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SoundBites: Cures for the common Christmas carol

SoundBites: Cures for the common Christmas carol

Kurtis Blow said it best in his 1979 disco-infused hip-hop classic, Christmas Rappin: Dont you give me all that jive / about things you wrote before I was alive / cause this aint 1823 it [...]

Soundbites: Deadmau5 gives a live show, canned for your convenience

Soundbites: Deadmau5 gives a live show, canned for your convenience

It was in Montreal where I saw Canadian DJ Joel deadmau5 Zimmerman, almost accidentally, behind the mixers at a club while wearing an overgrown mouse head. Once I heard and saw his aurally [...]

SoundBites: Innovation no longer strong suit for Black Eyed Peas

SoundBites: Innovation no longer strong suit for Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas manage to embarrass themselves three times in the first two minutes of The Beginning. [...]

New frontier for ‘Oklahoma!’

New frontier for ‘Oklahoma!’

The Mead Center for American Theaters choice of Oklahoma! as its inaugural show for its glamorous new theatre complex has been questioned around town for weeks.  Ive heard comments ranging from, I cant imagine why they [...]

SoundBites: Russian Futurists could use a time machine

SoundBites: Russian Futurists could use a time machine

Named after a movement intent on inciting controversy through progressive art, The Russian Futurists truly disappoint with their tame and mundane The Weights on the Wheels. [...]

SoundBites: Kid Cudi might be an alien

SoundBites: Kid Cudi might be an alien

If sound existed in outer space, it would sound like this. 
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SoundBites: Experiment with Black Dub

SoundBites: Experiment with Black Dub

Black Dubs debut album makes me think of Kindergarten class when Miss DAgostino dispensed paper plates filled with pieces of dried corn, beads, feathers and construction paper: Heres some glue, now get creative. [...]

SoundBites: Kings of Leon make make-out music OK

SoundBites: Kings of Leon make make-out music OK

Come Around Sundown is a complete album. You can press play and pretty much listen from front to back, but not without a few quizzical glances around the room, like a confused dog cocking its neck. [...]

SoundBites: Railroad Earth travels well, if to no destination

SoundBites: Railroad Earth travels well, if to no destination

Introducing Sound Bites, a new music column by David Sachs, who began his writing career in music journalism. He reviews an album a week. Take it or leave it, as long as you read it. [...]

High society, low-life schemes and love

High society, low-life schemes and love

Glimpses of the Moon at MetroStage hits the funny bone

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