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Auctioneer Bill Ekleberry • Mass # 2352 Wednesday, September 1, 6 PM Spencer Country Inn Route 9 / 500 Main St ... Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:07PMA weekly newspaper serving the antiques and arts industry, collectors, and institutions. New information each week on antiques shows and auctions around the country and antiques dealer listings.
ASUS Eee PC 1215N review Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:13AMAbout nine months ago ASUS released its 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201N to much fanfare. It was the first "netbook" to pack NVIDIA's Ion platform and a desktop-class Atom processor. Translation: it absolutely wrecked regular netbooks (and even other Ion netbooks ) on the graphics and performance battlefield. Indeed, the 1201N blurred the lines between netbook and regular laptop, but we ultimately knocked ...
Big Toe wins Southeast Asia hip-hop championship Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:57AMVietnam hip-hop in ‘Saigon Electric!’ VietNamNet Bridge – ‘Saigon Yo’, directed by Vietnamese American director Stephane Gauge, is one of the first movies about hip-hop in Vietnam.
Standing tall Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:51PMThe indie band Sandhaus wants to go where no Israeli band has gone before. But for now, the chief beneficiaries are the concertgoers.
The top 10 mind-bending movies Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:15AMIn honor of Christopher Nolan's brain-boggling epic Inception, here's a list of the best mind-bending cinematic experiences.
The top 10 mind-bending movies Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:12AMClick through to check local movie listings and buy tickets online! More>> Movies are meant to entertain. You pay $12 for the opportunity to tune out the real world and escape your droll existence with 24 frames of colorful adventure per second.
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bill Evans in Oslo Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 5:13AMBill Evans Trio: The Oslo Concerts (2006) presents two Bill Evans dates, one filmed at the Oslo Munch Museum in 1966 and the other at the Molde Jazz Festival in 1980. Evans is one of the least dynamic of performers, so filming him playing is almost a waste of film. But the music is a different matter...
Album: Philip Selway, Familial (Bella Union) Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:23PMDrummer goes solo: always a situation fraught with danger, but thankfully Radiohead's Philip Selway leans more towards the Robert Wyatt end of the spectrum on this debut collection of 10 songs prompted by the death of his mother.
Album: Brodsky Quarter, Rhythm & Texture (Orchid Classics) Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:23PMIt's hard to understand the thematic connection linking the five composers featured here, but the Brodsky Quartet treats each according to their requirements: gently sentimental when dealing with Gershwin's posthumous "Lullaby", and fastidiously detailed when interpreting Mario Lavista's "Reflejos De La Noche", whose itchy tremors, sweeping glassandi and suspended motifs vividly evoke the insect ...
Album: Rolando Villazon, ¡México! (Deutsche Grammophon) Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:20PMThanks to the coincidence of two Mexican anniversaries – the Centennial of the Revolution, and the Bicentennial of the Independence Movement – there are several Mexican-themed collections on release, with conductor Alondra De La Parra's recent Mi Alma Mexicana (My Mexican Soul) followed here by Rolando Villazón's ¡México!, popular songs from his native country.
Album Charts: Eminem Won’t Budge From No. 1 With ‘Recovery’ Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:04PMEminem is on a roll, and no one can seem to knock him outta the top spot of the Billboard 200 albums chart, as he sit atop the list for yet another week with his latest album, Recovery . Despite six debut, none were album to push Recovery out of no. 1. Instead, it sold another 116,000 to put the set at the top slot for its seventh non-consecutive week...
Swell Season Offer Grief Counseling to Concertgoers Who Witnessed Suicide Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 9:26AMFiled under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell After the tragic suicide of Michael Pickels at a Swell Season concert last week, the band is offering free grief counseling sessions to any fans who were at the show. The group and its crew met with counselors after the events, which they talked about in an official statement on their website . "While we likely will never gain the answers we ...
Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: Photo Scanning and a bit beyond Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 9:23AMOnce upon a time, people looked at photographs. The result, alas, is that there are houses around the world with closets dedicated to storing all...
US television channel praises Vietnamese pop star Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:12AMVietNamNet Bridge – Singer My Tam is named in the list of 11 “Global Pop Sensations You’ve Never Heard Of" on ABC News. This is the news site for ABC, one of the three largest television channels in the US.
Local music: Megan Palmer Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 12:07AMJust when you thought you had Megan Palmer pegged, she unveils “Old 33,” a genre-hopping journey that shows Ohio’s favorite fiddler has more than mere Americana up her sleeve. Palmer and her Hopefuls will celebrate this triumph with a happy hour show Friday at Rumba.
[Music] Shock pop band Tanya Markova shot "Disney" music video for three days - Posted on: 2010-08-25 19:30:51 Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:52PMWhile most music videos take only one day to shoot, "Disney" was longer because of its stop-motion concept.
Eminem Rolls A Seven On Billboard 200 Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:06PMEminem's "Recovery" joins a select group of sets to lead the Billboard 200 for seven or more weeks since the chart adopted SoundScan data in 1991.
Eaton Auction Service Saturday August 21, 2010 10 a.m. DURGIN HILL ROAD, VERSHIRE, VT Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 11:17PMOn-Site Country Estate Auction Antique Furniture & Accessories Farm Equipment, Tools Join us for a true country auction at this hillside farm as we sell the house, shed & barn contents of the Wakefield Family Estate. This is a partial listing – many trunks, drawers & boxes are yet to be sorted.
Man dies at Swell Season gig Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 1:29PMSwell Season, the Oscar-winning Irish act fronted by Glen Hansard, have said they are "shocked and saddened" by the news that a man died during one of their concerts in California earlier this week.
Game Dev's New Album Invites Remixing and Chaotic Fiction-Making Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 10:49AMWeb game developer and musician Gabriel Walsh released his album, The Earthly Frames, Volume 1 in a unique fashion, supplementing his musical content with audio samples for remixing and a series of unique “fragment” files on fifty USB drives for the album's release. While the fragment files may be enjoyed in isolation, assembling the disparate fragments spins a narrative that is partially ...
Album: Lang Lang, Live In Vienna (Sony Classical) Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 6:11AMLang Lang's debut release for Sony captures him in performance at Vienna's Musikverein Concert Hall, playing a varied programme which on one disc pairs Beethoven's dramatic Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, the "Appassionata", with the more youthful and innocent Piano Sonata No 3 in C minor, while the second disc traverses diverse territory from Albéniz's impressionistic sketches of Spain in Book 1 ...
Weekend concert picks: The Mohawk Lodge & Eamon Mcgrath, Stompin' Tom, The Swell Season... and Buble? Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 10:25PMAwesome Sound's latest round of live music selections
Album: John Cage, Fontana Mix (él) Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 6:29PMThis compilation of various John Cage pieces from the mid-20th century demonstrates just how restrictive broadcast experimentation has become: who now would countenance The City Wears A Slouch Hat, a Kenneth Patchen surreal radio play with accompanying musique concrète score by Cage, broadcast in the US in in 1942?
No Depression Festival is a musical education in Americana Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 6:03PMThe second annual No Depression Festival — featuring The Swell Season, Lucinda Williams, the Cave Singers, Sera Cahoone, Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet and the Maldives — hits Marymoor Park on Saturday.
Eminem Rebounds to No. 1 on Hot 200, Going Double Platinums Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 1:33AMBeside scoring 2.1 million mark, 'Recovery' so far has also become the second-best seller behind Lady Antebellum 's 'Need You Now'.
Advanced Blitting: Bitmap Scroller for Web, Desktop and Mobile Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 9:56AMBackground: The Johnny Cash Project A few months ago I had the privilege of working on The Johnny Cash Project website at RadicalMedia. It was the last project I did there before going to Roundarch, and probably one of...
Album: Rhythms del Mundo, Revival (Transmission) Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 6:23PMThis latest charity compilation of made-over pop hits in an Afro-Cuban style has some routine examples of unimaginative salsa-fication (Wyclef Jean's "Stayin' Alive"), but mercifully they're outnumbered by the more apt transformations of things like Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc", Groove Armada's timbale-rattling "Superstylin'", and Dizzee Rascal's "Holiday", its new Caribbean setting perfectly in ...
Album: Iestyn Davies/Ensemble Guadagni, Handel: Nine German Arias (Wigmore Hall) Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 6:23PMThis year's winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Artist Award, Iestyn Davies here applies his strong, precise countertenor to a mixed programme of works by several composers, centred around Handel's Nine German Arias, whose three-line settings he has arranged for the Ensemble Guadagni's period textures of harpsichord, theorbo, organ, violin and viola da gamba.
Live Review: Lady Gaga at Staples Center Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 11:32AMWhen Lady Gaga breathes, it's an event, despite the many fantastical outfits, elaborate sets and dreamlike films featured in the show.
TV/FILM: Lennon and McCartney Interview, the Tonight Show 5/14/1968 Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 5:05PMThe first few seasons of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show no longer exist in the NBC vaults. Unfortunately, many videotapes were 'reused' by NBC in the fifties and sixties, including Carson's earliest seasons. Therefore this 1968 Lennon/McCartney appearance is truely a lost interview. What does still exist is due only to TV-viewing Beatle fans trying to capture the moment, back before the days of ...
Hayden Thorpe, Wild Beasts Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 7:42AMLove them or hate them, Wild Beasts is a band worth knowing about. Formed as Fauve in Kendal, England, near the birthplace of fellow British indie-rock band British Sea Power, the teenage band quickly realized the serious lack of a healthy music scene around them and relocated to Leeds in 2005. In 2007 they were signed to Domino Records, and since then they have been busy reconciling the current ...
Get Pink Nasty On September 30th Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 7:09AMPink Nasty announces the release of her third, self-titled album
Sasha Frere-Jones: The Scissor Sisters’ glam pop, at Terminal 5. Sunday, August 8, 2010 @ 11:11PMLike Elton John before it, the American band Scissor Sisters has worked an area of pop defined by the goalposts of camp and melody. Where John, though, had to establish his high-minded folkie bona fides before becoming a bespangled star, Scissor Sisters started right in at the fringe of . . .
Ben Greenman: John Mellencamp’s “No Better Than This.” Sunday, August 8, 2010 @ 11:08PMparagraph class="noindent"John Mellencamp’s new album, “No Better Than This,” is his twenty-first studio record, but it’s also a début of sorts. It’s his first album for Rounder Records, the independent roots label, and it is, on the . . .
Album: Monarchy, Monarchy (Mercury) Sunday, August 8, 2010 @ 8:39AMWith that monolithic name and a press release packed with words like "widescreen", Monarchy have you braced for a yawn-a-thon.
Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:51PMAustin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars
Live show for jazz – piano Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 9:27AMVietNamNet Bridge – The first live show of Nguyen Tuan Nam, the youngest lecturer at the Vietnam National Music Institute will take place at the Hanoi Opera House on August 22, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Tech review: Sony vidcam's slick slo-mo feature is hamstrung by time limit Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 8:18AMProfessional-level video equipment is steadily filtering down to consumer-level prices, and one of the coolest technologies I've seen in a while is the slo-mo "smooth slow record" feature of the new Sony HDR-CX550 high-def camcorder.
Music Review: Kathryn Williams - The Quickening Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 8:13AMA summer's day and The Quickening by Kathryn Williams has left me chilled to the point of drifting into a satisfyingly deep, and refreshingly relaxed state. However mellow this state of mind may be, it left me reflecting on the truth of the first line of the track: “Just A Feeling.” More ...
The Knowledge: Trend o'clock Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:47AMIt's Friday – and our experts are here to tell you how to get the most out of your weekend. Jayne Dawson talks to them (06/08/2010 11:38:09)
In Violent Oakland, a Rap Producer Is Changing His Tune Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 1:13AMJohn Davis is one of the most popular rap producers in Oakland, even though he is no longer allowed to live there under the conditions of his parole.
Sony vidcam's slick slo-mo feature is hamstrung by time limit Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 10:13PMProfessional-level video equipment is steadily filtering down to consumer-level prices, and one of the coolest technologies I've seen in a while is the slo-mo "smooth slow record" feature of the new Sony HDR-CX550 high-def camcorder.
Album: Music from the Penguin Cafe, Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Editions Penguin Cafe) Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 6:21PMThere's always been something quintessentially English about the Penguin Café Orchestra, despite the incorporation of such "foreign" elements as cuatro guitar, ukulele and harmonium into their folksy palm-court orchestra textures, and the hints of minimalist and avant-garde experimentation which colour their pastoral studies.
A swell show for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 5:30PMIrishman Glen Hansard , lead singer and songwriter of the famed Irish rock group the Frames, and his musical partner Marketa Irglova , better known together as the Swell Season , took to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island last Sunday.
Fol Chen and Baths at Mercury Lounge Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 1:23PMLast night, Mercury Lounge played host to early and somewhat rushed sets from Los Angeles' Fol Chen and Baths, both on the heels of two fantastic album releases, Part II: The New December and Cerulean, respectively.
Billboard Hot 100 Celebrates Anniversary Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 10:20AMFifty-two years ago today, Billboard launched the Hot 100 songs chart. From Ricky Nelson to Eminem, enjoy a look back at notable achievements.
Gig Guide - August 5 Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 9:52AMGig of the week undoubtedly has to be RAMS POCKET RADIO at Stiff Kitten, August 15 at 8pm
In Evanston, Swell Season puts together a swell session Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 9:06AMInside an Evanston recording studio, the Swell Season turns discord into harmony for John Martyn tribute Glen Hansard wasn't happy, but at least he was polite about it.
That's How Country Boys (And Girls) Roll Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 12:36PMFrom a remake of a hidden pop gem to an Oscar-winning actress (married to a rock star), action abounds on Billboard's Country Songs chart.
Arcade Fire's Win Butler Talks Live Webcast, Spike Jonze Short Film Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 8:26AMPhoto by Dave MacIntyre It's a big week in Arcade Fire land. The band released their third straight Best New Music LP, The Suburbs , and they're celebrating with two gigs at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. Not too shabby for an uncompromising independent rock group. What's more, eccentric filmmaker Terry Gilliam ( 12 Monkeys, Brazil ) is directing a webcast of the August 5 MSG show ...