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Hot weather means cool tunes - or at least catchy, infectious, stick-in-your head ones. With the official start of summer just a week away, today we look at what will be crowned this year's summer jam, and what makes for an effective summer hit.
Selecting the Song of the Summer
Every June around this time, candidates for the year's "Song of the Summer" start to appear. Those are the songs that blast from car windows, beach radios and cell phone speakers. Today, we talk with Rob Tannenbaum, editor at Blender magazine, and Maura Johnson, editor at Idolator.com about makes ...
Techno for an Answer
French choreographer Pascal Rioult first made a name dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company before achieving international acclaim as a daring interpreter of classical music. Now he's finding inspiration in... British techno? He joins us to talk about the new work based on the music of the ...
Opera at the Ballpark
Two very different Bay Area teams are getting ready to turn a tricky double play. The San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants announced they will present a live simulcast this fall of Camille Saint-Saëns' biblical epic “Samson and Delilah” at the Giants' ballpark, AT&T Park. We talk with ...
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