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Neil Leyton
Neil Leyton is a Portuguese-Canadian singer and guitarist born in Lisbon. He has lived and played music in Toronto, London, and Stockholm. He was a founding member and songwriter in Canadian art-glam indie project The Conscience Pilate from 1995 to 1998, beginning a solo career in 1999. He is also the founder of the Fading Ways record label, one of the first to use Creative Commons licenses. Leyton was a vocal proponent of the Creative Commons giving several seminars and speaking at conferences about its possible uses in the music industry, including Music TankMusic Tank (London) and Popkomm (Berlin). He has also played guitar for other musical projects live and in the studio, most notably British glam rockers Dogs D'Amour, Canadian rockers Crash Kelly (fellow Canadian musician Sean Kelly's band) and Canadian power pop outfit Galore. He participated in a side-project with Ky Anto, titled Pretty Volume, and recorded an EP with fellow Canadian guitarist Rich Jones and The Wil ...
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Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas
- demographia.com, 06.2021
About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population.
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Dregen
Dregen (born Andreas Tyrone Svensson; 12 June 1973) is a Swedish musician best known as the guitarist of The Hellacopters, as well as Backyard Babies. As of March 2014, Dregen has also served as the newest member of Michael Monroe's solo band, replacing Ginger as guitarist. He was formerly married to fellow Swedish singer Pernilla Andersson, who is also the mother of their first child, a son named Sixten. The couple officially announced their separation on 1 June 2015. He is a founding member of Backyard Babies, who he helped form in 1987. The band announced the start of an indefinite hiatus beginning in 2010. In a 2011 interview with Rocksverige.se, Dregen mentioned the band would eventually come together and be stronger than ever in response to rumours surrounding the band's still ongoing hiatus. During this hiatus, Dregen released a personal autobiography, followed by his first solo record in September 2013. Then, after a 5-year absence, Backyard Babies returned in 2015, goin ...
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Lusitanian Ghosts
Lusitania was an ancient Roman province corresponding to most of modern Portugal. Lusitania, Lusitanian, and Lusitanic may also refer to: Cultures and peoples *Lusitanian language * Lusitanian mythology *Lusitanians, the original Indo-European inhabitants of Lusitania (Proto-Celt) *Lusitanic, the shared linguistic and cultural traditions of the Portuguese-speaking nations Places * Kingdom of Northern Lusitania, proposed by Napoleon for the king of Etruria in Northwestern Portugal *New Lusitania, a Portuguese colony in Brazil Science * Lusitania (alga), a genus of green algae * Lusitanian distribution, a disjunct distribution of a species * HD 45652, a star named Lusitania Sport * S.C. Lusitânia (basketball), an Azorean basketball team * Lusitânia F.C., Portuguese football club Other uses * List of ships named ''Lusitania'' * ''Lusitania'' (album), by Fairweather, 2003 *Lusitania, a size of cigar of the Partagás brand *''Lusitania'', the name of a British Rail Class 4 ...
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Out Of Synch
Out may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Out'' (1957 film), a documentary short about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 * ''Out'' (1982 film), an American film directed by Eli Hollander * ''Out'' (2002 film), a Japanese film based on the novel by Natsuo Kirino and directed by Hideyuki Hirayama * ''Out'' (2013 film), a Canadian short comedy film directed by Jeremy LaLonde * ''Out'' (2017 film), a Slovak film directed by György Kristóf * ''Out'' (2020 film), an American animated film produced by Pixar Music * Out (jazz) or outside, an approach to jazz improvisation *OUT, a band produced by Adam Walton *''OUT'', a 1994 album by Nav Katze *''Out (In Essence)'', a 1991 album by Fluke Television * ''Out'' (miniseries), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell * "Out" (''Dark Angel''), a television episode Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Out'' (magazine), an LGBT fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine * ''Out'' (novel), a 19 ...
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AWAL
AWAL (an initialism of Artists Without a Label) is a British music distribution company owned by Sony Music Entertainment. The company serves as an alternative to the traditional music label deal, offering deal structures to artists and independent labels without them giving up ownership or control. In 2021, Sony Music Entertainment purchased AWAL from Kobalt Music Group for $430m. Services AWAL's main service is digital music distribution, but also includes marketing, physical distribution, data analytics, radio, and synchronization licensing. AWAL's artists keep their music and creative rights, unlike the traditional record label. In November 2018, Billboard wrote an article titled, "Can Kobalt Disrupt the Label Game With AWAL?," outlining the company's approach and how it pays out as much as 80 percent of streaming revenue to its artists. In March 2017, AWAL introduced its music analytics app designed to collect and display data from an artist's presence on Spotify and Apple ...
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Elite Nylon
In political and sociological theory, the elite (french: élite, from la, eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. Defined by the ''Cambridge Dictionary'', the "elite" are "those people or organizations that are considered the best or most powerful compared to others of a similar type." American sociologist C. Wright Mills states that members of the elite accept their fellows' position of importance in society. "As a rule, 'they accept one another, understand one another, marry one another, tend to work, and to think, if not together at least alike'." It is a well-regulated existence where education plays a critical role. Universities in the US Youthful upper-class members attend prominent preparatory schools, which not only open doors to such elite universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania, but also to the universit ...
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Imperial State Electric (album)
Nicke Andersson (born 1 August 1972), also known as Nick Royale, is a Swedish musician best known for his work as the singer and guitarist for the rock band The Hellacopters and drummer for the death metal band Entombed. He was also briefly the drummer for Tiamat in 1989. Besides his work with the Hellacopters, Andersson currently plays and writes songs for the soul band The Solution, the death metal band Death Breath, the hard rock band Lucifer, and rock band Imperial State Electric. Andersson has been involved in well over a hundred different official releases with different bands, done work as a producer as well as created artwork for most of the bands he has been involved with. Career Andersson's interest began early in life with KISS as his favorite band and soon discovered his childhood friend and future bandmate Kenny HÃ¥kanssons father's record collection and bands such as The Ramones and Sex Pistols. His interest soon turned towards heavier music, trading cassett ...
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The Point (band)
The Point may refer to: Buildings and venues * The Point, Cardiff, a church-turned-music venue in Wales * The Point Theatre, Dublin, former name of 3Arena, an indoor amphitheatre * The Point, Eastleigh, a theatre and dance studios, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England * The Point, Milton Keynes, an entertainment complex in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England * The Point, Panama City, an all-residential building in Panama City, Panama * Point State Park, at the confluence of Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called ''The Point'' by natives * The Point, a conference facility and landmark at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England * United States Military Academy, known as "The Point" because it is near West Point, New York Places * Covington, Kentucky, originally known as The Point * The Point, Louisville, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky * The Point or Easton's Point, a historical neighborhood in Newport, Rhode Island Radio * WCYT (9 ...
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Maria Pettersson
Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon Terrestrial *Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar *Maria, Quebec, Canada * Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines * María, Spain, in Andalusia *Îles Maria, French Polynesia *María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain *Villa Maria (other) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film Literature * ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs * ''Maria'' (Ukrainian novel), a 1934 novel by the Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk * ''Maria'' (play), a 1935 play ...
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Mark Fernyhough
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. ...
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