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	<title>Belting It Out: Jewish Music Festival offers the opposite of a dry lecture about showtunes</title>
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Music: &#39;&#39;It&#39;s a wonderful way to think about the rich tradition of so many Jews who were key to writing beautiful music for Broadway&#44;&#39;&#39; says Carole Zawatsky&#44; CEO of the DC Jewish Community Center&#46; She&#39;s talking about one event at this year&#39;s Washington Jewish Music Festival focused on the tunes and the tunesmiths of the Great White Way&#46; But&#39;s it not a dry&#44; academic exercise&#44; or even a standard song&#45;and&#45;dance show&#46; In &#39;&#39;The Big Broadway Sing&#45;Along&#44;&#39;&#39; everyone&#39;s a performer &#45;&#45; aided and abetted by a cocktail reception beforehand&#46; &#39;&#39;The glass of wine gets everybody loosened up for their kind of &#39;Sing out&#44; Louise&#33;&#39; moment&#44;&#39;&#39; Zawatsky says&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Saturday Night Euphoria: The band The Presets promises a concert with the energy of a dance party</title>
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Music: &#39;&#39;Some bands are definitely more hetero&#46; Some bands aren&#39;t gay enough&#44;&#39;&#39; says Kim Moyes&#44; chuckling&#46; &#39;&#39;Whereas we definitely have our fair share&#46;&#39;&#39; Moyes is one&#45;half of the Australian synth&#45;rock duo The Presets&#44; which this year became the first band to ever play the famed Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras&#46; The Presets have also twice played San Francisco&#39;s gay fetish bacchanalia Folsom Street Fair&#46; &#39;&#39;The music we make&#44; house and techno&#44; is a big part of the gay community&#44;&#39;&#39; Moyes says&#46; &#39;&#39;And certainly in the past we really kind of hammed up our ambiguity&#46;&#39;&#39; And in the future&#63; Moyes notes the duo is in the early stages of collaborating with Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters&#46; The Presets ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Rapping Bear: Chicago&#39;s Big Dipper is twisting hip&#45;hop&#39;s machismo conventions</title>
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Music: The raunchy gay bear rapper known as Big Dipper has gained a reputation as a sexual provocateur&#46; &#39;&#39;Every venue I go to&#44; after my show&#44; the space really transforms and everyone just sort of goes much harder&#44;&#39;&#39; he says&#44; with patrons making out and grinding&#46; It&#39;s not just a function of Big Dipper&#39;s sexually charged swagger and rhyming&#46; It&#39;s also his antics&#44; including a &#39;&#39;Dick Bounce&#39;&#39; competition&#44; named after one of his raps&#46; &#39;&#39;It&#39;s a dance competition&#44;&#39;&#39; he explains&#46; &#39;&#39;Instead of twerking or popping their butt&#44; everyone bounces their dicks as the dance move&#46;&#39;&#39; Big Dipper &#40;Photo by Cheryl Mann&#41; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Sweetlife Sensations: The Sweetlife Festival features a bounty of music and food delights</title>
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Music: Last year&#44; just before the band &#39;&#39;fun&#46;&#39;&#39; became a mainstream pop sensation &#45;&#45; and an eventual Grammy winner &#45;&#45; the trio appeared at the Sweetlife Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion&#46; Yeah Yeah Yeahs &#39;&#39;It&#39;s been exciting to see all of the success of fun&#46; and ASAP Rocky and Kid Cudi&#44;&#39;&#39; says Sweetlife&#39;s Laura Rankin&#44; citing three pop acts that have played the festival in the past few years&#44; and all before they garnered significant mainstream appeal&#46; This year&#39;s impressive festival lineup includes many on&#45;the&#45;verge acts&#44; including Kendrick Lamar&#44; Foxygen&#44; Holy Ghost&#33;&#44; Lindsey Stirling and local band Shark Week&#46; It also features a bounty of cult and hipster favorites&#44; from Phoenix to Passion Pit to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Solange&#44; otherwise known as Beyonce&#39;s eccentric little sister&#46; &#39;&#39;Hopefully next year we can do a third stage&#44; a true local stage &#91;with&#93; five or seven local bands&#44;&#39;&#39; says Rankin&#44; who produces the festival in&#45;house for Sweetgreen&#44; the local gourmet fast food salad chain&#44; in partnership with the 9&#58;30 Club&#39;s IMP Productions&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>The Seven Year Itch: Alice Smith proves worthy of a seven&#45;year wait with the astonishing She&#44; as sharp and surprising as they come</title>
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Music: In 2006 a new indie soul&#47;pop singer&#45;songwriter quickly seduced me with her sophisticated sound and amazing talent &#45;&#45; registering like a more refined Christina Aguilera&#44; and a sultrier Beyonc&#233;&#46; But after months&#44; then years&#44; of repeated listens to her marvelous tour&#45;de&#45;force debut album&#44; I grew eager to hear new material&#46; Or even just&#44; you know&#44; news about her&#46; But instead it was all quiet on the Alice Smith front&#46; Smith slyly references the seven&#45;year wait and delayed gratification that is her new second release She from the moment you hit play&#46; Alice Smith ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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