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A guitar given by The Who rocker Pete Townshend to a friend whose own was stolen could fetch up to 20,000 when it is auctioned next month.Townshend donated the 1989 Takamine FP-360SC electro-acoustic guitar to a friend known only as Robert in the 1990s after the theft of Robert's instrument from his flat in south-west London.

The first glimpses of the Coronation have been revealed as rehearsals took place in central London in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Hundreds of soldiers, many on horseback, marched down from Buckingham Palace past Trafalgar Square and Downing Street to Westminster Abbey.The Diamond Jubilee State Coach and Gold State Coach were marched down the Mall as part of the preparations for the full event on May 6.

MOZART IN MOTION: His Work and His World in Pieces, by Patrick Mackie Musicians tend to be wary of ascribing specific meanings to music or making too much of a piece's extra-musical associations.In one of his Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1973, turning to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Leonard Bernstein asked the audience to forget all about birds and brooks and rustic pleasures and instead concentrate on pure music.

One day my baby just went away, the British pop star PinkPantheress sings on Angel, an aching, bittersweet new track from the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Barbie.No grand tragedy has occurred here just some run-of-the-mill ghosting.Still, PinkPantheress manages to squeeze pathos out of the story, thanks to a dreamy melody and a vocal delivery that blends wide-eyed optimism with creeping doubt: Everyone tells me life was hard but it's a piece of cake, she sings, even if Johnny hasn't answered in a couple days.

David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic's gut-renovated home at Lincoln Center, isn't perfect.The decorating tends cheesy and clashing even if seating that wraps around the stage has done wonders for intimacy.And the sound, for all its improvements on the old acoustics, leans coolly antiseptic.

Jenny Lewis didn't mean to wind up with the marimba.But for the last year, a vintage percussion instrument has occupied pride of place in the singer-songwriter's forest green home studio.She inherited it from her godfather, Jerry Cohen, a music editor for TV and movies and an amateur musician, who died suddenly last spring.

Even as a child, Henry Threadgill liked to experiment.In this Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and saxophonist's new memoir, Easily Slip Into Another World, he recounts a youthful attempt to fly from a window using a contraption of his own devising.He managed to escape the ensuing, predictable crash without breaking any bones, but the young Threadgill did earn a reputation for daring in his Chicago neighborhood.

The Foo Fighters introduced a new drummer, Josh Freese, just before the release of their album next month and their first tour since the death last year of the rock band's previous drummer, Taylor Hawkins, which devastated the group and its fans.Freese, 50, was featured Sunday in an hourlong streamed rehearsal, Preparing Music for Concerts, which featured a mix of jokes, surprise cameos by other drummers and a couple of poodles.

Towards the end of 2011 (in the depths of Covid...), I started thinking about adding a code of conduct to my open source software projects.Github recommends adding one, somewhat similiar to how they recommend including a software license.In trying to pick a code of conduct (for my projects), it seems helpful to remember the "community", as such, is often basically me, short (in length) is generally better, and just about anything can be weaponized by bad faith actors.

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One of the Bay Area-related displays at Las Vegas' Punk Rock Museum.The museum opened its doors on April 1, 2023.(Rae Alexandra)



Las Vegas, Nevada.Late Saturday afternoon inside the newly opened Punk Rock Museum.Eugene Hütz, frontman for Gogol Bordello, is giving a tour of the building to 20 or so fans.

Mivos Quartet (Cantaloupe) If you're a fan of adult cartoons, you may have already heard the music of the composer JG Thirlwell, who has written antic and entertaining themes for Archer and The Venture Bros.But he has also long plied his trade on the contemporary classical scene, with compositions for the Kronos Quartet and Alarm Will Sound.

Music and passion are (still) always in fashion when Barry Manilow is around.On Monday, the Brooklyn-born superstar will be honored at Carnegie Hall in New York City in an evening peppered with stage and screen stars including Charo, Michael Urie, and Manilow's longtime collaborator Dionne Warwick."This One's For You: The Music of Barry Manilow" is a gala concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the New York Pops, the nation's largest independent pops orchestra and the city's only professional orchestra that specializes in pop music.

On a narrow strip of Treat Street off 17th stands an unassuming, gray warehouse with a hand-painted sign reading "Pat Clabernathy's Indoor Donkey Farm and Retirement Home for Children."Inside, on any given day this summer, around 75 kids are screaming with laughter."We're making weirdos by the dozen," said a smiling Brian Gorman, co-founder of Rock Band Land, a year-round arts camp for youth aged "4 to death," as he puts it.

The rain appears to be over for now.We'll have a mostly sunny weekend - perfect for hanging out to enjoy the spring!In the Mission, we will say farewell to several great art exhibitions that close this week, , but more await us in April.Incidentally, here is a list of Mission bars that provide fentanyl test strips and Narcan.

In 2011, author, lawyer, and Chinese American Amy Chua hit the bestseller list with a manifesto for overbearing parents titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she made the case for stringent, results-focused Chinese parenting.Chua walked right up to the line of calling American parents sentimental wimps (even putting a toe over it in some interviews) and a lot of people took it personally.

When I told my fellow serious music-loving friends that I was taking my girls to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert at Soldier Field, they sent their condolences and mocked me.My girls love Swift, and I initially made the decision to go for them.Pop music is not my genre, so I never gave Swift's music a chance.

April 27 was a game-changer day for me.I knew it would be.What on the surface appears to be a two-month countdown to something almost magical has actually been something I have been waiting on for several decades.I want to share my happiness and gratitude about it with you.I was born with two inner ears but only one outer ear.

Editor's note: Dr.-Ing.Thomas Albin is a speaker for ODSC Europe this June 14th-15th.Be sure to check out his talk, "Space Science with Python - Enabling Citizen Scientists," there!2009, a paper by Postberg et al. was published in Nature.The title: Sodium Salts in E-Ring Ice Grains from an Ocean Below the Surface of Enceladus.

Thomas Stacy sometimes told the story of how, when he was a boy growing up in Arkansas, an Italian who had been dead for about 80 years changed his life.He'd been studying piano with his mother, but when he heard a piece of music by the composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini, his focus shifted to a different instrument and he determined to make a career of it.

To most people, the concept of playing a musical saw is akin to chopping a log in half with a cello, said Natalia Paruz, also known as the Saw Lady, who often plays a toothless saw in the subways and other public venues.They associate the saw, not with music and poetry, but with destruction and deforestation, she said.

Sorin Giubega's grandfather was a potter.So was his father.And at 8 years old, Mr. Giubega said, he started to play on a pottery wheel, too.Mr. Giubega, now 63, and his wife, Marieta Giubega, 48, are potters in Horezu, Romania, a town in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains about three hours by car from Bucharest.

Rolf Harris, the Australian-born entertainer whose decades-long career on British television ended in disgrace after he was convicted of sexually abusing teenage girls, died on May 10 at his home in Berkshire, England.He was 93.His family announced in a statement released on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after his death, that he had died peacefully and had been laid to rest.

U.S. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)A panel commissioned by NASA to study what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena, more widely known as UFOs, said Wednesday that it needed more and better-quality information to understand and describe hundreds of mysterious objects that have been reported in the skies over the years.

A solar-powered balloon takes flight bearing multiple scientific instruments, including a GPS tracker and a reusable 'infrasound' sensor.(Courtesy Sandia National Laboratories)At first listen, Earth's stratosphere seems calm and quiet.But when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world - including mysterious noises without a known origin.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) recently launched Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ( JUICE) mission and NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission could allow scientists to image landslides on the icy moons of Europa and Ganymede due to potential moonquakes on these small worlds.This comes after a recent study examined fault scarps on Europa and Ganymede orbiting Jupiter and Enceladus and Dione orbiting Saturn to try to draw a connection between tectonic activity (quakes) and observed mass wasting (landslides) on these surfaces.

The highly-anticipated Dragonfly robotic rotorcraft mission to Saturn's moon Titan is scheduled to launch in 2027.When it arrives in the mid-2030s, it will hover and zoom around in the thick atmosphere of Titan, sampling the air and imaging the landscape.What could be more exciting than that!?
Well, actually ... there's more: Dragonfly will also be equipped with a mass spectrometer that will help it search for the chemistry of life in this alien world.

A labor union representing musicians is challenging David Byrne's next Broadway show, Here Lies Love, saying it opposes plans to stage the production with recorded instrumental tracks instead of a live band.The musical an immersive, dance-driven spectacle about Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines is scheduled to start previews June 17 and to open July 20 at the Broadway Theater.

You could probably use any number of descriptors for the music of U SCO and get away with it: Speed-jazz.Prog-punk.Technical avant-metal.Advanced calculus-rock.Ecstatic thrash.Phil Cleary, Ryan Miller, and Jon Scheid have heard it all before.But they don't talk about any of it."We all kind of like to be surprised by what we're doing," Scheid told the Mercury.

Indigo De Souza.(Angella Choe)North Carolina singer-songwriter Indigo De Souza's third album is in many ways her most upbeat.Yet its title, "All of This Will End," isn't exactly cheerful.Death haunts De Souza's songs, even ebullient ones like the new "Smog," whose chorus proclaims, "Come alive, it's the right time / To really start having fun."

The story of Kim Philby, the high-ranking British intelligence official who turned out to be one of the biggest double agents in U.K. history (and a hero of the Soviet Union, if you take the Russian point of view), is well known at this point.Dozens of books, fiction and nonfiction, have been written about how Philby took in the great and the good of MI6 and the CIA for decades before he finally had to flee across the Iron Curtain in 1963.

Bitcoin ( BTC) tumbled back below $27,000, reversing its advance from a day ago as investors continued to weigh the ongoing debt ceiling talks in Washington, D.C. and the latest regulatory moves.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at around $26,700, down 2.1% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk data.

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1860 Munich were the chief rivals of record champions Bayern Munich; 1860 were also the preferred club from Munich in the olden days and not Bayern which the latter had to work hard for to gain status as the number one Munich club.1860 slid downwards as Bayern stayed up which meant that a rivalry between Die Löwen and the Rekordmeister wasn't as fierce as other rivalries; they shared the Allianz Arena until 2017.

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Astronomers have found a planet they believe is blanketed by active volcanoes.In a study published Tuesday in the , a multi-national team of scientists said they discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet they believe may have water on part of its surface.The boringly named LP 791-18 d (sadly, no one thought to call it ) is located about 90 light-years from Earth in the Crater constellation.

It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burstcaused by the collapse of a black holethat was so powerful astronomers quickly dubbed it BOAT, for Brightest of all Time.That was a fair enough nickname for such a sensational emissionfor a little while anyway.But BOAT has just been busted to second most powerful.

The science of black holes can often pay massive dividends.On Friday, for instance, two universities announced that their researchers have analyzed "the brightest cosmic explosion ever seen" around one ancient behemoth.The data required to find events like this is hard-won.First, an astronomer must direct instruments to peer into the deep Universe, using light's finite speed to search for superbright events of the past.

While astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets (other worlds orbiting other stars beyond our Sun), they've caught very few in the act of being born.In fact, until recently, they'd only found two - PDS b and PDS c, gas giant exoplanets orbiting a dwarf star about 370-light years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

Whether we like it or not, someday, our Sun will swell outward and engulf our planet like a fiery amoeba.That's the fate of most worlds around middleweight stars, according to physics.And astronomers recently witnessed it for the first time in a star system 12,000 light years away.They published their findings in the journal Nature.

Among the many efforts to decenter whiteness in academia and other left-leaning institutions is one to take on the presumed racist tendencies embodied in musicology.It's an issue that has nagged at me for years and one exemplified by a new book, the Hunter College music professor Philip Ewell's On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone.

The Three of Us, a tightly constructed debut novel written during lockdown by British Nigerian Ore Agbaje-Williams, a book editor in the U.K., had me feeling trapped and looking for escape routes.Billed as a mashup of domestic noir and comedy of manners, Agbaje-Williams' novel closely tracks the insidious dynamic between three wealthy, well-educated young Brits of Nigerian descent a married couple and the wife's devilishly manipulative best friend over the course of a single wine-drenched day.

Kendall (Jeremy Strong) gives in to his true nature.Macall Polay/HBO The gist of it In an excruciating hour of TV, the Roys camp out at ATN to run election night coverage.Roman is perfectly ready to interfere to hand the election to Mencken, Connor just wants to be relevant, Kendall is trying to hang on to a tiny shred of the better person he keeps telling himself he is, and Shiv doesn't know anymore whether she cares about the country or just wants to get back at her brothers for pushing her aside.

"The rural South is deeply beautiful and complex and contradictory," says Jones. "I really want [people] to know the rural South has something to say."Rahim Fortune/Dead Oceans Durand Jones & the Indications have been making vintage soul cool again since the mid-2010s.But after several years, three albums and international tours, frontman Durand Jones felt the need to step out on his own.

You shouldn't be surprised that Moby's new album is a classical recreation of his early recordings.Not only is it his second such dalliance, but this is also a producer who has dabbled in just about every genre, so why not classical?There were the breakout techno and ambient tracks in the early '90s, through punk and film scores, to his trademark, often gospel-laden electronica from the huge album Play onwards.

On a Wednesday evening in early March, eight people sat in a half-circle at Performance Space New York in Manhattan's East Village, wiping their ears with alcohol pads.On a tiny stage, Gio Escobar of the Brooklyn-based experimental music collective Standing on the Corner began plinking out shimmery peals of melody on a vibraphone, while a Moog synthesizer filled the room with a warm thrum.

Wolfgang Van Halen has shared "Like a Pastime," the second single from his band Mammoth WVH 's forthcoming sophomore album, , out August 4th.Wolfgang previously said that he was taking inspiration from progressive bands such as Meshuggah on the new album.Although "Like a Pastime" isn't nearly as extreme at Meshuggah, the track does make use of polyrhythms - a prog staple.

Kreative Nativez is a Music Producer & DJ duo hailing from Lusaka, Zambia.As childhood friends that joined their talents at the beginning of 2017, Kreative Nativez showcase their love for house music influenced by Afrohouse, Afrotech, and Deep House as well as Retro Soulful house music.Kreative Nativez are currently independent & continue to release music on various international labels such as Madorasindahouse Records, Deep Root Records, Sneja Recordings, Union Records & more.

Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's central bank, released a report pointing out that India will spend an estimated $1.05 trillion ( 959 billion) by 2030 on adapting its various industries to be compliant with climate change norms.In order to speed up and drive green finance in the country and meet climate goals, the government needs to put in place a broad-based carbon pricing system in line with emerging global best practices and introduce a carbon tax, the report said.

AI-generated music has been in the spotlight lately, between a track that seemingly featured vocals from Drake and The Weeknd gaining traction to Spotify reportedly removing thousands of songs over concerns that people were using them to game the system.Now, Google is wading further into that space as the company is opening up access to its text-to-music AI, which is called MusicLM.

Until Tuesday, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra hadn't been to Carnegie Hall since 1968.Its chief conductor at the time was Jorma Panula, who was at the podium for that visit.Now, 55 years later, the group is led by one of his former students: Susanna Malkki.Her tenure in Helsinki, where she has been the chief conductor since 2016, ends this season.

BRASILIA, Brazil - Rita Lee Jones, Brazil's million-selling "Queen of Rock" who gained an international following through her colorful and candid style and such hits as "Ovelha Negra," "Mania de Você" and "Now Only Missing You," has died at 75.Are you on Telegram?

After the New Pornographers reached mid-2000s indie acclaim, their leader, Carl Newman, had an admittedly "super-shallow" thought."I would go, 'Must be nice to be Sufjan Stevens,'" he says."Not realizing, You've got a great thing happening here."He certainly did: A band of some of his favorite musicians that he'd assembled on a bit of a lark in the late 1990s, making skillful, immediate power-pop.

For either my 12th birthday or the Christmas before my aunt gave me a copy of R.E.M.'s Green, which has an orange cover.She also gave me a copy of Belinda Carlisle's Runaway Horses (Belinda looking sultry in black and white and a crochet sweater thing) and a third album.I can't remember what the third album was; it might have been the Bon Jovi album with the cover that looked like denim.

The music of the pianist Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, who has died at the age of 99, seemed to reflect every area of her extraordinary life.A daughter of Addis Ababa's upper classes, she was immersed in Ethiopian traditional song, then trained in classical violin and piano, embraced early jazz and later took holy orders.

Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday.This week the top spot goes to Mammoth WVH's "Another Celebration at the End of the World."Wolfgang Van Halen has made it abundantly clear: He has no intention of playing Van Halen songs with his project Mammoth WVH.

On the last day of March 1929, a young woman named Nancy Hale joined what appeared to be a political campaign called Torches of Freedom.While boldly smoking cigarettes, she and her comrades marched down Fifth Avenue during the fashionable New York Easter Parade, to protest the stigma around women smokers.

Rehearsals for the Kings Coronation took place in central London from Buckingham Palace past Trafalgar Square and Downing Street to Westminster Abbey.(Image: James Manning/PA Wire) Londoners were treated to a first look of the King's coronation as rehearsals took place in central London in the early hours of Wednesday morning (May 3).

If Italy's tourism ministry hoped to make waves with a new marketing campaign promoting the country's many wonders, it certainly hit the mark, though not, perhaps, in the way the government had imagined.Presented last week, the Open to Meraviglia campaign which uses the Italian word for wonder quickly stumbled.

The US government is notifying healthcare providers and lab personnel about a component used by several Illumina medical devices being affected by serious vulnerabilities that can allow remote hacking.On Thursday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) issued public notifications to inform organizations about the vulnerabilities affecting the Universal Copy Service (UCS) component used by several of Illumina's genetic sequencing instruments.

A New York City teacher quit her job in March after 12 years at the school.She wanted a remote option and said she and her students thrived online early in the pandemic.The educator found a new position at a fully online public school.Once Kentucky Parkis got into the groove of remote work in 2020, she knew she didn't want to go back in person.

Deposits at small US banks dropped by a record amount following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, data released on Friday by the Federal Reserve showed.Deposits at small banks fell $119 billion to $5.46 trillion in the week ended March 15, which was more than twice the previous record drop and the biggest decline as a percent of overall deposits since the week ended March 16, 2007.

Q: I want to buy a co-op in New York City, partly to have space for a piano, which I don't currently own.I intend to play the piano for an hour or two a day.I don't plan to mention this detail at the co-op board interview and since I don't own the piano yet, I wouldn't be lying if the board asked about such a thing.

In a mix of epigrammatic soundbites and testimonials, Paik describes the difficulties he had in finding opportunities and receptive audiences for his earliest work.Challenging live performances, like when cellist Charlotte Moorman played improvised instruments, sometimes wearing a Paik-designed brassiere with mini-TV monitor pasties, were also not immediately praised by art critics.