Etheridge: Powerful, ‘Fearless’
Sunday, July 11th, 2010If you want understatement, you're not about to get it from Melissa Etheridge nowadays. Everything about her...
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Finding their audience
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010The rockabilly style of Ted Painter already has people tapping their feet but when he belts out the chorus of his original song, "I Wanna See You Naked," a couple of guys slap the bar and laugh raucously.
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Live Review: Levon Helm in T.O.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010TORONTO - Serious music fans got two for the price of one at Massey Hall on Tuesday night as acclaimed singer-songwriter John Hiatt opened for The Band's beloved drummer-singer Levon Helm.
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Head over heels in love with Tears For Fears
Thursday, May 6th, 2010[Above: Tears For Fears' Curt Smith (left) and Roland Orzabal proved nothing beats the real thing by belting out original arrangements of songs like Mad World.]
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New 2010-2011 Performances Presented by UABs Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Click here for all performer images. The Swell Season , with opening act Justin Townes Earle, 7 p.m. in UAB's Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Ave. South. Part of the ASC casual Summer Concerts Series.
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An UnEffected Display (The Cornell Daily Sun)
Monday, February 8th, 2010Saturday night’s show at Ithaca’s Wildfire Lounge was one of reinvention. A local Ithaca band, The Cos, transported the audience to the nitty-gritty streets of New York City. Cornell group Blow! — who recorded their debut EP on a laptop in the bathrooms of Willard-Straight and Balch arch — created a sound as big and full as an orchestra. The headliners, Brooklyn’s Asobi Seksu, may have made ...
Embracing the Cactus (Austin American-Statesman)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Embracing the Cactus
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My favorite concerts of 2009, in Madison and (slightly) beyond (Isthmus)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Recorded music only takes you so far. My soundtrack is constantly recharged by live music. I saw more than 40 shows in 2009, some notable ones out of town. What follows are my favorite concerts close to home -- in Madison and Milwaukee and, as it happened, Fort Atkinson.
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Garth Brooks brings a new showbiz paradigm to Las Vegas (Las Vegas Sun)
Sunday, December 13th, 2009The triumphant arrival of Garth Brooks may be the first glimpse of the next Las Vegas and a new showbiz paradigm: the anti-spectacle. After a decade of ever-more-elaborate (and impersonal) Cirque-dominated, can-you-top-this? extravaganzas – epitomized by Celine Dion and then Bette Midler – Brooks and Steve Wynn are keeping it simple.
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Leslie Katz (The San Francisco Examiner)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Why I like my job: I’m thrilled to be in a position to showcase and promote the arts — particularly local artists of all kinds — in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.
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