Culture in Bryan/College Station
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There’s nothing I love more than analogies - well except for the 0.5 release of Songbird, the music player based on the mozilla engine. It is in the Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla family of applications. Built on the open-source, open-standard philosophy of making damn good software. It has rich integration with sites like last.fm and hype machine. Check it out and give it a spin. It’s still in beta, so go easy on it.
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Thursday Night Music w/DJ! Starting March 20!!
For a completely refreshing dinner experience, come enjoy the contemporary fusion, lounge, and jazzy sounds spun by Lucas Naveira at Madden’s Restaurant on Thursday nights.
A wonderful opportunity to visit downtown Bryan and enjoy the perfect blend of food, wine, and atmosphere - that only Madden’s can offer. A special time where the food and music brings you warmth and comfort.
About Lucas Naveira
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Grew up in Miami, Fl.
First Cassette: Fat Boys
First Record: Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - A Night in Tunisia
Education
B.S.Degree in Physics (FSU), currently working on Ph.D in Physics/Quantum Optics (Texas A&M)
“I enjoy playing music for people who are not afraid of listening to something they haven’t heard, but also do my best to please the crowd.”
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From the Boing Boing: Radiohead to remixer: naw, it’s cool, go ahead. - Boing Boing.
Dave Park says,
Amplive made a remix of Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ and was planning to release it without the band’s permission leading to a cease and desist order on December 18. Today it was announced that both parties had since met and Amplive was now given permission to release the album. Downloadable MP3s are now available.
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Two Brooklyn bands I wanted to serve up for your listening pleasure. With all the great danse-punk and electro shit that’s been released on the interwaves it’s nice to hear some good rock once in a while. And it’s a good thing guys like those in these two bands are around making it.
I don’t know how I missed these guys last year… they were big in the blogosphere, but I never got around to listening…
Diamond Nights formed in 2003 as a group betrothed to the pursuit of song, not genre. As such, their music oscillates from straightforward to strange, from bombastically heavy to casually reserved. More specifically, it’s the sort of music that seems to embody a band somewhere between its first experimentation with hard drugs and prior to the calamitous meltdown, getting cleaned up and writing mediocre soft rock hits.
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So I found a decent mixtape off Hits In The Car. I’m going to repost it here, since I’m sorta lazy.
Andrew Boland - Bird On The Wire (Leonard Cohen cover): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Entakt - Kunsten At Slippe Taget: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Sunny Summer Day - Colours of Fantasy: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Martin Sörensson - All Right: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download{ 0 comments }
I don’t know what my deal is right now with bands from the UK right now, but shit… who cares where they are from!
From wikipedia: Foals is a five-piece dance-punk band from Oxford who play a mix of indie with elements from techno and minimalist music.[1]. The band are signed with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop Records in the USA. A full length album, entitled “Antidotes” is due for release around March 2008; it has been produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio [2]. However, the band discarded Sitek’s final mix, opting to remix the entire record themselves, due to an undesired “spacey” sound as a result of heavy use of reverb. The album leaked onto the internet on 2nd February 2008.
Video Below… Jam!
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Glasgow art-rock three-piece F.O. Machete have perfect band DNA. Recent history shows that for the best alternative guitar tunes, three really is the magic number. Heres a quick list off the top. Nirvana. Sebadoh. Mclusky. The Flaming Lips. Debut Machete album, Blaze of Flashes, is notice that the next band in this list has arrived. This is music that chats you up in the bar with humour and intelligence, then gets you back to its place, brings in two of its friends, hands you a Viagra and covers you in oil. This stuff can rip your face off at 50 meters but has a hook your mum might sing along to. You want cynical and vicious yet at the same time infectiously bouncy, upbeat lyrics? Get this record. What if Olivia Newton-John had dated Steve Albini? What if Bjork and P.J. Harvey had a daughter? This record shows what would have happened. And there are songs about Richard Pryor. How cool does this sound?’
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Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma [3:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Vampire Weekend - Walcot [3:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadVampire Weekend is this great indie rock band I recently found. They’re Ivy League, which influences their style - both musical and personal (they dress well). They have a great sound and catchy lyrics. Check out “Oxford Comma” (above).
Their album comes out January 29th, listen to a few of their songs on Myspace, then head over to Amazon to preorder.
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