Portishead é uma banda britânica de trip-hop formada em 1991 em Bristol, Inglaterra. A banda foi formada quando, numa fila de desempregados, Geoff Barrow (samples e letras) encontrou Beth Gibbons (vocal). Geoff fazia samples para outras bandas, mas depois q formou o Portishead, com outros integrantes que tocavam numa banda de jazz, dedica-se apenas à banda. No início, a banda era considerada como Lo-Fi, mas depois de algum tempo seu estilo foi modificado para o que é conhecido como trip-hop. Portishead é a cidade onde o integrante Geoff cresceu, por isso o nome da banda.
Uma das canções mais conhecidas da banda é Glory Box, que fez parte do filme Beleza Roubada estrelado por Liv Tyler,Lord of War com o estadunidense Nicolas Cage.A musica Roads está na trilha de Tank Girl estrelado por Lori Petty e também no seriado americano The L Word.
A banda está anunciando para o final de 2007 o lançamento de seu novo disco de estúdio, provisoriamente chamado de "3".
In the 1970s, a group of apathetic teen surfers from a rough neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Santa Monica, California, created a cultural revolution by transforming skateboarding from a recreational activity into an extreme sport.
When a shipment of urethane wheels arrives at Santa Monica's Zephyr Surf/Skate Shop (traded by Mitch Hedberg's character to the owner of the shop for weed) the owner, Skip Engblom, played by Heath Ledger, puts together a team of local layabout skaters to compete.
Known as the Zephyr Skateboard Team, the boys transferred their surf skills to drain pipes and empty swimming pools with stunning results. Their acrobatic maneuvers inspired generations of teens to join the skateboarding frenzy and catapulted them to fame and fortune.
The movie is based on the real rise of skateboarding started by Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams. It follows their friendship, the rise and fall of the Zephyr skateboarding team and the tragic loss of one of their friends, Sid, to brain cancer. It follows their rise to fame and the struggle to stay on top as they begin to turn on each other.
The movie has a soundtrack (Lords of Dogtown: Music From the Motion Picture) featuring songs by David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, and Iggy Pop, among others.[1]
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O vocalista Chino em concerto com a banda, 2006 Origem Sacramento, Califórnia País Estados Unidos da América Período 1989 – atualmente Gênero(s) rock experimental, metal alternativo, rock alternativo Gravadora(s) Maverick Records, Warner Music Integrantes Chino Moreno Stephen Carpenter Abe Cunningham Chi Cheng Frank Delgado Ex-Integrantes {{{exintegrantes}}} Página oficial www.deftones.com
Deftones é uma banda de metal alternativo ganhadora de Grammy formada na cidade de Sacramento, Califórnia, Estados Unidos. A singularidade, a criatividade e o experimentalismo da banda fazem com que ela se distancie do rótulo de nu metal, e seu som é geralmente definido, inclusive por muitos fãs mundo afora, como metal e rock experimental.
Seu som único mistura distorções pesadas, vocais agressivos e melódicos alternantes, o uso de sons eletrônicos de fundo e letras intimistas tendendo ao minimalismo. O nome da banda é um neologismo: "Def" é uma escrita "fonética" para deaf(que significa surdo em inglês) e tones (que significa tons), o que produz um significado que pode ser traduzido como "Tons surdos". Índice [esconder]
Certamente uma das bandas mais badaladas de Alternative Metal, combinando elementos de punk, pop, hip-hop e metal. O Deftones conseguiu criar um estilo único e autêntico ganhando fãs de diversas tribos (desde punks a rappers).
Os 4 integrantes originais (Chino, Abe, Stephen e Chi) se conheceram em um pista de skate quando eram moleques, em Sacramento, CA. Até que um belo dia resolveram montar uma banda, por volta de 1989. Stephen e Chi já estudavam música influenciados pelos pais.
Assim começaram a tocar em festinhas e coisas assim (tocavam até cover de Danzig "Twist of Cain"). Foi então que o negócio começou a crescer e a banda nem nome tinha. A banda ganhou o nome de Deftones. Deftones não tem nenhum significado, é exclusivamenteo nome da banda e (para eles) tem o significado desse novo e único som da banda. A partir daí a banda começou a sair em turnês como bandas como: Bad Brains, KoRn, L7 e Quicksand.
Stephen Carpenter foi atropelado por um motorista bêbado e com a grana que ele ganhou no processo, comprou instrumentos e equipamentos profissionais.
Em 1993, eles lançaram o cd demo:(like)Linus e foi parar na mão de ninguém menos que Madonna, dona do selo Maverick, que os contratou imediatamente, impressionada com o heavy metal diferente que eles faziam. Em menos de um mês a banda já estava em estúdio e seu primeiro álbum, “Adrenaline”, foi lançado em 1995.
Em 2001, eles tocaram no Rock in Rio, que foi realizado no Rio de Janeiro, e em 2007, eles estiveram em São Paulo, cantaram 23 musicas, num Via Funchal lotado (pouco mais que 5 mil pessoas), um show para muitos simplesmente inesquecível.
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* Chino Moreno - vocal e guitarra * Stephen Carpenter - guitarra * Abe Cunningham - bateria * Frank Delgado - sampler * Chi Cheng - baixo e vocal
Born in Kilburn, London, to parents Lucy Stephan (b. Scotland) and Douglas Rossdale (a doctor of Russian descent); they divorced when he was eleven years old and he was raised primarily by his father and aunt (his mother remarried and moved to South Tampa, Florida). He has a younger sister, Soraya, and an older one, Lorraine (daughter called Jade).
Rossdale modelled briefly, producing some fashion shots with good friend, Marilyn. Gavin learned to play bass guitar after hanging out with Lorraine's boyfriend who was in a band called The Nobodyz, but switched to rhythm guitar. At 17, he had left Westminster School, played semi-professional football until side-lined by an injury, and formed a band called Midnight (formerly Little Dukes), which produced a couple of singles and a bunch of publicity photos. In 1991, Gavin moved to Los Angeles for 6 months, lived where he could, and took whatever part time jobs were available, including production assistant on video shoots. He spent some time in NYC with his good friend Bill MacAdam before returning to England inspired to start a new band. He hooked up with future manager Scottie Mac (SSM), whom he had met in LA, around this time. In 1992, Gavin formed Future Primitive, whose original line-up (under the name The Diceheads) included screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, who left to pursue a film-making career. The band changed its name to Bush in the summer of 1994 and released the promo Sixteen Stone.
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Gavin was the lead singer/songwriter for the UK post-grunge rock band Bush. Their first album, Sixteen Stone (1994), was a huge commercial success. Almost overnight, Bush went from playing small pubs in London to headlining arenas in the US, the result of extensive, non-stop touring. However, some critics labelled them as an inferior derivative of bands such as Nirvana and Pixies, and this criticism followed them throughout their career as a band. In particular, Rossdale's forced, raspy singing voice and random, stream of consciousness-style lyrics were dismissed by some as an imitation of Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain. Although the band reached superstar status in the U.S., they failed to have much impact on the Brit-Pop riddled UK charts, the lone exception being their single "Swallowed", which reached #7. A change in record labels, management and an extended hiatus did not bode well for the band, who unofficially split in 2002.
Bush's albums include Razorblade Suitcase (recorded by Steve Albini), Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State, none of which matched the sales success of the debut album, Sixteen Stone.
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In 2004, after Bush had been on hiatus for two years, Rossdale formed Institute. Their first album, Distort Yourself, released September 13, 2005 achieved moderate success and the single "Bullet-proof skin" was used in the motion picture Stealth.
Rossdale made a song titled "Adrenaline" for the soundtrack of the movie xXx, it is featured during the end credits. The song was also the official theme song for WWE's Unforgiven pay-per-view event in September 2002, and for an event named 'Adrenaline', it is the TV taping live wrestling event in October 2007 in Yorkshire.[2]
He also guest appeared for Blue Man Group's "The Current" and is featured in its video. The song was used in the ending credits of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
In 2005, Rossdale appeared in the motion picture Constantine (2005) playing the villain Balthazar. Rossdale has also appeared in the films Zoolander (2001), The Mayor of Sunset Strip (2003), Little Black Book (2004), and The Game of Their Lives (2005). He will next be seen in the heist film How to Rob a Bank alongside Nick Stahl and Erika Christensen.
In 2007, on Rossdale's website, he has announced that he is now working on new music. It will be a solo album, and he is very happy with the sound of the album, citing he went back to his roots from Bush. Rossdale's single, "Can't Stop the World," is the introduction theme to Fox's programme, Drive.
In 2007, he covered John Lennon's "Mind Games" for the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.
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Rossdale has homes in Primrose Hill, London and California, and is a regular on the celebrity tennis circuit in the latter.
In 2004, it was revealed that he was the father of Pearl Lowe's daughter, Daisy Lowe (b. 1989). Rossdale and Lowe had a former relationship and Rossdale had been the godfather of Daisy.
On September 14, 2002 Rossdale married Gwen Stefani, American pop singer and lead singer of the alternative rock band No Doubt. During an August 8, 2005 appearance on the radio show Loveline, Rossdale said that he and Gwen preferred to keep their relationship entirely out of the media. He also said that he grew up in a chaotic home, and stated that having a stable environment for his family was important to him. On May 26, 2006, they had a son, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Kingston weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces (3.4 kilograms).[3] [4]
