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Musical blasts from the past
It's Halloween, and the spirit of pop music from the '80s has arisen, as those scream-inducing New Kids on the Block bring their much-acclaimed reunion tour to Philly's Wachovia Center on Wednesday.
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Pianist leads TSO in Big Band Blast
Some might be tempted to call it musical multitasking to the nth-degree when pianist/ conductor Rich Ridenour leads the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in its first pops concert of the season this weekend.
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Rock 'n' Roll from Main Street, Wasilla
'Censored Colors,' Portugal. The Man (Equal Vision Records,
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Peter Anderson Fest celebrates 30th year
There is truly something for everyone at the 30th Annual Peter Anderson Festival tomorrow and Sunday in downtown Ocean Springs.
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Music notes
● The University of Arizona School of Music's Ethnomusicology program will put on a free world-music concert Thursday at Crowder Hall in the UA Fine Arts Complex, North Park Avenue and East Speedway.
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Eclectic 'Mixtape' gives cast a workout
Inspired by the music and the passions it stirs, 'Mixtape' is a 10-piece collection of plays, poetry, a short film and a photo 'play.' Most of the work in this eclectic show by Miami's Mad Cat Theatre Company is brand-new, and it gives the acting company -- Erik Fabregat and Sofia Citarella, above, Paul Tei, Joe Kimble, Erin Joy Schmidt and Troy Davidson -- a real workout. See it at The Light ...
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LL Cool J honored at LI gala
LI Music Hall of Fame inducted greats from Louis Armstrong and Count Basie to hip-hop icons LL Cool J and Public Enemy.
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Bail Me Out
Hard financial times have always led to great music. Muddy Waters. Johnny Cash. James Brown. All of them sang about the struggle to put food on the table. So it's no surprise that musicians today are responding to the credit crunch, and the federal government's attempt to solve it, in song. Jim Becker, a 47-year-old Whittier songwriter who says he moved to Los Angeles in 1984 with $800 in his ...
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Kung fu to music
BURLINGTON -- It is perhaps one of the most interesting and exotic offerings ever presented by the Lane Series in its 54-year history. On Saturday, Nov. 8, the UVM Lane Series presents a performance of the Boston area musical collective Devil Music Ensemble. DME, known for its original soundtracks to silent movies, will perform its latest project, "Red Heroine." The ensemble's music accompanies ...
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Texas Radio CD Released by Los High Tops, Acclaimed Surfabilly Band
Acclaimed Surfabilly band, Los High Tops, released “Texas Radio,” their first full-length CD, published by Nervous Music America. “Texas Radio” features an engaging mix of originals that draw from the diversity of Americana Roots music. Hicks With Sticks, California’s authority on Rockabilly and Twang music said this about the opening track “Texas Radio;” “The title [PR.com - October 31, 2008]
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Cellist Pieter Wispelwey
MIDDLEBURY -- At 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey and pianist Alexander Melnikov will perform together a collection of works by Barber, Chopin, Martinu and Rachmaninoff. Wispelwey performed at Middlebury in 2006, accompanied by pianist Dejan Laziæ, featuring a program of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano. ...
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Soulful style evolves over the decades
In today's music world, it doesn't get much sharper than Ne-Yo, the 29-year-old crooner who recently released The Year of the Gentleman. The men of R&B don't always look as dapper as Ne-Yo — but they certainly started out that way. Below, some of the most memorable male looks from the past several decades — from the supremely natty to the utterly cringe-worthy.
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The Killers claw their way back on recent rave reviews
The Killers already had a "guilty pleasure" status when the '80s-leaning synth-rockers made themselves harder to like by aping Bruce Springsteen on 2006's embarrassing "Sam's Town."
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Luminescent Orchestrii
WATERBURY -- Music to make you dance, kiss and scream -- that's the motto of the wildly untraditional Luminescent Orchestrii, on stage Saturday, Nov. 8, at Town Hall Theater. (Doors open at 7:30 for an 8 p.m. start.) The band's roots are in klezmer, but it just as easily dishes up Gypsy melodies, salty tangos, Appalachian fiddle and hip-hop rhythms. It's all eaten up and spit out by a quartet of ...
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Madonna lights up Vancouver
A mega-show experience is completely different from a mere concert.
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Lines and T-shirts and beats, 3OH!3 my!
When hip-hop duo 3OH!3 broke out of Boulder, their youthful fans loved the raucous shows and the laugh-out-loud music videos on YouTube, but the joke still persisted.
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Final Occasional Concert: Quinn and Bowers
he Occasional Concert series of house concerts is bringing Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers to Plainfield on Sunday, Nov. 9. This is a fine duo whose CD "Dreamers, Lovers and Outlaws," highlights two fine singers who write intelligent songs. ... - By Art Edelstein Arts Correspondent
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Will Patton: Vermont, mandolin & jazz
hile many people think of the mandolin as a melody instrument in a bluegrass band, or perhaps an iconic instrumental voice in Italian music, it has in recent years become one of the lead voices in jazz, continental and Brazilian music. (It shines in klezmer, Celtic and old-time styles as well.) If you're grappling for the name of a top American mandolinist, you might come up with David Grisman ...
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AdWatch: Democrats' ad attacks Fox over his experience
The 30-second ad, which began airing statewide Wednesday, begins with video footage of Republican candidate Tim Fox saying the attorney general's race is about experience. Again, ominous music plays in the background as sentences like "Tim Fox may be found in contempt of court by the Montana Supreme Court" are superimposed in orange over blurred photos generally illustrating the ad's attacks on ...
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Republican TV ad hits Bullock on death penalty
The ad attacks Democratic candidate Steve Bullock and neither mentions Republican candidate Tim Fox nor shows his image. The ad features a grainy brown background and words like "sexual predators," "death penalty," and "defending gun rights" in red that highlight the female narrator's claims. Ominous music plays in the background. The ad also features an unflattering image of Bullock popping up ...
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Marking Day of the Dead
Pittman Elementary School held its Festival of Honor celebration Thursday evening.
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AdWatch: Democrats' ad attacks Fox over his experience
The 30-second ad, which began airing statewide Wednesday, begins with video footage of Republican candidate Tim Fox saying the attorney general's race is about experience. Again, ominous music plays in the background as sentences like "Tim Fox may be ...
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THE MIRROR: The DM Manual of Style: Grunge
In 1992, Marc Jacobs, then a young and largely unknown designer for Perry Ellis, shocked the fashion world with his landmark Grunge collection, a witty tribute to the youth culture of Seattle's emergent music scene. Encapsulating the "throwaway attitude of rock and roll," the clothes were luxe versions of the trend's staples: oversize flannel shirts, ratty sweaters, chaotic layering, long skirts ...
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'Time and Tide' may be Robbie Dupree's best work yet -- WITH VIDEO
Robbie Dupree is a legend in these parts, he moved here to the Woodstock area in 1972 having had first played on the street corners of Brooklyn, then in the thriving Greenwich Village club scene. Though he has had much major label commercial success, he never forgets that he's a musician first.
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Hey, Madonna! Richie's film is rockin'
The way director Guy Ritchie blends killer black humor with ridiculously jarring scenes of violence makes his "RocknRolla" Britain's answer to "Pulp Fiction." It has been a decade since Ritchie has done work this good, such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." "RocknRolla" earns a spot as one of the better mob films. Read comments
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