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n. (alternative spelling of boom box English)
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Boombox is a common term for a portable transistorized cassette tape recorder/player and AM/FM radio (and, beginning in the 1990s, a CD player) with an amplifier, two or more loudspeakers and a carrying handle. A boombox is a device typically capable of receiving radio stations and playing recorded music (usually cassettes or CDs, usually at a high volume). Many models are also capable of recording onto cassette tapes from radio and other sources. Designed for portability, boomboxes can be powered by batteries as well as by line current. The boombox was introduced to the American market during the mid-1970s. The desire for louder and heavier bass led to bigger and heavier boxes; by the 1980s, some boomboxes had reached the size of a suitcase. Most boomboxes were battery-operated, leading to extremely heavy, bulky boxes.
The boombox quickly became associated with urban society, particularly Black and Hispanic youth. The wide use of boomboxes in urban communities led to the boombox being coined a "ghetto blaster", a pejorative nickname which was soon used as part of a backlash against the boombox and hip hop culture. Cities began banning boomboxes from public places, and they became less acceptable on city streets as time progressed. The boombox became closely linked to hip hop culture and was instrumental in the rise of hip hop music.
Boombox was a Breakbeat and rock remix radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio created and programmed by DJ Liquid Todd. Notable shows on the channel included "Automatic Static" with DJ Icey on Friday nights, an old-school lunchtime show with DJ Red Alert, the "Flash Mash" with Grandmaster Flash and "The Liquid Todd Show" which aired weekday afternoons.
The channel was canceled when Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio merged in 2008. Currently Liquid Todd hosts a two-hour speciality show with a similar format called "Boombox Radio" on the Sirius XM channel Alt Nation.
BoomBox is an American rock and electronic duo formed in 2004 by singer-songwriter Zion Godchaux and producer Russ Randolph, both of whom have backgrounds as DJs. Originating in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the band is signed to Heart of Gold Records and has released three studio albums, starting in 2005 with Visions of Backbeat. Their second album, downriverelectric, was released in June 2010, while their most recent, Filling in the Color, was released in 2014.
They tour frequently, and have appeared at festivals such as Wakarusa and the Hangout Music Festival. The band is known for not using setlists, instead improvising and changing their set's direction based on the crowd's energy. According to NUVO, "BoomBox plays a unique blend of psychedelic rock and electronica," and also incorporates elements of funk, soul, R&B, and house.
A boombox is a portable stereo.
Boombox or Boom Box may also refer to:
- BoomBox (American band), a rock band
- BoomBox (Ukrainian band), a funky groove band
- Boombox (Sirius), a breakbeat and rock remix Sirius Satellite Radio station
- Boombox (Kylie Minogue album), a 2009 remix album by Kylie Minogue
- Boom Box (No Doubt album), a 2003 box set by No Doubt
- "Boombox", a 2010 song by The Lonely Island on their album Incredibad, featuring Julian Casablancas
- Boombox (Beatsteaks album), a 2011 album by Beatsteaks
- Boombox (Robin album), a 2013 remix album by Robin
- " Boombox", 2016 song by Laura Marano
- The Boombox, a website owned by Townsquare Media
Boombox (subtitled The Remix Album 2000–2008) is a remix album by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Parlophone on 17 December 2008. The album contains remixes produced between 2000 and 2008, including a remix of the previously unreleased title track, "Boombox".
Boombox (also: БумБокс, Bumboks) is a Ukrainian rock band formed in 2004 by singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk and Andriy “Fly” Samoylo on guitar. In April 2005 the band released its first album, which only took 19 hours to record.
Their songs are in predominantly in Ukrainian, but songs in Russian and English also appear on their albums and singles.
Boombox is a remix album by Finnish singer Robin, released on 11 March 2014. Like its parent album Boom Kah, Boombox also reached number one on the Finnish Albums Chart.
"Boombox" is a song by American singer Laura Marano. It was released on March 11, 2016 through Big Machine Records as her debut single from her upcoming debut album. It was writtten by Joe Kirkland, Jason Dean, Rami Jrade and Asia Whiteacre. The song is a dance-pop song with elements of electropop. A music video for the song was released on April 4, 2016, and has received over 30 million views. Ken Jeong makes an appearance in the music video.
Usage examples of "boombox".
They were the clothes of a bum, and the possessions which had spilled out of the cart when it overturned suggested the same: an old pair of airtip dress shoes, a length of frayed rope, a Barbie doll, a blue jacket with BUCKEYE LANES printed on the back in gold thread, a bottle of wine, half-full, stoppered with what looked like the finger of a lady's evening glove, and a boombox radio which had to be at least ten years old.
Clay and his friends had called such systems ghetto blasters or boomboxes.
Yes, he could see the red power-lamps of the boomboxes circling the field.
Around the field, seeming to float in the dark, were the red eyes of the boomboxes, all but one playing without benefit of CDs.
A few of the heat-warped boomboxes had fallen over when Clay opened the door, and something that had very likely been balanced on top of the pile had fallen over with them, lodging half in and half out of the pile.
Their course was going to take them south and west of it, but when they left the mall parking lot, they were close enough to see the red eyes of the boomboxes through the trees.
Two boomboxes could be heard, one softly playing anonymous music, one somewhat louder tuned to a local newsfeed.
What are you gonna do, sneak down to the tribal store and shoplift boomboxes?
Before I picked up one of those dictation machines with the foot-pedals for $10 at a garage sale, I used to transcribe by repeatedly rewinding the tape on a boombox that was sitting on my desk.