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Such a shuttle could run a route along the downtown areas where the city wants to direct the most dollars, and continue until all of the venues close.
For Led Zep fans, movie memories remain the same
REVERE - Dave Gagn , leather jacket decorated with a Led Zeppelin logo, red do-rag hanging out of the back pocket of his jeans, turned away from the movie theater cashier and pumped his fist. “I can’t believe I still got a ticket,” Gagn said, holding three tickets in his hand. “This is ridiculous.” [...]
Ocean FM pulled up over pop music policy
However, in an on-the-spot listening exercise carried out in October and published today, Ofcom said the station s music policy was in clear breach . Instead of playing 70% current adult music, it was playing less than 10% — opting instead for mainstream acts such as Madonna and Robbie Williams, peppered with classic rock [...]
‘Decadent’ rap music outlawed in Iran
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CHS Band Students Stay Dedicated
By Rayla Gomez Cedar High School s band is in full swing this year as director Steve Shirts conducts the symphonic, concert, percussion, jazz ensemble, and pep bands. As all of these talented students prepare for concerts and other community events, most of them practice according to the block schedule. The jazz band is [...]
Jim Nesbitt, country music comedian, dies at 75
FLORENCE, S.C. — Jim Nesbitt, who wrote country music songs that drew both laughter and critical acclaim, has died. He was 75. Nesbitt died of congestive heart failure Thursday at his South Carolina home, his son, Timothy Nesbitt told The Associated Press. “He always wanted to be a musician, but the comedian part just [...]
Chicago writes the good book
“What people think of as traditional has to do with the instrumentation,” Dixon said from his office in Crete, Ill. “Traditional gospel was usually accompanied by piano, bass, drums, or just piano. When I go to Europe, they ask me to just bring a pianist, vocalists, no bass and drums. That’s what the true gospel [...]
‘Tis the season for Hall and Oates to chill out live with Christmas songs
Hall: I don’t download anything. I don’t listen to music. There’s so much peripheral music that I get way too much. It’s everywhere: on the Weather Channel, television, everywhere. I saw Joni Mitchell had an album out and she had “Big Yellow Taxi” on it, and I wondered how she did that — so [...]
The Newberry Consort’s ‘Bethlehem’ outshines any holiday music standbys
Besides their ongoing relationships with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Douglass and friends are now artists-in-residence at St. Clement Church, a sonically splendid Romanesque church in Lincoln Park. “That relationship will allow us the proper setting for sacred music that hasn’t been a part of our programming,” says Douglass, a specialist in [...]
Sabertooth on the prowl at Green Mill
Thanks to his virtuoso work with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, an exemplary repertory band based at Columbia College Chicago, Mallinger enjoys wide recognition in Chicago. But if his work with CJE by definition must be tautly disciplined, in Sabertooth he cuts loose, to often galvanizing effect. Add the terrific organist Pete Benson and drummer [...]