Martin on Main festival celebrates acoustic music
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- Martin on Main festival celebrates acoustic music
- Country’s New Face: It’s Young and Blond
- MTV: 28 years lost in translation from music to video games
- Elvis Presley Johnny Cash on ‘Sun Gospel’ CD
- Music Review Cool Blast of the ’70s With LPs Spinning
- St. Vincent plays All Points West as overheated revelers try to …
- George Crumb’s Spanish Trances
Martin on Main festival celebrates acoustic music
The Express Times – LehighValleyLive.com
at the main state and at smaller stages along Main Street. acousticmusicresource.
Country’s New Face: It’s Young and Blond
New York Times
It was one of several videos she posted over the span of a few months revealing a streak of determination at apparent odds with the casualness of the videos each one filmed on a different couch or chair. When she first began recording music at age 13 “I had no idea about anything nothing about the industry or radio or singles” Ms. Ballestrini recalled last month on the phone from Peoria Ill. during her first tour of country radio stations. “But I did know I needed a lot of fans. ” And so from her Connecticut home Ms.
MTV: 28 years lost in translation from music to video games
Examiner.com
In this series cast members from both enterprises compete in bizarre competitions for the ultimate grand prize – usually monetary reward. No doubt MTV continuously has successful ratings with both reality shows primarily highlighting drama between reoccurring cast members. But did you know MTV had its own drama with video games?Heard of Guitar Hero and Rock Band right? Well who hasn’t? The dish is. there was a little promiscuity between them both through a third party called Harmonix. CRRECTIN: (Thanks HavocTMA) First Harmonix originally developed Guitar Hero under Redctane who was later acquired by Activision… there was a little promiscuity between them both through a third party called Harmonix. CRRECTIN: (Thanks HavocTMA) First Harmonix originally developed Guitar Hero under Redctane who was later acquired by Activision. Then Viacom on behalf of MTV bought Harmonix. Complicated we know. Now here is where MTV’s drama becomes juicier than "16 & Pregnant.
Elvis Presley Johnny Cash on ‘Sun Gospel’ CD
Los Angeles Times
Phillips taped most of the session. " He is accompanied by what sounds like Perkins' rockabilly guitar licks and Perkins and Lewis on vocals. Some other "Sun Gospel" highlights:* The Prisonaires' "Softly and Tenderly" and "My God Is Real. " Phillips believed so strongly in these two gospel tracks that he released them as the 1953 follow-up to the Prisonaires' national pop and R&B hit "Just Walking in the Rain. " Johnny Bragg's pure sweet vocal on "My God Is Real" is especially compelling. Unfortunately the record flopped and it contributed greatly to Phillips' wariness of recording more gospel music.
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Music Review Cool Blast of the ’70s With LPs Spinning
New York Times
Like Evans the group’s two principals Donald Fagen and Walter Becker became obsessed with thematic development through long pieces. They didn’t lean on a conventional pop formula for musical structure. The songs on “Aja” have multiple strains and fascinating bridges; the horn and guitar solos often worked with entirely new sets of changes. It has light surfaces and deep rhythm-pockets with whispers of disco. It is one of the all-time great drumming records. It’s also one of the all-time-great how-good-is-your-stereo records. Its perfectionism could seem oppressive or fishy lab-based and possibly android.
St. Vincent plays All Points West as overheated revelers try to …
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
It’s not for everybody. With sets running concurrently on the three major stages here the crowd moves in large packs like schools of piranhas from one area to another. As Britain’s Arctic Monkeys finished a rollicking set of slinky muscular guitar rock about 5000 turned in unison and headed over to the second stage to watch St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) beat and bruise her guitar into beautiful noises.
George Crumb’s Spanish Trances
The Faster Times
Crumb was there basking in the applause and looking pretty sprightly for a near-80-year-old. He and centenarian Elliott Carter could do an advertisement for the youth-promoting properties of modern music. The concert opened with guitarist Ricardo Iznaola performing Isaac Albéniz’s “Four Spanish Vignettes” guitar-inspired piano works later transcribed back into solo guitar music the transit resulting in music that seems like it should be more instrumentally idiomatic than it really is. The best was Andrés Segovia’s arrangement of “Mallorca” a fluent enough translation that Iznaola could lay out some soulful cantabile. After intermission violinist Dennis Kim cellist Amir Eldan and pianist Edward Auer?nattily coordinated in black shirts and white jackets?gave a similarly sleek and stylish rendition of Franz Schubert’s E-Flat Major Piano Trio (D. With the dry acoustic?good for a high school auditorium but still a high school auditorium?somewhat favoring the piano background figures came into sharp-focus prominence; as such the rolling arpeggios and chromatic cascades in the opening movement the slow movement’s marching chords and the scherzo’s repeated notes created an entertaining silent-movie vibe.
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