AFI (band) - Wikipedia. AFI (abbreviation for A Fire Inside) is an American rock band from Ukiah, California, formed in 1. They have had the same lineup since 1. Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals.[1] Of the current lineup, Havok and Carson are the two remaining original members. They have released ten studio albums, ten EPs, one live album and one DVD. The band first reached substantial commercial success with their fifth album, The Art of Drowning (2.

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Billboard 2. 00.[2]AFI broke into the mainstream with their sixth album, Sing the Sorrow (2. Billboard 2. 00 and remained on the chart for 5. The album was supported by popular singles "Girl's Not Grey" and "Silver and Cold", both of which peaked at number seven on America's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2. The Leaving Song Pt. II" was also released as a single, reaching number 1. Sing the Sorrow was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2.

AFI's best- selling release, having sold over 1. September 2. 00. 9.[4]Their seventh album, Decemberunderground (2. Billboard 2. 00[2][5] and featured the hit single "Miss Murder", which topped the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and reached number 2. Billboard Hot 1. 00. Another single, "Love Like Winter", reached number four on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2. Decemberunderground was followed three years later by Crash Love (2. Burials (2. 01. 3); both albums were also successful, peaking at number twelve and number nine respectively on the Billboard 2. The band's tenth and latest album, AFI, was released on January 2. Billboard 2. 00, making it their second- highest chart position.[2]History[edit]Early years (1. While still in high school in Ukiah, California, Davey Havok (vocals), Mark Stopholese (guitar) and Vic Chalker (bass) formed a band called AFI in November 1.

While the meaning of the initialism "AFI" currently stems from the full title "A Fire Inside,"[7] band members have stated that the name formerly originated from the titles "Asking for It"[8] and "Anthems for Insubordinates."[9] At the time, the band did not know how to play any instruments. Stopholese suggested his friend, Adam Carson, who had a drum kit join the band.[1. Stopholese learned guitar and Chalker learned bass, but Chalker was soon replaced by Geoff Kresge and AFI made its first EP in recording Dork (1. Loose Change, which included future AFI guitarist Jade Puget.

AFI's beginnings were somewhat inauspicious, as Davey Havok laughed in a 1. We were amazed that we even got our shit together enough to put out a split 7- inch with Jade's band at the time."[1. AFI disbanded when its members attended different colleges, one of which was UC Berkeley where members of the band lived and practiced for a time in the basement of the Delta Chi fraternity house on Channing Way. Kresge moved to New York where he played with street punk band Blanks 7. The members of the band decided to pursue playing in AFI full- time after enjoying an extremely positive experience and enthusiastic crowd response at a reunion show at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, California, in 1. Between 1. 99. 3 and 1.

EPs (Behind the Times; Eddie Picnic's All Wet; This Is Berkeley, Not West Bay; AFI/Heckle; Bombing the Bay; Fly in the Ointment) independently. Answer That and Stay Fashionable and Very Proud of Ya (1. Their first full- length, Answer That and Stay Fashionable was released July 4, 1. Wingnut Records, and was produced by Tim Armstrong. The album featured fast and upbeat hardcore songs, with humorous lyrical themes, which are well- vocalized in songs such as "Nyquil", "Cereal Wars", and "I Wanna Get a Mohawk (But Mom Won't Let Me Get One)".[1. The album's cover is a parody of the film Reservoir Dogs's promotional poster.

The album title takes root from a quote spoken in British TV show The Comic Strip Presents. Audio samples from both films/shows and European Vacation are featured in several of the album's tracks, namely "Don't Make Me Ill" and "High School Football Hero". AFI signed on to Nitro Records, Dexter Holland of The Offspring's label.

They would remain with the label until the release of the 3. EP. Around this time they coined the term 'East Bay hardcore' to describe their genre of music.[1. In 1. 99. 6, AFI then released their second album, Very Proud of Ya. The songs "Cruise Control" and "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" from Very Proud of Ya were used in the 1.

Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, which was first screened in 1. Havok in a small role. Two songs from their previous album, "Yurf Rendenmein" and "Two of A Kind", were re- recorded for this album. Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1. After several tours in support of the album Very Proud of Ya, Kresge decided to leave the group.

His spot was filled by Hunter Burgan for the remaining Very Proud of Ya tour dates. Burgan went on to help AFI record Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1. Future AFI guitarist Jade Puget also provided background vocals on Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, with his name credited as 'Jade "The Playah" Puget', making it the first album to feature all four current members of the band. The release of Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes is also notable because AFI started to gather a larger following. When asked about the band's beginnings, Davey Havok stated to Revolver Magazine, "The reason why we started doing this is because we loved it," and "at the onset of the band, there was no real hope of burning bright at all.

The goal was just to keep burning no matter how bright–to play music for the rest of our lives, at any cost."[1. Black Sails in the Sunset and The Art of Drowning (1.

AFI at the Art of Ears studio in Hayward, California, during the recording of Black Sails in the Sunset. After recording the A Fire Inside EP (1. Stopholese left the band and was replaced by Jade Puget, former member of Influence 1.

Havok's close friend. The band then recorded Black Sails in the Sunset (1. AFI fans to a much darker sound,[1. Charles Baudelaire, "De profundis clamavi," is present in the hidden track "Midnight Sun") and an emphasis on a more somber atmosphere and lyrics. The New York Times later referred to this as the point where Havok "developed into a singer and songwriter of substance".[1. The influence of the deathrock and goth rock scenes was also apparent.

During this period their style was mostly referred to as horror punk or "goth- punk".[1. Offspring frontman Dexter Holland was featured as a backing vocalist on two tracks: "Clove Smoke Catharsis" and "The Prayer Position". AFI's sound experienced a major progression with the addition of guitarist Jade Puget, beginning with Black Sails in the Sunset. The All Hallow's EP (October 5, 1.

Halloween themes. The EP spawned the single "Totalimmortal", a track later covered by The Offspring for the Me, Myself and Irene soundtrack.

It received a fair amount of radio play and exposed AFI to larger audiences. The Boy Who Destroyed the World" from the All Hallows EP was featured in the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3video game. All Hallow's also featured a cover of the Misfits song "Halloween". On September 1. 9, 2. AFI released The Art of Drowning, which debuted on the Billboard Charts at number 1. Heatseekers chart.[1.

It continued to touch base with the horror punk genre, but expanded into styles that were a departure from previous works.[1. The album featured slower, more melodic songs that were more reminiscent of alternative rock, such as "Ever and a Day" and "6 to 8". Still, the presence of hardcore influences was imminent in most of the album, flaunted most on tracks like "Smile", "The Lost Souls", and "Catch a Hot One".

The album brought the band unprecedented success in the underground scene, selling in excess of 1. The Days of the Phoenix" was released as a single and video and, like "Totalimmortal," had some moderate mainstream success, garnering the band more TV and radio airplay.

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Plex, are located at the Meridian International Business Center complex in Englewood, Colorado.[2] As of January 2. Starz is available to 3. United States.[3]History[edit]Starz was launched at 8: 0. Eastern Time on February 1, 1.

Tele- Communications Inc.; the first two movies aired on the network were dramas released in 1. Scent of a Woman[4] and The Crying Game.

The network was originally operated as a joint venture between TCI and Liberty Media (both companies were controlled by John Malone), with TCI owning a 5. Starz made its debut as the first phase of a seven- channel thematic multiplex that was launched by Starz (then Encore Media Group) over the course of the succeeding eight months, with the remaining six channels being launched between July and September 1. The multiplex was intended to only include six channels, however on May 3.

Encore acquired the pay cable rights to telecast recent feature films from Universal Pictures released after that year; as a result, TCI/Liberty decided to create an additional premium pay TV service to serve as a competitor to HBO and Showtime.[6] The network carried the moniker "Encore 8" in its on- air branding as part of a numbering system that was used by Encore's multiplex channels.[8] Early trademark filings indicated that TCI/Liberty originally proposed names including "Applause" and "Stars" for the service (the "s" in the latter was ultimately changed to a "z" in the final naming). Starz focused more on recent feature films, while Starz ENCORE (then Encore) focused on films released between the 1. July 1. 99. 9. It also held the television rights to releases from Carolco Pictures, Fine Line Features and its sibling studio New Line Cinema, and the Walt Disney Company–owned studios Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures and Miramax. Films from those studios were not carried on STARZ until 1. Disney's output agreement with Showtime for its non- family- oriented films concluded.

The network restricted the scheduling of films that contained graphic sexual or violent content to late evening and overnight time periods.[9]Starz's availability was mainly limited to TCI's systems at launch, debuting with a one- month free preview available to prospective subscribers; it would eventually sign its first major carriage agreement outside of the TCI group, through a deal with Continental Cablevision in September 1. In June 1. 99. 7, Comcast signed an agreement to carry the network on its Pennsylvania and New Jersey systems to replace Philadelphia- based PRISM after that network shut down that October following the loss of its (and sister network Sports. Channel Philadelphia's) sports programming to Comcast Sports. Net Philadelphia.[1. The network gained carriage deals with many other major U. S. cable and satellite providers by the early 2.

Starz was available to an estimated 2. TCI.[1. 3]As a startup network, Starz endured major losses during its early years, with total deficits topping US$2. US$1. 50 million by 1. It was predicted to lose an additional US$3. Partly in an effort to get the network's substantial losses off its books, TCI announced a deal on June 2, 1. Starz, Encore Media Group, to sister company Liberty Media; TCI retained a 2. Encore Media Group.

Liberty Media assumed the former company's stake in the subsidiary in 1. TCI's merger with AT& T Corporation.[5][1. Starz logo, used from April 7, 2. April 5, 2. 01. 6. By May 1. 99. 8, Starz maintained a subscriber base reaching 7.

Encore Media Group was later renamed the Starz Encore Media Group in 2. As part of a corporate restructuring plan in 2. Starz Encore Group eliminated 1. On March 2. 5, 2. Starz Encore Group corporate entity was renamed Starz Entertainment. On November 1. 9, 2. Liberty Media spun off Starz into a separate public tracking stock called Liberty Starz.[1.

On January 1, 2. 01. Chris Albrecht joined Starz as its president and chief executive officer, then overseeing all of the Starz entities including Starz Entertainment, Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman.[2. On August 8, 2. 01. Liberty Media announced that it would spin off the Liberty Starz subsidiary into a separate publicly traded company.[2.

The spin- off of the subsidiary was completed on January 1. Liberty Starz changing its name to Starz as a result.[2. On April 5, 2. 01. Starz was rebranded and added all the Encore channels to its moniker, therefore increasing the Starz channel lineup to 1.

Starz premium channels. Its main channel was rebranded Starz Encore and carries reruns of Starz Originals in addition to films.[2. On June 3. 0, 2. 01. Lionsgate agreed to acquire Starz Inc. On December 8, 2. Lionsgate and Starz was completed.[2. Channels[edit]List of channels[edit]Depending on the service provider, Starz provides up to twelve multiplex channels – six 2.

Starz On Demand). Starz broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules. The respective coastal feeds of each channel are usually packaged together (though most cable providers only offer the east and west coast feeds of the main Starz channel), resulting in the difference in local airtimes for a particular movie or program between two geographic locations being three hours at most. The premium film services Encore and Movie. Plex, which are also owned by Starz, Inc., operate as separate services; as such, subscribers to one of the services do not have to subscribe to any of the others. Some providers offer Encore and Movie.

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