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The Bird Who Ate The Rabbit's Flower
''The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower'' is an EP by indie rock band of Montreal. The five tracks were later re-released on '' The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower''. Track listing # You Are An Airplane # The Inner Light # When a Man Is In Love With A Man # If I Faltered Slightly Twice # Disguises Personnel *Derek Almstead - drums, vocals * Bryan Poole - bass, vocals *Kevin Barnes Kevin Lawrence Barnes (born May 30, 1974) is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the indie rock group of Montreal, part of the Elephant 6 Collective. Barnes started the band and, although providing several stories as to the ... - guitar, vocals 1997 EPs Of Montreal albums Kindercore Records EPs {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twee Pop
Twee pop is a subgenre of indie pop that originates from the 1986 ''NME'' compilation ''C86''. Characterised by its simplicity and perceived innocence, some of its defining features are boy–girl harmonies, catchy melodies, and lyrics about love. For many years, prominent independent record labels associated with twee pop were Sarah Records (in the UK) and K Records (in the US). Characteristics The definition of twee is something "excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental", supposedly born from a childish mispronunciation of the word sweet. A retrospective fascination with the genre in the US saw Americans eagerly defining themselves as twee. According to ''The A.V. Club''s Paula Mejia: AllMusic says that twee pop is "perhaps best likened to bubblegum indie rock – it's music with a spirit of D.I.Y. defiance in the grand tradition of punk, but with a simplicity and innocence not seen or heard since the earliest days of rock & roll". The author Marc Spitz sugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Peel
''Cherry Peel'' is the debut album of the Elephant 6 band Of Montreal. It was released on Bar/None Records in 1997. In 1999 it was reissued with additional musical contributions and the songs remixed. All subsequent reissues contain this mix. All songs were written by Kevin Barnes. Track listing Credits * Derek Almstead - drums, vocals * Bryan Poole - bass, guitar, vocals * Kevin Barnes Kevin Lawrence Barnes (born May 30, 1974) is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the indie rock group of Montreal, part of the Elephant 6 Collective. Barnes started the band and, although providing several stories as to the ... - guitar, vocals References {{Authority control 1997 debut albums Of Montreal albums Bar/None Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Petite Tragedy
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguis ... [...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] |
Pitchfork Media
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously reviewed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bird Who Continues To Eat The Rabbit's Flower
''The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower'' is a release by the Elephant 6 band Of Montreal. It is an extended version of their EP '' The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower''; the first five tracks are the ones from that first effort. Background Initially a short run five-song EP, ''The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower'' went out of print. The songs were recorded at the same time as the songs that made '' The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy'' and '' The Gay Parade'', but not fitting either of their styles. These EPs and further albums were released via Kindercore, as opposed to Bar/None Records due to the volume of material Kevin Barnes was making. Bar/None wanted to wait to release more, so Kevin signed a deal with local Athens, Georgia label Kindercore to get all of it out. "You Are An Airplane" was written about Kevin's best friend Niquelin, who they lived with at the time, not wanting her to get into cocaine. "The Inner Light" is about a Christian Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disguises (The Who Song)
"Disguises" is a song by English band, The Who, written by guitarist Pete Townshend. It was first released on the group's 1966 extended play ''Ready Steady Who''. It, along with "I'm a Boy" are of the earliest compositions in which Townshend questions gender identity and identity crisis', a prevalent aspect found later in his songwriting. "Disguises" and "I'm a Boy" also marks the first time Kit Lambert received credit as a record producer for the Who, something that had previously been credited to Shel Talmy and Townshend. The thematic concept for the song proved successful and Townshend was subsequently praised by critics. It has since been covered by The Jam as the B-Side for their top-five single "Funeral Pyre" in 1981 and Of Montreal for their 1997 EP ''The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower''. Recording Both "Disguises" and "I'm A Boy" were written to be parts of a concept album titled ''Quads'', in which parents would be able to choose the gender of their children. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Almstead
Derek Almstead (born August 23, 1974) is an American musician/engineer closely tied to The Elephant Six Collective. Background Born in Lexington, Virginia, he spent his childhood in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and later Manassas, Virginia. In 1995 he moved to Athens, Georgia, where he became involved with Elephant 6. A multi-instrumentalist, Almstead also writes, records, engineers, and masters music from his own Pixel Studio. Portfolio Almstead is perhaps best known as a bass player. He has played or currently plays with the following bands: Of Montreal (on drums and bass), Destroyer, Summer Hymns, Visitations, Great Lakes, The Sunshine Fix, Polaris, Mary Jane, The Genius Test, Marshmallow Coast, Daisy, The Imperial Teeth, Major Organ and the Adding Machine, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't, Circulatory System, The Instruments, M Coast, The 63 Crayons, Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, E6 Holiday Surprise Orchestra, Space Trucks, The Olivia Tremor Control and the Glands. He released his sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Poole
The Late B.P. Helium is the solo recording project and, at times, stage name of Elephant Six musician Bryan Poole, who also goes by Bryan Helium. Poole has spent much of his musical career playing bass and guitar on and off with of Montreal and Elf Power since the mid-1990s. He was also a member of the XTC cover band Helium Kids (a.k.a. The Mummers) from 1994 to 1995. In 2001, he released a few singles and submitted tracks to various compilations before offering his first EP, ''Kumquat Mae'', on his 2002 tour with The Visitations. It was later re-released on Orange Twin Records in 2003, and allowed him to work on his solo debut album, '' Amok'', which was also released on Orange Twin in 2004. Discography Albums * '' Amok'' (CD) – Orange Twin – 2004 Singles and EPs * Happy Happy Birthday to Me Singles Club: August (7") – HHBTM – 2001 * Split single with Of Montreal (7") – Jonathan Whiskey – 2001 * ''Kumquat Mae The Late B.P. Helium is the solo recording proj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
