Veracity (album)

Veracity is the debut studio album released by Evacuate Chicago, the serious persona of humorcore band, Psychostick. The album features Psychostick's brand of metal/hardcore without their usual humor, and instead a much more serious tone.

On September 17, 2009, Preiss announced on the band's MySpace that the album would be released January 12, 2010 through Rock Ridge Music. It was later changed to January 26.

History

The album has been in the works since 2004, and was originally planned to be called The Damage Has Been Done. The band recorded a demo of "Deny" in 2004 that was available for play on the band's various websites. Drummer Alex Preiss told Songfacts that it was the first song he ever wrote.

In an interview with The Metal Reporter, Preiss stated, "Evacuate Chicago is largely my own project. I’m only playing drums and doing the occasional back up vocals, but I wrote the 9 out of 12 songs. Josh did all the guitars and main back ups, and Rob did the lead vocals. Josh did a lot of stuff actually, he wrote the remaining 3 songs, and he engineered and mixed it. But it’s a really personal, pissed off record I wrote when I was 19 and reading a lot of Alice Miller books. It’s very honest, thus the name “Veracity”." When asked if the album will be released on CD, Preiss responded with, "We are in fact! Chadd, the artist who did the latest Screaming Mechanical Brain cover did the art for this one as well, and it’s awesome. I can’t draw anything though, so I am easily impressed. But no, that guy rules. And now, as soon as we can afford to get it pressed, we will do so, and have it available online and at shows."

! (album)

! is an album by The Dismemberment Plan. It was released on October 2, 1995, on DeSoto Records. The band's original drummer, Steve Cummings, played on this album but left shortly after its release.

Track listing

Personnel

The following people were involved in the making of !:

References

"@" (album)

"@" is a studio album by John Zorn and Thurston Moore. It is the first collaborative album by the duo and was recorded in New York City in February, 2013 and released by Tzadik Records in September 2013. The album consists of improvised music by Zorn and Moore that was recorded in the studio in real time with no edits or overdubs.

Reception

Allmusic said "@ finds two of New York City's longest-running fringe dwellers churning out sheets of collaborative sounds that conjoin their respective and distinct states of constant freak-out... These seven improvisations sound inspired without feeling at all heavy-handed or urgent. More so, @ succeeds with the type of conversational playing that could only be achieved by two masters so deep into their craft that it probably feels a lot like breathing to them by now".

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn and Thurston Moore

Album

Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, then from 1948 as vinyl LP records played at 33 ¹⁄₃ rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century albums sales have mostly focused on compact disc (CD) and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used in the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl.

An album may be recorded in a recording studio (fixed or mobile), in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to several years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately, and then brought or "mixed" together. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed "live", even when done in a studio. Studios are built to absorb sound, eliminating reverberation, so as to assist in mixing different takes; other locations, such as concert venues and some "live rooms", allow for reverberation, which creates a "live" sound. The majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at separate times while listening to the other parts using headphones; with each part recorded as a separate track.

Veracity (software)

Veracity is an open source distributed version control system primarily written by SourceGear LLC which versions not only the artifacts placed under version control in the repository, but also associated data for features such as the integrated bug tracking system and agile build management tool. Written in C and Javascript, Veracity is released under the Apache License and has a publicly available code repository, however it is still mostly developed by SourceGear with limited community involvement.

Integrated Bug tracking

Veracity's ability to tie a bug tracking system to specific versions of the repository artifacts in a distributed way allows a user to easily keep the bug tracking database in sync with the artifacts in every clone of the repository. But, Veracity bug tracking data is only one data set which is versioned along with the repository artifacts in a "distributed database". Other such data includes a user list enabling built-in user access controls; and file locks (Veracity supports a "lock" mechanism similar to many traditional client-server version control systems). How and where the decentralized database is stored is intended by the developers to be configurable. Veracity allows storing the repository separately from the working copy, and was designed to use an API which hides the back-end storage of the data, so that any given repository can use a wide variety of database formats or storage location. However, although a user can already have multiple working copies associated with a single repository, only one repository format (FS3) is actually supported as of version 1.0.