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Dork (magazine)
''Dork'' is a United Kingdom-based music publication, in print and online. The editor, Stephen Ackroyd, is the founder and former editor of ''DIY''. History ''Dork'' magazine was founded in 2016 by Stephen Ackroyd, who had previously served as editor of ''DIY'' magazine. The magazine was geared to have a more widespread music focus, with an emphasis on indie rock. List of Dork cover stars * July 2016: Spring King * August 2016: Glass Animals * September 2016: The Big Moon * October 2016: Dream Wife and Black Honey * November 2016: The Japanese House * December 2016 / January 2017: The 1975 * February 2017: Sundara Karma * March 2017: VANT * April 2017: Blaenavon * May 2017: Will Joseph Cook * June 2017: Marika Hackman * July 2017: alt-J * August 2017: Declan McKenna * September 2017: George Ezra * October 2017: INHEAVEN * November 2017: Wolf Alice * December 2017 / January 2018: Pale Waves and King Nun * February 2018: Shame * March 2018: Superorganism * April 2018: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Magazine
A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music. Notable music magazines Music magazines were very prolific in the United Kingdom, with the ''NME'' leading sales since its first issue in 1952. ''NME'' had a longstanding rival in ''Melody Maker'', an even older publication that had existed since 1926; however, by 2001, falling circulation and the rise of internet music sites caused the ''Melody Maker'' to be absorbed into its old rival and cease publishing. Several other British magazines such as '' Select'' and ''Sounds'' also folded between 1990 and 2000. Current UK music magazines include '' Q'', ''Kerrang!'' and ''Mojo'' (all published by EMAP). Magazines with a focus on pop music rather than rock and aimed at a younger market include the now-defunct ''Smash Hits'' and the BBC's ''Top of the Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declan McKenna
Declan Benedict McKenna (born 24 December 1998) is an English singer-songwriter. He initially gained recognition for winning the Glastonbury Festival's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015. McKenna self-released the song "Brazil", a protest song criticising FIFA and the 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil, as his debut single in December 2014. The song reached number one on Sirius XM Radio's Alt Nation Alt 18 Countdown for 23 January 2016 and held that spot for three weeks. The song also reached number 16 on the U.S. '' Billboard'' Alternative Songs chart. He released his debut studio album, '' What Do You Think About the Car?,'' in 2017. McKenna released his second studio album, ''Zeros'', in September 2020, after multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Early life Declan McKenna was born in Enfield, Greater London, on 24 December 1998 and grew up in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where he attended St Mary's Church of England High School. His mother was a teacher while his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid (singer)
Sigrid Solbakk Raabe (born 5 September 1996), known mononymously as Sigrid, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She has released two studio albums, ''Sucker Punch (Sigrid album), Sucker Punch'' (2019) and ''How to Let Go'' (2022), both of which charted in Norway and the United Kingdom. She has also released two extended play, EPs. Early life Sigrid Solbakk Raabe was born in Ålesund to Håkon Raabe and Anette Sølberg Solbakk on 5 September 1996. She has two older siblings, a brother, Tellef, who is also a musician, and a sister, Johanne. At her first performance, in kindergarten, she had to be pulled off the stage after crying. She began playing the piano at age 7 and began singing at age 13. When she was 13, she performed a version of Nirvana (band), Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". In her early youth, she planned to become a teacher or lawyer or journalist, thinking a career in music would be too uncertain. In her first year of high school, she realized that music was more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Rogers
Margaret Debay Rogers (born April 25, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland. Her big break came when her song "Alaska" was played to Pharrell Williams during a master class at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2019. She graduated from Harvard Divinity School in May 2022. Early life and education Early life (1994–2012) Maggie Rogers grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland along the banks of the Miles River in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland. Her father is a now-retired Ford Motor Company dealer and her mother, a former nurse, is now an end-of-life doula. She began playing harp at age seven and loved the music of Gustav Holst and Antonio Vivaldi. Her mother would play neo-soul artists such as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill. By the time she was in middle school, Rogers had added piano and guitar to her repertoire and began songwriting in eighth grade. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Eat Grandma
Let's Eat Grandma are a British Pop music, pop group formed in 2013 by musicians Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth. They released their debut studio album ''I, Gemini'' in 2016 through Transgressive Records. Their second studio album, ''I'm All Ears'', was released in 2018. Let's Eat Grandma describe their music as "Experimental pop, experimental Sludge metal, sludge pop". History Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth were both raised in Norwich, a city in Norfolk. They originally met in reception (school), reception class when they were four, and began making music together at 13. They originally began creating music as a playtime activity, with their first songs being titled "The Angry Chicken" and "Get That Leg Off the Banister". Their band name is taken from a grammatical joke meant to emphasise the importance of comma placement. They became members of the local Norwich music scene, before they caught the attention of the musician Kiran Leonard, who passed their work on to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chvrches
Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced "Churches") are a Scottish pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011. The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. Mostly deriving from the synth-pop genre, Chvrches also incorporate indietronica, indie pop, and electronic dance into their sound. Two years after their formation, Chvrches released ''Recover EP'' in March 2013, which included hits "The Mother We Share" and "Recover". Their debut studio album, ''The Bones of What You Believe'', was released on 20 September 2013, while the band was ranked fifth on the Sound of 2013 list by the BBC. Two years later, on 25 September 2015, the group released their second album, ''Every Open Eye''. Their third album, '' Love Is Dead'', was released on 25 May 2018. Their fourth album, ''Screen Violence'', was released on 27 August 2021. History Origins and formation In 2003, musicians Iain Cook and Martin Doherty met as stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtney Barnett
Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP ''I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris'' in 2012. International interest came with the release of her EP '' The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas'' in 2013. Barnett's debut album, ''Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit'', was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards, she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards. She released ''Lotta Sea Lice'', a collaborative album with Kurt Vile, in 2017. She released her second album, ''Tell Me How You Really Feel'', to further acclaim in 2018. Barnett's third studio album ''Things Take Time, Take Time'' was released in November 2021. Early life Courtney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fickle Friends
Fickle Friends are an English indie rock band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The band formed in 2013, and is made up of Natassja Shiner (vocals, keyboard), Harry Herrington ( bass, backing vocals), Sam Morris (drums) and Jack Wilson (keyboards). Natassja met Sam at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and met Chris, Harry and Jack the following year in BIMM Brighton. After two years touring the UK and Europe without a label or publisher and playing 53 festivals across 2 years, Fickle Friends signed to Polydor Records. The band recorded their debut album in Los Angeles with Mike Crossey and it was released on 16 March 2018 during a promotional UK tour. Fickle Friends' debut album ''You Are Someone Else'' was released on 16 March that year, and entered the UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superorganism
A superorganism or supraorganism is a group of synergetically interacting organisms of the same species. A community of synergetically interacting organisms of different species is called a holobiont. Concept The term superorganism is used most often to describe a social unit of eusocial animals, where division of labour is highly specialised and where individuals are not able to survive by themselves for extended periods. Ants are the best-known example of such a superorganism. A superorganism can be defined as "a collection of agents which can act in concert to produce phenomena governed by the collective", phenomena being any activity "the hive wants" such as ants collecting food and avoiding predators, or bees choosing a new nest site. In challenging environments, micro organisms collaborate and evolve together to process unlikely sources of nutrients such as methane. This process called syntrophy ("eating together") might be linked to the evolution of eukaryote cells and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shame (band)
Shame are an English post-punk band originally from South London, England. Their debut album ''Songs of Praise'' was released on 12 January 2018. This was followed by '' Drunk Tank Pink'' on 15 January 2021. The group has received critical acclaim from publications including '' NME'', '' Paste'', and '' Clash''. History Shame released their debut album ''Songs of Praise'' on 12 January 2018 through Dead Oceans and was met with critical acclaim. The record currently holds an aggregated score of 83 based on 16 reviews. The album peaked at number 32 on the UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts ... and remained on the chart for two weeks. In late January 2020, ''NME'' reported that Shame was working on their second studio album, and that recording had been com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Nun
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the title may refer to tribal kingship. Germanic kingship is cognate with Indo-European traditions of tribal rulership (c.f. Indic ''rājan'', Gothic ''reiks'', and Old Irish ''rí'', etc.). *In the context of classical antiquity, king may translate in Latin as '' rex'' and in Greek as ''archon'' or ''basileus''. *In classical European feudalism, the title of ''king'' as the ruler of a ''kingdom'' is understood to be the highest rank in the feudal order, potentially subject, at least nominally, only to an emperor (harking back to the client kings of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire). *In a modern context, the title may refer to the ruler of one of a number of modern monarchies (either absolute or constitutional). The title of ''king'' is used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pale Waves
Pale Waves are an English rock band from Manchester, formed in 2014. It was founded originally as Creek when lead singer and guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie met drummer Ciara Doran while attending university in Manchester. The other members are guitarist Hugo Silvani and bassist Charlie Wood, completing the lineup. Pale Waves's early work is often described as 80s-inspired indie rock or synth-pop; their second and third albums, however, owe more to the pop-punk genre. After signing a record deal with Dirty Hit in 2017, Pale Waves released their debut single, " There's a Honey", followed by " Television Romance". In 2018, the band were ranked fifth in the BBC Sound of 2018 poll and won the ''NME'' Under the Radar Award at the NME Awards. Pale Waves' debut EP, '' All the Things I Never Said'', was released in February 2018, followed by their debut studio album, '' My Mind Makes Noises'', on 14 September 2018. The band's second album, '' Who Am I?'', was released on 12 February 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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