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There's an uncharacteristically sedate cut on Bassnectar's hard-hitting new full-length, Cozza Frenzy, titled "I Wish I Was A Hipster." Trust me, it's not true. Drummers of Philadelphia, do you have the nerve to participate in an intimate frame-drum workshop with a multi-Grammy winner? The explosion of Israeli musicians onto the U.S. jazz scene has been told and retold countless times. But just because the story has become tired doesn't mean the music has. The highlight of the evening is undoubtedly the rare appearance of British axe man John Butcher, an improvisational intellectual whose intense minimalism works with sound on the subatomic level he studied as a physics Ph.D. Wide-ranging on his own — he plays piano, sax and percussion in the group — Apfelbaum intended the band to explore a variety of music, marrying jazz with sounds from other cultures. Mega concerts were around a long time before the rock bacchanals of the '60s. The 19th-century longhairs reveled in such events, replete with dandified performers and swooning audiences. The reckless, shattered lo-fi art punk band formed in Dunedin in 1981 in protest of then-apartheid South Africa's Springboks rugby team tour of the islands, and has raged ever since.

"It's a loving tribute that gives you a lot of the warmth and feeling you got from the original but in a completely different way. ... It's funny and somehow dear." In The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History John Ortved documents the legendary behind-the-scenes battles between co-creators Matt Groening, Sam Simon and James L. Brooks. "I haven't even thought of dancing like this for many years, and yet there it was — like riding a bicycle." "Jubilee" seems a fitting tag for the 40th season of a dance company so versed in versatility. It was a noble experiment, and T&P made for nice neighbors who were at least as showy as that Mexican wrestling mask place.