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2010 Austin City Limits Festival: The Eagles, Muse, Norah Jones and more
The Eagles, Muse, Phish, The Strokes, M.I.A., Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, and Norah Jones top the list of 130 acts announced for the 2010 Austin City Limits Festival Oct. 8-10 at Austin’s Zilker Park.
The ninth ACL festival also features Band of Horses, Monsters of Folk, Deadmau5, Sonic Youth, Gogol Bordello, The National, [...]
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ZooTunes summer concert series opens June 27 with Jewel
The 2010 ZooTunes summer concert series kicks off June 27 with Jewel and Radney Foster.
Among the other performers: Steve Earle with Joe Ely June 30, Carbon Leaf July 14, “The Round 62 at the Zoo” with Star Anna, Damien Jurado and others) July 18, Jimmy Cliff with Trevor Hall July 21, Mary Chapin Carpenter and [...]
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Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery announces summer concert series
Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery has announced its 2010 concert series, which is packed with familiar names as well as a few surprises.
Among the surprises: Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers, the comedian and banjo player’s bluegrass band; a pairing of The B-52s and Blondie; and a rare country concert, by Martina McBride. Returning are [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Charlotte Gainsbourg opens first tour in Seattle
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Last night the Crocodile Café turned into Seattle’s French Quarter, with plenty of conversations en français and a soupçon of striped shirts and berets, as Franco-British (or is it Anglo-French?) singer-actress (or actress-singer?) Charlotte Gainsbourg performed to a packed house.
In the first U.S. date of her first true tour, the soft-spoken Gainsbourg charmed [...]
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The sounds of the southern Sahara drift through The Triple Door
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Is Tinariwen the greatest band on earth?”
The online magazine Slate posed that question a couple years back, and the latest release by the band from the southern Sahara Desert (Tinariwen means “deserts” or “empty spaces” in the Tamashek language) adds more evidence for the affirmative [...]
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