I'm at Sloppy Joe's, immortalised in the 1959 movie Our Man In Havana, starring Alec Guinness, recently painstakingly restored to its former glory and reopened after a near 50-year hiatus.
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Kanye West debuted new music in a big way on Friday night.
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An ethno-inspired flute and drum tune from Denmark is the bookmakers' favorite to win this year's Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, which also features a bizarre opera pop number from Romania and an Armenian rock song written by the guitarist of Black Sabbath.
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You think you know Fred Durst, but you really don't.
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It was 100 years ago that the most famous scandal in the history of the arts took place, at a swanky new theatre in Paris.
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Owiny Sigoma Band's debut was released two years ago after a group of London-based musicians travelled to Kenya to collaborate with nyatiti master musician and music teacher Joseph Nyamungu and Luo drummer Charles Owoko.
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Clever re-inventor, overly ambitious re-animator, whiz-bang music folklorist, fusty archivist —call him what you'd like.
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Martin's high-res photos from the Thursday can be viewed on his Flickr.
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Age can be a deceiving thing, particularly in hip-hop. 16-year-old New York rapper Bishop Nehru is part of a new wave of young East Coast rappers who are rejected the ultra aggressive maximalist style of contemporary rap sounds like trap in favour of something sweeter, more soulful and old school.
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Berlin-based band, Abby are getting ready to make their name in the UK with a fantastic debut single and some headline shows next month.
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Tosten Burks looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the plug-in Hummer.
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THE Streets will be alive with the sound of music when the songs of Julie Andrews come to London.
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It's not lost on us that some of the biggest and most talented artists and musicians of this or any generation have gone on the record—on records—here at TVD.
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The internet was ripe with new videos and articles aimed at the production and gear connoisseur this week—from demo videos of MacBeth's new synth to synthesizer innovator Herb Deutsch walking us through the evolution of the MiniMoog, all the way to an in-depth look at Korg's forthcoming Volca series of mini-analog units.
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"Random Access Memories" is a landmark album that will change the face of dance music in a similar way that Radiohead's "Kid A" changed indie music.
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A one day music festival 'Carnaby Sound' will be held in Carnaby, on Saturday 6 July from 12 ' 7pm as part of the area's celebration of music heritage.
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It's funny that while we're getting some of our brightest days right now here in Seattle, some of this week's most exciting new releases are some of the year's darkest.
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Back in March, out of the blue, David Marchese from SPIN sent me this link to his impressive feature on Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams, Jr., a truly independent and amazingingly prolific R&B artist, writer, producer, publisher, label-owner, and walking definition of "gonzo".
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So many of his songs, including duets he made with his then wife Tammy Wynette, were autobiographical that at times it seemed no aspect of his life was off limits.
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So I decide to go for an adventure: take a cab with no radio on.
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For those feeling they missed the St George's Day boat, Rapture & Verse declares a national holiday by setting a Best of British ball rolling.
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When he dissolved The Streets, Mike Skinner's first intention was to move into filmmaking.
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American folk singer Sam Amidon releases his latest album, 'Bright Sunny South', on 13 May – his first for Nonesuch Records, the label which also released an album by his parents' former group, The Word of Mouth Chorus, in 1977.
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There are many people for whom Mike Skinner will always maintain a degree of relevance; those for whom Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don't Come For Free are almost ludicrously perfect snapshots of a particular moment in British culture, a flawless encapsulation of a certain type of person and the sort of life they lived a few years either side of the turn of the millennium.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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If you missed Part I of this series on the female presence in dance music, it was inspired by a post from Complex a while back highlighting "the sexiest women in EDM," which was more about pretty faces than actual talent.
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A FORTNIGHT after the Boston Marathon was devastated by terrorist bombs, the inspirational stories of some of the survivors are now beginning to emerge.
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Much more common are the proverbial flashes in the pan — artists quickly ascending to critical and popular acclaim, only to have that it revoked as a result of mismangement, creative struggles, or succumbing to the tempting, all-too-prevalent excesses by which so many of the mighty hath fallen.
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I arrived very late to the Violent Femmes.
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sharing--has resurfaced as a contributor to another blog!
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White's mix of gently funky country- pop, Muscle Shoals soul and what is nowadays known as "yacht rock", belongs in a world of Johnnie Walker's Radio 2 shows, mirrored aviators and open-necked denim.
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