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Satellite (Guster Song)
Satellite is the second single from Guster's 2006 album ''Ganging Up on the Sun''. The song received support from U.S. alternative rock radio, but failed to chart on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. There was also a ''Satellite EP'' released April 10, 2007. The song is also featured in the 2007 film ''Martian Child''. The stop motion video for the song, directed by Adam Bizanski Adam Bizanski ( he, אדם ביזנסקי; born January 29, 1983) is a writer, director and animator. Career Hailing from a self-taught animation background, he is best known for his award-winning music video collaborations with bands such as th ..., was released on February 2, 2007. The single would go on to earn the band its first gold record in 2018. Track listing *Satellite EP: #"Satellite" #"G Major" #"Rise & Shine" #"Timothy Leary" #"I'm Through" #"Satellite" (The Astronauts remix) #"Two of Us" (Live At KCRW) #"Total Eclipse of the Heart" (Live At The State Theater, Portland, ME) *Satellite Promo: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guster
Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and formed the band in 1991. The members met during the freshman Wilderness Orientation program in August of that year, playing publicly together as a trio two months later at the Midnight Cafe coffee house set in the common area of the Lewis Hall dormitory. While attending Tufts, the band lived at 139 College Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The band stayed "underground" for its first two full-length albums, ''Parachute'' (1994) and '' Goldfly'' (1997), but broke into the musical mainstream in 1999 with its third studio album ''Lost and Gone Forever'', featuring the single "Fa Fa", which made it onto the Adult Top 40. The band enjoyed moderate success on the charts with '' Keep It Together'', its fourth album, with two singles in the Adult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Singles
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Guster Songs
Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and formed the band in 1991. The members met during the freshman Wilderness Orientation program in August of that year, playing publicly together as a trio two months later at the Midnight Cafe coffee house set in the common area of the Lewis Hall dormitory. While attending Tufts, the band lived at 139 College Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The band stayed "underground" for its first two full-length albums, ''Parachute'' (1994) and ''Goldfly'' (1997), but broke into the musical mainstream in 1999 with its third studio album ''Lost and Gone Forever'', featuring the single "Fa Fa", which made it onto the Adult Top 40. The band enjoyed moderate success on the charts with '' Keep It Together'', its fourth album, with two singles in the Adult T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Bizanski
Adam Bizanski ( he, אדם ביזנסקי; born January 29, 1983) is a writer, director and animator. Career Hailing from a self-taught animation background, he is best known for his award-winning music video collaborations with bands such as the Shins, Wolf Parade, and Zero 7. On May 9, 2005, Bizanski's animated video for The Shins "Pink Bullets", depicting a love story between two soulful paper-made cows, was amongst the first five videos chosen to demonstrate iTunes music store's new capability to sell videos. He had won the best animated music video award for three consecutive years at ASIF (ASIFA's Israel branch), for his videos for Yoni Bloch, the Shins, and Zero 7. In 2006 Bizanski's video for Wolf Parade had won "best animated music video" at the Antville 06 MVA's, and rose to being #1 on ifilm.com's Top 100 videos. His work had been exhibited in Res Magazine, IdN Magazine, Boards Magazine, Stereogum, Motionographer, Filmmaker magazine, It's Nice That, Twitch, MTV as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martian Child
''Martian Child'' is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Menno Meyjes and based on David Gerrold's 1994 novelette (not the expanded 2002 novel) of the same name. The film stars John Cusack as a writer who adopts a strange young boy ( Bobby Coleman) who believes himself to be from Mars. The film was theatrically released on November 2, 2007, by New Line Cinema. Plot David Gordon, a popular science fiction author, widowed two years prior as they were trying to adopt a child, is finally matched with a young boy, Dennis. Initially hesitant to adopt alone, he is drawn to him, seeing aspects of himself in him. Believing he is from Mars, Dennis protects himself from the sun's harmful rays, wears weights to counter Earth's weak gravity, eats only Lucky Charms, and hangs upside down to facilitate circulation. He refers often to his mission to study Earth and its people, taking pictures, taking things to catalog, and spending time consulting an ambiguous toy-like device with f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satellite EP
''Satellite EP'' is the fifth EP by the rock band Guster. It was released on 10 April 2007. It is Guster's third EP with the musician Joe Pisapia. The EP includes both live recordings and songs recorded during the creation of ''Ganging Up On The Sun'' but not included on the album. The Astronauts, a producing team, remixed a techno-inspired version of "Satellite" that appears on this EP as well. This was first released as an iTunes single and a radio edit of this song received airplay on radio stations. " Two of Us" is a Beatles song which the band covers on the EP. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a somewhat less-than-serious cover of the original Bonnie Tyler song, recorded at a concert at the State Theater in Portland, Maine. Brian Rosenworcel, the band's drummer, sings the lead vocals, a rare occurrence in Guster's music. Reverb, an environmental action group of the guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner and his wife, helped to produce this EP as entirely carbon neutral. The CD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Rock Tracks
Alternative Airplay (formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks (1988–2009) and Alternative Songs (2009–2020)) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988. It ranks the 40 most-played songs on alternative and modern rock radio stations. Introduced as Modern Rock Tracks, the chart served as a companion to the Mainstream Rock chart (then called Album Rock Tracks), and its creation was prompted by the explosion of alternative music on American radio in the late 1980s. During the first several years of the chart, it regularly featured music that did not receive commercial radio airplay anywhere but on a few modern rock and college rock radio stations. This included many electronic and post-punk artists. Gradually, as alternative rock became more mainstream (spearheaded by the grunge explosion in the early 1990s), alternative and mainstream rock radio stations began playing many of the same songs. By the late 2000s, the genr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do You Love Me? (Guster Song)
''Easy Wonderful'' is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Guster, released on October 5, 2010, on Universal Republic. From August 24 to October 18, 2010, videos for all of the tracks on the album were posted to Vimeo. The first single from the album, "Do You Love Me," was released on iTunes and through the band's website on August 3, 2010. It was the last album to feature Joe Pisapia, who left the band shortly before the album’s release. ''Easy Wonderful'' peaked at #22 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and reached #2 on the Alternative Albums chart. Reception ''Easy Wonderful'' received positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ..., the album holds a score of 81/100 based on 10 reviews, indicating "universal ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganging Up On The Sun
''Ganging Up on the Sun'' is the fifth studio album by the rock band Guster. It was released on June 20, 2006. The first single, "One Man Wrecking Machine", was released in late 2005 and its follow-up, "Satellite", in March 2006. It is Guster's second studio album with Joe Pisapia, his first as a full member. The title comes from a line in the song "Manifest Destiny": "The moon and stars are ganging up on the sun". The album is Guster's most successful release to date, entering the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart at number 25, topping '' Keep It Togethers entry at number 35 in 2003. It won Album of the Year (Major) at the Boston Music Awards in 2006. On May 5, 2021 the band announced a digital re-release of the album in an expanded form, with 24 tracks. This coincided with "Emily Ivory" being released for the first time, 15 years after it was teased in the studio documentary ''Joe's Place''. The expanded edition of the album includes Emily Ivory, 4 b-sides previously released o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Man Wrecking Machine
"One Man Wrecking Machine" is the fourth song from Guster's 2006 album ''Ganging Up on the Sun''. The song was included for the soundtrack to the 2007 movie '' Disturbia'', and was played at the closing scene. It was also featured in a second-season episode of NBC series ''Life''. The puppets used in the song's video directed by Drew Lightfoot are made by Toronto-based Monster Factory. The song features a theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ..., an instrument that uses antennas to gauge proximity and translates proximity to pitch and volume. Track listings #"One Man Wrecking Machine" #"Days" #"Ruby Falls" (also appears on "Ganging Up on the Sun") #"Two at a Time" (Demo Version) #"Good Feeling" (Live) Guster songs 2006 singles {{2000s-rock-single-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Pisapia
Joe Pisapia (born July 25, 1968) is an American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who was formerly a part of the band Guster and k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang. In the past he has also released albums with his band Joe, Marc's Brother, his side project Watercolor, and the solo albums ''Daydreams'' (2002) and ''Nightvision'' (2015). Albums Pisapia released his first solo album ''Daydreams'' in 2002. He and Liz Hodder collaborated to produce ''Beautiful Mistakes'' under the band name Watercolor. With his band Joe, Marc's Brother, he has released ''Around The Year With Joe, Marc's Brother'', ''The Pennsylvania Sessions'', ''Autumnninetyeight EP'', and The Debut Of Joe, Marc's Brother''. In 2000, he worked with Anthony Rapp to release the album ''Look Around''. He was involved with Guster for the production of '' Keep It Together'' and was pronounced an official member shortly thereafter at a show in Portland, Maine, as is documented on the DVD ''Guster on Ice' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
