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Jim (album)
''Jim'' is a studio album by Jamie Lidell. It was released through Warp on 28 April 2008. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Independent Albums Chart, as well as number 183 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, number 7 on the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers Albums chart, and number 23 on the ''Billboard'' Independent Albums chart. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Jamie Lidell – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, saxophone, kazoo, recorder, drums, percussion, tape * Mocky – backup vocals, guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, keyboards, drums, percussion * Gonzales – keyboards, drums, percussion * Hildur Gudnadottir – backup vocals, cello * Linda Lee Hopkins – backup vocals * Tatiana Heintz – backup vocals * Joniece Jamison – backup vocals * Nikka Costa – backup vocals * Peaches The peach (''Prunus persica'') is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China. It bears edible juicy fruits with vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Lidell
Jamie Alexander Lidderdale (born 18 September 1973, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England), known professionally as Jamie Lidell, is an English musician, soul singer and podcast host living in Nashville, Tennessee. Lidell was formerly a part of Super Collider. Career Lidell is known for layering tracks made with his voice into a microphone and performing the percussion and melody as a sequenced, beatboxing one-man band. Then over his augmented voices, he sings soul-inspired songs. This exercise makes for energetic live performances. Lidell has become renowned for his diverse range of genre-exploration. Following the release of his 2008 album, ''Jim'', Lidell commented, I want it to be about music, I think every musician does. But I think inevitably it ends up becoming about personality, which is what gives rise to the music, so people want to make sure that they get a bit of both. The more things do well, the more people want to know why it does well. His song "Multiply" was u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2008. 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 2008 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2008 albums Albums 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snax (musician)
Paul Bonomo (born November 9, 1969), better known as Snax, is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the Washington, D.C. area. He is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Snax became well known as a member of electro-pop duo Captain Comatose and subsequently for his solo single "Honeymoon's Over," the remix of which by Konrad Black was an underground club hit in 2007. He has collaborated and toured with several artists including Peaches, Scissor Sisters, Mocky, Jamie Lidell and Joey Arias. Snax is proficient on keyboards and also plays guitar, bass and drums. He performs most instruments and vocals himself on his releases. Career Snax founded the art-rock homopunk band Fagbash, who were active in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. After moving to New York City, he was one half of the lo-fi hip hop act Bedroom Productions. Snax began collaborating with Khan and toured as keyboardist with Foetus. Together with Khan he formed the disco-pop band Captain Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian LeBarton
Brian LeBarton is a musician from Los Angeles, California. Notable contributions include his work on Beck's Grammy-nominated 2007 self-released single " Timebomb", the score to ''Nacho Libre''. Played drums and bass on Beck's cover of Bob Dylan's " Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" for the '' War Child: Heroes'' charity album, and was an early member of the Record Club, a project launched for Beck's website in 2010 featuring contributions from Nigel Godrich, MGMT, St. Vincent, The Liars, Thurston Moore and Wilco. Work Jamie Lidell : ''JIM'', Musician and writer on "Compass" and "Jamie Lidell" for Warp Records Contributed music to the film '' Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World''. Credited as "Sex Bob-Omb" bassist and drummer. His recording "Threshold 8-bit", used in the end credits, was sequenced on a Commodore 64 computer. Musician and writer on Feist's album ''Metals''. Co-writer and producer on "Fire In The Water" by Feist for '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawnr – Part 2'' film and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peaches (musician)
Merrill Nisker (born 11 November 1966), better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electroclash musician and producer. Born in Ontario, Peaches began her musical career in the 1990s as part of a folk trio, Mermaid Cafe. In 1995, she established a rock band, the Shit. That year she also released her first solo album, '' Fancypants Hoodlum''. After moving to Berlin, Germany, she was signed to the Kitty-Yo label and released her second album, '' The Teaches of Peaches'' (2000). Touring as the opening act for bands like Marilyn Manson and Queens of the Stone Age, she subsequently released her third album, '' Fatherfucker'' (2003). Peaches' songs have been featured in movies such as '' Mean Girls'', '' Waiting...'', ''Jackass Number Two'', '' My Little Eye'', '' Drive Angry,'' and '' Lost in Translation''. Her music has also been featured on television shows such as '' Orphan Black'', '' Lost Girl'', ''The L Word'', '' South Park'', '' Skam'', ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikka Costa
Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born 4 June 1972) is an American singer whose music combines elements of pop, soul, and blues. She also had a career as a child singer starting in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of music producer Don Costa. Early life Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Don Costa, was a producer and musician. During her childhood, Costa was surrounded by famous musicians and traveled around the world with her father. At age five, Costa recorded a single with Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Italian producers, Danny B. Besquet and Tony Renis, were working with her father on the album ''Don Costa Plays the Beatles'' when they had a brainstorm to produce an album with Nikka singing, while her father played acoustic guitar. The album was well received in Europe and Costa became known as a child star. At age 9, Costa sang with Frank Sinatra in an appearance on the lawn of the White House. Costa's career as a recording artist under her own name started in 1981, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzales (musician)
Jason Charles Beck (born 20 March 1972), professionally known as Chilly Gonzales, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and producer. Currently based in Cologne, Germany, he previously lived for several years in Paris. Gonzales is a musical polymath, known for his rap albums, his collaborations with pop musicians like Feist and Drake, his albums of classical piano compositions (including the ''Solo Piano'' trilogy), and also for his collaborations with electronic musicians like Daft Punk and Boys Noize, the latter with whom he produces as Octave Minds. Gonzales broadcasts a web series ''Pop Music Masterclass'' on WDR, the documentary ''Classical Connections'' on BBC Radio 1, ''The History of Music'' on Arte, and ''Music's Cool with Chilly Gonzales'' on Apple Music's Beats1 radio show. He has written several newspaper and magazine opinion pieces in ''The Guardian'', ''Vice'', ''Billboard'', and others. He is the older brother of film composer Christophe Beck. He has won several Gram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Albums
The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. It is used to list artists who are not signed to major labels. Rankings are compiled by point-of-purchase sales obtained by Nielsen, and from legal music downloads from a variety of online music stores. The chart began in the week of February 5, 2000. The top 25 positions are published through the ''Billboard'' website, with further chart positions available through a paid subscription to Billboard.biz. As with all ''Billboard'' charts, albums appearing on the Independent chart may also concurrently appear on the ''Billboard'' 200, the main chart published based solely on sales, as well as any of the other ''Billboard'' charts. In addition, exclusive album titles which are only sold through individual retail sites may also be incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heatseekers Albums
Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by ''Billboard'' in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on the ''Billboard'' 200 or ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Albums chart The Heatseekers Albums chart contains 25 positions that are ranked by Nielsen SoundScan sales data, and charts album titles from "new or developing acts" as determined by the acts' historical chart performance. Once an artist/act has had an album place in the top 100 of the ''Billboard'' Top 200, or in the top 10 of any of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Country Albums, Latin Albums, Christian Albums, or Gospel Albums charts, the album and later works no longer qualify for tracking on Heatseeker Albums. This definition means that some artists can still qualify as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
