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There was a time when family entertainment often consisted of coming together to sing and play; when music was not just an oral tradition but a means of engendering familial closeness. A time long past, it contrasts with the contemporary reality of disenfranchised children, in no small part the result

There was a time when family entertainment often consisted of coming together to sing and play; when music was not just an oral tradition but a means of engendering familial closeness. A time long past, it contrasts with the contemporary reality of disenfranchised children, in no small part the result

The Shaky Hands are five guys from Portland, Oregon, and they represent what currently seems to be the trend in that rainy Northwest city: Putting out music that is jangly, earthy, and freewheeling—earnest and rootsy at its greatest moments, a bit overplayed and distracting at its weaker ones, but forgivingly so.

The Shaky Hands are five guys from Portland, Oregon, and they represent what currently seems to be the trend in that rainy Northwest city: Putting out music that is jangly, earthy, and freewheeling—earnest and rootsy at its greatest moments, a bit overplayed and distracting at its weaker ones, but forgivingly so.

Following Under The Blacklight’s retro AOR sound which brought Fleetwood Mac’s classic period to mind, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis has turned her attention back to her solo work and unleashes her Acid Tongue on this new release. It seems Lewis has turned back up on a dusty back road, dealing in the kind of gritty Americana that you’d associate more with Lucinda Williams.

Following Under The Blacklight’s retro AOR sound which brought Fleetwood Mac’s classic period to mind, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis has turned her attention back to her solo work and unleashes her Acid Tongue on this new release. It seems Lewis has turned back up on a dusty back road, dealing in the kind of gritty Americana that you’d associate more with Lucinda Williams.

Dar Williams is one of those fine, gifted singer-songwriters who should be much better known than they are, based on talent, variety and depth. In her case, too, one would have to add general entertainment value to the list; she rarely falls into the dour, humorless rut that can swallow up folk singers, a generally earnest lot.

Dar Williams is one of those fine, gifted singer-songwriters who should be much better known than they are, based on talent, variety and depth. In her case, too, one would have to add general entertainment value to the list; she rarely falls into the dour, humorless rut that can swallow up folk singers, a generally earnest lot.

I’ve been looking at the PDC Session schedule, as posted so far. Microsoft is serious about its new cloud computing platform. For a start, count the sessions. Out of 180 posted so far, here are the subjects with 10 or more sessions: Cloud services [33] Windows 7 [22] SQL Server [16] Visual

This is going to be huge. Unfortunately, we're talking size not marketplace impact when Dell's 17-inch Precision "mobile workstation" rolls out this fall. This portable desktop replacement promises up to 1TB of storage configured in a dual-drive RAID configuration, quad-core processor, and 16GB of graphics with enough oomph to power a pair of external 30-inch displays.