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Come marchando in: In reference to Patrice E.G. Yursik's story "Totally Jazzed" (March 30): I lived in New Orleans for three years until Katrina came to town....
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Depictions of futuristic music in popular culture are often either cheesy and childish (think the first Star Wars movie or television's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) or...
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The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley's exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age...
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Eef Barzelay is best known as the erstwhile leader of the power-pop combo Clem Snide, but with his first solo effort, Eef finds a new motif. Discarding the effusive sound...
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Before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O strutted, spit, and cooed her way to indie-rock icon status, the last dynamic female to front a rock band was arguably Courtney Love. The...
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If recent breakouts by Mylo and Vitalic have proven there's life left in house music and upbeat electronica (and they have), Idol Tryouts proves there's also life beyond it....
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Though Global Communication's Mark Pritchard might have borrowed Dabrye's "No Child of God (Instrumental)" for Fabric 26's striking opener, as he borrowed the records used in...
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Don't blame the fiery Pérez Prado for that enervating Louie Vega remake of "Mambo #5," though you could possibly blame him for Ricky Ricardo, as well as America's...
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Mexican alt-rock fans won't be surprised by Barcelona, Spain's the Pinker Tones, for they present a cut-and-paste formula of pop, funk, soul, bossa, breakbeat, swing, lounge,...
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Props are due Anti-Flag for not merely chucking to its Warped Tour mall-rat constituents some three-chord poli-sci punk they can shout along to, but also for writing liners...
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Nearly three years after their semibreakthrough into the MTV2/VH1 cultural consciousness, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs return with a lead single celebrating the previous decade's FM...
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This tinfoil-helmeted indie ditty telegraphs its paranoia through subject matter and structure alike. Jittery, nervous guitars constrict and snap in harried rhythm while birds...
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Quirky New Hope, Pennsylvania duo Ween can't be put into any sort of musical genre box or category. So don't even try, big-booty bitch. Over the past two decades, Gene and...
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It seems like there's some unwritten law dictating that all great American jazz performers must migrate to Paris in order to be appreciated back home. Dee Dee Bridgewater is...
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Angst. Anger. Apathy. Issues. That's what you get from L.A.'s Get Set Go. A self-professed slacker, singer Mike TV fesses up that he's a loser, unworthy of rock-star...
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British indie-rock quartet Editors is constantly compared to Joy Division and Interpol, and justifiably so. But what the group lacks in innovation it makes up for in absorbing...
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The geeky Motion City Soundtrack is often called punk because of its label Epitaph's punk-heavy roster. Truth be told, the band is just about as punk as similar-sounding Jimmy...
