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Peace Between Nations EP
''Peace Between Nations EP'' is a 2005 album by reggae rock band, State Radio, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist, Chad Urmston. It features some of the more mellow acoustic work that characterized their last album, the Simmer Kane EP, along with some throwbacks to their original rock style of Flag of the Shiners, such as 'The Diner Song' and 'Democracy in Kind'. The EP was originally released as a four-song disc, without the Simmer Kane tracks ('Keepsake' and 'Heady Riser') or the live takes ('Man in the Hall' and 'Mr. Larkin'), and with the version of 'Calvado's Chopper' that later appeared on The Barn Sessions ''The Barn Sessions'' is a studio album by American reggae rock band State Radio. It consists mostly of reworkings of songs from their previous record, ''Us Against the Crown ''Us Against the Crown'' is the first full-length studio album from ..., then rereleased with the current track list. Version 2.0 track listing # First One Shot – 4:57 # Democracy in Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Radio
State Radio is a Boston-based rock trio comprising singer and primary songwriter Chad Stokes Urmston (also a member of Dispatch), bassist Chuck Fay, and, formerly, drummer Michael Najarian. The band's songs focus on social and political issues and have been musically described as a combination of reggae, punk and rock. Biography Chad Urmston, whose previous band Dispatch disbanded in 2002, formed State Radio later the same year in Sherborn, Massachusetts with second guitarist Pete Halby, bassist Chuck Fay, and drummer Mike Greenfield. The band, originally known as Flag of the Shiners, released an eponymous debut EP on Fenway Recordings in late 2002. The EP was later re-released under the band's current name, however the title remained the same. State Radio went on a temporary hiatus throughout 2003 as Urmston recovered from throat surgery. They returned to touring and recording in 2004 as a slimmed-down trio with new drummer Brian Sayers. The band released a second EP entitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term ''reggae'' more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Reggae is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simmer Kane EP
Simmering is a food preparation technique by which foods are cooked in hot liquids kept just below the boiling point of water (lower than ) and above poaching temperature (higher than ). To create a steady simmer, a liquid is brought to a boil, then its heat source is reduced to a lower, constant temperature. In food preparation Simmering ensures gentler treatment than boiling to prevent food from toughening and/or breaking up. Simmering is usually a rapid and efficient method of cooking. Food that has simmered in milk or cream instead of water is sometimes referred to as creamed. The appropriate simmering temperature is a topic of debate among chefs, with some contending that a simmer is as low as . Japanese cuisine In Japanese cuisine, simmering is often considered one of the four essential cooking techniques, along with grilling, steaming, and deep frying. American cuisine Food prepared in a crockpot is simmered. Examples include stews, chili, soups, etc. Bulgaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Us Against The Crown
''Us Against the Crown'' is the first full-length studio album from reggae rock band State Radio, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist, Chad Urmston Chad (Chadwick) Stokes Urmston (born February 26, 1976) is an American musician and a human rights activist. He is the frontman for the Boston-area bands Dispatch and State Radio, and released solo music under the name Chadwick Stokes. Early .... Track listing # "People to People" – 4:16 # "Mr. Larkin" – 4:07 # "Camilo" – 4:48 # "Right Me Up" – 4:11 # "Black Cab Motorcade" – 4:02 # "Riddle in Londontown" – 4:48 # "Man in the Hall" – 3:47 # "Waitress" – 3:55 # "Diner Song" – 3:27 # "Gunship Politico" – 5:41 # "Rushian" – 2:53 # "Calvado's Chopper" – 7:22 # "Sybil I" – 2:55 *Hidden Track: #Indian Moon References 2006 debut albums State Radio albums Nettwerk Records albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae Rock
Reggae rock is a subgenre of reggae fusion and rock music that primarily uses the genres reggae, rock, and ska. Typical lyrics of reggae rock songs incorporate love, personal awareness, and life challenges while incorporating music and beat elements of rock, punk, and hip-hop. The term "reggae rock" has been used to categorize bands like the Police, Men at Work, Sublime, Sublime with Rome, Pepper, Slightly Stoopid, the Expendables, Iration, the Dirty Heads, Rebelution, 311 and, to some extent, heavier bands such as Fishbone and Bad Brains. Among the earliest examples of the genre are the 1972 songs "D'yer Mak'er" by English rock band Led Zeppelin and "C Moon" by Paul McCartney and Wings. The term "reggae metal" has been used to describe bands that combine reggae rock with heavy metal, such as Dub War, Shinobi Ninja, Skindred, Twelve Foot Ninja, and Zeroscape. Reggae rock found its rise in popularity in the 1990s in Long Beach, California, with the band Sublime. The genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dispatch (band)
Dispatch is an American indie/roots band. The band consists of Brad Corrigan (vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, harmonica) and Chad Urmston (vocals, guitar, bass, percussion). The band's original bassist, Pete Francis Heimbold, left in 2019. The band, which is based in the Boston area, was originally active from 1996 until 2002. The members then announced a hiatus, which would ultimately last for almost a decade; during this period, the band came together for reunion concerts in Boston (2004), New York City (2007), and Washington, D.C. (2009). The hiatus ended at the beginning of 2011, when the band announced a national tour. In May of the same year, Dispatch released an EP containing six new songs, their first all-new release since 2000. The band released both their first studio album in over a decade, '' Circles Around the Sun'', and an iTunes session in 2012 and toured North America that summer in support of the album. On April 22, 2013, Dispatch announced a double-disc li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Urmston
Chad (Chadwick) Stokes Urmston (born February 26, 1976) is an American musician and a human rights activist. He is the frontman for the Boston-area bands Dispatch and State Radio, and released solo music under the name Chadwick Stokes. Early life and education Chadwick Stokes Urmston was born February 26, 1976, in Boston, Massachusetts, into a large family. He graduated from Dover-Sherborn High School in 1994, and went on to attend both Middlebury College and NYU. During this time, Urmston briefly lived in Zimbabwe, where he befriended a local fieldworker named Elias. Later, Urmston wrote a song titled "Elias" for Dispatch's 1996 album "Silent Steeples", which became one of their most well known songs. Many of his songs also reference where he grew up going in the summer, West Chop, Massachusetts. Career ''See Dispatch for a complete history of the band.'' In 1995, while attending Middlebury College, Urmston met Pete Heimbold and formed the band Hermit Thrush. He later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of The Shiners
{{Infobox album , name = Flag of the Shiners EP , type = EP , artist = State Radio , cover = flagoftheshinerscover.jpg , alt = , released = 2002 , recorded = , venue = , studio = , genre = Indie, rock , length = , label = , producer = , prev_title = , prev_year = , next_title = Simmer Kane EP , next_year = 2004 ''Flag of the Shiners EP'' is the 2002 debut release by reggae-rock band, State Radio, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist/guitarist, Chad Urmston. It features a much heavier sound than Urmston's previous Dispatch material. The album was originally released as an eponymous debut, when the band was still known as Flag of the Shiners. On May 8, 2009, the band played Flag of the Shiners in its entirety at a show at Wilton High School. In 2013, the band also played the album in its entirety at the House of Blues House of Blues is an American chain of live music concert halls and restaurants. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barn Sessions
''The Barn Sessions'' is a studio album by American reggae rock band State Radio. It consists mostly of reworkings of songs from their previous record, ''Us Against the Crown ''Us Against the Crown'' is the first full-length studio album from reggae rock band State Radio, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist, Chad Urmston Chad (Chadwick) Stokes Urmston (born February 26, 1976) is an American musician and a huma ...'', plus two previously unreleased tracks. Track listing # State I and I (State Inspector) – 4:18 # Black Cab Motorcade – 3:50 # People to People – 4:41 # Olli Olli – 3:44 # Calvados Chopper – 6:42 # Right Me Up – 6:16 # Rushian – 2:46 # Camilo – 7:17 # Diner Song – 4:09 # Give You All My Time to Save – 3:28 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Barn Sessions State Radio albums 2007 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
