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Heartbeats And Brainwaves
''Heartbeats and Brainwaves'' is the eighth album by Detroit rock band Electric Six. It was released on October 11, 2011. It was released as a CD, digital download and a colored double vinyl set which is sold at the band's live shows. A video for "Psychic Visions" starring Dick Valentine and directed by Justin J. Lowe was uploaded on April 30, 2012, marking the band's first video for three years. Track listing Personnel * Dick Valentine - vocals * Tait Nucleus? - synthesizer * The Colonel - guitar * - guitar * Percussion World - drums * Smorgasbord - bass * Andy D. - vocals (track 4) * E. Abbott Joñes - vocals (track 6) * She Bits - background vocals (track 6) * Adam Cox - musician * Audrey Cichocki - musician * Chad Thompson - musician * Liz Whittman - musician * Jason Pearce - musician * Mark Mallman - musician * Renata Del Signore - musician Legacy * The band performed "Hello! I See You" on their first live album ''Absolute Pleasure''. * The band performed "Hello! I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Six
Electric Six is a six-piece American rock band formed in 1996 in Detroit, Michigan. Their music was described by AllMusic as a combination of garage, disco, punk rock, new wave, and metal. The band achieved recognition in 2003 with the singles "Danger! High Voltage" and "Gay Bar", and have since released 14 studio albums, two rarities albums, and one live album. A live DVD, ''Absolute Treasure'', was released in 2014. The current lineup of the band consists of vocalist Dick Valentine, lead guitarist , keyboardist Tait Nucleus?, rhythm guitarist Da Vé, bassist Rob Lower and drummer Todd Glass. Live drummer Hyperkube Bonanza has filled in for Glass on most tours since 2016. History Formation and the Wildbunch years (1996–2000) The band formed in 1996 and was initially known as The Wildbunch, eventually dropping that name due to pressure from the British group of the same name. Throughout the latter half of the 1990s, they played regularly at the Old Miami and the Gold Dol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Spencer
Tyler Spencer (born January 22, 1972), also known as Dick Valentine, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author. He is best known as the lead vocalist, main lyricist, and co-founder of the rock band Electric Six. Career Spencer founded Electric Six in 1996, at which time the band was named the Wildbunch, but this was changed because another band had the same name. He is also one of the two members of the dance group Evil Cowards, is one of the vocalists for hard rock band Bang Camaro, and was temporarily a member of the short-lived band The Dirty Shame. He released his first solo album, ''Destroy the Children'', under the Dick Valentine pseudonym on May 14, 2012. Discography Electric Six The Dirty Shame * ''Smog Cutter Love Story'' (2000) Evil Cowards * '' Covered in Gas'' (2009) * '' Moving Through Security'' (2012) Solo Bite Me Excluding appearances on other artists' songs, Dick Valentine's first solo venture was the soundtrack for Machinima original series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2011. 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 for deaths of musicians and for links to other music lists, see 2011 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2011 albums 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 col ... 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roulette Stars Of Metro Detroit
''Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit'' is an American mockumentary film starring members of the rock band Electric Six as fictional versions of themselves. The film was written by lead singer Dick Valentine and was crowd-sourced through a Kickstarter campaign. Cast * Dick Valentine as himself * Da Ve as himself * as himself * Tait Nucleus? as himself * Mike Alonso as himself Production The project was originally pitched on Kickstarter as a spoof 45-minute pilot for a documentary TV series following fictionalised backstories and exploits of the members of the band. A $30,000 goal was set which was soon reached and surpassed. A total of $63,243 was raised by the end of the campaign. The mockumentary features cameos from some backers of the project on Kickstarter who pledged to be given a role in the film. During the edit, it was decided to alter production and produce a feature-film mockumentary with the footage instead. The finished product runs for 85 minutes. The project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimicry And Memories
''Mimicry and Memories'' is a compilation album by Electric Six. Disc one, ''Mimicry'', is composed of cover songs. Disc two, ''Memories'', consists of demos, B-sides and rarities. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and self-released directly to the campaign's backers. Production Following the success of the cover songs recorded as perks in the band's "Absolute Treasure" campaign, the band launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $25,000 in order to fund the album. It was successful with a total of $64,977 being raised. Each member of the band chose a song to cover on the ''Mimicry'' portion of the album. Dick Valentine selected " Ah! Leah!" by Donnie Iris, Smorgasbord selected "The Look" by Roxette, Da Ve selected " Buckingham Green" by Ween, Tait Nucleus? selected " I Got the Six" by ZZ Top, Percussion World selected " Do You Love Me? by Kiss and selected Girl Wants To Be With the Girls by Talking Heads. One specific pledge reward as part of the Kickstarter cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absolute Treasure
''Absolute Pleasure'' is a live album by Detroit rock band Electric Six. It is composed of recordings from shows at both First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Double Door in Chicago, Illinois. Track listing # "It's Showtime!" (from ''I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'') # "Down At McDonnelzzz" (from ''I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'') # "Danger! High Voltage" (from ''Fire'') # "Future Is In The Future" (from ''Señor Smoke'') # "Dirty Ball" (from ''Flashy'') # "When I Get To The Green Building" (from ''I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'') # "Gay Bar" (from ''Fire'') # "Infected Girls" (from ''Switzerland'') # "Jam It In The Hole" (from ''Zodiac'') # "She's White" (from ''Fire'') # "Body Shot" (from ''KILL'') # "Dance Epidemic" (from ''Señor Smoke'') # "I Buy The Drugs" (from ''Switzerland'') # "Hello! I See You!" (from '' Heartb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Mallman
Mark Mallman (born July 20, 1973) is a Minnesota musician, film composer, and memoirist. Since 1998, he has released nine full-length studio albums, ''Happiness'' (2021) being his most recent. Education Mallman graduated from Waukesha South High School in 1991. He studied jazz piano at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1991. In 1995, at age 21, Mallman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he studied painting and performance art. Musical career Mark Mallman has earned a reputation as one of the Twin Cities' must-see live acts, complete with his own star on the wall outside First Avenue. He started his career in the late 1990s with the short-lived band, the Odd, a surprisingly popular postmodern joke on 1970s rock histrionics. Days after they topped the ''City Pages'' "Best new Band" poll, they broke up, but reunited to record and release one album, '' Oh My G*d – It's the Odd'' in 1998, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Tait
Christopher Tait, also known as Tait Nucleus?, is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the synthesizer player of the rock band Electric Six and the founder of Passenger Recovery. Although he was credited as an associate on ''Fire'', it wasn't until the band's lineup change in 2002 when he officially joined. His inclusion took the group from a five-piece to a six-piece band, rendering the joke of their name (Electric Six despite only featuring five members) redundant. Discography Electric Six Dubai Bros. Tait produces remixes under the Dubai Bros. Ghost City Ghost City was a band featuring Tait on keyboard and vocals. They were active from 2005 until 2007. They released one album, the self-titled ''Ghost City'' in 2008. Belle Ghoul Tait is a founding member of the band Belle Ghoul, started in 2011. They released their first album ''Rabbit's Moon & Doomsday'' in 2014. Laser Destroyer Team Tait is a founding member of the band Laser Destroyer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area, and the 14th-largest in the United States. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music, art, architecture and design, in addition to its historical automotive background. ''Time'' named Detroit as one of the fifty World's Greatest Places of 2022 to explore. Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in t ... [...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] |
COMA Music Magazine
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. Coma patients exhibit a complete absence of wakefulness and are unable to consciously feel, speak or move. Comas can be derived by natural causes, or can be medically induced. Clinically, a coma can be defined as the inability consistently to follow a one-step command. It can also be defined as a score of ≤ 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) lasting ≥ 6 hours. For a patient to maintain consciousness, the components of ''wakefulness'' and ''awareness'' must be maintained. Wakefulness describes the quantitative degree of consciousness, whereas awareness relates to the qualitative aspects of the functions mediated by the cortex, including cognitive abilities such as attention, sensory perception, explicit memory, language, the execution of tasks, temporal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absolute Pleasure
''Absolute Pleasure'' is a live album by Detroit rock band Electric Six. It is composed of recordings from shows at both First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Double Door in Chicago, Illinois. Track listing # "It's Showtime!" (from ''I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'') # "Down At McDonnelzzz" (from ''I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'') # "Danger! High Voltage" (from ''Fire'') # "Future Is In The Future" (from ''Señor Smoke'') # "Dirty Ball" (from ''Flashy'') # "When I Get To The Green Building" (from ''I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'') # "Gay Bar" (from ''Fire'') # "Infected Girls" (from ''Switzerland'') # "Jam It In The Hole" (from ''Zodiac'') # "She's White" (from ''Fire'') # "Body Shot" (from ''KILL'') # "Dance Epidemic" (from ''Señor Smoke'') # "I Buy The Drugs" (from ''Switzerland'') # "Hello! I See You!" (from '' Heartb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
