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The Music Man: Local’s music Web site a staple in Gainesville
By SHAW PATTON | May 28, 2008His birth name is Shawn Dalton, but even his mother affectionately calls him "Glyph."
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Overexposure, fading novelty define ‘Idol’ decline
By ANA MONTANO | May 21, 2008The show that revived Paula Abdul's career and hooked audiences for six seasons has lost its grip on American viewers. Though the show still tops the ratings list, the success of "American Idol" is fading.
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Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour takes audience to another world
By ANA MONTANO | May 14, 2008The next few months are the prime time for music lovers to catch a great show. And if you're looking to see one good concert this year, go see Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour. This show was surrounded by a halo of hype from the get-go. It received stellar reviews all around, and when Entertainment Weekly gave the show a B+, it got an earful from Kanye who responded on his blog, "What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. It's either pass or fail! A+ or F-!"
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CD compilations capture memories, show creativity
By MEGAN HERON | May 14, 2008Goodbyes are tough.
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Guitar weapon of choice on Massacre's 'Underground'
By ROBERT HILSON | Apr. 16, 2008Anton Newcombe isn't your run-of-the-mill cult figure.
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Florida acoustic pop group making national waves
By MARGARET FRANCOIS | Apr. 16, 2008It is not every day that you walk into your first period class as an aspiring musician and walk out with a manager, but that is exactly what happened for members of the Florida pop group Mark & James.
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Summer guide to the biggest live music tours in Florida
By ADRIAN RUHI | Apr. 16, 2008For some, summer means no school, endless hours of basking in the sun, and milking your parents for money before you go back to "adult duties" in the fall. For me, though, it means paying absurdly high prices on Ticketmaster to see some of pop music's biggest acts perform extravagant sets in not-ideal-for-live-music venues, like NBA arenas. To help you decide what to check out this summer, here are few of my picks.
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Matt Pond PA discusses touring, music
By ALLIE CONTI | Apr. 16, 2008Matt Pond called me in a whisper aboard his tour bus Saturday afternoon.
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Britain's Estelle glimmers on sophomore long player
By ADRIAN RUHI | Apr. 9, 2008You have probably never heard of Estelle, but you will shortly.
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'Walk It Off' never finds its legs
By ROBERT HILSON | Apr. 9, 2008Blame it on the blogs. Blame it on the fickle keyboard elitists who promised us that Tapes 'n Tapes was the second coming of Pavement, the perfectly refined seed of Frank Black and Kim Deal, the revolution that would reclaim the Minneapolis post-punk high ground long abandoned by the Replacements.
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Band touring, preparing new long player
By ALLIE CONTI | Apr. 2, 2008Nightmare of You is not a hardcore band (however misleading their name may be), it is not a pop-punk band and the members are not fighting against their roots.
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'Consolers' bulk a buzz-killer
By ROBERT HILSON | Apr. 2, 2008After the Raconteurs got burned a few years back for proclaiming to NME that "Broken Boy Soldiers" would be their answer to Nirvana's "Nevermind," they apparently decided to dial down the hype machine.
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Avenue takes on: Suwannee Springfest bluegrass festival
By MATTHEW CLARK | Apr. 2, 2008The mission seemed simple enough: In an age of torrent files and Hype Machine, I set out to see if there was any music left uncorrupted by the ongoing wars between corporate America and 20-something hipsters downloading off or blogs or the "OC" soundtrack series.
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Gnarls Barkley gets darker
By ADRIAN RUHI | Apr. 2, 2008Rushed to release several weeks early due to bootlegging, Gnarls Barkley's "The Odd Couple" is anything but rushed.
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Counting Crows play safe on new album, crash anyway
By ROBERT HILSON | Mar. 26, 2008First, the rationalization.
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Expounding on musical taste can lead to judgment
By DAVID LOW | Mar. 26, 2008We're really judgmental.
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David and David: listening to CDs so you don't have to
By DAVID COMBS AND DAVID LOW | Mar. 26, 2008Sitting in the veritable '60s opium den that is the Avenue office, we hazily looked around the room.
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R.E.M. album draws on old sounds for better or worse
By ALLIE CONTI | Mar. 26, 2008It would be hard to jump on the R.E.M. bandwagon at the release of their 14th full-length album.
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More of the same from Snoop
By ADRIAN RUHI | Mar. 19, 2008Somehow, against the odds of the one-hit-wonder factory that dominates the current hip-hop marketplace, Snoop Dogg has pushed on through to a 16-year career. And while his lazy cohort Dr. Dre has only managed to throw us two albums in as much time, Snoop is still relevant on his ninth opus, "Ego Trippin'."
