Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier. She is the daughter of fellow musicians, Diane and Bill Chambers, and the younger sister of musician and producer, Nash Chambers. All four were members of a family country music group, Dead Ringer Band, from 1992 to 1998, with Chambers starting her solo career thereafter. Five of her twelve studio albums have reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Barricades & Brickwalls, Wayward Angel, CarnivalRattlin' Bones and Dragonfly. In November 2018 she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and has won an additional fourteen ARIA Music Awards with nine for Best Country Album. Her autobiography, A Little Bird Told Me..., which was co-authored with music journalist, Jeff Apter, was released in 2011.
Spencer Fox is an American musician, singer, and former child actor. He is best known as the voice of Dash Parr in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles, and as the lead guitarist for the indie rock band Charly Bliss, which he co-founded in 2011.
"I'm Not Okay " is the lead single and fifth track from My Chemical Romance's second studio album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. "I'm Not Okay " was released to radio on September 28, 2004. The song is also featured on the soundtrack of Burnout 3: Takedown.
Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film is the soundtrack to the film Natural Born Killers, produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Reznor reportedly produced the soundtrack using a portable Pro Tools in his hotel room while on his band’s Self Destruct Tour. On his approach to compiling the soundtrack, Reznor told MTV:
I suggested to Oliver [Stone] to try to turn the soundtrack into a collage-of-sound, kind of the way the movie used music: make edits, add dialog, and make it something interesting, rather than a bunch of previously released music.
"Everything in Its Right Place" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, the opening track on their fourth album Kid A (2000). It features synthesiser, manipulated vocals, and lyrics inspired by the stress singer Thom Yorke experienced while promoting Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer.
"Welcome to New York" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). The song was written and produced by both Swift and Ryan Tedder, with additional production from Noel Zancanella. It was released on October 20, 2014 as a promotional single for the album, through Big Machine Records. A synth-pop, disco, and electropop song equipped with pulsating synthesizers, it explores Swift's newfound freedom, inspired by her relocation to New York City in March 2014.
Charly Bliss is an American four-piece power pop band from Brooklyn, New York, United States. Charly Bliss is Eva Hendricks, Spencer Fox, Sam Hendricks (drums), and Dan Shure.
A Giant Dog is an American punk rock band from Austin, Texas. It has been described by Bandcamp Daily as "one of Austin's most thrillingly irreverent bands". It consists of Sabrina Ellis, Andrew Cashen, Andy Bauer, Graham Low, and Daniel Blanchard.
Japanese Breakfast is an indie rock band headed by Korean-American musician, director, and author Michelle Zauner. The band released its first studio album Psychopomp (2016) on Yellow K Records, followed by Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017) and Jubilee (2021), both on Dead Oceans. The later album garnered them a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Album, as well as Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Psychopomp is the debut studio album by Japanese Breakfast, the solo musical project of Michelle Zauner of Little Big League. The album was released in the U.S. through Yellow K Records on April 1, 2016, and internationally through Dead Oceans on September 19, 2016.
Michelle Chongmi Zauner is a Korean-American musician, director, and author. She is best known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the indie rock band Japanese Breakfast and was previously in the band Little Big League. As Japanese Breakfast, Zauner has released three studio albums: Psychopomp (2016), followed by Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017) and Jubilee (2021). Also as Japanese Breakfast, Zauner wrote the soundtrack for the video game Sable. The game and its soundtrack were released in 2021.
Guppy is the debut album of Brooklyn power pop group Charly Bliss, consisting of Eva Hendricks, Spencer Fox, Sam Hendricks (drums), and Dan Shure. The group wrote it over the course of four years and recorded two versions of it: one tracked in 2015, which they rejected because it wasn't "fun," and a more pop-infused version recorded in early 2016 that was released by Barsuk Records in April 2017. The album contains a harsh 1990s-esque alternative rock sound with lyrics that deal with emotional vulnerability.
"Love It If We Made It" is a song by English band the 1975 from their third studio album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018). The song was written by George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Adam Hann and Ross MacDonald, while the production was handled by the former two. It was released on 19 July 2018 by Dirty Hit and Polydor Records as the second single from the album. Daniel created the song's production in 2015, while Healy collected daily tabloid headlines from 2016 to 2018 to use as lyrics. They became too humorous, so he rewrote the song to summarize the volatile social and political events in that period, using Prince's "Sign o' the Times" as an inspiration.
"TooTimeTooTimeTooTime" is a song by English band the 1975 from their third studio album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018). The song was written by George Daniel, Matthew Healy and Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez, who has the stage name of No Rome, while production of the song was handled by the former two. It was released on 15 August 2018 by Dirty Hit and Polydor Records as the third single from the album. The beat originated from an accident that occurred during "Narcissist", the band's collaboration with No Rome. Having developed a skeletal song structure, the band created the song to celebrate their varied discography and fondness of pop music.
Morbid Stuff is the third album by Canadian rock band PUP, released April 5, 2019, through Rise Records and Little Dipper, the band's personal label.
Young Enough is the second studio album of Brooklyn power pop group Charly Bliss, consisting of Eva Hendricks, Spencer Fox, Sam Hendricks (drums), and Dan Shure.
Punk is the second studio album by Japanese band Chai. The album was released on February 13, 2019 by Otemoyan Records. It was released on March 15, 2019 in North America and Europe by Burger Records and Heavenly Recordings, respectively.
Saves the World is the second studio album by American band Muna, released through RCA Records on September 6, 2019.
A surprise album or surprise release refers to the release of an album with little or no prior announcement, marketing or promotion. The strategy contrasts traditional album releases, which typically feature weeks or months of advertising in the form of singles, music videos, tour announcements and album pre-sales. Often, the release of a surprise album is the formal announcement of its release. This strategy developed in part due to the prevalence of album leaks on the Internet during the 2000s and became popular by the mid-2010s among high-profile recording acts.
Burnout Syndromes is a Japanese rock band formed on May 4, 2005 in Osaka. The band consists of guitarist and vocalist Kazuumi Kumagai (熊谷和海), bassist Taiyu Ishikawa (石川大裕), and drummer Takuya Hirose (廣瀬拓哉). They have released two albums by Epic Records Japan and were part of the original soundtrack of the anime Haikyu!! in its second season.
