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Thanks to the revelation of blistering, harmony-rich tracks like “Call It in the Air” from Jimmy Eat World’s 1996 album “Static Prevails,” we narrowly avoided a college career devoted to Dave Mathews soft-rock mediocrity. Thank you so very much, sirs. Then again, it did send us shooting off into an unstoppable spiral of emo fandom. Anyway, Jimmy Eat World, which you probably know from unimpeachably perfect pop tracks like “The Middle” and “Sweetness,”
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Shaggy singer-songwriter Hayes Carll is being compared to Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, and Bob Dylan (good for him, right?), and tonight’s your chance to see the man following in these legendary footsteps. Notable songs on the Texan’s new disc, “Trouble in Mind,” include the cowboy-rock track “She Left Me for Jesus” and the heartbreaker “Willing to Love Again,” which starts, “I drink too much, and I smoke too much. I laugh at all my own jokes too
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After 60 professional years, most of Kurt Masur’s resume has collected honorifics. Conductor laureate of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and music director emeritus of the New York Philharmonic, Masur will add another in the fall: honorary music director for life of the Orchestre National de France - but not before one last tour as music director proper, which brought orchestra and conductor to Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon.

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Maybe you two hepcats already know this is Jazz Week in Boston. (If you don’t, check jazzboston.org/about/jazzweek2008-events.asp.) Either way, Daddy-o and his baby could use a midweek break, so why not make today an all jazz, all the time groove.

Get the lowdown at lunchtime at the Boston Public Library, where musician and educator Emmett Price III will give a talk called “From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond: Why Jazz Matters in the 21st Century.” Noon. Free. Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston, Boston. bpl.org

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CAMBRIDGE - Big-name soloists these days command truly astronomical fees, placing them beyond the reach of a semi-professional orchestra like the Boston Philharmonic. Conductor Benjamin Zander has therefore had to be creative with his choices of whom he brings to appear with the group. He has a good track record of recruiting once-eminent players who still have plenty to say with their music but whose dance cards are less full, such as the violinist
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Authorities decided against prosecuting Vanilla Ice for a domestic battery charge since his wife recanted her original statement.

The 40-year-old performer (real name: Robert Van Winkle) — who sold 15 million copies of the single “Ice Ice Baby” in 1990 — was arrested April 10 at the couple’s home. Authorities said his wife called 911 and claimed he kicked and hit her during an argument. She later told deputies he only pushed her.

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INDIO, Calif.—Have you seen this pig? It’s huge, inflatable, features the word “Obama” and it has lost its way in the California desert.

Organizers for the Coachella music festival announced that the gigantic blowup swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters’ headlining set Sunday, was still out there — and they want it back.

The festival is offering a $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life for the safe return of the pig, according to spokeswoman Marcee Rondan.

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LONDON—When John Lennon gave Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to “Give Peace a Chance” in 1969, he told the teen to hold on to the piece of paper.

“It will be worth something someday,” predicted Lennon, who was in the midst of his famous eight-day “bed-in” with his new wife, Yoko Ono, in Montreal.

She did, and it is. Christie’s plans to auction the lyric sheet in July as the centerpiece in its rock and pop memorabilia sale. The words to the enduring peace anthem are expected to fetch more than $400,000.

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LOS ANGELES—Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the sex tape from a memorabilia collector.

The 11 minutes of footage, reportedly shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago, features Hendrix — or someone who looks like him — engaged in various sexual acts with two women.

The company said they consulted with experts to authenticate
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BALTIMORE—Bob Dylan has joined the lineup of the 3rd Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Course on Aug. 9-10.

Other performers include The Offspring, Wilco, Iggy & The Stooges, Chuck Berry and previously announced acts Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots, according to a statement posted on the festival’s Web site.

Plans call for two main stages at the race course and a dance tent spotlighting electronic music.

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Music On Hold System Requirements And Limits

The following system requirements and limits apply to the Music on Hold feature, all audio streaming devices that are using the Music on Hold feature support simplex streams. The music on hold server supports at least 500 simplex streams. This music on hold server, which is installed as an option from Call Manager Administration, can coexist with other Cisco and third-party media
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Music On Hold Distinctiveness

The integrated Music on Hold feature allows users to place on-net and off-net users on hold with music that is streamed from a streaming source. This source makes music available to any possible on-net or off-net device that is placed on hold. On-net devices include station devices and applications that are placed on hold, consult hold, or park hold by an interactive voice response or call distributor.
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How Moh Advantage Programs Work?

The On Hold Advantage programs will work with any business telephone system that has music on hold (MOH) capability. Above feature is located on the “main telephone box” or key service unit (KSU) of the telephone system. In many cases, a simple connection cord is used to connect the on hold playback equipment to the telephone system, similar to hooking up headphones to a stereo. Different
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The Genuine Report Concerning Soulful Church Music Downloads

Gospel music is one of the most popular genres of music these days. There are people all around the world who love to listen to this specific type of music. Acquiring them has become very easy at present. With the domination of Internet in every sphere of our life, various downloading sites are available that offer a wide range of Gospel music.

Gospel music
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Vital Frequency In Satellite Radio

Vital frequency is the maximum frequency of the radio wave which is returned from a layer for normal incident. In case the frequency of the radio wave exceeds the critical frequency the influence of the ionosphere layer on the path of propagation depends upon the angle of incidence at the ionosphere. With the large value of angle of incidence the electron density is small. In such case the
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Health Insurance For Musicians? - An Innovative Austin Program

Austin enjoys the self-promoted but well-deserved reputation as live music capital of the world. In recent years, the city has decided to put its money where its mouth is to ensure that it stays that way. One of the most innovative and socially progressive ways it is doing that is by providing an insurance program for working musicians through HAAM, or Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.
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How To Use Polychords To Improvise Jazz

About sixty years later, jazz musicians as John Coltrane and Richie Bierach incorporated such ideas into their music. The benefits of learning poly-chords will enhance an improviser’s repertoire of harmonic concepts. Thus they can create harmonic colorings that can influence a listener’s outlook. This article will focus on how once can practice and incorporate tertian polychords into their
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Let’s Write A Chorus.

A chorus is more or less the heart of a song, at least if it’s a good one of course. Why this is true is not as obvious as it seems. People always tend to remember the chorus of a song, while it may not even be the most interesting part of the song at all. The easiest explanation of course
is the fact that the chorus is usually played a couple of times during a song. But if this was the only reason
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Unsurpassed Messages On Moh

Affording your business an edge in both advertising marketing is a smart idea and creating an opportunity to target your customers in such a way as to strengthen your business relationship and increase your sales is a smart idea too. And all of these can be done with a simple message-on-hold production, but not just any message is able to do all these things. The primary key here, as with any good
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BAYREUTH, Germany—Wolfgang Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner’s operas, said in a letter issued Tuesday that he will step down after leading the event for nearly six decades.

The letter from the 88-year-old Wagner — grandson of composer Richard Wagner, who founded the festival in 1872 — was read to reporters by his lawyer, Stefan Mueller, after a meeting of the festival’s board of directors.

“For
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Repeaters Purpose

The functions performed by repeaters are amplification and frequency down conversion. Repeater amplifies signal from a low power level of the order of negative hundred decibels watt to an output power level of the order of ten decibel watts thus providing again of the order of hundred and ten decibel. Frequency down conversion avoids interference between strong transmitted signals and weak returning signal
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Ipod Unlimited

When the first iPod was launched, nobody had imagined that it would be such a hit. A brain child of Tony Fadell, it was first conceived to provide a better version of an MP3 player. After being turned down by RealNetworks and Phillips, Fadell found support for his project with Apple. Tony Fadell went to work for Apple as an independent contractor, leading a team of thirty people to develop the new MP3 player.
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Let’s Improve Your Employment Prospects As A Musician

How do you expand your opportunities to work in the music business? How do you improve your employment prospects? The key to doing that is developing your versatility. There are many ways of expanding what you already know how to do as a musician. It’s all about using the skills that you already possess and channeling them towards related fields.

Ask yourself what
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In 1994 UK trip-hop trio Portishead made creeping dread a viable commercial prospect on its popular and influential album “Dummy,” and ubiquitous single “Sour Times.” Beth Gibbons’s woozy warbling, the hint of a tinkling piano in a distant cellar, mechanized yet unsteady beats: This was the sound of your brain on drugs, without actually needing drugs.

The group released a second album in 1997, a live collection the following year, and then quietly
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A gentle California breeze blew into Boston over the weekend in the form of a long-limbed, bronze-skinned beach babe named Colbie Caillat. She wore a sweet white dress and a flower in her hair and sang sunny pop tunes about magic and the little things and letting her feelings show. The girls in the audience at the Orpheum screamed “I love you,” because that’s what they do, but when Caillat’s set was finished and the singer left the stage, nobody clamored for an encore.

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We thank Miller Lite for the free rock. Last month, the beer company sponsored a free show starring Everclear. Tonight, it brings us the Pat McGee Band, a Virginia group that is best when it plays its sensitive, summertime pop-rock live. All you have to do is RSVP online and you get in for free. 9 p.m. Bill’s Bar, 5 Lansdowne St., Boston. 617-421-9678. going.com/PatMcGeeBand© Copyright 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO - With his penetrating gaze and studious demeanor, the Puerto Rican-born alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón is a study in quiet confidence. But a few days after he became one of the youngest jazz musicians ever awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, Zenón is still a little dazzled and dazed as the news sinks in.

“When I first heard, everybody around me was going crazy, but I was like, yeah, I still want to get the official letter,”
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CAMBRIDGE - Scott Metcalfe’s Blue Heron Renaissance Choir finished its season on Saturday with an Iberian anthology to accompany the Museum of Fine Arts’ “El Greco to Velásquez” exhibit, focused on the artistic patronage of King Philip III’s éminence grise, the Duke of Lerma. Older historians regarded the duke as an unscrupulous mooch; recent revisionists have proposed him as a canny, pro-monarchist political innovator. Regardless, and as the expansive program demonstrated, the duke spent freely on musical adornment.

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As a producer Don Was has worked on critically acclaimed albums by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bonnie Raitt to the B-52s. This year he stepped back into the role of performer with his absurdist dance-rock band Was (Not Was), famous for its wacky 1988 hit “Walk the Dinosaur.” The group recently released its first album in 16 years, called “Boo!” A mix of classic soul, techno, and spoken-word weirdness - featuring songwriting help from Dylan and a
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Hundreds of dancing queens throughout the city have been primping in the mirror for weeks now in preparation for tonight’s performance by Sweden’s Euro-beat, electro-pop diva Robyn. They’ve got good reason to be excited too; Robyn, whom you may remember from her brief foray into stateside pop stardom with hits like “Show Me Love,” has been on a fierce resurgence with disco anthems such as “With Every Heartbeat” and “Who’s That Girl” finally being
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