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Gutful
''Gutful'' is the second studio album by Australian band Bad Dreems, released on 21 August 2015 via Ivy League Records. The album peaked at number 23 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart. The album was recorded over 12 days with bassist James Bartold telling ''Scenestr'' that the title refers to "dissatisfaction with decisions being made and people across the world are having a gutful of everything that's going on." Badtold added, "We don't try to push a political agenda on people. Since our first record, we've tried to express our viewpoint on things that are happening in Australian society." At the AIR Awards of 2018, the album was nominated for Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album. Reception Andrew Stafford from '' The Guardian'' wrote, "There's nothing subtle about this Adelaide rock band's second album, with a meaty sound and choruses made to shout back from the mosh pit." Chris Bright from '' Beat Magazine'' felt that "Overall this is a uniquely bold album from a u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Dreems
Bad Dreems (stylised as Bad//Dreems) are an Australian rock band from Adelaide, South Australia. The band comprises Ben Marwe (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Alex Cameron (lead guitar, backing vocals), Alistair Wells (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) and Miles Wilson (drums). The band first formed in 2011, releasing their debut EP in 2013. Since then, they have released three studio albums to date, with all three reaching the top 40 on the ARIA charts and receiving widespread critical acclaim. The group have also performed alongside the likes of Midnight Oil, DMA'S, Scientists and The Chats, and have toured internationally on numerous occasions. History 2011–2013: Origins and ''Badlands'' Bad//Dreems was first formed in the middle of 2011, after guitarist Alex Cameron had moved back to Adelaide following a stint in Melbourne as a member of indie-rock band Dardanelles. While playing at a local football club, Cameron crossed paths with Ben Marwe, with whom he began wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogs At Bay
''Dogs at Bay'' is the debut studio album by Australian band Bad Dreems Bad Dreems (stylised as Bad//Dreems) are an Australian rock band from Adelaide, South Australia. The band comprises Ben Marwe (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Alex Cameron (lead guitar, backing vocals), Alistair Wells (rhythm guitar, backing v ..., released on 21 August 2015 via Ivy League Records. The album peaked at number 38 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart. Reception Mikey Cahill from '' news.com.au'' called the album "mucky", writing, "On their debut album Bad//Dreems place familiar garage grooves next to the Weetbix-and-Jager vocals of Ben Marwe with almost balletic poise." Chelsea Deeley from '' Music Feeds'' wrote, "Throughout the 12 tracks on this album, stories and anecdotes from a mostly typical Australian upbringing are rife. But it's a welcome slice through the heavy imports that are shoved down our ears daily." Meredith McLean from ''The AU Review'' ranked the album as the 29th bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doomsday Ballet
''Doomsday Ballet'' is the third studio album by Australian band Bad Dreems. Released in October 2019, it peaked at number 38 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, their third consecutive album to reach the top 40. At the AIR Awards of 2020, the album was nominated for Best Independent Rock Album or EP. Album details Guitarist and main songwriter Alex Cameron said, "We probably had 100 songs written, then we'd done 50 multi-track demos ourselves, and from them we chose about 25, and from those, Burke and Jack Ladder chose the final 12, so we were really confident in the songs." The band members all had day jobs in Victoria and South Australia, so writing and demoing was done in "immersive" weekends. Marwe said the new album was an attempt to "step away" from the pub-rock labels for their previous albums. "Pub rock has a certain stigma to it but if you listen to the maturity of the songs of Don Walker or the Angels, yeah, there is that pub mentality to it but it’s all quite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIR Awards Of 2018
The AIR Awards of 2018 is the twelfth annual Australian Independent Record Labels Association Music Awards (generally known as the AIR Awards) and was an award ceremony at Queen's Theatre Adelaide, Australia on Thursday 26 July 2017. In 2018, the Outstanding Achievement Award was introduced. The award recognises an individual or group who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the Australian Independent Music Community. In an AIR Awards first, the award for ''Best Independent Album or EP'' was a tie this year, with both Methyl Ethel and The Jungle Giants being announced as winners. Following the awards, AIR general manager, Maria Amato said "It was great to celebrate the success of the Australian Independent music sector at the 2018 AIR Awards in Adelaide last night. We are grateful to the South Australian Government for their continued support and to all our valued partners who helped us make it all happen." Performers * Alex the Astronaut – "Not Worth Hiding" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio
A studio is an artist or worker's workroom. This can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design, radio or television production broadcasting or the making of music. The term is also used for the workroom of dancers, often specified to dance studio. The word ''studio'' is derived from the , from , from ''studere'', meaning to study or zeal. The French term for studio, ''atelier'', in addition to designating an artist's studio is used to characterize the studio of a fashion designer. ''Studio'' is also a metonym for the group of people who work within a particular studio. :uz:Studiya Art studio The studio of any artist, especially from the 15th to the 19th centuries, characterized all the assistants, thus the designation of paintings as "from the workshop of..." or "studio of..." An art studio is sometimes called an atelier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization. He expanded the company's operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice''. Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies. Trump's political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2017. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2017 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date Albums An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ... 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LP Record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it remained the standard format for record albums (during a period in popular music known as the album era) until its gradual replacement from the 1980s to the early 2000s, first by cassettes, then by compact discs, and finally by digital music distribution. Beginning in the late 2000s, the LP has experienced a resurgence in popularity. Format advantages At the time the LP was introduced, nearly all phonograph records for home use were made of an abrasive shellac compound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Magazine
''Beat'' is a free monthly tabloid-sized music magazine (street press) published and distributed in Melbourne, Australia. It was Melbourne's longest running street press, and one of the earliest street press after TAGG. ''Beat'' paused its print edition between March 2020-May 2022. History The magazine changes its name from ''Beat'' to ''Beat Magazine'' in 1989, reverted to ''Beat'' in 2000, and continues to refer to itself as ''Beat Magazine'' on their website. The magazine was founded as a weekly street press by Rob Furst and was printed by his company Furst Media. Between 1994 and 1998 a Sydney edition was printed, known as ''Beat : Sydney listings bible''. The magazines and their online component were published each Wednesday, with the printed magazines distributed to nearly 1,000 locations in 1997. By 2020 the Melbourne edition was distributed to over 3,200 locations. ''Beat'''s main competitor was ''Inpress'', a Melbourne-based street press which was co-created by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Didn't Start The Fire
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song written and published by American musician Billy Joel. The song was released as a single on September 18, 1989, and later released as part of Joel's album '' Storm Front'' on October 17, 1989. A list song, its fast-paced lyrics include brief references to 118 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, in a mainly chronological order. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became Joel's third single to reach number one on the United States ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in late 1989. ''Storm Front'' became Joel's third album to reach number one in the United States. "We Didn't Start the Fire", particularly in the 21st century, has become the basis of many pop culture parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various television shows, advertisements, and comedic productions. History Billy Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
