Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
We missed you," cries a supportive voice from the crowd as Corinne Bailey Rae takes to the stage. "I missed you too," she replies with a smile but, really, this is one pop star with more to worry about of late than retaining her fan base. This is Bailey Rae's first full gig since the 2008 death of her husband, Jason Rae, from a suspected drugs overdose and, while she makes no direct mention of ...
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Corinne Bailey Rae, The Tabernacle, London (Independent)
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Oceans of harmony resonate from the strings of Leo Kottke’s guitar as he just sits there and finger-picks his little symphonies into existence.
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Kottke after turkey never gets old (MinnPost)
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Wonderfully brutal, Lightning Bolt are a wonder to behold in a live setting, and it’s rare for the audience member to come away from a performance unchanged by the sheer ferocity and excitement of it.
More here: Event: Lightning Bolt, Primitive Calculators, Beaches @ Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne (20/11/09) (Faster Louder)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
goatTitle--VARIETY SHOW TELETHON BASH The Debutante Hour, a lively female vocal trio whose members play the accordion, the cello, and the drums, needs money to record a new album, so they’re putting on a show, with performances by other bands, jugglers, puppeteers, opera singers, and comedians. (The . . .
Continue here: Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond (The New Yorker)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
By Dipankar De Sarkar, London, Nov 30 : Pioneering Grammy award winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is taking Indian classical music to new corners of the world through his innovative string instrument, mohan veena, a fusion of the guitar and the veena.
More here: India's guitar maestro takes classical music to new places (New Kerala)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
London, Nov 30 (IANS) Pioneering Grammy award winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is taking Indian classical music to new corners of the world through his innovative string instrument, mohan veena, a fusion of the guitar and the veena.
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India's guitar maestro takes classical music to new places (MalaysiaNews.net)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Sleazeroxx is reporting that one of the four extremely rare custom made Gibson Les Paul's that were made for Slash is now up for auction on eBay.
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Ultra Rare Slash Les Paul On eBay? (antiMUSIC)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Yellow Fever/MySpace Yellow Fever - Yellow Fever For a band that’s only been active for a couple of years, Yellow Fever have already changed their name, lost, then added, then lost again a handful of members, and played their catchy and intriguingly minimal songs at venues all over the country. There’s been no new material forthcoming from Yellow Fever for a while, and fans of the band may be ...
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Local Capsule Reviews: Yellow Fever and Wiretree (Austinist)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Lydon tours for the first time in 17 years and discusses possibility of new studio album.
Continue here: Public Image Limited Re-issues "Metal Box" (TheCelebrityCafe.com)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Destin singer/songwriter and guitarist Reed Waddle can add another notch to his guitar strap after his Grand Prize winning performance at the New York Songwriters Circles (www.songwriters-circle.com) fourth annual Songwriting Contest finale at the...
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Destin's Reed Waddle wins New York Songwriters Circle Contest (with SONG) (The Destin Log)
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