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The Helio Sequence
The Helio Sequence is an American indie rock duo from Beaverton, Oregon, signed to Sub Pop. The band consists of Brandon Summers on vocals and guitars and Benjamin Weikel on drums and keyboards. History Summers and Weikel formed The Helio Sequence in 1999, and played their first show in Portland at the Mount Tabor Theater. The band has released three albums on Sub Pop, two on the Portland-based label Cavity Search and a self-released EP. Their fifth album, entitled ''Negotiations'', was released on September 11, 2012, on Sub Pop. The Helio Sequence toured the United States with the British band Keane in 2009, and in June 2010, they were Keane's support act in several gigs through Great Britain during the band's Night Train Tour. In September 2013, The Helio Sequence again toured the United States, this time co-headlining with Menomena. For their 2015 self-titled album ''The Helio Sequence'', the band revamped the process in which they created their music. They wrote 26 son ...
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Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon with a small portion bordering Portland in the Tualatin Valley. The city is among the main cities that make up the Portland metropolitan area. Its population was 97,494 at the 2020 census, making it the second-largest city in the county and the seventh-largest city in Oregon. Beaverton is an economic center for Washington County along with neighboring Hillsboro. It is home to the world headquarters of Nike, Inc., although it sits outside of city limits on unincorporated county land. The hunter–gatherer Atfalati tribe of the Kalapuya people inhabited the Tualatin Valley prior to the arrival of European–American settlers in the 19th century. They occupied a village near the Beaverton and Fanno creeks called Chakeipi, which meant "place of the beaver", and early white settlers referred to this village as Beaverdam. Lawrence Hall took up the first land claim in 1847 and established a grist mill. The entry o ...
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Good News For People Who Love Bad News
''Good News for People Who Love Bad News'' is the fourth studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on April 6, 2004 by Epic Records. Founding member Jeremiah Green did not perform on this album due to his temporary absence from the band, and it would be the only release during his time with Modest Mouse that he would not appear on. ''Good News for People Who Love Bad News'' was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2005. It was certified platinum by the RIAA in August 2004, and had sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States by 2006. Three singles were released from the album: " Float On", " Ocean Breathes Salty", and "The World at Large". Reception ''Good News for People Who Love Bad News'' was released to widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, indicating "universal acclaim". Tiny Mix Tapes ...
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Musical Groups From Portland, Oregon
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Musical Groups Established In 1999
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ...
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Indie Rock Musical Groups From Oregon
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Cavity Search Records Artists
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1999 Establishments In Oregon
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Keep Your Eyes Ahead
''Keep Your Eyes Ahead'' is the fourth album from Portland-based band The Helio Sequence. It was released on January 29, 2008, by Sub Pop Records. The track "You Can Come To Me" samples sound effects from Super Mario Bros. 3 ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was released for home consoles in Japan on October 23, 1988, in North America on February 12, 1990 and in Europe on .... The album peaked at #22 on the ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers chart. Track listing # "Lately" – 4:10 # "Can't Say No" – 3:32 # "The Captive Mind" – 3:34 # "You Can Come to Me" – 4:00 # "Shed Your Love" – 3:18 # "Keep Your Eyes Ahead" – 4:25 # "Back to This" – 3:34 # "Hallelujah" – 4:29 # "Broken Afternoon" – 4:18 # "No Regrets" – 1:42 Bonus tracks # "Untitled 1" - 3:24 # "Untitled 2" - 3:22 # "Broken Afternoon (Alternate Version) - 4:04 References 2008 albums The Helio Sequence a ...
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Young Effectuals
''Young Effectuals'' is the second release from the Portland-based band The Helio Sequence. It was released on October 9, 2001, by Cavity Search Records. It is less pop-oriented than their later albums, and it features longer songs densely layered with synthesizers. Reception In his review of the album for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger says the Helio Sequence combine "dense electric textures in which the voice is just another hazy element with atmospheric keyboards, guitar, and electronic effects", but that the songs eventually blur "together into similar overall moods as the disc progresses." Track listing #"Reh.Vuh.Lee" - 2:19 #"Give, Give, Give" – 4:41 #"(Square) Bubbles" – 5:57 #"Knots" – 6:47 #"The Echo-Blomp" – 4:44 #"Nothing's Ok: Everything's Fine" – 4:54 #"Cut The Camera" – 5:59 #"Fall And Winter/Necktie Noose" – 6:04 #"Kablerium Vs. Obliviousity" – 5:37 #"Take, Take, Take" – 6:59 Credits * Christopher Cooper - Graphic design, visual arts * John Ec ...
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Com Plex
''Com Plex'' is the first album by indie rock band The Helio Sequence. It was released on September 5, 2000, on Cavity Search Records. It contains a cover of the Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows". Critical reception ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...'' wrote that "layers of echoing guitars and whirring, swooping synthesizers make the music shimmer like an Impressionist landscape, edgeless and enveloping." Track listing # "Stracenska 612" – 5:42 # "Just Mary Jane" – 4:47 # "Transistor Radio" – 5:23 # "My Heart" – 5:41 # "Sassafras" – 6:35 # "Stitches Sewing" – 2:36 # "Tomorrow Never Knows" – 4:10 # "Big Jet Sky" – 4:33 # "Demographics" – 6:01 Personnel * The Helio Sequence - Producer, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing * Brandon Sum ...
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Intuit (Ramona Falls Album)
''Intuit'' is the debut studio album by Ramona Falls, the moniker of Brent Knopf, better known for being one third of the band Menomena. It was released on August 18, 2009, on Barsuk Records. It was written and performed by Knopf, with guest appearances by 35 friends (including members of The Helio Sequence, Mirah, Loch Lomond, 31 Knots, Talkdemonic, Nice Nice, Tracker, Dat'r, Dear Reader, 3 Leg Torso, and Matt Sheehy). The cover was illustrated by Theo Ellsworth. Track listing #Melectric – 4:16 #I Say Fever - 4:27 #Clover - 5:22 #Russia - 3:14 #Going Once, Going Twice - 5:41 #Salt Sack - 3:55 #Boy Ant - 0:52 #Always Right - 4:53 #The Darkest Day - 4:12 #Bellyfulla - 3:36 #Diamond Shovel - 3:29 Recording Process Knopf recorded and mixed the album in both Portland and New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population o ...
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