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| Southern Charm (The Reader) |
| Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers represent a curious amalgam of Appalachian and Southern rock influence. Typically tagged a punk or psychobilly outfit, the foursome has also been disregarded as a shock act for its sometimes carnivalesque stage show. |
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| Combat and rain (The Phoenix) |
| Nai-Ni Chen at John Hancock Hall Taiwanese choreographer Nai-Ni Chen danced with Cloud Gate Dance Theater before moving to New York in 1982, and her work, like theirs, is a suave amalgam of traditional Chinese elements and modern dance. |
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| Music Review: Keep It Simple by Van Morrison (Blogcritics.org) |
| Pleasure, a double, on the rocks. Van the Man has done it again. To be accurate, he's done something he's never done before: Keep It Simple debuted in the Billboard Top Ten. None of his CDs has ever done that. Van's always been a solid seller, but he's always been way too mature to crack the top ten, the "who's hot this week" list. I feel it's not been a concern of his... |
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