Ozarkers hope for Oscar bid for “Winter’s Bone”

Ozarkers hope for Oscar bid for “Winter’s Bone”
With Oscar nominations and the Sundance Film Festival, this is the month for filmmakers and cinema lovers.
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Mick Karn: Innovative bass-player with the esoteric early-Eighties band Japan
Synthesizers and drum machines might have dominated the music of the early Eighties, but the bass guitar also became prominent at the start of the decade that taste forgot.
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PLAYLIST: The songs that inspired Sidewalk Dave in 2010
Who: Ok, one more ‘best of 2010’ list, just for good measure. Sidewalk Dave do the whiskey-soaked folk rock thing so well, you’d think they hail from some grimy blues bar in Kentucky. They’re from New Haven, and we love them. They had a hell of a 2010 with the release of the acclaimed “Gold Liquid Mischief” and this mix is meant to show where their inspiration for the year came from.
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