and make it a good one
Here we have two men in their early 60s just tearing it up for a respectful and ‘in awe of’ audience. It’s Adult Contemporary at its best, and combined with a full and vibrantly mixed sound to further accentuate the power of the performance.
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Event: Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe @ The Palais, Melbourne (28/11/09) (Faster Louder)
Here we have two men in their early 60s just tearing it up for a respectful and ‘in awe of’ audience. It’s Adult Contemporary at its best, and combined with a full and vibrantly mixed sound to further accentuate the power of the performance.
Continue here: Event: Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe @ The Palais, Melbourne (28/11/09) (Faster Louder)
It’s a tradition as unavoidable as fruitcake: Around this time every year we produce a video gamers’ gift guide, in the hopes of directing holiday gift buyers away from the hokey plastic Wii tennis racket attachments and toward game-related gifts that the recipients might actually, y’know, enjoy.
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Budgeting game-related gifts (Toronto Sun)
It’s a tradition as unavoidable as fruitcake: Around this time every year we produce a video gamers’ gift guide, in the hopes of directing holiday gift buyers away from the hokey plastic Wii tennis racket attachments and toward game-related gifts that the recipients might actually, y’know, enjoy.
Continue here: Budgeting game-related gifts (Toronto Sun)
The first sign things were going wrong on the set of Divine Rapture was when Marlon Brando shaved his head. But that was the least of the film's troubles If all the roads in Ireland were to converge at a final destination, you would probably find yourself in Ballycotton, Co Cork. A tiny village on a rocky headland, it is as removed and cosy as its name suggests. Its harbour is stocked with a ...
More here: Brando, Depp, the missing millions and Divine Rapture, the lost movie (Guardian Unlimited)
Stumped for what to buy your friends and family this year? Forget the socks and chocs and bubble bath – our critics have chosen 40 of the best music, film and TV box sets POP by Kitty Empire 1 THE BEATLES Remastered Stereo Box Set (Parlophone) At £145, the Beatles box set probably costs roughly what a small car did in the early 1960s. But the startling detail on these CDs will repay the outlay ...
More here: Box sets for Christmas | Gift ideas (Guardian Unlimited)
The blues was music made by dead people for old people. Then a 'brother and sister' duo kicked it back into life. Andrew Perry, one of the White Stripes' earliest champions, recalls the impact of their first UK gigs. London was melting in a rare summer heatwave when the White Stripes landed for three gigs in the capital that would alter the course of popular music, worldwide. It was 2001, and ...
Continue here: Jack White: Rock'n'roll star of the decade (Guardian Unlimited)
Seabird is flying high and heading this way. The Christian rockers from Cincinnati, who will perform in Toledo on Dec. 9, have some notable achievements since their last Toledo area appearance, when they opened for This Beautiful Republic at the Maumee Indoor Theatre in August, 2008. The group's poignant version of "Joy to the World" was heard on the hit TV series Grey's Anatomy last week and a ...
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Cincy band Seabird's career is taking off (The Toledo Blade)
Seabird is flying high and heading this way. The Christian rockers from Cincinnati, who will perform in Toledo on Dec. 9, have some notable achievements since their last Toledo area appearance, when they opened for This Beautiful Republic at the Maumee Indoor Theatre in August, 2008. The group's poignant version of "Joy to the World" was heard on the hit TV series Grey's Anatomy last week and a ...
Continue here: Cincy band Seabird's career is taking off (The Toledo Blade)
Rihanna, "Rated R" ***
More here: Music: Rihanna's edge too sharp in new CD (Erie Times-News)