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Heavy Vegetable
Heavy Vegetable was a Rock music, rock band based in Encinitas, California, which featured guitarist and lead singer Rob Crow, singer Eléa Tenuta, bassist Travis Nelson and drummer Manolo Turner. 11 years after their final studio album released, Rob Crow, Crow, Nelson, and Turner reunited as Other Men and produced the album "Wake Up Swimming" which released in 2007. Discography * ''A Bunch of Stuff EP7'' (1993, The Way Out Sound) * ''The Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aqua Kitty and Friends'' (1994, Headhunter Records, Headhunter/Cargo Music, Cargo) * ''Frisbie'' (1995, Headhunter/Cargo) * ''Mondo Aqua Kitty'' (2000, Headhunter/Cargo) V/A Compilations * ''Eyesore: A Stab at the Residents'' (1996, Vaccination Records) – "Time's Up" References Musical groups from San Diego {{US-indie-rock-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encinitas, California
Encinitas (Spanish language, Spanish for "Small Oaks") is a beach city in the North County (San Diego area), North County area of San Diego County, California. Located within Southern California, it is approximately north of San Diego, between Solana Beach, California, Solana Beach and Carlsbad, California, Carlsbad, and about south of Los Angeles. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the city had a population of 59,518, up from 58,014 at the 2000 United States Census, 2000 census. History The first people to settle in Encinitas were the Kumeyaay. Gaspar de Portolá, governor of Baja California, visited the area in 1769 during the Portolá expedition and met residents from the nearby Kumeyaay village of Jeyal or ''Heyal,'' near the San Elijo Lagoon. Portolá expedition, Portolá named the valley ''Los Encinos'' for the oak forest along El Camino Real (California), El Camino Real, where there was also a village that was likely known as ''Hakutl'' in New Encinitas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Crow
Robertdale Rulon Crow Jr. (born February 21, 1971) is an American singer and musician from San Diego, California, known for his involvement with the bands Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Physics, Optiganally Yours and Thingy. He has also led the bands Advertising, Alpha Males, Altron Tube, Byre, Cthugha, Fantasy Mission Force, Goblin Cock, Holy Smokes, the Ladies, Other Men, and Remote Action Sequence Project, as well as performing and releasing solo records under his own name and under the name Snotnose. Discography Solo * ''The 1995 Lesser Rob Crow Split CD'' (1995) (split with Lesser) * ''Lactose Adept'' (1996) * ''My Room Is a Mess'' (2003) * ''Not Making Any Friends Here... Volume 1'' EP (2006) * ''Living Well'' (2007) * ''He Thinks He's People'' (2011) * ''Everything's OK: Season 1 Original Soundtrack'' (2018) * ''Everybody's Got Damage: Acoustic Covers In Isolation'' (2020) * ''An EP of Acoustic Iron Maiden Covers'' (2020) (featuring Kavus Torabi and Mike Vennart) * ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goblin Cock
Goblin Cock is an American heavy metal band from San Diego, California, United States, started by Rob Crow of the band Pinback. Musically, they play a form of doom metal/drone metal with rather unusual lyrical subjects, including pop culture songs about the films Godzilla's Revenge, Billy Jack, and the Snuffleupagus from the TV show ''Sesame Street''. All members of the band have taken on stage names. The band is currently signed to Joyful Noise Recordings and has released two albums on the Absolutely Kosher record label. They went on tour for the first time in 2006 and played at the 20th annual South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. They also performed on September 15, 2005, at the College Music Journal's annual music festival. Their first album, ''Bagged and Boarded'', was nominated for a 2006 PLUG award for Metal Album of the Year. Their music video for the track "Stumped" directed by Matt Hoyt was also nominated for music Music Video of the Year at the 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinback
Pinback is an American indie rock band from San Diego, California. The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow, who have been its two consistent members. They have released five studio albums and several other releases. History and origin The band's moniker is a reference to a character in the 1974 film '' Dark Star'' (played by Dan O'Bannon, who also co-wrote the film), directed by John Carpenter. Audio samples from this film are used frequently in the band's early works. In 2004, Pinback signed to Touch and Go Records. They released their third album, ''Summer in Abaddon'', later that year. In 2006, the band released a collection of rarities, entitled ''Nautical Antiques''. Pinback's fourth full-length album, ''Autumn of the Seraphs'', was released on September 11, 2007. They appeared live in a nationally broadcast interview and played a couple of songs on NPR's ''Talk of the Nation'' on October 8, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physics (band)
Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, established by John D. Goff and Denver Lucas in late 1993 after the breakup of Johnny Superbad & the Bulletcatchers. History Featuring a rotating cast of musicians from the San Diego experimental underground but mainly composed of Denver Lucas on drums, Jeff Coad on synthesizers, John Goff, Will Goff, Jason Soares, Rob Crow, Travis Nelson, Ryan Jencks on guitar and Matt Lorenz on visuals/projections. This early incarnation came to be known as the "Black Period". Mainly inspired by theories in quantum theory and Eastern Mysticism, Physics was musically influenced by Krautrock, minimalism, early Doom/Drone, and Electronic Kosmische, though were often associated with the Math Rock genre. After the untimely death of Denver Lucas in the mid-1990s, the Physics personnel underwent numerous changes until resulting in Cameron Jones on drums which was later known as the "Gray Period" then ultimately the "White Period". After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Sleep
Team Sleep is an American experimental alternative rock/post-rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno. Moreno is better known for fronting the Sacramento-based alternative metal band Deftones. Other current members include guitarist Todd Wilkinson, turntablist DJ Crook, bass guitarist/keyboardist Rick Verrett, drummer Gil Sharone and bassist Chuck Doom. Team Sleep's music touches on a variety of genres, including dream pop, trip hop, indie rock, post-rock, shoegaze, ambient music, psychedelic music, lo-fi music, and electronica. History Early years Team Sleep started when Moreno and his friend Todd Wilkinson bought a cassette tape Portastudio-type four-track recorder in 1994. They continued this collaboration through the first two Deftones albums, though on a rather casual basis. Wilkinson said, "We were never going to make a record, or start a band ... I was just sitting at home, playing guitar, and I started recording some stuff. It was never about trying to play shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thingy (band)
Thingy is an American indie rock band formed after the dissolution of Heavy Vegetable in 1995, by Heavy Vegetable veterans Rob Crow and Eléa Tenuta. Crow, Tenuta, and bassist Jason Soares released a seven-song EP, ''Staring Contest'', in 1996 on the old Heavy Vegetable label Headhunter/Cargo. They were joined by drummer Mario Rubalcaba Mario Rubalcaba (also known by the pseudonym Ruby Mars) is an American drummer from San Diego, notable as a member of numerous rock bands including Clikatat Ikatowi, Thingy, Rocket from the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Earthless, the Sultans, and Off! H ... in 1997, with whom they released the album, ''Songs About Angels, Evil, and Running Around on Fire''. The same lineup released ''To the Innocent'' in 2000, but Rubalcaba and Soares left the quartet and were replaced by Brent Asbury and Kenseth Thibideau, respectively. In 2018, Rob Crow released a new Thingy album entitled ''Morbid Curiosity'', as part of his Artist in Residence project with label ... [...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] |
Headhunter Records
Headhunter Records is an American rock music record label distributed by Cargo Music.Hustwit, Gary (1995)Hard Work and Non-Hype Characterize The Bands And Labels In A Super-Active Underground, ''Billboard'', February 25, 1995, p. 82,86, retrieved 2010-11-21 It was founded in 1989 and is based in San Diego, California. Notable artists * Armchair Martian * Big Drill Car * Black Heart Procession * Boys Life * Creedle * Deadbolt * Drive Like Jehu * Fishwife * fluf * Inch * Rocket from the Crypt * Silo the Huskie * Slap Of Reality * Smile * Three Mile Pilot * Uncle Joe’s Big Ol’ Driver * Morning Glories Morning glory (also written as morning-glory) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics are in flux. Morning glory species belong to many genera, some of ... References External links Official site {{Record-label-stub Record labels established in 1989 American independent rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cargo Music
Cargo Music Inc. is an American punk rock record label based in San Diego, California. It distributes records for other labels, such as Cherry Red Records, Earth Music, FistPuppet Records, Grilled Cheese, Headhunter Records, Re-Constriction Records, RPM Records and Tackle Box. Notable artists that have been signed to Cargo Music include Blink-182, Young Dubliners, Rocket from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, and 7 Seconds. The company was first established in 1989 as a division of the Canadian record company Cargo Records."Cargo Files for Bankruptcy". ''Billboard'', January 24, 1998. When its founders sold the Canadian parent company to new owners in 1995, the American division was not part of the sale. It became a separate company which continued to be owned and operated by founder Eric Goodis. His former business partner Phillip Hill took over ownership and operation of the former parent company's office in the United Kingdom to form Cargo Records (UK). The American and Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Residents
The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, ''Meet the Residents'' (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs. They have undertaken seven major world tours and film score, scored multiple films. Pioneers in exploring the potential of CD-ROM and similar technologies, the Residents have won several awards for their multimedia projects. They founded Ralph Records, a record label focusing on avant-garde music, in 1972. Throughout the group's existence, the individual members have ostensibly attempted to work anonymously, preferring to have attention focused on their art. Much speculation and rumor has focused on this aspect of the group. In public, they appear silent and costumed, often wearing eyeball helmets, top hats and tails—a costume now recognized as their signature iconography. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaccination Records
Vaccination Records was a record label based in Oakland, California throughout the 1990s and early millennium. It was managed by Dren McDonald and featured avant-garde and experimental music groups. Discography *VAC001 (1992) Giant Ant Farm – ''Them!'' *VAC002 (1994) Giant Ant Farm – ''Fortune'' (CD) *VAC003 (1995) Canaries/Pirate Jenny (split 7" vinyl) *VAC004 (1996) Charming Hostess – ''Nub City'' (7" vinyl) *VAC005 (1996) Various artists – ''A Compendium Preview Guide to Eyesore: A Stab at The Residents'' (7" vinyl) *VAC006 (1996) Various artists – ''Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents'' (CD) *VAC007 (1996) Poxy Boggards – ''Bawdy Parts'' (CD) *VAC008 (1996) Giant Ant Farm – ''Dressed in Milk'' (CD-EP, with comic book) *VAC009 (1996) Mumble & Peg – ''Mumble & Peg'' (7" vinyl) *VAC010 (1996) Rube Waddell – ''Hobo Train'' (12" vinyl LP, one-sided) *VAC011 (1996) Ebola Soup – ''Feeling Logy'' (7" vinyl, 4-song EP) *VAC012 (1996) Various artists – ''Oh God! Mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
