Michigan Theater screens remastered ‘Blank Generation’

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

On its grainy, black-and-white surface, "The Blank Generation" (FOUR STARS out of four stars) is 50 minutes of silent, home movie-style images recorded on 16mm at the legendary New York punk club CBGB in the mid-1970s. Raw live recordings back the footage, and there's no effort to get the lips in sync.

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Pro-Youth HEART staff members get hands-on training at La Joya Middle School in Visalia

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

It's not every day that someone can rock on an electric guitar, dress like a chicken and dig for fossils hidden in chocolate chip cookies.

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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Lauded by Down Beat Magazine, Charles Xavier, the Xman, Announces the Release of Xmas Vibe, His New …

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Happy Note Records recording artist, Charles Xavier, aka: The XMan, is proud to announce the release of his new CD, Xmas Vibe, on October 20, 2010. Xmas Vibe is an enchanting, avant-garde, mystical, eclectic and original approach to festive, traditional and contemporary Christmas classics, with the inclusion of one Xavier-original song, performed on vibraphone and electric guitar with vocal ...

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169 Annotated TLG Songs:Listener Notes on the Tea Leaf Green Songbook

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

_This month Daniel Gold writes about his site, 169 Annotated TLG Songs: Listener Notes on the Tea Leaf Green Songbook I like a lyric to have a sense of mystery, some things that make you wonder, said Trevor Garrod, piano/harmonica singer/songwriter from Tea Leaf Green.

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The language of the sitar

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

On Friday and Saturday evenings at Sitar Indian Cuisine on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard near South Square, a young man plays an instrument that looks sort of like a guitar.

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St. Vincent, Man Man Underwhelm at Calgary Folk Fest Workshop

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Canada Daniel Boczarski, Redferns The Calgary Folk Festival closed out its Sunday daytime program with an eclectic combination of indie, dance and African rhythms, as Man Man , St. Vincent , DJ Logic and Etran Finatawa joined together under the ambitiously-named 'Mysteries of the Universe Unravelled' workshop. It was the conclusion of a day program that ...

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Old, new songs forever Young

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Neil Young has never been one to stay on the beaten path. He's an iconoclast who follows nobody.

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Review: Crowd swept up by stellar Elton John set

Monday, July 26th, 2010

The afternoon showers had stopped and the sky had turned a luminous shade of blue when Elton John took the stage at the Harveys Outdoor Arena in Stateline on Sunday. It was the legendary singers Tahoe debut and the last U.S. stop on his 2010 world tour.

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‘Inception’ No. 1 for second straight weekend

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inception" won a battle of superstar action thrillers over Angelina Jolie's "Salt" at the weekend box office.

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Freedy Johnston

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Julu 31 Molly Malone's (Covington) Most of Freedy Johnston's songs are populated with characters that either seem blithely unaware of their terminal shortcomings or are keenly aware of them and lack the conviction or strength to do anything about them. His patently brilliant new album, 'Rain on the City,' offers up plenty of twangy Americana/Folk that shimmers with Power Pop melodicism.

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