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Items by By JON PARELES
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Music: A New PBS Special Revisits the Stax/Volt Revue’s 1967 European Tour
Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 4:34am GMT by By JON PARELES
The black-and-white concert footage of “Sweet Soul Music: Stax Live in Europe 1967,” to be shown Monday on WLIW, is a chance to see Stax’s soul men at their youthful peak.
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Music: Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan
Posted: December 26th, 2008, 10:06pm GMT by By JON PARELES
For musicians who hope to earn a living in the era of free downloads, a practical solution has emerged: use music to sell something else.
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Davy Graham, Influential Guitarist, Dies at 68
Posted: December 19th, 2008, 8:48am GMT by By JON PARELES
Mr. Graham’s musical fusions, technique and tuning shaped generations of musicians.
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Music: How Axl Rose Spent All That Time
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 6:51am GMT by By JON PARELES
“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.
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Music Review | Hinder: Bad Boys, but Not Afraid to Show Their Sensitive Side
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By JON PARELES
The multimillion-selling band from Oklahoma performed an entertaining set of blues rock and power ballads to the willing crowd at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.
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Music Review | Metro Station: Answering Flirty Come-Ons With Squeals or Singalongs
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By JON PARELES
Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso of Metro Station sang peppy songs about barely legal sex to squealing young girls, many with parents in tow, at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.
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Music Review | John Martyn: A Smooth Scotch Blend of Folk and Jazz
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 4:23am GMT by By JON PARELES
John Martyn, an idiosyncratic Scottish singer and songwriter, made his first New York appearance in more than a decade with a brief yet heartening set at Joe’s Pub on Thursday night.
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Playlist: Blues From Dylan, and Heartaches From the 1920s
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:07pm GMT by By JON PARELES
Releases by Bob Dylan, El Guincho, Juana Molina, Parts & Labor and more.
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Music Review | Gilberto Gil: Using a Range of Tools to Dig Into Deeper Ideas
Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By JON PARELES
Love, family, technology, faith, mortality, culture and, of course, music itself were all on Gilberto Gil’s mind when he played a rare club-size show at Joe’s Pub on Tuesday.
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Music Review | Lila Downs: Hopping Borders, Breaking Barriers
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By JON PARELES
Lila Downs’s concert at Town Hall on Monday was high-minded, with songs about hard-working immigrants, justice, love and the ultimate mole sauce.
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Music: Together Again in Different Time Zones
Posted: August 16th, 2008, 2:23pm GMT by By JON PARELES
David Byrne and Brian Eno come back with some major chords.
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Playlist: Beats From Down Home to Far From Home
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By JON PARELES
Releases by Jamey Johnson, Takka Takka, Inara George With Van Dyke Parks, Brazilian Girls, Irma Thomas and Blk Jks.
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Music: Once-Bright Eyes, Wide Open to a New Vista
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By JON PARELES
Conor Oberst had a batch of songs and a plan: to simplify. The new self-titled album is more folksy than orchestral, but the songwriter’s lyrics continue to be introspective.
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Music Review: Day Full of Indie Amusement, Next to an Amusement Park
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:29am GMT by By JON PARELES
The eighth Siren Music Festival, the annual free indie-rock extravaganza at Coney Island, was a sunny day at the beach full of ringing rock guitars and forecasts of doom.
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Music Review | Rachid Taha: Algerian Singer Mixes Rock and Rai
Posted: July 7th, 2008, 2:42am GMT by By JON PARELES
Mr. Taha is the most rock-influenced of Algerian rai singers, who mix Arabic and North African elements with Western ones.
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Music Review | Al Green and Dianne Reeves: Sweet-Talking a Crowd With Flirting and Flowers
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:01am GMT by By JON PARELES
An Al Green concert is a hodgepodge of virtuosity, teasing, flirting, preaching, making faces, dancing, flinging red roses and coaching audience participation.
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Music Review: Revisiting a Debut Album and Its Semi-Confessions
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By JON PARELES
The songs Liz Phair released on her 1993 debut album, “Exile in Guyville” (ATO), spoke so frankly that the album sold half a million copies and has just been re-released.
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Music: Jampacked Bonnaroo, Beyond Jams
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 5:07am GMT by By JON PARELES
Bonnaroo started in 2002 as a jam-band marathon drawing latter-day Deadheads and Phish fans, but it has expanded every which way.
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Music: Rapper’s Road to Pop
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By JON PARELES
With his new album, “Tha Carter III,” Lil Wayne makes a move toward the mainstream.
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Music Review: An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas
Posted: April 17th, 2008, 2:59am GMT by By JON PARELES
Autechre pumped out colossal dance beats throughout its set at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday night. It didn’t have to. -
Music Review: Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:01am GMT by By JON PARELES
Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige have collaborated on each other’s songs, and now they are sharing the Heart of the City tour, which came to Nassau Coliseum on Thursday night and reaches Madison Square Garden in May. -
Music Review: With Beat, Introvert Clears Path to Hope
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:22am GMT by By JON PARELES
John Darnielle, the songwriter and sometimes sole member of the Mountain Goats, used words like “trope” and “theory” when he spoke between songs at Webster Hall on Tuesday. -
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Madonna
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 6:11am GMT by By JON PARELES
Madonna led the list of musicians and songwriters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 23rd annual induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria.