The Postal Service

The way in which the group combines mechanical backing tracks with poppy hooks is somewhat reminiscent of 1980s new wave music. The group formed after Gibbard contributed vocals for a song on Dntel's album Life is Full of Possibilities called "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan". This song sparked an EP of remixes by other artists, such as Lali Puna, the Flaming Lips, Safety Scissors, Barbara Morgenstern and Superpitcher, and was so well received that the two artists d ...

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The Postal Service, The Postal Service - Overview, The Postal Service - Discography, The Postal Service - Such Great Heights, The Postal Service - Give Up, The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight, The Postal Service - Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell EP - The Flaming Lips, The Postal Service - Wicker Park: Soundtrack Album, The Postal Service - Give Up Vinyl, The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes, The Postal Service - Be Still My Heart Nobody Remix - Single, The Postal Service - Verve Remixed Vol. 3, The Postal Service - Make Some Noise EP

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Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the U.S. state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States–Canadian border in King County, of which it is the county seat. Seattle was founded in the 1850s and named after Chief Seattle, or Sealth. As of 2004, the population estimates of the city given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 571,480, howeve ...

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• Seattle, Washington - Official nickname, flower, slogan, and song
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World War III is the name given to a hypothetical world war that would be fought after World War II. Most usages of the term include the use of weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons. In the latter half of the 20th century, military confrontation between the superpowers was considered to pose an extreme threat to establishing world peace, when the Cold War saw the capitalist United States face the communist Soviet Union. If this confrontation had escalated into full-scale war, it was widely thought that the conflic ...

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Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the U.S. state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States–Canadian border in King County, of which it is the county seat. Seattle was founded in the 1850s and named after Chief Seattle, or Sealth. As of 2004, the population estimates of the city given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 571,480, howeve ...

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Bremerton is a city located in Kitsap County, Washington, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 37,259. It is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. Bremerton is connected to downtown Seattle by a 60-minute ferry ride, which carries both vehicles and walk-on passengers. Bremerton Washington - Geography. Bremerton is located at 47°34'12" North, 122°39'9" West (47.570017, -122.652625)GR1. It is located on the Kits ...

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• Bremerton Washington - 1990-Present
• Bremerton Washington - Demographics
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The first Cex album, Cells, was a compilation of tracks Kidwell had been working on for several years, and was released in 1998 by his own CD-R label, Underscore, while he was still at Dulaney High School in Timonium, Maryland. The following year, Kidwell met Miguel Depedro (Kid 606) and the two founded Tigerbeat6, a record label which would be among the vanguards of the electronica movement at the time. The next Cex album, Role Model, was one of the label's first releases (2000), and was quickly followed up the next year with ...

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Cex, Cex - History, Cex - Discography, Cex - Full albums, Cex - EPs

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The U.S. Postal Service has announced changes to the classes of domestic mail and select postage rate increases effective July 1, 1996. Rates for single-piece first-class, single-piece Standard Mail (formerly third- and fourth-class), and international mail classes did not change. The following general description of each new mail class and the enclosed rate scales are provided for your information ...

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United States Postal Service, United States Postal Service - Governance and organization, United States Postal Service - Monopoly status, United States Postal Service - Subsidized services, United States Postal Service - Types of postal facilities, United States Postal Service - Addressing envelopes, United States Postal Service - Mail sorting, United States Postal Service - Major products and services, United States Postal Service - First Class Mail, United States Postal Service - Standard Mail, United States Postal Service - Bulk Mail, United States Postal Service - Parcel Post, United States Postal Service - Media Mail, United States Postal Service - Priority Mail, United States Postal Service - Express Mail, United States Postal Service - Postal Money orders, United States Postal Service - Global services, United States Postal Service - Airline and rail division, United States Postal Service - Add-on services, United States Postal Service - Delivery confirmation, United States Postal Service - Signature confirmation, United States Postal Service - Insurance, United States Postal Service - Certified Mail, United States Postal Service - Registered Mail, United States Postal Service - Collect On Delivery C.O.D., United States Postal Service - Copyright and reproduction, United States Postal Service - PC postage, United States Postal Service - Sponsorships, United States Postal Service - Employment in the USPS, United States Postal Service - Public reputation, United States Postal Service - Unions of the U.S. Postal Service

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In the UK, indie music charts have been compiled since at least the 1980s. These charts initially featured independent bands that emerged from punk and post-punk, as well as indie pop artists such as Aztec Camera and Orange Juice, the C86 jangle-pop movement and the twee pop of Sarah Records artists. The bands were distinguished by having their records released by small labels, independently of the major record companies. The 1980s indie scene directly influenced 1990s Britpop artists such as Blur and Suede (though many of these were technically not wholl ...

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Indie rock, Indie rock - Indie: status or genre?, Indie rock - Indie Rock in North America

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The term "indie" is often used to mean a sound that a musician presents, but when interpreted more literally, it is the way that sound is presented or made. "Indie" often refers to an artist or band that is not part of the mainstream culture and/or making music outside its influence. Though the sound of these bands may differ greatly, the "indie" definition comes from the do-it-yourself attitude and ability to work outside large corporations.

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Indie music, Indie music - Definitions of indie, Indie music - Indie meaning not major-label, Indie music - Indie and commerciality, Indie music - Indie and genres, Indie music - Cultural and philosophical attributes of indie, Indie music - Subcategories of indie

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Tamborello first began creating music in 1989, when he was in Junior High School in Santa Barbara, California. His father — a jazz saxophone player and flautist — bought Tamborello a drum machine, a sequencer, a keyboard and an eight track recorder, primarily for the possibility to create music on his own. He recorded an album under the pseudonym Antihouse in 1993, and released it in 1994. He began work on the first Dntel EP in 1994, wh ...

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Dntel, Dntel - Name, Dntel - History, Dntel - Figurine, Dntel - Discography, Dntel - Albums, Dntel - EPs, Dntel - Singles

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In the spring of 1999, between tours, Ben Gibbard had some songs buzzing around his head that wouldn't really work as Death Cab For Cutie songs. Thus, armed with a guitar, some broken keyboards and four-track, he set about documenting them. This process resulted in two releases: the CD EP ¡All-Time Quarterback! (which included a cover of The Magnetic Fields' Why I Cry), and the "straight to Walkmen" cassette release The Envelope Sessions (which included Underwater, which was later rerecorded by Death Cab F ...

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All-Time Quarterback, All-Time Quarterback - Overview, All-Time Quarterback - Discography

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"Dies ist ein wundervolles Lied Ein bisschen hirnlos, aber schön Ein wirklich zauberhaftes Lied Man kann es hörn, aber nicht sehn . . . Wir singen hier ein schönes Lied Hundertprozentig jugendfrei Kein Wort von Sex oder Gewalt Diese Zeiten sind vorbei" "This is a wonderful song Little bit brainless but lovely A really glamorous song You can't see it but hear . . . Here we ...

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List of self-referential songs, List of self-referential songs - 0–9, List of self-referential songs - A, List of self-referential songs - B, List of self-referential songs - C, List of self-referential songs - D, List of self-referential songs - E, List of self-referential songs - F, List of self-referential songs - G, List of self-referential songs - H, List of self-referential songs - I, List of self-referential songs - J, List of self-referential songs - K, List of self-referential songs - L, List of self-referential songs - M, List of self-referential songs - N, List of self-referential songs - O, List of self-referential songs - P, List of self-referential songs - Q, List of self-referential songs - R, List of self-referential songs - S, List of self-referential songs - T, List of self-referential songs - U, List of self-referential songs - V, List of self-referential songs - W, List of self-referential songs - X, List of self-referential songs - Y, List of self-referential songs - Z

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Synthpop - 1980s. Alphaville Book of Love Bronski Beat Camouflage Depeche Mode Devo Thomas Dolby Erasure Eurythmics A Flock of Seagulls Howard Jones Human League Moev New Order Gary Numan Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Pet Shop Boys Real Life Talk Talk Tears for Fears Thom ...

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Synthpop, Synthpop - Representative artists and ensembles, Synthpop - 1980s, Synthpop - 1990s to Present

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The Shins began in 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and Sandoval, who were both members of the lo-fi musical group Flake (formed in 1992). By 1999, Flake (which by then had been renamed Flake Music) was disbanded and all of its former members became The Shins, excluding Dave Hernandez, former member of Scared of Chaka, who joined the group following the departure of Flake bassist Neal Langford. The group is c ...

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The Shins, The Shins - Music, The Shins - Other details, The Shins - Discography

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Phyllis Nefler (Long), a Beverly Hills wife going through a divorce with her lawyer-cum-enterpreneur husband Fred (Nelson), decides to deal with it by becoming the leader of the unruly local troop of the Wilderness Girls (an allusion to the real Girl Scouts of the USA), which her daughter, Hannah (Jenny Lewis), is a member of. Her Beverly Hills sensibilities result in a change in the program for the girls in her troop, who are all the children of sociali ...

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Troop Beverly Hills, Troop Beverly Hills - Synopsis, Troop Beverly Hills - Trivia

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Sub Pop was started by Bruce Pavitt in 1980 as a fanzine called Subterranean Pop (which was changed to Sub Pop starting with the 2nd issue). Inspired by the cassette fanzine Fast Forward, Sub Pop began alternating issues with compilation tapes of American bands (though several foreign bands did appear on Sub Pop cassettes). There were nine issues of Sub Pop in all: six magazines and three cassettes (issues 5, 7, and 9). After issue 9, Sub Pop switched to an all-cassette format (cassettes featured ear ...

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Sub Pop, Sub Pop - History, Sub Pop - Artists who have worked with Sub Pop

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Bremerton Washington - 1890s. Bremerton was platted by German immigrant-turned-Seattle entrepreneur William Bremer in 1891. Three years earlier, a U.S. Navy commission determined that Point Turner, between the protected waters of Sinclair and Dyes inlets, would be the best site in the Pacific Northwest on which to establish a shipyard. Recognizing the large number of workers such a facility would employ, Bremer and his business partner, Henry Hensel, purchased the then-undeveloped land near Point Turner at the in ...

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Bremerton Washington, Bremerton Washington - Geography, Bremerton Washington - Politics, Bremerton Washington - History, Bremerton Washington - 1890s, Bremerton Washington - 1900-1930, Bremerton Washington - 1930s, Bremerton Washington - 1940s, Bremerton Washington - 1950-1970, Bremerton Washington - 1970s, Bremerton Washington - 1980s, Bremerton Washington - 1990-Present, Bremerton Washington - Demographics, Bremerton Washington - Notable Bremertonians

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There are a few theories, but no definitive answer. Pierre and Jason both insist that "Rilo Kiley" has no real meaning. Some have claimed that the name is a reversal of the common Irish name Kyle O'Riley. Former drummer Dave Rock once claimed during a radio interview that Rilo Kiley was the name of a pair of Siamese twins from the early 20th century and that they picked it as the name because the bandmembers were close (ironically, he left the band not long after). Another theory is that it was the name of a Scottish architect. An article in ...

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Rilo Kiley, Rilo Kiley - Origin of the name, Rilo Kiley - Discography, Rilo Kiley - Full Length Albums, Rilo Kiley - EPs, Rilo Kiley - Singles

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Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of Ben Gibbard while he was the guitarist for the band Pinwheel (he has also recorded solo as All-Time Quarterback). As Death Cab for Cutie, Gibbard released a cassette, titled You Can Play These Songs with Chords; the release was surprisingly successful, and Gibbard decided to expand the band into a complete project. He recruited Christopher Walla, who also recorded "Songs with Chords", as an electric guitarist, Nicholas Harmer on bass, and Nathan Good to play drums; this configuration rele ...

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Death Cab for Cutie, Death Cab for Cutie - Overview, Death Cab for Cutie - Discography, Death Cab for Cutie - Full albums, Death Cab for Cutie - Compilations, Death Cab for Cutie - EPs, Death Cab for Cutie - Singles, Death Cab for Cutie - Videos

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Seattle Washington - Landmarks. The Space Needle is Seattle's most recognizable landmark, having been featured in the logo of the television show Frasier and the backgrounds of the television series Grey's Anatomy, not to mention countless films. The Needle dates from the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, a World's Fair. Contrary to popular belief, the Space Needle is neither the tallest structure in Seattle, nor is it in downtown. This misconception results from the Space Needle often being photographed ...

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Seattle Washington, Seattle Washington - History, Seattle Washington - Founding, Seattle Washington - Major events, Seattle Washington - Economic history, Seattle Washington - Geography and climate, Seattle Washington - Geography, Seattle Washington - Climate, Seattle Washington - Demographics, Seattle Washington - Government and politics, Seattle Washington - Official nickname flower slogan and song, Seattle Washington - Seattle mayors of note, Seattle Washington - Sister cities, Seattle Washington - Economy, Seattle Washington - Education, Seattle Washington - Culture, Seattle Washington - Landmarks, Seattle Washington - Annual cultural events and fairs, Seattle Washington - Performing arts, Seattle Washington - Museums and art collections, Seattle Washington - Other cultural institutions, Seattle Washington - Media, Seattle Washington - Sports, Seattle Washington - Infrastructure, Seattle Washington - Transportation, Seattle Washington - Street layout, Seattle Washington - Medical centers and hospitals, Seattle Washington - Utilities, Seattle Washington - Gallery, Seattle Washington - Sources

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