Mystery Jets ditch prog’s grey cage for Young Love and pop fun

‘њ Dens is like a scrapbook, ‘ќ Trivedi intervenes. ‘њ Yeah. With this record we had ten months or a year to write everything and do everything and it’s really a great feeling to just think ‘fuck it, just forget all this stuff, just clear it all away and make eleven songs, make them as [...]

Coens hit the comic trail with Burn After Reading

BURN AFTER READING * * * Cert 15 96 mins Perhaps a release valve after the tightly wound intensity of No Country For Old Men, the Coen brothers follow up with a breezy screwball spy spoof about political paranoia, populated as the intelligence is relative poster line suggests by a cast of idiots going through [...]

Clubs and concerts for Oct. 16-22

CALENDAR Press releases for arts and entertainment events and programs should be typed, double-spaced, with basic information about the event, performance dates and times, location, ticket prices and a public telephone number. Send notices two to three weeks before the event to Preview, 207 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Escondido, 92025, or via e-mail to preview@nctimes.com . [...]

For Mahal, blues is part of a global language

Growing up in an era when many black Americans were abandoning the blues, seeing the once-popular style as a reminder of a painful history, Taj Mahal said he was shielded from some of that because his family embraced not only the blues that was happening in the 1950s and early ’60s, but jazz and Afro-Caribbean [...]

Dido Crowned Songwriter of the Year at 28th Annual ASCAP Awards in

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Streetsboro radio station knocked off the air

”It’s nothing to that level,” he said. It’s unclear when the commercial-free station may begin broadcasting again. No one answered the WSTB telephone this afternoon. The station plays heavy rock. It also is home to the popular Sunday Oldies Jukebox, which has pumped out music from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s for more than a [...]

The six best digital music download sites

The study in part attributes this decrease to consumers’ fears that internet service providers will cut off their web access if they are found to be illegally downloading or sharing songs. Another reason for the growing popularity of legal downloads must surely be the number of decent online services that are available. Until fairly recently, [...]

The mildly objectionable weekly newspaper for Arcata, California (pagesetter)

CenterArts presents the “MC Chris is dead tour” with special guests Totally Michael on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. at Hum Brews. While in college, MC Chris began studying and performing at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in New York City. UCBT is home to many familiar faces, gone on to The Office and [...]

The Concordian

Their latest album, Black Butterfly, was released last month. It features the same, radio-friendly sound as its predecessor, making it a true follow-up to 2006’s 15. Popular songs from 15, including ‘њSorry,’ќ ‘њEverything,’ќ as well as ‘њCrazy Bitch’ќ revitalized the band and brought it onto the mainstream scene. At the same time, however, it put [...]

Air Force band brings classical sound

The United States Air Force Concert Band and Singing Sergeants features a world-class wind ensemble. The 52-member band performs a wide variety of music from light classics, popular favorites and instrumental features to the most serious classical works. ULM Director of Bands Derle M. Long is said it is an honor to host the Air [...]