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Still playing folk guitar
If Stephen Stills isn’t doing cartwheels across the stage and jumping off of amplifiers this summer on his tour with Crosby, Stills & Nash, he’ll have a good excuse...
Poetry in motion
With all the effort it takes to get students simply to show up for class, do schools even teach poetry any longer? Does the current crop of K-12 get any exposure to meter and verse that isn’t contained in a rap song? Do they have any inkling who Walt Whitman, Oscar ...
Sharon Van Etten finds road to happiness passes through ‘Tramp’
Completing an album can be like a life passage, closing one chapter and opening another. The third chapter in Sharon Van Etten’s recorded history, Tramp’s a haunting record that pushes out beyond the minimalist, emotionally raw folk of Van Etten’s first two albums. ...
Bourne to be bored
The Bourne trilogy includes three of the best action thrillers in cinema, with Jason Bourne portrayed by Matt Damon as an everyman who finds he’s been programmed by the CIA to be a deadly assassin. The third film ends with Bourne lured out of hiding by reporter Simon...
Dismemberment Plan play first new songs in a decade, hint at...
Every time a beloved band reunites for live shows, some amount of...
Taylor Swift to release new ‘Red’ album in October
Taylor Swift surprised fans on Monday evening with the announcement that she'll release a new album, Red, on October 22nd – her first LP since 2010's Speak Now. The singer-songwriter revealed the news during a live chat with fans...
Olympics closing ceremony: Spice Girls, George Michael and more
With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London...
Madonna delivers gay rights speech amid violence threats: Watch
Madonna hasn't let threats of violence quiet her down...
Laurie Morvan burns in blue
California blues guitarist Laurie Morvan and her band are in that place right now where they draw two-paragraph mentions in local newspapers, generous but usually short features, CD reviews in small-circ blues magazines, and generally positive festival appearance ...
Hanging out on the fringe
The Boulder International Fringe Festival (BIFF) is a little more than a week away, and Executive Producer David Ortolano has deep, dark bags under his eyes...













