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November 30, 2007 | Columns
November 30, 2007 | Music News
November 30, 2007 | Music News
November 30, 2007 | Music Reviews
November 29, 2007 | Music Features
November 29, 2007 | Music News
November 29, 2007 | Music News
November 29, 2007 | Music Reviews
November 28, 2007 | Music News
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Every now and then, I get to do things that aren’t part of my usual circuit of gigs. Recently, I worked as a consultant, dance designer, and movement coach on a television show called “Gossip Girl” (The CW). 
Recognized as cultural icons in Japan, the Yoshida Brothers are bringing their igneous sound to the US for the 28th Japan Expo this weekend in Los Angeles. 
Comic book faction Dark Horse Deluxe has announced its latest addition to the growing merchandise line for The Umbrella Academy, the popular series authored by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. 
As the central songwriter of dream-pop heroes Medicine, Brad Laner was responsible for some of the most ethereal and trippy pop tunes of the ’90s. 
Finding fertile soil in the burgeoning punk scene of Bakersfield, California, Loser Life is a gritty, piss-and-vinegar-filled street-punk group led by singer/drummer Steve Koontz. 
A glut of hip-hop heavyweights will pay tribute to the late Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) tonight at Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan. Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest), Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan), Everlast (House of Pain), DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill), De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Dead Prez, and former bandmate DMC will perform at the inaugural J.A.M. Awards. 
Canadian hardcore outfit Cursed have put the finishing touches on their third full-length album. Not one to delve into complex album titles, the band will simply call their latest long-player III, following their previous efforts I (2003) and II (2005). 
Now a quintet with four vocalists, three of whom are also guitarists, Haram explores the noisier, artier implications of post-hardcore on Drescher, their second release from northern Virginia’s Lovitt Records. 
Tommy Shaw (shown left), guitarist and singer for ’70s arena rockers Styx, is going green on tour for 2007-2008 stints with his famous group as well as side project Shaw/Blades. Biodiesel and logistics will be provided by innovative company BidForGreen. 
With Shelter from the Ash, guitarist Ben Chasny (of psychedelic rock band Comets on Fire) returns to the lonely recesses of his dry, desert-like contemplation. Chasny, who titles his solo project Six Organs of Admittance, opts for repetition and drone through virtuosic guitar picking.