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Michael Gira

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Michael Rolfe Gira (born February 19, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist. [1]

61 relations: A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse, Akron/Family, Alternative Tentacles, Angels of Light, Art rock, Atavistic Records, California, Caroline Records, Circus Mort, CMJ, Consequence of Sound, Devendra Banhart, Drainland, Exclaim!, Experimental music, Experimental rock, Fact (UK magazine), General Educational Development, Giorno Poetry Systems, Glasgow, Guardian Media Group, Guild Guitar Company, Hashish, Henry Rollins, I Am Not Insane, Iowa, Israel, Jarboe, Jerusalem, List of industrial music genres, Los Angeles, Lucille (guitar), MCA Records, Mesa Boogie, My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky, Neofolk, Noise rock, Orange Music Electronic Company, Otis College of Art and Design, Pitchfork (website), Raymond Pettibon, Redondo Beach pier, Roland Jazz Chorus, SST Records, Sub Rosa (label), Swans (band), The Angels of Light Sing 'Other People', The Body Lovers / The Body Haters, The Glowing Man, The Guardian, ..., The New York Times, The New York Times Company, The Seer (Swans album), The World of Skin, To Be Kind, Uni Records, What We Did, Windsor for the Derby, WNYC, Young God Records, 2.13.61. Expand index (11 more) »

A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse

A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse is a 1985 no wave compilation released on the Giorno Poetry Systems label.

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Akron/Family

Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and its members currently live in Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles, California; and Joshua Tree, California.

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Alternative Tentacles

Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label established in 1979 in San Francisco, California.

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Angels of Light

Angels of Light were an American folk band that was formed circa 1998 by singer-songwriter and musician Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group he had founded in 1982.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Atavistic Records

Atavistic Records is an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois, known for its no wave and free jazz recordings.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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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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Circus Mort

Circus Mort was a post-punk band from New York City.

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CMJ

CMJ Holdings, Corp. was a music events and online media company which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published CMJ New Music Monthly.

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Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound (CoS) is a Chicago-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music and movies.

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Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist.

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Drainland

Drainland is the debut solo studio album by American musician Michael Gira.

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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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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Fact (UK magazine)

Fact (stylised as FACT) is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.

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General Educational Development

General Equivalency Development or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) tests are a group of four subject tests which, when passed, provide certification that the test taker has United States or Canadian high school-level academic skills.

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Giorno Poetry Systems

Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer.

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Guild Guitar Company

The Guild Guitar Company is a United States-based guitar manufacturer founded in 1952 by Alfred Dronge, a guitarist and music-store owner, and George Mann, a former executive with the Epiphone Guitar Company.

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Hashish

Hashish, or hash, is a drug made from cannabis.

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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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I Am Not Insane

I Am Not Insane is a 2010 album by Michael Gira.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jarboe

Jarboe La Salle Devereaux, known mononymously as Jarboe, is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist who came to prominence as a member of the New York City-based band Swans in 1985.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; القُدس) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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List of industrial music genres

Industrial music is a form of experimental and electronic music which emerged in the 1970s.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lucille (guitar)

Lucille is the name B.B. King gave to his guitars.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Mesa Boogie

Mesa/Boogie (also known as Mesa Engineering) is an American company in Petaluma, California that manufactures amplifiers for guitars and basses.

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My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky

My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky is the eleventh studio album by Swans released on September 23, 2010; it was their first studio recording in 14 years.

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Neofolk

Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk or dark folk, is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1980s as an outgrowth of post-punk and post-industrial music, blending acoustic instruments such as guitar and snare drum with elements of industrial music.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Orange Music Electronic Company

Orange Music Electronic Company is an English amplifier manufacturing company, famous for its distinctive sound and bright orange Tolex-like covering on amplifier heads and speaker cabinets.

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Otis College of Art and Design

Otis College of Art and Design is a private art school and design school in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Raymond Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn; June 16, 1957 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.

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Redondo Beach pier

The Redondo Beach pier is located in Redondo Beach, California and stretches out into the Pacific Ocean.

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Roland Jazz Chorus

Roland Jazz Chorus is the name given to a series of solid-state instrument amplifiers produced by the Roland Corporation in Japan since 1975.

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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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Sub Rosa (label)

Sub Rosa is a record label based in Brussels.

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Swans (band)

Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira.

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The Angels of Light Sing 'Other People'

The Angels of Light Sing 'Other People is the fourth studio album by Angels of Light.

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The Body Lovers / The Body Haters

The Body Lovers and The Body Haters were experimental music projects led by composer Michael Gira between 1998 and 1999 following the breakup of Swans in 1997.

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The Glowing Man

The Glowing Man is the fourteenth studio album by American experimental band Swans, released June 17, 2016 on Young God and Mute.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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The Seer (Swans album)

The Seer is the twelfth studio album by American experimental rock band Swans and was released on August 28, 2012 by Gira's own record label Young God Records.

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The World of Skin

The World of Skin was a project springing out of the American group Swans, which was a collaboration between the core Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe.

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To Be Kind

To Be Kind is the thirteenth studio album by American experimental rock band Swans, released on May 12, 2014.

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Uni Records

Uni Records (short for the label's legal name Universal City Records and rendered as UNI) was a record label owned by MCA Inc..

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What We Did

What We Did is a collaborative studio album by Swans frontman Michael Gira and Windsor for the Derby member Dan Matz.

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Windsor for the Derby

Windsor for the Derby are an American post-rock band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1995 but currently based in Austin, Texas.

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WNYC

WNYC is the trademark, and a set of call letters shared by a pair of non-profit, noncommercial, public radio stations located in New York City and owned by New York Public Radio, a nonprofit organization that did business as WNYC RADIO until March 2013.

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Young God Records

Young God Records is an independent record label formed by Michael Gira in 1990 that specializes in experimental, avant-garde and often non genre-specific releases.

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2.13.61

2.13.61, Inc. is a publisher and record company founded by musician Henry Rollins and named after his date of birth (February 13, 1961).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira

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