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Friendzone (duo)
Friendzone was an American instrumental hip hop duo based in East Bay, California. It consisted of producers James Laurence and Dylan Reznick. On January 30, 2017, it was announced that James Laurence had died at the age of 27 from undisclosed circumstances. History Friendzone produced Main Attrakionz' "Chuch" and "Perfect Skies", which were featured on the 2011 mixtape ''808s & Dark Grapes II''. In 2012, the duo released ''Collection I'', a compilation of rap instrumentals and original songs. In 2013, Friendzone landed their first major label placement, producing the song "Fashion Killa" for ASAP Rocky, which appeared on his debut album ''Long. Live. ASAP'', and also released the compilation ''Kuchibiru Network 3'', which included contributions by several notable producers including Ryan Hemsworth, Skywlkr, DJ Kenn, and Jerome LOL. In that year, the duo produced Yung Lean's "Solarflare", which was the final track on his mixtape ''Unknown Death 2002''. On October 9, 2013, Friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. With a population of roughly 2.5 million in 2010, it is the most populous subregion in the Bay Area. Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay and the third largest in the Bay Area. The city serves as a major transportation hub for the U.S. West Coast, and its port is the largest in Northern California. Increased population has led to the growth of large edge cities such as Alameda, Concord, Emeryville, Fremont, Livermore, Pleasanton, San Ramon and Walnut Creek. History and development Although initial development in the larger Bay Area focused on San Francisco, the coastal East Bay came to prominence in the middle of the nineteenth century as the part of the Bay Area most accessible by land from the east. The Transcontinental Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Hemsworth
Ryan Hemsworth (born 23 April 1990) is a Canadian record producer and DJ. He specialises in electronic music and sampling. He has produced tracks for Tinashe, Tory Lanez, Mitski, and E-40. Biography Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hemsworth attended University of King's College, where he studied journalism. In 2011, Hemsworth released a collaborative album with Shady Blaze, titled ''Distorted''. His 2013 album, ''Guilt Trips'', was released by Last Gang Records. It won the 2014 Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year. In 2014, he released an album, '' Alone for the First Time'', which was placed at number 3 on CMJ's "30 Best Albums of 2014" list. In 2015, he self-released a collaborative EP with Lucas, titled ''Taking Flight''. Secret Songs Hemsworth launched his label Secret Songs in 2014. It has since released music from artists across the world including Tennyson, GFOTY, and Kero Kero Bonito. It has also released compilation albums such as ''shh#ffb6c1'' and ''shh#0000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo-Fi-Fnk
Lo-Fi-Fnk is a Swedish electropop-band formed in 2001 consisting of Leonard Drougge and August Hellsing. They have released two EPs, ''We Is'' in 2002 and ''...And the JFG?'' in 2005. On April 24, 2006, they released their first studio album, ''Boylife''. Since then they started touring the world, and in 2008, they started working on their second album, ''The Last Summer'', which was released in August 2011. History Formation Lo-Fi-Fnk started out as an electronic act in 2001 when band members Leonard Drougge and August Hellsing entered a talent show in their high school. ''Boylife'' The debut album "Boylife" was released in Scandinavia on April 24, 2006 by the label La Vida Locash and throughout the rest of Europe on August 28 by Moshi Moshi. Following the album Lo-Fi-Fnk embarked on a massive tour. In 2007 they played more than 100 shows in Europe and North America. In 2007, the track “Change Channel” was included in the Xbox 360 game Dancing Stage Universe. ''Wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykki Blanco
Mykki Blanco (born April 2, 1986) is an American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist. She has collaborated musically with artists including Kanye West, Teyana Taylor, and Dev Hynes, Blood Orange. Early life Blanco was born in Orange County, California. Her father, Michael Quattlebaum Sr., was an Information technology, IT specialist before becoming a psychic. Her mother, Deborah Butler, was a paralegal at the North Carolina Patent and Trademark Office. Her father's side is African-American Jewish. Blanco's parents divorced when she was 2 years old. As a child, she lived in San Mateo County, California, near her paternal grandparents, before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended Enloe High School. At the age of 15, Blanco won an Indy Week, Indies Spirit Award for the performance collective she founded, Paint In Consciousness Experimental Theater, in Raleigh. When Blanco was 16, she ran away from home before moving to New York City. She then spent time in Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereogum
''Stereogum'' is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary. The site was created in January 2002 by Scott Lapatine. ''Stereogum'' was one of the first MP3 blogs and has received several awards and citations, including the PLUG Award for Music Blog of the Year, ''Blender''s Powergeek 25, and ''Entertainment Weekly''s Best Music Websites. The site was named an Official Honoree of the Webby Awards in the music category and won the OMMA Award for Web Site Excellence in the Entertainment/Music category. In 2011, ''Stereogum'' won ''The Village Voice''s Music Blog of the Year. History The site was named after a lyric from the song "Radio #1" by the French electronic duo Air. In late 2006, ''Stereogum'' received an influx of capital through Bob Pittman's private investment entity The Pilot Group. In November 2007, it was purchased by SpinMedia (formerly known as Buzz Media). April 2008 saw the launch of '' Videogum'', a sister si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27 Club
The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a cultural phenomenon, documenting the deaths of celebrities, many noted for their high-risk lifestyles. Because the club is entirely notional, there is no official membership. Cultural phenomenon The 27 Club includes popular musicians, artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse or violent means such as homicide, suicide, or transportation-related accidents. The "club" has been repeatedly cited in music magazines, journals and the daily press. Several exhibitions have been devoted to the idea, as well as novels, films and stage plays. The deaths of several 27-year-old popular musicians between 1969 and 1971 led to the belief that deaths are more common at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since the beginning of his solo career with his backing band Crazy Horse (band), Crazy Horse, he has released many critically acclaimed and important albums, such as ''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'', ''After the Gold Rush'', ''Harvest (Neil Young album), Harvest'', ''On the Beach (Neil Young album), On the Beach'' and ''Rust Never Sleeps''. He was a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature high tenor singing voice define his long career. Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk music, folk, rock music, rock, country music, country and other musical genres. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drowned In Sound
''Drowned in Sound'', sometimes abbreviated to ''DiS'', is a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway. Founded by editor Sean Adams, the site features reviews, news, interviews, and discussion forums. History ''DiS'' began as an email fanzine in 1998 called ''The Last Resort'' but was relaunched by founder and editor Sean Adams as ''Drowned in Sound'' in 2000. The freelance writing team is currently spread across four continents – North America, Asia, Europe and Australasia. The site is mostly based on contributions from unpaid writers and has an integrated forum to allow for discussion and comments on interviews, news and reviews. It also includes a user-rated database of artists and bands as well as details for most live music venues (big and small) in the UK. The site has over 60,000 registered members, and gets around 470,000 unique visitors per month. In 2006, the site launched a podcast called ''Drowned in Sound Radio''. In November 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
808s & Dark Grapes III
''808s & Dark Grapes III'' is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Main Attrakionz. It was released on Vapor Records on June 30, 2015. It is the third installment of the duo's ''808s & Dark Grapes'' series. Entirely produced by Friendzone, it features guest appearances from Shady Blaze, Robbie Rob, Dope G, and Lo Da Kid. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''808s & Dark Grapes III'' received an average score of 77, based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Paul Simpson of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5 and called it "an enjoyable, highly focused effort." Calum Slingerland of ''Exclaim!'' gave the album an 8 out of 10, saying, "While the two have never been lauded as top-tier lyricists, their liberal approach to flow and delivery keeps their work engaging". Meaghan Garvey of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a 7.4 out of 10, describing it as "bombastic and baroq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (music Project)
Boiler Room, a division of DICE (ticketing company), DICE, is an online music broadcasting and promotional platform based in London, UK. They commission and stream music sessions around the world. Founded in London in 2010, Boiler Room has now hosted shows in around 100 cities worldwide. It has regular operations in London, Amsterdam, New York City, Berlin, Lisbon, São Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydney, Lima and Los Angeles and produces about 30 to 35 new shows each month. Its music programming originally focused on electronic music such as UK garage, garage, House music, house, techno, Dub music, dub but eventually expanded to include Grime (music), grime, Hip hop music, hip hop, classical, and jazz. According to ''The Guardian'', by 2015 Boiler Room had streamed over 3.5 billion minutes of music, with audiences of up to 400,000 watching. Boiler Room increased in presence significantly between 2017 and 2018 due to a number of marketing communications and new initiatives includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice (magazine)
''Vice'' (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics. Founded in 1994 in Montreal as an alternative punk magazine, the founders later launched the youth media company Vice Media, which consists of divisions including the printed magazine as well as a website, broadcast news unit, a film production company, a record label, and a publishing imprint. As of February 2015, the magazine's editor-in-chief is Ellis Jones. History Founded by Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith (the latter two being childhood friends), the magazine was launched in 1994 as the ''Voice of Montreal'' with government funding. The intention of the founders was to provide work and a community service. When the editors later sought to dissolve their commitments with the original publisher, Alix Laurent, they bought him out and changed the name to ''Vice'' in 1996. Richard Szalwinski, a Canadian software millionaire, acquired the magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DX (album)
''DX'' is the only studio album by American hip hop record production duo Friendzone (duo), Friendzone. It was released on October 9, 2013. A music video was created for "Poly". In an interview with ''Fact (UK magazine), Fact'', James Laurence said, "''DX'' is an album 100%, this is our heart and soul." Dylan Reznick said, "I wanted to make an album that would make people's heads spin, make them rethink their ideas about music a little." Critical reception ''Fact (UK magazine), Fact'' placed the album at number 47 on the "50 Best Albums of 2013" list. Writing for ''Fact'', John Twells described it as "the most distilled example of their sound – a sunny, hopeful fusion of 16-bit melodies, anime joy, IDM fuzz and Atlanta beats." ''Cokemachineglow'' placed the album at number 3 on the "Top 30 Albums 2013" list. Brent Ables of ''Cokemachineglow'' wrote, "it marks their progression from top-notch producers to genuine composers in their own right." Track listing References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
