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Kelli Dayton
Kelli Ali, also known as Kelli Dayton (born 30 June 1974), is a British vocalist, who was formerly the lead singer of the trip hop group Sneaker Pimps before going on to a solo career. Career Before Sneaker Pimps, Ali was part of a group called Psycho Drama, which she joined when she was 16 years old. A few years later, she was asked by Russell Cross of the band The Lumieres to join his band (as their songwriter, singer, and lead guitarist). The Lumieres only had one major single, "Cinder Hearts". With Sneaker Pimps she was featured prominently in both the songs and the music videos for the album ''Becoming X'' (the group finding fame following the release of the hit single " 6 Underground"). Ali was released from the group in 1998 when they decided to do vocals for their own songs. After leaving Sneaker Pimps, she moved on to a solo career under the name Kelli Ali after her father who had passed away before the release of ''Becoming X''. Her first solo album, ''Tigermouth'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area. It is the largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately west of the city centre. Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doors
The Doors were an American Rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s, partly due to Morrison's lyrics and voice, along with his erratic stage persona. The group is widely regarded as an important figure of the counterculture of the 1960s, era's counterculture. The band took its name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book ''The Doors of Perception'', itself a reference to a quote by William Blake. After signing with Elektra Records in 1966, the Doors with Morrison recorded and released six studio albums in five years, some of which are generally considered among the greatest of all time, including The Doors (album), their self-titled debut (1967), ''Strange Days (The Doors album), Strange Days'' (1967), and ''L.A. Woman'' (1971). They were one of the most successful bands during that tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany Murphy
Brittany Anne Murphy-Monjack (; November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was an American actress and singer. Born in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and pursued a career in acting. Her breakthrough role was as Tai Frasier in ''Clueless'' (1995), followed by supporting roles in independent films such as ''Freeway'' (1996) and '' Bongwater'' (1998). She made her stage debut in a Broadway production of Arthur Miller's ''A View from the Bridge'' in 1997 before appearing as Daisy Randone in '' Girl, Interrupted'' (1999) and as Lisa Swenson in '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'' (1999). In the 2000s, Murphy appeared in ''Don't Say a Word'' (2001) alongside Michael Douglas, and alongside Eminem in '' 8 Mile'' (2002), for which she gained critical recognition. Her later roles included ''Riding in Cars with Boys'' (2001), ''Spun'' (2002), ''Just Married'' (2003), ''Uptown Girls'' (2003), ''Sin City'' (2005), and ''Happy Feet'' (2006). Murphy also voiced Luanne Platter on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faster Kill Pussycat
"Faster Kill Pussycat" is the first single from British producer Oakenfold's second studio album, '' A Lively Mind'' (2006). The song features American actress Brittany Murphy's vocals and was co-written by singer-songwriter Kelli Ali (former vocalist of British trip hop group Sneaker Pimps). The title of the track is a play on the title of the movie ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!''. "Faster Kill Pussycat" peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart in June 2006, becoming Murphy's highest-charting single in Britain. Outside the United Kingdom, the single reached number one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chart and number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Airplay chart. It also peaked within the top 20 on the charts of Ireland and New Zealand. Music video The music video, shot on the rooftop of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles, features Brittany Murphy dancing with scenes of Paul Oakenfold as a DJ and a wild crowd. Directed by renowned music video directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963), formerly known mononymously as Oakenfold, is an English record producer, remixer and trance DJ. He has provided over 100 remixes for over 100 artists including U2, Moby, Madonna, Britney Spears, Massive Attack, the Cure, New Order, the Rolling Stones, the Stone Roses and Michael Jackson. Oakenfold was voted the No. 1 DJ in the World twice in 1998 and 1999 by ''DJ Magazine''. Biography Early life Oakenfold was born on 30 August 1963 at Mile End Hospital. His father delivered the ''London Evening News''. He lived in Highbury, Greenhithe, then Croydon, attending Archbishop Lanfranc School, then studied to be a chef for four years and worked at the Army and Navy Club. Early career: 1980–1984 Paul Oakenfold describes his early life as a "bedroom DJ" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's ''24 Hours'', stating he grew up listening to the Beatles. Oakenfold's musical career began in the late 1970s, when he met Trevor Fung and began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cube Juice
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross. The cube is the only regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It has 6 faces, 12 edges, and 8 vertices. The cube is also a square parallelepiped, an equilateral cuboid and a right rhombohedron a 3-zonohedron. It is a regular square prism in three orientations, and a trigonal trapezohedron in four orientations. The cube is dual to the octahedron. It has cubical or octahedral symmetry. The cube is the only convex polyhedron whose faces are all squares. Orthogonal projections The ''cube'' has four special orthogonal projections, centered, on a vertex, edges, face and normal to its vertex figure. The first and third correspond to the A2 and B2 Coxeter planes. Spherical tiling The cube can also be represented as a spherical tiling, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick (stylized as BUCK-TICK) is a Japanese Rock music, rock band, formed in Fujioka, Gunma in 1983. The group has consisted of lead vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, lead guitarist Hisashi Imai, rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino, bassist Yutaka Higuchi (musician), Yutaka Higuchi and drummer Toll Yagami since 1985. The band has experimented with many different genres of music throughout their three decade career, including punk rock, industrial rock and gothic rock. Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement. They have released 22 studio albums, nearly all reaching the top ten on the charts. History Formation (1983–1985) Buck-Tick was originally formed in 1983. All five of the band members lived in Gunma prefecture. Hisashi Imai originally had the idea for the band, and wanted to start despite not being able to play any instruments at the time. He recruited his friend, Yutaka Higuchi (musician), Yutaka Higuchi, and the two of them began to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshino Hidehiko
, nicknamed "Hide", is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is known as the rhythm guitarist for the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. Life and career Buck-Tick In 1985, when Hide and Yutaka Higuchi graduated from high school they moved to Tokyo together, where Hide started culinary school.''LOVE ME'', Yasue Matsuura, Takao Nakagawa; Shinko Music Publishing Company, Ltd. 1989. . Throughout Buck-Tick's long career, he has the second most songwriting credits. Hoshino married in 2006. He has released only one solo song; "Jarring Voice" on the compilation ''Dance 2 Noise 001''. He has also performed on Issay's ''Flowers'', Fake?'s ''Marilyn is a Bubble'' and Chiaki Kuriyama's ''Circus''. On September 19, 2012, Hoshino released the book ''Simply Life''. It compiles the interviews he gave to the magazine ''Ongaku to Hito'' every year since 2001 with a new long interview. It was republished in 2022 as ''Simply Life ~Life Goes On~''. Dropz Dropz (stylized as dropz) is a side pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony O'Neill
Tony O'Neill (born 1978, Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English writer based in New York. A one-time musician with Kenickie (1997–98), Marc Almond (1997–98), The Brian Jonestown Massacre (1999) and Kelli Ali (2001–04), O'Neill is also the author of several books including ''Digging the Vein'' (2006), ''Down and Out on Murder Mile'' (2008) and ''Sick City'' (2010). Literary career ''Digging the Vein'' was a novel based on O'Neill's years as a heroin and crack addict as well as his experiences in the music industry, while the sequel, ''Down and Out on Murder Mile'' was released by Harper Perennial as a mass market paperback in November 2008. ''Sick City'' was released by Harper Perennial in July 2010. The plot revolves around two heroin addicts who try to sell a legendary sex tape starring Sharon Tate. The book earned praise from Barry Gifford, Sebastian Horsley, and Tom McCarthy among others. In 2012 the novel was optioned for the screen by screenwriter Jayson Rothwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, gospel music, gospel, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s,Peterson, Richard A. ''Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity'' (1999), p. 9, . the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, rock and roll had developed into "the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known in many circles as rock and roll."Kot, Greg"Rock and roll", in the ''Encyclopædia Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychic Cat
''Psychic Cat'' is the second solo album by Kelli Ali, released in 2004 on One Little Indian Records One Little Independent Records (formerly One Little Indian Records) is an English independent record label. It was set up in 1985 by members of various anarcho-punk bands, and managed by former Flux of Pink Indians bassist Derek Birkett. In t .... The album was a departure from Ali's previous album, '' Tigermouth'', as she experimented with electronic dance beats and repetitive lyrics, creating more an industrial/electronica sounding album. The first single from this album was a double A-side, "Speakers"/"Voyeur," and the official radio single from this album was "Hot Lips". Track listing # Hot Lips # Psychic Cat # Speakers # Home Honey I'm High # Ideal # In Praise of Shadows # Graffiti Boy # Groupie # Voyeur # Last Boy On Earth ''Psychic Cat''-era B-Sides *"No Money" – 4:33 {{Authority control 2004 albums Kelli Ali albums Asian Underground albums Electroclash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
