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...Kim Gordon was a member of Sonic Youth, the noiseniks who bridged the worlds of 1980s downtown experimentalism and the US alt-rock boom of the 1990s....
...Having become a destination for transplants from New York or Los Angeles during the pandemic, the city’s downtown is cluttered with construction sites as it races to get bigger....
...He sings a lyric from a pop song that his mother wrote in the 1950s. He chants a bit of a 12th-century choral work....
...South Korea on Tuesday held its first large-scale military parade in downtown Seoul, displaying a range of weapons from ballistic missiles to home-grown fighter jets and drones in a show of force against...
...At the top, there’s a beautiful old building with a café and stunning views of downtown and the river....
...It was Portugal’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest that ended the longest-running right-wing dictatorship in Europe....
...This week South Korea held its first large-scale military parade in downtown Seoul in a decade, a show of force that included ballistic missiles, homegrown fighter jets and reconnaissance drones....
...Songs played: “Downtown Train” written by Tom Waits, published by Island Records. “Gritty Troubador’s Backstreet”, written by chatGPT, Ludo Hunter-Tilney, Voicify.ai and Boomy....
...The words to a popular Mexican song run across the top of the frame: “Now that you are without hair, I don’t love you any more.”...
...Of course, this is not the open prairie — Fort Worth is a city with gleaming high-rise towers downtown, a 112-year old symphony orchestra and world-class museums....
...The crowd, crammed into Casa de Francisco, an art-nouveau townhouse turned concert venue in downtown São Paulo, starts bouncing to the fast metallic rhythm....
...To get a sense, here’s a beat from his song Downtown Train. [‘DOWNTOWN TRAIN’ BY TOM WAITS PLAYING] Recently our pop music critic here at the FT, Ludo Hunter-Tilney, did something very un-Tom Waits....
...“I’ve got a lot on my mind,” he sang, as he turned this corner of a Wiltshire field into downtown Lagos. “A lot on my mind.” womad.co.uk...
...He headed Hyundai Engineering and Construction in the 1960s and won popularity as mayor of Seoul for the restoration of the Cheonggyecheon stream across the capital’s downtown area....
...“Heroin” points towards the downtown demimonde that The Velvet Underground would soundtrack so magnificently....
...to ‘How do I close the loop on this song?’. I’m trying to do that for other artists now.”...
...Join street parties in downtown Manhattan, or head to Queens where there will be parties aplenty among Chinese communities....
...If the beds weren’t worth it, then “why did Drake write in his song ‘God’s Plan’: ‘I only love my momma and my bed?’” Ryde asks me....
...Soon enough he is on the lam, escaping for a lawless odyssey in downtown Sandusky, Ohio. Shoplifting is a talent. What little money Pat can muster goes on white wine....
...If they devalued the currency, “no one on this day would take any notice”, one of the hundreds of thousands of Argentines waiting to greet their footballing heroes tells me in downtown Buenos Aires....
...Meredith Monk is a grandee of downtown Manhattan’s experimental arts scene, back before the real estate developers and super-rich moved in....
...The audience is hysterical with Sondheim fever: with every song they whoop and cheer....
...“But it wasn’t just a downtown art scene,” stresses Holman....
...I flew in via Oslo and, after two-nights in a hostel downtown, booked an overnight in a yurt — known here as a lavvu — with Tromsø Lapland, a Sámi-owned tour company....
...Friends cheered the happy couple with cheap liquor and a cappella wedding songs, and the stunt’s overtones of joy and hope re-energised the crowds....
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