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I'm excited! "The Music Cleveland Newsletter"


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Published Oct. 22, 2009 at 9:12 a.m.

We have had lots of inquiries asking us to come out with a newsletter that would contain useful information that bands, musicians, club owners, and fans could use at a local level ... We gave your suggestion alot of thought and since a newsletter can be a rather tedious, time consuming project, we wanted to make sure that we could deliver the kind of information that you were interested in. We have GREAT NEWS! The The Music Cleveland Newsletter will start going out to subscribers via email on

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Arts District: Puppet Rallies


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Published Oct. 21, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

And more local arts news ... by Michael Gill ... The Bread and Puppet Theater — founded in 1962 on the Lower East Side of New York and based since 1970 in Vermont — is coming to Cleveland to rally support for the Cleveland Food Co-op. Bread and Puppets is known for its utopian vision and political street theater. Performances include live music, dance and giant puppets. They're bringing two programs to town. The first — the Dirt Cheap Money Circus — is the more topical, featuring "the

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Janis Joplin's Old Band Is Still Making Music


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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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A chance meeting led guitarist Sam Andrew to form a band with Peter Albin more than 40 years ago. After all these years, Big Brother and the Holding Company are still around. “It was one of those aimless things,” says Andrew. “If I had turned left instead of right, it might have never happened. I was walking down Page Street [in San Francisco], which is parallel to Haight, and I heard him playing a John Lee Hooker guitar style, which he could do really well. I was like, ‘We should form a

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RUMBA SINFONICA TWO FOR ONE FOR SCENE READERS


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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 9:45 a.m.
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Venezuela Ricardo Lorenz’s Rumba Sinfonica—for orchestra and latin band—has been played by no less than 22 orchestras, which is an astonishing number for a piece of new music ... No surprise. Everyone from hip hop artists to smooth jazzers to Dancing with the Stars wants a piece of Latin music these days ... And as Lorenz told Scene in an interview, the melding of styles is de rigueur in Cuban music ... “That is the story of Cuban music. You go back 100 years or more to the Son, that in

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Around Hear: Edotkom Brings Real Rap Back


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Published Oct. 14, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

And more local music news ... by D.X. Ferris ... "Real rap is back," declares MC Siege at the onset of Idols & Icons, the new album by Edotkom, a duo that was once one of Cleveland hip-hop's bright lights. In street years, 2002's Obsidian was an eon ago. But that's not a problem for the group; it never was big on street cred. The double threats still write lyrics about business, comic books, movies and maturity. "It officially marks the return of the back-packing hip-hop movement," says

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RUMBA RUMBLINGS


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Published Oct. 13, 2009 at 12:56 p.m.
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Pianist and music director Jorge Gomez, of Tiempo Libre was in Los Angeles with his band mates this morning, getting ready to record an episode of Dancing with the Stars. The twice-Grammy nominated Timba band is busy lately, with a new album (Bach in Havana, released in May, 2009), and a steady stream of bookings with orchestras to perform Ricardo Lorenz’s Rhumba Sinfonica—which they’ll do next week here with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, directed by Carl Topilow ... Tiempo

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Yay! Bruce Will Play All of "Born to Run" in Cleveland


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Published Oct. 12, 2009 at 9:38 a.m.
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We're getting oh-so-tired of all these bands trying to spark sagging ticket sales by performing albums in their entirety (seriously: Does anyone really need to hear everything from Dr. Fucking Feelgood ?) ... But we're all for the latest bit of news coming Cleveland's way: Bruce Springsteen will perform Born to Run in its entirety when he plays Quicken Loans Arena on November 10 ... That's cool news for us. The classic 1975 album even comes with two perfect bathroom breaks: "Night" and

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DEATH RATTLE


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Published Oct. 7, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

Bang and Clatter's swan song, Lady, will make us miss them even more ... by Christine Howey ... Beset by financialtroubles and an ill-advised expansion to Cleveland caused by what Alan Greenspan might term "irrational exuberance," the Bang and the Clatter founders Sean McConaha and Sean Derry have been forced to fold their tents in both Cleveland and Akron. But their final production gives a capsule view of what they contributed to the local theater scene. Lady, authored by Craig Wright (Six

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Tommy Lee Visits the Rock Hall


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Published Oct. 5, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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Showing no signs of wear after having flown to Cleveland on a red eye from Las Vegas (where he celebrated his 47th birthday, no less), Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee stopped by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Saturday for a brief press conference before taking a tour of the exhibits ... In town to judge the Fortune Battle of the Corporate Bands, Lee got a kick out of the Les Paul experimental guitars hanging on the walls of the room where he was sequestered in front of a slew of news

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Marsland Attacks!


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Published Oct. 2, 2009 at 3:42 p.m.

Lovers of straightforward classic pop/rock should head to the Barking Spider (11310 Juniper Rd., 216.421.2863, ) Sunday, October 4, and catch L.A. troubadour Adam Marsland, currently on tour supporting his latest album, the 23-track Go West , which was released in August. It’s his first album of new studio material in five years although he hasn’t been inactive, working on projects like a tribute to Beach Boy Dennis Wilson ... Marsland earned a reputation among power-pop aficionados back in

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