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Suicide Squeeze Records
Suicide Squeeze Records is a Seattle, Washington-based independent record label that releases rock, pop, and metal music. Suicide Squeeze releases content on vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital. The label has also released comedy and performance art CD and DVDs. Founded in 1996 by David Dickenson, it got its start releasing singles by artists such as Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse. Current artists include The Coathangers, L.A. Witch, Nü Sensae, This Will Destroy You, Audacity, Guantanamo Baywatch, White Woods, and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. In the spring of 2014, Oregon-based Fort George Brewery and Suicide Squeeze created the craft beer "Suicide Squeeze IPA." In recent years, Suicide Squeeze has released music by L.A. Witch, Ty Segall, This Will Destroy You, cumgirl8, Minus the Bear, Michael Nau (of Cotton Jones), and The Coathangers. History Founding, early releases Suicide Squeeze Records was started in August 1996 in Seattle, Washington by owner David Dickenson. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidal (service)
Tidal (stylized in all caps) is a Norwegian-American subscription-based music, podcast and video streaming service that offers audio and music videos. Tidal was launched in 2014 by Swedish public company Aspiro which is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company. With distribution agreements with all three major record labels and many independent labels, Tidal claims to provide access to more than 80 million tracks and 350,000 music videos. It offers two levels of service: Tidal HiFi (up to CD quality – FLAC-based 16-bit/44.1 kHz) and Tidal HiFi Plus (up to MQA – 24-bit/96 kHz). Tidal claims to pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market. In March 2015, Aspiro was acquired by Project Panther Bidco Ltd., which relaunched the service with a mass-marketing campaign, promoting it as the first artist-owned streaming service. In January 2017, Sprint Corporation bought 33% of Tidal fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known professionally as Elliott Smith, was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he also played piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. He had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and often used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994, with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars (KRS). In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film ''Good Will Hunting ''( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle, Washington
Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the U.S. state, state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area was inhabited by Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotton Jones
Cotton Jones (formerly The Cotton Jones Basket Ride) is an American indie folk band, with elements of psychedelic folk, dream pop, baroque pop, and Americana, based in Cumberland, Maryland and currently signed to Suicide Squeeze Records. Michael Nau (born October 31, 1984) is the lead singer-songwriter and plays guitar, Whitney McGraw (born July 20, 1986) is on keyboards, organ, and electronic autoharp, Todd Gowans (born February 4, 1986) plays lead electric guitar, with Greg Bender on bass. Albums ''The River Strumming'' On September 23, 2008, the band released their first LP, ''The River Strumming'', through the indie label St. Ives. It was a hand-made package limited to only 300 copies and was described as a "delightful slab of fuzzed-out dream folk." ''Paranoid Cocoon'' On January 27, 2009, the band released their second LP, their debut for Suicide Squeeze Records, ''Paranoid Cocoon''. It was described as a "weepy, reverb-drenched blend of Pacific Northwest, 1960s folk- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minus The Bear
Minus the Bear was an American indie rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2001, and comprising members of Botch, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Keep Moving. Their sound was described as " Pele-esque guitar-taps and electronics with sophisticated time signature composition." Minus the Bear released six albums and four EPs. The band's final line-up consisted of Jake Snider (vocals, guitar), Dave Knudson (guitar), Cory Murchy (bass guitar), and Alex Rose (synthesizers, vocals). On July 17, 2018, the band announced their retirement and accompanying farewell tour. Their final live performance was December 16, 2018, at The Showbox in Seattle. History Minus the Bear formed in 2001, and played its first gig three days after 9/11 at the Seattle venue The Paradox. Suicide Squeeze Records released their debut full-length album ''Highly Refined Pirates'' on November 19, 2002. On January 2, 2006, Matt Bayles, keyboard player and producer for Minus the Bear, announced that he would be leavin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumgirl8
cumgirl8 is an American post-punk band based in Manhattan, New York, founded in 2019 by Lida Fox, Veronika Vilim, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues, and Chase Lombardo (also known as Chase Noelle). Describing themselves as a "sex-positive alien amoeba entity," they create work in the fields of music, film, publishing, and fashion. Their music functions as an "outlet orrepressed and pent-up emotions" and their style and artistic practice are shaped by an opposition to patriarchy and capitalism. They began playing their first shows and releasing songs in the months before the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and once in quarantine they created The 1-900, a low-fi, unfiltered talk show on YouTube that delves into sociopolitical issues with guests appearing over webcam. They are currently signed to the prominent independent label Suicide Squeeze Records Suicide Squeeze Records is a Seattle, Washington-based independent record label that releases rock, pop, and metal music. Suicide Squeeze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ty Segall
Ty (stylized as ty) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It was founded by Ty Warner in 1986. It designs, develops and sells products, most notably Beanie Babies, exclusively to specialty markets worldwide. Internet First business-to-consumer Website Ty was the first business to produce a direct-to-consumer website designed to engage their market. This is a major contributing factor to the early and rapidly growing popularity of Beanie Babies. By the time the first iteration of the Ty Web site was published in late 1995, only 14% of Americans were using the Internet. In tandem with the launch of the Ty Website, all Beanie Baby hangtags had the Ty Website URL and a call to action printed underneath the poems and birthdays that commanded audiences to visit the company Web site with text that read: ''Visit our web page!!!'' As a result, consumers were visiting the Ty Web site by the thousands to gain information about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craft Beer
Craft beer is a beer that has been made by craft breweries. They produce smaller amounts of beer, typically less than large breweries, and are often independently owned. Such breweries are generally perceived and marketed as having an emphasis on enthusiasm, new flavours, and varied brewing techniques. The microbrewery movement began in both the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s, although traditional artisanal brewing existed in Europe for centuries and subsequently spread to other countries. As the movement grew, and some breweries expanded their production and distribution, the more encompassing concept of craft brewing emerged. A brewpub is a pub that brews its own beer for sale on the premises. Producer definitions Microbrewery Although the term "microbrewery" was originally used in relation to the size of breweries, it gradually came to reflect an alternative attitude and approach to brewing flexibility, adaptability, experimentation and customer service. The te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort George Brewery
Fort George Brewery is located in Astoria, Oregon, United States, and produces over 40 varieties of beer distributed throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It is the 15th largest brewery in the state of Oregon and among the fastest growing breweries in the U.S. History Fort George Brewery and Public House was opened in March 2007 on the site of the first American settlement on the U.S. west coast, Fort Astoria Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was sent on board the '' Tonquin'', while another party traveled overland from St. Louis. ... (also known as Fort George). The brewery, which originally opened in the Fort George Building with an 8.5-barrel fermentation and conditioning tanks, expanded into the neighboring Lovell Building in 2010 with the addition of a 30-barrel system, a canning line, and the opening of the Lovell Taproom. They have since expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan is a Canadian experimental music and performance art collective."Yamantaka//Sonic Titan take the stage" '''', February 8, 2012. Formed in , and currently operating in , , the grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audacity (band)
Audacity is an American garage rock band from Fullerton, California, United States. History Audacity was formed in 2001, when members Kyle Gibson, Matt Schmalfeld, Cole Wilson, and Chuck Mordant were in 6th grade. In the band's early days, they played at their school carnival and at many house parties. The band won a local Battle of the Bands in their freshman year of high school, and organized a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Audacity released their debut full-length album, ''Power Drowning'', in 2009 via Burger Records. They released their second full-length album, ''Mellow Cruisers'', in 2012 via Burger Records and Recess Records. Their third album, ''Butter Knife'', was released in 2013, and Hyper Vessels was released in 2016 via Suicide Squeeze Records Suicide Squeeze Records is a Seattle, Washington-based independent record label that releases rock, pop, and metal music. Suicide Squeeze releases content on vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital. The label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You (abbreviated as TWDY) is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2004. They typically compose lengthy atmospheric instrumental pieces, featuring layers of effects-laden guitar and a heavy usage of dynamics. Their fourth album ''Another Language'', released in 2014, entered the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers Album Chart at number 7. History Formation (2002–2005) This Will Destroy You was formed by guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Christopher Royal King, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller in San Marcos, Texas, in 2005.There is some ambiguity as to their exact year of formation as sources have reported various years between 2002 and 2005. The latter is, however, the most-often reported year. They had met through mutual friends, and played together in various different bands throughout high school before the lineup was finalized by around 2002. Early iterations of the band featured Galindo on vocals and "sounded like Radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
