| | | | | Polly Pry: Casual-ly riding from Nashville to North Gate | | A ukulele, a guitar and an upright bass. That?s all that The Casuals needed to become one of Baton Rouge?s best kept musical secrets and the area?s most original, chuckle-inducing folk ensembles to ever write a song about a handsome North Carolina boy or a peeled peach. | | Tiger Weekly, Tue Aug 19 13:20:16 PDT 2008 | | | | Stone Temple Pilots return to the stage | | One of the year's biggest rock reunion tours will be making its lone downstate appearance Wednesday night in Bloomington's U.S. Cellular Coliseum. | | The Pantagraph, Tue Aug 19 22:36:31 PDT 2008 | | | | Ari Hoenig Set to Release "Bert's Playground" in September | | Artistic inspiration can come from anywhere at all--even from a deceased pet. On Bert's Playground , Ari Hoenig's second recording for Dreyfus Records and his fifth outing overall, the young master drummer starts from a simple appreciation of Bert, his ?one and only goldfish, the only fish in a tank full of snails." | | All About Jazz, Tue Aug 19 17:39:55 PDT 2008 | | | | Donald Liebenson: New Documentary Looks on the Bright Side of Neil Innes | | Neil Innes, who has been hailed as a "partially discovered genius," is the first to admit that he is an unlikely subject for a documentary. But Innes, 63, looms large in music and comedy circles for his scant degree of separation from both the Beatles and Monty Python's Flying Circus. | | HuffingtonPost, Tue Aug 19 21:23:31 PDT 2008 | | | | Sacramento Single: The Lovely Builders get this week's 'Vote' | | Local jazz musicians Ross Hammond and Scott Amendola had played together many times before, but when the two were paired on a recent project, they decided to continue their partnership by forming a duo. The Lovely Builders is Hammond on guitar, Amendola on percussion and both on electronics, and the resulting sound is playful, confident and, as the name may suggest, exquisitely innovative. ... | | The Sacramento Bee, Mon Aug 18 00:07:51 PDT 2008 | | | | Asian Zither Festival enlivens City in September | | VietNamNet Bridge ? Performers from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam are expected to participate in the second Asian Zither Festival in HCM City early next month. | | Vietnam Net, Tue Aug 19 06:11:14 PDT 2008 | | | | Creative bands rocking China | | At 45 minutes past midnight, long after the Olympic venues have been put to bed, rock star Shouwang Zhang confidently steps to a microphone. | | Denver Post, Sun Aug 17 23:48:55 PDT 2008 | | | | First plastic pipe orchestra in Vietnam | | VietNamNet Bridge ? With 1,500 plastic pipes, Mai Dinh Toi created a stage of 7m wide, 5.5m deep, 6m high which is also an orchestra of over ten musical instruments. This unique work was recorded as a Vietnamese record on August 17. | | Vietnam Net, Mon Aug 18 03:25:54 PDT 2008 | | | | Musician gives students the tools they need | | By LAURA DEAL For The Herald STILLWATER ? Wolfman?s School of Music is not your average music school. Nor does it offer anything close to a run-of-the-mill instruction syllabus for its myriad of students ages 8-80. | | New Jersey Herald, Mon Aug 18 09:01:31 PDT 2008 | | | | Maroon 5 strikes chord with fan base | | Adam Levine is not one of those songwriters who cranks out a bushel of songs every time his band, Maroon 5, is due to write a new CD. In fact, songwriting is not one of the easier parts for Levine as the singer and a key writer in the band. | | Post-Tribune, Fri Aug 15 02:01:21 PDT 2008 | | | | Music Review: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway | | Scars On Broadway expands and grows in many ways from seeds planted by System. Written by Fantasma el ReyAs System Of A Down takes a break and we all await their comeback album we have three separate projects from the four men who propelled System to hold us over. System front man Serj Tankian has his solo career, bassist Shovo Odadjian has his side band, Achozen, and guitarist Daron Malakian ... | | Blogcritics.org, Sun Aug 17 20:20:34 PDT 2008 | | | | Songwriting is a dance for Sugarland | | Sugarland'srecently released Love on the Inside has topped both the country and pop album charts, and produced the hit "All I Want to Do." Those aren't the duo's first successes ? Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush have sold more than 5 million albums and had previous No. 1 hits "Settlin'" and "Want To," and No. 2s "Baby Girl" and "Something More." | | The Tennessean, Sun Aug 17 00:26:16 PDT 2008 | | | | Stop Drop And Roll!!! | | Green Day's 2008 CD release is, in a word, fantastic. But Stop Drop and Roll!!! can't be found under ?G? in the local record store. | | All About Jazz, Sat Aug 16 23:10:36 PDT 2008 | |
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