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MOUNT EERIE Clear Moon
But every album he puts out is stamped with uniqueness, a singularity of design and overall vision that is impossible for anyone who truly listens to the music to not at least appreciate. There may be a select few out there in the world—or in times …
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Music's 3R's 05.19.12: Oh My Goth!
See what he's picked for best Live Studio Albums. Major Bands, Minor Labels written by me. This column needs an introduction because it always gets buried on Wednesdays among all of the other columns that come out. Want some new music? Then read this.
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LIVE MUSIC — Saturday, May 19 through Monday, May 21
Meyer & McGuire: Canandaigua Elks Club (Lodge 1844), 19 Niagara St., Canandaigua, 6-10 pm, (585) 394-4787. Songwriters in the Round featuring Birds On A Wire, Dave Murphy, Perry Cleaveland and Brian Coughlin: Tango Cafe, 389 Gregory St., $ 8, …
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LA-based electro hip-hop group Far East Movement delivers more club music with …
LOS ANGELES — Far East Movement has provided a thumping soundtrack to clubs around the world, so it seems appropriate that the group prepared for their latest album by doing essential research — a week of clubbing in Las Vegas.
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Delfeayo Marsalis, Don Vappie, Kermit Ruffins and more music for Friday and beyond
The Panorama Jazz Band swings at 6 pm, followed by Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns at 10 at the Spotted Cat Music Club. Guitarist Spencer Bohren leads students from his guitar workshop in a 5 pm set at Chickie Wah Wah. Bruce Daigrepont hosts his …
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American Idol Recap: Hits & Misses Of The Night
Steven said: “You just took a great song and made it greater.” Randy said: “It was just such a subdued moment from you… I wanted a bigger look from you now.” Joshua Ledet tackled Mary J. Blige's hit “No More Drama” Steven: “I watched you and I felt …
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Memorial concert hits 45th year
Available at the door, at the high school prior to the concert, and at Stainthorp's Music in Lebanon, 796 S. Main St. Proceeds fund scholarships for Lebanon students to attend summer music camp at the University of Oregon or Western Oregon University.
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Summer concert preview: Tours offer real music deals
New 'Wrecking Ball' tunes are on the playlist, along with latter-day hits. By Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images Value added: Bruce Springsteen and company play for nearly three hours at each show. New 'Wrecking Ball' tunes are on the playlist, …
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Recommended: 'Battleship' hits more than it misses, if you're willing to play …
From breaking news to news you can't use, but enjoy anyway, we offer the hot stories of the day in TV, movies, music and celebrities. Singer Rihanna has a major role in "Battleship." By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper REVIEW: The audience at my screening of …
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Why I'm Obsessed With Garbage's New Album, 'Not Your Kind Of People,' And Why …
Now, I may not have been a Garbage super-fan back in the day (I was only a wee lad when their self-titled album dropped back in 1995, and the follow-up, 1998's Version 2.0 was released just as I was developing a growing cognizance about music), …
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Killer Mike Teams With Adult Swim For 'RAP Music' Album
Three years later, in November 2006, his second album, "I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind," was released through his own Grind Time Official imprint. For his sixth album, "RAP Music," the 37-year-old took a different route. With four indie releases to …
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Lisa Marie Presley tunes in to her roots
Her words, however, were a bit more colorful. When Burnett heard the track “Un-Break,” he agreed to produce the album. “I was struck by how real she was in some of the songs,” he says. “It was sung in an incredibly unaffected way.
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Go! Music & Dance calendar: May 18-24
Rhinebeck Choral Club — Disney songs, Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, 7:30 pm May 19, $ 12, $ 10 students. Call 876-2870. Also: New Beginnings Church, 35 De Garmo Road, Poughkeepsie, 3 pm May 20. Call 454-2580.
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Get your free Music in the Park tickets
Music in the Park, held in the grounds of Carew Manor by the Rotary Club of Carshalton Beeches, is in its 21st year. The Rotary Club is once again put up a bottle of Champagne and two entry tickets as a competition prize through the Sutton Guardian.
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National Guard Citizen-Soldier, singer and songwriter Darby Ledbetter performs his country music single “I Won’t Let My Guard Down” at the close of the first day of the 131st National Guard Association of the United States General Conference

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National Guard Citizen-Soldier, singer and songwriter Darby Ledbetter performs his country music single "I Won’t Let My Guard Down" at the close of the first day of the 131st National Guard Association of the United States General Conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 11, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill) (Released)

DMX Focused On More Music, Less Trouble With New EP
It's been six years since the Dog dropped his last album, Year of the Dog … Again, and today the Yonkers, New York, rap great is happy that the focus is back on his music and not the legal drama that has plagued his career. "It's a good thing.
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Ditch iTunes: Manage Multimedia on the iPhone Your Way
The first, a built-in iTunes feature in the Advanced menu called Get Album Artwork, works if you've correctly tagged the albums and artist fields. Unfortunately, iTunes probably won't find artwork for obscure artists, but if you have only a few songs …
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Fairfax County community calendar, May 17 to 24, 2012
Thursday, May 17 Clifton homes tour, tour several homes and visit the Marketplace boutique, sponsored by the Clifton Community Woman's Club. “Wine Down” from 3-6 pm, with live music and a silent auction at the Paradise Spring Winery. 9:30 am-3:30 pm, …
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Asheville area performing arts calendar for the coming week
Tickets $ 22, $ 45, $ 75. 258-7900 or www.markfieldsevents.com. Chairmen of the Board and The Embers, Beach Music Festival at 4 pm Sept. 14, Blue Ridge Mountain Club in Blowing Rock. $ 28. Tickets on sale Aug. 1 from Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce.
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The Good Music Club: Paul Banks & the Carousels: Paul Banks & the Carousels …
By Raoul Hernandez, 1:45PM, Thu. May. 17 As video content mounts, audio of its local tapings now streams at TGMC's radio station. This week's ocular installment, meanwhile, Paul Banks & the Carousels, spotlights the local trio's namesake frontman with …
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To Dubstep or Headbang in New Jersey
For New York fans of club music, the only comparable festival has been Electric Zoo, a three-day event on Randalls Island on Labor Day weekend. Last year that event drew 85000 people. Christian Hernandez, 23, a hard-core trance music fan from Jersey …
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Jazz Listings for May 18-24
Ron Carter is the group's bassist, and a moral as well as musical anchor; his colleagues are the saxophonist Ron Blake, the guitarist Rodney Jones, the pianist Frank Kimbrough and the drummer Carl Allen. At 7:30 and 9:30 pm, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, …
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Pay, Play or Stay Away
In his weekly music column Zack Teibloom gives his suggestions on concerts, albums, and happenings around Austin. Last week in my inaugural "Pay, Play or Stay Away" column, I suggested you stay away from the VIP packages at R. Kelly due to the nearly …
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How Grannies Broke The Law To Share Metal
"My grandson and his friends would give me money and a list of albums to purchase. They had music shops near the border in West Germany, so I would take the list and get whatever I could find. "We weren't allowed to bring in music from the outside so …
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Dobkin a light for lesbians
There are only so many pioneering firsts in the music business, a limited number of groundbreaking releases that profoundly change the cultural climate. The Dobkin album "Lavender Jane Loves Women" is one of those. Produced and engineered entirely by …
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Singles | Songs that are really worth a listen
By MICHELLE BACON • “Ekki Múkk,” Sigur Rós: Though no one has any idea what Icelandic band Sigur Rós is saying, its music expresses a language superior to the spoken word, engaging hearts and minds with ambient sounds. In this newest single off the …
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Chuck Brown dies: The 'Godfather of Go-Go' was 75
“No single type of music has been more identified with Washington than go-go, and no one has loomed so large within it as Chuck Brown,” former Washington Post pop music critic Richard Harrington wrote in 2001. Mr. Brown's creation, however, …
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Naxos of America Launches AIX Records, BCMF Records and Acanta for Distribution
FRANKLIN, TN, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Historic, audiophile and new American classical music recordings are added to the Naxos of America family of distributed labels as AIX Records, BCMF Records and Acanta join the roster.
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"Record Store Day" breathing new life into vinyl
It might seem like a foreign concept now, but for more than half a century records are how we listened to music. And now, it's back. If you're a real audiophile, it's how you play music. If you're a band, it's why. When asked what it is about vinyl …
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New Pioneer audiophile Amplifiers and Super Audio CD Players
The new components complete Pioneer's new stereo line-up, after the December '11 introduction of its N-50 and N-30 high-quality network audio players supporting Apple's AirPlay and offering the ability to play music files in a variety of formats, …
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Larimer Chorale finishes 35th season with a free show featuring music and …
The musical group will finish its season with a more casual concert on Tuesday, May 22, as it sings "Greatest Hits and Favorites." ( Picasa ) Where: Opera Galleria, 123 N. College Ave., Fort Collins. Reminisce with the Larimer Chorale as members …
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Real 'Jersey Boys' to embark on national tour
Spurred by the runaway success of "Jersey Boys," the Tony Award-winning 2005 Broadway musical based on the Four Seasons' career, Polci – the lead singer on "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)," the group's last No. 1 hit – and the others, …
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Schumann Music Club presents 11th annual Young Musicians Concert on May 19 at …
By Thomas B. Harrison, Press-Register David Sayers, 15, plays the trumpet during the Schumann Music Club of Mobile 7th annual Young Musician’s Showcase concert on May 18, 2008. (Press-Register, Bill Starling) MOBILE, Alabama — The Schumann Music …
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Owner of the former Quiet Knight club dies
BY DAVE HOEKSTRA Staff Reporter May 15, 2012 6:50PM Richard Harding, obit photo, a pioneering Chicago music promoter who owned clubs including the Quiet Knight and brought Bruce Springsteen there for his first Chicago Concert. Richard Harding danced to …
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Bandwidth: Club, bar and restaurant gigs
Nightingale Supper Club, 1541 Egg Harbor Road, Sturgeon Bay. No cover. (920) 743-5593 or www.nightingalesupper club.com. » WRITERS NIGHT, 7 to 9 pm Songsters, comics, poets invited to share their original work at an open mic. Holiday Music Motel, 30 N.
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Adam Lambert's second album, 'Trespassing,' hits today: EW rides along on his …
11:30 am Quick jog around the Hollywood Hills with his boyfriend, Finnish reality star Sauli Koskinen “I listened to some good music, moving around the neighborhood. It was dance music, to keep me on task.” 3 pm Met with Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the El …
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Real 'Jersey Boys' to embark on national tour
Spurred by the runaway success of "Jersey Boys," the Tony Award-winning 2005 Broadway musical based on the Four Seasons' career, Polci — the lead singer on "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)," the group's last No. 1 hit — and the others, …
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Hit music app maker Smule launches on Android, finally
15, 2012, 8:00am PT No Comments Music app maker Smule has been one of the longest Android hold-outs, often citing the way Android devices handle audio as a reason it hasn't embraced the mobile platform. But the company, with more than 45 million …
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Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music Review
Although I usually would not take more than a passing interest in most of Mike's catalogue, apart from a few of the more interesting songs, I immediately became interested when I heard his latest album would be produced entirely by El-P. The reason why …
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Carrie Underwood debuts at No. 1
Check out our track-by-track breakdown of Carrie Underwood's latest. You'd think an indie band with a sophomore album that reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200 would be pursued by every major label in the music business. And that's exactly what happened …
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MUSIC REVIEW: ALAN DOYLE – BOY ON BRIDGE
Now comes the seemingly inevitable solo album, called Boy On Bridge, and a tour to follow. However, take heart, Doyle himself says his duties to the band will continue, so this is a chance for him to develop something new for his music.
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Books: Gregg Allman on his new memoir, 'My Cross to Bear'
Gregg Allman has long been sitting on one of the great, untold stories in the history of rock 'n' roll music, but it took a few health scares before he was finally inspired enough to put forth his personal account of a remarkable existence.
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Tips From the Rock 'n' Roll CEO #2: Be a Punk, Start a Company (And Wear a …
I was in a meeting this week with a legend in the music space and he said he considers 18-year-old kids armed with laptops and ideas to be his biggest competition. A pretty scary thought considering this came from a person sitting in a corner office in …
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Arcam rPAC – Portable USB DAC and High-End Headphone Amp
[prMac.com] London, United Kingdom – =Hi-Fi pioneers and digital gurus Arcam of Cambridge UK, introduce the Arcam rPAC, a very high performance USB DAC & Headphone Amp designed to extract stunning High-end audiophile sound, from any Mac/PC, …
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Headphone amplifiers, on the other hand, tend to be used by headphone audiophiles who need more power and better music detail. We usually rely on our HeadRoom Total BitHead DAC/headphone amp for reviews and have to say that the Arcam measured up well.
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Grado headphones
The CD eventually lowered demand, but they currently turn out 60000 cartridges a year, and more You don't have to be an audiophile to appreciate good sound and music, so I've put together a healthy selection of great gift ideas, all priced under $ 100.
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Laurieann Gibson Releases Dance Single (Exclusive Audio)
She's choreographed award-winning music videos and concert specials for the likes of Lady Gaga, starred in her own Ryan Seacrest-produced E! reality series The Dance Scene, and guided future pop stars as a mentor on P. Diddy's Making the Band and a …
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Hangout Music Fest super-sizes Thursday Kick-Off Party
By Lawrence F. Specker, Press-Register The Preservation Hall Jazz Band headlines one stage at the Hangout Music Fest's Kick-off Party, while electronic dance music act Big Gigantic tops the other. GULF SHORES, Alabama — It's not unusual for a festival …
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'Indian dance should have been made a compulsory subject'
The poise and elegance of this Odissi dancer never fails and her charm is contagious. Before an Odissi performance at JTPac's 'Parampara' on Wednesday, Mudgal talked to TOI over the phone, on dance, music and educational systems in the country.
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Las Vegas accordion club keeps traditional music alive
Las Vegas Accordion club musicians, from left, Walter Piotrowski, Chuck Bacino, Mike Goldwasser, Mitch Clark, Betty Guthrie, Ron Guerra, Dave Maher and Larry Peterson perform together at The Mad Greek Cafe, 8565 W. Sahara Ave., April 21.
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Sound Bites at the 9:30 Club celebrates the DC food scene's evolving appetite
By Megan Buerger The Pietasters were one of the musical acts who performed during the 2011 Sound Bites festival at hte 9:30 Club. (Ezra Gregg) When Casey Patten, a Philadelphia native and co-founder of Taylor Gourmet, first moved to Washington 10 years …
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Music review: M. Ward at the 9:30 Club
At least that's what it felt like at the 9:30 Club on Sunday night, where Ward tore through what amounted to a greatest-hits set, in addition to a handful of numbers from his new album. And since “A Wasteland Companion” is an uneven affair, …
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Adam Lambert's 'Trespassing': tracy by track
By Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY Trespassing is the album Adam Lambert's fans have been waiting for from him. More cohesive, more personal than 2010's For Your Entertainment, Trespassing find Adam drawn to the beats and sounds of electronic dance music …
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Lisa Marie Presley's true sound emerges on third album
BY MARCO R. DELLA CAVA May 14, 2012 6:54PM Lisa Marie Presley says music on her new album comes from a time when confidants “were taking my soul, my money.” | Jason Merritt~Getty Images BURBANK, Calif. — Lisa Marie Presley cocks her head to the right, …
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Rare Treasures and Great Bargains at 25th Midwest Classical Record Show in …
This is the 25th anniversary of the show, and several dealers will be bringing a wide variety of classical music. "I've got vintage audiophile LPs, high-grade import CDs from Japan and a ton of sealed classical records from the 1970s and 80s," said …
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Used music, book store Diskovery to close after 32 years in Allston-Brighton
One of the store's “regulars,” he said he has been buying both books and music, namely records, from the store for about the past two years. “I'm an audiophile nut. The audio quality [on a record] is much better than what you can get on a CD or MP3,” …
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Gotye, Queen Show the Many Ways of Making Music
Audiophiles need to remember that great music can be made live or in a studio. By Robert Archer, May 11, 2012 I enjoy skimming through audiophile websites and Facebook to see what's happening in the audio enthusiast world.
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