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Outlaw Country
J.C. Haun and the members of his new band, the Dirty Smokers, don’t exactly have purebred pedigrees for the kind of hardcore honky tonk they’re playing these days.
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New Yorkers, Come Visit New York
Are skyrocketing gas prices nixing your vacation plans? Here's a cheap getaway: Stay home. NYC & Company is launching a new campaign this week called "Go Local." "We're somewhat bored with the word 'staycation,'" noted George Fertitta, CEO of the city's tourism agency. Beginning Thursday, NYC & Company street crews will be hitting up all the major transit hubs, passing out pamphlets ...
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Home-town pride struts Saturday in ‘Great to Grow Up in Rome’ parade
A 13-division "It’s Great to Grow up in Rome" parade filled with music and floats steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday. The line of march begins on North James Street, with units forming on side streets in the vicinity of Franklyn’s Field.
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Music on the soft summer air. Not the noisy chatter of machines. Food vendors requiring use of portable generators will be set back from the stage and lawn at Saturday’s Honor America Days concert at Fort Stanwix, according to the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Morganton Aggies Spotlight 19
Editor’s note: Here is Part 19 of a 27-part series that spotlights every player on the two-time consecutive Southern Collegiate Baseball League champion Morganton Aggies baseball team.
The Morganton News Herald |
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Church bulletin
Learn more about your faith: St. James Parish is organizing a group to participate in an online seminar, "The Mass: History, Theology and Spirituality." The seminar runs for three weeks, Aug. 4 through Aug. 25. The cost is between $70 and $90 depending on the number of people in the group. For information, call the rectory.
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Tugboat Morin
“My checkered past includes skippering a tugboat on the San Francisco Bay and sinking boats as a brown-water river sailor with the Vietnamese Navy,” says blues singer/guitarist Jeffrey Joe Morin.
San Diego Reader |
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Get Out Thursday: Casey Neill at the Sunset
Casey Neill is one of our personal favorites from that other Northwest city with the other great music scene. He and his Norway Rats play hard-drinking folk-rock ala the Dylan meets the Pogues, meets early R.E.M, and they'll be joining some great Seattleites, Kasey Anderson and the Crying Shame 's Arlan and Dylan, at the Sunset this Thursday. It's going to be a crazy weekend of great ...
Seattlest |
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Strolling Music
It had a light and easy enough sound to where anyone can get into them. I would consider it indie rock. It sounded like some latter-day Modest Mouse or Wolf Parade. It was pleasurable to the ears — everything went smoothly and nothing was too abrasive.
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Get connected!
Biography Wynton Kelly (born December 2, 1931 in Jamaica--died April 12, 1971 in Toronto, Canada) was an American jazz pianist.
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The Spin
Double daring Nashville is not exactly a haven for daring instrumental music, so for fans of the avant-garde, last week was like manna from heaven. Back-to-back Belcourt shows— Medeski Martin and Wood Wednesday, Nels Cline Thursday—provided some...
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Theater camp presents ‘Beauty and the Beast’
The actors and actresses from the summer theater camp held at the Holbrook Junior/Senior High School would like to invite community members to “be their guests” as they bring their version of the musical “Beauty and the Beast” to the school’s stage on July 25 at 6 p.m.
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Canadian Cobrasnake, 7/23/08
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LA Weekly |
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Cut and Paste
"If people saw the space I recorded in, they would laugh," admits local singer-songwriter Kyle Andrews. Crafted mostly at the house in Sylvan Park he shares with American Bang drummer Neil Mason and his parents' house in Chicago, the DIY maestro's second full-length is a marvel: crisp, quirky, st...
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Ellensburg physician turned musician sings to children
Ellensburg resident David Lundy performs a children's song during story time at Jerrol's Book and Office Supply Company Thursday afternoon. Joe Whiteside/Daily Record
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About Tonight
Photo by soleil1016 MUSIC: Local MC Christylez Bacon performs at Strathmore 's outdoor summer concert series. The first hip-hop artist to be featured as a Strathmore Artist-in-Residence, Christylez's backing band includes some of the area's top young jazz and classical musicians. 7 p.m. Free. SPORTS: It's a sporty night in the District. The Kastles play their last match of ...
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D.C. United to host third annual Latin American Festival
Washington, D.C. (July 23, 2008) - D.C. United today announced plans to host the third annual Latin American Festival before the Black-and-Red's game against Kansas City on Saturday, August 2nd at 7:30 p.m. at RFK Stadium.
OurSports Central |
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iTunes scores among mobile music stores: study
Participants in a Strategy Analytics study were able to access, search for, preview, download and play music in the fewest clicks using iTunes compared to Nokia Music Store and Vodafone Music Station.
Digital Media Europe |
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VIDEO from Medialink and General Motors: Mommy Bloggers Take the Show on the Road
With no kids and no car seats, five mommy bloggers set out on a cross-country road trip from the nation's capitol to the city by the bay.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Orrin Keepnews Collection Grows with Classics from Tyner, Rollins, Montgomery and More
Earlier this summer Concord Music Group released the fifth installment in its Keepnews Collection , a series of reissues of albums with producer Orin Keepnews behind the boards.
JazzTimes Magazine |
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Silicon Alley Insider discovered yesterday that NBC has formatted a few of its shows — “30 Rock” and “The Office” — to stream on the Apple iPhone. You need to be using the phone’s Wi-Fi connection, not AT&T’s Edge cellular data network.
New York Times |
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Morcheeba and ATB to perform at Peninsula Festival
Morcheeba and the famous German DJ ATB will perform at the sixth edition of the Peninsula Festival in Targu Mures, an event that started yesterday with a performance by the band Fading Circles.
Nine O'Clock |
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Gianina Corondan to release new song with Quartz
Gianina Corondan returns to music by launching, beside the band Quartz, a new song entitled “Tip Chic,” composed by Amedeo Bolohoi (the band’s guitarist) and featuring lyrics written by the singer herself.
Nine O'Clock |
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“Funky Cool” cabin for Lenny Kravitz’ Bucharest concert
Famous worldwide for the avant-garde style that characterizes his music and outfits, Lenny Kravitz shows the same interests in the field of interior design as well, as he recently requested that a “funky cool” ambiance would be created in his cabin, in the backstage for his concert on Saturday.
Nine O'Clock |
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Dianne Reeves and Chick Corea to perform at the Bucharest Masters of Jazz Festival
Dianne Reeves, Five Peace Band, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin are only some of the artists to enter the stage of the Bucharest Masters of Jazz Festival, due to take place during October 23 – November 5 at the Palace Hall, Media Services Events announces.
Nine O'Clock |
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