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Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:00 |
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The local music scene is rich with all sorts of musical styles, but hip hop is woefully underrepresented in the area. Local rap artist Commandiz Freez wants to fill that void, but he’s also aiming for bigger things. |
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Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:00 |
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You could not ask for a better venue. You could not ask for a better regional orchestra. And you could not ask for a better crowd, as more than 10,000 people packed into LeClaire Park on Saturday with blankets, wine, snacks, and the desire to end the summer right at the Quad City Symphony Orchestra’s Riverfront Pops concert.
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Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:00 |
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The raking guitar and pounding double bass drums might hurt your mom’s ears, but when the lyrical content contains everything from Jungian and Melchezekian philosophy to a disturbing sexual metaphor for social numbness, it’s worth a listen.
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Tuesday, 03 September 2002 18:00 |
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Unless you’re of a certain age (under 30) and with a certain musical taste (complex loud music), there’s a good chance you’ve never heard the music of Tool. The band gets little airplay, rarely writes the standard verse-chorus-verse song, and – to the untrained ear – produces something more akin to formless noise than music. |
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Tuesday, 23 July 2002 18:00 |
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I was excited to check out New York’s Ulu when they came to Summerfest on July 12. I knew that they’d played at RIBCO a few months back, and I’d heard a snippet of Live at the Wetlands, Ulu’s second album, recorded in November of ’99.
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