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Living Things is an American punk rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band consists of the brothers Lillian Berlin (vocals/guitar), Eve Berlin (bass), and Bosh Berlin (drums), and Cory Becker (guitar). History Brothers Lillian Berlin (born Lawrence Rothman), Eve Berlin (born Justin Yves Rothman and sometimes known as Yves Berlin), and Bosh Berlin (born Joshua Rothman) grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis. Future Living Things guitarist Cory Becker was a childhood friend. The band self-released two early EPs produced by Steve Albini, and gained the attention of several record labels. They first signed with Dreamworks Records, which released the album ''Black Skies in Broad Daylight'' in 2004, but the label then went bankrupt. Geffen Records also spent money to develop the band but then dropped them due to their controversial, politicized concert performances. They eventually signed with Jive Records. Living Things released the critically acclaimed album ''Ahead of the Lions'' in ...
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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 ...
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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 into ...
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Garage Punk Groups
A garage is a covered structure built for the purpose of parking, storing, protecting, maintaining, and/or repairing vehicles. Specific applications include: *Garage (residential), a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicles *Automobile repair shop, also called a garage, where vehicles are serviced and repaired *Bus garage, a building or complex used for storage of buses when not in use *Filling station, an automotive service station where vehicles take on fuel or recharge *Multistorey car park, or parking garage, a building serving as a public parking facility Other meanings of garage may include: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Garage'' (film), a 2007 film by Lenny Abrahamson * ''The Garage'' (1920 film), a film by Roscoe Arbuckle * ''The Garage'' (1980 film), a film by Eldar Ryazanov Video game * ''Garage'' (video game), a 1999 Japanese horror adventure video game Music Groups and genres * Garage (band), a Czech rock band * Garage house, a f ...
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Garage Rock Groups From Missouri
A garage is a covered structure built for the purpose of parking, storing, protecting, maintaining, and/or repairing vehicles. Specific applications include: *Garage (residential), a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicles *Automobile repair shop, also called a garage, where vehicles are serviced and repaired *Bus garage, a building or complex used for storage of buses when not in use *Filling station, an automotive service station where vehicles take on fuel or recharge *Multistorey car park, or parking garage, a building serving as a public parking facility Other meanings of garage may include: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Garage'' (film), a 2007 film by Lenny Abrahamson * ''The Garage'' (1920 film), a film by Roscoe Arbuckle * ''The Garage'' (1980 film), a film by Eldar Ryazanov Video game * ''Garage'' (video game), a 1999 Japanese horror adventure video game Music Groups and genres * Garage (band), a Czech rock band * Garage house, a fo ...
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Sunflower Bean
Sunflower Bean is an American rock band from Glen Head, New York and Brooklyn founded in 2013. The band consists of Julia Cumming (bass, lead vocals), Nick Kivlen (guitars, backing vocals), and Olive Faber (drums). Their most recent album ''Headful of Sugar'' was released in May 2022. Career Kivlen and Faber were childhood acquaintances who both enrolled at North Shore High School in Glen Head, New York in 2009. They initially collaborated when Olive briefly subbed for the drummer in Turnip King, the band for which Nick was the bassist. By early 2013, the two began to create their own original music, practising and writing in Faber's basement. The name of their new band apparently came about due to Kivlen's obsession with sunflower seeds alongside Faber's concurrent love of coffee and coffee beans. The Manhattan-based Cumming, who had been performing in the band Supercute! along with Rachel Trachtenburg since 2009, met Faber and Kivlen at an early Sunflower Bean show; she agre ...
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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from then President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony. He was the recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for the application of technology to improve human-m ...
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The Runaways (2010 Film)
''The Runaways'' is a 2010 American Biographical film, biographical Drama (film and television), drama film about The Runaways, the 1970s rock band of the same name written and directed by Floria Sigismondi. It is based on the book ''Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway'' by the band's lead vocalist Cherie Currie. The film stars Dakota Fanning as Currie, Kristen Stewart as rhythm guitarist and vocalist Joan Jett, and Michael Shannon as record producer Kim Fowley. ''The Runaways'' depicts the formation of the band in 1975 and focuses on the relationship between Currie and Jett until Currie's departure from the band. The film grossed around $4.6 million worldwide and received generally favorable reviews from critics. Plot Cherie Currie is a teenager in Los Angeles who desperately wants to be a rock and roll, rock star. She idolizes David Bowie and cuts her hair and dons make-up so she will resemble Bowie's character Aladdin Sane. At her high school talent show, she lip syncs to "Lady G ...
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Roberto Cavalli
Roberto Cavalli (; born 15 November 1940) is an Italian fashion designer and inventor. He is known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. The high-end Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli sells luxury clothing, perfume and leather accessories. Former Acne Studios creative consultant Paul Surridge succeeded Peter Dundas as creative director for the brand in May 2017. Biography Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence, Italy. His grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, was an artist and a member of the Macchiaioli Movement, whose work is exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery. Cavalli enrolled at the local Art Institute, concentrating in textile print. While still a student, he made a series of flower prints on knit that caught the attention of major Italian hosiery factories. In the early 1970s, he invented and patented a printing procedure on leather, and started creating patchworks of different materials. He debuted these techniques in Paris, immediately getting commis ...
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Habeas Corpus (album)
''Habeas Corpus'' is the second album from St. Louis rock band Living Things. The album was recorded over a period of nine months in Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin. Michael Ilbert produced ''Habeas Corpus'', unlike the previous record, ''Ahead of the Lions'', which was produced by Steve Albini. Track listing #"Brass Knuckles" – 3:15 #"Mercedes Marxist" – 3:58 #"Let It Rain" – 3:52 #"Oxygen" – 3:14 #"Cost of Living" – 3:44 #"Island In Your Heart" – 4:24 #"Snake Oil Man" – 4:38 #"Post Millennium Extinction Blues" – 3:39 #"Dirty Bombs" – 3:07 #"Shake Your Shimmy" – 3:17 #"The Kingdom Will Fall" – 2:51 Personnel * Lillian Berlin - vocals, guitar *Eve Berlin Living Things is an American punk rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band consists of the brothers Lillian Berlin (vocals/guitar), Eve Berlin (bass), and Bosh Berlin (drums), and Cory Becker (guitar). History Brothers Lillian Berlin (born La ... - bass guitar *Bosh Berlin - drums *Cory Becker - guitar R ...
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Living Things In Toronto 2009
Living or The Living may refer to: Common meanings *Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms ** Living species, one that is not extinct *Personal life, the course of an individual human's life * Human life (other) * Human condition * Living wage, refers to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living * Benefice or Living, in canon law, a position in a church that has attached to it a source of income Music * ''Living'' (Paddy Casey album) or the title song, "Livin, 2003 * ''Living'' (Judy Collins album), 1971 *''Living 2001–2002'', an album by the John Butler Trio, 2003 * ''Living'' (EP) or the title song, by Josephine Collective, 2007 * "Living" (song), by Dierks Bentley, 2019 * The Living (band) early 1980's Seattle Punk Rock band, featuring Duff McKagan Television and film * ''Living'' (1954 TV program), a 1954–1955 Canadian informational program * ''Living'' (2 ...
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Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countrie ...
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Floria Sigismondi
Floria Sigismondi (, born 1965) is an Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer. She is best known for writing and directing '' The Runaways'', for directing music videos for performers including Dua Lipa, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin fame), Marilyn Manson, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Leonard Cohen, Katy Perry, Björk, and David Bowie, and commercials for brands such as Gucci, MAC, Target, and Nike. Sigismondi has also directed television including two episodes of ''The Handmaid's Tale'' and ''American Gods''. Life and career Sigismondi was born in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Her family, including her sister Antonella, moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was two. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting. Starting in 1987, she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art, today's Ontari ...
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