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Fishboy (band)
Fishboy is an American four-piece indie pop band from Denton, Texas which began as the solo project of Eric Michener. He was given the nickname while on a middle-school field trip after he was dared to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium. The band has released albums with Lauren Records, Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records in Athens, Georgia and associated with Business Deal Records, a music collective in Austin, Texas. Their second album, '' Little D'' was acclaimed by the ''Dallas Observer'' and ''Austin Chronicle'' and named to a Best Local of 2005 list by the ''Dallas Morning News''. The band's 2007 release, '' Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State with the Power of Rock and Roll'', is a record which Michener calls "a rock opera about how myself, the band, and the ghost of Buddy Holly attempt to save Texas by going on a tour/crime spree in order to perform all 8,030 of the songs I've written in my sleep since I was in the womb." In 2011, the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business Deal Records
Business Deal Entertainment is a music collective in Austin, Texas that grew from the 1988 collaborations of Smokey Farris and Dirk Michener and their respective circles of friends in Cypress and Denton, Texas. The majority of current Business Deal members spawned from the side projects and numerous side-side projects of those early efforts. List of artists (past and present) *Cavedweller * Charles Potts' Magic Windmill Band * Count Dracula's Weed Smugglin Jam Engine *Maya Bond * The Carrots * Fishboy * Gene Defcon * Hard Rock Zombie * La Junta High School * The Old-Timerz * Teenage Dog * The Telephone Company * T.W.Bond * The Wyndyms * Zom Zoms * American Traditions *Attack Dog * Beachbirds * EZ Snaps * The Fantas Trees * Fart Face * From One American To Another * The Julie Parker Love Spawn * Lil' Oh Jay * Oh-Jay! and the Brantis Oranguatangs * The Partridges and Pears * The Pinecones *Prima Donnas * Soup or Group 1 and 2 (maybe 3) * Uncanny Lunkheads * Video Scream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denton, Texas
Denton is a city in and the county seat of Denton County, Texas, United States. With a population of 139,869 as of 2020, it is the 27th-most populous city in Texas, the 197th-most populous city in the United States, and the 12th-most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. A Texas land grant led to the formation of Denton County in 1846, and the city was incorporated in 1866. Both were named after pioneer and Texas militia captain John B. Denton. The arrival of a railroad line in the city in 1881 spurred population, and the establishment of the University of North Texas in 1890 and Texas Woman's University in 1901 distinguished the city from neighboring regions. After the construction of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport finished in 1974, the city had more rapid growth; as of 2011, Denton was the seventh-fastest growing city with a population over 100,000 in the country. Located on the far north end of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in North Texas on Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school. He made his first appearance on local television in 1952, and the following year he formed the group "Buddy and Bob" with his friend Bob Montgomery. In 1955, after opening for Elvis Presley, he decided to pursue a career in music. He opened for Presley three times that year; his band's style shifted from country and western to entirely rock and roll. In October that year, when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was spotted by Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, who helped him get a contract with Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptist Generals
The Baptist Generals are an American indie band from the town of Denton, Texas. Baptist Generals formed in 1998 by singer-songwriter Chris "Cee" Flemmons and drummer Steve Hill. Originally they played for beer money as a street act on Denton's infamous Fry Street, but later moved from the street to playing house shows and then later clubs nationally and abroad. Over the years the band has grown to include a rotating cast of Denton and former Denton musicians. Hill left the band in 2007. In 2007 the group refined their live show, choosing to move away from their amplified presentation in favor of chamber style acoustic sets performed on the band's traveling rug in alternative spaces such as art galleries, museums and non-bar facilities. In March 2012 the band returned to electrified performance as part of 35 Denton, a festival Flemmons founded and spent many years organizing. On August 23, 2012, The Baptist Generals announced on their fan page that they had completed a new alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Homeless Gospel Choir
The Homeless Gospel Choir, also known as Derek Zanetti, is a folk-punk musician from Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is signed to A-F Records and has released seven albums to date. His debut album, ''Some People Never Go Anywhere'', was released in 2010, ''You Work So Hard to Be Like Everyone Else'', in 2011, ''Luxury Problems'', his third was released in 2012; and his fourth album, ''I Used To Be So Young'', which was released in 2014, contains his hit song, "Untitled". Most of his songs revolve around the topics of politics and mental health. Discography *''Some People Never Go Anywhere'' (2010) *''You Work So Hard Just to Be Like Everyone Else'' (2011) *''Luxury Problems'' (2012) *''I Used To Be So Young'' (2014) *''Normal'' (2017) *''This Land Is Your Landfill'' (2020) *''Fourth Dimension Intervention'' (2022) References External links Website of ''The Homeless Gospel Choir'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
