At a party in 1983, Francis Falceto had an epiphany that changed his life. Falceto had been involved in music for many years, as a curator, programme planner ...
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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ...
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It was a quiet afternoon in the Oxfam Shop in Great Yarmouth in the autumn of 2005. Most days are quiet in Great Yarmouth out of season.
This day, however, ...
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Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ...
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Wired thinks that vinyl is about to "re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary" thanks to the "uniformly optimistic picture of the ...
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Asking fans to pay anything from 1 pence (plus a 45 pence service fee) to whatever they think is fair for a download, Radiohead is offering their latest ...
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"Matador still puts out everything on vinyl." Mark Ohe's words come through crystalline and without distortion. The art director at one of the country's ...
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Taipei is synonymous with house music, and arguably has a vibrant house compared with other Asian capitals. A mish-mash of local and foreign talents have ...
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For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ...
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Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson, who helped break genre boundaries and attracted a young audience outside the traditional jazz scene, ...
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YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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TMZ has learned that Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") plans to direct and star in "Miles Davis," a biopic of the legendary jazz innovator. ...
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Jazz and blues record label Blue Note plans to revamp its website from later this month, transforming it from a regular corporate front window to a combined ...
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This wasn't the greatest year for jazz. Locally and at large, the music appears to be in a holding pattern, trying to find new meaning — or at least a ...
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Controversy is emerging over the sexual orientation of British entertainer Sir Elton John with one local religious leader opposed to bringing the singer ...
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In advance of ‘‘From the Plantation to the Penitentiary,'' his suite of jazz and criticism out today, Wynton Marsalis has said he likes to put out a ...
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Instead of the usual handprint in cement, a bronze bust of the trumpet player has been put on display outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. For ...
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Michael Brecker, the versatile tenor saxophonist who died Saturday of leukemia at age 57, was regarded by many musicians and critics as a virtuoso of technique ...
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In an art form more celebrated for its sinners, John Coltrane, who somewhere over the rainbow will turn 80 on Saturday, held the honor of being the music's ...
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'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ...
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