Tag: music
member name: gil asakawa
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October 05, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
Note: This article, in edited form, will be included in an upcoming book edited by G. Brown, about the history of Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
I can point to several reasons for why I became . . .
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October 24, 2006 11:59 AM EDT --
It was inevitable. Rock and roll grew up in the 1970s, and one of the signs of this maturation was the emergence of "progressive rock."
Nerdy, over-serious musicians who thought themselves . . .
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September 26, 2006 07:42 PM EDT --
Think "ukulele" and you'll invariably get a quaintly exotic image in your head (and the wrong pronunciation – it's "oo-koo-leh-leh," not "you-koo-leh-leh"): . . .
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November 26, 2006 10:45 PM EST --
It took the urging of Cirque du Soleil, the acrobatic dance performance group, to bring the music of the Beatles – the most iconic of 1960s baby boomer musical catalogs -- into the 21st century. . . .
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October 27, 2006 01:40 AM EDT --
Happy 5th birthday to the iPod.
I was kind of slow to get on the bandwagon, mostly because it was (and still is, although not as much) so damned expensive to join the iPod club.
But like a lot of people, . . .
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December 26, 2006 08:52 PM EST --
James Brown died on Christmas day, a typically dramatic move for the 73-year-old, self-described “Godfather of Soul,” who was known for dramatic endings in concert.
The news of his death caught . . .
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September 27, 2006 09:04 AM EDT --
The Japanese are crazy about anything Western, especially anything American, right? It's true in many ways and on many levels, but one of my passions as a pop-culture critic has been to note how Americans . . .
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January 13, 2007 10:43 PM EST --
Note: this review of Emmylou Harris' "Portraits" boxed set was published in No Depression magazine in 1997.
Poor Emmylou Harris. Not that she cares, probably, but a generation of music . . .
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December 29, 2006 01:05 AM EST --
I don't have a lot of memories of New Year celebrations in Japan.
New year's ozoni soup.
I was only 8 when we moved to the States, so I was never allowed to - or able to - stay up until . . .
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January 29, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
Although a small label had unsuccessfully released some singles in 1963, most American rock and roll fans were introduced to a new band from England via Capitol Records’ 1964 album, "Meet the . . .
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June 21, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Interesting exercise in nostalgia with irony:
KCUV-FM in Denver is celebrating the official kickoff of summer by recreating the sound of Denver's FM radio from 1967, complete with news items, radio . . .
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February 04, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
I dunno about you, but I find it fascinating that Prince played the Super Bowl halftime show tonight. It’s good to see him again, and damn, he looks good and he’s hot, ripping up the guitar . . .
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April 09, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
My friend Leland and I have been busking on Boulder, Colorado's pedestrian Pearl Street Mall, since 1984. We cover a mix of folk, rock, singer-songwriter stuff, and a lot of unexpected things, including . . .
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September 26, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
Pitchfork has published a rambling list of the "200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s," beginning with the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" at 200 and the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" . . .
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November 19, 2006 02:45 PM EST --
It's a somewhat goulish idea: take a recording of a late, great artist, and shore it up with new backing tracks. It's been done before, with Natalie Cole's "duet" with her father, . . .
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January 03, 2007 09:24 PM EST --
... Well, maybe not completely different, but music that you most likely haven't heard.
It's been a long time since pop music has been a unifying force for an entire generation (or two, or three). . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
One of my ongoing passions is pondering the passing of pop culture references. Baby boomers have lived through decades of new hip phrases -- for instance, the hip word for "good" has evolved . . .
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November 19, 2006 02:41 PM EST --
Jazz as a genre can span the range from big-band swing, melodic pop standards and mainstream funk-rock , to cool, bop, and way the hell out there.
Branford Marsalis is one musician who not only understands, . . .
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February 02, 2008 02:42 AM EST --
When Erin and I traveled to Hawai'i last September, we spent several days at the home of my cousin Laura McHugh and her husband John, in Mililani, northwest of Honolulu. I didn't write about it . . .
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November 19, 2006 02:50 PM EST --
The title of Amos Lee's second album, "Supply and Demand," might be a jab at the commercial realities of the music biz... or it might be an embrace of them. The Philly-born singer-songwriter . . .
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