Archive for February, 2010

The Week[end]: February 26-28, 2010 (Isthmus)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Both the Vancouver Olympics and the last full month of winter end this weekend, but their spirit will thrive at the USA Club Curling National Championship in McFarland. The busy calendar also includes: the opening of the “Stitched Ground†exhibit; the Wisconsin Teen Poetry Slam Finals; Bockfest; productions of Meg, Narukami, the UW Dance Program's Spring Student Concert, and The Rocky Horror ...

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The Week[end]: February 26-28, 2010 (Isthmus)

Wizards make magic (The Australian)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

OJOS de Brujo, the award-winning Barcelona-based collective, is a band without leaders.

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Benefit concert to benefit slain officer’s family (FOX 6 News Birmingham)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

PELHAM, AL (WBRC) - A community continues to pull together to help the family of a fallen Pelham police officer. Officer Philip Davis was murdered in December during a traffic stop.

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Benefit concert to benefit slain officer's family (FOX 6 News Birmingham)

Rolling Stones unearth 10 new tracks for reissue (The Malaysian Insider)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Feb 26 — The Rolling Stones, who have long resisted releasing archival material, will include 10 previously unheard songs in an upcoming reissue of “Exile on Main Street”, the group’s representatives said yesterday. The original 1972 release, a sprawling two-disc set regarded by many observers as one of their greatest works, features such notable tracks as “Tumbling Dice” and “Happy ...

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Stones add 10 new tracks to Main Street (The Courier Mail)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

THE Rolling Stones, who have long resisted releasing archival material, will include 10 previously unheard songs in an upcoming reissue of Exile on Main Street .

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Fisher Ensemble offers a daring take on Yeats work (Seattle Times)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Seattle's Fisher Ensemble enters the realm of myth with a Noh-influenced chamber-opera adaptation of W.B. Yeats' "At the Hawk's Well."

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Fisher Ensemble offers a daring take on Yeats work (Seattle Times)

Rolling Stones unearth 10 new tracks for reissue (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The Rolling Stones, who have long resisted releasing archival material, will include 10 previously unheard songs in an upcoming reissue of "Exile on Main Street," the group's representatives said on Thursday.

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Music Review: Waterloo – First Battle (Blogcritics.org)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Extremely rare Belgian progressive album reissued on CD.

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Music Review: Waterloo - First Battle (Blogcritics.org)

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Jazz Vocalist Erika Matsuo’s Dazzling Debut CD, Obsession, is Released in U.S. (All About Jazz)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

With pianist Carlton Holmes, saxophonists Paulo Levi and Yosvany Terry, guitarists Romero Lubambo and Freddie Bryant, bassist Essiet Essiet, drummer Willard Dyson, percussionist Nanny Assis The superb and startlingly accomplished debut CD from vocalist Erika Matsuo, Obsession, (March 23, Erika Records) resolves the usual preconceptions about a "first voyage out" with a wholly positive and ...

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Carlos Santana Celebrates ‘Supernatural’ Reissue, Talks Covers Album (Billboard)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The rock guitar legend is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his breakthrough "Supernatural" album with a "Supernatural: Legacy Edition" that includes a second disc of rare and unreleased material.

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