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Cracker (band)
Cracker is an American rock music, rock band formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery (musician), David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band's first album ''Cracker (album), Cracker'' was released in 1992 on Virgin Records; it included the single "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)", which went to #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks, Modern Rock chart. The band's follow-up, the 1993 album ''Kerosene Hat'' included the hit songs "Low (Cracker song), Low," "Get Off This" and "Euro-Trash Girl". Cracker has released nine studio albums and several compilations, collaborations, solo projects and live albums. The band mix influences and sounds from rock music, rock, punk rock, punk, grunge, psychedelic music, psychedelia, country music, country, blues and folk music, folk. History 1990s Shortly after Lowery's former group Camper Van Beethoven disbanded in 1990, he began demoing material along with boyhood friend guitarist Johnny Hickman. After moving from Redlands, Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jones Beach Theater
Jones Beach Theater is an outdoor amphitheatre at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York. It is one of two major outdoor arenas in the New York metropolitan area, along with PNC Bank Arts Center near the Jersey Shore. Both venues are managed by Live Nation. The theater was designed to specifications provided by Robert Moses, who created Jones Beach State Park. History Opened in June 1952 as the New Jones Beach Marine Stadium, the venue originally had 8,200 seats and hosted Musical theater, musicals. Moses had several boxes designated for his own use, and Moses' friend Guy Lombardo performed often in the early years. The opening show was the operetta extravaganza ''Eine Nacht in Venedig, A Night in Venice'' by Johann Strauss II, produced by film producer Mike Todd, complete with floating gondolas and starring Enzo Stuarti, Thomas Hayward (tenor), Thomas Hayward, Norwood Smith and Nola Fairbanks. During one of these Lombardo performances, the early phonograph recording sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Rupe
The Silos is an American rock band formed by Walter Salas-Humara and Bob Rupe in New York City, United States in 1985. History Prior to starting the Silos, Salas-Humara had been a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, and Bob Rupe was in Florida bands The Roll N Pinz, The Cichlids, Crank and The Bobs, as well as Screaming Sneakers. The Silos put out the independently released album ''About Her Steps'' in 1986, which received a warm critical reception. The band's 1987 follow-up album, ''Cuba'', also independently released, received even more recognition. The Silos were named Best New Artist in the ''Rolling Stone'' magazine critics' poll. ''Cuba'' continues to be cited as highly influential among alternative country artists. The band subsequently signed to RCA Records and released '' The Silos'', produced by Salas-Humara and Rupe along with Peter Moore. Commonly referred to as "the bird album" or "The One With The Bird On The Cover," ''The Silos'' led to the band's network TV debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation. Punk rock lyrics often explore anti-establishment and Anti-authoritarianism, anti-authoritarian themes. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record label, independent labels. The term "punk rock" was previously used by American Music criticism, rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands. Certain late 1960s and early 1970s Detroit acts, such as MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, and other bands from elsewhere created out-of-the-mainstream music that became highly influential on what was to come. Glam rock in the UK and the New York Dolls from New York ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euro-Trash Girl
"Euro-Trash Girl" is a single by Cracker, released in 1994. The song was originally released on the EP ''Tucson'', and then as an unlisted track (track 69) on the album '' Kerosene Hat''. "River Euphrates" and "Bad Vibes Everybody" were also both originally on the EP ''Tucson''. The cover of Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the begi ...'s "Fucking Up", the last and only live track on the single, has lead vocals sung by Mark Linkous. It was recorded live at the Metro Chicago, courtesy of WXRT (according to the liner notes on the back of the CD). Track listing #Euro-Trash Girl - 8:00 #River Euphrates - 2:59 #Bad Vibes Everybody - 2:36 #Blue Danube Blues - 2:08 #Fucking Up - 4:32 Charts Cover German band FSK covered the song on their 1996 album ''Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low (Cracker Song)
"Low" is a song by American rock band Cracker. It appears on their 1993 album, '' Kerosene Hat''. "Low", a sleeper hit, reached number 64 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in May 1994. The song's biggest success was on the rock charts, reaching number three on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart in November 1993 and number five on the ''Billboard'' Album Rock Tracks chart in March 1994. The music video, directed by Carlos Grasso, portrays lead singer David Lowery losing a boxing match with actress and comedian Sandra Bernhard. In 2013, Lowery posted an essay on his Trichordist site focused on "Low" in the era of streaming music. The headline was "My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make From a Single T-Shirt Sale!" The post went viral and continues to be a reference point in the debate over the economics of streaming music. Background David Lowery has said that the band's label made him write a letter to radio s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerosene Hat
''Kerosene Hat'' is the second studio album by American rock band Cracker, released on August 24, 1993. It reached number 1 on ''Billboard''s Top Heatseekers chart, and number 59 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart. The singles from the album, " Low" and "Get Off This", helped Cracker gain widespread notice. According to frontman David Lowery, the album title comes from the band's early days in Richmond, Virginia. Lowery lived with Cracker guitarist Johnny Hickman in an old dilapidated house whose only source of heat came from two kerosene heaters. To buy more kerosene meant a cold walk to a nearby gas station, so before leaving the house, Lowery would bundle up and put on an old wool hunting cap – his "kerosene hat." "To this day," says Lowery, "the smell of kerosene reminds me of the poverty and the wistful hope we had for our music." Background and recording notes Following the release of their debut album, Cracker entered the studio in 1992 intending to record thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Rock Tracks
Alternative Airplay (formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks between 1988 and 2009, and Alternative Songs between 2009 and 2020) is a music chart published in the American magazine ''Billboard'' since September 10, 1988. It ranks the 40 most-played songs on alternative and modern rock radio stations. Introduced as Modern Rock Tracks, the chart served as a companion to the Mainstream Rock chart (then called Album Rock Tracks), and its creation was prompted by the explosion of alternative music on American radio in the late 1980s. During the first several years of the chart, it regularly featured music that did not receive commercial radio airplay anywhere but on a few modern rock and college rock radio stations. This included many electronic and post-punk artists. Gradually, as alternative rock became more mainstream (spearheaded by the grunge explosion in the early 1990s), alternative and mainstream rock radio stations began playing many of the same songs. By the late 2000s, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)
"Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" is a song by the rock band Cracker. Released in 1992, it was the first single from their debut album '' Cracker'', and went to #1 on the US Modern Rock chart. The song was later released on the compilation albums, '' Garage D'Or'' and ''Get On with It: The Best of Cracker''. Re-recordings of the song appear on the album '' Greatest Hits Redux'' and — accompanied by bluegrass band Leftover Salmon — '' O' Cracker Where Art Thou?''. Track listings #"Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" - 4:11 #"Can I Take My Gun to Heaven?" - 3:50 #"China" - 3:09 Chart positions See also * In popular culture The song was made available for download on June 5, 2012 to play in ''Rock Band 3 ''Rock Band 3'' is a 2010 rhythm game developed by Harmonix. The game was initially published and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts, respectively, on October 26, 2010. Mad Catz took over both roles and re-released the title on Novembe . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cracker (album)
''Cracker'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Cracker. It was released on March 10, 1992, by Virgin Records. The album had sold more than 200,000 copies by April 1994. "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" was released as a single and charted at number 1 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks. Critical reception ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "On ''Cracker'', Lowery strips rock down to its muscular essence, avoiding any of the fancy flourishes Camper Van Beethoven used that might have hurt — or strengthened — this album of catchy, clever and disarmingly ironic songs." Track listing # "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" ( David Lowery) – 4:11 # "Happy Birthday to Me" (Lowery)– 3:29 # "This Is Cracker Soul" (Lowery, Johnny Hickman) – 3:38 # "I See the Light" (Hickman, Lowery, Davey Faragher) – 5:11 # "St. Cajetan" (Lowery, Hickman) – 5:22 # "Mr. Wrong" (Hickman) – 4:34 # "Someday" (Lowery, Hickman, Faragher) – 3:19 # "Can I Take My Gun to Heaven?" (Lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thayer Sarrano
Thayer Sarrano is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist. Besides her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous bands as a touring member or session player, and is strongly affiliated with the music scene of Athens, Georgia. She has released five albums, all of which have received positive reviews, with her music being referred to as shoegaze, psychedelic folk and Southern Gothic. Early life and career Sarrano grew up in a small town in southern Georgia after having lived in a monastic seminary as a preschooler. She studied piano at Berry college and then moved to Athens, GA, having enrolled at UGA as an art student. There, musically educated since the age of 3 and having shown an earlier interest in poetry, she took up songwriting and started collaborating with local musicians, which led to her releasing solo albums, ''King'' (2009) and '' Lift Your Eyes to the Hills'' (2012), Shaky (2015), Wings Alleluia (2019) and a career as a session musician r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Funaro
Frank Funaro (born June 23, 1958) is an American drummer who has played with Del Lords, The Brandos, Camper Van Beethoven, Joey Ramone, The Dictators, Cracker, Nils Lofgren & Dion DiMucci. Funaro collaborated with Joey Ramone on his first solo record ''Don't Worry About Me'' on four tracks. In 1994, Funaro accompanied former Del Lords member Scott Kempner and legendary vocalist Dion DiMucci Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known Mononym, mononymously as Dion, is an American singer and songwriter. His music incorporates elements of doo-wop, Pop music, pop, Rock music, rock, Rhythm and blues, R&B, folk music, folk an ... to form the Little Kings. Funaro joined the lineup of his current band, Cracker, in 1998. Funaro replaced prior touring drummer Johnny Hott after the release of Cracker's album '' The Golden Age'' in 1996. References 1958 births Living people The Del-Lords members 20th-century American drummers American male drummers Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
