Music Set

p !– @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } A:link { color: #0000ff } — /p pThe album covers featured primitive graphics. The titles were often cheesy. The songs lacked great sound quality and sometimes were sloppily edited. Yet K-Tel albums introduced me to a number of great artists and ultimately helped form my musical tastes. /p pK-Tel albums compiled the hits of the day into one album, offering convenience for the consumer who lacked time or money to purchase individual singles.
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img src=http://bnset.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/52878.jpg / pIf you want to establish yourself as a music act to be reckoned with on the worldwide stage you need to brand yourself accordingly, and one thing that all of the biggest names in dance music have in common – regardless of scene or style, and both in Australia and abroad – is a kickass logo./p pWe’ve compiled what we feel are the coolest dance act logos around in a special featured gallery that you can check out online now.
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img src=http://bnset.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/52876.jpg / pIf you’re a proud iPhone owner we know it’s highly likely you’re always on the lookout for the latest hot app to impress your friends, not to mention people who stare at you using the phone while on public transport. If you’re also a fan of Canadian dance star Deadmau5, you can now combine your two loves in one spiffy iPhone application./p pTouching down for the Good Vibrations Festival tour this month, Deadmau5’s visit is timed perfectly with the launch of the new app Touch Mix, which he’s put his name/face/music/mau5head to.
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pWhen a lot of stuff has been going on and I#39;m tired, really tired, I have to go to bed early. Usually, that#39;s around 11:30, the normal shuteye time being closer to somewhere around 1:30 in the morning. What happens on these nights is that I have a ton of dreams. It#39;s almost like somebody is holding down the fast-forward button on my dream remote. I almost never remember any of the dreams, though I perceive that they all lasted about 30 seconds. It#39;s like my brain is trying to clear stuff out.
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pMore so than movies or books, music can sometimes be seasonal. That#39;s not to suggest that a given album can#39;t be enjoyed off-season, but rather that there#39;s a certain added pleasure to listening to it when the time is right. As suggested by the pumpkin-orange artwork that adorns the cover of shoegaze alt-rockers Asobi Seksu#39;s sophomore full-length, 2006#39;s Citrus, this is an album for the fall. Both the lyrical content of the set (that which can be made out, and is in English), as well as the dense and layered arrangements, exude a palpable haziness and melancholia.
» Read the full Music Review: Asobi Seksu - iCitrus/i article…

Born in Mexico City, this multi-talented artist currently makes his home in Los Angeles, California. Creative and always cutting edge, Beto Hale is an artist but he is more than that. He's a writer, producer, and father trying to make a living in a field we creative types dream about. His songwriting is excellent and the guy is a monster on the drums. Here is what Beto had to say:

We've played in several bands together a few years back in Colorado, how did you get started playing music?

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Jeff 'Tain' Watts doesn't hail from New Orleans (he's a native of Pittsburgh), but it seems he enjoys hanging out with guys from there. The Marsalis family — Wynton, Branford, and Ellis — have enlisted his services, as well other Big Easy luminaries as Terence Blanchard and Harry Connick, Jr. Watts first made his name as a member of Wynton's first band after Wynton left Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and later played alongside Branford in Sting's touring band before joining Branford's Tonight Show ensemble.

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The irony of Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's eighth full-length, named after the ubiquitous outdoor stage in Columbia, Maryland, is that it's the band's least live-sounding album they've made thus far. It's this stylistically different approach to recording — there are more filters on the vocals here, the soundscapes much thicker and layered — that makes this collection of songs, most likely the best batch that the greatest contemporary band on the planet has yet put together, fall just short of classic status.

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I have always been a little suspicious of the term supergroup but sometimes you just can’t avoid it. It means a band who individually have already achieved their own fame or success with previous projects prior to coming together to form the "supergroup".

Using that terminology Crosby, Stills, and Nash are a good early example, as are Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. I am old enough to also remember others like Blind Faith; Ginger Baker’s Airforce; Bad Company; Asia; Beck, Bogert, & Appice; etc.

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Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka and Australian singer/songwriter Missy Higgins are co-headlining a hectic tour across the US. They start the tour on Feb 19 at Houston TX and hit 24 cities including Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; Kansas City, KS; Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA before ending the tour on March 25 at Solana Beach, CA. Both artists are extremely excited to be touring the US amidst immense popularity.

Nozuka released his debut album ‘Holly’ last spring which was instantly popular and reached No.

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