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The Mars Volta Add Datesomar Shares Greatest GTR Cover

June 3, 2008

THE MARS VOLTA ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL U.S. HEADLINE DATES AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL APPEARANCE CONFIRMED OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ ON ROLLING STONE GREATEST GUITARISTS COVER The Mars Volta “The Mars Volta is a progressive-rock whirlwind, constructing maniacally complex music and performing it with a mixture of rigorous virtuosity, psychedelic euphoria and punk intensity... still ...

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Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s

June 2, 2008

Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra," as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. Self-taught as an arranger, he created a quietly dramatic, dark-hued sound-world that drew on a multiplicity of ...

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Hal McKusick

June 2, 2008

The Rifftides staff has no more intention of making this blog a birthday watch than of making it a death watch, although there is an endless supply of both phenomena. However, on the Jazz West Coast listserve, Desne Villepigue pointed out that yesterday was the eighty-fourth anniversary of Hal McKusick's appearance in the world, and that ...

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Old 97's Summer Tour

June 2, 2008

INDIE ROOTS ROCK FAVES HIT ROAD WITH BRAND NEW ALBUM Old 97's Old 97's, one of the most acclaimed and beloved bands to spring from the '90s indie rock scene, released their seventh studio album, Blame It On Gravity, May 13th via New West Records. Forming 15 years ago, the band credits the new ...

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Back to the Future Set Sent Back to the Past

June 1, 2008

Major fire burns on Universal Studios back lot A soundstage and several sets are lost as billowing smoke raises health concerns. Low water pressure hampered efforts today to fight a fire that raged through the Universal Studios back lot in Universal City, destroying a soundstage, the theme park's King Kong attraction, a video vault and sets ...

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Musicologists May Score Mozart's Work

June 1, 2008

Musicologists may find new works by Mozart Scores “could be unknown authentic Mozart," says the head researcher WARSAW, Poland - A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery's archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar ...

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Grimes Times! June 2008

June 1, 2008

Sunday, June 1st (tonight!), 8 p.m: Julie Patton's “Ghost of a Chance Defense Fun(d) Band" rent party, w/ Julie Patton ("voicesays"), special guest Henry Grimes, “Poet of the Air" (words, instrumental voicing), Brad Jones (bass), Drew Gardner (percussion), Rod Williams (piano), Paul Van Curen (guitar), and more, at the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C at ...

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Sat Eye Candy: John Bonham

June 1, 2008

WE MISS YOU, BONZO John Bonham would have turned 60 today. The Led Zeppelin drummer was a majestic beast, equally capable of shaking Olympus as he was at turning a tear with his delicacy. Possessed of Keith Moon's brutality and the complexity of Elvin Jones, Bonham was all things rough 'n' tumble about rock with a ...

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Weekend Extra: Butch Warren

June 1, 2008

Butch Warren played was a fixture on Blue Note albums in the 1960s. One of the bright young bassists of his generation, he recorded with Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Jackie McLean, Thelonious Monk and others. Then he disappeared. Reporting for MSNBC, Antoine Sanfuentes found Warren, traced his success, downward trajectory and attempt to re-etablish his career. The piece ...

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Cluster/Howlin Rain | 05.24 | California

May 31, 2008

Words by: Dennis Cook Cluster/Ariel Pink/Howlin Rain :: 05.24.08 :: Brookdale Lodge :: Brookdale, CA Cluster by Hans-Joachim Roedelius Mythology isn't just found in books or relics or tales handed down in temples. We generate our own super charged stories from profound experiences, embellishing and retelling them until ...