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WORCESTER - Puccini’s ‘Turandot’ delights local opera-lovers at Hanover

Music Review: Sonya Kitchell - This Storm
“Oh dear child, don’t deny, you need it, need it for your alibi.” Put in the CD This Storm and out comes a big fresh breath of air, the strong, unique voice of teenager Sonya Kitchell. She is a singer/songwriter in the vein of Ani Difranco, Tracy Chapman, and PJ Harvey who plays guitar and croons like we all tried to do in our basement in high school, but the difference is she’s actually tremendously…

Music Review: Sonya Kitchell - This Storm (Blogcritics.org)
“Oh dear child, don’t deny, you need it, need it for your alibi.” Put in the CD This Storm and out comes a big fresh breath of air, the strong, unique voice of teenager Sonya Kitchell. She is a singer/songwriter in the vein of Ani Difranco, Tracy Chapman, and PJ Harvey who plays guitar and croons like we all tried to do in our basement in high school, but the difference is she’s actually …

Music Review: Weird Al Yankovic - Whatever You Like
Hi all… “Weird Al” Yankovic has released a new single on iTunes and the web called “Whatever You LIke”, which is a parody of T.I.’s song “Whatever You Like”. He turns T.I.’s version on its head and uses lyrics to comment on the state of today’s economy. The beauty of Weird Al is that occasionally he can take a parody and make it really poignant to the currents of society. With everyone’s retirement plans going downhill quickly and the job and housing markets being as rocky as they are, everyb

Music Review: Hammer Time for the Schools, Still Too Legitim
We haven’t been waiting for MC Hammer to stage a comeback, but his strange early performance at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco’s huge Golden Gate Park, yesterday morning, at least lets us glimpse the man outside of the secret life of a washed-up celebrity & born-again minister. Billed as a “special educational program”

Music Review: Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime and Words from the Front
Two of the former Television front man’s early solo albums get much-needed reissues. Of all the major bands to come out of the CBGBs Era, it was Television who remain arguably the least fully appreciated. Despite releasing two magnificent albums of guitar-driven art-punk (Marquee Moon and Adventure), the New York band never passed into the MTV circle of their peers in Talking Heads or Blondie, for instance. Perhaps lead…