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Bad Brains

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Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977. [1]

106 relations: A Bad Brains Reunion Live from Maritime Hall, Adam Yauch, Akashic Books, AllMusic, Alternative metal, Alternative rock, Bad Brains (album), Bad Brains discography, Baritone, Beastie Boys, Bel canto, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Blabbermouth.net, Black Sabbath, Bob Marley, Build a Nation, Caroline Records, Chick Corea, Chuck Mosley, Chuck Treece, Cro-Mags, Crunk Juice, Darryl Jenifer, Dead Boys, Deftones, Dr. Know (guitarist), Earl Hudson, Epic Records, Exclaim!, Faith No More, Falsetto, Feral House, Fishbone, Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, Funk, Fuse (TV channel), God of Love (album), GoFundMe, Greenwood Publishing Group, Guitar solo, H.R., Hard rock, Hardcore punk, Heavy metal music, Henry Rollins, Hip hop music, I & I Survived, I Against I, Ill Communication, ..., Into the Future, Jah, Jazz fusion, John McLaughlin (musician), Kick Out the Jams (song), Lamb of God (band), Lil Jon, Living Colour, Long Beach, California, Lorton Reformatory, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Maverick (company), MC5, Megaforce Records, Neil Cooper (ROIR), Ogg, Ostinato, P.O.D., Port Townsend, Washington, Pump Up the Volume (film), Quickness, Ramones, Randy Blythe, Rastafari, Reggae, Return to Forever, Rhythm and blues, Ric Ocasek, Rise (Bad Brains album), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock for Light, ROIR, Rolling Stone, Satellite (P.O.D. album), Screaming Mad George, Sex Pistols, Sony Music, Soul music, South America, SST Records, Stevie Wonder, Sublime (band), SUNCT syndrome, The Cars, The Dickies, The Omega Sessions, The Stimulators (NYC band), VH1, Victory Records, Warner Bros. Records, Washington, D.C., Westport, Connecticut, Woodstock, New York, YouTube, 120 Minutes, 311 (band). Expand index (56 more) »

A Bad Brains Reunion Live from Maritime Hall

A Bad Brains Reunion Live at Maritime Hall is the third live album from hardcore punk and reggae pioneers Bad Brains.

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Adam Yauch

Adam Nathaniel Yauch (pronounced; August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012) was an American rapper, singer, musician, songwriter, director and film distributor.

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Akashic Books

Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative metal

Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a rock music fusion genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Bad Brains (album)

Bad Brains (also known as The Yellow Tape or Attitude: The ROIR Sessions) is the debut studio album recorded by American hardcore punk/reggae band Bad Brains Recorded in 1981 and released on the cassette-only label ROIR on February 5, 1982, many fans refer to it as "The Yellow Tape" because of its yellow packaging, much in the way that the Beatles' self-titled record is often called "The White Album." Though Bad Brains had recorded the 16 song Black Dots album in 1979 and the 5-song Omega Sessions EP in 1980, the ROIR cassette was the band's first release of anything longer than a single.

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Bad Brains discography

This is a comprehensive discography of Bad Brains, a Washington, D.C.-based hardcore punk band that also plays reggae and uses styles of funk and heavy metal into their music.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.

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Bel canto

Bel canto (Italian for "beautiful singing" or "beautiful song"), along with a number of similar constructions ("bellezze del canto"/"bell'arte del canto"), is a term relating to Italian singing.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blabbermouth.net

Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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Build a Nation

Build a Nation is the eighth full-length studio album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains.

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Caroline Records

Caroline Records is an American record label that started as a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records America during the early to mid-1970s.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Chuck Mosley

Charles Henry Mosley III (December 26, 1959 – November 9, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, who was best known as the frontman for Faith No More from 1984 to 1988.

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Chuck Treece

Chuck Treece (born June 30, 1964) is a session musician and professional skateboarder from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Cro-Mags

The Cro-Mags are an American hardcore punk / crossover thrash band from New York City.

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Crunk Juice

Crunk Juice is the fifth and final studio album by American hip hop group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz.

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Darryl Jenifer

Darryl Jenifer (born October 22, 1960) is the bassist for the hardcore punk band Bad Brains and for the rap-rock group The White Mandingos.

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Dead Boys

Dead Boys are an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio.

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Deftones

Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California.

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Dr. Know (guitarist)

Gary Miller (born September 15, 1958), better known by his stage name Dr.

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Earl Hudson

Earl Hudson (born December 17, 1957) is the drummer for Bad Brains, Born in Alabama, he is the younger brother of the band's lead singer H.R..

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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Faith No More

Faith No More (sometimes abbreviated as FNM) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Falsetto

Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.

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Feral House

Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey.

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Fishbone

Fishbone is an American band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, heavy rock, and soul.

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Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways

Sonic Highways is a 2014 American documentary miniseries directed by Dave Grohl and written by Mark Monroe.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Fuse (TV channel)

Fuse is an American digital cable and satellite television channel dedicated largely to music that first launched in 1994.

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God of Love (album)

God of Love is the sixth full-length studio album by the hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains.

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GoFundMe

GoFundMe is a crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.

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Guitar solo

A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music written for a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar.

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H.R.

Paul D. Hudson (born 11 February 1956), better known by his stage name H.R. (Human Rights), is the British-American lead singer of the American hardcore punk band Bad Brains.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Henry Rollins

Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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I & I Survived

I & I Survived is the seventh full-length studio album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains.

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I Against I

I Against I is the third studio album by the American hardcore punk band Bad Brains.

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Ill Communication

Ill Communication is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys.

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Into the Future

Into the Future is the ninth studio album by the American hardcore punk band Bad Brains, which was released on November 20, 2012 on Megaforce Records.

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Jah

Jah or Yah (יהּ Yah) is a short form of Yahweh (in consonantal spelling YHWH יהוה, called the Tetragrammaton), the proper name of God in the Hebrew Bible.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer.

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Kick Out the Jams (song)

Kick Out the Jams is a song by MC5, released as a single in March 1969 by Elektra Records.

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Lamb of God (band)

Lamb of God (sometimes abbreviated as LoG) is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia.

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Lil Jon

Jonathan Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, record producer, and DJ.

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Living Colour

Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.

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Lorton Reformatory

The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra

Mahavishnu Orchestra were a multinational jazz-rock fusion band formed in New York City in 1971 by English guitarist John McLaughlin.

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Maverick (company)

Maverick was an entertainment company founded in 1992 by Madonna, Frederick DeMann and Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev.

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MC5

MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964.

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Megaforce Records

Megaforce Records is an American independent record label founded in 1982 by Jon Zazula and Marsha Zazula to publish the first works of Metallica.

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Neil Cooper (ROIR)

Neil Cooper (1930–2001) was the founder and head of independent US cassette and record label ROIR.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.

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P.O.D.

Payable on Death (abbreviated P.O.D.) is a Christian nu metal band formed in 1992 and based in San Diego, California.

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Port Townsend, Washington

Port Townsend is a city in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.

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Pump Up the Volume (film)

Pump Up the Volume is a 1990 comedy-drama film written and directed by Allan Moyle and starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.

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Quickness

Quickness is the fourth full-length studio album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Randy Blythe

David Randall Blythe (born February 21, 1971), is an American singer, best known as the vocalist and lyricist of American heavy metal band Lamb of God.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Return to Forever

Return to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by pianist Chick Corea.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Ric Ocasek

Richard Theodore Otcasek (born March 23, 1944 or 1949) (sources differ) known as Ric Ocasek, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

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Rise (Bad Brains album)

Rise is the fifth full-length studio album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rock for Light

Rock for Light is the second full-length album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains, released in 1983.

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ROIR

ROIR (pronounced "roar"), or Reachout International Records, is a New York City-based record label founded in 1979 by Neil Cooper.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Satellite (P.O.D. album)

Satellite is the fourth studio album and the second major label release by the band P.O.D. The album was released on September 11, 2001, debuting at No.

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Screaming Mad George

, known as Screaming Mad George, is a special effects artist, film director, and former musician.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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SST Records

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Sublime (band)

Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988.

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SUNCT syndrome

Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT syndrome), is a rare headache disorder that belongs to the group of headaches called trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia (TACs).

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The Cars

The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s.

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The Dickies

The Dickies are an American punk rock band formed in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles in 1977.

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The Omega Sessions

The Omega Sessions is a 5-song EP recorded by hardcore punk/reggae pioneers Bad Brains in 1980 and released in 1997.

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The Stimulators (NYC band)

The Stimulators were a punk rock band from New York City, US.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.

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Victory Records

Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Westport, Connecticut

Westport is an affluent town located in Connecticut, along Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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Woodstock, New York

Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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120 Minutes

120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to the alternative music genre, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003.

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311 (band)

311 (pronounced "three-eleven") is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska.

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