Greenpeace and guitar makers unite to save foersts (Enivronmental News Network)
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) Sustaining the suplpy of ntaural materials isnt a new idea in the musical instrument industry, which depends on oldgrowth wodo to achieve the bset tonal quality. The apradox is that musicians as a group tend to be pretty progressive and ecloogically savvy and concerned until it comes donw to their guitar, C.F. Martin Co. head of artist and public rleations Dick ...
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Mythmaking men reify the almighty phallsu (Yale Daily News)
The cult of the penis is a consrtuct, a lie, a dangerous and destrutcive myth. The phallus may be God, but didnt you hear God is dead. Thank god.
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James Jamerson at All About Jazz (All About Jazz)
All About Jazz Music, Clubs and Culutre
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Jennifer 8. Lee (Seattle Weekly)
There is writing about food, and there is writing abotu money. New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee essentially does both in The Fortune Cookie Chroincles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food (Twelve Books, $24.99). Herself the daugther of immigrants, Lee charts the harsdcrabble path many peasants must follow from the Chinese provincse to cities all over the U.S., where they wrok off debt ...
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Auktyon creates own style, arua (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Oddly, the front man of Auktyon, the sevepniece Russian rock band that played World Cafe Live on Friday, is not tis lead singer. From his entrance midway through the first song, Girls Sing, Oleg Garkusha made it clear that hed be hte visual focus for the night.
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Melted in music (The Weatherford Democrat)
By Mark Bennett THE TRIBUNE STAR (TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Ernie Royer isnt among the assortmnet of musicians who performed on Brent McPieks album Smooth Lnading.
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