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Old School Twist of Fate: Dr. Dog takes lo-fi to a high level
Dr. Dog Fate ★★★★✩ Park the Van Records Sometimes, the newest music sounds old, and you like it even more just for that express reason. Such is the case with Fate, an 11-track collection of rustically poppy cuts from Philadelphia quintet Dr. Dog that sounds like it needs that fuzzy LP hiss between tracks to sound complete. Dr. Dog are just now gaining mainstream attention, and it was actually ...
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Wearable Art 4 is still in fashion
See Dunedin Fine Arts Center's latest adventures on the runway.... By Megan Voeller Over the past few years, the Bay area has seen a proliferation of artsy fashion shows -- particularly those that blend music with visual art exhibits and apparel, and those proudly proclaiming a do-it-yourself or recycled aesthetic -- but the Dunedin Fine Art Center's annual Wearable Art event remains the gold ...
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Not easy being zine
What killed Tampa Bay's zine scene?... By Alex Pickett They had names like Putang Pop!, Toxemia and Track Marks. They covered topics ranging from comics to punk rock to shoplifting tips. Angsty teens (and some middle-aged enthusiasts) armed with X-acto knives and glue sticks spent late nights in Tampa copy shops carefully arranging them. You remember zines, right? Those self-published, ...
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Synesthesia
Synesthesia is defined as a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. In this case, it's a fusion of light and sound designed and directed by Matthew Schlief with original music performed by Two Star Symphony. Two Star Symphony is a Houston based string quartet ...
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IRD Urges Chinese Government: Stop 'Lip-Synching' Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON, August 13 / Christian Newswire / -- The chief music director for the Beijing Olympics recently revealed that the young girl portrayed as singing during Friday night's ceremony was actually lip-synching another girl's voice.
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Taylor Swift - Swift Searches For Lover And Muse
Teen country star TAYLOR SWIFT is unlucky in love - because potential boyfriends are too scared of featuring in her songs. The 18-year-old admits she needs a man in her ...
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Radiohead - Radiohead Deny Choke Link
British rockers RADIOHEAD have denied reports they have written the complete soundtrack for upcoming movie CHOKE. The band was linked to the picture after Chuck ...
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“Rediscovered Gems: A Concert of Masterpieces from Opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook”
Audiences never tire of the great music numbers presented in “Rediscovered Gems: A Concert of Masterpieces from Opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook” by the Houston Ebony Opera. The selections, performed by HEO soloists and its chorus, represent more than 100 years of musical h ...
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LynnMarie returns to Oktoberfest
The entertainment for this year's Oktoberfest will be split between at least two stages to give people a chance to enjoy both German centric music and popular local bands.
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Third Coast Comedy Theater Second Anniversary Celebration
Third Coast Comedy has a big bash planned in the Third Coast Comedy Second Anniversary Celebration. Things start off with a wine tasting by Galveston’s D’ Vine Wine on the Strand and some jazz music. Then it’s time for the show, Crossroads, an improv-style comedy about a small town in ...
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Sax quartet set to play Fetch Park on Sunday
The High Street Sax Quartet will play Frank Fetch Park this weekend as part of the Third Sunday concert series.
This Week German Village |
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FrenetiCore Fringe Festival
Houston is adding more fringe. After the success of BooTown’s Fringe Festival, other artistic types are rising out of the underground and onto the stage. The FrenetiCore Fringe Festival starts its three-weekend run of local theater, dance, film and music today. Bliss is a comedic play abou ...
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Toypunks
Toy-meets-world in the mesmerizing documentary Toypunks, a fast-paced chronicle of Japanese punk culture that touches on music and fashion but focuses mostly on toys. The film, which is the first in a series, includes interviews with the major makers of designer toys for kitschy Japanese tastes. Int ...
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Contrasting fortunes as Madonna and Jacko turn 50
Pop icons Madonna and Michael Jackson turn 50 later this month, but the contrasting fortunes of the two music legends could not be more stark as they usher in their respective birthdays.
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La France
War movies and pop music: They’re not the most common of bedfellows, but leave it to a French filmmaker to bring the two together in 2007’s La France, screening today at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The story is straightforward enough: It’s wartime, and a young wife receives a le ...
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Contrasting fortunes as Madonna and Jacko turn 50
Pop icons Madonna and Michael Jackson turn 50 later this month, but the contrasting fortunes of the two music legends could not be more stark as they usher in their respective birthdays.
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Firehouse 12 Announces 2008 Fall Jazz Series Schedule
New Haven's Firehouse 12 will kick-off its fourth annual Fall Jazz Series on Friday, September 19th with a performance by the Steve Lantner Trio. The weekly series will continue Friday nights through December 12th, with a one-week break on November 28th for Thanksgiving.
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Issa Bagayogo's Newest Album, "Mali Koura," Released on Six Degrees Records
". . .Bagayogo is taking the local music out of the wilderness and moving it into the space age, with digital bravado. He's not making strictly NPR world beat anymore. College kids, world beaters and others looking for out sounds will find a sympathetic fellow traveler on board here."
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The Secret of NYM
While I can happily smirk that I, as an S.B. transplant still in her early twenties, I would never go so far as to call myself a Santa Barbara music history buff.
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Newport Jazz Fest Had It All
It was the perfect weekend. The sun was shining on the water like diamonds, the sky was gingham blue, and a breeze chased the sweat away on the backs and necks of people who gathered at Fort Adams State Park this weekend. It was the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival and its home was Newport.
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Arty facts
A look at what's happening in the world of art. The Dunedin Fringe Festival, which became an annual stand-alone event this year, is to be reduced by a third in a bid to cement its place on the Otago arts calendar.
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String-Scraping Rock Stars Two Star Symphony
When the Rice University Theater kicks off its 2008-09 season with the multimedia laser light show production Synesthesia, Two Star Symphony, the local string quartet commissioned to compose and perform original music for the production, will be a long way from its humble beginnings. "We actually s ...
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House of Blues Changes Houston's Live Music Landscape Before Even Opening
In about two months, people who grumble about Houston being relegated to the touring-circuit sidelines are going to have a harder time than ever making their case. Last week House of Blues, the nationwide restaurant/music-venue chain (partially) owned by Houston-based behemoth Live Nation, announced ...
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West Island Events
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT $"/> $"/>Café Swiss Jazz Project: Free jazz concert each Thurs. from 9:30-11 p.m. until the end of Aug. on the balcony of the Café Swiss at 53A Ste. Anne St. in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. Info: Sharon Allaway, 514-965-2289.
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'68 Elvis TV special remembered as great comeback
When Elvis Presley made his TV special in 1968, he was coming off a string of forgettable films and a long dry spell on the charts, and the rock 'n' roll music he'd helped pioneer had given way to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.
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