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Raging Against The Party Machine (Both Of ‘Em)

Commentators often decry the seeming inability of today’s musicians to engage their fans in political protest, but don’t tell that to the organizers of this year’s DNC and RNC Conventions. “For two weeks straight, both in Denver and in Minneapolis, Rage Against the Machine, a rap-metal band formed in 1991 and known for its big noise and ferocious politics, formed an ad-hoc convention in opposition to both major parties.”…

Looking Back At How A Concert Hall Rose In Seattle

Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle Symphony, is ten years old, and its construction changed the fortunes of its primary tenant forever. But getting it built was a massive project, undertaken at a time when the orchestra was in dire financial straits, and the electorate was in no mood to publicly finance a concert hall….

A great, cheerful soundtrack

AMMAN - “Mamma Mia!”, the soundtrack of the eponymous feature film that has been showing for more than two weeks in Amman theatres is making waves. It is, from many a viewpoint, an unusual album. Given that the songs are but reprises of Swedish legendary

Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival Promises Musical, Actual…

The free seven-hour Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival brings a high-quality parade of performers on Saturday to either the Riverfront Amphitheatre or the Palace Theatre (19 Clinton Ave., at N. Pearl St., Albany), depending on another parade of tropical

Ian Tescee Explores the Space Music Side of Jazz on New CD

Humans have been dreaming about going to Mars since the first telescopes were invented four centuries ago, and now that we have spaceships landing on the planet regularly and rovers motoring around, taking photos and digging in the soil, the dream of

More to Jazz Than "Anything Goes" Music

Director Giuseppe Tornatore is known for having an eye for faces — not in the narrow all-American sense of ?beauty,’ but rather faces of all shapes and sizes that leave an impression long after you see them. Where the masterful Italian doesn’t get his

UNITED STATES: Condom Use and Hip Hop Culture: The Case of Urban Young Men in New York City

Am Journal of Public Health Vol. 98; No. 6: P. 1081-1085 (06..08) - Friday, September 05, 2008 Miguel A. Munoz-Laboy, DrPH; Daniel H. Castellanos, MA, MPH; Chanel S. Haliburton, MPH; Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, MA, MPhil; Hannah J. Weinstein, BA; Richard

Lindsay and Samantha rock the runway crowd

Nobody draws attention like Lindsay Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson. The duo sat in the front row for the Saturday morning presentation of Ronson’s sister Charlotte’s spring collection at New York Fashion Week, where they were immediately swarmed by

Britney’s Not Rehearsing for the VMAs

E! News has confirmed that the Britney Spears dance video leaked yesterday on MSN.com does not show a rehearsal for a performance on Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards. Talent manager/producer Larry Rudolph, who is working with Britney, tells E!: ‘She

Heart Sues Republican Party for Use of Song

Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart are taking action after hearing that their 70’s mega-hit ‘Barracuda’ has been used an an unofficial theme song to promote Republican Vide Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The song was used to refer to Palin’s