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The Backwards Life of Lefties

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Monday, May 25, 2009

For left-handers, it's an unforgiving world filled with awkwardly-shaped scissors, computer mouses, notebooks and even MetroCard swipers. Today we find out how left-handed musicians work -- and thrive -- in a right-handed world. Also: Californian indie rock band Airborne Toxic EventThis is an encore edition of Soundcheck.

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Airborne Toxic Event

Musical Southpaws

We look at left-handedness musicians who excel in a right-handed world. We talk with Atlanta Journal-Constitution classical music critic Pierre Ruhe and University of Toledo psychologist Stephen Christman. This is an encore edition of Soundcheck.

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Airborne Toxic Event

Indie rockers Airborne Toxic Event hail from Los Angeles and take their name from the Don DeLillo novel White Noise, echoing the literary backgrounds of frontman Mikel Jollett and guitarist Steven Chen. They’ve recently gained national recognition with "Sometime Around Midnight," a song that they recorded themselves, distributed via MP3 ...

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