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Picasso Didn`t Go There... My Three Musicians

If music be the food of love, play on... - Smutty Bill

(DAYTONA BEACH) - There's an enigma about jazz. I mean traditional jazz, not the offshoots, the evolutionary branches.

I mean the kind you might have heard on Bourbon Street in the Big Easy, although more likely, these days, drowned out by hard rock abominations. Trad. Where I live, in Dixie where it all started, anyone you might stop on the street doesn't even know what you're talking about.

Kabul`s School of Rock Offers Lessons for Life

"It is very difficult and it is not very common here, particularly for girls, to learn music. Girls can go to school to learn how to read and write, but music is an unreachable desire" - Meena Yousufzai, 22

(KABUL AFP) - With a sense of showmanship that would have impressed Freddie Mercury, Salahdeen, aged seven, struts his way through a passionate rendition of "We Will Rock You" - all part of the learning process at Kabul's "school of rock".

Founded two years ago in a living room in the Afghan capital, the school has grown into a busy youth club based at an arts centre with a recording studio and 35 students mastering singing, the guitar and drums.

Passing the Torch of Life

Includes new song... The Voice by Ace featuring Ken O'Keefe and Gilad Atzmon....

(SACRAMENTO / BOSTON) - In this life, when confronted with immense hardship, we do our best to form with the changes and preserve our hearts.

We know remaining intact on a personal level is essential for the strength of others. We find ourselves suffering yet we move forward, living day by day, and eventually the burden eases.

Gerald Clark`s Nakba is a Masterpiece for Palestine

This new album is a treat, and you should seriously consider adding it to your Jazz collection.

(LONDON) - The other day I learned that Gerald Clark, pretty much an unfamiliar name to me, was about to launch a Jazz suite dedicated to the Nakba and the Palestinian people. I was intrigued, I contacted Gerald and offered my help. A day later, the album found its way to my letterbox.

I am usually bored by ‘political music.’ Occasionally it lacks the necessary wit let alone a musical edge. But Clark’s Nakba is a masterpiece - music in its purest and most genuine form. It’s probably best described as a ‘Blue Note for Palestine’.

Red Rebel and Crimea

Most young people don't know about this American who was so popular in the Soviet Union.

(SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine) - I've often said that some day I will live on a pension and write a book about all those famous men I was lucky to meet during my lifetime. 75 years have passed since the birth of the late singer, the actor and simply fighter for peace Dean Read.

In the autobiographies of the known rebel you will notice Crimea very rarely. The only mention was in September 1985, in the USSR, Crimea. Preparation was underway for a film about American Indians at the Riga film studio. But Dean Read did visit our sunny peninsula a few times.

NYC Is My Mecca

Gilad Atzmon is coming from London for a unique studio recording at Zeb's in New York City.

(LONDON) - As an Israeli boy of a patriotic background, I was destined to become a military man. But then, at seventeen, as I was getting myself ready for my IDF compulsory service, the unexpected happened. On a late night jazz radio programme, I heard Charlie Park first time.

I was knocked down. The music was more organic, poetic, sentimental and wilder than anything I had ever heard before.

Hempstalk Festival 2013 - Campaigns Launched to End Cannabis Prohibition in Oregon

Headlining musical acts include Santee Sioux activist and spoken word artist John Trudell and his band Bad Dog, iconic Las Vegas rappers Los Marijuanos, and Arden Park Roots, Hempstalk Talent Search winners.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The ninth annual Portland Hempstalk is a compelling mix of upbeat music with a focus on ending Oregon's marijuana prohibition. Hemp is the answer to many of Oregon's practical needs.

Hempstalk is Saturday and Sunday, September 7th and 8th at Kelley Point Park, located at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

Isai Gnani Ilayarajah - a Big Predator

A campaign of relentless TV publicity is undertaken in all major Tamil TV stations in the UK. The concert will be held on Saturday, 24 August 2013 at the London O2 Arena in Greenwich.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Guardian) - The darker side of the composer Isai Gnani Illaiyarajah has never been reported in the media.

Having experienced his ruthless double-cross, I write this piece with the view to create greater awareness of the deception practiced by the much boasted Tamil music composer from Tamil Nadu.

Boston Massacre by Sibylline feat. Ace / A.E.M.G

The massacre referred to in this music video is metaphorical, not real. It is merely artistic hyperbole expressing the artists' impact on the music scene. The artists are all dedicated advocates of Truth, Justice, and PEACE

(BOSTON) - This new song by Sibylline featuring Ace (Our writer Agron Belica) from Aldin Entertainment Music Group, brings many things to mind, but it isn't a cause for alarm.

Songs like this have people on the east coast, particularly in Boston, increasingly asking, who is 'Aldin Entertainment'?

Ted Nugent, the Ranting Rocker, Takes his Racist Musical Show Across America

Nugent's Obama-hating, racist shtick pulled him out of a deep career dive.

(CHICAGO) - Ted Nugent is known as a ranting, rocker with extreme right-wing political views, in which he embeds Obama-bashing and racism into his musical act. Ted Nugent has taken his racist act on the road across America.

Last year in the thick of the 2012 presidential election, Ted Nugent the racist rocker, said in a cryptic pronouncement that “If Barack Obama becomes the next president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." Ted Nugent is neither dead nor in jail.