Media Credit: Courtesy myspace.com/lightnightplayers “The Late Night Players” comedy style is similar to the television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” but with more political references and specialized jokes for the current venue. On Tuesday night the Earthfoods caf in the Student Union played host to a very funny group of young Hebrews called [...]
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One of the night s most anticipated moments came with the Eagles doing How Long, the only legitimate country rock song on their new blockbuster, Long Road Out of Eden. The guys nailed the J.D. Souther tune with vocals as vibrant as if it were 1979. But the out-of-place guest spot still seemed like [...]
“It’s the only large metropolitan market . . . that doesn’t have a theme park,” Alexander said of the Phoenix area.
Frankly, it’s better than the alternative: not seeing the show at all. But the only drawback to watching a live concert in a movie theater is that you’re in a movie theater. You will be expected — at least at the Tucson theaters — to remain in your seats as if you were watching [...]
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Stormwater Engineering Division Mngr for the City of El Paso. Closing date for accepting applications is November 23, 2007 at 5 00 PM Bachelor\’s degree in Civil, Sanitary or Environmental Engineering, or related field and six (6) years public or private professional engineering experience in public works programs, including four (4) years of professional [...]
If Rumors- era Fleetwood Mac was just starting out today, they would be considered a country band. Need proof? Meet Little Big Town. The oxymoronically-named quartet does the kind of country music that would have been considered mainstream rock in the 60s or 70s.
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String Quartets: 1. Gospel Singers: 5. Spiritualized band-members: 2 (Jason Pierce on acoustic guitar and vocals, Tony Foster on Fender Rhodes Piano). Hip Pseudonyms: 2 (J Spaceman and Doggen, respectively). Brit-Pop mullets: 2. Skinny jeans: 2. Pairs of sunglasses worn indoors: 2. White people: 1501 (Apollo’s Capacity minus five—c.f. Gospel Singers).
And if the spectacle of users tapping away at laptops doesn t come up to the visual grandeur of a full orchestra, Mr. Field has added other visual stimulations: Large video screens in the concert hall show images of roads, people walking, and other scenes. For audience members who might wonder when the music [...]
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Fronted by Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters opened for Bob Dylan at the downtown London arena in 2006. There was plenty of buzz about a Dec. 1, 2007 Foo Fighters date at the arena, but that was never confirmed and the band’s plans changed.
Nick Infusino/the daily northwestern. Metalocalypse co-creator Brendan Small brings his animated series to life Sunday evening as lead singer and guitarist of the fictional death metal band Dethklok. Zak Fay drove four hours from Michigan to get to Northwestern on Sunday. He came here to watch a band that doesn’t really exist.