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Death From Above (film)
Death From Above may refer to: In music: * The DJ nickname of musician James Murphy * Death From Above Records, renamed DFA Records * Death from Above (band), a Canadian music duo * "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above", a song by Brazilian band ''Cansei de Ser Sexy'' * "Death from Above", a song on the b-side of "Tarantula" (The Smashing Pumpkins song) * "Death from Above", a song from Thrice's 2016 album ''To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere'' Other: * ''Death From Above'' (MechQuest), an animated short film featured in the web based game ''MechQuest'' As mottoes or slogans: * The motto ("Mors Ab Alto" in Latin) of the USAF 7th Bomb Wing * The motto painted on the front of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore's helicopter in the 1979 film ''Apocalypse Now'' * One motto for the United States Army's ''82nd Airborne Division The 82nd Airborne Division is an Airborne forces, airborne infantry division (military), division of the United States Army specializing in Paratroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murphy (electronic Musician)
James Jeremiah Murphy (born February 4, 1970) is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His most well-known musical project is LCD Soundsystem, which first gained attention with its single "Losing My Edge" in 2002 before releasing its eponymous debut album in February 2005 to critical acclaim and top 20 success in the UK. LCD Soundsystem's second and third studio albums, ''Sound of Silver'' (2007) and '' This Is Happening'' (2010) respectively, were met with universal acclaim from several music review outlets. Both albums have also reached the top 50 in the ''Billboard'' 200. LCD Soundsystem was named one of ''Rolling Stone''’s New Immortals—"currently active (or relatively recently defunct) artists who heythink will stand the test of time." In 2011, it was announced that LCD Soundsystem would disband with a final show on April 2, 2011 at Madison Square Garden. In the following years, Murphy continued to pursue other artistic projects: some music- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DFA Records
DFA Records is an American independent record label founded in 2001 by Mo' Wax co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, musician James Murphy, and manager Jonathan Galkin. They previously had a production team called The DFA, consisting of Goldsworthy and Murphy. History James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy met while working in New York on the David Holmes album '' Let's Get Killed''. After the recording was completed, Goldsworthy stayed in New York, and the two began to throw parties in the Lower East Side. They created the production duo, The DFA, but wished to grow The DFA into more than what it was. It was not until they met Jonathan Galkin, who subsequently quit his event-production job to work with James and Tim, that they turned DFA into a label. DFA Records began on a series of 12" single vinyl releases starting with The Rapture's " House of Jealous Lovers" and The Juan Maclean's "By the Time I Get to Venus". "House of Jealous Lovers" went on to sell 7500 copies. Many of the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death From Above (band)
Death from Above 1979 (also known as Death from Above) is a Canadian rock duo consisting of bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2001. The band released their debut album, ''You're a Woman, I'm a Machine'', in 2004 and broke up in 2006. They reformed in 2011 and released their second album, ''The Physical World'', in 2014. Since then the band has released 2 more albums, '' Outrage! Is Now'' in 2017 and ''Is 4 Lovers'' in 2021. History Formation and ''Heads Up'' (2001–2003) Grainger and Keeler reportedly met at a Sonic Youth concert, though they sometimes jokingly claimed to have met in prison, on a pirate ship, or in a gay bar, leading some journalists and fans to believe these stories. Keeler has also said to have met Grainger when looking for a drummer to play in his hardcore punk band Femme Fatale, further stating "That's how Death from Above got started." In a 2021 interview with Anthony Fantano, Keeler fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
"Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" is the first international single by Brazilian band CSS, taken from their debut studio album, ''Cansei de Ser Sexy''. Background and release The title is a reference to Canadian band Death from Above. The song's video was directed by Cat Solen and the track was later commercially released in several formats. It reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart after it was re-issued in May 2007. The B-side for "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" is the cut "Acho Um Pouco Bom" (roughly "I think it's a bit good", in Portuguese). Accolades and media The song was rated as the sixth best track of the year 2006 by the ''NME'' magazine and named the 299th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media. In October 2011, ''NME'' placed it at number 94 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". Following its use in promotions for the TV series, ''Ugly Betty'', the track was re-released in the United Kingdom. It was also used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarantula (The Smashing Pumpkins Song)
"Tarantula" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It is the first single from their seventh album, ''Zeitgeist'', and their first release since their 2006 reunion. Release and structure Billy Corgan mentioned during a concert of June 5 in Berlin that "Tarantula" was titled in honor of the German rock band Scorpions, with whom Corgan had recently collaborated on the Scorpions song "The Cross". The intro and the outro of the song are inspired by the song "Dark Lady" of Scorpions, while Corgan stated that he wrote the solo of the song thinking how Uli Jon Roth could have played it. Corgan and Chamberlin believe the song is a culmination of music they've been listening to all their lives, specifically the Scorpions and UFO. A 30-second clip of the song was released on May 14, 2007. On May 21, 2007, the single was released on iTunes for the United States, followed by the United Kingdom and Canada on May 22. On this date, "Tarantula" was played for the first time live in Paris at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
''To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere'' is the ninth studio album by American rock band Thrice. The album was released on May 27, 2016, through Vagrant Records. ''To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere'' is Thrice's first release after a four-year hiatus that lasted from mid-2012 to mid-2015, and the band's first album of original material in five years since 2011's ''Major/Minor''. During the hiatus, most of the band members continued performing music and pursued other interests, which included moving to other cities or states with their new families. After reuniting and performing sporadic festival dates in 2015, Thrice announced the band's intention to release a new album the following year. Because of the distance between the members' new homes, the demos for ''To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere'' were written, recorded, shared and worked on digitally using software programs that were not as prevalent before they went on hiatus. Produced by Eric Palmquist, the resulting recording was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death From Above (MechQuest)
''MechQuest'' is an online Flash based single-player sci-fi role-playing video game developed by Artix Entertainment. MechQuest centers on mecha combat and was updated on a weekly basis. Players can play for free or pay a one time fee which grants access to more game content like: a Starship, missions/events, and special Mechas. Gameplay ''MechQuest'' is a single player RPG; however the character data is stored on a server. Players control their character via pointing and clicking on the screen in various areas to navigate the player character to the point where they click. Most items are activated either simply by running into them, or by pressing a button that will appear when the point is reached (when outside of battle). Battles are presented in two ways, Mecha battles and energy blade battles, both battle styles are similar to a traditional RPG in that much of its game play revolves around fighting enemies in a turn based system. Mecha Battles features a set of many types of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Bomb Wing
The 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, where it is also the host unit. The 7 BW is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic bombardment wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. Its origins date to the 1918 establishment of the 7th Operations Group, 1st Army Observation Group (later 7th Bombardment Group), one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the United States Army before World War II. The 7th Operations Group carries the lineage and history of its highly decorated World War II predecessor unit. It operated initially in the Philippines as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber unit assigned to Fifth Air Force but after the fall of the Philippines in early 1942, operated primarily with the Tenth Air Force in India as a B-24 Liberator unit. Active for over 60 years, the 7 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocalypse Now
''Apocalypse Now'' is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella ''Heart of Darkness'' by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper. Milius became interested in adapting ''Heart of Darkness'' for a Vietnam War setting in the late 1960s, and initially began developing the film with Coppola as producer and George Lucas as director. After Lucas became unavailable, Coppola took over directorial control, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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