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- Lorraine Feather: The Girl With the Lazy Eye
While writing the tune "Scrabble" for her recently released CD Ages (Jazzed Media, 2010), lyricist and singer Lorraine Feather's songwriting partner, Dick Hyman , had an unusual request that bordered on a dare: could she work the name of the venerable pianist/composer's family friend Dushka into the lyrics? After all, the middle section of his stride composition "Barrel of Keys," the musical ...
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010 - Three Stars: Noon:30
Noon:30 seems to have surprised a lot of people. Singer/bassist Blue S. Moon's voice can shout unmercifully or bend passionately, but never loses its power. When Moon emotes, "Don't leave me baby/I have no mother." on "Orphane," from their debut EP, it send chills down the spine. Furthermore, the guitar riffs of Aissa Arroyo-Hill sound like they'd fit in on a Siouxsie & The Banshees track or ...
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010 - Showdown in The Parks
Were on the border between South Park and North Park. Im sipping coffee outside Rebeccas, looking across Juniper Street, fantasizing. What if Juniper were the dividing line between, say, East Berlin and West Berlin? Okay, its not, and theres no ten-foot-high triple-security fence.
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010 - Best of the Bay 2010 Editors Picks: Arts and Nightlife
Diehard club kids always call their favorite club "church" there's something sacred and comforting about returning to a certain dance floor regularly to commune with your friends and the music. But what if your favorite club really is a church?
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010 - Stephanomics
What does the future hold for the eurozone?
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010 - A B & The Sea Think the Morning Benders Are Hot
In 2008, two students at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh packed up their life, bid farewell to a lifestyle of cheese, beer, bratwurst -- and a favorite local band called Cheeseheads Wi...
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010 - Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Fug Tuli Kupferberg and comic-book depressive/trad jazz fan Harvey Pekar dying the same week thins the ranks of American refuseniks, those Bartleby -like individuals who didn't drop out of society so much as dive in by insisting on their contrarianism, right or wrong.
baby cd noise white 31 Jul 2010
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