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Pep (album)
''Pep'' (stylized as ''PƎP'') is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Lights. It was released on April 1, 2022, on Fueled by Ramen and is her first studio album under the label (not counting '' Skin & Earth Acoustic''). Like her previous album, '' Skin & Earth'', the album was accompanied by a comic, titled ''The Clinic'', which is a side story to the ''Skin & Earth'' comic. The album debuted at number 32 on the Canadian Albums Chart, being her first album not to break the top 10, as well as her first album to not enter the ''Billboard'' 200, but it did peak at number 25 on the Top Album Sales chart. Background In an interview with ''AltPress'', Lights stated she started writing the songs around 2019, but once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, she wanted the album to be more positive, which was inspired by her mental health worsening during that time. Because it was her first album released through Fueled by Ramen, she revealed being on the label influenced her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lights (musician)
Lights Poxleitner-Bokan (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner; April 11, 1987), known mononymously as Lights (previously stylized as LIGHTS), is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. She is known for singles "Drive My Soul", "February Air", "Ice", "Second Go", "Toes", "My Boots" and "Up We Go", which have charted within the top ninety on the Canadian Hot 100. Her work has earned multiple Juno Awards and Canadian Independent Music Awards. Her debut EP ''Lights'' was released in July 2008 and achieved commercial success which enabled the release of her first full-length album, '' The Listening'', on September 22, 2009. Her second album, ''Siberia'', was released on October 4, 2011. Both albums have been certified gold in Canada. Lights released her third studio album, '' Little Machines'', on September 19, 2014, which debuted on the Canadian Albums Chart at number five. Her fourth album, '' Skin&Earth,'' which featured "Giants", was released in September 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots (stylized in Letter case, all lowercase or as twenty øne piløts) are an American musical duo from Columbus, Ohio. Initially a band, the group was formed in 2009 by lead vocalist Tyler Joseph along with Nick Thomas and Chris Salih, who both left in 2011. Since their departure, the line-up has consisted of Joseph and drummer Josh Dun. The duo is best known for their singles "Stressed Out", "Ride (Twenty One Pilots song), Ride", and "Heathens (song), Heathens". The group received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards for "Stressed Out". The band independently released two albums, ''Twenty One Pilots (album), Twenty One Pilots'' (2009) and ''Regional at Best'' (2011), before being signed by record label Fueled by Ramen in 2012. Their label debut, ''Vessel (Twenty One Pilots album), Vessel'', was released in 2013 and became the second album in history on which every track received at least a gold certification, making T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Albums
For lists of 2022 albums, see: * List of 2022 albums (January–June) * List of 2022 albums (July–December) {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Andrews
Jenna Lauren Andrews (born 1985 or 1986) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Andrews released her debut single "Tumblin' Down" in 2010, which was featured on the television show, ''Grey's Anatomy'' and charted on the '' Billboard'' Adult R&B Songs chart. She has collaborated with artists such as BTS, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Jessie J, Tori Kelly, Lily Allen, and Little Mix, while also being involved as an A&R consultant for Barry Weiss' label Records as well as establishing TwentySeven Music Publishing with him. Early life Jenna Lauren Andrews was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her mother was an elementary school teacher and her father was a professor at the University of Calgary. She aspired to become a musician at a young age after listening to Mariah Carey and Billie Holiday. Her early musical influences were inspired by her mother's love of R&B and soul music, as Andrews learned how to play the piano at the age of 5 des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiesza
Kiesa Rae Ellestad (born January 16, 1989), known professionally as Kiesza ( ), is a Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist from Calgary. In 2017, she was involved in a car accident in Toronto, suffering severe injuries that required her to take several years off to recover. To date, she has released the albums ''Sound of a Woman'' (2014) and '' Crave'' (2020). Early life Kiesza was born and raised in Calgary. Her last name, Ellestad, is Norwegian from her paternal side and her grandfather is from Fagernes in Norway. In an interview with ''Metro'', Kiesza claimed that she can trace her lineage to someone who fought alongside Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn, elaborating, "There's a lot of Scottish people in Canada. Tons. My grandpa was of Scottish heritage—he was of the black Douglases". At 13, Kiesza took a sailing class at summer camp, and continued her interest past age 16, when she took part in the Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS) program. She lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Radar (magazine)
''Under the Radar'' is an American music magazine that features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the indie music scene as well as reviews of books, DVDs, and albums. The magazine posts web-exclusive interviews and reviews on its website. Items are reviewed based on a rating system in which each album, book, and DVD receives a rating from 1 to 10. The magazine has been in publication since late 2001 and is issued three times per year. The magazine was founded by co-publishers (and husband and wife) Mark Redfern and Wendy Lynch Redfern, who were married on June 2, 2007 and currently run the magazine. Mark is the magazine's Senior Editor and writes many of the magazine's articles. Wendy is the Creative Director and lays out each issue. She is also a music photographer and conducts photo-shoots for the magazine, including many of its covers. Contents It was the first American magazine to interview the following non-American b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spill Magazine
''The Spill Magazine'' is a Canadian online magazine based in Mississauga, Ontario. It publishes music news, band interviews, album reviews, and live concert reviews from independent and mainstream artists across diverse genres and localities. It also offers select film and book reviews. The webzine was established in April 1994, by Arvin Kashyap who was at the time a disc jockey for the University of Toronto Mississauga's radio station, CFRE 91.9 FM. ''The Spill Magazine'' launched its first issue on May 20, 1994, digitally via the bulletin board system and through Usenet; it was also distributed through electronic mailing list, as well as physically through fax and floppy disk. It continued as a monthly digital publication, until it moved to its own .com domain name A domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clash (magazine)
''Clash'' is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and has won other awards in England and Scotland. Most notably, it won Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards. History ''Clash'' was founded by John O'Rourke, Simon Harper, Iain Carnegie and Jon-Paul Kitching. It emerged from the long-running Dundee, Scotland-based free-listings magazine ''Vibe''. Re-launching as ''Clash Magazine'' in 2004, it won Best New Magazine award at the PPA Magazine Awards and Music Magazine of the Year at the Record of the Day Awards in 2005 and 2011 respectively. At the turn of 2011, ''Clash'' took on an entirely new look, ditching its previous glossy feel and music-led design for an altogether more artistically-led approach. In 2013 it launched a Smartphone c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Dun
Joshua William Dun (born June 18, 1988) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the musical duo Twenty One Pilots, alongside Tyler Joseph, and also contributes backing vocals and trumpet to the band's work. He has collaborated with a variety of different artists. Early life Joshua William Dun was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 18, 1988, the son of hospice social worker Laura Lee Dun (née McCollum) and physical therapy assistant William Earl "Bill" Dun. He has two sisters and a brother. His great-great-great-grandparents were the American rancher Edwin Dun, who worked as an agricultural advisor to Japan, and his Japanese wife Tsuru. He mainly listened to punk rock when he was growing up. His parents set strict rules on what music he could listen to, about which he later said, "I'd hide albums like Green Day's ''Dookie'' underneath my bed. Sometimes they'd find them and get real mad. They'd find a Christian alternative, like Relient K, and make me list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elohim (musician)
Elohim is an American electropop recording artist, DJ, producer and singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Career At the age of five, Elohim began playing the piano and writing songs. She suffered from severe anxiety for most of her life, and has used music as a way to cope. The stage name "Elohim" is one of the Hebrew names for "God". The name inspired Elohim and moved her "in a really deep way" as it brought her "strength, solace, beauty and confidence." Elohim's debut single is "Xanax", which was released in 2015 alongside other singles such as "She Talks Too Much" and "Bridge and the Wall", that are from her self-titled 2016 debut extended play. She also released "Half Love" as a single from her self-titled 2018 debut studio album. Elohim independently released the first part of her two-part album "Braindead" on May 10, 2019. In commemoration of Mental Health Awareness month, proceeds of the EP went towards various mental health initiatives. The EP deals heavily with the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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