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Memo (Jun 07 2004 00:59 GMT) - To: My Roommates From: Matt Re: The Fork Hey guys. I'm not trying to make a big deal out of... |
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ContentFilm set to take First Look (Jun 07 2004 00:57 GMT) - Los Angeles: Purchase includes int'l sales operation, TV prod'n co. -- In its first big move since the reverse merger with London-based Winchester Entertainment in March, ContentFilm has announced its plans to acquire publicly held U.S. distribution/sales outfit First Look Media. |
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Tortoise (Jun 07 2004 00:57 GMT) - Los Angeles: Tortoise's all-instrumental improvisations morph from xylophone-driven space excursions to amped-up percussion workouts in a matter of seconds. It's jam rock for indie snobs; the band's 1996 Thrill Jockey album "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" has achieved near-classic status among the Coachella set. |
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Keane/Minibar (Jun 07 2004 00:57 GMT) - Los Angeles: Optimism gets top billing on Keane's debut album "Hopes and Fears" (Interscope). The British trio's best songs feature surging, majestic choruses that raise you up like high tide, while the lyrics provide an undertow of melancholy, mourning losses and yearning for simpler times. It's a cocktail that's proved commercially intoxicating, as Keane has become of the most unlikely success stories in English music this year: a modest, guitarless trio specializing in mild, piano-based mid-tempo pop that's topped the U. |
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A Perfect Circle (Jun 07 2004 00:57 GMT) - Los Angeles: A Perfect Circle's show starts with the curtain coming down to reveal the band already in the midst of the first verse of "Vanishing," a typically brooding rocker from last year's opaque "Thirteenth Step" (Virgin). The center of the stage is still covered by a boxy set of back-lit cloth; behind it hides singer Maynard James Keenan, who delivers the whole song in silhouette from the typical location for a drum throne, while the rest of the band nails the front-of-the-stage assault. |
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