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Prog Rock Legends Gentle Giant To Digitally Release Seven Classic Albums November 3

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Posted by Technorati Search for: classic soul music on October 22, 2009 – 12:38 am
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On November 3rd 2009 Gentle Giant will be digitally releasing seven of their best-known albums and tracks in digital form for the very first time via their own Alucard label through EMI Music's Label Services unit. This progressive rock band, which was active from 1970 through 1980, was made up of multi-instrumentalists, and lived to expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular." The group's dozen albums combine a range of musical styles-jazz, pop, c

14 Neglected Beatles’ Gems

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Posted by Technorati Search for: classic soul music on September 17, 2009 – 9:00 pm
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AS The Beatles go virtual reality and we get the chance to join the band, Ed Barrett looks 14-track album’s worth of neglected Beatles gems: Back in the early 1960s, popular music (or “the pops ” as it was known) was a singles game. Albums (or “ LPs ” as they were known) were created by the simple expedient of slapping on a couple of already released hits and padding out the rest with assorted rubbish, often composed by managers and producers in order to earn “song-writing” royalties. Kei

Surfers Roots Tour Presented by Toes on the Nose

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Posted by Technorati Search for: classic soul music on September 14, 2009 – 2:48 pm
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Newport Beach, CA – (September 8, 2009) – World famous reggae artist Sashamon is helping Toes on the Nose celebrate this year’s Surf Roots Tour 2009 with a live performance to benefit the Laguna Beach Lifeguards Association at the Royal Hawaiian, 331 N. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, Monday, September 21 at 6 p.m. Advance tickets are on sale now at Toes on the Nose 276 S. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach.Surf Roots Tour 2009 presented by Toes on the Nose, the popular music festival featuring surf-vibe

Revisiting :: Prince, Sign ‘O’ the Times

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Posted by Technorati Search for: classic soul music on August 10, 2009 – 3:07 am
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Published on Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 2:07 am By 1987, Prince had created a body of work enviable by any musician. Starting with his third album, 1980’s Dirty Mind, he had slowly worked his way through almost every viable popular music genre of the era. He had even starred in two movies by this point, the latter of which, Under the Cherry Moon, was paired with a soundtrack in the form of his genre-splicing and hopping 1986 album Parade. He also had been working with a band,

Thoughts on playing popular music

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Posted by Technorati Search for: classic soul music on July 4, 2009 – 8:27 pm
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I'm a DJ. Now to some, that really means something. It promises untold cool. People look at DJs and imagine a glamorous world filled with hip-cats, all discussing cool, obscure records. They hang in hip bars that no-one else knows about and get free coke in the back room. Mostly, that isn't the case at all. Far from it. Fact is, DJing puts you one rung below the bar staff in a venue, but with far more agonies. Bar staff, ever popular because they can give you exactly what you want... namely '