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Nickels proclaims Seattle the "City of Music"
Mayor Greg Nickels officially declared Seattle the City of Music at a concert/open-house event at the historic Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008.
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Beatles to bless Rock Band
Drum along with Ringo Apple Corps, the Beatles' licensing company, is expected to announce a deal that brings the catalogue to the popular play-along game Rock Band today. Press received notification of a new "Global Music Project" partnership with Apple Corps from MTV yesterday. Viacom subsidiary MTV in turn owns the developer of Rock Band, Harmonix.…
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Rock The Bells: Morgen in Prag!
Live on Stage: Nas, Mos Def, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, EPMD, Scratch (The Roots) + Freestyle-King Supernatural.
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Greenock Telegraph. » What's On
Musical maestro Alison McNeill has two concerts lined up. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are back to reprise their roles of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in a second movie version of the classic TV show.
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Music Review: Nosound - Lightdark
Nosound come of age. There is often a point in time when it becomes obvious that a band has taken quite a sizeable step forward. Italian prog-rock outfit Nosound have done just that with this their second album. Lightdark achieves that step through a lush collection of explorations spread across an impressive double disc release. Nosound have further developed the...
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Music Review: Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
Boundaries aren't pushed, but expectations are fulfilled. If you’re going to listen to an arena-leaning rock band that spreads the anthems on thick, you really should be listening to Snow Patrol. After years of laboring in obscurity, they’ve settled in comfortably to a familiar formula – expansive, heavily layered rockers mingling with hushed, intimate ballads. To that end, A Hundred...
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SFA plan 'lyric free' new record
Lead singer Gruff Rhys has said the band's original intention to record a rock album has evolved into an orchestral LP.
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PODCAST: Radio Trivia: Podcast Edition - Episode 41
Jonny picks (most of) the songs in this dynamic episode.
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ALSO ON TAP
Carpe Diem String Quartet COLUMBUS DANCE THEATRE, 592 E. MAIN ST.; WOSU@COSI, COSI COLUMBUS, 333 W. BROAD ST. (1-800-595-4849, WWW.CARPEDIEM STRINGQUARTET.COM) In "After the Sun Sets" (at both venues), soprano Audrey Luna joins the quartet; in "Halloween Spooktacular" (at COSI only), the group looks at how music can change the mood.
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Music Review: Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
Blues, rock, and big-tent revival showmanship. Three of the four members of Los Angeles-based indie rockers Cold War Kids met at an evangelical Christian college. A sense of rowdy preaching is infused in the music, as the quartet fuses blues, rock, and big-tent revival showmanship into their music. Their debut was 2006’s Robbers & Cowards, a critically-acclaimed piece that sprang up...
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Music Review: Death Defying Acts - Original Motion Picture Score
A score of magical proportions... After you watch Australian director Gillian Armstrong’s gorgeous period film Death Defying Acts, which surrounds an unlikely love story set in Scotland among a phony psychic con artist (Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Harry Houdini (Memento’s Guy Pearce), you’re left wanting to learn more about the legendary...
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Scattered ‘Ashes of Time' put back together
TORONTO - "Basically, it's like you have a car, and you have to dismantle the car, but then it takes five years to reassemble," says Wong Kar Wai, who, in fact, is not talking about a car. He is discussing his 1994 release, the swirling martial arts reverie "Ashes of Time." Presented at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, "Ashes of Time Redux" is more than a simple restoration of ...
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Internationally known pianist tops bill
LEWISBURG -- Jazz pianist Bill Carrothers will perform in concert at Bucknell University on at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in Bucknell Hall. The performance is free to the public as part of Bucknell University's ongoing Jazz at Bucknell First Wednesdays series.
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19 Days Until Ideas are Unleashed Across the Globe
As Global Entrepreneurship Week nears, Nov. 17 - 23, organizations around the world are preparing to celebrate, and the numbers of partners, activities, challenges and more continue to grow.
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Actor Joaquin Phoenix says goodbye to film, hello to music
Joaquin Phoenix says he's "not doing films anymore."
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In concert
in concert Today k.d. lang
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Brass bands headed to St. Charles
ST. CHARLES - The organizer of the U.S. Brass Band Championships wants to let people know the annual contest is moving to St. Charles this year, and it’s not just for self-proclaimed band geeks.
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There and Back Again: Globetrotting With Apple
Traveling can be an exciting adventure, especially if that adventure takes you to a different country. Sure, there will be surprises along the way, but you can help ensure they are all good with a little extra planning ahead, especially if you plan on taking any of your tech gear with you.
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General loves his music, athletic and acting roles
SIBLEY, Iowa -- "Pound for pound, he's the toughest wrestler I have."
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Group Test: Universal Remote Controls
Why take ten remotes into the living room? Round-up The idea of a single ‘universal’ remote control that will control your TV, cable or satellite box, music system, DVD player and any other device you happen to have cluttering up your front room has obvious attractions. Instead of scouring the living room to locate three of four different remotes, you can just press one button to turn ...
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Retro Redux: Musical Familiarity Breeds Contentment, Not Contempt
This British maestro became an expert in knowing what appealed to listeners. It has always seemed a little odd to me how some musicians can sort of slip in the back door of your musical psyche. You might be pretty sure that you've never gone out of your way to listen to anything by them or read anything about them, and yet they've somehow become familiar. You might even find yourself enjoying ...
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Music Review: Tuck and Patti - I Remember You
Tuck and Patti's new album pays tribute to the jazz standards that most influenced their sound. Jazz duo Tuck and Patti have astounded for 29 years with their spare, intimate, and beautiful covers of standards as well as rock artists such as The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. Vocalist Patti Cathcart possesses a deep, rich instrument that can wrap itself around virtually any song, while guitarist ...
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2009 ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO Announced
ASCAP will stage its fourth annual ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO in Los Angeles next spring where top songwriters, composers, producers and industry professionals will come together to share their knowledge and expertise on a broad range of topics of great importance to today's music creators. The three-day event will take place at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, April 23-25, 2009.
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19 Days Until Ideas are Unleashed Across the Globe
WASHINGTON----As Global Entrepreneurship Week nears, Nov. 17 – 23, organizations around the world are preparing to celebrate, and the numbers of partners, activities, challenges and more continue to grow.
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Remembering Mahmoud Darwish in London
Special programme of poetry readings, literary analysis, film, and music to celebrate work of Mahmoud Darwish.
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