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Singer/songwriter Bryan Adams, 43, is a sunny Canadian whose songs are crafted with lapidary precision for Top 40 radio and the playlist of wedding bands. Apparently some of Ryan's more puerile fans find the similarity of their names an irresistible opportunity for humor. At a recent Ryan Adams concert in Nashville, Tenn., a fan shouted out a request for Summer of '69, a Bryan Adams song. Get it? Ryan stopped playing, insisted the lights be turned on, unleashed a torrent of expletives, dug $30 out of his pocket to give the man a "refund," then refused to start playing...
...This event is not a carnival,” said Jessica R. Stannard-Friel ’04, social chair of the council’s Campus Life Committee. “Instead, it is a concert and food festival...
...discs of the double album are called “Stray Cats” and “Girls Singing Night.” “Stray Cats” consists of some of her more standard concert fare, in terms of both music and in-between-the-songs antics. The disc begins with “Swan Dive,” an energetic and intense song. Upon her first strum of the guitar, however she injects a bit of humor, saying, “I don’t know why the fuck I play acoustic guitars...
...spite of their separate themes, the two discs and the songs that make them up flow seamlessly into one another, effectively conjuring the illusion that the listener is actually at a concert. The band is brilliant and entirely in accord with Difranco’s intense and jazzy guitar playing style, while she fearlessly delivers her no-nonsense, thought-provoking lyrics...
...with all the shows in the current tour, Soulive recorded Saturday’s concert, with the expectation of releasing an upcoming live album. Soulive has released four albums since their start in 1999: Get Down!, Turn It Out, Doin’ Somethin and 2002’s Next. The latter two have been released by the prestigious jazz label Blue Note Records. Despite being a member of the Blue Note community, Soulive isn’t jazz, or at least not solely jazz. The music is a unique blend of styles rooted in jazz, hip-hop, funk...