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Easier (recording Studio)
Easier is a recording studio located in Los Angeles, California and Joshua Tree, California. Easier was founded in 2007. The studio has recorded artists: Robert Robinson ( Sore Eros), Vudi (American Music Club Swans), Douglas McCarthy (Life Is Sucking The Life Out Of Me aka Kill Your Friends), Eric Erlandson (Contempt To Tape - Letters to Kurt), ESJ3 featuring Jay Rajeck (TRS-80 (group)), Ariel Pink (live and various recordings), Taka Boom, Jason & The Punknecks, Jon Shere & Danny Oxenberg ( Supreme Dicks), Tom Surgal, Stephen Papke, Eekie Babaar, Mikie Shioya, Vincent Gallo, Matt Fishbeck (Holy Shit), Holly Cat, Cayal Unger, Kalomo Grimes featuring H.R. of Bad Brains Bad Brains are an American rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1976. Originally a jazz fusion band under the name Mind Power, they are widely regarded as pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members have objected to the use of this .... Recording studios in California 2007 establishments in Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Tree, California
Joshua Tree is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 7,414 at the 2010 census. At approximately above sea level, Joshua Tree and its surrounding communities are located in the High Desert (California), High Desert of California. The center of the business district in Joshua Tree is on California State Route 62. Geography Joshua Tree is located in the Mojave Desert at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total land area of 95.9 km (37.0 mi2). Joshua Tree is home to Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree shares its eastern border with Twentynine Palms, California, Twentynine Palms, its western border with Yucca Valley, California, Yucca Valley, and its northwestern border with Landers, California, Landers; it is bordered on the south by the Coachella Valley. Demographics 2010 At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census Joshua Tree had a pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sore Eros
Sore Eros is an American indie band started by Robert Robinson around the early 2000s in Connecticut. Branded as lo-fi, pop music with psychedelic elements. In 2007 Robinson began collaborating with a long lost friend, Adam Langellotti which soon became their first official release, Second Chants. Sore Eros is now an equally collective effort incorporating Jeff Morkeski on lead guitar and Matt Jugenheimer on drums. Sore Eros has been working on a new full-length album with Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs producing. This project has been in the works for several years. Discography * Second Chants (2009) Shdwply Records * Know Touching (2010) Shdwply Records * Taal Compass/Wide Open (2010) Blackburn Recordings * Just Fuzz (2011) Blackburn Recordings * Sickies Volume 1 (2011) Night People * Sickies Volume 2 (2012) Feeding Tube Records * 9" Lathe Cut Split w/ Kurt Vile Kurt Samuel Vile (born January 3, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Music Club
American Music Club was an American, San Francisco-based indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. Formed in 1983, the band released seven albums before splitting up in 1995. They reformed in 2003 and released two further albums. History Although born in California, Eitzel spent his formative years in Okinawa (Japan), Taiwan, Southampton (the United Kingdom) and Ohio (United States) before returning to the Bay Area in 1981. After a brief stint with the bands The Cowboys (one single: "Supermarket"/"Teenage Life") and The Naked Skinnies (one single) he founded American Music Club in San Francisco in 1983 with guitarist Scott Alexander, drummer Greg Bonnell and bass player Brad Johnson. The band went through many personnel changes before arriving at a stable line up of guitarist Vudi (Mark Pankler), bassist Danny Pearson, keyboardist Brad Johnson and drummer Matt Norelli. This lineup would change over the next several years, but Eitzel always remained the core of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swans (band)
Swans is an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. One of the few acts to emerge from the New York City-based no wave scene and stay intact into the next decade, Swans have become recognized for an ever-changing sound, exploring genres such as noise rock, post-punk, industrial music, industrial and post-rock. Initially, their music was known for its sonic brutality and misanthropic lyrics. Following the addition of singer, songwriter and keyboardist Jarboe in 1986, Swans began to incorporate melody and intricacy into their music. Jarboe remained the band's only constant member except Gira and semi-constant guitarist Norman Westberg until their dissolution in 1997. In 2010, Gira re-formed the band without Jarboe, establishing a stable lineup of musicians which has toured worldwide and released four albums to critical acclaim. This iteration of the group performed its last shows in November 2017, ending the tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Erlandson
Eric Theodore Erlandson (born January 9, 1963) is an American musician, guitarist, and writer, primarily known as founding member, songwriter and lead guitarist of alternative rock band Hole from 1989 to 2002. He has also had several musical side projects, including Rodney & the Tube Tops, which he formed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and RRIICCEE with Vincent Gallo. While studying creative writing, Erlandson published a book titled '' Letters to Kurt'' in 2012, consisting of free-form and stream-of-consciousness poetry. Early life Erlandson was born January 9, 1963 in Los Angeles, one of seven children in a Roman Catholic family. He is of Swedish, German, and Irish descent. Erlandson and his siblings were raised in the Los Angeles community of San Pedro. Erlandson studied economics with a minor in marketing at Loyola Marymount University, where his father, Theodore Erlandson, served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and earned a Bachelor of Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letters To Kurt
''Letters to Kurt'' is a collection of poetry and essays by musician Eric Erlandson, published in April 2012 by Akashic Books. The book largely reads as a meditation on suicide idols, and as an elegy to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, whom Erlandson was acquainted with through Courtney Love; Erlandson served as a founding member and lead guitarist of Love's band, Hole, for eleven years. Release ''Letters to Kurt'' was announced for release in December 2011 on Erlandson's Facebook profile. The book was released on April 10, 2012 and published by Akashic Books. A limited edition pre-order package includes an advanced hardback copy of the book, a signed copy of ''Cock Soup''—a collection of 52 photographs that serves as a visual accompaniment to the book—, a signed individual snapshot, and a CD including the soundtrack to the book. Reception '' Kirkus Reviews'' wrote that, "a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn obain'ssuicide, but also rages against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TRS-80 (group)
TRS-80 is an electronic music group formed in Chicago in 1997 and led by founding member, Jay Rajeck. Biography TRS-80 was started by Kent Rayhill and Jay Rajeck in their hometown of Chicago, with Deb Schimmel joining them early on. The trio shared a common desire to write and perform music with real drums and synthesizers. A music writing frenzy of over 50 songs took place at Rajeck's home studio. The band played their first live show in 1998, opening for Death In Vegas at Double Door in Chicago. The band was known for their incorporation of visuals projected in sync with their music during live performances. Chicago indie rock venue The Empty Bottle took TRS-80 under their wing shortly after hearing the band's demo and put them on the bill with artists like Sonic Boom, Acid Mothers Temple, Oval, and Laika among others, which helped grow TRS-80 a local following. From there they received bigger shows at venues like Metro, the Vic Theater and the 2,500 seat Riviera Theater opening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Pink
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg ( ; born June 24, 1978), professionally known as Ariel Pink, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter whose work draws heavily from the popular music of the 1960s–1980s. His lo-fi music, lo-fi aesthetic and home recording, home-recorded albums proved influential to many indie musicians starting in the late 2000s. He is frequently cited as "godfather" of the hypnagogic pop and chillwave movements, and he is credited with galvanizing a larger trend involving the evocation of the media, sounds, and outmoded technologies of prior decades, as well as an equal appreciation for high art, high and low art in independent music. A native of Los Angeles, Pink began experimenting with recording songs on an Stem mixing and mastering, eight-track Portastudio as a teenager. His early influences were artists such as Michael Jackson, the Cure (band), the Cure, and R. Stevie Moore. The majority of Ariel Pink discography, his recorded output stems from a prolific ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taka Boom
Taka Boom (born Yvonne Stevens; October 8, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American R&B and dance music singer, and is the younger sister of singer Chaka Khan and Mark Stevens of Aurra. She sang background vocals for several Parliament albums in the 1970s. Taka Boom is sometimes credited as Takka Boom and is known for her work with DJ/producer Dave Lee, especially in a range of hits under the Joey Negro name. Boom was also a later member of the Norman Whitfield group The Undisputed Truth, and led them on their 1976 disco hit " You + Me = Love". Discography Albums Singles See also *List of Billboard number-one dance club songs *List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on ''Billboard magazine's'' Dance Club Songs chart. ''Billboard'' began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music popularity chart in th ... * List of UK top-ten sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Dicks
Supreme Dicks is an experimental rock group formed in 1984 by Jon Shere and Stuart Morris while students at Hampshire College. The primary band members are Jon Shere, Daniel Oxenberg, Mark Hansen, Steve Shavel, and often Jim Spring. Other members at various times have included Holly Cat, Dan Kapelovitz, Jennifer Stefanisko, John Galvin III, and Dave Taub. Musicians who have joined them onstage include Beck and Ariel Pink. The band has performed with Dinosaur Jr., and toured with Neutral Milk Hotel, Kurt Vile, and Bonnie Prince Billy. Their retrospective box set '' Breathing and Not Breathing'' was released on the Jagjaguwar label October 18, 2011. The band played several shows in 2012, including three at South by Southwest, followed by a short tour with Kurt Vile. They were joined onstage for all of these shows by Holly Cat, known for the 1987 hit "I Wanna Be Like Madonna." The band toured Europe in 2013, and have continued to play shows sporadically, mostly in Los Angeles. Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo (born 1961) is an American actor and director. He has had supporting roles in films such as ''Arizona Dream'' (1993), ''The House of the Spirits'' (1993), ''Palookaville'' (1995), and '' The Funeral'' (1996). His lead roles include Tetro in ''Tetro'' (2009) and Mohammed in ''Essential Killing'' (2010). He won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in ''Essential Killing''. He is most associated with the independent films he has made, including '' Buffalo '66'' (1998), which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in, and ''The Brown Bunny'' (2003), which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed. In the early 2000s, he released several solo recordings on Warp Records. Early life He was born in Buffalo, New York to Sicilian parents. Both were hairdressers, and his father retired to be "a gambler." Career Films During Gallo's artistic period in the 1980s, when he worked as a musician and painter in New York City, he also began experiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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