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The Rock Snob's Dictionary : An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge by David Kamp, Steven Daly (Broadway)How to Hold Your Own with Rock Snobs
"The Rock Snob's Dictionary" is a new reference guide for learning the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those obscurity-obsessed know-it-alls who love their rock music and use terms like "Seminal" and "old-school." Today, editors David Kamp and Steven Daly explain how you too can talk like a rock snob. Also: jazz critic Larry Blumenfeld stops by with a tale of two jazz festivals: George Wein's JVC Festival, which is a big, corporate-sponsored event by major stars at big halls; and the Lower East Side's Vision Festival, which is a nonprofit grassroots affair that gathers free improv and avant garde heroes for multishow nights at a downtown space. Together, they're a display of the breadth, depth, diversity and polarity of what jazz in June can mean.
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Introducing our Video Contest
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John Schaefer gives the lowdown on Soundcheck's music video challenge with the Fiery Furnaces.
In Studio: Angel Deradoorian
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The 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist performs live in our studio.
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Cucu Diamantes Performs Amor Cronico
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Cucu Diamantes went from a tough childhood in Havana, Cuba, to an art school in Rome to underground New York City, where she co-founded the Latin alternative band Yerba Buena.
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In Studio: Stephanie McKay
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The local singer-songwriter performs "Jackson Avenue," a nostalgic toast to her childhood in the South Bronx.
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In Studio: The Decemberists
The Portland, Ore., band's latest album, "The Hazards of Love," is a concept album with a mythological flair. They joined Soundcheck to play live for a studio audience in WNYC's Greene Space.
Sound Off
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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.
