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...refugee camp, pushing the rocketeers back out of range of Sderot and other Israeli communities. In this plan, Israel would also turn a corridor along the Philadelphi Road, between Gaza and Egypt, into a no-man's land to stop smugglers from bringing more weapons into Gaza through an underground maze of tunnels. Israel would also cut off Gaza's electricity, gas and water, in what deputy premier Haim Ramon described as "a price tag" that Israel should stick on every rocket fired by the Palestinians...
...West. But Kane is different. Less traditional but not quite "Western," he mixes soul and Malian blues with rock tunes on a Moroccan three-stringed guitar known as the guimbri. One London-based music critic described Kane's eclectic sound as "evocative of a kind of pan-Saharan Velvet Underground...
...Kane's first album Sigil, meaning "Wake up" in his local Wolof language, was an underground hit, mixing traditional singing, funk and soul. Kane's next record, due to be released in 2008, is already widely anticipated. But, as the man himself likes to remind listeners in song, fame and success didn't come so easily...
...Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer Underground" during last summer's Israeli air raids...
...complications from lung cancer, agreed to a rare interview in November 2006 to discuss the legacy of CBGB, the club he had founded to promote his first musical loves - country, bluegrass and blues (CBGB) - and which in the 1970s and '80s became the official mecca of the underground New York rock scene. By that point, he had been battling cancer for some time, making him noticeably skinnier and less mobile...