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Where Was The 'It' Band? What's With All The Hip-Hop? Reflecting On SXSW '07 ...
MTV News' South by Southwest team discusses this year's fest. Where was the "it" band? What's with all the hip-hop? Plus more burning questions.
The Apples in Stereo play sunny pop at a crowded Madison show (Isthmus)
For a little while Monday night at the High Noon Saloon it looked like the Apples in Stereo might never get off the ground. Despite a lengthy break between bands, Apples frontman Robert Schneider had troubles right from the beginning. Big trouble, we couldn't hear his guitar.
Pop Life: Soul shots from the U.K. bring the joy back (Orange County Register)
Among dozens of wonderful but little-noticed albums, three English gems ? from Amy Winehouse, James Morrison and Joss Stone ? are ushering in a delightful spring bloom.
Tickets (Contra Costa Times)
THE 2007 COUNTRY MEGATICKET, May 18-Oct. 12, a multiple show package featuring Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson and more, Shoreline Amphitheatre and Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord. For complete details, go to www.megaticket.com.
The Apples in Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder (CD Review) (City Pages)
Fresh Apples' CD keeps sunny pop sound (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Don't call the recent album from the Apples in Stereo, "New Magnetic Wonder," a comeback. True, there was a five-year span between this album and the previous one, "Velocity of Sound." But the band hasn't been idle.
Apples, Malin foster ancient art of album making (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
As we welcome in 1962, it looks like another banner year for singles sales so the record business will just keep hummin' along. Of course we can't help but feel a little bit sorry for those companies still based on the album-sales business model, but . . . wait a tick . . . that would be . . . everybody!
RECENT ITEMS (Filter Magazine)
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Most Viewed This Week (Yale Daily News)
Printing symposium lays out new angles March 6, 2007 By Rebecca Arzoian This past Saturday, the newly renovated Yale University Art Gallery hosted a symposium on contemporary printmaking titled ?The Contemporary Print: Artists and Masters.?...
Mix Picks: CDs (The Record)
YOKO ONO, "Yes, I'm a Witch" (Astralwerks) -- You know what you don't hear too often?