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Zikrayat at Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City, NY 8/19/08

2008-08-20 03:03:41 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...music in the shadow of hastily constructed, third world style highrises (whose units sell for millions apiece), looking as if a healthy shove would be enough to send each of them tumbling into the Hudson. Down below in the park, with violin, vocals, ney flute, percussion and an excellent multi-instrumentalist alternating between oud and...
 
Tags: park, slinky bellydance music, music, zikrayat, world style highrises, middle eastern quartet, egyptian film songs, womens immense credit, stay upright
 
 
 
 
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CD Review: Burning Spear Jah Is Real

2008-08-19 16:24:35 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...musicians who still play it are Jamaican. In fact, its something of a miracle that Winston Rodney AKA Burning Spear is still alive at 63, long after so many of his contemporaries Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown , Jacob Miller and others died under tragic, often violent circumstances. It might also be something of a miracle that Burning...
 
Tags: spear, spear plays, spear laments, spear writes, spear announces, spears, spear classics, remember reggae music, music
 
 
 
 
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Good Cop and Bad Cop Dust It Up

2008-08-19 02:25:03 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...music blog out there Bad Cop: I dont think anybodys paying attention. You just want to be famous Good Cop: We will be famous! Why do you think Im spending so much of my free time here Bad Cop: I dunno, because youre a masochist Good Cop: Were gonna be bigger than pitchfork Bad Cop: In your dreams. We were born too late. All the popular stuff...
 
Tags: bad cop, bad, bad cop holds, bad cop reaches, cop, bad experience, bad sound, village people, people
 
 
 
 
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CD Review: The Paul Carlon Octet Roots Propaganda

2008-08-15 21:37:50 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...music, popular music. The dozen tracks on this album are tastefully traditional yet ambitiously melodic, blending an impressive mix of American, Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz influences, from delta blues to rhumba, along with plenty of peak-era Ellington as well. This is an album you walk away from hummingits tunes to yourself, an achievement...
 
Tags: cd, carlon, jazz, york jazz, train-whistle horns, horns, carlons sax, afro-cuban jazz influences, sax
 
 
 
 
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New York City Live Music Calendar Plus Other Events: Mid-August/September 2008

2008-08-15 13:57:57 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...music that is as danceable as it is trance-inducing, and does his influences justice Also every Wednesday, the Nat Lucas Organ Trio plays jazz at Lenox Lounge uptown, sets from 8 PM to midnight The first major JMW Turner exhibit in the US in many moons isup at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through 9/21.Now might be a good timetocheck it...
 
Tags: fri sept, thurs-fri sept, play trash bar, play, sat-sun aug, sun aug, thurs, mercenaries play lakeside, tues aug
 
 
 
 
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Concert Review: Katie Elevitch at Rehab, NYC 8/13/08

2008-08-14 16:09:38 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...music may be her original stepping-off point, but this show rocked , hard. This is my soul, she warned, It may not be beautiful. Ironically, there was a lot of beauty in what she played, albeit tempestuous and frequently pitch-black Elevitch opened with a couple of slow, slinky, sinuous numbers and then picked up the pace with a catchy,...
 
Tags: katie elevitch, elevitch, band, band offstage, song solo, song, apocalyptic vision set, set, band onstage
 
 
 
 
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CD Review: Custard Wally Call Me Walt

2008-08-13 20:13:24 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...band who sound like them. They mix scorching punk with quieter, more straight-up rock that some might call more sensitive, but that wouldnt be true. Frontman/guitarist Chris Giunta writes very funny songs with a no-holds-barred, punk rock sense of humor. This new cd begins with an intentionally over-the top Spinal Tap style heavy metal solo...
 
Tags: york band, band, brooklyn band, punk, punk rock sense, pretty, chris giunta writes, custard wally, giunta
 
 
 
 
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Concert Review from the Archives: the Village People at Brooklyn College Auditorium, 8/13/92

2008-08-13 16:08:21 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...bands than you ever will lets hope, anyway. Its just that youd never know it: since no press is generally worse than bad press, we keep those things to ourselves. And as much as we like to avoid boring, predictable stories of nightcrawling in various altered states, weve been sitting on this one for too long not to share it With my...
 
Tags: village people, 70s schlock revival, crutches, 80s production values, withboth drum machine, press, aftersome unfamiliar songs, bad press, disco freaks
 
 
 
 
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CD Review: System Noise Give Me Power

2008-08-12 20:29:15 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...music but cant stand bands like Nickelback. A serious contender for best cd of 2008. System Noise plays Arlenes on August 24 at 10
 
Tags: cd, mucho, frontwoman sarah mucho, catchy, similarly catchy, sound completely unlike, guitar, angels live, live