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Adam Green (musician)
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Adam Green is an American
singer-songwriter
.
Green's off-kilter style has achieved a moderate college radio following in the United States, and enjoys increasing popularity in a number of European countries, particularly Germany
.
for one semester in 1998 before leaving to concentrate on his music, going on to co-found The Moldy Peaches
with Kimya Dawson
. In 2004, the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus, and both Green and Dawson embarked on solo careers.
Green released several albums on Rough Trade Records
. Among his better known songs are "Jessica" (about singer Jessica Simpson
), "Novotel", "Friends of Mine", "Dance with Me", "Carolina" and "Emily", and in the UK
, his cover
of The Libertines
track "What a Waster
". "Jessica" (#63, 2004) and "Emily" (#53, 2005) both appeared in the UK Singles Chart
.
Prior to Jacket Full of Danger
in 2006, all of Green's albums had been released on the 22nd of the month.
In January 2008, The Moldy Peaches began having a resurgence in popularity, due to their music being included in the hit indie film
, Juno
. Most notably, a duet between Green and Dawson, the Moldy Peaches song "Anyone Else But You" was featured in the film, and also in a scene which featured the film's lead actors, Michael Cera
and Ellen Page
performing the song together. The soundtrack album reached #1 on the Billboard 200
chart
on its third week of release.
In April 2010, Green opened Teen Tech - a two-day art show in New York City. The show contained a sizeable collection that included eighteen large-scale (30" x 40") acrylic or watercolor paintings, nineteen drawings, twenty collages and twelve sculptures of plaster, papier-mâché and other materials. This followed similar exhibits in Stockholm and Berlin.
On April 4, 2011, Green released his first film, entitled The Wrong Ferarri. The project, shot entirely on iPhone
, was written, directed, and performed in by Green who claims to have conceived it under the influence of ketamine
. Others appearing in the film include BP Fallon
, Alia Shawkat
, Devendra Banhart
, Pete Doherty
, Dev Hynes, Jeffrey Lewis
, Sky Ferreira
and Macaulay Culkin
.
Green was married, for a short period in 2008, to Loribeth Capella.
Green's great-grandmother, Felice Bauer, was engaged to Franz Kafka
; her family fled the Nazis in the late 1930s and relocated to New York.
Green is a friend of the musician Carl Barât
, appearing in a documentary with him in 2005, following the pair on a night out in London, for the European television culture channel Arte
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
.
Green's off-kilter style has achieved a moderate college radio following in the United States, and enjoys increasing popularity in a number of European countries, particularly Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Career
Green attended Emerson CollegeEmerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...
for one semester in 1998 before leaving to concentrate on his music, going on to co-found The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches was an indie group founded by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson. Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004...
with Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a solo performer and as one half of The Moldy Peaches. In Swahili, "Kimya" means "silence" or "silent".-Career:...
. In 2004, the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus, and both Green and Dawson embarked on solo careers.
Green released several albums on Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
. Among his better known songs are "Jessica" (about singer Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...
), "Novotel", "Friends of Mine", "Dance with Me", "Carolina" and "Emily", and in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, his cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of The Libertines
The Libertines
The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty . The band, centred on the song-writing partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
track "What a Waster
What a Waster
"What a Waster" is the first single from The Libertines. The song was used in the film The Football Factory. The song received little airplay because it has a lot of profanity. "What a Waster" was initially left off debut album Up the Bracket but was later included as the 13th track on a subsequent...
". "Jessica" (#63, 2004) and "Emily" (#53, 2005) both appeared in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
.
Prior to Jacket Full of Danger
Jacket Full Of Danger
Jacket Full of Danger is Adam Green's fourth solo album, released in 2006. It revisits the string-laden melodrama of his second album Friends of Mine, mostly abandoning the uptempo country folk sound of his previous release, Gemstones....
in 2006, all of Green's albums had been released on the 22nd of the month.
In January 2008, The Moldy Peaches began having a resurgence in popularity, due to their music being included in the hit indie film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, Juno
Juno (film)
Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K....
. Most notably, a duet between Green and Dawson, the Moldy Peaches song "Anyone Else But You" was featured in the film, and also in a scene which featured the film's lead actors, Michael Cera
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Juno. Cera received the 2008 Canadian Comedy Award for best male performance for his work in Superbad.-Early...
and Ellen Page
Ellen Page
Ellen Philpotts-Page , known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno...
performing the song together. The soundtrack album reached #1 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
on its third week of release.
In April 2010, Green opened Teen Tech - a two-day art show in New York City. The show contained a sizeable collection that included eighteen large-scale (30" x 40") acrylic or watercolor paintings, nineteen drawings, twenty collages and twelve sculptures of plaster, papier-mâché and other materials. This followed similar exhibits in Stockholm and Berlin.
On April 4, 2011, Green released his first film, entitled The Wrong Ferarri. The project, shot entirely on iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
, was written, directed, and performed in by Green who claims to have conceived it under the influence of ketamine
Ketamine
Ketamine is a drug used in human and veterinary medicine. Its hydrochloride salt is sold as Ketanest, Ketaset, and Ketalar. Pharmacologically, ketamine is classified as an NMDA receptor antagonist...
. Others appearing in the film include BP Fallon
BP Fallon
BP Fallon is an Irish DJ, author, and photographer. He currently lives in New York.At a young age Fallon became a famous personality and broadcaster in Ireland, moving on to music journalism and photography....
, Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox series Arrested Development.- Personal life :...
, Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
, Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty
Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles...
, Dev Hynes, Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis is an American singer/songwriter and comic book artist.-Early life:Lewis attended State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Literature...
, Sky Ferreira
Sky Ferreira
Sky Ferreira , is an American model, singer, songwriter, and actress. On March 22, 2011, Ferreira released her first digital extended play, As If!.-Early life:...
and Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He is also known for his roles in Richie Rich, Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Pagemaster, and Party Monster...
.
Personal life
Green's brother Joel, an astronomer, has appeared as an accompanying musician on several recordings.Green was married, for a short period in 2008, to Loribeth Capella.
Green's great-grandmother, Felice Bauer, was engaged to Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
; her family fled the Nazis in the late 1930s and relocated to New York.
Green is a friend of the musician Carl Barât
Carl Barât
Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is an English musician, actor and author. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and recently debuted a solo album, but is best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines.-Early life:Carl Barât was...
, appearing in a documentary with him in 2005, following the pair on a night out in London, for the European television culture channel Arte
Arte
Arte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...
.
Albums
- GarfieldGarfield (album)Garfield is the debut album by Adam Green, released in 2002. Unlike the rest of his later output, Garfields sound is more in the vein of Green's other project The Moldy Peaches, and likewise, features a rougher, lo-fi sound than his other albums...
(October 22, 2002) - Friends of Mine (July 22, 2003)
- Gemstones (February 22, 2005)
- Jacket Full of DangerJacket Full Of DangerJacket Full of Danger is Adam Green's fourth solo album, released in 2006. It revisits the string-laden melodrama of his second album Friends of Mine, mostly abandoning the uptempo country folk sound of his previous release, Gemstones....
(April 24, 2006) - Sixes & SevensSixes & SevensSixes & Sevens is Adam Green's fifth solo record, released by Rough Trade Records in Europe on March 7, 2008. A few days later, on March 10th, it was released in the UK, followed closely by a US release on March 18th...
(March 18, 2008) - Minor LoveMinor LoveMinor Love is Adam Green's sixth solo record, released by Rough Trade Records in Europe on January 8, 2010 and in the U.K. on January 11, 2010. It was released in the U.S. on February 16, 2010...
(January 8, 2010) - MusiK For A Play (May 11, 2010)
Singles
- "Baby's Gonna Die Tonight" (Promo 2002)
- "Dance With Me" (2002)
- "Jessica" (2003)
- "Friends Of Mine" (2004)
- "Emily" (2005)
- "Carolina" (2005)
- "Nat King Cole" (2006)
- "Novotel" (Promo 2006)
- "Morning After Midnight" (Promo / Download 2008)
- "Twee Twee Dee" (Promo / Download 2008)
- "What Makes Him Act so Bad" (Promo / Download 2009)
- "Buddy Bradley" (Promo /Download 2010)
Books
- Adam Green: Magazine. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp VerlagSuhrkamp VerlagSuhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading European publishers of fine literature.In January 2010 the headquarters of the company moved from Frankfurt to Berlin.-Early history:...
, 2005, ISBN 3-518-12405-6 - Martin Büsser: Antifolk. Von Beck bis Adam Green. Mainz: Ventil Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-931555-93-3
- Albert Koch: Fuck Forever. Der Tod des Indie-Rock. Planegg: Hannibal Verlag, 2007. ISBN 3-85445-282-9
- Silke Leicher, Manuel Schreiner:Skizzenbuch Unterwegs. Schlüchtern: Rockbuch Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-927638-08-0
External links
- www.adamgreen.net Official website
- thewrongferarri.com Official film website