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Matthew Houck
Phosphorescent is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Matthew Houck. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Houck began recording and performing under this nickname in 2001 in Athens, Georgia. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Overview Before recording under the name Phosphorescent, Matthew Houck traveled the world playing under the name Fillup Shack and self-released a limited pressing of the album ''Hipolit'' in 2000. Houck later changed his recording name to Phosphorescent and released the full-length LP '' A Hundred Times or More'' in 2003. The album was released through Athens, Georgia-based independent label Warm Records. The following year, he released the EP '' The Weight of Flight''. Phosphorescent rose to wider critical acclaim after releasing '' Aw Come Aw Wry'' in August 2005 and ''Pride'' in October 2007. The latter was named the 12th best album of 2007 by ''Stylus Magazine'' and received an 8.0 rating from the online indie magazine '' Pitchfo ...
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The Echo (venue)
The Echo is an American music venue and nightclub, located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The venue is also known for their punk rock shows, which attract long lines of fans. History The Echo opened in 2001. Prior to that, the space was used as a Latin-themed restaurant/nightclub. The front of the building still sports the original name "Nayarit." In 2019, it was announced that Spaceland Productions, who owned and operated The Echo, The Echoplex, and other venues was sold to Live Nation Entertainment. Notable performers Individuals * Beck * Bennett Coast * Billie Eilish * Casiotone for the Painfully Alone * Cold Cave * Daedelus *Dntel *Lady Sovereign * Maria Taylor * Nite Jewel * John Vanderslice * Jesse Rutherford * St. Vincent Groups * Air Traffic * The Airborne Toxic Event * An Albatross * Autolux * Bad Religion * Band of Horses * The Decemberists * Deerhoof * The Elected * FIDLAR * Fool's Gold * Foster the People * GoGoGo Airheart * ...
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Stylus Magazine
''Stylus Magazine'' was an American online music and film magazine, launched in 2002 and co-founded by Todd L. Burns. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, ''Stylus'' had daily features like "The Singles Jukebox", which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and "Soulseeking", a column focused on personal responses in listening. Even though they never reached the readership of other music magazines such as PopMatters or Pitchfork, they still had a very consistent and fired-up audience. In 2006, the site was chosen by the ''Observer Music Monthly'' as one of the Internet's 25 most essential music websites. ''Stylus'' closed as a business on 31 October 2007. The site remained online for several years, but did not publish any new content. On 4 January 2010, with the blessing of former editor Todd Burns, ''Stylus'' senior writer Nick Southall launched ''The Stylus Decade'', a web ...
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Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The release of ''Pandora's Box (British TV series), Pandora's Box'' (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage film, collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history.Darke, Chris (17 July 2012)"Interview: Adam Curtis."''Film Comment''. Archived frothe original./ref> His style has been described as involving, "whiplash digressions, menacing atmospherics and arpeggiated scores, and the near-psychedelic compilation of archival footage", narrated by Curtis himself with "patrician economy and assertion". His films have been awarded with four British Academy Television Awards, BAFTAs. Early life Adam Curtis was born in Dartford in Kent, and raised in nearby Platt, Kent, Platt. His father was Martin Curtis (1917– ...
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Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and costume designer. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, ''I Killed My Mother'' (), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program."Québécois filmmaker electrifies Cannes"
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Since 2009, he has written and dire ...
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C'est La Vie (Phosphorescent Album)
''C'est La Vie'' is the seventh studio album by Phosphorescent. The album was released on Dead Oceans on October 5, 2018. Release On July 30, 2018, Matthew Houck - under his stage name ''Phosphorescent'' - announced the release of his seventh album, along with the first single "New Birth in New England". Critical reception ''C'est La Vie'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 19 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 21 reviews. Track listing Charts Personnel Credits adapted from AllMusic Musicians * Matthew Houck – primary artist, vocals, producer * Ricky Ray Jackson – guitar * Luke Reynolds – guitar * Christopher Marine – drums * Kevin Black – bass * Jo Schornikow – accordion, piano * Scott Stapleton – piano * Dave ...
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Phosphorescent
Phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. When exposed to light (radiation) of a shorter wavelength, a phosphorescent substance will glow, absorbing the light and reemitting it at a longer wavelength. Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately reemit the radiation it absorbs. Instead, a phosphorescent material absorbs some of the radiation energy and reemits it for a much longer time after the radiation source is removed. In a general sense, there is no distinct boundary between the emission times of fluorescence and phosphorescence (i.e.: if a substance glows under a black light it is generally considered fluorescent, and if it glows in the dark it is often simply called phosphorescent). In a modern, scientific sense, the phenomena can usually be classified by the three different mechanisms that produce the light, and the typical timescales during which those mechanisms emit light. Whereas fluorescent materials stop emitti ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ...
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Muchacho (album)
''Muchacho'' (Spanish for "boy") is the sixth studio album by American indie rock act Phosphorescent, released on March 19, 2013 on Dead Oceans. Self-produced by Matthew Houck, the album was preceded by the single, "Song for Zula". "Song for Zula" was also featured in ''The Spectacular Now'', ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', and the series finale of '' Superstore'': "All Sales Final". ''Muchachos lyrical content was inspired by the various events that followed his tour in support of previous studio album, '' Here's to Taking It Easy'' (2010). Released to widespread critical acclaim, the album reached fifty-nine on the ''Billboard'' 200 and fifty-eight on the UK Albums Chart. Background and recording In 2012, Matthew Houck was forced, due to New York City re-zoning, to disassemble his studio in the Navy Yards area of Brooklyn, New York, and subsequently moved to Greenpoint, where he began work on ''Muchacho'' in his reassembled studio. Regarding his new recording space, Houck note ...
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Here's To Taking It Easy
''Here's to Taking It Easy'' is the fifth full-length album by Phosphorescent. It is his third on the Dead Oceans Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also ... label. It was released on May 11, 2010. Track listing #"It's Hard to Be Humble (When You're from Alabama)" - 4:28 #"Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)" - 4:49 #"We'll Be Here Soon" - 3:17 #"The Mermaid Parade" - 4:22 #"I Don't Care if There's Cursing" - 4:55 #"Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough)" - 4:37 #"Hej, Me I'm Light" - 4:38 #"Heaven, Sittin' Down" - 4:26 #"Los Angeles" - 8:48 Charts References 2010 albums Phosphorescent (band) albums Dead Oceans albums {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stub ...
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Dead Oceans
Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also includes labels Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar and a music publisher, Secretly Publishing, that publishes artists, writers, filmmakers, producers, and comedians. History Phil Waldorf, a Virginia native with a teenage love of skateboarding and punk rock seven-inch records, attended college in Athens, Georgia, where he was music director for the college radio station, WUOG. In Athens, Waldorf came to know future indie bands Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control in their formative years, going to early house shows before both bands rose to underground fame. In 1998, Waldorf moved to New York City when he was hired by Other Music, a record store. He also began managing an indie label, Misra Records. Waldorf became friends wi ...
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To Willie
''To Willie'' is the fourth full-length album by Phosphorescent, and his second on the Dead Oceans label. The album is a tribute to Willie Nelson, with cover artwork in the style of Nelson's ''To Lefty From Willie'', itself a cover album. Rhapsody Rhapsody may refer to: * A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time ** Rhapsode, a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry Computer software * Rhapsody (online music service), an online m ... praised the album, calling it one of their favorite cover albums.Rhapsody’s Favorite Covers Albums
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# "Reasons to Quit" - 3:13 # "Too Sick to Pray" - 2:37 # "Walkin'" - 3:44 # "It's Not Supposed to Be That Way" - 3:35 # "Pick Up the Tempo" - 3:17 # "I Gotta Get ...
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To Lefty From Willie
''To Lefty From Willie'' is the 21st studio album by country music, country singer Willie Nelson. Recorded in 1975, the album sat in the vaults of Columbia Records until 1977. This album is Willie Nelson's tribute to fellow country music, country singer Lefty Frizzell. Rhapsody (online music service), Rhapsody praised the album, calling it one of their favorite cover albums.Rhapsody’s Favorite Covers Albums
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#"Mom and Dad's Waltz" (Lefty Frizzell) – 3:02 #"Look What Thoughts Will Do" (Frizzell, Dub Dickerson, Jim Beck (record producer), Jim Beck) – 2:42 #"I Love You a Thousand Ways" (Frizzell, Beck) – 2:59 #"Always Late with Your Kisses, Always Late (with Your Kisses)" (Frizzell, Blackie Crawford) – 2:25 #"I Want to Be with You Always" (Frizzel ...
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