|
Falling From Zero
''Falling From Zero'' is the second studio album from Los Angeles rock band Heaven Below. The album was released on March 20, 2012 via Broken Halo Media. Composition “The Mirror Never Lies”, the fourth song on the album, is a charity single for Children Without A Voice. "Gravity Killed The Spaceman", the ninth song on the album, recognizes David Bowie's ''Space Oddity'' while "Major Tom" is a cover of Peter Schilling's 1980s hit single paired with an original framework from the ensemble. The video for "Dodging a Bullet", the third song on the album, was directed by Adam Hendershott and Industrialism Films. The video features the musicians reenacting ''Pulp Fiction''. Release The compact disc was released with 4 bonus tracks as well as '' The Mirror Never Lies: Mega-Single''. Critical reception Jon Ondrashek of Target Audience Magazine states that the title track “Falling From Zero” features hard percussion and scraping vocals. Track listing Main album # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven Below
Heaven Below is an American hard rock band based in Los Angeles. The band's debut album ''Countdown to Devil'' was released March 2009. History The band was formed in late 2007 by Patrick Kennison (Union Underground), Marty O'Brien (Disturbed, We Are the Fallen) and session drummer Chad Clark to film a video for Kennison's song "The Laughing Dead". In 2008 guitarist Dave Comer was added completing the quartet. Later that year Comer and O'Brien were replaced by guitarist Jesse Billson and bassist John Younger respectively. '' Countdown to Devil '' Following the release of '' Countdown to Devil'', the group completed its first tour in mid-2009 dubbed the "Texas Takeover Tour". Media coverage of the tour included a live performance on FOX-TV in San Antonio, TX. In August 2010, the band released a self-titled EP, and led a tour dubbed the "Horns and Halos Tour" which spanned over much of the country and even Canada. Before "The Mirror Never Lies" was released, Chad Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Tom (Coming Home)
"Major Tom (Coming Home)" (german: Major Tom öllig losgelöst}, 'Major Tom ompletely detached) is a song by singer Peter Schilling from his album '' Error in the System''. With a character unofficially related to "Major Tom", the protagonist of David Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity", the song is about the character breaking off contact with ground control and traveling off into space. The song was originally recorded in German and released in West Germany on 3 January 1983. It reached No. 1 in West Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The English version was first released in the United States on 24 September 1983. It reached No. 1 in Canada, No. 4 in South Africa and peaked at No. 14 on the US '' Billboard'' Hot 100 Singles chart the week of 24 December 1983. The English-language version of the song also reached No. 2 on the dance chart in the US. In 1994, Schilling made and released a remixed version along with Boom-Bastic, titled "Major Tom 94". Other remixes were released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar Song)
"Heartbreaker" is a song by American singer Pat Benatar from her debut studio album '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1979). Written and composed by Geoff Gill and Cliff Wade, the song had first been recorded by English singer Jenny Darren on her 1978 album ''Queen of Fools'', and Benatar adjusted the original lyrics, as such references as "A to Zed" and "moonraker" would have likely confused American listeners. "Heartbreaker" was the second single released off ''In the Heat of the Night'' after the first, " If You Think You Know How to Love Me", failed to reach the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. A sleeper hit, "Heartbreaker" proved to be Benatar's breakthrough single, reaching number 23 on the U.S ''Billboard'' Hot 100 while spending four and a half months on the chart, the fourth longest of all of her singles. It was more popular on album-oriented rock stations as it peaked at number 13 on Tunecasters Rock Tracks chart in March 1980. The song peaked at number 16 in Canada and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Wagon (musician)
Robert Davis (August 11, 1956 – June 6, 1981), stage name Chuck Wagon, was an American musician and member of the Los Angeles punk rock band the Dickies, with whom he released two albums in his lifetime, as well as a solo 7" single called "Rock n' Roll Won't Go Away". Having joined the Dickies shortly after their formation in 1977, Wagon was the band's multi-instrumentalist, playing keyboards, rhythm guitar, saxophone and harmonica as well as performing backing vocals. Dissatisfied with the band by early 1981, Wagon quit, but was persuaded to return for a handful of live shows. His final studio work with the band, released posthumously in 1983 on ''Stukas Over Disneyland'', would feature Wagon on drums. On the evening of June 5, 1981, after a Dickies show in Topanga Canyon, California, and deeply depressed over the end of his relationship with his girlfriend, Wagon returned home and shot himself in the head with a .22 rifle at his parents' San Fernando Valley home. He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closer (Nine Inch Nails Song)
"Closer" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single on their second studio album, ''The Downward Spiral'' (1994). Released on May 30, 1994, it is considered Nine Inch Nails' signature song and remains one of their most popular hits. Most versions of the single are titled "Closer to God", a rare example in music of a single's title differing from the title of its A-side ("Closer to God" is also the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single, which was also released as a separate promotional single for club-play). The single is the ninth official Nine Inch Nails release, making it "Halo 9" in the band's official Halo numbering system. A promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and short vocal-censored (i.e. silenced profanity) versions. Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually aggressive chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Fiction
''Pulp Fiction'' is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary.See, e.g., King (2002), pp. 185–7; ; Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of crime in Los Angeles, California. The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Tarantino wrote ''Pulp Fiction'' in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for ''True Romance'' (1993). Its plot occurs out of chronological order. The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of "pulp". Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character's perspectives on several subjects, and the film features an ironic combina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Schilling
Peter Schilling (born Pierre Michael Schilling; 28 January 1956) is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes like aliens, astronauts and catastrophes. He is best-known for his 1983 hit single "Major Tom (Coming Home)" which was an international success. Life and career Schilling was born in Stuttgart, Germany.Sutton, Michael " Peter Schilling Biography, Allmusic, retrieved 2010-05-07 His 1983 album, '' Error in the System'', generated his only international hit single, "Major Tom (Coming Home)", a retelling of David Bowie's classic 1969 song "Space Oddity". Although the song was originally recorded in German, the international hit version was sung in English. In 1984 and 1985, Schilling released the albums ''120 Grad'' and ''120 Grad'''s English-language version, 1985's ''Things to Come''. From 1986 to 1989, Schilling released non-album singles and put out his 1988 compilation ''The Different Story''. In 1990, Schilling suffered from burnout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Oddity (album)
''David Bowie'' (commonly known as ''Space Oddity'') is the second studio album by English musician David Bowie. After the commercial failure of his 1967 self-titled debut album, Bowie acquired a new manager, Kenneth Pitt, who commissioned a promotional film in hopes of widening the artist's audience. For the film, Bowie wrote a new song, titled "Space Oddity", a tale about a fictional astronaut. The song earned Bowie a contract with Mercury Records, who agreed to finance production of a new album, with Pitt hiring Tony Visconti to produce. Due to his dislike of the song, Visconti appointed engineer Gus Dudgeon to produce a re-recording for release as a lead single, while he produced the rest of the album. Recording for the new album began in June 1969 and continued until early October, at Trident Studios in London. It featured an array of collaborators, including Herbie Flowers, Rick Wakeman, Terry Cox and the band Junior's Eyes. Departing from the music hall style of Bowie' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on popular music. Bowie developed an interest in music from an early age. He studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity", released in 1969, was his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust (character), Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of Bowie's single "Starman (song), Starma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mirror Never Lies (song)
"The Mirror Never Lies" is a single from rock band Heaven Below. ''The Mirror Never Lies: Mega-Single'' composition, consisting of three versions of the song "The Mirror Never Lies" (the theme song for Children Without a Voice), was released on September 6, 2011. Background Elias Andra, the drummer for the band informed the quartet that there are organizations that embrace new bands and support causes in which the ensemble believes. In 2011, the ensemble teamed up with Papa Roach, Filter, Black Veil Brides, Three Days Grace in addition to other bands to create awareness for Children Without a Voice, an organization whose mission is to fight bullying and crimes against children. A percentage of the sales revenue from the work was donated to the organization. Music video The music video for "The Mirror Never Lies" was filmed in Lancaster, California. Release In 2012, the album version of song "The Mirror Never Lies" was featured on the band's sophomore studio album ''Falli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.png "Click for more on -> David Bowie")