Music Review: All India Radio – The Silent Surf
January 31, 2011 by admin
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Let’s begin with the gorgeous cover art of All India Radio’s latest, The Silent Surf. It features a beautiful rendering of the moon rising out of a clear blue ocean. This is one of the reasons people such as myself mourn the demise of vinyl as a format. Record covers like this need to be …
Music Review: Heart – Private Audition
Private Audition, and the release that followed it, Passion Works, are probably the two weakest albums within the Heart catalogue. The group had entered a transition stage in terms of both personnel and musical direction. One long time member had left and two more would leave following this release …
Music review: Kenny Rogers with WASO
On an uncomfortably hot Saturday night, veteran American singer Kenny Rogers was a cooling musical breeze. Once he started singing and telling stories, all whimpers about the mugginess dissipated as we tumbled gently into the world of characters named Lucille and Reuben James.
Music review: Hebrides ensemble
HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE ST GEORGE’S WEST CHURCH, EDINBURGH ****
For Your Files, Lots of Room In the Cloud – New York Times
ZumoDrive’s real value comes in sharing entire music libraries, allowing you to listen to your MP3s on the go. Music uploaded to the service can be played on almost any device that supports MP3 playback. You can also browse and share photos stored on
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January 30, 2011 by admin
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Music Review: Bobby Long – A Winter Tale
When I was 24, I was still trying to figure out my life. How many of us can honestly say we knew what we were doing with the rest of our lives by that point? And yet, in this age of American Idol, we now see kids as young as 15 entering the limelight without any clue of what’s to come. So when I heard …
Music Review: Grace Kelly and Phil Woods – Man With the Hat
Jazz saxophonist and vocalist Grace Kelly recorded her debut album Dreamin’ in 2004 at the remarkably young age of twelve. Now eighteen, Kelly has released her sixth album, Man With the Hat, sharing billing with veteran sax man Phil Woods. The album’s title was inspired by the first time Kelly played …
Music Review: All India Radio – The Silent Surf
Let’s begin with the gorgeous cover art of All India Radio’s latest, The Silent Surf. It features a beautiful rendering of the moon rising out of a clear blue ocean. This is one of the reasons people such as myself mourn the demise of vinyl as a format. Record covers like this need to be …
MUSIC REVIEW: Orchestra’s guest cellist adds vibrant tone to performance
Some have said that the cello has such a moving sound because, of all the string instruments, it’s closest in tone to the human voice. Acclaimed cello soloist Julie Albers made her vintage Vuillaume instrument speak eloquently in performance with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in the Masterworks IV concert Saturday night at the Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock.
Music review: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CITY HALLS, GLASGOW ***
Music review: Hebrides ensemble
HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE ST GEORGE’S WEST CHURCH, EDINBURGH ****
Music review: The potential of the New World Center in Miami Beach
January 30, 2011 by admin
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MIAMI BEACH — The New World Center, the Frank Gehry-designed home for the New World Symphony, had its first test Wednesday as classical music game-changer. But that test wasn’t the one most of us expected it would be. The evening’s…
Music review: The New World Center tries out its space(s)
MIAMI BEACH — Frank Gehry’s design of Walt Disney Concert Hall has, from its outset, encouraged new thinking about the concert format. Audience members’ nearness to performers and each other constitutes a new musical democracy. Space, we’ve discovered, is the…
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Music Review: Rolling Blackouts
Reviewed by Amanda Petrusich | B+
Music Review: Live Forever
Reviewed by Simon Vozick-Levinson | B+
Kylesa – Santos Party House – Music Review
This heavy band, from Savannah, Ga., gives as much as it holds back.
Music Review: Bobby Long – A Winter Tale
Be sure to give Bobby Long’s debut album a listen for bluesy folk and storytelling too old for his years.
Music review: Hebrides ensemble
HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE ST GEORGE’S WEST CHURCH, EDINBURGH ****
Oscar music nominees are eclectic bunch – AZCentral.com
January 29, 2011 by admin
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LOS ANGELES – Industrial rockers, country songwriting veterans, India’s soundtrack guru – the Oscar nominees in the music categories this year are as eclectic as an iPod on shuffle. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, nominated for original score for
Yo La Tengo and more music for Saturday, January 29 – New Orleans Times-Picayune
The venerable Hoboken, N.J., trio Yo La Tengo probably has played in New Orleans more recently than you think; as longtime fans of the annual Ponderosa Stomp roots-music fest, husband-and-wife band members Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan often turn up as
Katy Perry: From Music Star to Pop Culture Icon – Associated Content
2010 was nothing less than spectacular for Katy Perry. She seemed like she was everywhere doing everything. She did a little bit of everything over the last calendar year. First, there was her music. Her album “Teenage Dream” has been nominated for 4
Classical music review: Cleveland Orchestra plays at Miami’s Arsht Center – Dallas Morning News
MIAMI — Miami had the unwelcome experience of opening its ambitious Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, in October 2006, minus one of its planned core tenants. The Florida Philharmonic folded in 2003, and the area’s big music-and-dance presenter, the
Camel Zekri: Fusing Cultural Identities Through Fusion Music – NPR News
When Camel Zekri was a kid hanging onto the back seat of his parents’ Peugeot sedan, the drive home from Paris to southern Algeria was like being in a movie tracing his musical roots. Now, as one of the foremost Afro-jazz fusion artists in Europe, Zekri
Save the Music Foundation aims for new instruments, passion for learning in W.Va. classrooms – Minneapolis Star Tribune
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – In the nine years Leigh Ann Smith has taught music in West Virginia’s Mingo County, she’s had to do it with a misfit collection of used instruments: a few trumpets, some saxophones and a snare drum. It was never enough to start a full
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Got winter blues? How about tropical wine and music? – Des Moines Register
A wine-tasting event that features wines from the 14 members of the Heart of Iowa Wine Trail. WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Friday WHERE: Des Moines Botanical Center, 909 Robert D. Ray Drive, Des Moines. TICKETS: $30 in advance; $35 at the door. Go to www