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Covered In Folk: Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam (Jack Johnson, Kristen Hersh, Gary Jules, Johnny Cash)

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2007-11-21 05:33:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...Salman Rushdie, and again in 2004 when the US refused to pull him from their no-fly list, which tainted this icon of non-violence with an unproven association with terrorist causes But the more I encounter his older songs through the performance of talented others, the more I appreciate his skills as a songwriter -- and the more it becomes...
 
Tags: stevens, yusuf islam, islam, peace train, peace train live, cat stevens, love songs, songs, gary jules
 
 
 
 
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Greg Graffin lauded for humanism, atheism, polysyllabism

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2008-03-25 23:02:21 by August Brown in Soundboard
...Salman Rushdie, who knows a thing or two about the dangers of religious fanaticism. Graffin will perform an acoustic set after the ceremony, so for you Harvard kids out there, heres your best chance to yell Were Only Gonna Die! in the school chapel outside of finals week August Brown Greg Graffin photo by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times
 
Tags: graffin, greg graffin photo, cultural humanism, cultural, bro core piece, lifetime achievement award, harvard university organization, openly non-religious, harvard kids
 
 
 
 
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Bruce Almighty

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2008-03-31 16:24:29 by Jerry Bowles in Sequenza21/
...Salman Rushdie and Claude Debussy) and 2007 Grawemeyer Award-winner Sebastian Curriers Departures and Arrivals (inspired by Scarlatti and Liszt), as well as the New York premiere of Wolfgang Rihms Brahmsliebewaltzer (inspired by Brahms). The program also includes works ofBrahms, Scarlatti, Debussy, Liszt and Pärt.Program and ticket sales are...
 
Tags: composers, influential composers, composers william bolcom, william bolcom, levingston, pianist bruce levingston, non-profit organization, program, prominent composers
 
 
 
 
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Beatles helped bring down communism in Russia

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2008-05-14 16:29:54 by admin in Ukrainian Music Matters
...Salman Rushdie Milos Forman, director of Academy Award winning One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest said: It sounds ridiculous but Im convinced The Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism His claim is backed up by Dr Yury Pelyoshonok, a Canadian based Doctor of Soviet Studies, who grew up in the former USSR in the 1960s The Beatles...
 
Tags: beatles, communism, beatles revolution, lost, communists lost, ukrainian music matters, music, soviet communism, president bill clinton
 
 
 
 
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2008-05-19 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
Monday May 19, 2008 UCSB Music Building Geiringer Hall 8:00pm PST free New piece by James Orsher: This book is called Slouching Towards Bethlehem performed by Dick Hebdige and James Orsher also work by Salman Bakht, Greg Shear, Mahrina Rofheart, Jerry Hui, Katie Saxon
 
Tags: james orsher, 00pm pst, ucsb music, dick hebdige, greg shear, geiringer hall, jerry hui, katie saxon, salman bakht
 
 
 
 
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She & Him (Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward) Volume 1 album review

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2008-06-06 08:27:09 by Lindsey Davis in Band Weblogs
...Salman Rushdie as she sings along to Tom Waits songs, another young Hollywood actress has also been making waves in the music world - albeit quietly, and, it must be said, more proficiently I refer to Zooey Deschanel , star of movies including The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Almost Famous and the forthcoming The Happening . Deschanel has...
 
Tags: deschanel, zooey deschanel, album, ward, entire album, songs, songs lack, volume, player deschanel
 
 
 
 
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Weekend Listomania (Special What's in a Name? Video Edition)

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2008-07-11 00:01:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...Salman" (if there were such a song about the great Rushdie) -- are okay Okay, here's my totally top of my head Top Eight 8. The Smashing Pumpkins -- For Martha Jeebus fuck, Billy Corgan again? What's he been in now -- the last fifteen Listomanias? Anyway, this one is about his mother Martha 7. The Rolling Stones -- Angie Angie,...
 
Tags: real, song, post-elvis poprock song, real estate agent, apparently, neil apparently, actual person, ray based, ray
 
 
 
 
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Another book meme

2008-07-25 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William...
 
Tags: charles dickens, john, john kennedy toole, william, william makepeace thackeray, time, thomas hardy, alice walker, alice
 
 
 
 
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Telluride Film Festival: Day Zero (Travel on 8/28)

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2008-09-03 11:20:45 by Janine Kahn in Music & Art: All Shook Down
...Salman Rushdie, who I last saw a couple of weeks ago at a dinner Vikram gave at Berkeleys Viks Chaat. But, unlike Leigh, Rushdie betrays no flicker of recognition despite having been quite happy to sign and date a shyly-proffered copy of The Enchantress of Florence there for me. I wish Id had the presence of mind to ask him to add At Viks...
 
Tags: telluride, leigh, cheer leigh, mike leigh, tiny telluride airport, favorite leigh quotes, festival, salman rushdie, travel
 
 
 
 
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