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10 Yale Bands That Got Noticed Off-Campus, Part 1
In January of this year the Yale Daily News published an overview of the campus music scene, mentioning such Bulldog bands-of-the-moment as Sister Helen, The Keep Calm, No We’re Not, High Defintiion, Jamestown and A Streetcar Named Funk....Tags: Metallica (music group), Arts and Culture, Arts, Music, Diana Ross
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Ideat Village Orbits the Art Scene
Ideat Village ends this weekend, with eight hours of local bands Saturday the 30th in Pitkin Plaza and a 9 p.m. Sunday July 1 screening of the contestants in the Gorilla-Ideat 48-Hour Film Festival. The bands are (in order of playing, starting at 2 p.m....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Artists, Entertainment, Movies
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D'Angelo returning to Los Angeles with House of Blues concert
Pop & HissR&B recluse D'Angelo is in hiding no more. After appearing with the Roots at Bonnaroo in June, the sonic manipulator of funk and soul has booked a surprise July 4 date at West Hollywood's House of Blues, according to promoter Live Nation.... -
2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: The New York Times, Robert Goulet, Milton Babbitt, Solomon Burke, Justin Bieber
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Lutenist Jozef van Wissem performs at 756 Chapel Street in New Haven on Feb. 10
![<span style="font-size: medium;">Early in his career, Dutch musician Jozef van Wissem switched over to the lute after years of playing classical guitar. He decided he would shake things up a bit, however, to make the standard repertoire — French, German, Italian, English and Spanish pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries — a little more personal by writing the pieces down on paper, backwards, and playing them that way.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/126605900-08111058.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">Early in his career, Dutch musician Jozef van Wissem switched over to the lute after years of playing classical guitar. He decided he would shake things up a bit, however, to make the standard repertoire — French, German, Italian, English and Spanish pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries — a little more personal by writing the pieces down on paper, backwards, and playing them that way.</span>")
Early in his career, Dutch musician Jozef van Wissem switched over to the lute after years of playing classical guitar. He decided he would shake things up a bit, however, to make the standard repertoire — French, German, Italian, English and...Tags: Music, Europe, Arts and Culture, Music, Jim Jarmusch
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CD of the Week: The Fall's 'Ersatz'
The Fall
Ersatz GB
(Cherry Red)
Band names are funny. So short, so vague, so suggestive. With the Fall — the imposingly weird and long-running English post-punk band fronted by surly surrealist Mark E. Smith — you get the feeling that the...Tags: Music, England, Entertainment
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Personal Playlist: Henry Rollins
Pop & HissThe musician/DJ favors Miles Davis, Vum, Le Butcherettes and Boris.... -
'Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM' resurrects a continent's music
Pop & HissJonathan Ward's ‘Opika Pende' box set resurrects the world of early African music — with a history lesson in the mix. Jonathan Ward's music room in his second-floor Angeleno Heights walk-up is a tight, comfortable space with three walls full..... -
Personal Playlist: Alexandra Patsavas
Pop & HissPersonal Playlist: Head of Chop Shop Music Supervision Alexandra Patsavas talks about her favorite music these days.... -
Critic's Notebook: Steve Reich and Bang on a Can All-Stars
Pop & HissSteve Reich celebrates his 75th birthday by performing his landmark "Clapping Music," and offering a hard, distorted version of his recent "2x5."... -
Cliff Martinez scores a strange success with 'Drive'
![The cristal baschet is one of the most beautiful musical instruments you will ever see, made of vibrating, tuned steel, fiberglass amplification cones and wire "whiskers" that shimmy when fingers rub the glass-rod keyboard. Film composer Cliff Martinez's version, which resides in the living room of his Topanga Canyon home, is about the size of an upright piano and is as much sculpture as instrument.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65378038-15205022.jpg "The cristal baschet is one of the most beautiful musical instruments you will ever see, made of vibrating, tuned steel, fiberglass amplification cones and wire "whiskers\" that shimmy when fingers rub the glass-rod keyboard. Film composer Cliff Martinez's version, which resides in the living room of his Topanga Canyon home, is about the size of an upright piano and is as much sculpture as instrument.")
The cristal baschet is one of the most beautiful musical instruments you will ever see, made of vibrating, tuned steel, fiberglass amplification cones and wire "whiskers" that shimmy when fingers rub the glass-rod keyboard. Film composer Cliff Martinez'...Tags: Entertainment Events, Opera (genre), Drive (movie), Arts and Culture, Arts
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Personal playlist: Tom Waits recalls Captain Beefheart, the late Don Van Vliet
Pop & HissTom Waits, whose new album is called ‘Bad as Me,' talks about Captain Beefheart, the late Don Van Vliet....
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