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SIMON & GARFUNKEL
The Complete
Albums Collection
WOUNDS
So Many Ways
Sleep On It
Doors: 8:00 pm
Show: 9:00 pm
(ends at 1:00 am)
21 and over.
Tickets $8.00 - $10.00
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Vukari
Doors: 7:00 pm
Show: 8:00 pm
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Tickets $12.00 - $15.00
Unholy Empire X-Mas Party
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12.12
SAT
12.13
STONECUTTERS
Fierce Atmospheres
Lost Dog
Blane Fonda
THE NOISE FM
Bring Your Ray Gun
Ancient Friends
Noise for Toys Benefit
WED
12.17
SAT
12.20
WED
12.31
Doors: 9:00 pm
Show: 10:00 pm
21 and over.
Tickets $8.00
Doors: 8:00 pm
Show: 9:00 pm
21 and over.
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Mammoth Grinder
Inanimate Existance
Roman Ring
Elbow Deep
Empire Productions /
Unholy Empire presents
Event: 8:00 pm
21 and over.
Tickets $12.00 - $15.00
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HEMISPHERES
MG Bailey
Doors: 8:00 pm
Show: 8:00 pm
21 and over.
Tickets $10.00
ARCHIE POWELL &
THE EXPORTS
The Noise FM
Ghastly Menace
New Year's Eve Show
Doors: 9:00 pm
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Your Simon and Garfunkel collection
begins and ends with this 12-disc box. The
essentials, naturally, are the duo's five studio albums released between 1964 and
1970. The act arrived fully formed with
1964's Wednesday Morning, 3AM. Immortal
song "The Sound of Silence" relied upon
little more than Simon's acoustic guitar
and the uncanny blend of Garfunkel's
angelic tenor and Simon's earthbound harmony. "The Sound of Silence" was embellished with rock instrumentation without
Simon and Garfunkel's knowledge and
released as a single from 1966's sophomore
album Sounds of Silence. The gravity of
Wednesday Morning's starker version was
undermined, but the touch-up became a
smash hit. The approach provided other
material with fresh power, too. The steelyeyed "I Am a Rock" follows the electric
folk-rock sound of Bob Dylan's "Like a
Rolling Stone" from the prior year.
Ensuing favorites like "The 59th Street
Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)," "Mrs.
Robinson," "Homeward Bound" and "A
Hazy Shade of Winter" are included on
their respective albums and soundtrack
for 1968's The Graduate.
The pair's studio run ended in 1970
with the complex and layered Bridge Over
Troubled Water. Even casual fans can still
sing along to the title cut and other highlights including "Cecilia," "Baby Driver,"
and "The Boxer." A live cover of the Everly
Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" was propelled by
the crowd's clapping, with a fan's jubilant
scream punctuating its final chorus. The
song served as homage to a key influence
and a note of farewell to the partnership.
The box includes four live albums. More
than 500,000 witnessed 1981's Concert in
Central Park reunion, where Garfunkel elevated solo Simon material like "Slip Slidin'
Away." Although, it could be argued that
it's redundant, 1972's Greatest Hits collection sold over 14 million copies in the US
and stands as the band's biggest commercial success.
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– Jeff Elbel
(847) 808-STYL Rockstyles.com
(Vanguard)
Imagine a soft-focus Andrews SistersRoches hybrid plus a fourth-part harmony
and the talent to assemble a dozen-song
holiday album with only two standards
("Silver Bells," "Jingle Bells") and one carol
("Little Drummer Boy"), and you'll have a
fair idea of Eleni Mandell's, Becky Stark's,
Inara George's, and Alex Lilly's collective
charm. As befits their droll unsentimentality, the mood stays light and even somewhat ecumenical (Hanukkah gets a song
all to itself). But "Unsentimental" plus
"light" plus "ecumenical" in their case
equals "buoyant" more often than not and
"cute" only a little. And, anyway, their
cutest songs (the tourism-committee-worthy "Kadoka, South Dakota," the Santabaiting "Skip the Sugar [Good Girl], and
the Beach Boys-worthy "Christmas in
California") are also their most detailed
and catchy.
– Arsenio Orteza
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