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

Photos: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 [Polaroids]

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to the Polaroid-sponsored photo book for a complete set of full-size shots.

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Radiohead’s Selway Talks New Solo LP, Does Not Talk New Radiohead LP

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Photo by Kevin Westenberg We're used to seeing Philip Selway behind a range of drums and cymbals as the unswerving and inventive back beat to Radiohead . But on his forthcoming solo album, Familial , Selway steps away from the kit, singing and playing acoustic guitar on 10 hushed folk songs in the shadowy tradition of Nick Drake. The album is quiet, but there's an unnerving sense of dread that ...

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Dawson, Herzog, Harvey inducted into Hall

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Dawson, Herzog, Harvey inducted into Hall

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Rage Against Machine energize fans at protest gig

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Hordes of police cruisers circled the Hollywood Palladium on Friday as Rage Against the Machine played its first hometown show in a decade to protest Arizona's new immigration law.

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BBB warns donors of Missouri Deputy Sheriff’s Association

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

BBB warns donors of Missouri Deputy Sheriff's Association

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Mike Ragogna: From "Misery" to Twilight: Conversations with Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Fanfarlo’s Simon Balthazar

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

A Conversation With Maroon 5's Adam Levine Mike Ragogna: What's up with your new album Hands All Over? Are you still working on it? Adam...

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The week ahead in music: July 23 – July 29

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Here's our look at some of the most noteworthy music events scheduled for the coming week. July 23 Lyle Lovett [ tickets ] and his Large Band, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles ...continued Lyle Lovett news at SoundSpike Warpaint news at SoundSpike Jimmy Cliff news at SoundSpike Phosphorescent news at SoundSpike

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Album: Gruff Rhys vs Tony Da Gatorra, The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness (Turnstile)

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Tony Da Gatorra is a Brazilian TV repairman/inventor/ musician/peace warrior best known for his invention of the "gatorra", a sickle-shaped instrument combining elements of drum machine and synthesiser, which lends itself readily to the sort of extemporised garage-rock improvisations undertaken here with Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys.

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