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The For Carnation
The For Carnation are a slowcore/post-rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 1994. The band was formed by Brian McMahan, who is the only constant group member. McMahan's previous band Slint hinted at the distinctive sound and sombre aesthetic he would create in The For Carnation. To date they have released two EPs and one self-titled album: ''Fight Songs'' (Matador Records, 1995), ''Marshmallows'' (Matador, 1996), and ''The For Carnation'' (Touch and Go Records, 2000). ''Fight Songs'' and ''Marshmallows'' were compiled into one record, ''Promised Works'', and released by Runt in 1997. ''Promised Works'' was re-released by Touch and Go Records in 2007. The band has included Doug McCombs and Johnny "Machine" Herndon of Tortoise, Bobb Bruno of Best Coast, Todd Cook (Shipping News) as well as Britt Walford and David Pajo of Slint. They returned in December 2009 to play a show at the " Ten Years of ATP" All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in England. A track "Alfredo's W ...
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six ''Fortune'' 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhamm ...
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David Pajo
David Pajo (born June 25, 1968) is an American alternative rock musician. He has played a wide variety of music, loosely fitting into several other genres such as hardcore punk, math rock, post-rock, electronica, folk rock and indie pop. Though a multi-instrumentalist (including guitar, bass guitar, banjo and drums), he is best known for his guitar work, most notably with Slint. He is currently a member of Gang of Four. Career A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Pajo played with three Louisville hardcore and hardcore-inflected bands in his early career. The first band in which he played was called Obscene Routine, after which he performed as guitarist in Maurice, but it was with Solution Unknown that he made his first recording. He rose to prominence, however, for his work with the influential post-rock band Slint. Since the breakup of Slint, Pajo has seldom held positions in other bands for very long, moving from one to the other quite often. As a result, he has contributed to m ...
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Musical Groups Established In 1994
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Touch And Go Records Artists
In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch (haptic perception), as well as temperature (thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It is a subset of the sensory nervous system, which also represents visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory stimuli. Somatosensation begins when mechano- and thermosensitive structures in the skin or internal organs sense physical stimuli such as pressure on the skin (see mechanotransduction, nociception). Activation of these structures, or receptors, leads to activation of peripheral sensory neurons that convey signals to the spinal cord as patterns of action potentials. Sensory information is then processed locally in the spinal cord to drive reflexes, and is also conveyed to the brain for conscious perception of touch and proprioception. Note, somatosensory information from the face and head enters the brain through peripheral se ...
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Matador Records Artists
Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of mainly indie rock, but also punk rock, experimental rock, alternative rock, and electronic acts. History Matador was created in 1989 by Chris Lombardi in his New York City apartment. Lombardi had brought the Austrian duo H.P. Zinker into Wharton Tiers’ Fun City studio to record Matador's first release, "...and there was light". Lombardi continued to add artists to the label's roster, with bands like the Dustdevils, Railroad Jerk and Superchunk, before being joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy in 1990. Lombardi and Cosloy have continued to run Matador Records together with Patrick Amory coming on as Matador's label manager in 1994, later becoming label president as well as a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy. Matador first drew mainstream media attention and larger sales with the North American release of Teenage Fanclub’s debut record, ''A Catholic Education'' in 1990. Other early releases ...
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Musical Groups From Louisville, Kentucky
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 melodiousnes ...
, the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ...
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Promised Works
''Promised Works'' is a compilation album by The For Carnation, released in 1997 by Runt Records. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Promised Works'' liner notes. ;The For Carnation * John Herndon – drums * Doug McCombs – bass guitar * Brian McMahan – vocals, guitar * Michael McMahan – guitar (4–9) * David Pajo – guitar (1–3) * John Weiss – drums (4–9) ;Production and additional personnel * Grant Barger – engineering * Andrew Bonacci – arrangement (1–3) * John Golden – remastering * Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra – arrangement, strings (4–9) * London Symphony Orchestra – strings (1–3) * Brad Wood Brad Wood is an American record producer located in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's ''Exile in Guyville'' and Placebo's debut. Career Wood is from Rockford, Illinois, United States. In 1988, Wood, along with ... – engineering (1–3) ...
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Marshmallows (album)
''Marshmallows'' is the debut mini-LP of The For Carnation, released on March 12, 1996 by Matador Records. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Marshmallows'' liner notes. ;The For Carnation * John Herndon – drums * Doug McCombs – bass guitar * Brian McMahan – vocals, guitar * Michael McMahan – guitar * John Weiss – drums ;Production and additional personnel * Grant Barger – engineering * Greg Calbi – mastering * Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra – arrangement, strings * Elizabeth Kelly – painting * Andy Vandette – mastering * Brad Wood Brad Wood is an American record producer located in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's ''Exile in Guyville'' and Placebo's debut. Career Wood is from Rockford, Illinois, United States. In 1988, Wood, along with ... – engineering Release history References External links * {{Authority control 1996 debut alb ...
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Fight Songs (EP)
''Fight Songs'' is an EP by The For Carnation, released on April 6, 1995 by Matador Records. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Fight Songs'' liner notes. ;The For Carnation * John Herndon – drums * Doug McCombs – bass guitar * Brian McMahan – vocals, guitar, programming * David Pajo – guitar ;Production and additional personnel * Grant Barger – engineering * Andrew Bonacci – arrangement * Greg Calbi – mastering * Elizabeth Kelly – painting * London Symphony Orchestra – strings Release history References External links ''Fight Songs''at Discogs Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the la ... (list of releases) {{Authority control 1995 EPs The For Carnation albums Matador Records EPs< ...
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The For Carnation (album)
''The For Carnation'' is the eponymously titled album by The For Carnation, released on April 4, 2000, through Domino and Touch and Go Records. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Promised Works'' liner notes. ;The For Carnation * Bobb Bruno – guitar, keyboards, sampler * Todd Cook – bass guitar * Steve Goodfriend – drums * Brian McMahan – vocals, guitar, keyboards, design * Michael McMahan – guitar ;Additional musicians * Alison Chesley – cello (1, 6) * Kim Deal – vocals (5) * Dan Fliegel – congas (2) * Christian Frederickson – viola (1, 6) * Rachel Haden – vocals (4) * Noel Kupersmith – acoustic bass guitar (1, 6) * Rafe Mandel – keyboards (1, 2) * Britt Walford – drums (3) ;Production and additional personnel * David Babbitt – design * Heather Cantrell – photography * Rod Cervera – recording * Tom Grimley – recording * John McEntire John McEnti ...
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All Tomorrow's Parties (music Festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties was an organisation based in London that promoted music festivals, concerts and records throughout the world for over ten years. It was founded by Barry Hogan in 2001 in preparation for the first All Tomorrow's Parties Festival, the line-up of which was picked by Mogwai and took place at Pontins, Camber Sands, England. Named after the song "All Tomorrow's Parties" by the Velvet Underground, the festival exhibited a tendency towards post-rock, indie rock, avant-garde music, and underground hip hop, along with more traditional rock fare presented in smaller venues than typical stadium performances. It was at first a sponsorship-free festival where the organisers and artists stay in the same accommodation as the fans. It claimed to set itself apart from festivals like Reading or Glastonbury by staying intimate, non-corporate and fan-friendly. Another difference was the line-ups being chosen by significant bands or artists, resulting in unorthodox events wh ...
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Britt Walford
Britt Walford (born March 16, 1970) is an American musician best known for being the drummer, co-founder, and occasional guitarist for the post-rock band Slint. Early life Walford grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and attended the J. Graham Brown School, an experimental school based on self-learning and direction in early adolescence where he also met Brian McMahan, the future lead singer of Slint. Career He was a member of the punk band Squirrel Bait, but was replaced by Ben Daughtrey when he quit to play with future Slint guitarist David Pajo in the band Maurice. After the breakups of Squirrel Bait and Maurice, some of the members joined to form the band that would become Slint. In 1989, Walford joined Pixies bassist Kim Deal in her new project The Breeders at the request of Steve Albini (under the pseudonyms Shannon Doughton & Mike Hunt), with whom he recorded their first album, '' Pod'' (1990), also appearing for live performances in drag to suit his stage name. After Sli ...
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