Bricks (band)

Bricks were a band made started by Mac McCaughan, who founded Merge Records and the band Superchunk, while he was studying at Columbia University in New York City. McCaughan, along with Nashville-born singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell, Andrew Webster (later of the band Tsunami), and Josh Phillips, recorded at least 18 lo-fi songs between 1988 and 1990, which they released on a cassette and two 7" singles before disbanding. Their first single, "Girl With The Carrot Skin", was also made into a music video. Shot on super-8 film, it featured the band eating and playing with copious amounts of carrots.

Bricks' original sessions were later compiled on the 1992 CD A Microphone And A Box Of Dirt. The band reunited in 1994 and were recorded live by Bob Weston at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. for an appearance on Simple Machines' Working Holiday! compilation album. Two new songs appeared on one of Simple Machines Working Holiday! singles that same year.

Discography

  • Winterspring cassette album (Merge Records, 1989)
  • Brick

    A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Traditionally, the term brick referred to unit composed of clay, but it is now used to denote any rectangular units laid in mortar. A brick can be composed of clay-bearing soil, sand and lime, or concrete materials. Bricks are produced in numerous classes, types, materials, and sizes which vary with region and time period, and are produced in bulk quantities. Two basic categories of bricks are fired and non-fired bricks.

    Block is a similar term referring to a rectangular building unit composed of similar materials, but is usually larger than a brick. Lightweight bricks (also called "lightweight blocks") are made from expanded clay aggregate.

    Fired bricks are one of the longest-lasting and strongest building materials, sometimes referred to as artificial stone, and have been used since circa 5000 BC. Air-dried bricks, also known as mudbricks, have a history older than fired bricks, and have an additional ingredient of a mechanical binder such as straw.

    Bricks (disambiguation)

    Bricks are artificial stones made by forming clay into rectangular blocks.

    Bricks may also refer to:

    Music

  • Bricks (band), a late 1980s lo-fi alternative band fronted by Mac McCaughan, of Superchunk
  • Bricks (1975), an album by Hello People
  • "Bricks", a deluxe edition track on the album The State vs. Radric Davis
  • "Bricks", a 1988 song by Crimpshrine
  • Other uses

  • BRICKS (software), an EC-funded, open-source software framework for digital libraries
  • Equivalent VIII, occasionally referred to as "The Bricks", a sculpture by Carl Andre constructed in 1966
  • See also

  • Brick (disambiguation)
  • Bricks (Benny Tipene album)

    Bricks is the debut studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Benny Tipene. It was released on 17 October 2014. It was produced by Sam de Jong at Parachute Studios. The album was re-released in June 2015, containing three new songs and acoustic versions of 'Step On Up' and 'Give This Up'.

    Track listing

    Charts

    Credits

  • Guitars, Bass & Vocal - Benny Tipene
  • Drums and Programming - Sam de Jong
  • Production and Engineering - Sam de Jong
  • A&R - Jaden Parkes
  • A&R Administration - Lizzie McGowan
  • Design - Harrison Burt & Jaden Parkes
  • Photography - C. Alex de Freitas
  • 'No Good For Me' Original Arrangement - Josh Fountain
  • Recorded at Parachute Studios
  • Mixed by Nic Manders at Wairaki Rd
  • Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studio 301
  • References

    Band

    Band or BAND may refer to:

    Science and technology

  • Band (mathematics), an idempotent semigroup
  • Band (radio), a range of frequencies or wavelengths used in radio transmission and radar, specifically:
  • Shortwave bands
  • UMTS frequency bands used for cellphones
  • LTE bands used for cellphone data
  • Band cell, a type of white blood cell
  • Gastric band, a human weight-control measure
  • Bird banding, placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification
  • BAND, acronym for "birds are not dinosaurs," a controversial stance on the evolution of birds
  • BAND (application), a private online space for groups
  • Computing and electronics

  • Microsoft Band, a smart band with smartwatch features created and developed by Microsoft.
  • Organizations

  • Band (channel), nickname of Brazilian broadcast television network Rede Bandeirantes
  • Bands (Italian Army irregulars), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito
  • Bandō

    Bandō may refer to:

    People

  • Eiji Bandō, Japanese entertainer/sportsman
  • Naoki Bandō, Japanese voice actor
  • Japanese surname, especially among Kabuki actors, such as:
  • Bandō Kakitsu I (1847–1893), Japanese kabuki actor of the Uzaemon acting lineage
  • Bandō Shūka I
  • Bandō Tamasaburō
  • Bandō Tamasaburō V
  • Bandō Mitsugorō III
  • Bandō Mitsugorō VIII
  • Bandō Mitsugorō X
  • Other

  • an alternate name for Kantō region
  • Bandō, Ibaraki, a city
  • Bandō Prisoner of War camp
  • Bandō Station, a train station in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
  • See also

    Bando (disambiguation)

    !!!

    !!! is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Its name is most commonly pronounced "Chk Chk Chk" ([/k.k.k/]). Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. They are currently based in New York City, Sacramento, and Portland, Oregon. The band's sixth full-length album, As If, was released in October 2015.

    Background and history

    !!! is an American band formed in the summer of 1995 by the merger of part of the group Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. After a successful joint tour, these two teams decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the The Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmens' Khoisan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation, which the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest is the preferred pronunciation.

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