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Friday Oct 23 | Las Vegas Review Journal

Doug Elfman: Asking Alice

Six bizarre things about the bizarre Alice Cooper: Cooper has golfed in Vegas with whole rosters of celebrities over the decades, but he hit the links with real bruisers back in old Vegas.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Alice Cooper, Disco, Scottsdale, AZ

Wed Oct 21, 2009

NBC DFW

Full Metal Jackets

HAVE A BALL: 7 For All Mankind's Plated Sequin Blazer is a glittering disco fantasy.

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Related Topix: Disco

NBC Miami

Fashion Peep Show

Known best for his effortlessly chic tees, Gold Saturn designer David Jon Acosta is hosting a fashion fete to celebrate his new collection.

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Related Topix: Disco

Tue Oct 20, 2009

JamBase

Gossip: Music For Men

Polish your whistle and lil' silver spoon and get ready to sweat! Gossip has delivered unto us a slab that treats dance music with intelligence and sexy savvy.

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Related Topix: Donna Summer, Disco, Giorgio Moroder

Sun Oct 18, 2009

The Sun Online

Why Chipmunk wants to inspire

THIRTY years ago in a trendy New York nightclub, three young lads in jeans and T-shirts jumped on stage as the Chic disco classic Good Times started playing.

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Related Topix: Why?, Hip-Hop, Disco, The Sugarhill Gang, Rap, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Dr. Dre, Black Entertainment, Offbeat

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Creative Loafing Tampa

Teenage Gabe loved Duran Duran in the '80s. Can he get with the re-boot?

As a teenager in the 1980's, I was the proverbial "kid in a candy store" when it came to all the great music that was at my fingertips for me to explore and experience.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Duran Duran, Worcestershire County, England, World News, Warwickshire County, England, United Kingdom, West Midlands County, England, Disco

Mon Sep 28, 2009

Digital Content Producer

the Recording Academya Producers & Engineers Winga Presents Grammy...

The Producers & Engineers WingA of The Recording AcademyA will present the 21st Annual GRAMMY SoundTablesA in conjunction with the AES Convention on Saturday, Oct.

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Related Topix: Music, Grammy Awards, Music!, Disco

Wed Sep 23, 2009

Franklin Avenue

CONTEST: Disco Night at the Hollywood Bowl

LOS ANGELES, WE HAVE BABY. Blogger Baby 2.0 arrived on Tuesday Aug. 11 in the AM.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Disco

Tue Sep 22, 2009

103JAMZ.com

He's The Greates... - Sister Sle...

Best known for their work with Chic in the late '70s, siblings Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge -- collectively Sister Sledge -- reached the height of their popularity during the disco era but had been recording since the early '70s and were still active in the late '90s. The group was formed in Philadelphia in 1971, when the sisters' ages ...

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Related Topix: Disco, Sister Sledge

Mon Sep 14, 2009

James Wolcott

Shakira: A Wolf in Chic Clothing

Shakira, wearing a dress by Gaultier Paris and a Cartier ring, photographed at Thtre Djazet, in Paris.

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Related Topix: Disco

DVDfile.com

The Last Days of Disco - DVD

For years I worked as a part-time disc jockey, doing wedding receptions and private parties of all kinds.

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Related Topix: The Last Days of Disco, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Wedding, Disco, Village People, Donna Summer

Fri Sep 11, 2009

New York Magazine

Glee Recap

The Glee kids are prepping for Regionals, but with only half of the required twelve participants .

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Disco, Entertainment

Wed Sep 09, 2009

Pacific Sun

Behind the Sun: Le Freak

Marin was hanging on the telephone 30 years ago this week. In the waning days of summer '79, the county known as ground zero for such psychedelic rock acts as Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company had finally succumbed to the booty-shaking charms of Donna Summer, Chic and the Trammps.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Disco, Donna Summer

Mon Sep 07, 2009

RTE 2FM

Chic LIVE from Th...

Some cooler than cool scensters may have smirked at the notion that Chic would deliver one of the sets of the festival.

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Related Topix: Disco

Sat Sep 05, 2009

RTE 2FM

Playlist - Thursd...

U2 - 'Magnificent' Olive - 'You're Not Alone' Hockey - 'Song Away' The Cure - 'Inbetween Days' Daniel Merriweather - 'Red' Mark Ronson - 'Just' The Temper Trap - 'Sweet Disposition' The Stone Roses - 'Waterfall' Ian Brown - 'Stelify' The Primitives - 'Crash' Calvin Harris - 'I'm Not Alone' Beck - 'Loser' The Killers - 'The World We Live In' Air ...

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Related Topix: Alex Greenwald, Pop/Rock, The Stone Roses, The Primitives, Beck, Disco

Thu Sep 03, 2009

RTE 2FM

Jim's new Tubbers...

On today's show we had the first exclusive play of Jim-Jim's new Tubridy song, just in time for Tubber's first Late Late Show tomorrow night.

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Related Topix: Disco

Sun Aug 16, 2009

Trend Hunter Magazine

Singing Disco Showers - Retro-Chic Butlins Ocean Hotel Features a Fun Party Vibe

The latest addition to the growing list of groovy new retro-chic hotels is Butlins' high-tech 20 million Ocean Hotel with spa in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

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Related Topix: Disco, West Sussex County, England, World News, United Kingdom,

Fri Aug 14, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Simian Mobile Disco: Temporary Pleasure CD review

No matter how good the grooves, dance production duos from Chic to the Chemical Brothers have always depended on finding the right vocalists to humanise and dramatise their songs.

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Related Topix: Disco

Wed Jul 29, 2009

The Voice

Gigs

R&B singer Keith Sweat performs live at London's Indig02. Indig02, Millennium Way, Greenwich, London SE10.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Essex County, England, R-N-B, Keith Sweat, Worcestershire County, England, Warwickshire County, England, West Midlands County, England, Sister Sledge, Disco, Funk, Kool & the Gang

Mon Jul 27, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Interview with Nile Rodgers of Chic

Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah... Chic in 1979: Luci Martin, Nile Rodgers, co-founder Bernard Edwards and Alfa Anderson Nile Rodgers of Chic The golden era of disco was already in full swing when the movement's biggest group arrived on the scene.

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Related Topix: Disco, Nile Rodgers, Funk, Sister Sledge, August, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies

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