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Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Ferret Plays Guitar (VIDEO)

Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Guitar, Ferrets, I Can Has Cheezburger, Ferret vs Guitar, Ferret, Video, Animals, Cute Animal Videos, Comedy News

The people at I Can Has Cheezburger are consistently finding the funniest and furriest little guys for their videos, and this ferret is no exception. ...

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Mark Knopfler: 'I Have Become A Veteran At This Music Thing'

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Michael Jordan, David Letterman, Prairie Home Companion, Steve Jobs, Music Industry, Fender Guitar, The Beatles, Cds, Border Reiver, Born in the Usa, Guitar, Bruce Springsteen, Fender, Entertainment News
Jesse Kornbluth

The guy whose band, Dire Straits, sold 120 million records has made a CD that will be appreciated mostly by the smallest cohort of music lovers: smart, literate grownups who can read without moving their lips.

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Les Paul: The Original Guitar Hero

Shawn Amos | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Guitar Hero, Pete Townshend, Mary Ford, Gibson, Guitar, Slash, Les Paul, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

Paul dedicated his entire life to the guitar and recording technology. A jazz musician who was unhappy with the guitars available to him, Paul developed his own guitar.

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Movie review: It Might Get Loud

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jack White, Davis Guggenheim, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, U2, The Edge, Led Zeppelin, It Might Get Loud Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Jimmy Page, Film Industry, Oscar Winners, An Inconvenient Truth, Rock Music, Guitar, Music Industry, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's a kind of guitar summit, with the three guitarists sitting around in overstuffed chairs on a platform in the middle of an L.A. soundstage, talking about electric guitars and playing them.

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Interview: Davis Guggenheim Says It Might Get Loud

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Eric Clapton, Jack White, The White Stripes, U2, The Edge, Led Zeppelin, Davis Guggenheim Interview, Jimi Hendrix, Marshall Fine Interview, Jimmy Page, Electric-Guitar, Rock Band, Guitar, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It Might Get Loud portrays three generations of guitarists: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, The Edge of U2 and Jack White of the White Stripes, all talking about their love of the electric guitar.

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News
Jesse Larner

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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GOLDEN NOTEBOOK: Plugging Into The Future

Michael Conniff | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Supernovel, Guitar, Technology, Online, Les Paul, Novel, Internet Literature, Internet, Browsing, Internet Art, Computers, Web, Multi-Media, Media News
Michael Conniff

The conventions of the book require an obvious organizational structure. The multi-media web is the new book--the Supernovel --and it is inherently open-ended.

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Asa: The Next Generation's Voice Of African Protest

Modiba | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

Read More: Nigeria, Guitar, Yoruba, Music, Keziah Jones, Fela Kuti, Protest, Asa, Global Music Corner, World Music Corner, World News
Modiba

What do you get when you take a bit of Bob Marley, a chunk of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, add some India Arie pre-mixed with Miriam Makeba and Angélique Kidjo and finish it off with Yoruba classics?

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A Modern Classic: Young Knives' Superabundance, 2008, Post-Punk With Enthusiasm

Alex Remington | Posted 11.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: British Music, Punk, Guitar, Post-Punk, Music, Rock, Young Knives, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Derivative isn't a bad thing, provided you can come up with a good enough hook.

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