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Gig review: Coldplay/Jay-ZCOLDPLAY/JAY-Z *** HAMPDEN PARK, GLASGOW
Scotsman Thursday, September 17, 2009Opera review: Don CarloDON CARLO *** ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON
Scotsman Thursday, September 17, 2009Gig review: Codeine Velvet ClubCODEINE VELVET CLUB *** CLASSIC GRAND, GLASGOW
Scotsman Thursday, September 17, 2009Gig review: Twin AtlanticTWIN ATLANTIC *** WINTER GARDENS, GLASGOW
Scotsman Thursday, September 17, 2009Fox's 'Fringe' finds its footingAnd creator J.J. Abrams is eager to give it free rein. 'The rhythm of show is clear now,' costar Blair Brown says. The low-slung motel looked like the sort of place Norman Bates might open as a north-of-the-border expansion of the old family business. The roadside sign promised "TELEPHONES" in every room but the brownish-orange carpeting and peeling paint were nothing to call home about. The radioactive Russian cosmonaut in the parking lot, however, was something you don't see everyday.
LA Times Thursday, September 17, 2009Mary Travers dies at 72; folk singer performed with the trio Peter, Paul and MaryThe group's harmony-laden recordings of politically minded songs by Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ushered them to the top of the sales charts in the 1960s. Mary Travers, the clarion-voiced female third of the quintessential folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary whose harmony-laden recordings of politically minded songs by Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ushered them to the top of the sales charts in the 1960s, died Wednesday after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.
LA Times Thursday, September 17, 2009Alan Gilbert conducts a new era at New York PhilThe
music director's debut at Avery Fisher Hall shows a capable, if not overly exciting, talent at work. As far as New York Philharmonic season-opening galas go, Alan Gilbert's Wednesday night in Avery Fisher Hall is said to have been daring. Nothing outrageous mind you, not that the relatively sober-seeming audience should have objected to a little musical hanky-panky. Many Wall Street chance-takers are New York Philharmonic patrons, and they were in attendance, to hear the AIG and other banking chit-chat.
LA Times Thursday, September 17, 2009Time to take Susan Boyle seriouslyShe should no longer be considered a sideshow. As she proved again, on 'America's Got Talent,' she should be appreciated for her singing ability. Susan Boyle placed her hands on her abdomen as she sang the last note of the song "Wild Horses" Wednesday on the finale of "America's Got Talent," taking the familiar stance of a trained singer, carefully locating her breath. The pose concluded a performance that was exactly what Boyle's mentor, Simon Cowell, could have hoped for -- lovely, inspirational, free of surprises.
LA Times Thursday, September 17, 2009First Ooh La L.A! festival in Hollywood features French pop musicThe lineup will include Emilie Simon, Nouvelle Vague and Sebastien Tellier. "There was a terrible rumor throughout Europe that started back in the 1960s," explained David Martinon, the consul general of France in Los Angeles, during a Champagne reception in a posh Beverly Hills backyard. "While we were looked at as a country that excelled in art, literature, fashion and movies, it was also believed that France didn't know how to rock. We're here to change all of that."
LA Times Thursday, September 17, 2009Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays playing L.A., AnaheimOnce again proving that late-career revival tours are the last bastion of getting paid to play music, the Madchester veterans in the Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays are teaming up to bring chiming guitars and rave-leaning beats back to sad-eyed club kids everywhere. With the promising young shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire. Club Nokia, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite A335, Los Angeles. 7 p.m. Fri. $24-$31.50. www.clubnokia.com . Also at House of Blues Anaheim, 1530 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim. 7 p.m. Sat. $32.50. www.hob.com .
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