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Fairmont (band)
Fairmont is an American indie rock band from New Jersey, fronted by Neil Sabatino. They have released eleven full-length albums, as well as six EPs, and toured across the United States for over a decade of their existence. History Fairmont is a five-piece rock band, based in North Jersey that formed in 2001. That year, after leaving the Eyeball Record's emo-punk band Pencey Prep, Sabatino signed with Reinforcement Records under the moniker Fairmont, a homage to the Minnesota city. Fairmont was initially a solo acoustic project. Over the years the group became a blend of indie rock and pop. Early years The debut sixteen-track album, ''Pretending Greatness is Awaiting'', was released on December 3, 2001. Work on the second album ''Anomie'' was delayed in March 2003, as three of the members quit the night before recording began. Shortly after, former Pencey Prep bassist John McGuire joined Fairmont, as did guitarist Kevin Metz. During that year, Fairmont performed at local ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Jersey
North Jersey comprises the northern portions of the U.S. state of New Jersey between the upper Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean. The designation of northern New Jersey with a distinct toponym is a colloquial one rather than an administrative one, reflecting not only geographical but also perceived cultural differences from the southern part of the state, with no official definition.("Of course, part of the problem with understanding New Jersey's enduring regional tension is that few residents can agree on where the northern half of the state end and the southern half begins.") North Jersey is characterized by its position, both geographically and culturally, within the greater New York City metropolitan area and its high level of economic output, emanating from economic engines including Paramus in Bergen County, which has become the top retail ZIP Code (07652) in the United States, with the municipality generating over US$6 billion in annual retail sales; Jersey City, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina Caputo
Mina Caputo (born Keith Caputo; December 4, 1973) is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of New York City alternative metal band Life of Agony. Caputo came out as transgender in 2011 and transitioned to female. Early life Mina Caputo was born on December 4, 1973, in Brooklyn, New York. Both her parents were of Italian-American descent. Both of her parents struggled with heroin addiction, and when she was an infant, her mother died of a heroin overdose and her father (who died in 2002 from similar causes) put Mina under the care of her grandparents, who lived in Mill Basin, New York. Caputo's upbringing was difficult, and her grandfather physically abused her and her grandmother. Despite the physical abuse, Caputo has since forgiven her grandfather; "My grandfather made up for how confused he made me as a kid. He only tried his best and forgiveness is present. I don't blame anyone." Between living with her grandparents, Caputo would als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock Musical Groups From New Jersey
Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies * Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game **Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development **Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry **Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means ***Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products Music *Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers **Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop **Indie electronic, a music genre ** I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top40-Charts
Top40-Charts is an American global entertainment information and measurement company with headquarters in Manhattan in New York City. The European headquarters are in Luxembourg's capital, Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan .... Top40-charts.com has bureaus in Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Thessaloniki and Beijing. The company started as an online music fanzine, but soon diversified, publishing official entertainment industry news content, selling DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming and MP3 downloads/streaming. The company also produces instant music charts and is one of the world's largest music provider for News/PR writing services. Description Top40 charts measures and monitors what consumers watch (programming TV, streaming) and what consume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Press (magazine)
''Alternative Press'' is an American entertainment magazine primarily focused on music and culture, now based in Los Angeles, CA. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, and relevant news. It was founded in 1985 by Mike Shea in Cleveland, OH. The company is now looked after by MDDN. Beginnings The first issue of ''Alternative Press'' was distributed at concerts in Cleveland, Ohio beginning in June 1985 by ''APs founder, Mike Shea to advocate bands playing underground music. The name for the magazine, ''Alternative Press'', was not a reference to the alternative rock genre, but referred to the fanzine being an alternative to the local press. Shea began working on his first issue in his mother's house in Aurora, Ohio. Shea and a friend, Jimmy Kosicki, targeted the Cleveland neighborhood of Coventry. Financial problems plagued ''AP'' in its early years and by the end of 1986, publication had ceased due to its financial problems, not resuming until the spring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Planet
''Punk Planet'' was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen. In addition to covering music, ''Punk Planet'' also covered visual arts and a wide variety of progressive issues — including media criticism, feminism, and labor issues. The most notable features in ''Punk Planet'' were the interviews and album reviews. The interviews generally ran two or three pages, and tended to focus on the motivations of the artist (or organizer, activist, or whoever) being interviewed. ''Punk Planet'' aimed to be more inclusive than the well-known zine '' Maximum Rock and Roll'', and tried to review nearly all the records it received, so long as the record label wasn't owned or partially owned by a major label. This led to a review section typically longer than thirty pages, covering a variety of musical styles. Although much of the music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonka Vision (magazine)
''Wonka Vision'' was an American music magazine. History While Justin Luczejko was attending high school, he started ''Wonka Vision'' with two friends, Elysa Stein and Andrew Wertz in 1998; a twenty-page zine that they copied at an OfficeMax store. ''Philadelphia City Paper'' describes ''Wonka Vision'' as an "ambitious music and pop culture zine started as a creative outlet for a kid stranded in suburbia." The name comes from the 1971 film, ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. In 2001 ''Wonka Vision'' also became a record label. ''Wonka Vision'' ceased publication in 2010. Content ''Wonka Vision'' contains interviews, reviews, poetry, indie-punk and zine reviews, and "pointed leftist rants and bits of kitschy minutiae." The cover is printed in full color. Guitarist Colin Frangicetto did photography for the magazine. In a 2008 interview with ''South Philly Review ''Philadelphia Weekly'' (''PW'') is a website based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NJ / NY Mixtape
The North Jersey Indie Rock Festival is an American annual concert in Jersey City, that showcases artists primarily from New Jersey. About The festival was created by Sniffling Indie Kids co-founder Frank DeFranco and Mint 400 Records founder Neil Sabatino, in 2016. It has been hosted by many of the state's music magazines, websites and radio, including ''The Aquarian Weekly'', ''Jersey Beat'', Speak Into My Good Eye, and WFDU. The labels were both working on the album ''Creases'' when they were formerly introduced. Sabatino recalls in an interview with Bob Makin of ''Courier News'', that the labels "had done a ton of local shows together and esaw the opportunity to do a showcase on a much larger scale in the past, Mint 400 tried to do a showcase at least once a year of our local acts always at Maxwell's under the old owners," and DeFranco noted the desire to create a "festival like this because e feltthe North Jersey scene had been overlooked by similar festivals in Asbury P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 (album)
''1967'' is a compilation album released by the Mint 400 Records label. It is the label's sixth compilation, and features songs that were written or made popular in the year 1967. Content The fourteen-track album was released by Mint 400 Records for free on 30 March 2015, and showcases the Duke of Norfolk, Fairmont, Fawn and Rabbit, Jack Skuller, the Maravines, Moscow Centre, Murzik, the One & Nines, Netorare Fan Club, Tri-State and Zach Uncles. In a ''Pirate!'' press release, the staff writer notes "the majority of bands on Mint 400 Records have a strong 60's influence and 1967 seemed like the year that was most important." The album contains songs that were written or recorded during 1967, the second compilation from Mint 400 Records which features music from that era, the previous being the Beach Boys' ''Pet Sounds'' compilation. On recording for the compilation, Jack Skuller explains "I have always been drawn to the dark and deep yet simplistic poetry of the Doors. I collabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destruction Creation
''Destruction Creation'' is the sixth studio album from the American rock band Fairmont. Content The ten-track album was released on November 2, 2010, by Mint 400 Records. On recording for the ''Destruction Creation'', vocalist Neil Sabatino explains in ''Jersey Beat'' that they were originally "going to engineer 100 percent of the recording and just have Bryan Russell mix the record ecausewe had done three records now all while holding hands with this amazing producer, but felt it was time to let go and try it all on our own." He also notes that "I wanted the theme of the artwork and the music on the album to reflect a real DIY homemade record and I think we accomplished that." It was recorded over the course of seventy hours, in a small cabin in Lynn, Pennsylvania. Conceptually, ''Destruction Creation'' has motifs of bitterness, betrayal and disillusionment. In an interview with BlowUpRadio, Sabatino explains the title comes from a character in the comedy film, ''I Heart Huck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North American College And Community Radio Chart
The North American College and Community Radio Chart, often abbreviated as NACC, is a weekly Top 200 radio chart launched in January 2017. As of 2018, the NACC chart receives weekly airplay reports from over 200 radio stations across North America. History The Top 200 chart was founded in January 2017, while smaller genre-specific charts were added to the website in August 2017. All charts on NACC are weighted charts, meaning that major market stations carry more weight than smaller market stations. After the dissolution of CMJ in 2017, NACC has become the primary source for the publication of college radio airplay. As a result, the NACC Top 200 Chart was cited in several major news publications in 2018, such as ''Billboard'' and ''The Economist''. Charts In addition to the Top 200, the NACC also tracks genre-specific charts each week, including charts for electronic and hip hop. Within the genre-specific charts, NACC publishes the #10 charting songs for each genre, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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