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Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
Did music really use to be less complicated, or does it just seem that way? Maybe it's just that life used to be less complicated, and music is simply a mirror of its times. Or something like that. Whatever the case, Two Men with the Blues was recorded live at Rose Hall in New York's Lincoln Center ...
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Dethklok
Cartoon Network's Metalocalypse series launched in 2006 with a simple but esoteric premise: What if the planet's most popular band was an extreme-metal group that actually lived in a world filled with the guts and gore that the genre's musicians (usually) only sing about? And what if it had fanatica ...
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Television - Entertainment
The 40th New Zealand International Film Festival kicks off next week and runs through until the end of July.
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Drew Carey to make Cleveland Orchestra debut -- via Shakespeare
Laurence Olivier. Leslie Howard. John Gielgud. Richard Burton. Drew Carey. Drew Carey? Could one of America's most admired television comedians -- and favorite Cleveland sons -- possibly have a place amid other distinguished Shakespeareans? Jump thee not to conclusions.
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ROTHBURY FESTIVAL: DMB, Mayer lead parade of big names at Rothbury
There's top-quality music scheduled for the entirety of Rothbury, whose six stages will be host to more than seven dozen acts starting Thursday evening. At these sorts of fests, word-of-mouth buzz often dictates where the big crowds end up -- there's probably a new star-in-waiting somewhere on the Rothbury bill -- but here are several performers already guaranteed to grab audiences.
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Survival tips and tricks
Bring your camaraderie. It's always good to remember at big events such as this that patience really is a virtue -- and ultimately everybody is there for the same reason you are. Camping areas won't necessarily slip into peace and quiet overnight -- if nothing else, expect the acoustic guitars to get hauled out into the wee hours. Veteran fest campers know that earplugs are a must. And if you ...
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For those about to rock
Six venues. More than 80 acts. And four long days of getting groovy on the grass. Michigan, meet Rothbury. Rothbury, Michigan. Since 1879, Rothbury has been a dot on the state map -- a 1-square-mile parcel of land with 416 people, according to the latest census.
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ROTHBURY FESTIVAL: A little bit country, a little bit techno
A3 is best recognized in the States for the song "Woke Up This Morning," better known as the theme song for "The Sopranos." The track, thick with ominous beats and a Marlboro-eaten, weirdly accented vocal, became as much a part of the show as Tony's panic attacks and Carmela's ziti.
Detroit Free Press |
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Forward.com
Listening to “Her First Dance,” pianist Misha Alperin’s latest recording for the ECM label, I was reminded of an old story about the late jazz trombonist Vic Dickenson.
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Tories pitcher back on the mound for Tories after injury scare in 2007
Matthew Rogers is one of those people who takes a bad occurrence, and digs to find how to make a positive out of it. During an Intertown Twilight League game in Rockport on July 29, 2007, Rogers was on the mound for the Topsfield Tories, and took a line drive in his left eye, knocking him unconscious.
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House Rebuilding
Hues Corporation: Hercules and Love Affair add new color to ’70s dance music. Enter a keyword, select the type of event, and the particular day this week below.
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One Track Mind
Standout Track: No. 1, “With Beaks and Feathers We Saw Bodies Floating Upstream,” which is, incidentally, the only song on the CD-R.
Washington City Paper |
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Music in the Park
City officials, chamber of commerce officers and Yeager Machine employees gathered for a ceremonial groundbreaking on Monday, June 16. The new facility should be operational around October of this year.
Waconia Patriot |
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Ships
Epic Video Game Collaboration Lets Players Rock Out With America's Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band - Aerosmith
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Huw Stephens: Top 5 websites
As nearly 175,000 music fans enjoy the music at Glastonbury this weekend, Radio 1 DJ and BBC Radio Cymru presenter Huw Stephens reveals the websites he will be checking out on his blackberry between hosting duties on the Introducing Stage at the festival.
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Adult Bible study to meet Monday
Adult Bible study and music will begin at 10 a.m. Monday at the Harmony Baptist Association, 1950 state Route TT.
Sedalia Democrat |
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Arctics to return to writing this month
Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook says the band will begin work on a third album in July.
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Glastonbury 2008: Satnav to guide campers to toilets and lost friends
Glastonbury festivalgoers searching for lost friends or tents will for the first time be able to use mobile GPS satellite navigation to send them in the right direction.
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Snap Judgment - Lesley Roy - "I'm Gone, I'm Going"
Lesley Roy is a 21-year-old Irish rocker. After being discovered by Jive Records, she left the small Dublin suburb where she grew up and moved to New York to...
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Teens have 800 illegal songs on iPods
Young people have an average of 800 illegally copied songs on their iPods or MP3 players, according to the largest ever survey of youth music ownership.
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Spark Summer Music Series Voting Starts Now!
15 bands. 8 weeks. 1 winner. Read about the prizes to be won, listen to the music, watch our in-studio videos from this year's SMS contestants — and — cast daily votes for your favorite band.
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Canadian fiddler looks for quick payday via eBay
A Canadian fiddler who is no stranger to controversy has put half his future music earnings up for sale on eBay, the auction website.
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Music Release: Poor release of hippie-era music
Various Artists, "Go Ride The Music & West Pole" (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
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Sacred Fusion: Jewish and Muslim Melodies Mingle Easily at Moroccan Music Festival
Earlier in the life of this historic city, it wouldn’t have been odd to hear a Sephardic Jewish melody and the Muslim call to prayer ring out and interweave simultaneously. Fes, widely considered Morocco’s spiritual and intellectual capital, was once home to Maimonides himself.
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Strathmore Artist-in-Residence Chamber Music Collective
Andrew Luse’s “Classics on the Rocks” concert series seeks to lure younger audiences with that magical summer combination of free + outdoors + pulled pork BBQ. This Wednesday’s performance by the Strathmore Artist-in-Residence Chamber Music Collective will begin with Antonín DvoÅ™ák’s Second Piano Quintet, for which the Czech composer simply rewrote his lousy first piano quintet with some ...
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