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Living Decorations EP
''Living Decorations'' is an extended play album by the Chicago indie rock group Maps & Atlases, released in 2011 by Barsuk Records. It was an iTunes iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital mul ... exclusive released shortly after their debut LP '' Perch Patchwork''. A video directed by Erin Elders, the band's lead guitarist, was released for the title track. The EP features previously unreleased remixes as well as a live track. Track listing References External linksGold Flake Paint Maps & Atlases albums 2011 albums {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maps & Atlases
Maps & Atlases is an American indie rock group from Chicago, Illinois, United States, equally influenced by alternative rock, folk and experimental music. In addition, they have been labeled as a math rock band. The band has released three official EPs and three full-length LPs and toured on the festival circuit in the United States, including SXSW and CMJ, as well as national tours with RX Bandits, These Arms Are Snakes, mewithoutYou, Foals, So Many Dynamos, Ra Ra Riot, Minus the Bear, Princeton, The Fall of Troy, Nurses, Pattern Is Movement, Good Old War, Portugal. The Man, Tera Melos, and more. After a recording hiatus following their 2012 release, ''Beware and Be Grateful'', the group announced a new record, ''Lightlessness Is Nothing New'', and an accompanying North American tour. History 2004–2006: Early years, ''Bird Barnyard,'' and ''Tree, Swallows, Houses'' Maps & Atlases formed in fall 2004 when the founding members met in art school at Columbia College Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barsuk Records
Barsuk Records ( ) is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by the members of the band This Busy Monster, Christopher Possanza and Josh Rosenfeld, in 1998 to release their band's material. Its logo is a drawing of a dog holding a vinyl record in its mouth. The name of the label comes from the Russian word ''барсук'' , "badger". However, the label is named after Christopher Possanza and Jason Avinger's dog, a black Labrador. The dog can be heard barking in two This Busy Monster tracks: "Song 69" and "Time to Sleep". Artists * Active Bird Community * ¡All-Time Quarterback! * The American Analog Set * Aqueduct * Aveo * Babes * David Bazan * Big Scary * Charly Bliss * Blunt Mechanic * Common Holly * Cymbals Eat Guitars * Death Cab for Cutie * The Dismemberment Plan * Benjamin Gibbard * Laura Gibson * The Globes * Abigail Grush * Harvey Danger * Hibou * Jessamine * Kind of Like Spitting * Lackthereof * Little Champions * Lo Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perch Patchwork
''Perch Patchwork'' is the first official LP by experimental rock band Maps & Atlases. It was released by Barsuk Records Barsuk Records ( ) is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by the members of the band This Busy Monster, Christopher Possanza and Josh Rosenfeld, in 1998 to release their band's material. Its logo is a draw ... on June 29, 2010. Track listing Personnel ;Maps & Atlases *Erin Elders *Shiraz Dada *Chris Hainey *Dave Davison ;Additional Personnel *Dan Schwartz - Vocals *Rashaad Jones - Cello *Ed Kardasz - Paintings *Justin Past - Brass, Woodwind *Josh Roth - Management *Ryan Duggan - Design *Emily Lazar - Mastering *Jason Cupp - Producer, Engineer, Mixing *Joe LaPorta - Mastering *Keith Goodwin - Vocals *Kristina Dutton - Violin *Tim Arnold - Vocals References http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,6916213,00.html 2010 albums Maps & Atlases albums {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beware And Be Grateful
''Beware and Be Grateful'' is the second studio album by Maps & Atlases, released in 2012 by Barsuk Records. Track listing Reception The album has a score of 71 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 20 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reception. In a positive review for ''The A.V. Club'', Chris Mincher highlighted the record's "fluidity," "airy harmonies, polyrhythmic melodies, and inventive time-signature experiments," stating that "''Beware and Be Grateful'' has plenty to please both casual listeners and angular-prog purists (assuming such people exist)." Conversely, a review from ''NME'' weighed ''Beware and Be Gratefuls technical aspects and layered songwriting against its emotive capacity: "Maps & Atlases are back with an energetic collection of intelligent pop. This time around, the band’s obsession with complex rhythms is channelled though layers and layers of melody ... What’s missing is any emotional contrast to stop all that cleverness from soundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital multimedia, on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs, as well as play content with the use of dynamic, smart playlists. Options for sound optimizations exist, as well as ways to wirelessly share the iTunes library. Originally announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001, iTunes' original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a version of the program for Windows, it became a ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maps & Atlases Albums
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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