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friday, july 25
rock, etc. Zapiski Sumasshedshego/Olimpiada Rock. Cheshire Cat. 8 p.m. Volkovtrio Art rock. Fish Fabrique. 9:30 p.m. Marianela Leon/Mars/Anna Pshenichnikova/3 Frescoes Performance art.
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CLUB GUIDE
ROCK, ETC. A2 — Located over wine restaurant Assemblage Actuel, the new club orientates toward live music. A brainchild of Svetlana Surganova, frontwoman of rock band Surganova i Orkestr, A2 aims at some of the best-known bands and fine sound quality. 300-700 rub., free entrance on Mon.-Wed.
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DINING GUIDE
Cafe Idiot — Great Russian and vegetarian food served all day. Jazz, cappuccino, fresh juice, specialty teas. Happy hour from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Weekend brunch. Used English-language books and magazines, plus an art gallery. Open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.
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Primal Scream "Beautiful Future"
Primal Scream get back to sweet pop basics on their ninth album, "Beautiful Future" — 13 mixed-up doses of drugs and love that camouflage throbbing rock 'n' roll under layers of sticky, saccharine disco beats. Frontman Bobby Gillespie's lyrical world is dark and moody from the start. Beneath exuberant piano chords he intones, "Take a ride around the city / Tell me what do you see / Empty houses, ...
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Recent Original Stories
"This is partly a story about a company called Apple Computer. It's also partly a story about a fancy new iPod that plays videos as well as music and that could dramatically change the way people entertain themselves.
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Cassandra Wilson
We're getting around to the realization that the 1990s saw the most innovation in popular music since the '60s — and that realization encompasses even staid subgenres such as vocal jazz, which most aficionados believe is just fine as long as it sticks to the pre-'60s canon. Cassandra Wilson probably did more to advance vocal jazz in the '90s than any other singer, and she did it as she turned ...
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Death Set put Japan on the agenda
Nearly every teacher of English as a second language who has worked in Japan longer than a year has wondered at some point, "What the hell am I going to do when I go back home?" For Johnny Siera, guitarist and vocalist with The Death Set, the answer turned out to be a career in music. Read the full story
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‘Altar Boyz’ at Beck is out of this world!
God rocks! That’s the message of “Altar Boyz,” the high-octane musical comedy spoof about a fictitious Christian boys’ band that is stirring souls at The Beck Center for the Arts.
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UK ISPs to Fling Wide Net for Music Pirates
British parents who don't know what their kids are downloading on the family computer may want to start paying more attention, thanks to a new antipiracy agreement among the six largest Internet service providers in the United Kingdom. The U.S. music industry will no doubt track developments in the UK.
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Guthrie Extends World-Premiere Run of Little House Musical
Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on NBC's long-running "Little House on the Prairie" series, will play Ma in the musical version of Prairie , which begins previews at the Minneapolis venue July 26.
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Obama wows Berlin crowd with historic speech
Candidate who has brought rock-star charisma to US politics holds rally akin to pop festival
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It doesn't cut THAT kind of grass, Lily...
As one of pop music's most openly decadent stars, it may come as no surprise to learn that Lily Allen has an interest in cultivating 'grass'. However, the Smile singer is actually a budding gardener.
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Jefferson teacher turns 100
Yes, Gerry Regester Looney is 100 years old, but that doesn’t mean the life-long Oregonian can’t continue to do what’s been important to her all of her life: be musical.
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British ISPs take active role in online piracy fight
The British music and film industries finally received the cooperation they have been seeking from Internet Service Providers in helping them fight illegal file downloading. A report on Thursday has six of the country's largest Internet providers sending warning letters to subscribers suspected of illegal file downloading and sharing. The decision ...
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4th Annual Jazz with Steinbeck
The Monterey Jazz Festival and the National Steinbeck Center are proud to present the fourth annual Jazz with Steinbeck concert and dinner, which takes place Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM at the National Steinbeck Center at One Main Street in Salinas.
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Jazz and Ribs Fest 2008
The 29th Annual Jazz and Rib Fest will commence July 25 through July 27 at Bicentennial and Genoa Park in downtown Columbus.
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Stratford's 2 musicals offer a study in contrast
There's a nice theatrical contrast — all-American wholesomeness vs. determined Teutonic debauchery — on display at the 2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It's the impossibly innocent, strawberry-phosphate, brass-band world of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" up against the sexually aggressive, pills-and-liquor environment of Kander and Ebb's "Cabaret."
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In the balance
Normally, one would expect a national theatre festival to represent not only different artistic trends, styles and concerns, but also different generations.
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Earl Lee Nelson, 79; the Earl in Bob & Earl co-wrote 'Harlem Shuffle'
The R & B musician was earlier part of the Hollywood Flames doo-wop group, and sang lead on its hit 'Buzz Buzz Buzz.' Later, he recorded 'The Duck,' and 'The Chicken' under the name Jackie Lee. Earl Lee Nelson, half of the soul-music singing duo Bob & Earl, who were best known for writing the R&B classic " Harlem Shuffle ," has died. He was 79.
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Teens hit the right notes in making a difference
When we think of teens today we often think of skateboarding and rap music. Most people just shake their heads but Woodlake United Methodist Church decided, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
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Canal Street Tavern reprises musician's co-op
Before opening Canal Street Tavern in the autumn of 1981, Mick Montgomery hosted the Musician's Co-op at the now-defunct Sam's night club. He knew he wanted to continue the tradition at his newly opened club on First Street. And despite a recent one-year absence, the weekly Tuesday night open stage has continued, offering local musicians a place to showcase their music.
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Buckethead opens tour in Dayton
Enigmatic guitar shredder Buckethead, the guy known for wearing a white mask and a fried chicken bucket for a hat, is launching an extensive tour this week. And the traveling rock 'n' roll carnival kicks off in Dayton, of all places, at Seven Timbers today. Buckethead is notorious for not giving interviews, however we were able to scare up a few facts about this elusive rocker.
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A Nubian enchanter
While I first heard the music of Karam Murad, a composer and performer of traditional Nubian music who is now receiving more of the recognition he deserves, in one of Cairo's downtown cafés some years ago, it was only this week that I attended one of his concerts.
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The Heavy Cause Sexing
The Heavy make filthy music. It's swampy, earthy funk layered in rusted drums that sound like they've come tumbling out of hell's disco. It's shameless, sweaty, horn-splattered soul music to dance, pump fists, lay back and perhaps even engage in some sweet, smelly lovemaking to.
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Elliott Brood Head West
Toronto alt.country band Elliott Brood will play the Hillside Music Festival in Guelph, Ont. this weekend before launching a western Canada tour later this summer.
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