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TV Is My Parent
''TV Is My Parent'' is the first video release by Australian singer-songwriter Sia, released on DVD in May 2009 through Starbucks' record label Hear Music and Sia's own Monkey Puzzle. The album features a live concert recorded at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City in 2007, four music videos and additional "behind the scenes" footage. It was released following Sia's 2008 studio album ''Some People Have Real Problems'' and ''Live from Sydney EP'', released digitally via iTunes, also in May 2009. ''TV Is My Parent'' won the 2009 ARIA Music Award for Best Music DVD. Content ''TV Is My Parent'' is 95 minutes in length and consists of a live concert filmed at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City on 12 September 2007, four music videos and additional "behind the scenes" footage, in a section titled "Where the Magic Happens", from Sia's North American tour in 2008. Songs performed during the concert include ones from Sia's 2008 album ''Some People Have Real Problems'', its 2004 predecesso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar."The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" ()Electroacoustic music may also use electronic effect units to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zero 7
Zero 7 are an English musical duo consisting of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker. They began as studio engineers and in 1997 formed the group Zero 7. Their debut album, '' Simple Things'', was released in 2001 in which their song "Destiny" stayed in the top 100 of the UK Single Charts. Subsequent albums include ''When It Falls'', '' The Garden'', and ''Yeah Ghost''. After studying sound engineering, Binns and Hardaker began their careers in the music industry in the 1990s at Mickie Most's RAK recording studio in London, engineering music for British groups like Pet Shop Boys, Young Disciples, and Robert Plant. In 1997 they created a remix of the song "Climbing Up the Walls" by Radiohead (which was also the first time the name 'Zero 7' was used) and Binns received a credit for additional sampling on ''Kid A''. The pair also remixed Terry Callier's "Love Theme From Spartacus" and songs by Lenny Kravitz, Sneaker Pimps and Lambchop. History The name Zero 7 was chosen after Binns an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Of House
In the performing arts, front of house (FOH) is the part of a performance venue that is open to the public. In theatres and live music venues, it consists of the auditorium and foyers, as opposed to the stage and backstage areas. In a theatre, the front of house manager is responsible for welcoming guests, refreshments, and making sure the auditorium is set out properly. By contrast, back of house (BOH) refers to any operations that are not visible to the audience, such as props management, costume design, stage set fabrication, lighting control, and other support functions. Both terms are also used in the restaurant, hospitality, and retailing industries. "Back of house" refers to any work operations that do not have direct customer contact. Examples include cooking, dishwashing, cleaning, shipping and receiving, maintenance and repairs, accounting, and other indirect support tasks which are not usually visible to customers. Live venues Sound operators, excluding the monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Kraus
Oliver Kraus (born 1970 in Shepherd's Bush, London) is an English musician best known for his work as a cellist and string arranger/ producer and composer for film and television. String Arrangements and Performance Kraus has performed with numerous international artists, both on tour and in studio. As an arranger, he has written, arranged and performed strings for many artists including: * Dave Matthews' No.1 album '' Come Tomorrow'' *Adele's No 1 Grammy-winning album '' 25'' *Beth Orton's album ''Trailer Park'' *Sia's album ''Some People Have Real Problems'' *Ash's album ''Free All Angels'' *Tom McRae, multiple albums * Duffy's debut album, ''Rockferry'' *Christina Aguilera's No.1 album, ''Bionic'' and Golden Globe nominated song from the film ''Burlesque'', "Bound to You" from the ''Burlesque'' soundtrack *Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson, Pink, Florence and the Machine, Colbie Caillat & Gavin Degraw, Tom McRae, Lukas Nelson, Joshua Radin, Cary Brothers, Lenka, Tracey Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian LeBarton
Brian LeBarton is a musician from Los Angeles, California. Notable contributions include his work on Beck's Grammy-nominated 2007 self-released single " Timebomb", the score to ''Nacho Libre''. Played drums and bass on Beck's cover of Bob Dylan's "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" for the '' War Child: Heroes'' charity album, and was an early member of the Record Club, a project launched for Beck's website in 2010 featuring contributions from Nigel Godrich, MGMT, St. Vincent, The Liars, Thurston Moore and Wilco. Work Jamie Lidell : ''JIM'', Musician and writer on "Compass" and "Jamie Lidell" for Warp Records Contributed music to the film '' Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World''. Credited as "Sex Bob-Omb" bassist and drummer. His recording "Threshold 8-bit", used in the end credits, was sequenced on a Commodore 64 computer. Musician and writer on Feist's album ''Metals''. Co-writer and producer on "Fire In The Water" by Feist for '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawnr – Part 2'' film and sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Bloxsom
Felix Bloxsom is an Australian musician and songwriter, known professionally as Plastic Plates. Bloxsom is best known for his drumming and for playing the percussion, additionally working as a DJ and record producer. Since completing Jazz studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Bloxsom has performed live and in the recording studio with a diverse group of artists across many styles and genres. These artists include MIKA, Sia, Daniel Merriweather, Empire of the Sun, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Paloma Faith, The Sleepy Jackson, Jamie Lidell, Kristina Train, The Presets, Leona Naess, Elliott Yamin, Sneaky Sound System, Will Young, Missy Higgins. Felix lives in New York City. Felix was awarded 'Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year' on 25 August at the 2004 Australian Jazz Bell Awards and 1st place in the National Jazz Awards at the 2004 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. Connection to Sam Sparro Bloxsom went to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Dixon
Samuel Dixon (born 1973, Adelaide, South Australia) is a record producer, songwriter and musician, based in London. Dixon has produced and written with artists including Adele, Sia, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, Paloma Faith and Jack Savoretti. He is a multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as a bass guitarist. Biography Dixon co-wrote with Adele and produced the track "Love in the Dark" from her album '' 25''. He played bass in Adele's live band throughout the promotion and touring for '' 21'', and can be seen on Adele's Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD. Dixon has frequently collaborated with fellow-Australian Sia. His compositions have featured on her albums, ''Colour the Small One'', ''Some People Have Real Problems'', ''We Are Born'', ''1000 Forms of Fear'' and the deluxe version of This Is Acting. Dixon co-wrote the single " Clap Your Hands", from ''We Are Born''. He played bass in Sia's live and studio band from 2003 to 2010. Dixon and Furler co-wrote f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Australia
MTV is a 24-hour general entertainment channel specialising in music and youth culture programming which serves Australia and New Zealand. It is operated by parent company Paramount Networks UK & Australia headquartered in London with a local office at Network 10's TEN (TV station), headquarters in Sydney. History MTV on the Nine Network The "MTV" brand was launched in Australia during April 1987 as a music program that aired late on Friday and Saturday nights for its full six-year run on the free-to-air Nine Network. The program was hosted by Richard Wilkins (TV presenter), Richard Wilkins and Joy Smithers with music news from Alison Drower.Today Show on NineMSNRichard Wilkins biography ''NineMSN''. Retrieved 18 August 2008 Its competitors at the time were ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC TV's ''Rage (TV program), Rage'' (which also started in April 1987) and Network Ten's ''Video Hits (Australian TV series), Video Hits'' (which started in February 1987). MTV Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then-''Washington Post'' media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is Acting
''This Is Acting'' is the seventh studio album by Australian singer and songwriter Sia. It was released on 29 January 2016 by Inertia, Monkey Puzzle and RCA Records. The album is mostly composed of songs written by Sia for other pop artists that were not included on their albums. Sia described songwriting for others as "play-acting," hence the title ''This Is Acting''. "Alive", the album's lead single, was released on 24 September 2015. The second single, " Cheap Thrills", was released on 11 February 2016. It reached the top 5 in a number of markets and marked Sia's first number one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. A remix of the track featuring guest vocals from Sean Paul was also released. A deluxe edition of ''This Is Acting'' was released on 21 October 2016 featuring seven new tracks, including solo and Kendrick Lamar-assisted versions of the single " The Greatest". The album's fourth and final single, " Move Your Body", was released on 6 January 2017. The album received gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulture (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then-''Washington Post'' media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contactmusic
Contactmusic.com is an online magazine of cultural criticism based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, and theater. The website was created in April 2000 by a team of music and entertainment journalists. It has since expanded to over fifty staff and freelance contributors located around the globe, based in different continents and countries. Its staff includes writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Contactmusic.com has been cited as a source by BBC Radio, ''The Express Tribune'', Warp Records and ''Vogue'', and was added to the list of ratings sources of Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
