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Guitar Hero to Go!
With a popular franchise like Guitar Hero it was only a matter of time before game makers took a stab at crossing over to another platform. Well, game developer Vicarious Visions has answered the call with a guitar-like attachment for the Nintendo DS that allows obsessive guitar heroes to play the game (Guitar Hero: On Tour) on the go. This took some creative engineering, but they were able to ...
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Pandora still pining for Europe
Online music service Pandora is not giving up on its efforts to return to Europe. The company shut off its service outside of the US earlier this year after failing to reach an agreement with two major recording industry companies over new royalty rates.
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Let's Go Out This Weekend
Celebrations SUMMER SPARKS Looking for an electrifying way to celebrate the nation's independence? There's no better way than taking in the visual splendor of Macy's annual 4th of July Fireworks. Thirty-thousand shells will be fired in sync with the music of the New York Pops, who will play classic American tunes and patriotic standards at 9 p.m. The spectacle in the sky will stretch from 10th ...
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Pandora still pining for Europe
Online music service Pandora is not giving up on its efforts to return to Europe.
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Toronto architects picked to redesign Colorado concert hall
DENVER - A Toronto-based architectural firm will lead the redesign of Denver's Boettcher Concert Hall.
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Clarification: Music-Bad Vibrations story
In a story July 1 about construction near Capitol Studios, The Associated Press inaccurately described Phil Ramone as a Beatles engineer. He should have been specifically described as having recorded Paul McCartney.
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Music Review: Calabria Foti - A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
With ten elegant songs, Calabria Foti's second album is a sultry and silky album certain to steam up the windows. Born into a family of musicians in upstate New York, Calabria Foti grew up wholly absorbed in music. With both of her parents being highly trained and enormously talented individuals, they passed many a nugget of musical prominence down to young Calabria and she soaked up the talent ...
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Everybody loves fireworks, but just how do they work?
From the most sophisticated Fourth of July pyrotechnics show to a drunken backyard bottle-rocket shootout -- everyone shares a familiar fascination with fireworks. But few people actually understand the mechanisms that make the magic happen.
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Music Sales Down 11 Percent In 2008
"CD sales have been a prime culprit in the sales dip, as they are off more than 16% from 2007 levels, which were significantly down from the year prior. Digital sales, however, continue to grow dramatically.
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If It Weren't for the Stones
It was the summer of 1969 and there was a party goin’ on backstage at Ravinia, the outdoor concert venue 30 miles north of Chicago. The classical music squares running the joint, they’d never seen anything like it: For sixty years, backstage had been the site of oh-so-sedate and oh-so-cerebral pre-concert soirees, fore-fronted this summer by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Maestro Georg Solti. ...
The Source Weekly |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Pop, country/roots, jazz and classical releases
It's a tricky thing, making music that bears the influence of Bob Dylan as much as "Wagonwheel Blues" does, while still sounding utterly fresh.
The Kansas City Star |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Bluegrass releases
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE, "Blue Side of the Blue Ridge," Rebel. 12 tracks.
The Kansas City Star |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Ray Scott and Locos Por Juana
RAY SCOTT "Crazy Like Me" (Jethropolitan Records) 3 stars
The Kansas City Star |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Los Lonely Boys, Ron Sexsmith and The Baseball Project
The Texas trio Los Lonely Boys is captured in unadorned form on the group's third studio album, "Forgiven" (2 stars, out on Epic Records), but too many derivative and underwritten songs turn this promising outing into an uninspired one.
The Kansas City Star |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Latin CDs for sizzling summer listening
Sitting on a beach or by the pool with a guide to summer reading, but no advice on what's rocking the Latin music world? Look no further. Here are a few albums that could make this a summer to remember.
The Kansas City Star |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Pop, country/roots, jazz and classical releases
Pop: THE WAR ON DRUGS "Wagonwheel Blues" (Secretly Canadian, 3 { stars) It's a tricky thing, making music that bears the influence of Bob Dylan as much as "Wagonwheel Blues" does, while still sounding utterly fresh. The War on Drugs, the Philadelphia band led by singer Adam Granduciel and guitarist Kurt Vile, succeeds so well because it marries mid-'60s Dylan folk-rock wordiness with the ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Bluegrass releases
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE, "Blue Side of the Blue Ridge," Rebel. 12 tracks. A decade ago, Ramblers Choice hit the bluegrass circuit with its first album, "Sounds of the Mountains," an album of pure bluegrass that garnered a lot of attention. But the band disappeared a couple of years later with a follow-up. Junior Sisk (Harry Sisk Jr.) joined Lost & Found and then BlueRidge. His ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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World Grotto
Description: A unique atmosphere to enjoy live music from all genres, an art gallery featuring local artists, and eclectic furnishings. The underground bar creates an intimate experience with featured musicians. They host a Poetry Slam and Game night weekly.
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Ray Scott and Locos Por Juana
RAY SCOTT "Crazy Like Me" (Jethropolitan Records) 3 stars You won't hear '70s-styled Outlaw country on mainstream radio. But thanks to the growth of online music sites, edgier, more interesting artists like Ray Scott and Jamey Johnson are free to make country music that harkens back to the Outlaw style popularized by rabble-rousing icons like Waylon Jennings. (Johnson's impressive ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Los Lonely Boys, Ron Sexsmith and The Baseball Project
The Texas trio Los Lonely Boys is captured in unadorned form on the group's third studio album, "Forgiven" (2 stars, out on Epic Records), but too many derivative and underwritten songs turn this promising outing into an uninspired one. Siblings Henry (guitar), JoJo (bass) and Ringo Garza (drums) formed Los Lonely Boys while they were just in their teens, recording their self-titled debut in ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Latin CDs for sizzling summer listening
Sitting on a beach or by the pool with a guide to summer reading, but no advice on what's rocking the Latin music world? Look no further. Here are a few albums that could make this a summer to remember. Alla, "Es Tiempo" (Crammed Discs) - Whether you'd prefer thinking about them as the Latino Stereolab or the second coming of Tropicalia, this Chicago-based trio makes psychedelic groove sounds ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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The former prom queen of the Cora B. Wood Senior Center in Brentwood sat at a table listening to music bedecked in the pink-jewel studded crown she had been awarded the previous year. Bacchus was gracious about turning over her crown.
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The number of musicians in the West Laurel Rag Tag Band has increased from the original 13 to about 60, but four of the original founding members still march every year.
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Annapolis County Events
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Cheeky's brings hope to folks eager for 'next level of food'
Cheeky's Palm Springs opened about two weeks ago uptown in what 31-year-old owner Tara Lazar calls "the coolest place in the path of greatness."
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