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FESTIVAL: Alive! and kickin'
FRIDAY, AUG. 29... By Anita overcash As Labor Day weekend begins, so does Matthews Alive!, a long-time local festival of good times. If you're in town, set aside some time to browse this four-day family-oriented event that features music, locally made arts and crafts, a parade, quilt shows, a Kiwanis race and lots of activities for children. Tons of entertainers will be there too, from acoustic, ...
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MUSIC: Got soul?
SATURDAY, AUG. 30... By Anita overcash Attention soul fans: Here's the show for you. On Aug. 30, Summer Soul Music Festival brings performers Morris Day and the Time, Midnight Star, E.U., Carmen Chiles and others to the stage for a day hearty vibes. $37. 2 p.m. Frans Park Center, 2600 W. Trade St. 704-372-1000. www.2thelimitevents.com....
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MUSIC: 'Groovy little thing'
SUNDAY, AUG. 31... By Anita overcash There's a whole lot of concerts going on this week, and no one forgot about the reggae genre. On Aug. 31, it's time for the 4th Annual One Love Fest, where legendary Jamaican singer Beres Hammond will perform along with other acts Morgan Heritage and Dubconscious. $35-$65. 9 p.m. Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th St. 704-358-9298. ...
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Music: The Game's 'LAX'
The Game goes surprisingly mellow in comparison to his first two efforts.
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CAST goes country!
Foxfire turns the experiential theater into a barn... By Perry Tannenbaum Watch where you're steppin', city boys and city gals! Carolina Actors Studio Theatre -- where past audiences have voyaged into the innards of a computer's motherboard, to the brink of nuclear disaster, to a high school reunion, to a bloody crime scene, and beyond -- now takes us to a haunted farmstead near the peak of ...
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
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BC Music Goodie Bag: Kid Rock, Wayne Brady, The Verve, Brandon Rogers, John Legend, and Backyard Tire Fire
From Kid Rock to the Democratic National Convention, we have audio and video treats for your ears and eyes. Summer continues to steam on. Some parts of the country are trying to find relief from the unbearable heat, while others are thrilled the rain from tropical storm Faye has finally ceased. However, it's business as usual here at the BC Music Goodie Bag. From a little Kid Rock to warm you ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Former Charlotte attorney suing for $1 million
Tom Rapp used to belt out tunes with the 1960s psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine, opening for powerhouse artists Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd. But it’s Rapp’s second career as an attorney that’s thrust him in the public spotlight now.
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Beloit College students welcomed
A Welcome Back to Beloit party was held on Grand Avenue Monday for returning and new Beloit College students. Bluegrass music entertained crowds and burgers and brats were served during the event.
Beloit Daily News |
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Video Interviews
Well, V Festival is over for another year. We had a marvellous time. Our sympathy goes out to those on the Staffordshire site who got a bit soggy. We were at Chelmsford where the sun shone, the ground stayed mostly dry and Amy Winehouse turned up on time. Excellent.
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Montgomery Jogger Raped in Rock Creek Park
A 30-year-old jogger was raped Monday night after being pulled into a wooded area of Rock Creek Park just south of Kensington, marking the second time in the last week a Montgomery County woman has been taken into woods and sexually assaulted, police said.
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Jessica Simpson Pays Her Dues at California Concert
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Jessica Simpson received a warm welcome on Monday night (Aug. 25) at the California State Fair in Sacramento, playing her first headlining set in three years and focusing almost entirely on her upcoming country album.
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Baneki Offers Freeware Solution to Chinese Government Blocking of iTunes
At 9am PST today, Baneki Privacy Computing began providing a pool of dedicated VPN accounts to Chinese citizens, so that they are able once again to freely and reliably access Apple's iTunes music store.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Roundup of Indie rock bands
Originally, the phrase "indie rock" referred to alternative or underground artists who weren't signed to big labels. But the term just as easily applies to major-label artists with a counterculture vibe -- or those who eschew standard formulas of commercial success.
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Voting Rights Music Video
Here's the music video that played right before Eleanor Holmes Norton was introduced at the DNC. The go-go style song, "Demand the Vote", was commissioned by DC Vote and written by D.C. musician Joe L. Da Vessel and the band Melodic. The video was directed by Warren Wesley at G-light Films.
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Coping With David Byrne & Brian Eno
It's liberating to know that David Byrne believes his lyrics and music trigger emotions in himself rather than the other way around—that he assembles meaning after the fact. Byrne says as much in the liner notes to Nonesuch's 2006 reissue of 1981's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts , his ...
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New Orleans Still Struggles—In Song—With Katrina
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? If you live in the Crescent City, you won't know what it means to miss that song: Along with "Louisiana 1927," it has become an almost-inescapable civic anthem, as sentimentality and paranoia—"They're trying to wash us away"—reach new hei...
The Village Voice |
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Remembering ZZ Top's Inconceivable 1980s Makeover
Last year, the editors of Continuum's "33 1/3" series of books on epochal albums shot down my pitch for ZZ Top's Tres Hombres . From the salacious chuckle of "La Grange" to the classic-rock-radio one-two punch of "Waitin' for the Bus" and "Jesus Just Left Chicago" (not to mention the divine...
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The Star-Ledger |
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Jay-Z to open renovated Hollywood Palladium
After undergoing renovations for more than a year, the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles will open its doors October 15 with a concert by Jay-Z. The rapper will be backed by a 12-piece band.
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Music Review: Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians
The alt power-poppers release an engaging set of B-Sides and Rarities. "Rarities and B-Sides" sets can be risky propositions: there's often a good reason, after all, why these tracks weren't included in the artist's A-Side repertoire. And when the artist shows a tendency for inserting odd little proto-psychedelic instrumentals into the body of their official releases - much as Apples in ...
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Kay Young: Mixing music with technology
Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 12:10 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 12:10 p.m. In 12 years with her self-created instruction program that combines traditional piano lessons and 20th century technology, Kay Young has taught thousands of students across the Upstate.
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Neversoft: Keyboard would limit World Tour
Guitar Hero project director squashes speculation, saying electronic piano "deserves to be introduced with its own game."
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Debut album hints at good things to come from Korean-American singer Priscilla Ahn
Priscilla Ahn, a rising singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, has just released a lovely debut album, "A Good Day." Over the past year, Ahn has gained considerable attention through network television appearances and the use of her music on "Grey's Anatomy." She makes her Bay Area debut Aug. 30 at the Independent, opening for bayou soul singer Marc Broussard; then on Sept. 4, she opens for ...
San Jose Mercury News |
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Madonna courts controversy again over McCain video
Madonna has always reveled in controversy and with the recent launch of her concert tour, "Sticky & Sweet," the 50-year-old pop star has kicked up a new fuss by comparing John McCain to Adolph Hitler in a video.
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Festivalgoers weigh in on Outside Lands
Music fans from around the world traveled to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the first Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival Aug. 22-24, and many of them weighed in on our blog at http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei. Not surprisingly, Radiohead's glitch-plagued set for 60,000 on Friday night generated the most discussion.
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