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Lollapalooza Report: Friday [Joshua Klein]

2008-08-02 19:08:40 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...music were slightly less impressive coming not long after the talented teens in Paul Greens School of Rock Music All-Stars, who over at the Kidz tent covered Yes Long Distance Runaround note for note complete with The Fish outro but Yeasayer are on their merry way there The Kills [3:15 p.m Photo by Joseph Mohan The Kills Alison VV Mosshart...
 
 
 
 
 
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Lollapalooza Report: Friday [Amy Phillips]

2008-08-02 18:08:17 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...bands studied barroom crawl, evokes rickety wooden back porches groaning in the swampland humidity. Sure, a concrete stage in the middle of downtown Chicago, with a huge PLAYSTATION 3 sign above it, isnt exactly atmospheric. But when the dude on my right sparked up a bowl, and somebody on my left accidentally poured beer all the way down my...
 
 
 
 
 
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Lollapalooza Report: Friday [Scott Plagenhoef]

2008-08-02 16:08:23 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...music Those quibbles aside, this was a dynamic set from any technical or even musical way you want to look at it: Songs like Lucky, The Bends, and No Surprises were the highlights one would expect them to be; newer tracks House of Cards, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, and Videotape hold their own alongside more established classics; and Dollars...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sat Eye Candy: Happy Birthday Jerry

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2008-08-02 16:08:21 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
...Band in 1990 doing Tangled Up In Blue His talent for creating extreme intimacy, even in the largest halls, was a hallmark of Garcias live presence. He could conjure stillness with palpable vulnerability as this Stella Blue from Winterland in 1974 shows We wrap up our birthday well wishes with Deal, given a fun ride at Germanys...
 
 
 
 
 
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Lollapalooza Report: Friday [Matthew Solarski]

2008-08-02 16:08:04 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...music supervisors go for, while Serious counters that with some welcome swagger. Here, however, Duffy frequently sounded shrill and chirpy, more canary than nightingale. To be fair, Lollas equipment tends to make a lot of vocalists sound grating, but it hurt Duffy more than most. I noticed a steady exodus from the Playstation 3 Stage...
 
 
 
 
 
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Zach Gill (ALO/J. Johnson) Album

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2008-08-01 18:08:51 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
...musicians Dan Lebowitz and Steve Adams (aka LAG). Discovering the power ofperformance, the trio began playing jazz, power-pop-rock,bluegrass and everything in between. The group evolved into a variety of projects beforeemerging as the Animal Liberation Orchestra. Formed in1998, ALO has been Gills primary musical vehicle overthe last decade....
 
 
 
 
 
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STS9/Umphreys McGee | 7.24.08 | NYC

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2008-08-01 18:08:00 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
...music with at least a little something for everyone Upon entering the Roseland, one could barely walk through the front door without feeling the moisture being sucked from their body. Hotter than a sauna full of alcoholics trying to expel the toxins of the night before, this venue was well over 100-degrees down on the floor with barely any...
 
 
 
 
 
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Pitchfork.tv: Lykke Li: Breaking It Up [Video]

2008-08-01 15:08:52 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...bands , and a vague mystical sense all key aspects of her artistic persona. The video for Breaking It Up, one of the catchiest songs from debut LP Youth Novels , also incorporates the express yourself dont repress yourself sexuality of a Madonna or Fiona Apple clip. On Kleerups excellent Until We Bleed , Li is the vulnerable, emotionally...
 
 
 
 
 
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Los Campesinos! to Release Another Album Already

2008-08-01 15:08:24 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...band thing full bore. The Welsh septet will release their sophomore full-length We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed via Wichita on October 13 in the UK, mere months after Youngster hit stores. A North American release is scheduled for November via Arts&Crafts Los Campesinos! spoke about the suddenness of their second albums appearance in a post...
 
 
 
 
 
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Pitchfork.tv: Spoon [ft. Bradford Cox] / Boris / Bon Iver: Live at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival