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Continuum (The Components Album)
''Continuum'' is the debut studio album from the American rock band the Components. Content The eight-track album was released on digital download with Mint 400 Records, on January 19, 2018. ''Continuum'' is conceptually about overcoming the demons of depression and substance abuse, and is described as "dark, haunting, and ambitious." The album draws comparison to the music of the post-grunge band Foo Fighters, and the alternative rock duo Royal Blood. The opening track "Parliaments and Witchcraft" appears on the 2018 compilation album ''NJ / NY Mixtape''. Reception Joe Wawryzniak form ''Jersey Beat'' describes ''Continuum'' as "robust shouted vocals, incendiary guitar riffs, fat throbbing basslines, and fierce pile driving drums" and a "totally kick-ass blast of pure sweaty'n'sinewy noise and fury." It made music journalist Jim Testa's Top 10 Hudson County Records of 2018, who notes "you'll definitely hear elements of the White Stripes in the band's stripped-down approach, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Components
The Components are an American alternative rock band from New Jersey. History The Components are an alternative and grunge rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey. Guitarist and vocalist Ronnie Sena and drummer Zoe Ekonomidis were previously in a band, called Asphalt Grey. During that period, Sena recorded songs independently, releasing a five-track EP entitled ''Chasing Colors'' under a ""fake" band called the Components." After Asphalt Grey broke up in late 2016, Sena and Ekonomidis continued playing, and in an interview with ''The Jersey Journal,'' Sena recalls "Zoe and I had this amazing chemistry from the first time we played together so we knew we wanted to keep going." The two rejoined as the Components, in January 2017. Sena claims classic blues as their biggest inspiration, along with the Arctic Monkeys, Built to Spill and the White Stripes. In 2017 The Components won the Jersey City Battle of the Bands, which landed them a deal with independent record label Mint 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Components
The Components are an American alternative rock band from New Jersey. History The Components are an alternative and grunge rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey. Guitarist and vocalist Ronnie Sena and drummer Zoe Ekonomidis were previously in a band, called Asphalt Grey. During that period, Sena recorded songs independently, releasing a five-track EP entitled ''Chasing Colors'' under a ""fake" band called the Components." After Asphalt Grey broke up in late 2016, Sena and Ekonomidis continued playing, and in an interview with ''The Jersey Journal,'' Sena recalls "Zoe and I had this amazing chemistry from the first time we played together so we knew we wanted to keep going." The two rejoined as the Components, in January 2017. Sena claims classic blues as their biggest inspiration, along with the Arctic Monkeys, Built to Spill and the White Stripes. In 2017 The Components won the Jersey City Battle of the Bands, which landed them a deal with independent record label Mint 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NJ / NY Mixtape
The North Jersey Indie Rock Festival is an American annual concert in Jersey City, that showcases artists primarily from New Jersey. About The festival was created by Sniffling Indie Kids co-founder Frank DeFranco and Mint 400 Records founder Neil Sabatino, in 2016. It has been hosted by many of the state's music magazines, websites and radio, including ''The Aquarian Weekly'', ''Jersey Beat'', Speak Into My Good Eye, and WFDU. The labels were both working on the album ''Creases'' when they were formerly introduced. Sabatino recalls in an interview with Bob Makin of ''Courier News'', that the labels "had done a ton of local shows together and esaw the opportunity to do a showcase on a much larger scale in the past, Mint 400 tried to do a showcase at least once a year of our local acts always at Maxwell's under the old owners," and DeFranco noted the desire to create a "festival like this because e feltthe North Jersey scene had been overlooked by similar festivals in Asbury P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Aquarian Weekly
''The Aquarian Weekly'' is a regional alternative weekly newspaper based in New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1969, its focus is rock music and related events in the New Jersey/New York City/Eastern Pennsylvania region. From 1986 to 1992, it was called ''East Coast Rocker''. After returning to its original title, the newspaper began including a pull-out section that retained the ''East Coast Rocker'' name, and which is now freely distributed throughout the region. The paper has remained independently owned and operated throughout its existence. History James Rensenbrink (1932–2013), a former employee of two New Jersey newspapers and one Louisiana newspaper, founded ''The Aquarian'' in 1969. ''The Aquarian'' initially concentrated on radical politics and uncompromising ecological writings, raging against media monopolies as well as antiquated marijuana laws. In the beginning, ''The Aquarian'' promoted hippie culture and healthy lifestyles, dropping issues sporadically fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media In Toronto
This is a list of television and radio stations along with a list of media outlets in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto is Canada's largest media market, and the fourth-largest market in North America (behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago). TV stations The incumbent cable provider in the Toronto area is Rogers Cable, which originally secured the cable franchise for most of the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto, and later purchased the systems in surrounding areas. Since 2010, Bell Fibe TV (an IPTV terrestrial service operated by Rogers' rival Bell Canada) has been available in most neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. Independent IPTV television services such as Vmedia and Zazeen have also become available. American network affiliates on Toronto cable are piped in from Buffalo, New York, including WGRZ (NBC), WIVB-TV (CBS), WKBW-TV ( ABC), WUTV (Fox), and WNED-TV (PBS). For additional fees cable subscribers can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jersey Journal
''The Jersey Journal'' is a daily newspaper, published from Monday through Saturday, covering news and events throughout Hudson County, New Jersey. ''The Journal'' is a sister paper to ''The Star-Ledger'' of Newark, ''The Times'' of Trenton and the '' Staten Island Advance'', all of which are owned by Advance Publications, which bought the paper in 1945. History Founded by Civil War veterans William Dunning and Z. K. Pangborn, the ''Jersey Journal'' was originally known as the ''Evening Journal'' and was first published on May 2, 1867. The newspaper's first offices were located at 13 Exchange Place in Jersey City with a reported initial capitalization of $119. The newspaper built a new office building on 37 Montgomery Street in 1874. Editor Joseph A. Dear changed the ''Evening Journal'' to its current name in 1909. The paper relocated again, in 1911, to a building at the northeast corner of Bergen and Sip Avenues. This building was demolished in 1923 to make room for Journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2018. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2018 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date Albums An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ... 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mint 400 Records Albums
MiNT is Now TOS (MiNT) is a free software alternative operating system kernel for the Atari ST system and its successors. It is a multi-tasking alternative to TOS and MagiC. Together with the free system components fVDI device driver In computing, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and o ...s, XaAES graphical user interface Widget (GUI), widgets, and TeraDesk file manager, MiNT provides a free TOS compatible replacement OS that can Computer multitasking, multitask. History Work on MiNT began in 1989, as the developer Eric Smith was trying to port the GNU library and related utilities on the Atari ST TOS. It turned out quickly, that it was much easier to add a Unix-like layer to the TOS, than to patch all of the GNU software, and MiNT began as a TOS extension to help in porting. MiN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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