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• If music be the food of love, play on, and get those brain chemicals rocking
  Steven Bridge

  We know we are being manipulated and we love it: songwriters and composers use a number of musical devices to evoke some of our most powerful emotions, as, for example, something called appoggiatura (a grace note performed before an essential note of a m...

• Artest readies release of rap album (AP) - T.D.C. Forums
  Steven Bridge

  10-20-2006, 03:58 PM Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:36:19 GMT AP - Ron Artest sat backstage with his entourage, wondering if the audience would approve of his upcoming performance...

• 'The Queen' rules U.K. indie film nominees
  Miriam Liddle

  The film with Mirren in the title role of Queen Elizabeth, received seven nominations this week, including best film, best actress and best director. Daily Variety said Thursday Mirren would receive the Personality of the Year award at the Nov...

• Blues 5, Thrashers 3 (AP) - Talking Blues
  Ronaldinho

  Bill Guerin scored his first four goals of the preseason and added an assist to help the St. Louis Blues beat the Atlanta Thrashers 5-3 on Sunday night...

• An offbeat time for the popular music beat
  Ram Stone

  Looking back at live music in Hampton Roads in 2006, I'm struck by how much I missed. For instance, what on Earth could have prevented me from seeing Irish music legends the Chieftains play Newport News? Truth is, my job was changing in 2006...

• Britney Spears Shaven ‘Hair Cut’: Is it worth the media buzz? | Huliq: Breaking News
  Ram Stone

  commented out for now Britney Spears Shaven ‘Hair Cut’: Is it worth the media buzz? Today Britney Spears, an internationally known pop start and celebrity from United State made world-wide headlines because of Britney’s new hair cut, which is an enti...

• Macon Telegraph | 12/28/2006 | Brown's legacy broader than just music
  Ram Stone

  AUGUSTA - There were two sides to the Godfather of Soul, and few places knew that as well as his hometown of Augusta. As a child here, James Brown would dance on street corners for pocket change to feed his family - and swipe valuables from cars...

Rock Plaza Central : Are We Not Horses

Nothing short of brilliant, Are We Not Horses sends its complex concept to listeners with twelve tracks of sonic bliss. Its troubadour-pop, neo-chamber folk-rock sound is the perfect platform for the ambiguous story of giant, robotic horses. The tale of a war of man versus angels with the steel horses caught in the middle shifts from low-key and scaled down ballads ( ldquo;Fifteen Hands rdquo;) to grandly orchestrated compositions ( ldquo;My Children Be Joyful rdquo;).

Overall, the band rsquo;s closest comparison lies with Neutral Milk Hotel, and they are deserving of that honor. The sound of violin weeping (played by Fiona Stewart) offset by a brass section allows this clever mix to rest outside any restrictions or rules. Requiems and calls to arms fill the same space with both evoking emotions involving tears.

One of the most dramatic lines (from ldquo;Anthem for the Already Defeated rdquo;) reads ldquo;and we rsquo;ll shake our rumps with bloody stumps and we cannot be defeated, rdquo; becoming an anthem for the everyman.

Alluded to in Rock Plaza Central rsquo;s previous album, The World Was Hell to Us, the concept follows a loose plot line based on guitarist and quirky-voiced lead singer Chris Eaton rsquo;s short stories. Equally chilling and inspirational, the music itself succeeds in a record most bands can only dream of creating.