Small Leaks Sink Ships is an indie band from Mesa, Arizona. The band members are Judd Hancock, London VanRooy, Jim Mandel Jr. and Mikey Mukai. This year they released the album "Until The World Is Happy - Wake up yo..." on No Sleep Records. Oddly enough they have listed Matt Damon as their influence on their my space page I have had the chance to listen to only a handful of the songs but have found two new favorites in the The Flood and Sick on Substances. I have only been able to locate one song on Seeqpod but I will continue to search and update if I can locate any further tracks. There is a brief article in Spin which will link you to a track and of course their my space page will also allow you to listen to a few songs from the band.
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Watching Subterranean on MTV2 and caught this band who has been nominated for best video of 2007. Check out the website for other great bands and a good list of music blogs. http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/subterranean/series.jhtml
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Wikipedia on Chin up Chin up:
Chin Up Chin Up is an indie pop band formed in 2001 by Jeremy Bolen and Nathan Snydacker in their hometown of Chicago. The lineup was rounded off by at first by Chris Saathoff and Chris Dye. The band later added Greg Sharp.
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2 History
3 Discography
4 External links
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Jeremy Bolen, formerly part of the band Punjab, plays guitar, along with Nathan Snydacker, who used to sing and play guitar for Nymb. Chris Saathoff played bass, shoes now filled by Jesse Woghin of The Narrator. Chris Dye plays drums. Greg Sharp plays the keyboards. Their album was recorded by John Congleton.
[edit] History
Immediately after forming, the band spent eight months recording their self-titled EP. After positive local reviews, the band toured with a variety of bands, including: Appleseed Cast, the Mercury Program, Pedro the Lion, the American Analog Set, Broken Social Scene, Smog, Minus the Bear, and Pinback. Soon after, the band began to record their debut album, We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers, with John Congleton. Late at night on Feb. 14, 2004, Chris Saathoff was killed in a hit and run accident as he was leaving a Ponys show at a local bar, the Empty Bottle, with his girlfriend. After their benefit shows in honor of their friend, Chin Up Chin Up regrouped to finish recording their album, We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers, which was released in 2004 on Flameshovel Records. Chin Up Chin Up recently released This Harness Can't Ride Anything on October 10, 2006. They released it on Suicide Squeeze, a Seattle based indie rock record label.
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Chin Up Chin Up – (May 15, 2002; Re-released w/ Bonus Tracks July 26, 2005)
We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers – (October 13, 2004)
This Harness Can't Ride Anything – (October 10, 2006)
[edit] External links
ChinUpChinUp.com: The official Chin Up Chin Up website, with band information, samples, and photos.
All Music Guide: Biographical and discography information about the band.
Chin Up Chin Up live on WOXY.com, November 7, 2006
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Reviewing some of the lists out there on the top records of the year and found Panda Bear poping up all over the place.
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Panda Bear is the alias used by experimental musician Noah Lennox of Animal Collective, Jane and Together. He plays drums during Animal Collective's live shows. He chose the name Panda Bear because he drew a picture of a panda on one of the first recordings he made. He is married and lives in Lisbon, Portugal with his wife and child, Nadja. He and Avey Tare are the only members who have contributed to every Animal Collective release.
He briefly attended Boston University.
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1.1 Solo
1.1.1 Albums
1.1.2 Singles
1.2 With Animal Collective
1.3 With Jane
2 External Links
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[edit] Solo
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Panda Bear (1998, Soccer Star)
Young Prayer (September 28, 2004, Paw Tracks)
Person Pitch (March 20, 2007, Paw Tracks)
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"I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica" (September 22, 2005, UUAR)
"Bro's" (December 4, 2006, Fat Cat Records)
"Carrots" (January 23, 2007, Paw Tracks)
"Take Pills" (June 19, 2007, Paw Tracks)
[edit] With Animal Collective
Main article: Animal Collective#Discography
[edit] With Jane
Paradise, (2002, self-released)
COcOnuts (2002, self-released, Psych-O-Path Records)
Berserker (2005, Paw Tracks)
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Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Kiersten Quin (born September 19, 1980, identical twins[2]) are Canadian singer-songwriters, performing as Tegan and Sara.
[edit] Biography and musical career
Tegan and Sara were born in Calgary, Alberta. They initially played as PLUNK, and lacked a drummer or bass player. In 1997, the two used their school’s recording studio to record two demo albums: Who's in Your Band? and Play Day.[3] In 1998, they made an early breakthrough by winning Garage Warz Battle of the Bands, a local music competition in Calgary.[4] Since then, the two have toured extensively with many artists, including Neil Young, Rufus Wainwright, The Pretenders,[4] Ben Folds, The Killers, Rachael Cantu, Vivek Shraya, Cake, Gogol Bordello, Hot Hot Heat, Ryan Adams,[5] Veda Hille, Little Birdy, Iron On, Little Brazil, Bryan Adams and Weezer and performed one show at Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair. They are signed to Neil Young's Vapor Records in Canada, and to Sire in the United States as their previous label, Sanctuary Records, is no longer releasing new music in the United States. Currently, Tegan lives in Vancouver and Sara lives in Montreal.[6]
When they were competing in Garage Warz, they were known as "Sara and Tegan" because that is how their mother registered them on the competition forms. Their first album, Under Feet Like Ours, was initially released under the name "Sara and Tegan";[2] copies are now a sought-after commodity among their fans.
While both twins are similarly involved in vocals and playing instruments, the singing of the lead melody often goes to whichever twin wrote the particular song. The two usually do not sing together on their albums, however; they do live.
Their fifth album, The Con, was released on July 24, 2007.[1] It was co-produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie, Matt Sharp of The Rentals, Hunter Burgan of AFI, and Kaki King appear on the album.[7] The band is currently on tour promoting the album.
[edit] Cover songs and collaborations
In 2005, The White Stripes did a cover of Tegan and Sara's song "Walking with a Ghost" which was released on the Walking with a Ghost EP by the group. "Walking with a Ghost" was also used in a mashup dance remix bootleg by Party Ben[1] with a song by Mylo, "Paris Four Hundred," under the title "Walking with a Ghost In Paris", which became a sought after club track after an influential dance radio station in the United States, C-89.5/KNHC/Seattle, Washington, started playing the song. Also in 2005 they did a cover of Cyndi Lauper's version of Prince's "When You Were Mine".
In 2006, Tegan and Sara also contributed a track to Australian radio station Triple J's "Like a Version" radio programme - a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark". The track was released on a compilation disc of that programme's songs, Like a Version: Volume Two.
Tegan has contributed backup vocals to "The Alphabet" by Vivek Shraya, "Never Give Up" by Melissa Ferrick, "La Le La La" by Kinnie Starr, "Hey Kids" by David Usher, "Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart" by Against Me!, and "Saturday" by Rachael Cantu.
In 2007, Sara contributed backup vocals to The Reason's "We're So Beyond This" and Vivek Shraya's "Your Name".
In 2007, Sara recorded a cover of R.E.M.'s "Sweetness Follows", from the album Automatic for the People, on the Stereogum album Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People, with previous Tegan and Sara collaborators Ted Gowans and Kaki King providing the music.
In 2007, while kicking off their fall tour in Victoria, BC. Tegan and Sara performed a live cover of Rihanna's "Umbrella".
[edit] Television and film
Tegan and Sara have made many television appearances, including Vicki Gabereau's Canadian talk show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Brad Tv, Sonic Temple, Jonovision, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (on more than one occasion), Jimmy Kimmel Live (March 23, 2005) and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (November 11, 2004). They also played "Monday Monday Monday" on ZeD, and thus the song appeared on the 2003 CD ZeD: Live Off The Floor.[8]
Their songs have appeared on several soundtracks, including those for the films Monster-in-Law and Sweet November, and television shows Grey's Anatomy, The L Word Season 3, and Veronica Mars Season 2.
Tegan and Sara also had a guest appearance as themselves on the The L Word, playing the song "Love Type Thing". The episode was entitled "Last Dance" and aired on March 19, 2006.
[edit] Accomplishments
Tegan and Sara have been profiled in a number of magazines and had their albums included on several notable "best of" lists. In the fall of 2003, they graced the cover of ROCKRGRL magazine issue #49, which focused on a tribute to duos. In late 2004, Rolling Stone magazine named their album So Jealous on their list of the best 50 albums of the year.[9] Tegan and Sara were also nominated for a 2006 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year alongside Hot Hot Heat, Metric, The New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene. More recently, they appeared on the cover of the Summer 2007 issue of Under the Radar, and Spinner.com placed them at #7 on their list of Women Who Rock Right Now.
Links:
http://www.teganandsara.com/
http://www.myspace.com/teganandsara
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Ian George Brown (born February 20, 1963) is an English musician and former lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses. Since the band's acrimonious and prolonged break up in 1996, Brown has released five solo albums. He has appeared on several club tours and has performed at the Glastonbury Festival three times since 1998
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[edit] Early life
Brown was born in Warrington, Cheshire in 1963.
His father, George, was a joiner and his mother Jean worked in a paper factory. Brown's family moved when he was young and he grew up in Timperley, Greater Manchester, along with his brother and sister, as a karate-obsessed admirer of Muhammed Ali, George Best and Bruce Lee. He was educated at Altrincham Grammar School For Boys.
His active interest in music was inspired by the originators of punk, specificially the Sex Pistols, but also the likes of Angelic Upstarts, local band Slaughter and the Dogs and The Clash (he and original Stone Roses bassist Pete Garner attended the recording of the single "Bankrobber" in Manchester). The first gig Brown attended was however a Joy Division gig at Bowdon Vale Youth Club in 1978.
He shared his musical interests with friend John Squire, who lived on the same street; the pair attended northern soul "all-nighters" across the north of England in the late 70s and early 80s as the scene faded. Brown joined Squire's band The Patrol on bass before it evolved into Garage Flower, whilst Jason Livesey was playing lead guitar at the time; they became The Stone Roses in 1984. Around this time, Brown met one of his idols, soul legend Geno Washington, who told him, "You're a star. You're an actor. Be a singer."
[edit] Musical career
Allegedly nicknamed "King Monkey" by Dodgy's drummer Mathew Priest [1], Brown is noted for his wispy, raspy, and throaty singing style. Particularly live, he is not the most technically sound singer; some critics have compared his delivery to "a man shouting into a bucket".[citation needed] However, others have described his voice as pure and angelic based on his singing on his debut album with The Stone Roses. It is his delivery of the lyrics, enormous charisma and stage presence that make him stand out.
In his solo career, Brown has worked with many notable musicians including UNKLE (providing vocals to the instrumental "Unreal", apparently the first ever instrumental with vocals, which was released as "Be There" and sings the vocals on the "Reign" single, released in 2004) and Oasis' Noel Gallagher. Previously, he acted as a mentor to the up-and-coming British band, South. Brown appeared in a cameo role in the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The singer became good friends with the movie's Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, who has personally promised to direct one of Brown's future music videos. Brown took only the standard extras fee of £200 for appearing in the film.
In 2002, Q magazine named Ian Brown in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", although this was part of a sub-list of "5 Bands That Could Go Either Way".
Brown has had several run-ins with the law. In 1998, he was sentenced to 4 months in jail for air rage, after a threatening of a stewardess with plastic cutlery, offering to cut her hands off on a flight. This demonstration that the title of 'punk' was well-earned, resulted in a spate of (presumably) ironic "Free Ian Brown" graffiti in and around Manchester. Most of his sentence was served at Strangeways jail. In an interview with Dave Haslam he claimed "I saw more drugs in a couple of months in Strangeways than in the whole of the rest of my lifetime." [2]
In 2005, he was arrested for assault during a San Francisco gig, but no charges were brought.
He undertook a sell out UK tour in 2005, including selling out the 16,000 capacity Manchester Evening News Arena on 3 December 2005 and visited Australia (Falls Festival, Southbound Festival, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne) in 2006.
Since the demise of the Roses, Brown has stayed in touch with some of the former members. He has performed with bassist Mani and remains friends with drummer Reni. Both Reni and Mani contributed to the track "Can't See Me" on Brown's debut album "Unfinished Monkey Business". Although Reni maintains that this was in fact a drum machine and not his good self.
Brown has also worked with Aziz Ibrahim (who regularly acts as the support act at Brown's gigs), Nigel Ippinson and Robbie Maddix, who all performed with the Roses on their ill-fated 1996 summer tour which included the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim in Spain and the now infamous Reading Festival performance.
In the 2006 NME awards, Brown was presented with the "Godlike Genius" award. He said that as well as his work with the Stone Roses, he considered the track "F.E.A.R." to be one of his moments of genius.
In October 2006, Brown made a surprising move to headline the Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival held outdoors in Victoria Park HK. During the two-day event and prior to his appearance on stage he strolled around anonymously and mingled with members of the crowd. His eventual stage performance was hailed by the South China Morning Post and other local newspapers as a great success.
[edit] Relationship with John Squire
Brown has had no contact with his former song writing partner and childhood best friend John Squire. Brown's key reason for the band not reforming is his lack of contact with Squire along with Squire's cocaine abuse and their differing musical tastes. In a 2004 interview with Q magazine, Squire went as far as branding Brown as a "tuneless knob", although this was taken out of context by some members of the press as it referred to Brown during the recording of the Stone Roses' second album, Second Coming due to his large in-take of cannabis.
Squire has once contacted Brown since the demise of the Roses. When Brown was in jail before Christmas 1998 for air rage, Squire sent Brown a box of Maltesers (as this was the gift that they traditionally exchanged in their youth at Christmas) with a note reading "I Still Love You". Whilst Brown was released just before Christmas and did not directly contact Squire afterwards, he is said to have been touched by the gesture.
In September 2005 Ian appeared to rule out a Stone Roses reunion saying "there's more chance of me reforming the Happy Mondays than the Roses". Happy Mondays in fact have reformed, but yet Brown appears pessimistic about a likelihood of any reunion.
In June 2007 John Squire said he wouldn't reform the Roses even if Ian Brown phoned him up personally. [3]
[edit] Personal life
Brown and his Mexican wife Fabiola Quiroz Brown have one son, Emilio. The family currently resides in Holland Park, London and also have a house in Lymm, near Warrington in Cheshire. He has two older sons, Frankie and Casey from a previous relationship.
Brown has been a fan of Manchester United football club since boyhood, although in an issue of United We Stand Mani claimed he rarely went, although he now has a season ticket in K Stand. He did however request that his NME "Godlike Genius" award was presented by one of the club's treble winning side of 1999, Teddy Sheringham.
Links:http://www.ianbrown.co.uk/
http://www.ianbrownwhispers.co.uk/
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