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St. Petersburg Times - A surf party at Beach Theatre starts with a Hodaddys CD release party at 10 p.m. Friday will be followed by a midnight screening of the cult surf classic The Endless Summer . The Beach Theatre is at 315 Corey Ave., St. Pete Beach. $8. (727) 360-6697 …

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:43:00 GMT
Wow! Thanks You
I highly recommend this CD to anyone complaining that there’s nothing good anymore. … By A Flock of Seagulls Release date: 25 October, 1990…

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:55:00 EDT

Songstress Lori Jenaire Reaches \’Fruition\’ With CD Release - Top40-Charts.com
Songstress Lori Jenaire Reaches \’Fruition\’ With CD ReleaseTop40-Charts.com, NY - 7 hours ago(Top40 Charts/ NBE Records) - When songbird Lori Jenaire graced the musical landscape a few years ago with her debut CD offering, “Within Reach,” music …

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:41:59 GMT
Oakland Tribune - Looking For Real ’supernova’ In Batch Of New Cd Releases
August 8, 2006 — TAKING a break from compiling this week’s column on new music, I turned on the TV and had the misfortune of catching a monstrosity called “Rock Star:…

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Yahoos make Britney most-searched term

Bereft of any new music to promote, Britney Spears was nevertheless the hottest thing on the Internet this year, judging from Yahoo!’s annual list of popular search terms. Of course, a surge in online voyeurs seeking recently posted pictures of Britney sans panties didn’t hurt. But a Yahoo! spokeswoman said “Britney” had the title of No. 1 search term sewed up even before the risque photos surfaced.

Others in the top 10: Shakira, Jessica Simpson, Beyonce Knowles, Chris Brown, Pamela Anderson and Lindsay Lohan.

FINDING HIS INNER DRUMMER BOY, PA RUM PA PUM PUM

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All 42 songs of Sufjan Stevens’ new five-disc “Songs for Christmas” are available on iTunes and eMusic, including the singer- songwriter’s renditions of a number of traditional Christmas carols, as well as some new ones of his own creation. “Star of Wonder” is one of the latter worthy of a download.

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CLUE DOES IT ‘LIKE THIS’

DJ Clue will drop his first official album in nearly six years, “The Professional, Part 3,” Dec. 19 via Def Jam. First single “Like This” was co-written and produced by Kanye West and features him alongside recent Def Jam signing Fabolous. Other guests include Snoop Dogg, Young Jeezy, Jadakiss, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Jagged Edge, Beanie Sigel and Fat Joe.

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Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:03:09 GMT
Lotus SmartSuite Release 3 w/Lotus 123 Release 5

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Platina voor Trijntje Oosterhuis
HILVERSUM - De cd Who?ll Speak For Love van Trijntje Oosterhuis is binnen twee weken nadat hij is uitgebracht platina geworden. Dat heeft het jazzlabel Blue Note donderdag laten weten.   Op de plaat werkte Oosterhuis voor de tweede keer samen met de beroemde Amerikaanse liedjesschrijver Burt Bacharach. De eerste cd, The Look Of Love uit 2006, was meteen bij de release al platina.  Bron: Blue Note

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:09:25 -0800

cover photo by Jeff Davis/The Capital-Journal

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“Thomas and the Magic Railroad” brings Thomas the Tank Engine and all the other residents of the Island of Sodor to the big screen. Read about the film and its creator.

Robbie Williams ( left), that unholy combination of Arthur Askey and Tom Jones, enjoys the eighth No 1 album of his solo career (equalling David Bowie’s tally) with the lamentably titled Rudebox; those cartoon goths of the moment My Chemical Romance are at No 2 with The Black Parade (gosh!); Meat Loaf finds entirely new levels of bluster (not as enjoyable as it sounds) at No 3; and Rod’s at No 4, leading the end-of-pier singalong of “rock classics”, with his fifth US No 1 album.

The Third Concerto opened to a finely structured orchestral tutti - a little clipped perhaps, but never overstated. Here Schiff passed on the frills and toughened his act for some fairly gritty dialogue, although the cadenza again witnessed wildly quivering jowls and a certain degree of rhetorical overkill. The Largo inspired numerous pretty observations but although the Rondo was nicely inflected, the actual coda could have been even crisper, more witty. However, by now I was beginning to tire at what seemed more a superficial striving for the effect than inward conviction; I longed for something simpler, stronger, more direct and less reliant on the powder and paint of pianistic cosmetics. Schiff held lovingly to the first chord of the Fourth Concerto, a telling augury of what lay in store - a sight-seers survey, guiding us every note of the way with jabbing left-hand emphases, numerous instances of exquisite tonal sculpture but too much interpretative waffle. Even Sanderling’s gruff opening to the Andante con motto - swift, scalding and unceremonious though it was - seemed something of a failed admonition: Schiff’s entrance was minutely, maddeningly delayed, a coquettish ploy going proxy for humbling prayer. The finale was more elegant than exuberant but very much “of a piece” with what we’d heard all evening: tasteful playing to the gallery (Schst and Fifth Piano Concertos, RFH (0171-928 8800) on 11 Oct

Solution’s CD release party (The Argus Leader)
There was probably a lot less dancing going on in the Budweiser Bohemian crowd while local jam-funk band Solution was off playing for the troops in the Middle East. But the band is back, and, just in time for Christmas, it has a new CD for its fans. To celebrate the new recording, the band is throwing a CD-release party Friday night at 9 in Oaks Hotel Convention Center. Lunar Funk Theory opens. …

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:59:00 GMT
MORE LIVE MUSIC TOP CLUB PICKS
Detroit Free Press - Apartment 4, CD-release party with Popsicle Shiv, Action Lab and Tim Pak, 10 p.m. Sat. 624 Brush St., Detroit. 800-700-2437. BLUES & R&B Blue Goose Inn: Motor City Josh & the Big Three, 9 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Curtis Sumter Project, 9 p.m. Sun. Phil Devoid, 9 …

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:57:00 GMT

Passion is effectively a ” musical” without songs. Passion feels through-composed, though much of it is not sung or underscored. Passion is stream of consciousness, dream-like in its narrative flow. Passion is at once the most febrile and effulgently lyrical of Stephen Sondheim. All of which might just explain why it appears to have divided even the fully paid-up members of his appreciation society.

Of course, this excellent cast album offers only selective bites of James Lapine’s eloquent book as it relates to Sondheim’s music and lyrics. But even so, try pinpointing where the one ends and the other begins.

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Perhaps the most notable aspect of this show is the degree to which it has refined the relationship between that which is spoken and that which is sung. Passion is songful. Like the emotions it chronicles, this “rhapsody” on the power of unconditional