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An Even Insider Guide Than Your Insider's Guide to the Starz Denver Film Fest

Angora Holly Polo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Denver

Read More: Greta Gerwig, Bob Byington, Justin Rice, Boston, Adam Scott, Official Rejection, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Jean-Luc Godard, The Vicious Kind, Lee Morgan, Starz Denver Film Festival, Harmony and Me, The Departed, Une Femme Est Une Femme, Bishop Allen, Passenger Side, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Pat Healy, Stan Brakhage, Hochelaga-Maisonneauve, Bissonnette, Truffe, Denver News
Angora Holly Polo

Reviewed: Official Rejection, Passenger Side, Truffe, The Vicious Kind, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Harmony and Me.

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HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, The Jacksons, Son Volt, Lawrence Ferenghetti, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Flight of the Conchords, John Mayer, Jay Farrar, Judy Collins, The Killers, Woodstock, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, Curt Worden, Sam Shepard, Jack Kerouac, Twilight, Kris Kristofferson, Big Sur, Patti Smith, The Twilight Sage: New Moon, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, The Doors, Kings of Convenience, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Francis, Murray Lerner, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

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HuffPost Reviews: Alice In Chains, Rosanne Cash, Kiss, and more, plus a Brandi Carlile Interview, and This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Black Orpheus, Sarah Cracknell, Linda Ronstadt, Bola Sete, Indigo Girls, Roxy Music, The Eagles, Andrew Gold, Neil Young, Sade, Stan Getz, Alice in Chains, Brandi Carlile, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, J.D. Souther, Peanuts, Dave Brubeck, Stephen Stills, Lisa Germano, Rosanne Cash, Elton John, Dan Fogelberg, Elvis Costello, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kiss, Joan Armatrading, Jaco Pastorius, Robert Fripp, Wal-Mart, Crosby Stills & Nash, Charles Schulz, Vince Guaraldi, Wilco, Mary Travers, Jeff Tweedy, Robbie Robertson, Erroll Garner, Charlie Brown, Astrid Gilberto, Charlie Mingus, Karla Bonoff, Entertainment News, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, Amy Ray, Sam's Club, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.

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An Interview with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Laura Nyro, Carmen McRae, Crosby Stills & Nash, Music Business, Nancy Wilson, Sergio Mendes, Barbra Streisand, Sam Cooke, Stan Getz, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Judy Garland, Herb Alpert, A & M Records, Miles Davis, Concord Records, Lambert Hendricks & Ross, Cannonball Adderley, Irving Berlin, The Beatles, Michael Shapiro, June Christy, Hal Gaba, Joao Gilberto, Joni Mitchell, Ruth Olay, Frank Sinatra, Lani Hall, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jerry Moss, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Last Herb and Lani re-emerged, hitting the road for a series of low-key shows which were recorded for the newly-released Anything Goes -- the first time they've ever collaborated musically.

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An Interview with Matisyahu, Plus Barbra Streisand and Brian Setzer Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Phish, Hasidic Jew, Entertainment News, Bonnaroo, Reggae, Trey Anastasio, Hip-Hop, Riaa, David Kahne, John Comerford, Greenwich Village, Village Vanguard, Golden Globe Award, Miles Davis, Sonny Dunham, Judy Garland, The Beatles, Benny Carter, Surfdog Records, Doris Day, Stray Cats, Kennedy Center, American Film Institute, Peabody Award, Brian Stezer Orchestra, Film Noir, Orson Welles, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Barbra Streisand, Tony Award, Brian Stezer, The Charlie Daniels Band, Raymond Chandler, Elvis Presley, Cable Ace Award, Jazz, Frank Comstock, Billboard, Grammy Award, Oscar Award, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Matisyahu's latest album, Light showcases his young, old soul, further exploring musical territories of both the secular and sacred.

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Annie Leibovitz: Still One of the Greatest Artists Ever

George Alexander | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., The Rolling Stones, Art Capital, Magic Johnson, Tammy Wynette, Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990, Ron Kovic, Vanity Fair, Muhammed Ali, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Richard Pryor, Louis Armstrong, Richard Nixon, Sly Stone, Bette Midler, Financial Crisis, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Jesse Norman, Divine, Annie Leibovitz, Living News
George Alexander

Annie Leibovitz and the description "struggling artist" can't even be mentioned in the same hemisphere. So I thought.

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Thank God It's Thursday: Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente and Babatunde Olatunji

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Babatunde Olatunji, Eugene Wright, Carlos Santana, Legacy Edition, Gil Evans, Paul Desmond, Horace Parlan, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Michael Cuscuna, Mickey Hart, John Coltrane, Fidel Castro, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Gunther Schuller, Carnegie Hall, Dannie Richmond, Ornette Coleman, The King of Mambo, Manuel De Falla, Tito Puente, Sony, Jazz, Entertainment News, Duke Ellington, El Rey, JoaquíN Rodrigo, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, Joe Morello, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Mostly celebrating jazz's 1959 frontier, six classic albums have been re-imagined as Legacy Editions, expanding each of the originals by adding an extra disc.

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HuffPost Review: Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963 - 1972)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Record Companies, Music Business, Blu-Ray, Cd, Neil Young, Grammy, Miles Davis, 5.1 DTS, Dvd, The Beatles, Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, Compact Disc, Stephen Stills, Tony Stark, Major Labels, Graham Nash, The Squires, The Rolling Stones, David Crosby, Journey Through the Past, Nirvana, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Bob Dylan, The Stray Gators, Iron Man, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Filmore East, Dvd-A, Woodstok, Sacd, Winnipeg, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

In the world of box sets, it would be impossible to find something better than Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963 - 1972).

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It's Official: Nobody's Cool. (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It)

Dean Sluyter | Posted 06.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Baseball, James Dean, Nirvana, Jack Kerouac, Cool, Lester Young, Prez, Beats, Beatniks, Hipsters, Hippies, Buddha, Miles Davis, Jazz, Fantasy Baseball, Charlie Parker, Beat Generation, Meditation, Marlon Brando, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Dan Brown, Fashion, Style News
Dean Sluyter

But cool as an outer pose, as an attitude you can cop, is dead. When the truly cool people show up in your life, you won't recognize them -- they'll be too cool for that.

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Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules

Matthew Kohut | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Jazz, Jack Kerouac, Dave Brubeck, Arts, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Music, Miles Davis, Culture, Entertainment News
Matthew Kohut

How does a music festival remain edgy and relevant? The British fest Meltdown 09 made news recently by tapping Ornette Coleman as director of this year's event.

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Bono: Notes From The Chairman

Nytimes.com | Bono | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Read More: Dublin, Frank Sinatra, Bono New York Times, Bono Times, Arthur Guinness, Bono Oped, Miles Davis, Bono, World News

Once upon a couple of weeks ago ... I'm in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year's. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelr...

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A Sane Holiday Gift Guide: Great Books/CDs/DVDs, Made By People For People, Most Under $20

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Van Morrison, Swiss Army Knife, Alan Furst, State of Play, Seth Greenland, Bon Iver, Arsene Lupin, Tallis Scholars, Dominick Dunne, Miles Davis, The Castle, Masters of Chica, Josh Ritter, Walter Tevis, Peace Coffee, The Snowman, Junior Wells, Local Hero, Sant' Eustachio, The Byrds, Umalali, Holiday Gifts, Housing Crisis, Holiday Gift Guide, Style News
Jesse Kornbluth

I refuse to contribute to the gloom by suggesting that you scribble gift cards for free backrubs to your loved ones.

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Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: John Mellencamp, Sergio Mendes, Carole King, Paul McCartney, Starbucks Coffee, Cocnord Records, Coca Cola, Music News, Miles Davis, Gwen Stefani, Charlie Brown, The Beatles, Vince Guraldi, Starbucks Closing, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Carly Simon, Banana Republic, Coldplay, Business News, Capitol Records, Joni Mitchell, Toby Keith, Zero Mostel, Hear Music, Starbucks, Sheila Weller, James Taylor, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

When it was announced that 600 Starbucks outlets were closing, the music business shared the hit: less stores, less counter and display space, less product, less revenue.

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