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Jenny Lewis (born January 8, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American singer, musician, and actress. January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
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Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ...
Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based indie band. ...
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Team Love is a New York City-based independent record label founded by Conor Oberst and Nate Krenkel in 2003. ...
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Brute/Beaute Records is the name of the Warner Brothers distributed imprint on which Rilo Kileys third full-length album was released. ...
Saddle Creek Records is an Omaha, Nebraska-based label established in 1993 whose roster includes Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Faint, Son, Ambulance, Desaparecidos, Now Its Overhead, Commander Venus, The Good Life, Mayday, Azure Ray and Sorry About Dresden. ...
Barsuk Records (pronounced Bar-SOOK) is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington. ...
January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ...
A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. ...
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Lewis is a current member and lead singer of the alternative rock band Rilo Kiley, and has also released a solo album. She is also a former child actress. A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. ...
Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ...
Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based indie band. ...
The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor. ...
Acting career Lewis made her professional debut in a Jell-O commercial. She was featured in the short-lived 1986 Lucille Ball sitcom Life With Lucy, where she was cast as one of Lucy's grandchildren. She also had small roles on such TV shows as Baywatch, Golden Girls, Growing Pains, Roseanne, Mr. Belvedere, and Brooklyn Bridge. JELL-O is a brand name belonging to USA-based Kraft Foods for a number of gelatin desserts, including fruit gels, puddings and no-bake cream pies. ...
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actor, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. ...
A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...
Life with Lucy was Lucille Balls last television series. ...
Baywatch was a popular American television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California. ...
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Growing Pains is an American television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from 1985 to 1992. ...
Roseanne is an Emmy Award winning American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997, starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. ...
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Brooklyn Bridge was an American television show (1991–1993, on CBS) about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the 1950s. ...
Lewis went on to appear in over a dozen movies, mostly teen-themed movies like Troop Beverly Hills, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She was featured in the 1996 made-for-TV movie Talk to Me with Yasmine Bleeth, as well as the films Foxfire, The Wizard, and Pleasantville. She continued acting until 2001. Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 motion picture filmed in the United States by Columbia Pictures. ...
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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
Talk to Me is a 1996 made-for-TV drama film that features Yasmine Bleeth and Ricky Paull Goldin. ...
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968 in New York City) is an American TV and film actress. ...
Foxfire is a 1996 movie based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang . ...
The Wizard is a 1989 movie about a boy (Fred Savage) and his emotionally disturbed brother (Luke Edwards) who run away from their Utah home to go to California. ...
Pleasantville is a New Line Cinema film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels. ...
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Music
Rilo Kiley In 1998, she and friends Pierre De Reeder, Blake Sennett and Dave Rock formed the band Rilo Kiley. (Rock was later replaced by Jason Boesel.) In an interview with NPR's All Songs Considered, Lewis remarked that she wanted to name the group Love's Way (after her parents' lounge act in Las Vegas), but Sennett "didn't go for it."[1] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rilo Kiley. ...
Blake Sennett (born September 22, 1976 in San Diego, California) is the lead guitarist for indie rock band Rilo Kiley and the lead singer, lead guitarist for his alt rock side project The Elected. ...
Dave Rock is the former drummer of indie rock band Rilo Kiley. ...
Jason Boesel is the drummer for Rilo Kiley and The Elected. ...
NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ...
All Songs Considered is an online multimedia program featuring information about, and streaming audio of, the songs used as bumper music on the NPR radio program All Things Considered. ...
Beginning with a country sound, Rilo Kiley gravitated toward a downbeat indie rock sound, and with their 2004 album More Adventurous found widespread success. Critics such as Pitchfork Media attributed this to the "wise" decision to front Lewis on most of the songs (on earlier albums, Sennett contributed about half the vocals). The song "Portions for Foxes" was a hit, and in 2005 the band was picked up by Warner Bros. (via their own imprint, Brute/Beaute Records), putting them on a major label for the first time. They opened for Coldplay on their U.S. tour in 2005. Rilo Kiley's 2007 album, Under the Blacklight is being released directly by major label Warner Bros.. In political geography and international politics, a country is a political division of a geographical entity, a sovereign territory, most commonly associated with the notions of state or nation and government. ...
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
More Adventurous is the fourth full length album released by Los Angeles based band Rilo Kiley. ...
A typical example of Pitchforks main page, as of 12-12-06 Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K, pitchy, or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ...
More Adventurous is the third full length album released by Los Angeles based band Rilo Kiley. ...
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Coldplay are an English rock band. ...
Under the Blacklight is the fourth full length album released by American indie rock band Rilo Kiley. ...
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Other musical projects In 2002, Lewis was asked to contribute some vocals for The Postal Service, whose album Give Up was an international success. Lewis performed in the video for the hit "We Will Become Silhouettes", and toured with the band in 2003. Lewis also contributed vocals to several tracks on the 2004 Cursive album The Ugly Organ. The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. ...
Give Up is The Postal Services critically acclaimed debut album. ...
We Will Become Silhouettes was released February 8, 2005 by The Postal Service under the Sub Pop Records label. ...
Cursive is an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, on Saddle Creek Records. ...
The Ugly Organ is a concept album by the indie/emo band, Cursive and their fourth full length album. ...
In 2004, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes invited Lewis to record a solo record for record label Team Love. Described by Lewis as "a kind of soul record," Rabbit Fur Coat, released in January 2006, features contributions from Oberst, M. Ward, and Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and Lewis's bandmate in The Postal Service, guests on a cover of The Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care." The Watson Twins provide accompaniment on the album, billed as Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins. Lewis toured with the Watson Twins in support of the album three times in 2006 and appeared with her band on The Late Show With David Letterman, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Later with Jools Holland. The album was met with very positive reviews from music critics, with Entertainment Weekly writing, "Consider Lewis the Emmylou Harris of the Silverlake set" and Rolling Stone commenting that "her girlishly seductive vocals are more versatile than ever." The Onion AV Club, Spin, and NPR music critic Meredith Ochs named it among the best albums of the year.[2][3] Conor Oberst in 7th grade. ...
Bright Eyes is a band consisting of singer-songwriter/guitarist Conor Oberst, multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Mogis, Nate Walcott, and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omahas indie music scene. ...
Team Love is a New York City-based independent record label founded by Conor Oberst and Nate Krenkel in 2003. ...
Rabbit Fur Coat is an album by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, featuring The Watson Twins. ...
Matt Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who, until Summer 2006 was part of the music scene of Portland, Oregon. ...
Maroon 5 is a soul-influenced rock band from Los Angeles, California on A&M/Octone Records. ...
James Burgon Valentine (born October 5, 1978 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American musician. ...
Benjamin Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) in Bremerton, Washington and currently residing in Seattle, Washington, is an American musician who has formed several indie bands, and who is known for his songwriting. ...
Death Cab for Cutie is an American band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. ...
The Traveling Wilburys were a short-lived supergroup created by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne. ...
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The Watson Twins is an American musical group based in Los Angeles with country and folk influences. ...
Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City. ...
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Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night talk show on NBC that is also syndicated worldwide. ...
Later with Jools Holland is a contemporary music show hosted by Jools Holland. ...
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ...
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Silver Lake may refer to: // Cities, towns etc Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California Silver Lake, Indiana Silver Lake, New Hampshire on the eastern border of New Hampshire Silver Lake, Ohio Lakes In California: Silver Lake (Amador), in Amador County, California Silver Lake (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, California Silver Lake...
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The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. ...
Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ...
NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ...
In 2005, Lewis contributed to the UNICEF benefit song, "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" along with Sennett and Jimmy Tamborello. UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ...
Do They Know Its Halloween? is a satire of the song Do They Know Its Christmas?. It was released on October 11, 2005 on Vice Records by an all-star cast of rock artists and more under the name The North American Halloween Prevention Initiative (NAHPI). ...
James Scott Tamborello, more commonly known as Dntel, is an electronic music artist. ...
Musical influences In the April 2006 issue of Spin, Lewis lists the "Music That Changed My Life" in a full page article, noting predominantly late 1980s and early 1990s hip hop music as important influences on her musical development. Albums such as N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising and Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique are listed in the article, as well music by Too $hort, Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep, Souls of Mischief and Freestyle Fellowship. In the same article, she is quoted as saying "I'm an Eazy-E girl" showing her adoration for the deceased hip hop producer and former member of the group N.W.A.. She remembers an encounter with Freestyle Fellowship member Aceyalone, "I actually saw them in the early '90s at a Hollywood Club. I went by myself, and Aceyalone picked me out and freestyled about me. Maybe it was part of his shtick - to dis the enthusiastic but lonely white girl. I must've looked like such a poser." Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...
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De La Soul is a Grammy-award winning hip hop group from Long Island, New York. ...
3 Feet High and Rising is the influential debut album from American hip-hop trio De La Soul. ...
The Beastie Boys are a musical group from the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. ...
Pauls Boutique is an album by American rap group the Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989 (see 1989 in music). ...
Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966) in South Central Los Angeles, known by stage name Too $hort, is a rapper who started his career as a youth at the age of 17 Oakland, California. ...
The Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group who pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip hop group to use an in house producer. ...
Black Sheep is an alternative hip-hop duo from The Bronx, New York, consisting of Andres Dres Titus and William Mista Lawnge McLean. ...
Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group, part of the hip hop collective Hieroglyphics. ...
Freestyle Fellowship are a rap group from Los Angeles consisting of rappers Aceyalone, Mikah 9, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter and producer J Sumbi. ...
Eazy-E (Eric Wright) (September 7, 1963 - March 26, 1995) was an African-American rapper, record producer, and record executive who initially rose to fame as a member of the group N.W.A.. Born in Compton, California, Eazy-E dropped out of Compton High School while in tenth grade...
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Freestyle Fellowship are a rap group from Los Angeles consisting of rappers Aceyalone, Mikah 9, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter and producer J Sumbi. ...
Aceyalone (born Eddie Hayes) is an American rapper. ...
In several interviews, Lewis has also credited influences such as Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Laura Nyro, particularly her album Gonna Take a Miracle. Lewis has been spotted at concerts by some of these performers as well as indie singer-songwriter Leslie Feist. Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1934) is an American country singer-songwriter and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s and 1970s and overall is revered as a country icon. ...
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. ...
Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro) (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer, one of the most influential musicians to emerge in the 1960s. ...
Gonna Take a Miracle is the fifth music album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ...
Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. ...
Media attention - Noted for her quirky clothing and red hair, Lewis has become a fashion icon in the alternative rock music world.
- Lewis was given an "Esky" for Best Temperature Raiser in Esquire's 2006 Esky Music Awards in the April issue.
- Lewis is a playable character in the online flash game, Emogame 2. (She was included in the game without her consent.)
- Actress Anne Hathaway is a big fan of Lewis's music. Hathaway was quoted in People Magazine as calling Lewis' solo album "beautiful, funny, and very subversive"[4].
- Drew Barrymore is also a big fan. Barrymore featured a Jenny Lewis song in her iTunes Celebrity Playlist, saying that Rabbit Fur Coat was "just my favorite album of 2006." Barrymore says it inspired her to write a song, which she plans to present to Lewis.[5]
- In July 2007, she was named #4 on a list of "Women Who Rock Right Now."Who Rock Right Now.
George Lois cover design for Esquire (May 1969) Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ...
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American film and stage actress. ...
People, a weekly magazine of celebrity and popular culture news, debuted on February 27, 1974. ...
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. ...
This article is about the iTunes application. ...
Filmography The black-and-white movie Dons Plum is a low-budget drama featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, making crude jokes while hanging out in a Los Angeles diner. ...
Pleasantville DVD cover Pleasantville is a film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels. ...
Little Boy Blue is a nursery rhyme with probable origins in the Middle Ages. ...
Talk to Me is a 1996 made-for-TV drama film that features Yasmine Bleeth and Ricky Paull Goldin. ...
Foxfire is a 1996 movie based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates . ...
Sweet Temptation is a 1996 TV movie, directed by Ron Lagomarsino and written by Joyce Eliason Teenager Jade Larson (Jenny Lewis) is like many teenagers - has a nagging mother, parents are divorced, ... She gets into drinking and smoking like most teenagers, but one night Jade has a passionate night with...
Big Girls Dont Cry. ...
Brooklyn Bridge was an American television show (1991–1993, on CBS) about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the 1950s. ...
VHS version box for The Wizard The Wizard is a 1989 movie starring Fred Savage, Christian Slater, and Beau Bridges. ...
Shannons Deal (1989 - 1991) was a drama on American television about a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon (Jamey Sheridan) who lost his family and his job to a compulsive gambling habit. ...
Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 motion picture filmed in the United States by Columbia Pictures. ...
Baby M (born March 27, 1986) was the name given to the child in an American custody case between the surrogate mother hired to carry her, and the childs biological father. ...
My Father, My Son (Turkish: Babam ve Oğlum) is a 2005 Turkish Movie written and Directed by Çağan Irmak. ...
Uncle Toms Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, is American author Harriet Beecher Stowes fictional anti-slavery novel. ...
Life with Lucy was Lucille Balls last television series. ...
Discography
Rilo Kiley -
This is a comprehensive listing of official releases by Los Angeles-based alternative rock band Rilo Kiley. ...
Take-Offs and Landings is Rilo Kileys first full length album. ...
The Execution of All Things is the second full length album released by Los Angeles based rock band Rilo Kiley. ...
More Adventurous is the fourth full length album released by Los Angeles based band Rilo Kiley. ...
Under the Blacklight is the fourth full length album released by American indie rock band Rilo Kiley. ...
Solo -
This is a comprehensive listing of official releases by Jenny Lewis, lead singer of the band Rilo Kiley. ...
Rabbit Fur Coat is an album by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, featuring The Watson Twins. ...
The Watson Twins is an American musical group based in Los Angeles with country and folk influences. ...
Videography The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. ...
We Will Become Silhouettes was released February 8, 2005 by The Postal Service under the Sub Pop Records label. ...
Jared Hess (born 1979, Preston, Idaho) is a American filmmaker known best for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which he co-wrote and directed. ...
See also The Watson Twins is an American musical group based in Los Angeles with country and folk influences. ...
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