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Colbie Caillat CD Release Party - Droplets
Colbie Caillat CD Release Party - Dropletsmiketan0134 min - Jul 18, 2007Colbie Caillat and Jason Reeves doing Droplets at the Coco Release Party at the Canal Room on 7/17/07

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:09:36 PDT

Holiday Sale At Daptone Records Plus Bonus Videos At Stereogum
HOLIDAY SALE (DECEMBER ONLY) - All CDs (except for 100 Days&) on the Daptone Records Super Soul Store are only 9.99. Record Bags and T-shirts are on sale too! Hurry!!! What could be a more perfect holiday present for your special soul-something than Binky Griptites vinyl-only 453 World of Soul b/w Stoned Soul Christmas..??? Its a merry […]

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:24:33 EST
Radiohead prepares for physical release of CD
Reuters - LONDON (Billboard) - London-based indie label XL Recordings is living up to its name by playing an extra-large role in one of 2007’s biggest music industry stories after snagging the physical release of Radiohead’s “In Rainbows.” The left-field rock …

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:48:00 GMT

Two-thirds of IT managers polled said they do not block employees from taking music off the Web, even though they named it as the biggest threat.

In a poll of more than 1,000 computer managers by ICM, music came top of the list of perceived threats.

Oliver Sacks is a famed neurologist whose books of case studies combine the latest neuroscience with deep humanistic learning. He not only describes his patients with great precision, but also seeks to enter empathically into their experience and then, by means of limpid prose, to communicate it to the general reader. Ever since the publication of his book Awakenings, about patients with encephalitis lethargica who were recalled to life by the drug levodopa after decades of immobility, he has deservedly found a large and appreciative audience. He has had many imitators but no equals.

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Case studies are not favoured in contemporary medical literature as they once were. True, medical journals such as the famed New England Journal of Medicine carry case reports of rare diseases or unusual presentations; but after a brief summary of the patient’s symptoms, there follows a vast array of hi-tech laboratory and imaging data, ending with a triumphantly clever diagnosis (even if it is made only at post mortem). In these case reports, the patient seems almost to have only a walk-on part.

His job is to provide brilliant and erudite doctors with an opportunity to display their arcane erudition.

While Sacks is perfectly au fait with the latest research, and is no enemy of technological brio, he also belongs to an older and more leisurely medical tradition, namely that of very detailed history-taking and analysis of what the patient says about his own experiences of his condition. His case histories sometimes read like those of the 19th-century French psychiatrists, who are now largely forgotten, but who not only wrote most beautifully, elegantly and clearly, but were also masters of the art of finding significance in seeming trifles.

In his latest book, Sacks turns his attention to the neurology and pathology of music (it comes as no surprise to learn that he himself is something of a pianist, and plays Chopin on his father’s 1894 Bechstein grand). He provides us with large numbers of case histories drawn from his immense clinical experience. He does not really have an overall thesis to propound, except the rather weak one that a liking for music seems to be inborn in man and in no other species; instead, we learn of all the neurological vicissitudes to which the musical faculty is subject.

Musicophilia is more fragmented than Sacks’s other books, but it still contains much to instruct, fascinate and amuse.

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Franklin is the host of the new talent search show that promises to find the next top gospel singer in the country.

“We all have heard … that the real good singers are n the church, Franklin says. “Now, this is a chance to showcase that and show that it is a reality. “Sunday Best” is our opportunity to celebrate our own.”

He points out that “the majority of African-American talent originates in the church. Your Whitneys, your Mariahs, your Mary Js, they all started in church choirs.”

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Franklin revolutionized gospel with his hip, contemporary sound when he arrived on the scene in 1993 with his smash The Reason Why We Sing. He remains on a passionate mission to spread “good news” music–the Bible set to music–to as many people as possible.

“It’s all about spreading love through the words of the Lord.”

Inside Bay Area - That new Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD … try next year
That new Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD … try next year Article Last Updated:?12/11/2007 07:35:10 AM PST TRANS SIBERIAN Orchestra founder Paul O’Neill says he’s “damned and determined” to have the group’s new album “The Night Castle ” finished and released in 2008.

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST
Songs the Swahili Sing
Today well hear a few songs from Original Musics CD re-issue of their 1983 release, Songs The Swahili Sing. Initially I wasnt so into it, but this morning I was really taken by the music.. particularly the music by Yaseen Mohamed and Juma. The compilation explores the world of Swahili taarabu music, particularly its difference from Arab […]

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:58:01 EST

daniel lanois goes it alone - release albums in .WAV format
Daniel Lanois (an amazing producer -Bob Dylan, U2, Willie Nelson, etc. - and a very talented musician in his own right) is releasing a new album this Saturday initially as a download in both MP3 and WAV files, with CDrelease coming some time in the future. His previous 5 albums (Shine being one of my all time favourite albums) are already available for purchase those in MP3 or Wav. The MP3s… artists are saying we dont need labels (think Radioheads release of In Rainbows). See http

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:30:52 GMT

Tori Amos CD release
Tori Amos CD releasetvguide2 min - Nov 6, 2007Listen to Tori Amos talk about her new album AMERICAN DOLL POSSE and see clips from her new video for ALMOST ROSEY on The 411.

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:19:36 PST
Amoeba Records Puts On Sale The Popular Bombshell Alliance Calendar & CD
The Popular Bombshell alliance calendar & cd on sale and it’s unique 1940’s style pin-up girl calendar and 12-song CD featuring LA’s most talented singer and songwriters (I-Newswire) - Hollywood CA December 10 2007 - The Amoeba Records store on Hollywood Blvd. has put the popular Bombshell alliance calendar & cd on sale.

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

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