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Dum Dum Girls drummer Sandra Vu doubles as SISU's lead singer - San Francisco Bay Guardian

Dum Dum Girls drummer Sandra Vu doubles as SISU's lead singer
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Her band mixes minimal electro beats and synth with guitar, bass, and flute, all surrounded by Vu's ethereal voice, a far cry from Dum Dum Girls' chainsaw surf guitar and singer Dee Dee's vibrato. This tour, SISU joins Dum Dum Girls as the traveling ...

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Yann Tiersen's Live Je Ne Sais Quoi: Live Shot of Yann Tiersen at Emo's 5.18.12 - Austin Chronicle (blog)


Austin Chronicle (blog)
Yann Tiersen's Live Je Ne Sais Quoi: Live Shot of Yann Tiersen at Emo's 5.18.12
Austin Chronicle (blog)
The one-man-everything kicked off the show by looping guitar, synthesizer, and drums to create writhing, breathing, and (sometimes screaming) songs from individual riffs. He played with all the ardor of a practicing garage band, frequently pausing to ...

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Jeff Moehlis: Greg Lake's Songs of a Lifetime in Ventura - Noozhawk


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Jeff Moehlis: Greg Lake's Songs of a Lifetime in Ventura
Noozhawk
When Emerson returned from the pub, he was surprised at how well it turned out and added the Moog synthesizer solo at the end, with the released solo just meant to be a run-through. Of course, this went on to be one of ELP's best-known songs.

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Melody bytes behind bars: Tihar looks for Idol within - Times of India

Melody bytes behind bars: Tihar looks for Idol within
Times of India
Slowly, the notes of a keyboard creep in, soon to be joined by two guitars and a synthesizer, and six more voices. The last strains of the music are met with thunderous applause. The venue is jail number 3 in Tihar prisons, and this is an audition for ...

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Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with the Gossip, Charlie Hunter ... - Capital New York


Capital New York
Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with the Gossip, Charlie Hunter ...
Capital New York
Over the course of the next decade and a half, both on his own records and the records he produced, El designed production backdrops that felt like rotting thirtieth-century cities—beats that sound like metal gnashing against metal, synth stabs that ...

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Hot talents from Japan visits the Waldorf - The Province

Hot talents from Japan visits the Waldorf
The Province
“Last tour was really guitar centric, but this time around it's all over the place,” says Tanaka. “The headliners, Zazen Boys, are the pinnacle of who I've been able to bring over to Canada so far. They are so revered at home.

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New Music Reviews: John Mayer; Men Without Hats; Slash; The Cult; Cold Specks - Montreal Gazette

New Music Reviews: John Mayer; Men Without Hats; Slash; The Cult; Cold Specks
Montreal Gazette
If you're looking for Mayer the guitar god anywhere, you're pretty much out of luck: acoustic strumming and fingerpicking are the norm here, not flashy string-bending. This is a time-travel vehicle to the kind of superior singer-songwriter albums that ...

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Live: Lambchop at McCabe's Guitar Shop - Los Angeles Times

Live: Lambchop at McCabe's Guitar Shop
Los Angeles Times
The rest of his band offered delicate punctuation via piano, guitar, bass, drums and the occasional warm hum of a Nord Electro synthesizer, with a little bit of twang, a touch of pokey blues and a dollop of grace. The song was taken from Lambchop's ...

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Album Review: Gossip – A Joyful Noise - Consequence of Sound

Album Review: Gossip – A Joyful Noise
Consequence of Sound
The stuttered, insistent synth and choppy guitar from Brace Paine demand you dance along, Hannah Blilie's simple, cracking drums keeping everything together. The instrumental is pure dancefloor fun. That said, any song that spits out a line of cliches ...

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A New Zealand Star Greets Her US Fans in Person - New York Times


New York Times
A New Zealand Star Greets Her US Fans in Person
New York Times
“Settle Down,” her biggest hit in Australia, starts with a rhythmic vocal riff, “Boom-bah-boom-BAH,” over which she sings the melody, as syncopated hand claps and sharp synthesizer chords punch in. She says she has always loved pop music, soul and R&B, ...

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