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Flaming Guitars! Minarik Fuels The Excitement of a New Generation of Musicians

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

From the Telecaster to the Flying V to the Iceman to the Warlock, some guitar designs are forever branded on our consciousness, and now there’s a new one: the Minarik Inferno X-treme. The body shape erupts in furious fingers of flame. If ever there was a guitar design destined to ignite the imagination of young [...]

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The Merton Launches a New Music Night

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The Colour House Theatre is launching a new monthly music night this Saturday designed to give the best new bands a chance to show off their talents.

Live at the Colour House, in partnership with Merton’s Cherry Pie Music and Guilford’s Academy of Contemporary Music, will be given unsigned acts, bands and performers the chance [...]

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‘Things Just Ain’t the Same’: Hip-Hop’s Reconstruction of the Gangster Rap Identity

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Gangster rap, or hardcore rap, is generally considered a sub genre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it makes use of images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2). According to the Encyclopedia Britannica definition of [...]

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