the Cowboy'' (2018) and ''Laurel Hell'' (2022), the last of which entered the top ten in several territories. ''The Guardian'' dubbed her the "best young songwriter" in the United States. Early life Mitski Miyawaki was born Mitsuki Laycock on September 27, 1990, in Mie Prefecture, Japan to a White American father and a Japanese mother. ...
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Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ...
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Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado Larimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 359,066. The county seat and most populous city is Fort Collins. The county was named for William Larimer, Jr., the founder of Denver. ..., United States. The city population was 169,810 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, an increase of 17.94% since 2010 United States Census, 2010. Fort Collins is the principal city of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. The city is the Colorado municipalities by population, fourth most populous city in Colorado. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. Fort Collins is a midsize college town, home to Colorado State University an ...
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Bozeman, Montana
Bozeman is a city and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Located in southwest Montana, the 2020 census put Bozeman's population at 53,293, making it the fourth-largest city in Montana. It is the principal city of the Bozeman, MT Micropolitan Statistical Area, consisting of all of Gallatin County with a population of 118,960. Due to the fast growth rate Bozeman is expected to be upgraded to Montana's fourth metropolitan area. It is the largest micropolitan statistical area in Montana, the fastest growing micropolitan statistical area in the United States in 2018, 2019 and 2020, as well as the third-largest of all Montana's statistical areas. The city is named after John M. Bozeman, who established the Bozeman Trail and was a founder of the town in August 1864. The town became incorporated in April 1883 with a city council form of government, and in January 1922 transitioned to its current city manager/city commission form of government. Bozeman wa ...
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Happy (Mitski Song)
"Happy" is a song by Japanese-American singer Mitski, released in 2016 as the second single from her fourth studio album, ''Puberty 2''. A music video for the song was released on May 23 that year, which '' Paste'' described as "chilling", while ''Vice'' called is anything but happy. ''Stereogum'' wrote "Sonically, the song follows an opposite trajectory, building from eerie metallic clattering and mournful whispers to an exultant explosion of guitar and saxophone. By the end, though, the excitement has died down and the eerie clattering returns, as it always does." Background About the song, Mitski said "Happiness fucks you. Once it's in your hands, you try to hold onto it, but the nature of happiness is that it passes through and eventually leaves, and something else—sadness, anger, a low after the high—has to follow. This song is about this exhaustive and exhausting cycle, and how sometimes one would rather not have any of it at all than be constantly thrown about by the w ...
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Geyser (song)
"Geyser" is a song by American singer Mitski, released on May 14, 2018, as the lead single from her fifth studio album, ''Be the Cowboy''. She performed the song on ''The Daily Show'' in September 2018. Background About the song, Mitski said "I think this is one of my vaguest songs. Usually my songs have a narrative of some sort. But this song is all feeling." It was the first song to be written for ''Be the Cowboy''. Mitski said: I started to write it in college; it's the song I've taken the longest to write. It had become my White Whale - ''Moby Dick'' reference - where I couldn't get it right. Every time I thought I'd finished it it just didn't feel right, so I kept changing it. It's gone through many iterations; probably people who went to school with me, who've been in seminars with me, are like "wait, I heard that somewhere..." And then I finally got to a point where I was like "you know what, I need to end this, I'm never gonna be happy with it so let me finish it." So I ...
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Your Best American Girl
"Your Best American Girl" is a song by Japanese-American singer Mitski, from her fourth studio album, ''Puberty 2'' (2016). The song was released on March 1, 2016, as the lead single from the album. It was written by Mitski and produced by Patrick Hyland. "Your Best American Girl"'s instrumentation has been described as consisting of acoustic guitar strumming, dream pop synthesizers, and a grungy, distorted guitar. The song's lyrics are autobiographical, discussing Mitski's want for a relationship with someone, but accepting that her racial identity and upbringing obstruct her from this goal. Background and release "Your Best American Girl" was written by Mitski. It was produced and mastered by Patrick Hyland. The song was recorded in the now-defunct Acme Studios in Westchester, New York. "Your Best American Girl" was released on March 1, 2016, to digital retailers and label Dead Oceans' SoundCloud, where it was able to be streamed for free. It was also available as an insta ...
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Nobody (Mitski Song)
"Nobody" is a song by Japanese-American singer Mitski, released in 2018 as the second single from her fifth studio album, ''Be the Cowboy''. ''The Harvard Crimson'', considering the song to be about loneliness, wrote that it is eerily upbeat, with melancholic lyrics contradicting its catchy melody. Music video A music video for the song was released on the same day as the single, directed by Christopher Good. About the music video, Mitski said "We shot this video over five days, in both sides of Kansas City. I've never been able to take this much time to shoot a video, so it was wonderful to have the space to get the details right, as well as actually hang out and have fun with everyone involved. This video made me fall unexpectedly in love with Kansas City." She also said "It was actually hard to get this one little shot where the magnifying glass goes directly in front of my eye, because in one swift motion I had to raise the magnifying glass at exactly the right angle where the ...
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Me And My Husband
''Be the Cowboy'' is the fifth studio album by Japanese-American indie rock musician Mitski, released on August 17, 2018, through Dead Oceans. Produced by longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland, the album widens Mitski's palette with a return to the piano featured on her first two records alongside synthesizers, horns and the guitar that became her signature instrument. Upon its release, ''Be the Cowboy'' received widespread acclaim from music critics, who later ranked it among the best albums of 2018. It was preceded by the singles "Geyser", "Nobody", and "Two Slow Dancers". ''Be the Cowboy'' was Mitski's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, and also entered the charts in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Writing and recording In a statement, Mitski said she experimented in narrative and fiction for the album, and said she was inspired by "the image of someone alone on a stage, singing solo with a single spotlight trained on them in an otherwise dark room." She recorded ...
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First Love / Late Spring
"First Love / Late Spring" is the debut single by American singer Mitski, released in 2014 as the lead single from her third studio album, ''Bury Me at Makeout Creek''. Background In an interview with Drew Allen, Mitski said that she got the inspiration for the song from real life. "I was falling in love with someone when I seriously could not afford to, considering where my life was at the moment. But it happened anyway because you can't control that shit", she said. When asked about what the line "Mune ga hachikire-sōde" means, Mitski said "it roughly means 'my chest is about to burst'." Reception AllMusic considered "First Love / Late Spring" to be one of the album's highlights, and wrote that it adopts a "mocking, '60s girl group approximation". ''Consequence Consequence may refer to: * Logical consequence, also known as a ''consequence relation'', or ''entailment'' * In operant conditioning, a result of some behavior * Consequentialism, a theory in philosophy in which ...
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Washing Machine Heart
"Washing Machine Heart" is a song by American singer Mitski, released in 2018 on her album ''Be the Cowboy''. Although not released as a single, it is one of her most famous songs. The song peaked at number 93 on the Irish Singles Chart as well as number 26 on the UK Indie charts. ''The A.V. Club'' write Katie Rife described "Washing Machine Heart" as a "deranged domestic ballad with a pleasantly disorienting beat". A slowed-down and sped up version of the song has become popular on the social media app TikTok for its use in animated remakes of famous airplane crashes. Background AllMusic critic Marcy Donelson wrote, "stomping, clapping, and relentless keyboard bleeps permeate the brutal, danceable 'Washing Machine Heart', evoking the appliance as well as the wife's frustration ('I'm not wearing my usual lipstick/I thought maybe we would kiss tonight')." ''Rolling Stone'' writer Simon Vozick-Levinson said "It's two minutes long, but it has at least three distinct musical ideas ...
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Consequence (publication)
''Consequence'' (previously ''Consequence of Sound'') is an independently owned New York-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook micro-site, which serves as an online database for music festival news and rumors. In 2018, Consequence of Sound launched Consequence Podcast Network. The website took its original name from the Regina Spektor song " Consequence of Sounds". History ''Consequence of Sound'' was founded in September 2007 by Alex Young, then a student at Fordham University in The Bronx, New York. In January 2008, Michael Roffman became Editor-in-Chief. In October 2014, ''Consequence of Sound'' began covering film and became a part of the Chicago Film Critics Association. In 2016, ''Consequence of Sound'' was reorganized under the umbrella of Consequence Media, a digital media, advertising, and marketing firm. In 2018, ''Consequence of Sound'' launched the ...
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