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  • Instead, the album offers a blend of guitar-based American folk tunes and small chamber music-like pieces, including the elegant ballad "Magic Garden."

    Defying Her Own Language Barrier Tad Hendrickson 2012

  • As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book Hackers, the word was invented as a term of high praise by a group of MIT misfits trying to tame early computers like the PDP-6, finagling the hulking machine into doing things that seemed magical at the time: playing chess, running primitive videogames, emitting music-like sounds that vaguely resembled Bach.

    Steven Levy On Mark Zuckerberg And The Hacker Spirit 2010

  • As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book Hackers, the word was invented as a term of high praise by a group of MIT misfits trying to tame early computers like the PDP-6, finagling the hulking machine into doing things that seemed magical at the time: playing chess, running primitive videogames, emitting music-like sounds that vaguely resembled Bach.

    Steven Levy On Mark Zuckerberg, Hacking Heroes 2010

  • As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book Hackers, the word was invented as a term of high praise by a group of MIT misfits trying to tame early computers like the PDP-6, finagling the hulking machine into doing things that seemed magical at the time: playing chess, running primitive videogames, emitting music-like sounds that vaguely resembled Bach.

    Steven Levy On Mark Zuckerberg And The Hacker Spirit 2010

  • But it was just Bitches Ain't Shit and not an actual proper music-like collaberation so I don't mind so much.

    Jealous annawaits 2007

  • There are enough over-simplified blacks on television and music-like hip hop, and stupid comedies.

    Settle down, Beyoncé's dad | EW.com 2006

  • In such favourite incidents, then, of Giorgione's school, music or music-like intervals in our existence, life itself is conceived as a sort of listening -- listening to music, to the reading of Bandello's novels, to the sound of water, to time as it flies.

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • Maybe not so much strict bluegrass, but definitely folk music-like instrumentation.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lizzie Schiffman 2012

  • In the first two acts, Luisi wove an elegant, chamber music-like texture with brisk tempos that made clear how closely this opera resembles the scherzo of a symphony.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Their once-in-awhile-in-the-summer "Experiment" series continues to be an awesomely strange time, often involving bright lights, loud music-like sounds and, once in awhile, Dan Deacon.

    Weekly Dig - Humor, News + Nightlife 2010

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