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Vintage Q&A With the Decemberists' Colin Meloy

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2008-04-23 06:31:26 by HASH0x8bf4188 in Backbeat Online
...populist feel to the music, and it was attracting, dare I say, some of the frattier elements, and it got really discouraging to me at a point where I would look out at the audience and see these people. I dont want that to sound snobby, but to actually see people that probably wouldnt have given me the time of day in high school that crowd of...
 
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Countrypolitik: Whats Right and Whats Left About Country Music

2008-10-20 15:10:59 by takecountryback in Taking it Back to the Roots!
 
...populist streak. While to an extent, the cowboy imagery and characters prevalent in a lot of country songs are inherently apolitical, speaking to a time and place located permanently elsewhere , outside any current political situation, the working class characters that also populate the genre often espouse a politic that seems more in line...
 
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Guitars and jazz tradition, popularism, innovation

2007-10-23 16:36:54 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...populist if not outright commercial) audience while keeping himself interested in what he's playing, too. Traditional jazz fans have abjured the guitar right along for somehow tainting their musical ideals. I suppose the prevalence of guitar in other vernacular American music threatens the purists, while attracting audiences who could care...
 
Tags: jazz, jazz century, traditional jazz fans, jazz guitarists, guitar, scofield, john scofield, electric instrument, electric
 
 
 
 
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2006-07-18 01:28:00 by John in THE TOFU HUT
...populist entertainment that was reproduced and enjoyed literally millions of times Tanaka was a video game sound engineer and composer for Nintendo from 1980 to the end of the nineties. These days, Tanaka works as the President of Creatures, Inc , which shares the Pokemon trademark with Nintendo; but in his heyday, 'Hip' was responsible for...
 
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Best 2007 - San Francisco: David Harrington's Foreign Policy

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2007-12-26 08:03:02 by HASH0x8930da0 in Backbeat Online
...populist ( The Lawrence Welk Show first inspired Harrington to pick up the violin), Kronos's leader offers a list of musicians who brought his continents a little closer this year Damon Albarn, Monkey: Journey to the West Damon made this fantastic [theater] piece using a Chinese legend. It's like an opera, but it has acrobatics and dance. I...
 
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Post a Folk Article

2008-01-01 19:45:19 by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog in Music Banter
 
...populist signs are fresh albums featuring Led Zeppelins Robert Plant collaborating with bluegrass diva Alison Krauss and soul survivor Bettye LaVette teaming with Dirty Southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers This creative movement began percolating in the mid 90s, when the Fat Possum label released the nastiest, punkiest authentic juke-joint...
 
Tags: dirty blues, blues, punk-blues fest, authentic juke-joint blues, 1920s blues, deep blues festival, white stripes, powerhouse soul groovers, new-dirty-blues fray
 
 
 
 
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David Amram: Valley Guy

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2008-01-04 07:31:42 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...populist message without the politics or pandering. You hear the small towns and cities of America, not Europe. You hear the Plains, the Rockies, the creak of wooden floors, the whispery sound of Aspens blowing, the groans of working stiffs and the joyful sound of kids playing. Variations is a virtual cross-country musical road trip. And no...
 
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Jazz And The Poet Laureate

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2008-01-11 09:05:00 by dramsey in Rifftides
...populist poet laureate by inviting Americans to send him their favorite verses, indeed teaches at Boston University. But the plan did call for him to try one exercise out of the jazz world, not academia: a round of "trade fours" with the drummer, Cyrille. Normally, musicians throw a few bars back and forth, "just have a conversation," the...
 
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The Atonal Century

2008-01-15 11:18:26 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...populist end of the artistic spectrum. Now we just keep playing the old favourites while, hopefully, new composers figure something out
 
Tags: tonality, tuneful tonality, composers figure, music, composers, avant-garde music, john cage, century, gods message
 
 
 
 
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Jonah Bayer speaks the truth about music snobs

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2008-01-31 23:43:24 by matt burst in Burst Labs
...populist musical stepping stone for the lesser-informed. I wanted to know how he came to single out these 10 records from the scores of albums created solely to provide music snobs and indie bloggers material to pontificate on In his emailed response, he graciously provided me his reasoning for each selection. Heres his email: (more
 
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