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Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party Sees Spoon Slay


Spirits were high in Capitol Hill this weekend, as was the ratio of space bar music to instrumental bands.

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The Clearwater Festival Lives On

Founded by the late folk music legend Pete Seeger 49 years ago, Clearwater Festival 2014, which takes place on June 21 and 22, on the banks of the Hudson River at beautiful Croton Point Park, Croton-On-Hudson, NY. The festival has been declared by Outside Magazine, "One of the Top four Festivals in the US." 

As the country’s oldest and largest music and environmental festival, The Great Hudson River Revival (Clearwater Festival) brings together major musical acts and Clearwater’s own brand of green activism for a unique weekend every June.

90.7FM WFUV Radio will be broadcasting live from the festival this year.

Over 100 artists will perform over seven bio-diesel or solar powered stages including:

  • Lucinda Williams
  • The Mavericks
  • Rufus Wainwright
  • Norah Jones' new project Puss N Boots (featuring Norah, Sasha Dobson & Catherine Popper)
  • moe.Acoustic
  • Richard Thompson
  • Martin Sexton,
  • Josh Ritter
  • David Bromberg Big Band
  • Lake Street Dive
  • Bettye LaVette
  • Jake Shimabukuro
  • Buckwheat Zydeco
  • The Klezmatics, Nicole Atkins Band
  • Toshi Reagon & Big Lovely
  • Laurie Berkner
  • Dan Bern
  • Dar Williams
  • Garland Jeffreys  

There is a Metro-North Festival Package which features a discounted rail fare from any Metro-North Station, plus a discounted Festival Pass. 

Get off at Croton-Harmon Station and jump on a free shuttle bus which takes you right to the festival entrance. Shuttle bus service runs all day. 

Be sure to get tickets before they go up in price over festival weekend. To purchase tickets, call 877-435-9849 or go to the website. Kids 12 & under get in for free.

For more info, go to: ClearwaterFestival.org

Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival (The Clearwater Festival)
June 21st - 22nd, 2014

Croton Point Park
Croton-on-Hudson, NY

SoundTrack Cologne Examines Music in Film & Games

It is fascinating to see what an impression video game music has made on people over the decades. You can talk to someone that claims to have no interest in videogames or knowledge of music, but they can instantly recognize the the jaunty theme from Super Mario Bros. A Russian folk-song, Korobeinki, is now forever associated with falling blocks. Not to mention there has been a rise in bands that emulate the music of video games from the 80’s and 90’s, and even an entire rock operas composed based on stories from games. So SoundTrack Cologne (November 21 - 24, 2013, various locations), now in its 10th installment, celebrates music in games and movies, which propel us ever forward to the controller or to the box office.

Along with assembling experts and professionals that compose music for the film industry, SoundTrack Cologne examines the importance of music in gaming. In the panel series Composing For Games, Jason Graves (Tomb Raider, Deadspace), Greg Edmonson (Uncharted) and Knut Avenstroup-Haugen (Age of Conan) discuss their careers and the challenges of composing music for games and digital media. Graves, Haugen, and Edmonson will also be running a series of workshops individually

Following the talks, the Kölner Philharmonie, the WDR Rundfunkorchester, along with the band Spark, will put on a concert featuring songs from games including The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Galaxy. For those of you in Cologne unable to get a ticket because it’s sold out, or those of you living in another country, the show will be broadcast on the WDR Livestream.

Besides celebrating music in games, Sountrack Cologne host the See the Sound Festival of Films about Music, and screen films including: The Punk Singer, Trains of Thought, and Kidd Life.

SoundTrack Cologne embodies the powerful sway that music can have in media. Whether it’s a catchy tune that motivates us to jump on another turtle, or a swelling orchestral score in a film.

To learn more, go to: http://www.soundtrackcologne.de/index_e.htm

SoundTrack Cologne
November 21 - 24, 2013

Various Locations

Kyary Pamyu Live at San Fran J-Pop Summit

Do you like pop music, but wish there were more colors and sense assaulting costumes? Japanese pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu will be appearing at San Francisco’s J-Pop Summit Festival (July 27 – 28, 2013). Kyary, who’s single PonPonPon has over 50 million views on Youtube, will be putting on a free concert, as part of the festival’s theme of “Making Kawaii Universal.” Kyary will also appear with designer Sebastion Masuda, founder of the 6%DOKIDOKI fashion brand. Along with the concert there will also be a special Harajuku Kawaii!! Pop-Up Shop where you can buy some of the latest clothes from out of Tokyo from labels like  6%DOKIDOKI, MILK, MILK BOY, SPINS, INNOCENT WORLD, GLAD NEWS, ON THE COUCH, Candies, Hell Cat Punks, Omocha-Party, and NADIA.

While not the first time Japanese pop and fashion had attempted to court major audiences (Pizzicato 5, the darlings of Shibuya, used to be on heavy rotation on MTV), but the release of Gwen Stefani’s Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004 coupled with the anime boom of the early oughts, caused Harajuku fashion to go from an obscure oddity tucked away on the other side of the globe to an international phenomenon.  The J-Pop Summit of San Francisco, and its sister festival, The Japan Film Festival, brings this unique facet of Japanese culture to the states.

To learn more, go to http://www.j-pop.com

J-Pop Summit Festival
July 27 – 28, 2013

San Francisco

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