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WOMAD co-founder Peter Gabriel was inspired by the idea of a festival geared towards introducing "an international audience to many talented artists." And once again, his renown World of Music, Arts and Dance festival returned for another weekend-long event, with diverse musical events featuring performances occurring simultaneously on several stages, while also including participatory workshops for children and adults alike. The Foxymorons play a potent brand of sun-kissed, slightly skewed guitar pop that could serve as the soundtrack to your best summer ever. Maybe it was the year you fell in love, bought your first Pavement album and drove your first car, a rust-colored beater with too many bumper stickers, into the ground. Together, the Foxymoron's David Dewese and Jerry James represent a stroke of guitar pop genius, and Erik Hage sets out to find out why.

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I'm here to talk about something very serious that affects millions of Americans each day: Pop Music Overload. How do you know if you're a sufferer of PMO? Take the following test: Do you have an aversion to listening to popular radio? Do you break out in hives during those rare moments when MTV (a growing contradiction in terms) actually plays a music video? Have you recently started to listen to something other than Top 40 as your primary music source? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions you may be suffering from PMO.

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