Sentences with phrase «best pop band»

A-list director Ron Howard worked with the surviving Beatles to assemble this engaging documentary, which offers an inside look at Beatlemania, the three years when the best pop band in history toured the world.

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With crunchy guitars, contagious melodies, swirling synthesizers and more facial hair than any band since ZZ Top, Grandaddy trademarked a catchy, charming and occasionally challenging style that for better or worse came to be known as «space - pop.»

The pop / rock band took home Artist of the Year for the second year in a row and Best Pop - Rock Band at the American Music Awards last nigpop / rock band took home Artist of the Year for the second year in a row and Best Pop - Rock Band at the American Music Awards last nigPop - Rock Band at the American Music Awards last night.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

James does a good Jagger slash Bowie slash Iggy Pop, with a backup up band which I think has a few members from Black Hi - Lighter in it.

The shot was used as the basis of a pop art screen print by Andy Warhol, as well as the image that helped make the cover design of punk band the Sex Pistols» hit, «God Save the Queen.»

Tungsten wedding bands pair well with silver and graphite earrings — especially ones that have a pop of color.

This isn't just a step in the right direction for the band, it's — believe it or not — a good move for the pop - punk genre as a whole.

Dialing up Arcade Fire, Of Monsters and Men, and The Lumineers (and practically every other contemporary band you can think of that writes rousing, lighter - raising pop hymns), the two - thirds mark of the movie is essentially defined by sequences serving as launch pads for yet another life affirming music moment (the score by Theodore Shapiro also employs the help of autumnal indie pop troubadour Jose Gonzalez to mildly better effect).

Focusing on an aspiring musician who stumbles upon an eccentric pop band with an unpronounceable name (they call themselves The Soronprfbs), this oddball comedy does its best to distance itself from an audience looking to make connections with key characters.

That's debatable, but that endorsement did change the New Mexico band's destiny, beginning with skyrocketing sales (the second - best - selling act on Sub Pop, after Nirvana), then a self - imposed burden to surpass their original aesthetic.

July 15, 2012 • Hear the band recorded live in concert from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Best Coast is currently on tour for its latest record, The Only Place, a captivating collection of sparkling pop.

She's only 28 years old and this is her first film score — she's probably best known as Micachu of the experimental pop band The Shapes — which makes her the rare woman composing music for movies today.

The 26 - year - old Londoner, classically trained but best known as frontwoman of acclaimed experimental pop band Micachu & The Shapes, is a first - time composer for film, but you wouldn't know it from the finished product, because it's something very special indeed.

Pete Wentz thinks it's sometimes better to release songs people «hate» to get noticed.The Fall Out Boy bassist was discussing the emo pop band...

Brian's increasing mental instability causing The Beach Boys to withdraw from the headlining spot at the Monterey Pop Festival at the last moment, in a flash the musical scene passed the band by, relegating them to oldies collections and weird retrospectives, as well as a 1976 Lorne Michaels - produced television documentary that shows a morbidly obese and rambling Brian Wilson in bed and shirtless for the duration.

John Hawkes, «Winter's Bone» With Jennifer Lawrence's deserved Best Actress nomination looking all but a sure thing at this point, the question remains whether voters who are only now popping in their screeners will notice the rock - solid band of character actors bolstering her work.

Darnielle, who is probably best known in pop culture as the prime mover behind the celebrated lo - fi indie band The Mountain Goats, was also nominated for the National Book Award with his NY Times bestselling debut novel, Wolf in White Van.

Just in case you thought Research In Motion was only giving the love to Sprint when it came to cellular enabled PlayBooks, new rumors have now popped up suggesting that an GSM version compatible with AT&T and Rogers 3G bands is tracking very nicely as well.

After each night's headliners performed, the party continued well into the wee hours; a cover band Sunday kept the crowd dancing with current pop hits, Stevie Wonder tunes and the like.

Featuring the best Japanese music entertainment — from J - pop idols to rock bands, to ani - song singers.

There were two «channels» on the build I tested at E3 2015: a hard rock channel that played bands like Pantera and Rage Against the Machine, as well as a pop - focused channel that offered Bruno Mars and The Black Keys» «Gold on the Ceiling.»

Public art of Julian Opie is spread around the globe, from continuous animations on LCD screens such as Suzanne Walking (2002) in Dublin or Galloping Horse (2012) in Yorkshire Park, or installation Public collections, including the Tate Gallery in London, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York poses Opie's works from different periods.Besides the institutional frame, he has been collaborating with the famous pop band Blur, creating the cover for their Best of the album, and with a rock star Bryan Adams.

In it, we get a broad stroke of contemporary art — pop art, conceptual art, postmodernism — all designed to intrigue music lovers as well as entice buyers to pick up the latest release by their favorite band.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Velvet Underground, the 1960s avant - garde rock band, has settled a fight with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the rights to an iconic pop art image of a banana that graced the band's best - known album.

Likewise, his projector slide show bursts in a band of color then images pop in as well as texts from poetry on the left, middle, and right portions.

Kristian Hoffman is a singer / songwriter, producer, arranger, performer and CBGB regular who fronted the seminal punk - pop band The Mumps with Lance Loud, as well as The Swinging Madisons and various stellar solo projects.

Opening day will also get down with a special D.J. set from Bubbles («New York's feel - good synth - pop band!»).

Compatible with both iPhones and Androids, the Garmin Vivofit Jr. is already available at Target and Best Buy with black, broken lava, digi camo, purple strike and real flower band patterns for $ 80 a pop.

The Microsoft Band does as well, and the band just got an upgrade which included a small QWERTY keyboard that can pop up on the screen for you to type out quick text message replies.

A fun time was had by all, even the eldest... once she found a shop selling 1001 black band T - shirts and settled on a Green Day «American Idiot» one to spend her Easter money from Nonna and Pop on... oh and a rainbow belt... Although, when we thanked her for coming along she muttered: «Well, I wasn't given a choice.»