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Freddie Mercury's Birthday Celebrated with Google Doodle and Freddie for a Day
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Today is Freddie Mercury's birthday and Google is celebrating it with the second longest Google Doodle animation they've ever done. The homage pays tribute to a man who is also celebrated by the now annual fundraising event, Freddie For A Day! DETAILS & VIDEO: Freddie Mercury Google Doodle Google celebrates Freddie Mercury's birthday with an elaborate Google Doodle shown September 5th worldwide with a special post-Labor Day edition in the U.S. September 6th. Same doodle, just waiting for the States ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2011 Jazz Preview, Part Two
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we continue with part two of our video sampler previewing some of the touring jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting St. Louis this fall. (For part one, see this post.) First up is guitarist Stanley Jordan, who will be here with his trio to perform Wednesday, October 5 through Saturday, October 8 at Jazz at the Bistro. In this clip, recorded in 2009 in Italy, he's playing “Impressions" with ...
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"Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher" - Directed by Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer (DVD, Blue-Ray)
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Michael Ricci
Available on DVD | Blu-Ray Sounds and Silence / Music for a Film (ECM, CD) Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. In footage from Estonia, Tunisia, Germany, France, Denmark, Greece, Argentina and elsewhere, their documentary movie Sounds and Silence captures aspects of the music-making process at ECM, and provides glimpses of unique players and composers at work. Amongst the ...
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Ad Watch: Willie Nelson Covers Coldplay's "Scientist" for Chipotle Ad [video]
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Willie Nelson and Chiplote have joined forces for a wonderful animated ad designed to make us think more about what we're putting in our mouth comes from. Nelson has been fighting for family farms and against factory farming for many years, but who knew that Chipolte has been doing their part as well. The fast food chain has been pushing suppliers to be more human and greener for years including forcing Tyson to build a special farm where chickens are ...
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A Tale of 2 Ians: Ian Rogers Interviews Ian Hogworth of Songkick [video]
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2011 Jazz Preview, Part One
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For today's video showcase, we've got clips featuring some of the touring jazz bands and musicians who will be visiting St. Louis this fall. While I probably will be writing and/or posting more videos later about many of these acts, this is a chance for you, dear reader, to get a quick overview of some of the season's highlights. Up top, you can see a video of multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and his band ...
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Band Creates Wild Cover Art from Music's Vibrations [video]
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Latvian based Instrumenti's sound is a mix of indie-pop and experimental electro, and they are using there songs in a unique way—to create cover art for their album. “Every piece of the album art was created by the song itself," according to the musicians. “We might have help by pouring paint onto blasting speaker membranes and catching the paint spills on paper, we might have helped by playing the drums with paint splashing drumsticks, but the real artist was the ...
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