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Death Letter (EP)
''Death Letter'' is an extended play by the Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. The EP was released on December 4, 2012. ''Death Letter'' contains songs from their entire discography reworked for acoustic guitar. Of the six songs on the EP, 4 are from their last full-length album, ''Old Crows/Young Cardinals''. It was the band's last release before their break up, and serves as an accompaniment to their farewell tour that took place in December 2012. Writing and recording ''Death Letter'' was presumably recorded sometime prior to the band's farewell tour, which spanned several cities in 15 shows. The EP features reworked songs from Alexisonfire's previous albums, specifically ''Old Crows/Young Cardinals'', ''Crisis (Alexisonfire album), Crisis'' and ''Watch Out! (Alexisonfire album), Watch Out!''. A press release from Dine Alone Records said that the EP contained six old Alexisonfire tunes reworked by guitarists Wade MacNeil and Dallas Green (musician), Dallas Green at Jukas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire (pronounced "Alexis on Fire") is a Canadian post-hardcore band formed in St. Catharines, OntarioRoss, Mike.Band is a scream", CANOE JAM!, April 30, 2004. Retrieved on July 17, 2007. in 2001. The band's members are George Pettit (vocals), Dallas Green (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Wade MacNeil (guitar, vocals), Chris Steele (bass) and Jordan Hastings (drums, percussion). The band has won numerous awards, and in Canada their albums have all been certified either gold or platinum.CRIA Gold and Platinum Certifications for May 2007 . (May 2007). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Crows/Young Cardinals
''Old Crows / Young Cardinals'' is the fourth studio album from Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, released on June 23, 2009. The album was originally referred to by the shortened title of ''Young Cardinals'', until the name change was announced on April 1, 2009. Background Following the release of ''Crisis'', the members kept themselves busy with other projects: vocalist Dallas Green with his other band City and Colour; guitarist Wade McNeil with Black Lungs; and vocalist George Pettit performing with Fucked Up and Bergenfield Four. In October and November 2008, the band toured Europe as part of The Eastpak Antidote Tour. In December, it was revealed that the band would be recording their next album in 2009. McNeil said the record would be "fucking heavy." Recording In an interview in January 2009, Wade MacNeil and band manager Joel Carriere confirmed that they have 10 songs ready for recording, one of which being "Emerald St." (given full title "Emerald Street" on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Sound (magazine)
''Rock Sound'' is a British magazine that covers rock music. The magazine aims at being more "underground" and less commercial, while also giving coverage to better-known acts. It generally focuses on pop punk, post-hardcore, metalcore, punk, emo, hardcore, heavy metal and extreme metal genres of rock music, rarely covering indie rock music at all. The tag-line "For those who like their music loud, extreme and non-conformist" is sometimes used. Although primarily aimed at the British market, the magazine is also sold in Australia, Canada and the United States. History The British edition of ''Rock Sound'' was launched in March 1999 by the French publisher Editions Freeway. The magazine was bought out by its director, Patrick Napier, in December 2004. The magazines offices are in London. Separate titles with the same name have been published under the same umbrella company in France since 1993, and in Spain since 1998. The first issue was published in April 1999. Issue 2 feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born And Raised (Alexisonfire Song)
''Old Crows / Young Cardinals'' is the fourth studio album from Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, released on June 23, 2009. The album was originally referred to by the shortened title of ''Young Cardinals'', until the name change was announced on April 1, 2009. Background Following the release of ''Crisis'', the members kept themselves busy with other projects: vocalist Dallas Green with his other band City and Colour; guitarist Wade McNeil with Black Lungs; and vocalist George Pettit performing with Fucked Up and Bergenfield Four. In October and November 2008, the band toured Europe as part of The Eastpak Antidote Tour. In December, it was revealed that the band would be recording their next album in 2009. McNeil said the record would be "fucking heavy." Recording In an interview in January 2009, Wade MacNeil and band manager Joel Carriere confirmed that they have 10 songs ready for recording, one of which being "Emerald St." (given full title "Emerald Street" on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Green (musician)
Dallas Michael John Albert Green (born September 29, 1980) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who records under the name City and Colour. He is also known for his contributions as a singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. In 2005, he debuted his first full-length album, ''Sometimes'', which achieved platinum certification in 2006. City and Colour began performing in small intimate venues between Alexisonfire tours. The name ''City and Colour'' comes from his own name: ''Dallas, Texas, Dallas'', a city, and ''Green'', a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt uneasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green". Early life Green was born on September 29, 1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario. Green was named after Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green (baseball), Dallas Green. Green has stated that he had gone without a name at first; his mother was considering naming him Graham-Todd Green, but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade MacNeil
Wade MacNeil (born May 5, 1984) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He is also the vocalist of the hardcore punk band Gallows, and the vocalist/guitarist/founder of the punk band Black Lungs. MacNeil has featured as a guest vocalist for songs by various other artists, including "St. Andrews" by Bedouin Soundclash, "Deathsmarch" by Cancer Bats (also appearing in the song's video), "Widower" by Johnny Truant, "The Gre(A)t Depression" by Anti-Flag and "She Upon the Black Wolf" by The Banner. MacNeil was also the weekend afternoon announcer on CFNY-FM (102.1 the Edge) Toronto from November 2014 to August 2018. And appears as the radio host in the 2020 movie Random Acts of Violence. Music career With Alexisonfire MacNeil co-founded Alexisonfire in fall 2001 after being phoned by Dallas Green, who asked for MacNeil's assistance in getting Green's band at the time, Helicon Blue, some shows in the area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watch Out! (Alexisonfire Album)
''Watch Out!'' is the second studio album from Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, released on June 8, 2004. The album debuted at number 6 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 6,580 copies in its first week of release, and was certified Platinum (indicating sales of over 100,000 copies) by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) in 2007. Background and production Alexisonfire released their self-titled debut studio album in October 2002. It spawned music videos for "Pulmonary Archery", "Counterparts and Number Them", and "Water Wings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas)", all of which achieved success on the TV channel MuchMusic and its sister channel MuchLoud.LeBlanc 2004, p. 69 The album would eventually sell 30,000 copies in Canada, and peak at number 127 in that country. Throughout 2003, the band promoted the album with two Canadian tours, and four treks across the United States. For their next album, the band were told to go with a popular producer, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crisis (Alexisonfire Album)
''Crisis'' is the third studio album from Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, released on August 22, 2006. Background and production On June 17, 2005, the band announced that drummer Jesse Ingelevics had been replaced with Jordan Hastings of Jersey. Ingelevics left citing personal reasons, while the rest of the band said they had been growing apart; Hastings had been drumming with the band for a period of time. Recording was held at Metalworks and Silo Recording Studio in February and March 2006, with Julius Butty and the band producing the sessions. Engineer Nick Blagona was assisted by Giancarlo Gallo (who also served as the Pro Tools operator) and Brent Withcomnb; Marco Bressette performed some editing at Silo. Butty, with the aid of Withcomnb mixed the recordings, before they were mastered by Joao Carvalho at Joao Carvalho Mastering later in March 2006. Composition The album features Planes Mistaken for Stars frontman Gared O'Donnell singing on the track "You Burn First" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. It was initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock. Like post-punk, the term has been applied to a broad constellation of groups. Post-hardcore began in the 1980s with bands like Hüsker Dü and Minutemen (band), Minutemen. The genre expanded in the 1980s and 1990s with releases by bands from cities that had established hardcore scenes, such as Fugazi from Washington, D.C. as well as groups such as Big Black and Jawbox that stuck closer to post-hardcore's noise rock roots. In the early- and mid-2000s, achieved mainstream success with the popularity of bands like My Chemical Romance, Dance Gavin Dance, AFI (band), AFI, Underoath, Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein (band), Silverstein, The Used, At the Drive-In, Saosin, Alexisonfire, and Senses Fail. In the 2010s, bands like Sleeping with Sirens and Pierce the Veil achieved main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohsweken, Ontario
Ohsweken () is a dispersed rural community located within the Six Nations of the Grand River, in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. Approximately 300 of the 2,700 homes on the reserve are in Ohsweken, and it is the site of the reserve governmental and administrative offices. History From approximately 1840 to 1865, the Six Nations Confederacy council met in a log building near Middleport, Ontario. In 1856, against protests from the Onondaga chiefs, a strong-willed superintendent from the Indian Department, Jasper Tough Gilkison, established a council building in what is present-day Ohsweken, about south-west of Middleport. Gilkison later retired in 1891 under pressure from Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald for incompetence. Though the Onondaga chiefs argued that they should establish their own center of government, the village of Ohsweken quickly developed in the surrounding area. Arts and culture Six Nations Fall Fair Six Nations Annual Fall Fair takes place often the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otherness (Alexisonfire Album)
''Otherness'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. The album was released on June 24, 2022, thirteen years after the release of their last full-length album, ''Old Crows / Young Cardinals''. It is also their first album since reuniting in 2015. The album takes its name from the first single from the album released, "Sweet Dreams of Otherness", which premiered on YouTube on March 10, 2022. It peaked at No. 4 on the Canadian albums chart. The album won the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023. Background Alexisonfire reunited in 2015 but did not release any new material until February 15, 2019, when they released " Familiar Drugs", their first song in over eight years. On May 24, 2019, the band released another standalone single called "Complicit", followed by "Season of the Flood", on January 13, 2020. There appeared to be little intention from the band to release another full-length album until January 18, 2022, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
