Wall of Sound
April 1, 2011 Classical composers piled scores of instruments atop each other for centuries, and jazz bandleader Stan Kenton kept the "Wall of Sound" concept alive through the 1950s. …
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April 1, 2011 Classical composers piled scores of instruments atop each other for centuries, and jazz bandleader Stan Kenton kept the "Wall of Sound" concept alive through the 1950s. …
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February 11, 2011 Anna Faris, costar of this month's Take Me Home Tonight, on the soundtrack to her life.
Name a song that you've listened to in the past 24 hours?Best Coast's "Boyfriend." Isn't [Bethany Cosentino] supposed to be the coolest person in the world right now?
What's the first album you bought with your own money?Whitney Houston. My first concert was supposed to be Whitney in Seattle, but I was doing a play that night. …
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January 27, 2011
No Doubt's Tony Kanal and his wife Erin Lokitz gave birth to a baby girl, named Coco Reese Lakshmi Kanal, on January 24. "Mom, Dad, and Baby are happy and in love," Kanal posted on the band's website. [No Doubt's Official Site]
Download "Haile Selassie," the second track from Bright Eyes' forthcoming album The People's Key, below. …
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January 24, 2011
Metallica look likely hit the road for a "Big Four" U.S. tour with thrash kings Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. The band posted an image, titled "Coming Soon," on their website of an American flag with the words "The Big 4," suggesting the bands will bring their metal circus to the States after touring in Europe last year; the group have also registered a Facebook page, which you can check out here. …
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January 6, 2011
Amy Winehouse will debut new material onstage this month at her comeback gigs in South America, her backup singer has revealed. "Band rehearsing for Brazil tour! Get ready! New songs," singer Zalon posted on his Twitter. The shows, which will be Winehouse's first since 2008, kick off January 8. [NME]
The Kills have wrapped up recording their fourth album, which is slated for release this year. …
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November 18, 2010
She's back! Amy Winehouse has scheduled four January gigs in Brazil, including three dates at the traveling Summer Soul Festival. Tickets go on sale November 22 here. [Amy Winehouse's Official Site]
Patti Smith was honored with the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, which chronicles her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late '60s and '70s. …
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November 2, 2010 It's no secret that Amy Winehouse has had a very troubled past few years (from her battles with addiction to a recent divorce), but the British singer looks to be righting her ship. …
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July 15, 2010 The wait for a third album from oft-troubled British singer Amy Winehouse might be over by the end of the year.
"The album will be six months at the most," Winehouse told London's Metro this week at the premiere of horror flick Psychosis, directed by her new boyfriend Reg Traviss."It's going to be very much the same as my second album, where there's a lot of jukebox stuff... …
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Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
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