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Sep 01, 2010
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Drew Hinshaw
What’s the grittiest part about being the keyboardist in a broke and perhaps dysfunctional electropop trio? When the cash-strapped singer is looking
to pawn off some equipment—say, a Roland Juno-6 that’ll fetch a
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Sep 01, 2010
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Drew Hinshaw
Bill Leeb’s 24-year-deep discography with industrial techno project Front Line Assembly (and before that, Skinny Puppy) thrums, buzzsaws, and
shrieks like a near-exhaustive history of the synth in EBM—from noisy,
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Sep 01, 2010
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DAY GIG I recently landed a great job at one of Billings’ top architecture firms as a junior
interior designer.
HOW I GOT STARTED At age five, I sat down at my grandmother’s piano and played
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” by
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Sep 01, 2010
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Seventeen-year-old soul jazz keyboardist Cale Hawkins is an old pro
at a young age. The high school senior from Bemus Point, New York,
has played keyboards since age ten, records and markets his own indie
releases, and has
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Sep 01, 2010
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The first thing you need to know about Devo is that their creative collaboration was forged in the aftermath of the 1970 shooting of unarmed
students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University, where principals Mark
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Aug 18, 2010
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Josh Charles knows a thing or two about New Orleans-style stride, boogie, and gospel piano playing. He should--at 13 years of age, he approached the legendary Dr. John and asked to be his student. After hearing what the young
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Aug 01, 2010
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Even six hours before showtime, the areas surrounding the HP Pavilion begin to vibrate, looking more like Times Square approaching
New Year’s Eve than parking lots in a nondescript corner of San Jose, Calfornia. The reason? The
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Aug 01, 2010
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1899
Scott Joplin writes “Maple Leaf Rag,”
which becomes the first huge hit of the
ragtime era. In those days, “hit” meant
sheet music sales.
1917
At age 18, Duke Ellington forms his
first band in Washington, DC.
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Aug 01, 2010
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From your first listen to the slice-and-dice grooves and abundant synth earworms on No Más, one thing is clear: Nobody else sounds like Brooklyn
duo Javelin, and they sure as heck don’t sound like anybody else. By turns disco,
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Aug 01, 2010
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“Tunng has always tried to blend together sounds that really shouldn’t fit,” says vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Lindsay. Masters of combining
disparate styles as well as sounds, the adventurous British ensemble
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Aug 01, 2010
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DAY GIG After working for 30 years managing a large computer firm, followed by
three years as H.R. director for an environmental consulting firm, I’m now semi-retired,
working part time as a keyboard consultant at my local
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Aug 01, 2010
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“When I was 13 and home sick from school,” says this 15-year-old singer-songwriter
from Massachusetts, “I started writing a song, and instantly fell
in love with songwriting. Ever since then, it’s been my passion, and my
dream
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Jul 28, 2010
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We'd heard a lot of buzz from various friends in Nashville about Moon Taxi, a band that combines the joyful jamming of Phish and the multi-movement prog of early Yes and Genesis with a tight songwriting sensibility that non-musos
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Jul 15, 2010
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In these exclusive videos shot at tour rehearsals in Burbank, California, Ozzy Osbourne's keyboardist (and incidentally, son of Yes keyboard legend Rick Wakeman) Adam Wakeman shows senior correspondent Robbie Gennet how to play
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Jul 01, 2010
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On Splicing Bebop and Hip-Hop DNA
Flying Lotus is best known for the bumper beats that bring Adult Swim viewers back from commercials into the late-night world of Cartoon Network.
It’s a niche audience, and his freeform beats
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