things users liked tagged "music" at lik.io http://lik.io/tag/music 2012-02-11T10:07:50+01:00 text/html 2009-06-29T15:17:35+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/586 To pay tribute to this music icon, Neff has produced a Michael Jackson Tee titled "Long Live the King" in two colorways]]> text/html 2009-05-15T17:45:25+01:00 erin http://lik.io/like/549 The CD player is compact and functional. The speakers are built into the body of the CD player. To play a disc, you simply pull the cable. Volume and search controls are situated on the top of the CD player.]]> text/html 2009-05-15T14:32:43+01:00 erin http://lik.io/like/545 Nate Williams, aka Alexander Blue, an artist, illustrator and designer has worked extensively in various facets of the illustration industry with a wide variety of clients. His illustration work has been geared to both adults and children and has appeared in magazines, advertising, publishing, music, fashion, textiles, home decor, merchandise, posters, social expression and newspapers. His clients include Converse, MSN, Urban Outfitters, Nick JR., New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dell, Cartoon Network, and The Truth Anti-Tobacco campaign.]]> text/html 2009-03-30T17:40:48+01:00 erin http://lik.io/like/501 Passion Pit is an American electro band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formed in 2007, the group consists of Michael Angelakos (lead vocals/keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards), Ayad Al Adhamy (synth/samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass) and Nate Donmoyer (drums). The band’s debut Chunk Of Change EP (originally intended as a Valentine’s Day gift from Angelakos to his girlfriend) was released on September 16th, 2008 on French Kiss Records.]]> text/html 2009-03-24T18:56:14+01:00 erin http://lik.io/like/484 Little Dragon is a music group based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Yukimi Nagano on vocals together with her close high-school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrick Källgren (bass), and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards), Little Dragon’s first release was a double-A-side 7” single on Off The Wall and then signed to Peacefrog (home to José and Findlay Brown), “Twice” / “Test”.]]> text/html 2009-03-14T23:43:20+01:00 zack http://lik.io/like/442 Fleet Foxes are a five-piece Seattle-based band signed to Sub Pop and Bella Union. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes.]]> text/html 2009-03-13T12:08:45+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/430 Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), popularly known as Jay-Z, (or by a variety of stage names including S. Carter, Iceberg, Jigga, Jay-Hova, Hova, Hov, and Young Hov) is an american hip-hop artist and former president and CEO of Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records. He is regarded as one of the most prolific and successful American rappers of the mid-90s and early 2000s. Known for his use of metaphors, freestyling abilities, word play, flow, and blending of street and popular hip hop...]]> text/html 2009-03-12T21:19:52+01:00 destroyjon http://lik.io/like/425 ]]> text/html 2009-03-12T18:47:29+01:00 zack http://lik.io/like/423 While it may sound like an entire Balkan orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut’s first album, Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing records, 2006), is largely the work of one 22-year-old Santa Fe, New Mexico native, Zach Condon, and was almost completely recorded at home.]]> text/html 2009-03-11T23:52:49+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/415 Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for his prowess as a pianist. Ben Folds' musical career started to get off the ground in the late '80s, as bassist for band Majosha, after playing bass and piano at Pinehurst, in a group known as the "Caroliners" with cohort Millard Powers in 1985-1987; he also played drums as a session musician in Nashville. As well as appearing in Pots & Pans - now known as the Snuzz demo, as a pianist in Britt Harper Uzzell's (aka Snuzz) band.]]> text/html 2009-03-11T23:37:56+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/414 The Shins are an American indie band consisting of singer and guitarist James Mercer, keyboardist/guitarist/bassist Martin Crandall, bassist/guitarist Dave Hernandez, drummer Jesse Sandoval, and, as of 2007, keyboardist/singer Eric Johnson of Fruit Bats. They formed in 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and Sandoval, who were both members of the lo-fi musical group Flake Music (formed as Flake 1992).]]> text/html 2009-03-11T22:34:55+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/413 Wale (pronounced Wah-Lay) is a rapper from Washington, DC. Fusing DC's homegrown go-go genre with a streetwise Northern hip-hop sensibility, Wale takes samples from all genres together with lyrical dexterity. Wale was born to Nigerian immigrant parents in Washington, DC. He grew up on Peabody Street in Northwest DC and moved to Largo, Maryland as a teenager. He attended seven different high schools in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, finally graduating from Quince Orchard High School in 2001.]]> text/html 2009-03-11T22:32:04+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/412 Kid Cudi, whose birth name is Scott Mescudi, is a Hip-hop/Electronica artist from Cleveland, Ohio. His musical career and style is centered around one dream, to "Be on the moon". His first album, a single called "Day N' Night" was released on iTunes on February 5th, 2008. Currently "Day N' Night" holds the #2 spot in the UK. Through his premier on iTunes and through word of mouth, his success continues. His debut album will be released shortly, while a mixtape has been released to satisfy the curiosity and thirst of his listeners for more Kid Cudi.]]> text/html 2009-03-11T13:34:53+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/406 Musician. Producer. Songwriter. Lyricist. Psycho. Hippie. Genius. These words all connect through one name: Charles Hamilton. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Hamilton was exposed to music at an early age. "My mother was an entertainment journalist for the Cleveland Call and Post, so she would take me with her to events when I was just a baby." His mother always made sure he had an instrument around him.]]> text/html 2009-03-11T13:26:54+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/405 Songbird is a free and open source software media player and web browser developed as by Pioneers of the Inevitable (with members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."]]> text/html 2009-03-10T17:33:46+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/398 Santigold (born Santi White on September 25, 1976) is an alternative rock musician, songwriter and producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States who formerly went under the stage name Santogold. She is perhaps best known for the song L.E.S. Artistes which became a hit in the UK and on American alternative radio.]]> text/html 2009-03-10T02:54:28+01:00 christinaa http://lik.io/like/393 I want my (new and improved) MTV.]]> text/html 2009-03-10T02:31:26+01:00 sarah http://lik.io/like/391 Jamie Seerman is an American folk singer-songwriter from New York. She performs under the name Jaymay.]]> text/html 2009-03-06T02:30:39+01:00 zack http://lik.io/like/325 Jens Martin Lekman (pronounced "Yens", born 6 February 1981 in Angered, Sweden) is a Swedish indie pop musician residing in Melbourne, Australia. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings; the lyrics are often witty, romantic, and melancholic.]]> text/html 2009-03-05T20:10:00+01:00 zack http://lik.io/like/301 Refused was a Swedish hardcore band originating from Umeå, Sweden, formed in 1991. The band released five EPs and three albums before breaking up in 1998. Kerrang placed The Shape of Punk To Come at #13 on their 50 Most Important Albums Of All Time list[1].]]>