Oh Fortuna - André Rieu (Vanity)
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| I thought such beautiful music should be shared with my friends here. Truly magnificent! enjoy! |
Never Gonna Stand For This by Teachenor Clark
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| Awesome new music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPoPw9zgvQ&feature=player_embedded |
The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films Sneak Peak
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| Magpie writes: Doug Adams is letting us peek inside his upcoming book on the LOTR film music. Check out musicoflotr.com. |
An HTML5 experiment with Arcade Fire
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| Music and technology have long been willing bedmates. Now the band Arcade Fire has jumped in with search giant Google to create an interactive video for the song We Used To Wait aimed at answering the question "What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like?" Aaron Koblin said that Google Creative Lab's answer was to devise a "project built with the latest web technologies [which] includes HTML5, Google Maps, an integrated drawing tool, as well as multiple browser windows that move around the screen". Billed as the Wilderness Downtown, you are asked to insert your... |
When You're Holding a Hammer (Everything Looks Like a Nail)
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| I couldn't find where this had been posted. The link was sent to me today by a friend and I enjoyed the song and the sentiment. The sad thing is this Tennessee high school coach was fired for writing an anti Obama song. When You're Holding a Hammer^ |
Artist Spotlight Shines on Sly & The Family Stone
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| Before Sly & The Family Stone came along, there was music you could dance to, and music that made you think. Once they had made their undeniable, indelible mark on the music scene, the two characteristics would never again be thought of as mutually exclusive. Beginning today and running through this Friday, Staff Writer David Bowling shines the Daily Vault's Artist Spotlight on some of the highs and lows of Sly & The Family Stone's catalog, a tenure marked by tremendously influential albums full of socially conscious songs backed with infectious beats, and also by the mercurial and ultimately self-destructive... |
George David Weiss, Writer of Hit Pop Songs, Dies at 89
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| George David Weiss, a songwriter who had a hand in some of the biggest hits of midcentury pop music, recorded by some of the biggest stars, died on Monday at his home in Oldwick, N.J. He was 89... Among his most famous numbers were Cant Help Falling in Love, recorded by Elvis Presley; The Lion Sleeps Tonight, recorded by the Tokens; and What a Wonderful World, recorded by Louis Armstrong... |
Vast number of military bands may not be music to Gates's ears
Saturday 4th of September 2010 12:57:23 PM
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| Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates frequently makes the point that Congress funds Defense Department personnel far more easily than it does State Department employees. "There are about 6,000 FSOs," or Foreign Service officers, he told an audience in San Francisco this month. He drew laughter when he added that former secretary of state "Condi Rice used to say, 'We have more people in military bands than they have in the Foreign Service.' She was not far wrong." Well, maybe Gates should take a closer look at those military bands during his campaign to trim defense spending. My interest was triggered... |




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