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One of the most common questions on the Yahoo Group is about practice space and where to find it. A list is being compiled here of practice spaces in the D.C. Metro Area, which you'll be able to access anytime through the link under "Resources For Musicians" in the right hand column. If you have something to add, please post it as a comment below. The list will be updated as people submit more information. Practice Spaces in the D.C. Metro Area: Barco Rebar Falls Church, VA 703-207-1657 http://www.barcorebar.com 7Drum Lessons 2008 8th Street NW Washington DC 20001 http://www.7drumlessons.com Uncle Bob's Self Storage Alexandria, VA 800-242-1715 http://www.unclebobs.com Music Cave Studios 46040 Center Oak Plaza #150 Sterling, VA 20166 (703) 430-1095 http://musiccavestudios.com Rock Shop Studios 8455 R Tyco Road Vienna VA 22182 (703) 801-4737 http://www.rockshopstudios.com Str8way Music Service (240) 479-5855 http://www.str8waymusic.com

Leonard Cohen @ Merriweather / A Review

As if to contest any argument that he may be too old for this at 74, Leonard Cohen jogged spryly on to the stage at Merriweather Post Pavilion promptly at 7:30 the night of May 11th, and the band kicked into “Dance Me to the End of Love.” Thus began an evening of masterful musicianship, high sartorial style, inspired lighting and some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written in the English language. Leonard Cohen’s age was reflected in the suit and fedora that he wore. The formal, retro stylishness was reiterated in the breast pocket handkerchiefs, haberdashery, and polished wingtips of his excellent backup musicians. A bygone time was also recalled in the way he would take off his hat while listening to the solos — the melancholy moan of the stand-up bass played by Roscoe Beck, the mandolin hauntingly plucked by Javier Mas, the aching tones of Bob Metzger’s steel pedal guitar — or when accepting the adulation of the audience. When singing, though, his voice belied the years, the low

Friday Night Videos - Pronoun Edition

Tonight we have a pair of very different videos that deal with time, relationships, and inevitability, with the common thread of a pronoun in the title of each. First we have the breathy and gorgeous "Now You Want to Live in the Light" from Quebec's Land of Talk . This is the fifth single from the band's Indistinct Conversations, out today on Saddle Creek . Land of Talk frontwoman and nexus Elizabeth Powell might be Canada's closest analogue to Laura Gibson, a high priestess of the inward looking, empress of the introverts. This video, as with a few others from the album, includes Canadian First Nations dancer and multidisciplinary artist Lara Kramer . The song, described as "a poem set to music" about the "tender negotiations between the light and dark parts of ourselves", takes on a haunting quality as we watch Kramer move about the back of an open trailer. She struggles, rocks, tentatively takes to her feet, a lo-fi moving tableau of an indi

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