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Louise Post
Louise Lightner Post (born December 7, 1966) is an American musician. She is best known for being a vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Veruca Salt, which she co-founded with Nina Gordon in 1993. Early life Post was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old. She began playing the piano at the age of seven and participated in several musicals while in high school. At 16, Post founded an R&B band with her brother Eric. She later joined a funk cover band which played at proms, college dances, and bars. Post, inspired by Vanity 6, wrote her first song at age 16. For a talent show, she performed another of her songs which she reviewed as "really, really bad, and I don't think I wrote another song until I was in college". Of her inspiration she has said "I was desperate to express myself creatively and poetry filled that need, but songwriting was more satisfying, more gratifying, and more fun." After graduating from Clayton Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Thighs
''American Thighs'' is the 1994 debut studio album by American alternative rock band Veruca Salt. The album features the hit single " Seether" and received positive critical reviews. Background and release Singer-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post started working together in 1992.Erlewine, Stephen Thomas"Veruca Salt" allmusic.com. Retrieved September 28, 2020. They eventually formed Veruca Salt with bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro, and the four had been a full band less than a year when they signed with the independent label Minty Fresh.Gladstone, Eric"Next Big Things" ''CMJ New Music Monthly''. February 1995. pp. 20-24. In 1994, they released the single "Seether"/"All Hail Me". "Seether" became a hit on college and alternative radio stations, and the band recorded the album ''American Thighs'' with producer Brad Wood. The album was released through Minty Fresh on September 27, 1994, the title a reference to a line from the AC/DC song " You Shook Me All Night Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock (streaming service), Peacock. Michaels currently serves as the program's showrunner. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title ''NBC's Saturday Night''. The show's Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed alphabetically), comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a Saturday Night Live cast members, large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawbreaker (film)
''Jawbreaker'' is a 1999 American teen black comedy crime film directed and written by Darren Stein. The film stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, and Julie Benz as girls in an exclusive clique in their high school. Charlotte Ayanna has a non-speaking cameo role as the murdered fourth member of the group. The film was inspired by the 1988 film '' Heathers'', and is often compared to it, particularly the plot involving a popular female clique, the use of bright pastels, and the ostensibly accidental killing of one of its members. Of his concept for the film, Stein has stated, "The jawbreaker just came to represent the duality of the poppy sweetness of the girls, of high school and of youth, versus the whole idea that this thing could break your jaw". The film was released on February 19, 1999, and was a critical and financial failure, although it has come to gain a cult following. Similarities have been drawn between ''Jawbreaker'', ''Heathers'' and the 2004 film ''Mean Girls''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcano Girls
"Volcano Girls" is a single by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt, released in 1997 on their album ''Eight Arms to Hold You''. It was written by Nina Gordon who also sang lead vocals, with Louise Post performing backup vocals. This song was used at the beginning of the dark comedy movie '' Jawbreaker'', released in 1999. The song was also featured as a playable track in the 2008 video game, '' Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades''. "Volcano Girls" features a partial interpolation of the lyrics to The Beatles' " Glass Onion", and also includes a reference to Veruca Salt's earlier single " Seether". Music video The highly energetic music video for "Volcano Girls" was shot over two days at Essenay in Chicago, Illinois, in 1997. This video consists of the band in the central arena attached to bungee cord Bungee cords equipped with metal hooks A bungee cord (sometimes spelled bungle; also known as a shock cord) is an elastic cord composed of one or more elastic strands forming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight Arms To Hold You
''Eight Arms to Hold You'' is the second studio album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released on February 11, 1997, through Outpost/Geffen Records. Release The album was produced by Bob Rock. The title is a reference to the working title for The Beatles' film eventually titled ''Help!''.Caro, Mark"Veruca Salt reunites years after explosive breakup" chicagotribune.com. July 3, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2020. ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' peaked at number 55 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The single " Volcano Girls", written by Nina Gordon, was a rock radio hit. Veruca Salt performed "Shutterbug", written by Louise Post, on ''Saturday Night Live''. Besides those two, there were three other singles released from the album: "Benjamin", "The Morning Sad", and "Straight". This was the last album to feature all of the original band members - Gordon, Post, Steve Lack, and Jim Shapiro - until the 2015 album '' Ghost Notes''. Track listing Personnel Veruca Salt * Nina Gor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Rock
Robert Jens Rock (born April 19, 1954) is a Canadian record producer, sound engineer and musician, best known for producing rock bands and music artists such as Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, The Tragically Hip, the Cult, 311, Our Lady Peace, Bryan Adams, the Offspring, Michael Bublé, Black Veil Brides, David Lee Roth, and Ron Sexsmith. Payolas and Rock and Hyde Rock began his music career in Langford, British Columbia (a suburb of Victoria), as a guitarist playing with friends William Alexander and Paul Hyde in the former's household basement. After high school graduation, Rock left Victoria and became the co-founder of the Payolas, who became well known with the success of their 1980s hit, "Eyes of a Stranger", which was used as part of the soundtrack of the movie ''Valley Girl'' starring Nicolas Cage. In 1983, the Payolas won the Juno Award for Single of the Year. Rock also worked as an assistant engineer at Little Mountain Sound in Vancou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Albini
Steve Albini (pronounced ; born July 22, 1962) is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums over his career. He has worked with acts such as Nirvana, Pixies, the Breeders, PJ Harvey, and former Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Albini is also known for his outspoken views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers and musicians, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from other bands recording in his studio, feeling that a producer's job is to record the music to the band's desires, and that paying producers as if they had contributed artistically to an albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album ''American Thighs'' (1994). The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post. The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bassist Steve Lack is credited under his actual name, Stephen J. Lackiewicz. Track listing # "Shimmer Like a Girl" (Nina Gordon) – 4:03 # "I'm Taking Europe with Me" (Louise Post) – 3:45 # "New York Mining Disaster 1996" (Gordon) – 4:56 # "Disinherit" (Post) – 6:25 Personnel * Louise Post – guitar, vocals * Nina Gordon – guitar, vocals * Steve Lack – bass guitar * Jim Shapiro – drums, vocals * Steve Albini – producer * John Golden – mastering * Paul Elledge – photographer Usage in popular culture "Shimmer Like a Girl" is often used as the main theme song for Shimmer Women Athletes, a Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist and saxophonist. The band's frontman, John Parish, became her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio called PJ Harvey and subsequently began her career as PJ Harvey. The trio released two studio albums called '' Dry'' (1992) and '' Rid of Me'' (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further nine studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman, and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood. Among the accolades Harvey has received are both the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for '' Stories from the City, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live (band)
Live (, often typeset as LĪVE or +LĪVE+) is an American rock band formed in York, Pennsylvania, in 1984 by Ed Kowalczyk (lead vocals, guitars), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass), Chad Gracey (drums), and Chad Taylor (guitars). Kowalczyk is the only remaining member of this original lineup. The band started to gain attention following their single "Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)", the video for which got regular airplay on MTV, and the moderate success of their second album, '' Mental Jewelry''. Their biggest success came in 1994 with their third album, ''Throwing Copper'', which sold eight million copies in the U.S. The band had a string of hit singles in the mid-1990s, including " Lightning Crashes", which stayed at the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for ten consecutive weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks (now Alternative Songs) chart for nine weeks from February 25 to April 22, 1995. The band has sold over twenty million albums worldwide. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hole (band)
Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989. It was founded by singer Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson. It had several different bassists and drummers, the most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur. Hole released a total of four studio albums between two incarnations spanning the 1990s and early-2010s and became one of the most commercially successful rock bands in history fronted by a woman. Influenced by Los Angeles' punk rock scene, the band's debut album, '' Pretty on the Inside'' (1991), was produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, and attracted critical interest from British and American alternative press. Their second album, ''Live Through This'', released 1994 by DGC Records, which featured less aggressive melodies and more restrained lyrical content, was widely acclaimed and reached platinum status within a year of its release. Their third album, ''Celeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
