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Drowning with the Underwater Peoples
It took the soaring guitar of Alex Bleeker and the Freaks and their self-titled album to give me the balls (or the naiveté) to try to describe the kind of music that this label puts out.
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Musicians take over Steynberg Gallery
The Steynberg Gallery knows how to set an intimate mood: a single silhouette in front of a sequined red backdrop, a dusting of dim lighting and a window looking out to an early evening sky.
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The Magnetic Fields’ latest album leaves us awaiting the next
The Magnetic Fields have released a companion piece to their 2008 album, “Distortion.” The new offering, “Realism,” was intended to be the technical obverse to “Distortion’s” reverse.
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SLO Mission plays host to various musical groups
Cal Poly’s Music Ensembles will give a benefit chamber concert at Old Mission church Feb. 6 at 8 p.m.
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Criticnue rounds out Sounds of SLO series
If you’re anywhere near Backstage Pizza tomorrow at 11 a.m., you’ll hear something different, something unique, something you recognize, but haven’t heard in a long time.
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Album embraces a “dear diary” lyric style
For some artists, the diary format and the immediacy of the day can provide enlightenment and beauty in ways that artistic refining could never do.
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Murphy’s rounds out album of the decade series with nostalgia, melodramatic lyrics
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. The past was not how we remember it and we simply will never relive whatever warm-and-fuzzies we try to remember.
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Cal Poly music ensembles team up for Bandfest
On Saturday at 8 p.m., the two Cal Poly wind bands will be joined by the Pride of the Pacific Marching Band to perform their annual Bandfest.
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Wilco’s 2002 album may be album of the year
“Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” pulled in a lion’s share of the notable album of the year stampings from press outlets, ranging the spectrum from independent-minded Webzines to, well, “Entertainment Weekly.”
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Drum solos taken extreme
This album is so sincere that by the end of the article I will have exhausted my thesaurus’ synonyms and antonyms of the word “earnest.”