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The incendiary device that ignites a musical awakening is generally a song, album or artist: you hear tired of Being alone or Prayers on Fire or Bikini Kill and your life is never the same.
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Fuzzy, Buzzy, Big and Bouncy
When Scott Avett sings the last bars of The Avett Brothers I and Love and You, he puts his fingers over his heart, then gestures out to the audience. It is a symbol of what he and his brother Seth say the song is about not a lost love, but the growing distance that success has put between them and their audience.
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Them, and love, and us - Fri, 16 Jul 2010 PST
"Give Me! Your Eyes! I Need! Sunshine!" Trust me, I know opening a concert review with a band's most iconic lyrics is about as trite a way to do it. But if the proverbial fly on the wall came away with any lasting moment from Wolf Parade 's triumphant return to Montreal, it was Spencer Krug, Dan Boeckner, Dante DeCaro, Arlen Thompson and an impassioned audience's venue-rattling performance of ...
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Wolf Parade Triumph At Tour Opener
ALTON Grateful Dead tribute band Jakes Leg will send ripples through fans for the 33rd year and this year during the Riverfront Park amphitheaters concert series.
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Band pays homage to Grateful Dead at Alton River Festival
There has never been a voice that can sooth and entrance me quite like Johnny Hartman. The sepia Sinatra (I'm sure he had that name before Billy Eckstine) puts all others to shame.
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My Fantasy Band - Scroobius Pip, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
"I've been wading through all this unbelievable junk/ And wondering if I should have given the world to the monkeys," he spits out with relish on "God's Comic" in this blistering solo set. It's about time we reclaimed our very own Elvis, and thanks to Richard Thompson's Meltdown we get a rare sighting (he now lives in New York with his wife, Diana Krall) of this British new-wave whiz.
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Elvis Costello, Royal Festival Hall, London
One of the most distinctive and imitated hit songs of the 1960s was Jimmy Dean's country-music narration, "Big Bad John". Its protagonist in this well-written song was a bar-room brawler who gave his life to save others and the phrase "Big John, big bad John" has passed into the language.
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Jimmy Dean: Singer and actor best known for the Sixties hit 'Big Bad John'
Trawling the 'net for all the new E3 details? Well stop. They're all here
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E3 2010: Everything you need to know about Kinect in one place
WILKES-BARRE A local musical group whose work almost defies classification brought its style downtown Saturday evening.
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We're thinking global today but sometimes acting local with some of the world-embracing music newly out as CDs and download options.
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Music of the world, and close to home