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Album: David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (www.everythingthathappens.com)
The last time David Byrne and Brian Eno linked up, the resulting album – 1981's My Life In the Bush of Ghosts – changed the course of pop music, although it would take the industry the best part of a decade to catch up with their collaging techniques, which in effect invented sampling. Harnessed to lock-tight rhythms, its layered montages of sonic bric-a-brac sought to encompass the vast ...
Independent
Rage Against the Machine to perform at anti-war music festival during Democrats convention
DENVER - Rage Against the Machine will perform at an anti-war music festival during the Democratic National Convention.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Elisa Bray: Caught in the net
Prolificacy in musical output is a double-edged sword, particularly when it comes to the double CD release. You're expecting your fans to lay out not just for one but two albums, so they'd better both be good.
Independent
How Rhys Ifans is redefining the actor/musician crossover
Rhys Ifans may be in the headlines for the break-up of his relationship with Sienna Miller, but another ongoing dalliance could prove to have longer-lasting effects. For the Welsh thespian is in danger of giving a good name to actors that join rock bands.
Independent
A tribute to the hot buttered soul of Stax
The death last Sunday of Isaac Hayes draws the final curtain over one of American music's most innovative and groundbreaking institutions, Stax Records.
Independent
Album: The Verve, Forth (Parlophone)
Rarely can rampant self-regard and billowing emptiness have combined to such vacuous effect as they do in The Verve, and particularly in Richard Ashcroft, a singer so driven by the mere idea of rock stardom that he either doesn't want, or know how, to sing about anything that isn't primarily designed to persuade us of his tortured depths.
Independent
Last Night's TV: Would Like To Meet Again, BBC2 Britain's Really Disgusting Foods, BBC3
Long ago, in the magical land called the Good Old Days, the entire nation was in permanent paroxysms of indignation due to the scandal of "repeats". How people seethed at the clogging up of the schedules with stuff that had been on already. What was a person supposed to do? Read a book? Listen to some music? Have an early night? Unthinkable!
Independent
Manoa Voices offer weekend concerts
Manoa Voices, who won the 2007 Ka Himeni Ana concert, will perform music from their self-titled Hula Records CD "Manoa Voices" twice this weekend.
Honolulu Advertiser
Daly dispatch: Hurry up and wait
Rain and wind postponed the rowing events at the 2008 Olympics Thursday near Beijing. Vail’s Will Daly and the U.S. lightweight men’s four will compete in the semifinals Friday at 4:20 p.m. (12:20 a.m. Rocky Mountain time).
Vail Daily
Fellsmere to host ‘Blues Birthday Bash’
Newly inducted member of the Blues Hall of Fame Hubert Sumlin and two-time winner of the W.C. Handy Award Bob Margolin will headline this year’s “Blues Birthday Bash” in Fellsmere. They will perform Nov. 15 at the Riding Club Rodeo Arena.
TCPalm.com
Rage Against the Machine to Play Denver During DNC Week
DENVER - The popular hard rock band Rage Against the Machine will perform at an anti-war music festival during the Democratic National Convention, the band announced Thursday.
FOX 31 Denver
Community Calendar
SATURDAY, Aug. 16Festival of India — 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Sunday. Saturday festivities include a health fair, dance competition, flag hoisting, cultural fair, food booths and crafts.
The Fremont Argus
A&E Calendar
MUSIC FREMONTLatin jazz band "Incendio" is appearing at Mission Coffee Roasting Co. at 7 p.m. Saturday. "Incendio's" sound, influenced by world music, is a mixture of Spanish guitar, Celtic, Middle-Eastern, Cuban and smooth jazz.
The Fremont Argus
Alison Teal: Hot Flashes From The Campaign Trail
When the rest of the country is having conversations about the Olympics or Rielle Hunter, Aspenites are screaming about the rebirth of Russian national aspiration in its most ugly form.
HuffingtonPost
Event: 'Third Crossing Ag Museum Threshing Days'
Parade 1:30 p.m. on grounds - both days Old Time Music - Saturday 4:30 p.m. Pot Luck Supper - Saturday 6:00 p.m.
The Neepawa Banner
Deep Silver Licenses Havok For Ride To Hell
Physics engine maker Havok says it's signed a two-year deal with developer-publisher Deep Silver (Sacred 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky), who will license Havok's physics, animation and behavior solutions on its upcoming multiplatform title Ride to Hell. Ride to Hell is set in a "1960s biker world," incorporating that era's art style, music and scenery, allowing players to build customizable ...
Gamasutra
Leonard Pennario: 'Sensational' classical pianist
Leonard Pennario's pianism drew superlatives from the critics wherever he took to the stage; one recalled him as "a sensation with orchestra, playing any glittering concerto [. . .] with the clarity, the speed and the accuracy of a machine gun". Excited encomia of this sort would accompany Pennario's appearances for the 60 years of his professional life.
Independent
Lita Roza: Sultry interpreter of romantic ballads nevertheless best known for 'How Much is That Doggie in the Window?'
The public know the Liverpool singer Lita Roza for one song above all others, the children's novelty "How Much is That Doggie in the Window?" However, that doggie was her bête noire: she was talked into recording the song and did not consider it representative of her work. There were few to rival her real talent as a sultry and sophisticated interpreter of romantic ballads.
Independent
Winning script
Irish trio The Script are making their presence felt with their honest music from the soul.
The Star
Round Top: Antique haven plus great music in east-central Texas
ROUND TOP, Texas – If the state map had a star on it marking the "Antique Capital of Texas," it probably would rest on a tiny black dot in Fayette County, a pretty little place called Round Top (population 77).
Dallas Morning News
Kooks always where they need to be
Chart topping guitar band Kooks come to Wolverhampton’s Civic Hall on December 7. The band, whose hits include Ooh La and She Moves in Her Own Way, will be touring new album Konk.
Express and Star
The Cool and Deadly: Reggae without the palm trees
by Richard Guerrero Jr. Special to the Caller-Times Originally published 05:57 p.m., August 14, 2008 Updated 05:57 p.m., August 14, 2008 Brooklyn's The Cool and Deadly peppers its reggae with ample amounts of rock, but crossover fans expecting the next 311 or Sublime would do well to leave their expectations at the door.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Drugs killed 2 who died at Rothbury
HART, Mich. (AP) - The Oceana County medical examiner's office says drug overdoses killed two people at the Rothbury music festival. The office says that toxicology tests found that 33-year-old Staci Wagner of Waterloo, N.Y., died from a mix of cocaine and heroin.
WWMT 3 Kalamazoo
Local girl in Sound of Music cast
“Dreamcoat Kid off to Mirvish Big Leagues- Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sound of Music” Dreamcoat Fantasy Theatre, well known in the North Bay area for the quality musical theatre productions and programs offered to children and families of the community, is very proud to announce that [...]
The North Bay Nugget
Jamie Bernstein shares her father’s legacy with audiences
“We didn’t know how great we had it,” admits Jamie Bernstein. “Every time we went to a concert, Leonard Bernstein was conducting.”
Cleveland Jewish News
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