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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 Music Fight - Life's Fleeting Nature

Dear reader(s), my output has dropped of late. I haven't been able to summon the energy to write while dealing with a loss in the family. A very sweet light went dark too soon, leaving my family to pick up the pieces. Days are growing shorter, the dark and cold are rapidly encroaching on our fair burg, and I have been ruminating on loss. This is nothing new, nor especially profound. Hobbes wrote that life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" more than 350 years ago, and Palahniuk mused on the topic, "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero". First up we have MMS favorite Laura Gibson with the title track from last year's exquisite Goners. Like so many of her songs, this one is more abstrusely personal than broadly philosophical, filtered through her famously wry sense of humor. She sings "Here comes the end/of the future/if we're already goners" over the gentle swelling of horns, a future as lovely

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