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News: Technology

The Difference Between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained

April 20, 2010

FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram To all of you nerds and geeks who like me have been unfairly and inaccurately labeled dorks, only to then exhaustively explain the differences among the three to a more-than-skeptical offender, I say: You're welcome. This nerd/dork/geek/dweeb Venn diagram should save you a ...

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News: For Sale

Dogfish Head Special Release Beer to Coincide with the 40th Anniversary Release of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew!

April 20, 2010

The story of Dogfish Head began in June of 1995 when we opened Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, the first state's first brewpub opened in the resort beach community of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The plan was to bring original beer, original food, and original music to the area. Not only was Dogfish Head Delaware's first brewpub, ...

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News: Recording

Wayne Brasel Quartet - If You Would Dance (Universitetet Stavanger)

April 6, 2010

Self-released but hardly rough-hewn in production design or packaging appearance, guitarist Wayne Brasel's latest is a smooth listening experience from start to finish. The dancing feet that adorn the cover give a visual clue to Brasel's basic aesthetic. Lightly swinging with clean rounded corners in common with what follows, the opening “Lightgiver" revolves around his grit-free ...

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News: Recording

Minimalist Electronic Duo Colorlist Release 3rd Album a Square White Lie (482 Music) on 180-Gram Vinyl and MP3

April 20, 2010

Versatile musicians Charles Rumback and Charles Gorzcynski may hail from Chicago, poet Carl Sandburg's “stormy, husky, brawling, city of the Big Shoulders," but they abide creatively in a far more fluid habitat: the ocean of sound. Rumback (drums, marimba, guitars) and Gorzcynski (saxophones, harmonium, synthesizers) are friends in their late 20s who are busy inventing yet ...

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News: Festival

Ballard Jazz Festival Starts Wednesday

April 20, 2010

The last few years of tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman's career have been among his most productive, after decades spent off the radar in prison, in recovery both the result of his past drug addiction and quietly teaching music while living in the Columbia River town of Cathlamet. Caliman, who will perform Saturday at the annual Ballard ...

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News: TV / Film

The T.A.M.I. Show: 1964

April 20, 2010

On October 29, 1964, about 3,000 high school students--some with their parents--jammed into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California to hear a concert. The event would be filmed with new Electronovision technology that its developers claimed produced more vivid results than standard TV cameras. The concert was billed as The T.A.M.I. Show--which stood for Teenage ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Jacky Terrasson "Beat It/Body and Soul" (2010)

April 20, 2010

By PicoHe looks like a young Keith Jarrett, even hums along to his piano lines a little like Jarrett, but Jacky Terrasson is defying straight comparisons to anybody. This 1993 winner of the Thelonious Monk competition can conjure the big, train-like sound of McCoy Tyner, the cerebral presence of Brad Mehldau or the spiritual ...

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News: Recording

Marc Wagnon Releases Earth is a Cruel Master

April 20, 2010

Marc Wagnon's new release on Buckyball Records, Earth is a Cruel Master, is hitting the streets by the end of the month. We want to share with you in advance two free mp3 promo tracks. “Earth is a Cruel Master is a first-rate release of creative, forward-thinking composing supported by spectacular musicianship." --John Barron, All About ...

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News: Recording

Paul Motian Trio - Lost in a Dream (ECM)

April 20, 2010

Few partnerships between label and musician remain as felicitous as that shared by Paul Motian and ECM. Described in certain circles as an anti-drummer, a back-handed reduction also ascribed to Shelly Manne back in the day, Motian's language at the kit is commonly the epitome of economy and nuance. Bombast and obviousness are his adversaries. Spaciousness, ...

News: Recording

Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones - Ya Ya- (Meta)

April 20, 2010

Subtitled “A Psalm of Prototypical Vibrations", Adam Rudolph's latest project for percussion and partner is firmly ensconced in the guiding spiritual philosophy that has long informed his playing. Under his conception, rhythms are a conduit and connective tissue for life. Percussive instruments, referred to here as membranophones and idiophones, are but one family of vessels through ...