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He'd gone to dinner at Herb Alpert's house, and Herb was excited about the new album he'd released on Horizon records, a specially curated A&M imprint.
Read MoreHe'd gone to dinner at Herb Alpert's house, and Herb was excited about the new album he'd released on Horizon records, a specially curated A&M imprint.
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The months before the October release of Metz ' eponymously titled debut album had seen the hype brewing into a mean, foreboding cloud.
Read MoreNew Jersey metal band Ill Nino has sold over 3 million records over the course of six albums.
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Dan Snaith is sitting on the pale stone steps of a giant monument somewhere near the centre of Stoke Newington cemetery.
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I scheduled my GRE for September 11th, 2007, so that I could celebrate finishing the test (yay! triple digits!) by buying Kanye West's Graduation album.
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Tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm's latest release Live at Smalls places the listener at the center of jazz innovation in New York City. You feel as if you were there at the legendary basement club of Smalls, sitting in one of their old and rickety wooden chairs with their infamous cat strolling leisurely by.
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Mining Jeffrey's archives has resulted in a trilogy of some fine listening. 2009's We Are Only Riders, this release, The Journey Is Long and a third and final volume called The Task Has Overwhelmed Us which is already in production for release later in the year.
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After high-profile roles in commercial fare such as " School Of Rock ," " Nacho Libre " and " The Big Year ," Jack Black has tapped into a series of smaller and more idiosyncratic opportunities, starting with Richard Linklater 's true-crime dramedy " Bernie."
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While Justin Timberlake mulls over the possibility of playing Elton John in a musical biopic , another famous face from the world of pop is gearing up to sing on the big-screen.
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First-time feature director Vincent D'Onofrio and screenwriter Joe Vinciguerra on making their B-movie throwback.
Read MoreAfter a diagnosis with Alzheimer's in June 2011, Glen Campbell agreed to record one final album and perform one final tour.
Read MoreIt's been nearly four years since Swedish singer Jens Lekman released his last album, the excellent Night Falls Over Kortedala.
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311 have released 'Sunset in July,' the lead single from the band's forthcoming album.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. composer Sarah Kirkland Snider partners with vocalist/composer Shara Worden of the art rock band My Brightest Diamond and the ensemble yMusic in what is arguably the quintessential concert of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Hall in New York City. In addition to excerpts from Snider's song cycle Penelope --about a soldier coming home from war with no memory of the wife to whom he returns--yMusic will perform an additional song-set penned by Snider along with music by Worden.
Read MoreCrash Test Dummies are one of the first bands I got into.
Read MoreThere are still artists out there who are causing music to buckle and strain at the seams, who are finding new and inventive ways to turn familiar ideas inside out and bend some fresh life out of the archaic "rock" format.
Read MoreTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross ' score to David Fincher' s " The Social Network " is an incredible piece of work vacillating between ominous, yet melancholy tracks (" Hand Covers Bruise ") and the more pulsating electronic tracks (" In Motion ") that keep the already fast-paced picture propelling forward.
Read MoreIt's a musical mecca for fans of country music and has firm historical associations with rock, blues and soul.
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Whether or not you're a fan of Super Fury Animals and their frontman Gruff Rhys , you have to applaud the man's diverse artistic output.
Read MoreBetween all of his musical projects, Gruff Rhys — most notably the frontman and creative force behind Welsh psychedelic rockers Super Furry Animals — up until this point, hasn't delved into the world of film beyond a few soundtrack credits. " which he wrote, scored, and co-directed with Dylan Goch which will make its American premiere this month at the Los Angeles Film Festival on the 24th and 26th.
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