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Accompanied by the school’s fight song, new UCLA football coach DeShaun Foster walked across a stage inside Lucas Oil Stadium on Wednesday morning to take his spot behind a lectern … only to stumble his way through the next minute.
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Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
On Monday, about 50 activists and Hyundai workers gathered at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Montgomery to sing union fight songs and hear from Bishop Barber.
—Jack Ewing, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Aside from that stirring fight song, the band is long remembered in their homeland for an ice-cold moment during the 1998 Brit Awards when drummer Danbert Nobacon tipped a bucket of water on then deputy prime minister John Prescott.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
Among other duties, cheer masters write fight songs and chants, and shout them during games, even when their teams are losing badly.
—John Yoon Jun Michael Park Shawn Paik, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
On Monday, about 50 activists and Hyundai workers gathered at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Montgomery to sing union fight songs and hear from Bishop Barber.
—Jack Ewing, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Aside from that stirring fight song, the band is long remembered in their homeland for an ice-cold moment during the 1998 Brit Awards when drummer Danbert Nobacon tipped a bucket of water on then deputy prime minister John Prescott.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
Among other duties, cheer masters write fight songs and chants, and shout them during games, even when their teams are losing badly.
—John Yoon Jun Michael Park Shawn Paik, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Country music is known for its drinking songs, but this is just tedious.Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 July 2024
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May 15, 2024 The pub, long known as a hangout for musicians, initially featured Irish troubadours performing drinking songs and traditional Irish ditties.Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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The Northwest Arkansas Women's Chorus, previously the Bella Vista Women's Chorus, sings a wide variety of musical selections ranging from popular songs, show tunes, folk songs and spiritual arrangements to classic compositions of Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst and Johannes Brahms.Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2024
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The film tells the story of a young poet and singer steeped in an ancient Moroccan form of folk song called aita, but forced to perform trashy pop songs in bars filled with abusive men.Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2024
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The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.Steve Hochman, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2024
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As a map of Austin’s musical journey, the recital moved through spirituals and standard repertoire into 20th-century and contemporary art song and opera.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
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LeVar Burton has spent years as a constant, edifying, steadying presence in American pop culture.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Brody was Seth Cohen, Gallagher’s son obsessed with comic books and pop culture.Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
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She’s got a lot of torch songs in her arsenal, and there is nothing like the LA Phil at its most understated to throw just enough tinder onto her unrequitedness to create a beautiful blaze.Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
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By gracefully expressing Evan’s longing for Zoe and unpacking her fractured relationship with Connor, the torch song fuses these characters’ parallel quests for connection.Washington Post staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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