15-518: [REDACTED] Look up absentee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Absentee or The Absentee may refer to: Absentee (band) , a British band The Absentee , a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life The Absentee (1915 film) , a 1915 American silent film directed by Christy Cabanne The Absentee (1951 film) ,
30-428: A 1951 Mexican film directed by Julio Bracho The Absentee (1989 film) , a 1989 Argentine film Absentee (album) , an album from Pitch Black Forecast See also [ edit ] Absenteeism Absentee ballot Absentee landlord Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians Present absentee Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
45-534: A goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994,
60-546: Is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in
75-571: The album that it "has individual moments of greatness, but sometimes feels bipolar overall". They toured with The Magic Numbers , Brakes , Broken Family Band , Bloc Party and Silver Jews . When not recording and touring with Absentee, all the band members had side projects, Michaelson with Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards , Ganjei, Bronstein and Earle with Wet Paint, and Bronstein with The Bronsteins. In 2011, Michaelson released his debut solo album, Sudden Fiction . AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG )
90-576: The band, Michaelson and Bronstein collaborated to make the self-produced mini-album Hawaiian Disco . Five songs from that mini-album, and other unreleased material was used in the 2003 film Twisted , shown in the Raindance Film Festival . Later in 2010, the band contributed a song to Missed Connections , a short film which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival . The band have had two previous major releases. Donkey Stock in 2005
105-524: The company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where the staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic
120-513: The mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with
135-453: The music press, including a 7.1 Pitchfork rating. In 2008, they released their final album, Victory Shorts . The album received a four-star review from AllMusic , with Tim Sendra describing it as "an assured, confident, and quite often brilliant album...a triumph of wit, emotion, and scarred beauty that is sure to rank with the best albums of 2008", also receiving positive reviews from Q , Uncut , and The Guardian . NPR said of
150-815: The title Absentee . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Absentee&oldid=1138502700 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Absentee (band) Absentee were an English alternative rock band from London , England, signed to Memphis Industries . The band members were Dan Michaelson (vocals/guitar), Melinda Bronstein (vocals, keyboards , melodica , glockenspiel ), Babak Ganjei (guitar/lap steel), Laurie Earle (bass) and Jon Chandler (drums, later replaced by Che Albrighton). Before forming
165-409: The tone of the music and the platforms on which the music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left
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#1732856214808180-471: Was a six track EP, which received a 6.8 rating from Pitchfork but a less enthusiastic review from PopMatters . The NME called it a "lugubrious wonder", with James Jam considering "Michaelson’s grumbled, world-weary mumble...the most wondrous sound to trickle out of a human being’s voicebox all year". In 2006, the band released the James Ford -produced album , Schmotime , which was well received by
195-568: Was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired a database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification
210-500: Was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created, a feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with
225-422: Was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of the sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced
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