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Music industry vet Don Grierson who once helped shape the careers of the Beatles, Little River Band, Heart and Tina Turner is now hoping to inspire future A&R men to scout out the rock stars of tomorrow in his class at Hollywood's Musicians Institute. More at The Los Angeles Times
You know how they say that timing is everything? Well, these four forward thinkers had the right idea at the right time on the topics of economics, climate change, public policy and medicine. More at Newsweek
Just in case you want to work forever, here are eight sure fire ways to shatter your chances for retirement. More at Yahoo Finance
In the new book How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People, author Henry Alford interviews famous and regular old folks in search of the truth. More at Time
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The band's been playing at least an hour, but it feels like five minutes. Besides "You Really Got Me," "Roll Over Beethoven," and Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me," they've done a dozen originals that seem like the beginning of a new age. There's one called "Roller Coaster" that sends shivers through the audience of 50, massed together at La Maison on the edge of downtown Houston.
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“Record companies.” It’s become an epithet: institutions, most often managed by white males, reviled by musicians and consumers and now, it seems, the primary example of the capital enterprise so proud or blind that it can’t adapt to changing conditions to save its life.
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Tommy Burgers every day for a week, ride a Greyhound bus thousands of miles or attempt any other noble pursuit and the vision of the Gourds’ new album starts to come into focus.
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It’s not always easy finding new bands that capture the excitement of the psyche-exanding attributes of the psychedelic era. Not necessarily the bone-rattling aspects, but more the idea that anything goes and experimentation is the essence of what music is all about.
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Folk guitarists, especially in England during the 1960s, could do no wrong. They had centuries of sounds to play with, and thanks to the British Invasion going all introspective on us, it seemed like any avenue was a good one to explore.
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Tom Jones is an easy man to envy. On the basis of 24 Hours, it’s obvious he had--is still having!--the time of his life. Regrets? Sure, he’s had a few. But Sir Tom swaggers through the album like a Knights Bachelor half his age, his voice--an oversized well-grained baritone--almost undiminished.
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Album: Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Very few songs evoke a place quite like the McGarrigle sisters’ “Talk to Me of Mendocino.” There the pair are, content to be sitting and freezing in upstate New York state, looking at all the beaituful tall trees and wondering if they’re going to have to remain alone or will be beckoned to the West Coast.
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With Israel and the Hamas engaged in yet another bloody border skirmish on the Gaza Strip, documentary filmmaker Ari Folman's acclaimed Waltz with Bashir, an animated meditation on his country's involvement in the 1982 Christian Falangist massacre of Palestinians in Beirut refugee camps after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel, is particularly timely.
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