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The Muffs
The Muffs were an American pop punk band based in Southern California, formed in 1991. Led by singer and guitarist Kim Shattuck, the band released four full-length studio albums in the 1990s, as well as numerous singles including "Lucky Guy" and "Sad Tomorrow", and a cover version of "Kids in America". After a long hiatus beginning in 1999, the band released a fifth album in 2004 but thereafter effectively disbanded. Almost a decade later, the three core members of the band reunited and started performing again. Their sixth album, '' Whoop Dee Doo'', was released in 2014. Kim Shattuck died on October 2, 2019, following a two-year battle with ALS. On that same day, the Muffs confirmed that they had disbanded. Shortly after, The Muffs released their seventh and final album '' No Holiday''. History Formation and early years: 1991–1996 The band started as a collaboration between guitarists Kim Shattuck and Melanie Vammen, both former members of the 1980s all-female hard rock grou ...
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ...
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Kim Shattuck
Kimberly Dianne Shattuck (July 17, 1963 – October 2, 2019) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter. She was the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the American punk rock band the Muffs, which formed in 1991. From 1985 to 1990, Shattuck was a member of The Pandoras. In 2001, she was a singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Beards, a side project composed of Shattuck, Lisa Marr, and Sherri Solinger. In 2013, she served briefly as the bass player for Pixies. Life and career Childhood and studies Kimberly Dianne Shattuck was born on July 17, 1963, at Long Beach, California, daughter of Kent and Betty (née Hess) Shattuck. She was raised in Orange County along with her siblings, a brother, Kirk, and sister, Kristen. She began playing guitar while attending Orange Coast College, where she was studying photography. Music Shattuck played bass and sang backing vocals for the Pandoras from 1985 to 1990. In 1991, switching to guitar and assuming lead ...
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College Radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced by students, or may include program contributions from the local community in which the radio station is based. Sometimes campus radio stations are operated for the purpose of training professional radio personnel, sometimes with the aim of broadcasting educational programming, while other radio stations exist to provide alternative to commercial broadcasting or government broadcasters. Campus radio stations are generally licensed and regulated by national governments, and have very different characteristics from one country to the next. One commonality between many radio stations regardless of their physical location is a willingness—or, in some countries, even a licensing requirement—to broadcast musical selections that are not cat ...
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Blonder And Blonder
''Blonder and Blonder'' is the second album by the pop punk band the Muffs, released in 1995 on Reprise Records. The album contains the single "Sad Tomorrow". Track listing All songs written by Kim Shattuck. # "Agony" - 2:27 # "Oh Nina" - 2:39 # "On and On" - 1:45 # "Sad Tomorrow" - 2:09 # "What You've Done" - 1:57 # "Red Eyed Troll" - 3:45 # "End It All" - 1:49 # "Laying on a Bed of Roses" - 2:11 # "I Need a Face" - 2:14 # "Won't Come Out to Play" - 1:51 # "Funny Face" - 3:20 # "Ethyl My Love" - 2:39 # "I'm Confused" - 3:41 # "Just a Game" - 1:59 Non-album tracks Songs recorded for the album and released as non-album B-sides include: * "Goodnight Now" - appears on the ''Sad Tomorrow'' single. * "Become Undone" - appears on the ''Sad Tomorrow'' single. All of the B-sides from this album, were released on the B-side compilation album ''Hamburger''. Personnel * Kim Shattuck – Guitar, Vocals * Ronnie Barnett – Bass * Roy McDonald – Drums * Rob Cavallo Robert Siers Cava ...
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The Muffs (album)
''The Muffs'' is the debut album by the pop punk band The Muffs, released on May 11, 1993 on Warner Bros. Records. The album contains the single "Big Mouth". "Everywhere I Go" was later used in a popular Fruitopia television commercial (the cassette version of the track is actually the demo; the band was torn between which version to release and ended up splitting the difference). Reception *"There's a certain charm to the group's 3-chord riffing and primitive rhythms that seems to have most appeal when driving a vehicle beyond the posted speed limit on a hot, sunny day. But stretched over 16 tracks, the forced minimalism begins to wane in appeal." (Roch Parisien, Allmusic) Track listing All tracks written by Kim Shattuck, except where noted #"Lucky Guy" – 2:46 #"Saying Goodbye" – 2:16 #"Everywhere I Go" – 3:12 #"Better Than Me" – 2:48 #"From Your Girl" – 3:27 #"Not Like Me" – 3:08 #"Baby Go Round" – 2:47 #"North Pole" (Barnett) – ...
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Scott Miller (pop Musician)
Scott Miller (April 4, 1960 – April 15, 2013) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as leader of the 1980s band Game Theory and 1990s band The Loud Family, and as the author of a 2010 book of music criticism. He was described by ''The New York Times'' as "a hyperintellectual singer and songwriter who liked to tinker with pop the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers", having "a shimmery-sweet pop sensibility, in the tradition of Brian Wilson and Alex Chilton." A biography of Miller by Brett Milano was published in October 2015, and Miller's posthumously-completed final Game Theory album, ''Supercalifragile'', was released in a limited first pressing in August 2017. In 2014, Omnivore Recordings began releasing a series of reissues of Miller's entire Game Theory catalog, which had for decades been out of print. Omnivore concluded the series in 2020 with '' Across the Barrier of Sound: PostScript'', an album of previously unreleased Game ...
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Sub Pop
Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the grunge movement. They are often credited with helping popularize grunge music. The label's roster includes Fleet Foxes, Beach House, The Postal Service, Sleater-Kinney, Flight of the Conchords, Foals, Blitzen Trapper, Father John Misty, clipping., Shabazz Palaces, Bully, Low, METZ, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, TV Priest and The Shins. In 1995, the owners of Sub Pop sold a 49% stake of the label to the Warner Music Group. History Formation The origins of Sub Pop can be traced back to the early 1980s, when Bruce Pavitt started a fanzine called ''Subterranean Pop'' that focused exclusively on American independent record labels. Pavitt undertook the project in order to earn course credit while attending Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. By the fourth is ...
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The Muffs - Live Madrid 2009 (3295993087)
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Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ...
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Hard Rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf and Deep Purple also produced hard rock. The genre developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple being joined by Queen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), ...
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No Holiday
''No Holiday'' is the seventh and final studio album by American punk rock band The Muffs. It was released on October 18, 2019 under Omnivore Recordings. The album was the band's final release due to the death of lead vocalist Kim Shattuck on October 2, 2019. Critical reception ''No Holiday'' was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 84, based on 7 reviews. Accolades Track listing Personnel Musicians * Kim Shattuck – vocals, guitar, producer * Ronnie Barnett – bass, vocals * Kristian Hoffman – keyboard * Roy McDonald – drums, percussion * Melanie Vammen – organ Production * Greg Allen – design * Karen Basset – engineer * Ailin G. Caraballo – photographer * Erik Eldenius – engineer * Evan Frankfort Evan Frankfort (born December 13, 1970) is an American television music producer. He has compose ...
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Whoop Dee Doo (The Muffs Album)
''Whoop Dee Doo'' is the sixth studio album by American punk rock band The Muffs and their final album to be released in Kim Shattuck’s lifetime. It was released in July 2014 under Burger Records. Ten years had elapsed since The Muffs' previous album '' Really Really Happy'' was released. The album received positive reviews. Track listing Personnel The Muffs *Kim Shattuck Kimberly Dianne Shattuck (July 17, 1963 – October 2, 2019) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter. She was the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the American punk rock band the Muffs, which formed in 1991. From ... - composition, engineer, guitar, photography, producer, lead vocals *Ronnie Barnett - bass, lead vocals *Roy McDonald - drums, percussion Other personnel *Pat Broderick - design *Tommi Cahill - photography *Evan Frankfort - mixing *Kristian Hoffman - keyboard *Steve Holroyd - engineer *Kristen Shattuck - backing vocals * Keith Slettedahl - backing vocals *Br ...
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