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SIMPLY SMASHING: No song is safe when Smash-Up Derby goes to work, mixing and mashing together covers live and on the fly with real instruments and not computers. The band performs Sunday (June 14) at Discovery Meadow as part of San Jose Pride. The event runs all weekend; see page 69 for details.
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2 guns used in Oklahoma girls' killings
WELEETKA, Okla. - State investigators say they believe two people are responsible for the killing of two young girls on a country road near Weleetka.
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Blue Flames to rekindle for the weekend
This weekend’s reunion of The Hamilton-Bates Blue Flames (well, three-fourths of them — bassist Preston Hubbard sends his regrets) will give fans a chance to see one of Rhode Island’s biggest musical success stories and one of the state’s comeback kids.
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Calypso at De Great Iron Pot Sunday
Calypso Tent Music presents The All Star Rumble 2008 season of Calypso on Sunday, June 15 at 3 p.m. Performers will include Structure, Connector, Susan G, Dynasty, Dee Lee, Scorpio, Cosmos, Sailor, ...
East York Mirror |
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Old-fashioned Flag Day picnic to be held Saturday
DAR's old-fashioned flag day picnic at Roslyn Heights to include fried chicken lunch, croquet and music Saturday.
Boonville Daily News |
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News > Making A Buzz
The annual Latino International Theater Festival of New York, TeatroStageFest, will make its Queens debut with the production “Mujeres En La Guerra (Women in War),” which opened on June 12 and will have performances on June 13 and 14.
Queens Courier |
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Music Review: The Infamous Stringdusters
For this six-piece band of acoustic hotshots, the emphasis is on the second part of their name. This time out, they not only blow the dust off their strings; they also unite into a formidable sound all their own.
Summit Daily News |
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Gigs & Bytes: Pear Jam's V Cast Hook-Up
Pearl Jam has teamed with Verizon Wireless to offer the band's first mobile bootleg concert recordings to the mobile service provider's customers.
POLLSTAR |
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Gibson Guitar Announces Joan Jett Signature Melody Maker Guitar
Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology, has announced the launch of the Joan Jett Signature Melody Maker guitar, designed and produced in close cooperation with the rock legend herself.
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Ruling Affirms Right to Resell Promo CDs
San Francisco - A federal judge has shot down bogus copyright infringement allegations from Universal Music Group (UMG), affirming an eBay seller's right to resell promotional CDs that he buys from secondhand stores.
Electronic Frontier Foundations |
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Wood Park summer concert schedule
Here's where to spend a warm Wednesday evening.
Hudson Sun |
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14th annual South County Festival opens Saturday
Ricki Christian of Shady Side holds her daughter Shiloh, 1 1/2 as she pets a pony named Snowball during the South County Festival in 2005. It's festival time again in south county.
The Capital |
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'New Brain' in Santa Ana maps out a composer's ordeal
Review: Rude Guerrilla gives the 1998 operetta vocal power and a too-youthful slant.
Orange County Register |
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PixelHeadsNetwork.com Loves To Create Music Videos With Animoto
PixelHeadsNetwork.com creates great looking photo videos with Animoto. DMN Newswire--2008-6-10--Animoto.com is a new service that combines images and music and automatically creates for you a music video / movie trailer. Everything is done automatically behind the scenes.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Jewel - Perfectly Clear Review
Proof that you cannot force country. June 11, 2008 - Folk singer to country starlet is not exactly a huge leap, but you would never know it listening to Jewel's latest effort.
IGN Music |
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National Performing Arts Convention Opens in Denver
Where do we go from here? Nearly 4,000 artists and arts administrators are trying to figure that out this week at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver.
Rocky Mountain News |
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New Music: Nas: "Black President" [Stream]
However you feel about the junior senator from Illinois politically, a President Barack Obama would be pretty much guaranteed to lead to more interesting pop music than Hillary Clinton, John McCain, or Libertarian candidate Bob Barr. One interpretation of Obama's candidacy holds that, as someone born in 1961 and therefore unscarred by that decade's political tumult, the presumptive Democratic ...
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Celebrated composer to be honored
DIXON - The Dixon Municipal Band will perform a free centenary celebration concert honoring American composer Leroy Anderson at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Page Park bandshell.
SaukValley.com |
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Locals Play The Part In N.Ky.
If you're looking for some live entertainment this summer, check out these Northern Kentucky performance groups. The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center in Covington showcases several art galleries and also a variety of education performance events.
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MadTracks -- 'Chickenwire' by Paul Filipowicz
Longtime Wisconsin bluesman Paul Filipowicz has released some aggressive studio recordings over the years, including several that have made the national blues charts. But his live album 'lt;i'gt;Chickenwire'lt;/i'gt; really shows him in a different light. Here he's pumped up and looking for a fight, and his pugnacious, self-penned blues are the better for it.
Isthmus |
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Facing music on arms cache
A man accused of illegally keeping a cache of explosives and military-style weapons has failed to keep his job with a symphony orchestra secret.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Enjoying history
THE best way to observe June 12 is not to watch the big parade but to read a good history book on our country. You will not learn from the speeches bureaucrats and politicians deliver because they are usually soaring paeans to the heroes. Instead, read about the lives of the founding fathers.
The Manila Times |
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Sterling Municipal Band summer concert series will kick off tonight
STERLING - Retired Marine Col. John R. Bourgeois has returned to conduct the Sterling Municipal Band's 2008 opening concert this evening at the Grandon Civic Center.
SaukValley.com |
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Paging Doctor Timberlake
At the University of Alberta's medical school, learning about heart conditions is as easy as singing a Justin Timberlake hit song thanks to a novel new approach to podcasting.
Canada.com |
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George Michael Plans To Stop Touring
Pop icon to retire following two August concerts.
TheCelebrityCafe.com |
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