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The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Artist: The Last Shadow Puppets Review: As the leader of Britain's Arctic Monkeys, Alex Turner creates spiky neo-post-punk that avoids any revivalist fuddy-duddyism. But Turner's new side project, a collaboration with Miles Kane of Merseyside indie-poppers the Rascals, is a shameless nostalgia trip — and it's still compelling. Their debut pays homage to the moody symphonic sound of early David ...
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Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
Artist: Phantom Planet Review: Phantom Planet claim their fourth full-length was inspired by the music of Charles Manson and David Koresh — not quite the album you'd expect from the California boys who sang The O.C.'s theme song. Still, like those cult leaders, Raise the Dead gives its macabre subjects (and its lighter ones) an oddly upbeat spin. Jumping from Bowie glam to disco punk, the band ...
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Gavin DeGraw - Gavin DeGraw
Artist: Gavin DeGraw Review: Gavin DeGraw first hit it big with 2003's "I Don't Want to Be," an anti-fronting anthem with the long-winded chorus "I don't want to be anything other than what I've been tryin' to be lately." Five years later, dude's still verbose. He packs bizarre metaphors into the faux-jazzy "Cop Stop": "I won't tell you lies/Or treat you like a rental car like other guys." ...
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Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction
Artist: Joe Higgs Review: Jamaican singer—songwriter Joe Higgs mentored the giants of reggae music. He taught harmony singing to Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in the yard of his Trenchtown home, toured America with Marley and Jimmy Cliff, and wrote "Stepping Razor," which became Tosh's signature song. More important, Higgs was one of the first Jamaican singers to bring the ghetto experience to the ...
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Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul [Collector's Edition]
Artist: Otis Redding Review: This two—cd set doubles the pleasure of Otis Redding's third album with B sides, outtakes, period live tracks and the entire record in mono and stereo versions. But Otis Blue was already perfect in its original 11—song edition when released in September 1965 — an achievement that is even more remarkable because all but one of the tracks were recorded inside 24 hours, ...
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Lil Wayne -- Whose 'Lollipop' Is #1 -- Gives His Baby Picture A Tattooed Makeover For Carter III Cover
What are they gonna say now? criticism about his studio efforts has been as scarce as Denver Nuggets playoff wins. But one fact his detractors always point out is that his ascension has been mostly on guest appearances and not his own records.
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Simic stepping aside as U.S. poet laureate
A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.I've thoroughly enjoyed this past year, Simic said in a news release. The best part of being poet laureate of the United States is working with the fine, dedicated and learned people at the Library (of Congress).Simic, poet laureate since August 2007, will give a ...
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Media seeks papers in R. Kelly porn case
News organizations asked the Illinois Supreme Court to order a judge to unseal documents and proceedings in R&B singer R. Kelly's child pornography case.Several outlets, including the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, objected to measures imposed by Cook County Criminal Court Judge Vincent Gaughan, who placed documents under seal, had four closed hearings and imposed an order barring ...
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Methodist church honors the memory of Jewel Woolsey
Members and friends of the Floresville United Methodist Church celebrated an important milestone April 20 — the maturation of the Jewel Woolsey Memorial Fund, dedicated to the memory of the lady who was the church organist and pianist for more than 72 years, from around 1913 all the way until her retirement in 1985.
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Amy Coen: Climate Change And Women's Issues Are More Connected Than You Think
Last week's Earth Day celebration reminded me of the first one. I came away thinking that if I hadn't already decided to work for women's rights, I would choose to work on environmental causes as a career.
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Lil Wayne -- Whose 'Lollipop' Is #1 -- Gives His Baby Picture A Tattooed Makeover For Carter III Cover
Lil Wayne, whose "Lollipop" is #1 on Billboard 's Hot 100, gives his baby picture a tattooed makeover for the cover of Tha Carter III.
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Music Community Site Mog Gets $2.8 Strategic Investment From UMG, Sony BMG, And Angels
Mog, the Berkely, CA-based music community site, has taken a $2.8 million strategic nvestment from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, as well as various angels. The site, which competes with sites like iMeem and iLike, was started by David Hyman, formerly of Gracenote, which recently announced a sale to Sony .
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FierceWireless Names Whrrl as One of Its 'Fierce 15' Wireless Companies of 2008
Whrrl, a news social discovery service from Pelago, Inc., announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceWireless "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top wireless companies of the year. FierceWireless editors evaluated hundreds of organizations, and found Whrrl to be amongst the "fiercest," proven by their creativity and innovations in the marketplace.
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Priest of 50 years dies in StL
The Rev. Martin "Marty" Hagan, one of the most well-known Jesuits in the history of St. Louis University High who devoted more than half-a-century to St. Louis University High, died Monday (April 28, 2008) at St. Louis University Hospital.
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NYC Duo Bring's Ray Charles & Betty Carter's Music Back Around
Soul/blues duo Dwight & Nicole (Dwight Ritcher & Nicole Nelson) have just sold out two shows at the Blue Note NYC, and two more at the Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, with their acclaimed show honoring the music of legendary duo Ray Charles & Betty Carter.
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Norah Jones Performs at Jazz Foundation of America's "A Great Night in Harlem" Benefit on May 29th
April 29, 2008 (New York, NY) - The Jazz Foundation of America presents its seventh annual gala benefit concert, “A Great Night in Harlem," on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at the world famous Apollo Theater at 8 PM in New York City. Over 50 legendary jazz and blues artists are scheduled to perform at what Elvis Costello calls “One of the greatest concerts I've been to in twenty years."
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Enrico Donati - last of the Surrealists, perfume-maker
Enrico Donati, an Italian-born American painter and sculptor considered by many in the art world to be the last of the Surrealists, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 99. The cause was complications of injuries sustained in a taxi accident in...
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Company keeps Hispanic heritage through foreign language classes
CK Translations will offer Spanish Language Classes for Children in Vineland, at Cafe of Life, starting May 22, which will allow so many Hispanic Families to keep their heritage through the language and culture taught in the classes.
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Contaminated heparin deaths noted
The widow of a man who died after receiving contaminated heparin told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday "we have a false sense of security" in a land where people expect to be protected and safe. Brushing away tears, Johanna Marie Staples of Toledo, Ohio, said her husband, Dennis, was looking forward to his 60th birthday party on the last day of his life. Contaminated heparin, a blood thinner ...
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Chorus of Westerly cooks up an encore
The Chorus of Westerly isn’t content to cultivate singers. The organization wants to nurture a good cook or two.
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N.C. Symphony travels to remote areas
Musicians toting delicate cellos, lumbering harps and big twisting horns will soon roam far from the concert halls of the state's biggest cities into communities rarely exposed to classical music, under a pilot project the N.C. Symphony is about to launch.
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American Indians in a New, Bright Light
Monte Yellow Bird Sr.’s life is full of color. It’s in his paintings, coated on his ceramics and constantly on his mind. This week Yellow Bird, a well-known artist who also goes by the name of Black Pinto Horse, is sharing his colorful view of the world with people in the Flathead Valley, speaking at local schools, including Flathead Valley Community College, and at an Arbor Day celebration at ...
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Charter Convenes Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR) ("Charter" or the "Company") convened its Annual Meeting of Stockholders here today.
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What’s so special about mornings in Rio?
MCA Music has just released Morning in Rio, the newest album from the legendary Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes who had a concert again at the Araneta Coliseum in 2006 as part of his world tour to promote his album Timeless.
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Sanctuary Festival seeks licence
LICENSING chiefs will decide if a dance music event, which could attract up to 10,000 people, can be held near Winchester. If approved by councillors next Tuesday (May 6), the Sanctuary Festival would start on Friday, August 8, and finish in the early hours of Sunday, August 10.
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