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Tauk (band)
TAUK is an American four-piece progressive rock-fusion band from Oyster Bay, New York. Tauk (pronounced "talk", shortened from Montauk, NY) has toured with Umphrey's McGee, Disco Biscuits, Papadosio, STS9, The String Cheese Incident, and others. The group tours the United States regularly every year, averaging about 160 shows. In 2015, the group released ''Headroom'', the band's first double-CD set culled from live performances. Much of their recording is done in collaboration with engineer Robert Carranza, who has produced three of their studio albums. History Band members Matt Jalbert, Charlie Dolan, and A.C. Carter began playing together while growing up on Long Island as teenagers. Dolan, Jalbert, and Carter formed their first band in seventh grade. The group initially had a vocalist, Alessandro Zanelli, who left the group in 2011 and was not replaced; they have worked as an instrumental group since. Isaac Teel entered the band later when he met Dolan in college. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyster Bay, New York
The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns which make up Nassau County, New York, United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area, it is the only town in Nassau County to extend from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 301,332. There are 18 villages and 18 hamlets within the town of Oyster Bay. The U.S. Postal Service has organized these 36 places into 30 five-digit ZIP Codes, served by 20 post offices. Each post office shares the name of one of the hamlets or villages, but their boundaries are usually not coterminous. Oyster Bay is also the name of a hamlet on the North Shore, within the town of Oyster Bay. Near this hamlet, in the village of Cove Neck, is Sagamore Hill, the former residence and summer White House of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and now a museum. At least six of the 36 villages and hamlets of the town have shores on Oyster Bay Harbor, an inlet of Long Island Sound, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee is an American jam band originally from South Bend, Indiana. The band experiments with many musical styles, including rock, metal, funk, jazz, blues, reggae, electronic, bluegrass, country, and folk. They have toured regularly and released several albums. History Early years (1997–2000) Formed by students at the University of Notre Dame in December 1997, members were guitarist/vocalist Brendan Bayliss, bassist Ryan Stasik, keyboardist Joel Cummins, and drummer Mike Mirro. Umphrey's McGee combined members of Tashi Station and Stomper Bob, two Notre Dame rock bands. Early concerts consisted of both originals and cover songs, including Guns N' Roses' "Patience" and Vince Guaraldi's ''Peanuts'' theme "Linus and Lucy," as well as songs by Phish, moe., and Grateful Dead. According to Cummins, "The origins f the nameare of an actual person. Brendan Bayliss, our other lead singer and guitar player has a cousin ... and his name is actually Humphrey Magee but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco Biscuits
The Disco Biscuits are an American jam band from Philadelphia. The band consists of Allen Aucoin (drums), Marc "Brownie" Brownstein (bass guitar, vocals), Jon "The Barber" Gutwillig (guitar, vocals), and Aron Magner (keyboards, synths, vocals). The band incorporates elements from a variety of musical genres with a base of electronic and rock. Their style has been described as trance fusion. History The Disco Biscuits formed in 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania. Brownstein, Gutwillig, Magner, and the original drummer, Samuel "Sammy" Altman, shared an affinity for psychedelic rock, electronic music, soul, blues, jazz and classical music. Their shared interests led them to develop and perfect a distinctive style of live electronic music that has come to be called 'trance fusion'. The term references the band's choice to incorporate elements of trance music - specifically the driving, rhythmically repetitive drum beats and melodic sections that repeat and evolve over time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sts9
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) is an instrumental band whose sound is based heavily on instrumental rock and electronic music, funk, jazz, drum and bass, psychedelia, and hip hop, originating in Georgia, United States. Self-described as "post-rock dance music," the band mixes standard live rock instrumentation with electronics, favoring group rhythm over individual solos. STS9 has released 11 albums, two remixed albums (''Artifact: Perspectives'' and ''Peaceblaster: Make it Right Remixes''), and multiple live DVDs (''Live as Time Changes'', ''Axe The Cables'', and various live performances) on their own label, 1320 Records. STS9 has toured the US and internationally. History STS9 was formed in Snellville, Georgia (just outside Atlanta), in 1998. The band has headlined stages at festivals such as Summer Camp, Wakarusa, Moogfest, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands Festival, Regeneration, Lollapalooza, Camp Bisco and Electric Forest Festival. The group has raised significant amounts of mone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident (SCI) is an American jam band from Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percussion), Bill Nershi ( acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, and electric slide guitar), Kyle Hollingsworth (piano, organ, Rhodes, and accordion), and Keith Moseley (bass guitar), and, since 2004, Jason Hann (auxiliary percussion). Their music has elements of bluegrass sounds, as well as rock, electronica, calypso, country, funk, jazz, Latin, progressive rock, reggae, and psychedelia. All members write original compositions and sing. History 1996–2001 After a few years of playing local ski resorts and private functions, the band formed the independent record label SCI Fidelity, on which they released their first album, '' Born on the Wrong Planet'', an album split between originals and covers. The album featured melody-driven music wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence Journal
''The Providence Journal'', colloquially known as the ''ProJo'', is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island, and is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island. The newspaper was first published in 1829. The newspaper has won four Pulitzer Prizes. The ''Journal'' bills itself as "America's oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication", a distinction that comes from the fact that ''The Hartford Courant'', started in 1764, did not become a daily until 1837 and the ''New York Post'', which began daily publication in 1801, had to suspend publication during strikes in 1958 and 1978. History Early years The beginnings of the Providence Journal Company were on January 3, 1820, when publisher "Honest" John Miller started the ''Manufacturers' & Farmers' Journal, Providence & Pawtucket Advertiser'' in Providence, published twice per week. The paper's office was in the old Coffee House, at the corner of Market Square and Canal street. The paper moved many t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valley Advocate
Newspapers of New England, Inc. (NNE) is a privately owned publisher of nine daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company's flagship publication is the ''Concord Monitor'', in New Hampshire's capital. Its largest circulation newspaper in Massachusetts is the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' of Northampton. History The company was founded in the late 1970s as a holding company for various properties owned by the Dwight family, longtime publishers of the (now defunct) ''Holyoke Transcript-Telegram''. Under the leadership of publisher Minnie Dwight and her son, William, the ''T-T'' in 1955 bought '' The Recorder-Gazette'' of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Minnie died two years later, and William bought the ''Monitor'' in 1961."William Dwight, 92, Holyoke publisher". Obituary. ''Union-News'', Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996. In 1960, the ''T-T ''bought the ''Edwardsville Intelligencer'' in Illinois; the paper was sold in 1964. When son-in-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Carranza
Robert Carranza is an American recording engineer, mixer and record producer. Selected discography *2017 – Heaven Upside Down – Marilyn Manson *2016 – ''Dont Go She Gone'' – ''Mangchi'' *2015 – ''The Pale Emperor'' – Marilyn Manson *2014 – ''Convoque Seu Buda'' – Criolo *2010 – ''Keyboard City'' – Salvador Santana *2009 – ''Zee Avi'' – Zee Avi *2009 – ''Jack Johnson En Concert'' – Jack Johnson *2009 – ''Arte De La Elegancia De'' – LFC Los Fabulosos Cadillacs *2009 – ''1 Up!'' – IllScarlett *2008 – ''SSB'' – Salvador Santana Band *2008 – ''Sleep Through the Static'' – Jack Johnson *2008 – ''Sirenas'' – División Minúscula *2008 – ''One Day as a Lion'' – One Day as a Lion *2008 – ''Maestro'' – Taj Mahal *2008 – ''Luz del Ritmo'' – Los Fabulosos Cadillacs *2008 – '' In the Ever'' – Mason Jennings *2008 – ''The Secret War'' – Shadow Jaguar *2008 – ''The Bedlam in Goliath'' – The Mars Volta *2008 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relix
''Relix'', originally and occasionally later ''Dead Relix'', is a magazine that focuses on live and improvisational music. The magazine was launched in 1974 as a handmade newsletter devoted to connecting people who recorded Grateful Dead concerts. It rapidly expanded into a music magazine covering a wide number of artists. It is the second-longest continuously published music magazine in the United States after ''Rolling Stone''. The magazine is published eight times a year and , had a circulation of 102,000. Peter Shapiro currently serves as the magazine's publisher and Dean Budnick and Mike Greenhaus currently serve as Editor-in-Chief. Origins Les Kippel, a native of Brooklyn, was the founder of the First Free Underground Grateful Dead Tape Exchange in 1971 that recorded and traded live Grateful Dead concert tapes for free. As the popularity of trading live concerts on tape increased, a practice the Grateful Dead allowed and ultimately encouraged, Kippel realized that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the List of islands by population, 18th-most populous in the world. The island begins at New York Harbor approximately east of Manhattan Island and extends eastward about into the Atlantic Ocean and 23 miles wide at its most distant points. The island comprises four List of counties in New York, counties: Kings and Queens counties (the New York City Borough (New York City), boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County, New York, Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County occupies the eastern two thirds of the island. More than half of New York City's residents (58.4%) lived on Long Island as of 2020, in Brooklyn and in Queens. Culturally, many people in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Register-Guard
''The Register-Guard'' is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon. It was formed in a 1930 merger of two Eugene papers, the ''Eugene Daily Guard'' and the ''Morning Register''. The paper serves the Eugene-Springfield, Oregon, Springfield area, as well as the Oregon Coast, Umpqua River valley, and surrounding areas. As of 2016, it has a circulation of around 43,000 Monday through Friday, around 47,000 on Saturday, and a little under 50,000 on Sunday. The newspaper has been owned by Gannett, The Gannett Company since Gannett's 2019 merger with GateHouse Media. It had been sold to GateHouse in 2018. From 1927 to 2018, it was owned by the Baker family of Eugene, and members of the family served as both editor and publisher for nearly all of that time period. It is Oregon's second-largest daily newspaper and, until its 2018 sale to GateHouse, was one of the few medium-sized family newspapers left in the United States. History of ''The Guard'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
