Tag: rock
member name: gil asakawa
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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September 24, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
I grew up – like all baby boomers – during an era of radio when the Top 40 format was perfected during the first two decade of rock and roll, genres didn't divide up into separate formats. . . .
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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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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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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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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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September 24, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
U2 fans have waited years now for a DVD version of the "Under a Blood Red Sky" documentary, which was film in May, 1983 at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver. The VHS version is itself . . .
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January 13, 2007 10:54 PM EST --
Note: These are excerpted entries from "MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide," which was published in 2003, and is now out of print.
The Association
The Association is remembered today . . .
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November 06, 2006 09:17 PM EST --
Quick, think of the great music capitals of the U.S. -- New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Motown (that would be Detroit), Austin, Memphis if you believe Elvis is still alive and Seattle if you're a . . .
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January 13, 2007 05:47 PM EST --
The old cliché holds true in Texas, where there are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music. And a lot of it is good.
Not only has the state been a hotbed for great talent for decades, . . .
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October 30, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
Note: This long and self-indulgent piece is a journal of an annual road trip I used to make with my best friend Leland Rucker, to the South By Southwest Music and Media Conference (better known as SXSW, . . .
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