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MAY 6 - MAY 12
Don't let the occasional overcast skies, or even the tornados
or worldwide epidemics of airborne diseases keep you inside this
week. The only excuses as far as we're concerned involve the list
of events below — a few select clubs, galleries,
churches, museums, and screening rooms. Otherwise the city is to be experienced
outside, before it's all wonderfully climate controlled and
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American Express presents The Tribeca Film Festival. Now playing through May 11th in Lower Manhattan! CLICK HERE for complete access. |
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| | Jump on the L train to the Bedford stop or, if you're a Williamsburg local, just walk on over to North 6th at 7:30pm tonight to find a creative war protest in session. Comics Janeane Garofalo and Chelsea Peretti make you laugh in a very anti-war way; musicians, including the Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players and Danny Kelly, sound their horns in the name of no war; and Circus Amok and Missile Dick Chicks are doing something crazy to show their love of peace. Members of Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace will speak their minds. With dance performances, art, and more, it's an entertaining way to show the world you care. (JD)
Note: A portion of the proceeds goes to humanitarian aid in Iraq.
  
 If President Bush had a comedy show, what would it be called? Our two favorite answers will win
a "Free Williamsburg" t-shirt.
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MUSIC: Experimental
MATA 2003 Festival: Le Rage de Relâche
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| when: | Tue 5.6 (8pm) |
| where: | St. Peter's Episcopal Church (346 W 20th St, 347.296.0190) |
| price: | $15 |
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MATA Festival |
| | This opening night of the Music at the Anthology Festival features the music of five vibrant young composers. The Relâche Ensemble — violin, piano, and the all-important contrabass — launch the evening with "In the Neighborhood" by Erel Paz, giving full play to the piece's solo lines, which grow longer as its tonality loosens up. Jennifer Walshe performs one of her works that intertwine violin and voice. Rounding the evening out with some improvisation, pianist Gordon Beeferman and percussionist Jeff Arnal take to the stage, followed by "Earshot," an MATA-commissioned work by Roshanne Etezady. (AD)
Note: The festival continues until Sat 5.10 and includes a sound installation at the Gale Gates space in DUMBO. (See the MATA website for more information.)
The third person to tell us which modern composer is the executive producer of MATA will win
a pair of tickets to this show.
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| | Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist Jef Lee Johnson is a funk master. Though he spends most of his time traveling the world playing guitar with the likes of Chaka Khan, tonight New York has the rare privilege to see Johnson perform on his own. He looks ready to overwhelm his audience with soul power vocals and wah-wah guitar artistry, serving up a range of original material from deep blues to sweltering soul and badass funk. (JM)
The third person to tell us which Spike Lee film soundtrack Johnson contributed to will win a pair of tickets to the show.
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MUSIC: Hip Hop
Tes
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| when: | Wed 5.7 (8pm) |
| where: | Pianos (158 Ludlow St, 212.505.3733) |
| price: | $7 |
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Tes |
| | "New New York," the prime time joint on hometown hero Tes' debut full-length x2 (Lex), has all the makings of a downtown anthem — including a hot chorus tag about living in the city, Bee Gees-style strings, three versatile verses about growing up as part of the city's new school (Company Flow, Cannibal Ox, etc.), and getting caught in the 9/11 mayhem. It's heartfelt, elegiac, and funky. And if it overwhelms the album's other abstract underground nuggets, it's only because this young MC/producer is, at this point in his career, more deft with his rhymes than he is with his hooks. The release party for the record also includes beatboxer Afra, DJ Ese, and LoDeck. (PO)
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| | Even if you don't have a goatee to scratch, don't let DJ Casio's Other Music pedigree put you off. True to his namesake, DJ Casio spins and samples sounds that make you think you're hearing Public Enemy through your Commodore 64. His accessible minimal-techno quickly puts you in a groove, served up right in no time. Headlining the evening is Exceptor, a new electronic collective with former No Neck Blues members. (AD)
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| | Spring and national bike week are upon us, so it's time to pull that bike out of your closet and ride it to work. All cyclists have experienced a little competition between bikes and cars in the city, and we're all aware of the high prices people have paid for oil. What better way to dissipate this negative energy than by being a part of the third annual Bicycle Film Festival? The festival celebrates the bike subculture's potential for a powerful social transformation, and commences with a bike parade starting at Astor Place and heading to the Anthology Film Archives. During the next four days, the Film Archives are showcasing films centered around the the bike subculture, including Red Light Go, a documentary about New York City bike messengers competing in street races called alleycats. (AA)
Note: The bike ride begins at Astor Pl at 5:30pm.
Tell us why bikes are better than cars — the top three answers will win a pair of tickets to
a program of the festival.
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MULTIMEDIA: Kickoff
PSY.GEO.CONFLUX
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| when: | Thur 5.8 (6-9pm) / See note for continuing events |
| where: | ABC No Rio (156 Rivington St, 212.254.3697) |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | Calling all Nancy Drews and Encyclopedia Browns: We're hot on the trail of an investigation into psychogeography, the study of how city landscapes influence our emotions and behavior. This hybrid festival/conference brings psychogeographers and the general public together for a series of walks, talks, exhibitions, and gatherings that aim to qualify the quirks and codes of our urban surroundings. As this is the first such shindig, we can't absolutely guarantee it, but the clues do look promising — go sleuthing for structures on the Lower East Side, attend a lecture on divided cities, take a tour of the city's best street art, or find some found sounds in the Subtonic Lounge. You might not crack the Case of the Big Apple, but you could learn a lot more about it. (JKG)
Note: PSY.GEO.CONFLUX continues at various locations through Sun 5.11 (schedule), and the exhibit is on view at ABC No Rio until Thur 5.29.
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PERFORMANCE
In What Language?
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| when: | Thu 5.8 - Sun 5.11 (8pm) |
| where: | Asia Society (725 Park Ave, 212.288.6400) |
| price: | $20 |
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| | In What Language? is a work of music and poetry created and performed by acclaimed jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and poet/performer/scholar Michael Ladd. Tonight these two gifted artists lead an 11-member ensemble of musicians and speakers in exploring issues of cultural identity and globalism. Their musical influences range from jazz and hip hop to African and South Asian rhythms. The spoken word component is an ingenious series of poetic monologues by laborers and people of color negotiating the hyper-globalized setting of an international airport. Lighting and projections are by Clifton Taylor. (JM)
Tell us about a situation where you encountered a frustrating language barrier — the two best answers will win a pair of tickets to the show on Sat 5.10 or Sun 5.11.
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LECTURE: Art
Gregory Crewdson
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| when: | Fri 5.9 (5-7pm) |
| where: | Eyebeam (540 W 21st St, 212.252.5193) |
| price: | FREE w/ suggested donation |
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| | Tonight Eyebeam presents Yale faculty member Gregory Crewdson and some of his photographic work. His recent efforts represent an evolution of his photographic style, which could be described as "cinematic" — since a single photograph sometimes requires the work of an entire team to stage, cast, and produce. The lecture includes Crewdson's discussion of his recent Twilight series of images, which explore the psychological disquiet of American suburbia. (JM)
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| | "LSD has colonized part of my DNA and I'm trying to put that into my work," Fred Tomaselli related to fellow painter Chris Martin in a Brooklyn Rail interview last fall. In 1999 he unveiled "Gravity's Rainbow," an eight by twenty foot abstract painting of looping lines made from pills, hallucinogens, and collaged photos at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris to critical acclaim and mass appeal. Here, the artist turns to transcendental Tibetan thangkas, Indian miniatures, and the strange visual poetry of Guiseppe Arcimboldo as sources of inspiration for new paintings. Viewed through Tomaselli's decorative scrim of drugs, the paintings may actually reveal a visionary's stairway to heaven. (PL)
Note: Exhibit continues through Sat 6.21 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm).
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MUSIC: Experimental Electronic Beats
Ergonomix 4
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| when: | Fri 5.9 (10pm-3am) |
| where: | élan (70 Washington St, DUMBO, 917.359.5939) |
| price: | $5 |
| | Ergonomix features live artists from NYC's electronic music scene experimenting and collaborating to create new forms of music. Located in a raw warehouse space with a huge sound system, Ergonomix is curated and made possible by Koosil-Ja, who has truckloads of enthusiasm for local electronic music. Lloop (of WE, theAgriculture, and Share) causes dancefloor devastation with his rugged bleeps and breaks. Knights of Resignation bring a noisy live, laptopless techno sound. Bubblyfish is a Share regular who has been known to do Gameboy sets, and Mod_Doktor rounds out the bill. (BK)
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ART: Opening
Kehinde Wiley: Faux Real
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| when: | Sat 5.10 (6-9pm) |
| where: | Deitch Projects (76 Grand St, 212.343.7300) |
| price: | FREE |
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Kehinde Wiley |
| | Kehinde Wiley's first solo show at Deitch Projects promises to validate all the hype surrounding the 26-year-old. A 2001 Yale graduate and a 2002 artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Wiley creates figure paintings of subjects derived from urban street culture but composed in the tradition of the great masters. In this show, he continues to reference such traditions in an installation featuring a spectacularly ornate ceiling painting with arched altarpieces rococo-style. To create the figures, he asked local Harlem men to pose in the manner of Titian and Tiepolo while mimicking the gestures of hip hop culture. Combining art and life, Wiley glorifies his subjects, transforming them into mythic and heroic, yet still contemporary, male figures. (NR)
Note: Exhibition runs through 6.14 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm). Mariko Mori's Oneness also opens tonight at Deitch Projects massive space on 18 Wooster St
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DJ
Soundscrape 3
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| when: | Sat 5.10 (9pm) |
| where: | Flux Factory (38-38 43rd St, LIC, 718.707.3362) |
| price: | $6 advance / $8 |
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| | Join New No York and Flux Factory as they present an evening of experimental music and video from an international lineup of laptop lunatics. Headlining is the trio DAT Politics from Lille, France, who create fun techno pop with a very twisted noisy streak, and NYC's own Donna Summer, who hosts the internationally acclaimed Advanced D&D program on WFMU — he has an extreme case of ADD which he puts to good use by creating hyper cut-ups of cock-rock, disco, breakcore, and '80s trash. Also on the bill are Roddy Schrock of San Francisco, audio/visualists BBNB, Black Castle Cousin, and the New No York Sound System. (BK)
What's a soundscrape? The best answer will win a pair of comp'd guest list spots to this event.
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MUSIC: Funk
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
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| when: | Sat 5.10 (11pm) |
| where: | Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700) |
| price: | $15 |
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| | Popular young singers such as India.Arie and Alicia Keys may dominate the so-called neo-soul genre, but a seasoned bluesy voice has struck an impressive note for fans of the real deal. Ms. Sharon Jones is worthy of being crowned the new queen of soul, and tonight she holds court at the Mercury Lounge. Backed by the Daptone Records house band the Dap Kings, Sharon belts out sweaty lo-fi funk that would make James Brown and Aretha Franklin boogie. Their tremendous energy creates an irresistible party vibe, so come prepared with your best threads and shoes that let you move. (JB)
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| | The lens of Taryn Simon's camera has a penetrating aptitude for telling tales. In her work The Innocents, the Guggenheim fellow presents victims of wrongful incarceration in mug shots and staged crime scenes, marking the moments that their lives changed forever. Her pictures of the vindicated, in settings so foreign to them that their souls cry out for liberation, exemplify the impact that something as simple as a crime-scene photo can have on an individual totally unrelated to the crime. With a maturity beyond her years matched with a fresh perspective, Taryn's use of angle, depth, and image manipulation is impressive. A master of scenes, she sends messages inviting voyeurs to take a closer look. (CJH)
Note: Simon's work is on display through August (Thur-Mon: 12-6pm). Also opening at P.S.1 is Breaking Away, an exhibition of video, sculpture, photography, and installations by 21 artists from 15 countries.
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| | Today I Love Everybody, the seemingly sweet exhibition with dark undertones, is blossoming just in time for spring at Triple Candie. Dubbing her oddly compelling work "fallen paintings," Polly Apfelbaum groups together into flower-like forms thousands of individual, predominantly green star-patterned patches of dyed crushed velvet. Decorating not the walls but the floor, and hugging the gallery columns as if they were tree trunks, these forms seem to proliferate insidiously, as evil things do in creepy Grade B horror flicks while the doomed extras' backs are turned. Hear what's up with this wacky installation at the artist's lecture on Mother's Day. (JBK)
Note: Apfelbaum's first museum survey is currently on view at the ICA/Philadelphia through Mon 6.2.
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FILM
May '68, Age 35
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| when: | Sun 5.11 (7 & 9:30pm) |
| where: | Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th St, 718.782.5188) |
| price: | $10 |
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| | The Parisian student uprisings of 1968, and the resulting widespread riots and strikes, produced an outpouring of experimental and provocative media. To commemorate that important time and the film that sprang out of it, Ocularis screens a collection of Cine-tracts and Collective newsreels, including work from Godard, Marker, and Resnais, as well as Jean Marie Straub's The Bridegroom, the Commedienne, and the Pimp, with the recently resurrected Fassbinder, playing the role of the pimp. The second program (9:30pm) features Jean-Luc Godard's A Film Like Any Other, which marks the point in the director's career when he seemed to choose strident political statements over commercial or critical success. Though we haven't seen every one of these films, the spirit of revolution promises to infuse both their form and content. (CH)
Note: This program is the first in a continuing series dealing with May '68.
Tell us your favorite example of politicized art — our favorite three answers will win a pair of tickets to this show.
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| | Synth-pop sounds and assorted influences from the '80s, combined with dark lyrics and big beats, made the Faint's 2001 release Danse Macabre an excellent contribution to the burgeoning electroclash scene. Their live show is a smoke and light-filled spectacle that demonstrates they're serious rockers who aren't afraid to let their influences get the best of them. This is the first US tour for Germany's Schneider TM, a one-man band best known for "The Light 3000," a brilliant and glitchy reworking of the Smiths' "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out." Last year's Zoomer has us eager to see what he's bringing to these shores. (PS)
The sixth person to tell us what plains state the Faint originate from will win a pair of tickets to the show. The first five correct answers will win a copy of the Faint's Danse Macabre Remixes, and a copy of Schneider TM's 6 PEACE.
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| | The Tribeca Film Festival enters
its second year with an improved website and a massive array of films to navigate.
Among the offerings are Neil LaBute's latest, The Shape of Things, an adaptation of his
dark stage play starring Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz; the critically acclaimed Whale Rider
from New Zealand; a documentary called End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones about punk pioneers the Ramones; and Step into
the Liquid, a beautifully shot film about surfing. And although many of the films are sold out, if you're patient it's still possible to get into regular screenings off the wait-list line. In addition to the theater
screenings, an MTV/VH1 "100% NYC" outdoor concert features
Norah Jones and the Roots, and outdoor screenings of classic films take place at the
Hudson River Park's Pier 25. Listen up Redford, Bobby D's talking to you. (MB)
Note: For information about tickets to the "100% NYC" concert call
212.846.2596.
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THEATRE
Stone Cold Dead Serious
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| when: | Now through Sat 5.17
(Mon & Wed-Sun: 8pm) |
| where: | Chashama (135 W 42nd St, 212.391.8151) |
| price: | $40 |
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Chashama | Tickets | Review |
| | The Edge Theater Company brings one of the best new playwrights, Adam Rapp, back to the New York boards with his edgy drama about a post-nuclear family on the verge of implosion. Marking the off-Broadway premiere of this play that showed to rave reviews at the prestigious American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stone Cold Dead Serious follows suburban teen Wynne's quest to save his disintegrating family by winning the Tang Dynasty (video game) Superchampionship. Riddled with enough freaks, QVC addicts, junkies, and dropouts to rival even the most dysfunctional of families, this show may drag even those die-hard American Idol-obsessed channel surfers out of their La-Z-Boys and into the theater. (NG)
Note: Enter the code "SCDS12" when you buy tickets online to get special $30 tickets.
The fifth person to forward this listing to five or more people using the send event function(envelope) will win a pair of tickets to this show.
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THEATRE
Notes from Underground
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| when: | Now through Sun 5.25
(Thur-Sun: 7:30pm) |
| where: | P.S. 122 (150 1st Ave, 212.477.5288) |
| price: | $15 |
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| | Lower Manhattan's A-list writer/performer Jonathan Ames brings to life the work of another downtown favorite, Eric Bogosian. This compelling one-man show (not to be confused with Dostoevsky's 19th century novel of almost the same name) has a stark, simple format: A diarist reads his entries aloud on an uncluttered set. From humorously mundane to disturbingly grotesque, the vivid details of this man's increasingly desperate world emerge with shameless clarity. Expertly guided, the play's real action ultimately unfolds in the imagination, demonstrating the synergy of great writing and a well-tuned performance. (CP)
The second and fourth person to tell us the name of Bogosian's first critically acclaimed play turned screenplay will win a pair of tickets to the performance.
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FESTIVAL: Film
Sci-Fi Flick Fest
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| when: | Sat 5.10-7.13 (schedule) |
| where: | Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, 212.864.1414) |
| price: | $9 |
| | Moviegoers are gearing up for a summer full of science fiction blockbusters like The Matrix Reloaded and Terminator 3, but if you can't hold out until then, get your fix at Symphony Space's Sci-Fi Flick Fest. For two months the theater satisfies the appetite of savvy fantasy seekers with viewings of various classics including THX 1138 and Planet of the Apes, as well as flashy neoteric films like 12 Monkeys and The Matrix. If all this fails to entice your inner curiosity for the abstract, the festival also features three of Stanley Kubrick's finest works: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. (JB)
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| CD REVIEW: Sidestepper, 3am: In Beats We Trust |
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Palm Pictures
Released 2003
$17.98 (Insound)
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Sidestepper is the long-time musical project of British producer Richard Blair, who applies the years he spent in Colombia absorbing that country's music to his native beats and breaks. 3am: In Beats We Trust, Sidestepper's second album, was recorded in Bogata, Colombia; Havana, Cuba; and London, England by Blair with a revolving cast of local musicians and vocalists. While his debut, More Grip, was a forerunner to the now immensely popular Latin/jungle fusion of DJs like Marky and SUV, 3am is a decidedly more late-night and stoned affair. |
Ballads like "Dame Tu Querer" and "Aunque Me Duela La Vida" are intriguing modern takes on traditional styles, while songs like "Mas Papaya," "Me Gusta," and the title track seamlessly blend slow-burning Latin grooves with Jamaica-via-Notting Hill-style toasting. The result is addictive — 3am is the sound of summer. (DJP)
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| A/V: Palm Pictures |
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Guided by Chris Blackwell's trademark eclecticism, Palm Pictures encapsulates a family of labels (Palm, Quango, Rx, Kemado, Axiom) focused on pushing the boundaries of audio/visual entertainment. Home to an eclectic group of artists, including Moving Units, Nortec, Lake Trout, Elefant, and Zero 7, Palm is also a pioneer in the development of music-related DVDs with titles like Stop Making Sense, Rebel Music, 1 Giant Leap, and the forthcoming Definitive Jux Presents The Revenge of the Robots — as well as the upcoming Directors Series releases featuring the works of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and Chris Cunningham. Palm's theatrical division has released films including Scratch, Sex and Lucia, Full Time Killer, and Matthew Barney's Cremaster. Who knew that was all Palm? Get into it.
The third person to tell us the name of Chris Blackwell's most famous
luxury resort in Jamaica which was named after the James Bond book that was written there will win a Palm gift pack filled with CDs, DVDs, and other goodies.
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| STREAMS: Groovetech |
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We hope you're ready to consume. The Groovetech gastronomes are serving up a veritable feast of funk, this day and everyday. Step up and hit the links to launch a few Real streams of techno, drum 'n bass, and broken beat. Or move into the archive for their all-you-can-hear stream buffet — select the genre that most suits your palate and pig out aurally. While there, grab something from their well stocked music and apparel shop. With Groovetech, we're still in the era of new economy gluttony. Don't stand around thinking about it, it's all for the taking. (GR)
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