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Mainstream may refer to: Film * ''Mainstream'' (film), a 2020 American film Literature * ''Mainstream'' (fanzine), a science fiction fanzine * Mainstream Publishing, a Scottish publisher * ''Mainstream'', a 1943 book by Hamilton Basso Music * Mainstream jazz, a term coined in the 1950s to describe the form of jazz which was a continuation of the Swing era * ''Mainstream'' (band), a late-1990s British shoegazer band, or their first album * ''Mainstream'' (Fullerton College Jazz Band album), 1994 * ''Mainstream'' (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album), 1987 * ''Mainstream'' (Quiet Sun album), 1975 * '' Mainstream EP'', by Metric, 1998 * Mainstream Records, an American record label * "Mainstream", a song by Thea Gilmore from the 2003 album ''Avalanche'' See also * Mainstreaming (other) *Mainstream media *Mainline Protestant, a group of American denominations *Mainstream Renewable Power Eddie O'Connor is an Irish businessman who is co-founder and chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream (film)
''Mainstream'' is a 2020 American comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ... film directed by Gia Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Stuart. It stars Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville and Jason Schwartzman. Set in West Hollywood the film follows struggling young filmmaker Frankie ( Maya Hawke) who achieves success after meeting up with Link ( Andrew Garfield) a strange and bold man living off the grid. It had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2020. It was released on May 7, 2021, by IFC Films. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing just $40,209 against a $5 million production budget. Plot Frankie is a young filmmaker living in West Hollywood. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream (fanzine)
''Mainstream'' was a science fiction fanzine edited by Jerry Kaufman and Suzanne Tompkins. The magazine was started in 1978 and headquartered in Seattle. It was nominated for the 1991 Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier ... for Best Fanzine, losing to '' Lan's Lantern''. ''Mainstream'' ceased publication in December 1998 with #17. References 1978 establishments in Washington (state) 1998 disestablishments in Washington (state) Defunct science fiction magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1978 Magazines disestablished in 1998 Magazines published in Seattle Science fiction fanzines {{italic title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Publishing
Mainstream Publishing was a publishing company in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 1978, it ceased trading in December 2013.Charlotte WilliamsMainstream to cease publishing 1 March 2013, The Bookseller.com' (Retrieved 30 December 2016) It was associated with the Random House Group, who bought Mainstream in 2005. Notable publications Its publications include Magnus Magnusson's ''Fakers, Forgers and Phoneys'' (2005), Trevor White's '' Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket'' (2006), Gordon Haskell 's Autobiography The Road to Harry's Bar: Forty Years on the Potholed Path to Stardom (2006), Gordon Brown's ''Britain's Everyday Heroes'' (2007), Henry Allingham's ''Kitchener's Last Volunteer'' (2008) (with Denis Goodwin), and Mukesh Kapila's ''Against a Tide of Evil ''Against a Tide of Evil'' is a 2013 memoir by Mukesh Kapila about his time leading the United Nations in Sudan during the Darfur genocide. Publication ''Against a Tide of Evil'' was written by former U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Basso
Joseph Hamilton Basso (September 5, 1904 – May 13, 1964) was an American novelist and journalist. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Basso worked as reporter for several newspapers in New Orleans, wrote 11 novels, primarily about the South, and was an associate editor at ''The New Yorker'' for more than 20 years. His best-known work was the novel ''The View from Pompey's Head'', a story of a New York City attorney who returns to his Southern hometown in the early 1950s to investigate a mystery surrounding a famous writer. The book spent almost a year on the bestseller lists in 1954 and later was adapted into a motion picture. Awards His 1959 novel ''The Light Infantry Ball'' was a finalist for the 1960 National Book Award. It was a kind of prequel to ''The View from Pompey's Head'', set in the same town, Pompey's Head, South Carolina, during the Civil War era. Basso died in 1964, at age 59, in Weston, Connecticut. __NOTOC__ Bibliography Novels * ''Relics and Angels'' (1929) * ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Jazz
Mainstream jazz is a term coined in the 1950s by music journalist Stanley Dance, who considered anything within the popular jazz of the Swing Era "mainstream",McRae, Barry. 2005. "Sound Investment: Mainstream." ''Jazz Journal International'', Aug 1, 10. and did not include the bebop style. Jazz in the mainstream After Dance defined mainstream jazz in the 1950s, the definition changed with the evolution and progression of jazz music. What was mainstream then would not be considered mainstream now. In a general sense, mainstream jazz can be considered what was most popular at the time: For example, during the Swing era, swing and big band music were in their prime and what target audiences were looking for. Although bebop was introduced into jazz during that time, audiences had not developed an ear for it. Mainstream jazz musicians The jazz musicians listed below were either considered "mainstream" musicians, or were influenced by mainstream musicians. Swing era * Duke Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream (band)
Mainstream were an English shoegazer Shoegaze (originally called shoegazing and sometimes conflated with " dream pop") is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming v ... band, briefly famous in the late 1990s. They were formed by Mewton, Hartnell and Neill. Later they were joined by Peter Mullaney (guitar) and later still (after a bit of searching) Mark James Aviss. After performing several successful gigs they attracted label interest. Immediately prior to signing with Nude Records, Peter Mullaney for various reasons departed, later to be replaced with Greg Cook. Signed to Suede's label Nude Records in early 1995 and produced one album (also called ''Mainstream'') in 1998. The band comprised Anthony Neale (voice) (now frontman for The Truths on Aardvark Records), James Hartnell (guitars), Conrad Mewton (bass), Greg Cook (keyboards) and Mark James Aviss (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream (Fullerton College Jazz Band Album)
''Mainstream'' is a CD released by the Fullerton College Jazz Band in 1994, it was critically acclaimed by ''Down Beat Magazine'' being given three and a half stars.Review, Down Beat Magazine, October 1st, 1995 Background In 1981 the Music Department at Fullerton College built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. By 1994, when the CD ''Mainstream'' was produced, there has been several award winning recordings such as '' Time Tripping'' coming from the Fullerton College Jazz Band. The group has been the recipient of numerous Down Beat and NARAS awards and the CDs are distributed worldwide. During this time the group was selected as the winner for the first ten-day Disney World/ International Association for Jazz Education competition for College and University bands; the Fullerton College Jazz Band #1 performed at Disney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream (Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Album)
''Mainstream'' is the third and final studio album by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. It was produced by Ian Stanley and released by Polydor Records in the UK and by Capitol Records in the US on 26 October 1987. It included the singles "My Bag", "Jennifer She Said" and "From the Hip". Although the album reached number nine in the UK, it failed to chart in the US and was not embraced by all critics: ''Mainstream'' is the only Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album not to sell at least 100,000 copies in the US. Recording The album took two years to make as finding a producer proved difficult. The band first went with Chris Thomas, when that did not work out they brought in Stewart Copeland. With Copeland they only recorded one track, "Hey Rusty", then finally found Ian Stanley. Bass player Lawrence Donegan reflected in 2004 that "with the previous LP, '' Easy Pieces'', we had tried to broaden out and make more of a pop record and it hadn't really worked. It sounded rushed and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream (Quiet Sun Album)
''Mainstream'' is the only album of the UK band Quiet Sun. The band had originally split up in 1972. Phil Manzanera joined Roxy Music, Bill MacCormick joined Matching Mole, Charles Hayward joined This Heat and Dave Jarrett became a mathematics teacher. In 1975, Manzanera booked a studio for 26 days to record his first solo album '' Diamond Head'' and got Quiet Sun together again to record a studio album from their previously composed material at the same time. The result ''Mainstream'' was critically acclaimed and became the New Musical Express' album of the month, apparently Island Records' fourth or fifth biggest seller at the time, close up to Bad Company and Cat Stevens. Reworked versions of three tracks from ''Mainstream'' – "Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil" (merged with Manzanera's track from ''Diamond Head'' "East of Echo," and rechristened "East of Asteroid"), "Rongwrong," and the intro portion of "Sol Caliente" (which also ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream EP
''Mainstream'' is an early demo EP from Canadian 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 mu ... band Metric. The album is currently not available in stores, although it is circulated widely on the internet. It was revealed in the 2009 book '' This Book is Broken'', that the band was called "Mainstream" at this time, not "Metric", and Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott-Key had not yet joined. Track listing 1998 debut EPs Metric (band) EPs {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Records
Mainstream Records was an American record company and independent record label founded by producer Bob Shad in 1964. Mainstream's early releases were reissues from Commodore Records. Its catalogue grew to include Bob Brookmeyer, Maynard Ferguson, Jim Hall, Helen Merrill, Carmen McRae, Jimmy Raney, Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, and Sarah Vaughan. Janis Joplin, with Big Brother and the Holding Company, first appeared on Mainstream. In 1978, Mainstream ceased activities. Bob Shad died in 1985. In 1990, the label was restarted by his daughter, Tamara, and Humphrey Walwyn, the former head of BBC Records. It was bought by Legacy Recordings in 1993 and purchased back by the Shad family in the early 2000s. The label is now run by Shad's granddaughter Mia Apatow Mia, MIA, or M.I.A. may refer to: Music Artists * M.I.A. (rapper) (born 1975), English rapper and singer * M.I.A. (band), 1980s punk rock band from Orange County, California * MIA., a German rock/pop band formed in 1997 * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalanche (Thea Gilmore Album)
''Avalanche'' is the fifth album by the English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore. It was released on 9 September 2003 on the Hungry Dog record label. The album peaked at number 63 on the UK Albums Chart. ''Uncut'' magazine ranked ''Avalanche'' at number 59 of its "Albums of the Year" for 2003 and said of Gilmore: "You can here her growing in stature with every record she makes." Track listing All songs written by Thea Gilmore, except where noted. #"Rags and Bones" – 3:38 #"Have You Heard" – 3:26 #"Juliet (Keep That in Mind)" – 3:52 #"Avalanche" – 4:21 #"Mainstream" (Gilmore, Nigel Stonier) – 3:12 #"Pirate Moon" – 4:20 #"Apparition #13" – 3:27 #"Razor Valentine" – 3:46 #"God Knows" – 3:49 #"Heads Will Roll" – 2:33 #"Eight Months" – 5:33 #"The Cracks" – 4:49 Reception '' The Independent'' considered the album to be Gilmore taking "the final step to the forefront of British singer-songwriters, with 12 songs th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |