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Beckerman: Jersey band makes Olympic cut
No doubt Fort Lee’s Jack Hsu, originally from Taiwan, will be cheering on his countrymen in the basketball competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics this month.
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Tonight in Rock: God's Pottery, Highland Park Summer Fest
Photo by marfis75 via Flickr If you missed our interview with God's Pottery , a Christian Acoustic Duo, who were featured on NBC's Last Comic Standing this summer, they're here tonight at Spaceland. Tonight, there's another Highland Park music festival over at Zeppelin Music (5030 York Blvd.). It's all day long starting at noon and runs through 10:00 p.m. The line-up as follows: ...
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Recalling a soul singer's saving grace
"The Night James Brown Saved Boston," a documentary by David Leaf , presents an extraordinary moment in Boston history: a night when the power of music and the power of television joined together to soothe emotions rather than inflame them. The film (part of a three-disc Brown collection out on DVD; review page N16) begins a run of five showings ...
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Bike aficionados gear up for film festivals
This is the Year of the Rat, according to the Chinese calendar. But 2008 may well go down in Boston as the Year of the Bike: The city's new bike lanes are almost ready for riders, more people than ever are dusting off Schwinns and pulling on Lycra for the morning commute, and not one but two film festivals devoted ...
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Silly fun with teens in 'Emo! The Musical'
Teen angst - it happens to the best of us. Take a second to reflect upon those melodramatic years and recall the disaffected youth you most identified with: Were you the misunderstood artiste, the perpetually stoned slacker or perhaps the sad-sack scribe of seriously bad poetry?
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Why the show may, in fact, go on
In the last of a three-part series, critic Robert-Everett Green talks to the Montreal venture capitalist determined to save the CBC Radio Orchestra - and explains why it may not be the only CBC venture to survive a death foretold
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Swift offers $100,000 Red Cross donation
Country music singer Taylor Swift said during a concert in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that she has donated $100,000 to the Red Cross to help with flood relief.People magazine said Saturday that the Our Song star informed those in the audience during the concert that she had donated the money to the local chapter of the relief agency to help the flood-beleaguered region.The 18-year-old told People that ...
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BC Music Goodie Bag: Paul Brogan, Keaton Simons, Canton Jones, The Octopus Project, and Todd Rundgren
A sizzling hot mid-summer grab bag of audio and video. After a brief hiatus (thanks Josh Hathaway for delivering the Goodie Bag in my absence), I'm back with a full summer picnic basket full of embedded and streaming audio and video to give BC Music's readers a sneak peak at the sizzling summer fare. This week we have some Olympic fun from Paul Brogan and new singles from Keaton Simons, ...
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Music Review: Zebrahead - Phoenix
Zebrahead takes on the world. Rather like the shy lonely guy leaning up against the wall of a disco, I have been watching Zebrahead for a while but only from a safe distance. With the release of Phoenix (ICON records August 5th 2008), I am now on the edge of the dance floor wandering why I didn’t pick up on the fun earlier. This, eagerly anticipated release comes with the...
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Dolly does it again — wows WaMu crowd
Dolly Parton plays to a full house at WaMu Theater in Seattle and the queen of country makes them her subjects all over again.
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Swift offers $100,000 Red Cross donation
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Country music singer Taylor Swift said during a concert in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that she has donated $100,000 to the Red Cross to help with flood relief.
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You might not believe it, but most of the time organists accompanying a silent movie just "wing it." That’s according to Capitol Theatre house organist John Paul and director Art Pierce.
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Marty's Musical Meltdown DVD Special: Hanoi Rocks' The Nottingham Tapes , Pallas' Moment to Moment , Earache's My ...
Death through pagan to glam metal with some cheesy horror along for the ride. Welcome to the special edition of MMM, where I work through the huge pile of music DVDs I have been accumulating over the last few months. It's much easier, thanks to the iPod et al, to listen to review CDs than DVDs which by their nature demand more attention. Join me as I dive into the morass.Hanoi Rocks: The ...
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MHS band members ready to roll
The 2008 edition of the Marysville High School marching band hopes to keep alive its string of consecutive years qualifying for the Ohio Music Education Association State Marching Band Finals.
This Week Marysville |
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Bloomfield native sings way to be Iowa Idol
Simpson College music student Joey Russell is the next Iowa Idol.
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Church concert
Unity in Community, a nondenominational Christian church, has announced recording artist Cliff Rubin will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the church, 74 Wootring St., Delaware.
This Week Delaware |
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London Poetry Festival
As its signature presentation the 4th London Poetry Festival will present this year's five Poets in Residence in all four of the evening events.
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FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: ANIMATED CARTOON: Kilpatrick's Jailhouse Rock
Prisoners of Kilpatrick's ego celebrate they mayor's trip to jail.
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Recommendations
Biography Combining a natural feel for jazz with an evocative interpretation of a lyric, Roz Corral offers a fresh approach to a song.
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Newport After George Wein: One of the Stars Will Be George Wein
Jazz lovers and jazz musicians are converging on Newport, R.I., this weekend, as they have been doing since 1954, for what is universally recognized as the jazz festival that put jazz festivals on the map.
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Find Multimedia with a Free eCourse
The Web is a great place to find free multimedia of all kinds on the Web: free movie downloads, free videos, free music: you name the multimedia, you can...
About.com |
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Best of Beijing
Athlete of the day Yao Ming and the Chinese men's basketball team takes its shot at Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and the "Redeem Team" from the United States at 10:15 a.m.(EDT) and scheduled to be shown live as part of eight hours of daytime coverage that starts at 10 a.m. on NBC. When Yao came to America to play in the NBA with the Houston Rockets, it was in part to expose him to the game at ...
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5 things you can learn about ... new jack swing
1 New jack swing was born in the late 1980s, and it's a hybrid of rhythms and drum machine wizardry (largely created by SP1200 and Roland 808 drum machines) that is used as the backbeat of much of what is now modern day R&B music. It combines elements of jazz, pop, hip-hop, funk and R&B.
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Jazz review: Donaldson showcases decades of artistry
In an earlier era, jazz musicians didn't play just their instruments—they played the audience.
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Britney Spears tapes MTV Awards' promo video
Washington, Aug 9 : After a thwarting performance at the Video Music Awards last year, Britney Spears has returned to the MTV Stage to tape a promotional video for this year's ceremony.
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