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Boomtown (Ozma Album)
''Boomtown'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Ozma, funded entirely by a Pledge Music campaign and released on February 11, 2014. Writing and Info Boomtown was Ozma's first effort in seven years following 2007's Pasadena. It opens with "Around The World In 80 Seconds," Ozma's first instrumental since The Doubble Donkey Disc's "Korobeiniki." "Nervous" is notable as the first Ozma song written by drummer Kenn Shane, and the first lead vocal by keyboardist Star Wick. "Out The Window" is only the second Ozma song (the other being The Doubble Donkey Disc's "Immigration Song") to feature rhythm guitarist Jose Galvez on lead vocals. Daniel Brummel Daniel Brummel (born September 15, 1981 in Pasadena, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed and recorded with various musical groups including Sanglorians, Ozma, Weezer, Nada ... only sings lead on two of the songs. Track listing References Ozma ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozma (band)
Ozma is an American rock band from Pasadena, California. The band's sound is a mix of nostalgic new wave–influenced power pop and contrapuntal Casiotone-driven melodies sustained by heavy guitar riffs. Since their formation in 1995, Ozma has released five studio albums and toured the U.S., Japan and Canada more than thirty times, including extensive touring with stylistically similar groups including Weezer, Nada Surf, Rilo Kiley, Superdrag, The Rentals, The Get Up Kids, Piebald, Saves The Day, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, and Rooney. History Early years (1995–2001) Ozma was formed in September 1995 by Ryen Slegr (vocals/guitar), Jose Galvez (guitar/vocals), Patrick Edwards (drums) and Daniel Brummel (vocals/bass), when Brummel was introduced to the others by Galvez, whom he met on AOL while looking for a band to join. In 1996, the still-unnamed band were joined by Katherine Kieckhefer on keyboards, before deciding on the name "Ozma" (taken from the L. Frank Baum books on the dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena (album)
''Pasadena'' is the fourth studio album by American rock band Ozma, released in 2007. Production The album took five months to record and was mixed by Matt Hyde. Critical reception ''PopMatters'' wrote that the album is "more like Weezer's green self-titled album than anything, eager to live up to an ideal and doing a good job of it." The ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...'' called the band "underrated," writing that the album is "more muscular and mature than the crunchy power-pop that gained Ozma a large Southland following over its first three albums." The ''Northern Express'' praised the "well-written, catchy indie compositions." Track listing Personnel *Daniel Brummel - vocals, bass References Ozma (band) albums 2007 albums [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pledge Music
PledgeMusic was an online direct-to-fan music platform, launched in August 2009. It was started to facilitate musicians looking to pre-sell, market, and distribute projects; such as recordings and concerts. It bore similarities to other artist payment platforms as ArtistShare, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, RocketHub and Sellaband. The company announced it was facing bankruptcy in May 2019, after a year of artists reporting slow payment problems. The company was granted permission to wind up on August 19, 2019. History Formation PledgeMusic was formed in the UK and registered with Companies House on October 1, 2008. In the next few years, a number of complementary companies were also formed under the PledgeMusic banner. They were: PledgeMusic Retail Ltd on June 18, 2009; PledgeMusic Recordings Limited on August 18, 2010 (originally named PledgeMusic 2.0 Limited); and PledgeMusic Publishing on November 11, 2010. Early successes Ginger Wildheart was awarded the 2012 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doubble Donkey Disc
''The Doubble Donkey Disc'' is the second studio album by American rock band Ozma. Track listing Personnel * Daniel Brummel – vocals, bass, balalaika * Pat Edwards – drums * Jose Galvez – guitar, vocals * Ryen Slegr Ryen Slegr is a Los Angeles-based musician best known for being a member of the rock band Ozma. He is also affiliated with The Rentals, Weezer, and Rachel Haden. The Rentals In 2006, Slegr performed with The Rentals on their U.S. tour with O ... – vocals, guitar, balalaika * Star Wick – keys, flute References {{DEFAULTSORT:Doubble Donkey Disc, The 2002 albums Ozma (band) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korobeiniki
"Korobeiniki" () is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells the story of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, describing their haggling over goods in a metaphor for courtship. Outside Russia, "Korobeiniki" is widely known as the ''Tetris'' theme tune (titled "A-Type" in the game), from its appearance in Nintendo's Game Boy version of the game as arranged by the Japanese composer Hirokazu Tanaka in 1989. History The song "Korobeiniki" is based on a poem of the same name by Nikolay Nekrasov, which was first printed in the ''Sovremennik'' magazine in 1861. Its increasing tempo and the associated dance style led to it quickly becoming a popular Russian folk song. Korobeiniki were peddlers with trays, who sold fabric, haberdashery, books and other small items in pre-revolutionary Russia. Nekrasov's much longer poem tells the story of a young peddler who seduces a peasant girl named Katya one night in a field of rye. He offers her some of his wares as gifts in exchange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Brummel
Daniel Brummel (born September 15, 1981 in Pasadena, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed and recorded with various musical groups including Sanglorians, Ozma, Weezer, Nada Surf, Scott & Rivers, Spain, Gowns, Monstro, and The Elected. PunkNews.org "Nada Surf - Live In Denver (2016)" He composed the music for the Lifetime (TV network), Lifetime network television series ''American Princess'' with partners |
Ozma (band) Albums
Ozma may refer to: __NOTOC__ Fictional characters * Princess Ozma, ruler of the fictional land of Oz * Ozma Lee, in ''Macross Frontier'' * Ozma, a superboss in ''Final Fantasy IX'' and ''Final Fantasy XIV'' * Ozma, the Ra-seru of thunder in ''Legend of Legaia'' * Ozma, a character in ''RWBY'' Music * Ozma (band), a rock band from Pasadena, California * DJ Ozma, Japanese pop singer * ''Ozma'' (album), a 1989 album by the Melvins Other uses * Project Ozma, a pioneering experiment in the 1960s in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence * The Ozma problem, a philosophical problem posed in ''The Ambidextrous Universe'' by Martin Gardner * , a 2012 Japanese anime television series See also * Osma Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma is the third-largest municipality in the province of Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It has a population of about 5,250. It is made up of two parts: *the smaller Ciudad de Osma (city ..., municipality in Soria, Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
