Cody Pendant ponies up to Linnaea’s Cafe
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- Cody Pendant ponies up to Linnaea’s Cafe
- Microsoft’s Songsmith better for comedy than music
- Local fans can join the English Beat’s punky-reggae party
Cody Pendant ponies up to Linnaea’s Cafe
New Times SL CA
Reggae music from the garden isle Kauai is coming your way on Friday Jan. 30 when The Lambsbread brings its mystic roots sounds to Frog and Peach. The group is touring the West Coast to promote Rise their third studio album which has been getting radio play in Hawaii California Colorado Portugal and France. Recorded in Jamaica and California the songs have a classic reggae vibe but may also appeal to hip hop and dancehall fans.
Microsoft’s Songsmith better for comedy than music
The Associated Press
But other users have sicced Soundsmith on vocals ripped from hit records and that’s where the real fun begins. Although Songsmith delivers what it promises quality is optional. Users guide the program by choosing tempo chord changes and musical styles ranging from jazz to reggae to ’80s pop. The original song is usually rendered unrecognizable and quite often unlistenable. It doesn’t help that the music has a flat tinny quality reminiscent of karaoke or elevator music. For added laughs the creators of some online clips have taken the audio produced by Songsmith and melded it with a song’s original music video. A quick search on YouTube yields some great Songsmith butcheries such as a polka-bluegrass rendition of zzy sbourne’s “Crazy Train.
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Local fans can join the English Beat’s punky-reggae party
Richmond Times Dispatch VA
She’s Mine” mixing ska-reggae rhythms with punk music’s tension as well as its speed. “There was this certain element that we weren’t really in control of what we were doing on our instruments so it was kind of like everybody was chasing everybody else so fast that we couldn’t get any faster” said Wakeling speaking from his California home. “And that was the place where we all managed to stay in time with each other because nobody could go any faster than that!” With the albums “Wha’ppen?” and “Special Beat Service” the next two years the English Beat found itself with a growing audience in America but decided to call it a day in 1983 to pursue other interests. Wakeling and The Beat’s other vocalist Ranking Roger formed General Public while two other members moved on to Fine Young Cannibals. The English Beat’s music continued to attract attention through inclusion on movie soundtracks such as “Ferris Bueller’s Day ff.
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