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Music Review: Girl Talk- Feed the Animals
Girl Talk mashes up hundreds of Top 100 songs in to a tremendous dance album. Just over a year ago today, Radiohead released a “pay-what-you-want” album that glimpsed into the future of the economics of music. This summer, mashup DJ Girl Talk did the same thing with his fourth album, Feed the Animals. The difference between the two albums? The latter contains about two hundred songs.Girl Talk ...
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The Metropolitan Opera Joins With Leading Technology Providers to Launch the First HD-Quality Performing Arts ...
Today, the Metropolitan Opera debuts its subscription-based online video experience, making its extensive catalog of historic performances and recent high-definition productions available online.
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Spirit of the West won’t disappoint
Celebrating 25 years as one of Canada’s perennial favourites, Spirit of the West is coming to the Algonquin Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 29 for what promises to be a great evening of music.
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Broadcom Crafts New Bluetooth+FM Chip for Music Phones
Broadcom announced a new chip today that combines a Bluetooth radio with an FM receiver and transmitter. It supports Bluetooth version 2.1 with EDR and profiles such as stereo Bluetooth. The chip also includes audio and vocal processors to ... (follow link to read)
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The audience around us
If you're still stuck on the idea that ''arts audiences'' are people who attend formally organized, professionally produced cultural events, you're only seeing a sliver of the pie. So suggests a new study commissioned by the Irvine Foundation and prepared by WolfBrown.
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Verizon Wireless Launches High-Speed Wireless Broadband Network Throughout Lower Schuylkill County
Speed Wireless Access on Their Laptops and Download Full-track Songs, Watch Videos, Play Games and More on Their Phones
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U.S. Congress, State of Illinois and City of Chicago Offer Acclaim for The Soul Children of Chicago's Youth Alive ...
CHICAGO----Walt Whitman's The Soul Children of Chicago gospel choir will present Youth Alive United Worldwide 2008, a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic ecumenical movement for the youth and young adults across the nation for the purpose of focused prayer and music.
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South Coast Chamber Music Society opens the season with noted harpist
MARION — The first concert in the South Coast Chamber Music Society's exciting 2008-09 season features acclaimed harpist Mary Jane Rupert in a program of special interest not only to lovers of classical chamber music, but also to anyone who...
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Retro Redux: Zoot And The Evolution Of Cool
COOL can be defined in a lot of different ways -- but Zoot had them all covered. The world of music has always provided fertile ground for funny nicknames. One of the best belonged to a favorite of mine -- a guy who was one of the many jazz artists who thrived in both the big band era and the later modern jazz years. He was hard-partying and had a quirky sense of humor, but was always respected ...
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Music Review: Autechre - Incunabula
Put those Indian Ocean Moods CD's in the trash.. this is the real thing. Still cited as the alma mater for modern electronica, the Artificial Intelligence series was the Warp label's kiss off to the landscape it had helped shape. Although it did little for its creators bank accounts - it was hardly likely by definition to catapult the artists responsible into the charts as had happened to a ...
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UK gig royalties beat CD income
UK songwriters are about to make more money from concert royalties than CD sales for the first time, estimates suggest.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Pianist Richard Goode performs Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C major from The Well-Tempered Clavier and French Suite No. 5 in G major, Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, and Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-flat major (D. 960). 7:30pm Tue. Bass Performance Hall, 555 Commerce St, FW. $15-90. 817-335-9000.
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BLOTCH: Movie-related thoughts (Kristian Lin)
I spent last Thursday at the Modern watching the world premiere of ‘They Came to Play,’ Alex Rotaru’s documentary about the contestants at last year’s Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Amateurs . (You may remember I did a web feature for the semifinal and final rounds.
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Cultural organizations watching budgets, but holding their own
Phoenix cultural organizations appear to be weathering the tough economy. Mary Ellen Gleason of the Phoenix Symphony said it expects to draw about the same number of people last season, although season ticket sales are off 6 percent.
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BLOTCH: Last 30 Days
"Movie-related thoughts": Kristian Lin I spent last Thursday at the Modern watching the world premiere of ‘They Came to Play,’ Alex Rotaru’s documentary about the contestants at last year’s Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Amateurs . (You may remember I did a web feature for the semifinal and final rounds.
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Musicoola Ltd. Powers New Interactive Music Service Platform at UPC Hungary
LONDON, BUSINESS WIRE -- Musicoola Ltd., a full turnkey solution provider for digital music broadcasting, announced today that their solution is powering a new interactive music service offered by UPC Hungary, a leading television, broadband internet and telephone service provider.
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UK Handel exhibition to explore man behind music
London's Handel House Museum, where the German-born composer died, will host an exhibition in 2009 focusing on his passion for food and his finances to mark the 250th anniversary of his death.
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UK Handel exhibition to explore man behind music
London's Handel House Museum, where the German-born composer died, will host an exhibition in 2009 focusing on his passion for food and his finances to mark the 250th anniversary of his death.
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Music Review: Minus The Bear - Acoustics EP
MTB is no stranger to experimentation. This time they go the acoustic route. And not surprisingly, the experiment works. Since its 2001 debut EP This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic and 2002 debut CD Highly Refined Pirates, Minus The Bear has become known not only as an electrifying experimental indie rock/post-punk band but as one of Seattle’s best kept secrets. [That may be changing ...
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Cowell's X Factor security stepped up
Music mogul Simon Cowell has had his security on reality TV show The X Factor stepped up after the programme came under fire from Islamist extremists.
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Critical Reception: Nintendo's Wii Music
This week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to Wii Music, a beginner-friendly music simulation title that critics say is "far from a traditional videogame, and more akin to a tech demo or social audio experiment." Originally expected to be a Nintendo Wii launch title, Wii Music has received extensive revision in the months since the console's release. The final version ...
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Fraser and Testa Will Be Together Again Again in November
Gypsy's Alison Fraser and recent Xanadu star Mary Testa will return to the Laurie Beechman Theatre in November following two sold-out concerts at the intimate nightspot in the past few weeks.
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9:21 a.m.: Silent auction to help African orphans
ANDERSON — A silent auction has been added to the Memorial Benefit Concert at the Sherman Street Church of God, 1925 Sherman St., set for Saturday. The auction begins at 4 p.m. followed by the 6 p.m. concert.
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CMJ Day 1: Deerhoof gets wild for sound at Spiegelworld!
Deerhoof’s sound is like clockwork. Riffs interlock, vocals chime and its musical integration is a seamless machine of sound.
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Daniel Riggs: Outsize Obama "Video-Tagging" Confuses and Inspires Swing-State Voters
I didn't know about the Obama-Rama Tour until I went to park my car last Friday night and saw a giant projection of hip-hop superstar Will.I.Am's music video "Yes We Can" playing on the side of a skyscraper downtown.
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