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Thousands of guitarists strum for new music record
More than 2,000 guitar-players performing This Land is Your Land in a Bay Area park appear to have strummed their way into the record books.
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Eye on the Scene: Back to School
Jazz singer Sara Schwabe has been a reliable double-threat in Knoxville for years, first as part of the Actors Co-op company and, for the last five years, as the leader of Her Yankee Jass Band. But she’s leaving soon, heading to Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., for the school’s MFA program in acting.
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Redwood City Independence Day Parade
Billed as the largest Independence Day Parade in Northern California, Redwood City's patriotic procession on the Fourth of July and this year's accompanying two-day festival are sure to be popular with families on the Peninsula.
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Megafaun's Megaharmonies
This Independence Day weekend, celebrate the (mostly) olden days of music with Megafaun. The rootsy trio from Durham, North Carolina, specializes in stringed and fingerpicked instruments, from banjos to violins and guitars. Add some melancholy piano melodies, and you have pensive folk heavy on rusti ...
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Azeem in the Sky with Diamonds
An indoor fireworks celebration doesn't exactly sound like the safest idea for a gathering. But "Sky of Diamonds" is up to code: The party offers projections of virtual fireworks presented by a team of visual artists almost as large as the DJ lineup. The music at this three-room event promises plent ...
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Do the Hustle
Ten-hour party "Hustle" — complete with a dinnertime barbecue and no cover for the early birds — is a cool holiday choice for house music lovers. Two top DJs from north of the border, Toronto residents Jason Hodges and DJ Sneak, play songs heavy on funk loops and diva licks. They'll shar ...
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Arbitron brings its Portable People Meters to Bay Area
Pretty soon you may be hearing a lot more rock music on the radio, less hip-hop, and fewer plugs for the station you're listening to. Those are some of the theories thrown out by consultants studying the effects of radio's new ratings measuring system, which begins next week in the Bay Area. Some 2, ...
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SF Weekly Letters
Carter Chimes in On Indie Fest Unrest The best things in life are free: SF Weekly ran a story about last year's Bay Area Indie Music Festival in Martinez ["Indebted to the Scene," Let's Get Killed, 6/11]. The story is very much incomplete. I called Jennifer Maerz a week before she ran the story aft ...
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Sounds of Summer concert series returns to Wood Dale
The city of Wood Dale welcomes back its weekly Sounds of Summer Concert series this month with a variety of different musical acts.
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'Scuse Us While We Kiss the Ska
It may come as a shock, but Arizona has something of vibrant ska scene. Granted, it’s not as expansive or off-the-chain as our state’s hip-hop or rock communities, but we can think of almost a dozen different ska bands that have been unleashing Rude Boy and 2-Tone beats around AZ in recent ...
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Teacher steps up with creative choreography
Students are addicted to instructor's enthusiasm, musicality in 'Super Step' aerobics class. By REBECCA LAVOIE
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Mountain music
CENTRAL CITY, Colo. -- At almost 8,500 feet in the Rockies, it can take a few breaths to walk up Central City's steep granite hills lined with Victorian homes, souvenir shops -- and an opera house that has served 19th-century gold miners, as well as modern-day visitors.
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Crossing Seas and Dotting Eyes
Polka Dot Dot Dot embodies one of the great rites of American adolescence: the sleepover, a hootenanny of silly goosery and warm friendships. "We're totally in love with each other," coos Jordan Smith, who asked Colleen Johnson and Onyx of Olympia, two Pacific Northwestern singer/songwriters, to joi ...
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Teenage Sax
To call young stud tenor saxophonist Paul-Eirik Melhus the next John Coltrane or even in the vein of a contemporary jazz cat like Chris Speed would be premature and just plain stupid. But we do gotta say that this 16-year-old dude is one of the best players in town, regardless of age and whether it& ...
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The King Jeremy Bible
We pull up to the tony Myst nightclub rocking our high wedge heels and black miniskirt, cruise the second-floor VIP area where the friendly bartenders shower us with whiskey and compliments, and decide we’ll bring our sassy selves back for Source Magazine's 20th Party. The blowout’s sponso ...
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Bret Michaels Adds Texas Bike Rally to 2008 Rock of Love Tour: Tickets on Sale Now for Gonzales Thunder Rally Rock ...
GONZALES, Texas----General admission and VIP tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster for this year’s inaugural Gonzales Thunder Rally, a three-day rock festival and bike rally Oct. 10-12 at JB Wells Park in historic Gonzales, south of Austin, east of San Antonio, featuring special guest Bret Michaels of Poison and VH-1 “Rock of Love” fame.
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Gambit Previews Essence Fest
The Essence Music Festival presents a three-day slate of entertaiment by top names in hip-hop and New Orleans jazz and funk at the Louisiana Superdome.
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Let freedom rock: Ten musical moments that shaped who we are as a country
Rock 'n' roll has had a hefty impact on American pop culture and identity for the past 50 years or so, more often than not intersecting with our politics and whatever social unrest afflicts us at the time. With Independence Day right around the corner, we're celebrating some of the critical moments ...
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Galveston ArtWalk
The Galveston ArtWalk’s promotional team describes their event as “more than just a street festival,” and we agree. Galleries and shops all over Galveston’s historic downtown district will open their doors for the early-evening event, which features classes, lectures, music and, ...
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Peter Hook
There's an infamous video on YouTube of iconic Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook "DJing" at Serbia's EXIT festival in 2006. And by "DJing" we mean twisting knobs on an equalizer like a coked-up hamster while the Tom Neville track "Just Fuck" plays. This revealing vid (and similar ones on ...
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Always…Patsy Cline
Houstonians can’t get enough of Patsy Cline; we just love that bouffanted queen of country music. And nobody knows that better than Stages Repertory Theatre. Celebrating its 30th birthday, the theater is bringing back Always...Patsy Cline — yet again. Created by Ted Swindley, the founding ...
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The Great Waller: Ain't Misbehavin'
By day, Thomas "Fats" Waller sold beboppy tunes on Tin Pan Alley. Come nighttime, when all the cool cats were out on the prowl, the jazz great traveled uptown to take part in the Harlem Renaissance. Lucky for us, many of those delicious toe-tapping tunes have been tied up together into a simmering m ...
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Thousands of guitarists strum for new music record
Associated Press - July 2, 2008 5:04 PM ET CONCORD, Calif. (AP) - More than 2,000 guitar-players performing "This Land is Your Land" in a Bay Area park appear to have strummed their way into...
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A Super-Patriotic July 4 Playlist
With Independence Day Friday, it's worth debating which songs qualify as the most patriotic ever recorded in these here United States, or at least which songs wanted to be. Here are the finalists. Neil Diamond, "America": Diamond's ridiculously catchy ode to the immigrant's plight is one of the gra ...
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Miss Leslie: Between the Whiskey and the Wine
When Leslie Sloan-Lindley reaches deep in her chest to pull up the emotion that sells honky-tonk songs, she hits the notes with power, depth and, most importantly in her genre, believability. Perhaps that's not surprising, since she grew up in a country music family (father Jim, sister Hilary) and h ...
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