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2017 breaks 2016's record for films that crossed over $500 million, with nineteen: the ten films in the table above, as well as Coco, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, It, Justice League, Logan, Transformers: The Last Knight, Kong: Skull Island, The Boss Baby, and Dunkirk. 2017 also broke 2016's record of films that crossed over ...
- List of American Films of 2017
Box office The highest-grossing American films released in...
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2017 saw the death of Sir John Hurt. It also saw the death...
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Though the label was part of the punk and underground scenes of the 1980s, the term has reflected the label's philosophy more than the sound of its roster. Al Larsen of the band Some Velvet Sidewalk was part of the K Roster. In 1989, he wrote an article for the Snipehunt zine which reflected and distinguished K's approach to "punk" music with an et...
Early K releases included childlike, hand-drawn album art. Combined with the stripped-down toy-instrument aesthetic of Beat Happening and distribution of bands such as Heavenly in the US, the label was quickly associated with the twee music scene.Johnson has been called "the first star of American twee." Critics have suggested that the "twee" label...
The Love Rock philosophy also made room for a feminist approach to punk, which had existed in Olympia, WA just as K Records became an established presence in the town.The region's early punk acts, such as The Accident and Neo Boys, included women. Women artists such as Lois Maffeo and Stella Marrs were early champions of K Records and appeared on i...
Dischord
In 1989, Johnson met with Dischord Records head and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye, who introduced Johnson to the hardcore R&B band Nation of Ulysses. The two agreed to release their album through a joint venture, DisKord Records, which also released Autoclave's 1991 release "Go Far." This partnership was also responsible for co-tours between Olympia and Washington, DC based punk acts.
Kill Rock Stars
The Kill Rock Stars label, also based in Olympia, had produced exclusively spoken word until Calvin encouraged the label to release a compilation record of local music acts ahead of its International Pop Underground Convention; Calvin provided half of the recordings for the record.With the mainstream success of Nirvana, whose track "Beeswax" was exclusive to the compilation, demand was high enough for K Records to work out a distribution deal with Kill Rock Stars. Collection of the royalties,...
Los Campesinos! cite a 'K Records T-shirt' in the song "Knee Deep At ATP", while early single "The International Tweexcore Underground" directly alludes to the label's International Pop Underground.Nothing Painted Blue released a song "K for Karnival" which is partially a tribute to K Records; it repeats "Who put the shield around the K?" several times, referring to the interstate-style shiel...Kurt Cobain had the K Records logo guitar sticker on his white Fender Stratocaster and tattoo on his forearm, saying it was to "try and remind me to stay a child." The song "Lounge Act" on Nevermin...The Hole song "Olympia" (credited as "Rock Star" on Live Through This) was changed on a performance on the John Peel show to reference Johnson and K Records.2017 in film is a overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths.
Jul 7, 2012 · "Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music," a new book by Mark Baumgarten about the influential popular-music scene in Olympia in the '80s and '90s, is crammed with facts ...
2050s. 2060s. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. A. 2017 action movies (13 P) 2017 adventure movies (5 P) 2017 animated movies (1 C, 8 P) 2017 anime movies (3 P) C. 2017 comedy movies (2 C, 21 P) D. 2017 documentary movies (3 P) 2017 drama movies (3 C, 20 P) F. 2017 fantasy movies (6 P) H.
Jun 15, 2012 · Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music, a history of the pivotal Olympia, Washington label K Records, will be published by Sasquatch Books on July 10. K, co-founded by ...
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