Word: duos
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DIED. TEDDY WILBURN, 71, half of the country-music duo the Wilburn Brothers; of congestive heart failure; in Nashville, Tenn. He and older brother Doyle first performed publicly at ages 5 and 6 with three older siblings. But the pair eventually broke off to form one of the most popular country-music acts of the '50s and '60s, recording hits like Roll Muddy River and Trouble's Back in Town. Later they became savvy talent managers, sparking the careers of Loretta Lynn and Patty Loveless...
Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiss have already shaken the music industry to its roots with their Kazaa file-sharing software. Now Zennstrom, 37, and Friiss, 27, have turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system...
...Gone” is bombarded with the memories of a lost love, culminating in a cathartic screech that clears out until all that remains is the dull memory of the sensation. With only Crayola-simple synth beats and the occasional muted female vocalist at their disposal, French duo M83 paint a collection of vivid masterpieces...
...Houston Cassettes is a duo playing catchy, pop-rock, a la early Pavement and Guided by Voices. They create guitar pop with breezy melodies and humorous lyrics and remind us that songwriting can still be fun. A Wish for Fire, a trio of musicians with eclectic influences, creates what the band likes to call “romantic pop,” with tinges of blues, Motown, and of course, psychedelic rock. The band’s minimalist approach to music bares the songwriting underneath. International Pen Pal and The Casual Lean also perform. 9 p.m. Tickets...
...hadn’t always seemed that close. Cserny and Peljto carried Harvard to an early seven-point lead as the duo combined for 11 of the Crimson’s first 13 points...