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Choir takes a swing onto one member's home turf
3.10.2002 00:32
Too much melancholy from Loeb; Dodd is back honky-tonkin'
Brown University grad Lisa Loeb notched a place for herself in 1994 with Stay (I Missed You) , off the Reality Bites soundtrack. The singer-songwriter was the first unsigned artist to score a top single on the Billboard pop charts.
3.10.2002 00:32
Best selling albums
The 10 best-selling albums, locally from Strawberries Records and Tapes, 850 Bald Hill Rd., Warwick, and nationally from Billboard:
3.7.2002 00:15
Diamond's golden oldies hit with fans
3.7.2002 00:05
Music Scene by Vaughn Watson: Narrows Center continues Americana music series
With the Grammy success of the music from O Brother, Where Art Thou? , regional venues booking roots musicians could find a bigger audience for their music.
3.7.2002 00:05
Weekend Gigs by Steve Smith: Weekend gigs calendar for March 7 - 10
THURSDAY Biggest names Keely Smith sings jazz at Scullers Jazz Club, DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston. (617) 562-4111. 8, 10 pm.
3.6.2002 00:05
Dylan's concert play list keeps fans guessing
3.4.2002 08:44
Tenor tensions force change of venue
When a local arts group decided to book The Three Irish Tenors into Woonsocket the day before St. Patrick's Day, they didn't foresee competition.
3.4.2002 00:10
John E. Mulligan: Hope's springs eternal even as an outlaw passes
Just about the time that the cowboy singer Waylon Jennings died last month, some of the kids in my house were fishing among the heirlooms in my sock drawer. They messed up my genuine deck of souvenir playing cards that say "Luckenbach, Texas" on the back.
3.4.2002 00:10
Bela Fleck mixes up his own flavor
3.4.2002 00:10
In Commedia, Rachleff hits a lighter note
After allowing his interest in new American music to wane, Rhode Island Philharmonic conductor Larry Rachleff reversed that trend Saturday with a rollicking performance of William Bolcom's spoof of Mozart and his time.
3.3.2002 00:33
Cher gets back to electro-bop; Sade expressive in live album
After getting all of that personal-statement stuff out of her system in 2000 with the Internet-only release not.com.mercial, an album featuring her poetry set to music, Cher has electro-bopped back to inspirational danceability in this follow-up to her 1998 blockbuster Believe -- just in time to dedicate the pulsing new single (This Is) A Song for the Lonely to the people of New York in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
3.3.2002 00:33
Best sellers
The 10 best-selling albums, locally from Narragansett Disc, 24A Pier Market St., Narragansett, and nationally from Billboard magazine.
3.2.2002 00:28
Keys to fame
Behind her, the set is brownstone New York. It could pass for any block in the city. It is her home away from home, complete with fire escapes and her neighborhood stoop. And make no mistake, Alicia Keys is at home.
3.1.2002 00:05
Flawed voting system skews Grammy outcome
3.1.2002 00:05
Chicago, London symphonies lead the classical music pack
In a year in which the very existence of a future for commercial classical music recordings is being debated, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Pierre Boulez won a Grammy on Wednesday for a recording of works by early-20th-century French composer Edgard Varese.
2.28.2002 00:05
Guy learned from masters; now he's one of them
Blues historians are well aware of the influence Muddy Waters had on a young Buddy Guy when the latter first came to Chicago in 1957. Few historians, however, probably know that Waters's influence came in the form of cognac.
2.28.2002 00:05
Music Scene by Vaughn Watson: Fleck, Flecktones flock to Vets
Bela Fleck is omnipresent. He's also impossible to categorize. He first tried his hand at acoustic guitar before falling into a lifelong love affair with the banjo -- first in the early 1990s on the instrument's home turf, as a bluegrass musician.
2.28.2002 00:05
Weekend Gigs by Steve Smith:
THURSDAY Biggest names Julio Iglesias sings pop at the Mohegan Sun, Arena, Mohegan Sun Boulevard (exit 79A off Route 395), Uncasville, Conn. (800) 477-6849. 7:30 pm. $25, $45.
2.28.2002 00:05
Classical Scene by Channing Gray: For David Kim, it's a Beethoven triple play
David Kim has a lot on his mind these days, what with being concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, heading up the popular Kingston Chamber Music Festival at URI, and having to dust off the great Beethoven Violin Concerto for a weekend of performances with the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
2.26.2002 00:05
Gauging the Grammys
Popular music is as fickle as we are -- even as decades pass, its themes don't budge: I love you, you love me, I love me, I despise you.
2.24.2002 00:24
ABBA IS BACK
At any time, Bjorn Ulvaeus could have pulled the plug on the project he had always thought of as an experiment: building a stage musical -- not a revue, but a fully plotted play -- around the songs he and Benny Andersson wrote for their old group, ABBA.
2.24.2002 00:24
ABBA is a band that stands the test of time
Soft-rock beats and cream-cheese puffy hooks helped to spread the ABBA doctrine: In Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, Honey, Honey and other hits, the sun shines bright in an ABBA world. We dance like fools in an ABBA world. We all need love (and get it) in an ABBA world.
2.24.2002 00:24
Channing Gray: Hard choices, sound policies rescued the Philharmonic
There's one thing you don't hear from the Rhode Island Philharmonic these days, and that's the sour notes of backstage grousing. The era when bickering within the ranks often drowned out the music seems a thing of the past.
2.24.2002 00:24
Radiohead just might be less than perfect
Okay, so they're not perfect after all. Actually, that's good news at this point.
2.24.2002 00:24
Top ten
The 10 best-selling albums, locally from Newbury Comics, 1500 Bald Hill Rd., Warwick, and nationally from Billboard:
2.24.2002 00:24
Hot tickets for March: Musicians, dancers, players and acrobats
Music from Neil Diamond and Lucy Kaplansky; plays about a Kennedy fixation and Afghanistan under the Taliban; Taiwanese acrobats; dancers from 15 countries who Burn the Floor. All this -- and more -- is in prospect in southern New England next month.
2.23.2002 00:03
Big-time Billy
Hope Valley's Billy Gilman turns 14 in May. He's a teenager who loves to ride the all-terrain vehicle he got as a Christmas present.
2.21.2002 09:02
Opera leaves them breathless
2.21.2002 09:01
Theatre-by-the-Sea holding auditions
IP5The producers at Theatre-by-the-Sea, in Matunuck, are looking for aspiring actors and actresses to audition for Cole Porter's "Anything Goes.
2.21.2002 00:04
Music Scene by Vaughn Watson: Spiritual blues rocks with dynamite harmonies
Gospel-spiritual-blues musicians Sherman Holmes and Wendell Holmes headed north to New York City to broaden their music careers four decades ago. Sherman, who sings and plays bass, went to New York in 1959 and his brother, singer-guitarist Wendell, followed two years later.
2.21.2002 00:04
Weekend Gigs by Steve Smith: Weekend gigs calendar for February 21 - 24
THURSDAY Biggest names The Blind Boys Of Alabama and John Hammond's Wicked Grin play a tribute to Tom Waits at the Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London. (860) 444-7373, (888) 664-2733. 7:30 pm. $23, $29.
2.21.2002 00:04
Rap's new voices
The cover art originally planned for The Coup's latest album, Party Music, launched the rappers into a storm of controversy.
2.21.2002 00:04
Posthumous album shows Ramone's solo style
His death was mourned in every publication this side of Field & Stream. His band will be inducted next month into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And only a rubber stamp from the City Council is needed to rename part of the Bowery as Joey Ramone Place.
2.17.2002 00:32
Vaughn Watson: Once again, the Oscars tune into sappy pop
When I was in high school, I didn't buy Will Smith as a serious rapper. And with his string of sugary-light dance hits, each increasingly vapid in the social-commentary department -- Gettin' Jiggy Wit It; Men In Black; Wild, Wild West -- I still say he's more pop than hip-hop.
2.17.2002 00:32
More retro from Isaak; Fischer unplugs with friends
What have you got against Chris Isaak? Sure, the slick retro-rocker pales in comparison with the influences he emulates ( Wicked Game aside). His latest collection doesn't bring him any closer, but, c'mon -- not too many living artists can measure up to guys like Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley.
2.17.2002 00:32
Best sellers
The 10 best-selling albums, locally from Tape World, 191 Rhode Island Mall Rd., Warwick, and nationally from Billboard:
2.17.2002 00:32
Music calendar for the week of Sunday February 17
TODAY Cerrito, Westwind and others play country at the Elks Lodge #2359, 326 Farnum Pike (Route 104), Smithfield. 231-5260, 273-5313. 1-6 p.m. $5 donation. Benefit for Johnny Lobello, 8-year-old cancer patient.
2.16.2002 00:12
Waylon Jennings: The ultimate honky-tonk hero
2.15.2002 08:59
Only rock 'n' roll but they like it
2.15.2002 00:05
Ubiquitous teen icon Britney Spears makes her big-screen debut
She's dressed like a junior version of Pamela Anderson, in a clingy tank top, tight blue jeans and zebra-print, stiletto-heeled boots. But when she talks, 20-year-old Britney Spears sounds like a sweet teenager any parent would be proud of.
2.14.2002 00:05
Music Scene by Vaughn Watson: C.J. Chenier makes zydeco his own
C.J. Chenier grew up wanting to play sax in a jazz or R&B band. But when he was 20, his father asked him to sit in with his own band, which played zydeco, a rhythmic, danceable branch of Cajun music.
2.14.2002 00:05
Alien Ant Farm leads SnoCore tour at Lupo's
Alien Ant Farm leads a lineup that also includes Local H, GlassJAw at Earshot, kicking off the national SnoCore tour tomorrow at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel.
2.14.2002 00:05
Weekend Gigs by Steve Smith: Weekend gigs for February 14 - 17
THURSDAY Biggest names The Michael Brecker Quartet with Adam Rogers, Scott Colley and Clarence Penn plays jazz at the Charles Hotel, Regattabar, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge. (617) 876-7777. 8, 10 pm. $20.
2.12.2002 00:05
Jazz goes exotic
They come from urban Japan and war-torn Yugoslavia, from cosmopolitan Warsaw and impoverished Havana.
2.12.2002 00:05
CDs capture the new spirit of jazz
Short of going to a club or concert hall, the best way to sample the international sound of jazz is via CD. Following are a few of the best:
2.11.2002 00:05
Linkin Park, not your average nu metal band
You know you've hit the big time when the death rumors start flying.
2.11.2002 00:05
Hall of Fame induction to put Talking Heads together again
The Talking Heads will perform together for the first time in 14 years when the band is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month.
2.10.2002 00:10
Four retrospectives honor greats of jazz, blues, R&B and folk
Four excellent retrospectives: The three-disk, 17-track Miles Davis box catches Davis in a transitional moment in the six months before the groundbreaking fusion of Bitches Brew. A new band including Chick Corea and John McLaughlin was coalescing around Davis and on the cusp of a new era in jazz.
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