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UNDER COVERS VOLUME 3
posted: September 5, 2009
Welcome to the third installment of Under Covers, a biweekly column dedicated to exploring the musical possibilities of artists appreciating one another’s work on both the OurStage and national level! Everybody’s proud of something. For…
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HOT BLOODED
posted: September 4, 2009
Sir Henry Hotspur Percy’s contribution to history was leading an unsuccessful siege against King Henry IV, thereby giving rise to the term hotspur ” meaning a rash and hotheaded man. A mere 600 years later,…
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BACKTRACKING FORWARD: WHITE BOY BLUES
posted: September 3, 2009
When one thinks of blues music, images of cramped, smoke-filled bars and weathered black musicians belting out throaty songs as they fret on their worn guitars inevitably come to mind. The names Muddy Waters, Otis…
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HEY! YOU GOT ELECTRONICA IN MY ROCK MUSIC!
posted: September 2, 2009
Artists listing laptops as members of their group; bands inducing genre-tags such as “nintendocore” “ what could have possibly led to this? You may not believe it, but today’s electronica started back in the day.…
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HOW TO PUT ON A BENEFIT SHOW
posted: September 2, 2009
World hunger, homelessness, disease, baby sea turtles”most of us have donated to a charity of some sort in our lifetime. There may come a time when you are inspired to organize your own charity event,…
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Q&A … AND GENERAL CONVERSATION… WITH ?UESTLOVE
posted: September 1, 2009
Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson, drummer extraordinaire and co-founder of the hardest working hip hop band, The Roots, talks with OurStage during a break from taping the Jimmy Fallon Show. Beside touring all over the world, The…
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