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One of the great paradoxes of modern popular music is the endurance of the guitar. After all, electronic music has now been generally available for a half-century – and logic would suggest that with its wide range of effects (including synthesizing the sounds of traditional instruments), its programmability and editing, and its plummeting price, that the guitar, that ultimate refinement of analog music creation, would by now have gone the way of the harpsichord.

AC Entertainment has officially announce the dates for MoogFest in Asheville, NC. The festival will take place Oct. 29-31, 2010. Confirmed headlining artists include Massive Attack, MGMT, and Thievery Corporation. These will be joined by more than 25 additional artists performing in multiple venues throughout downtown Asheville, including the Asheville Civic Center Arena, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, and Asheville¹s renowned world-class club, the Orange Peel. ...attendees will be able to participate in workshops, engage with artists in panel discussions, enjoy visual art exhibitions, installations and film screenings, and play with a variety of Moog instruments...

The band members wore uniforms and did some synchronized moves. Their songs had snappy little hooks and robotic drumbeats. They even started their set with an introductory video. But Devo was hardly a boy band when it played on Friday night at Central Park SummerStage, in its first public New York concert since the 1980's. Just in time for the current new-wave revival, Devo, which got started in Ohio in 1972 and released its first album in 1978, returned to prove that its songs still have some bite. Paradoxes have always collected around Devo. It started as an art project,...