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It's common I assume, for people who work in kitchens to sing songs that they know and love when the radio has come to be too much of a hassle. It is, I have to admit, a little awkward to remember this very thing happening to the tune of several grown men, Hispanic and white, metal and punk, gay and straight, to the jingle "Part of Your World," from the Little Mermaid soundtrack.
Robot Ate Me is a group of quiet, seemingly kind people who make songs that have nothing to do with robots, rarely have anything to do with eating, and to some regard, could possibly be inadvertently about me. The group of three musicians, Ryland Bouchard being the head honcho and brain candy of the three (RJ Hoffman and David Greenberg being the beat behind the candy), hail from sun-drenched San Diego, Calif.
Jazz - to some people, the word is synonymous with innovation, wailing saxophones, a puzzle, a game to be learned and explored. Others shiver when they hear even the slightest mention of the music. For the campus performance of the David Liebman Big Band on Oct.
Boards of Canada is a Scottish duo that makes electronic music for people who prefer headphones to speakers, indoors to outdoors and slippers to shoes. The duo has an uncanny knack of creating repeating rhythms that place the listener into a trance like state that induces introspection and fear.
Martin Scorsese delves into the early years of Bob Dylan in No Direction Home, a 200 minute long, two disc documentary covering Bob Dylan's life and career from Robort Allen Zimmerman, to the name change to Bob Dylan, to the motorcycle crash in 1966. The film, which has been running on PBS, highlights the interesting parts of Dylan's career.
Thorin: For those unaware, Make Believe consists of the Kinsella brothers, who have received acclaim in such groups as Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc and Owls. Now that that's out of the way, it can be officially stated that Make Believe is a revival of Owls more so than a continuation of Joan of Arc.
