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Bonnaroo opens amid summer festival revival
When the tens of thousands of music-crazy fans gather in the Tennessee countryside this weekend for Bonnaroo, they’ll be part of not just one of the summer’s biggest music festival, but a nationwide revival.
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Framingham band rocks out to 'Hey Jude'
The Framingham Public School Fifth Grade Band held its year-ending performance at Jordan's Furniture in Natick today, led by long-time music director Bob Mangan. Television personality and Framingham resident Tom Caron served as emcee. Watch the kids rock out to "Hey Jude" in this Framingham school band video.
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EMI deal unlocks BBC archives
LONDON (Billboard) - The BBC has handed EMI Music the keys to its treasure-filled broadcast vault.
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Phil Spector - Wrecking Crew Set For Rockwalk Honour
The session musicians who helped PHIL SPECTOR create his legendary Wall of Sound and BRIAN WILSON his PET SOUNDS are to be inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk.
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Biography aylor Barnett is a trumpeter, teacher, and composer/arranger living in Richmond, Virginia. In 2001 he was awarded First Place in the Jazz Division of the National Trumpet competition.
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Biography
An excellent hard bop trumpeter, Carmell Jones would probably have been much better-known today if he had not moved to Europe in the mid-'60s at the height of his career.
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Crossover to perform at Honeywell Plaza
Crossover, a Christian rock band based in Wabash, recently released its first CD, “Lead the Way.” The band will host a CD Release Show, its first in Indiana, on the Honeywell Center Plaza on Thursday, as part of the Sizzling Summer Concert Series. The concert will start at 5 p.m.
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Dreadful News
A radio station doesn’t usually have the same DJ on for 20 years,” said Makeda Dread in 2003, the 20th anniversary of her Reggae Makossa program on 91X.
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Music Crawl Artist Submission 2008
Music Crawl is coming! Music Crawl is coming! Indeed, Free Times’ annual Music Crawl is slowly creeping up on us. Local bands, you know you want to play, and we know you want to play.
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Lord of the dancehall: Capleton brings positive attitude on tour
It's tough for outsiders to differentiate among dancehall reggae singers. But once you hear and see Capleton, you won't confuse him with anyone else: He's the...
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Billy Bob Thornton's First Love: Music
Billy Bob Thornton is the grizzled star of movies like "Bad Santa" and "Sling Blade," but he's also a singer-songwriter and the front man for the hillbilly rock group, The Boxmasters.
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Letters: KDKK poorly represents area
As a frequent traveler through your beautiful area, I listen to KDKK for the great music. However, I am almost always offended by the comments of Ed DeLaHunt.
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Whitney Duncan's new song is iTunes' featured single of the week
Whitney Duncan's new song, 'When I Said I Would,' is iTunes' featured single of the week, available for free download through Sunday at the online music service.
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Hef keeps swinging at 30th Playboy Jazz Fest
Hugh Hefner's passion for jazz is what launched the Playboy Jazz Fest in 1979, and it's what keeps it alive today.
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Williams and Ree return
ELKO - After a two year absence from Elko, Bruce Williams and Terry Ree will return this weekend for performances of their unique style of comedy and country music at the Red Lion.
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Sony Ericsson Alicia Walkman Phone is the Key
One of the best R&B singers on the face of the planet today is Alicia Keys, but the songstress has absolutely nothing to do with the latest rumored handset coming out of the Sony Ericsson camp. What we see here is an unofficial look at the yet unannounced Sony Ericsson Alicia cell phone.
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Musicals fill Hale Center's '09 schedule
For its fifth season starting January 2009, Hale Centre Theatre offers five musicals out of eight plays. Among them are the King & I, Beauty and the Beast and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
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Bush Administration Supports Performance Rights Act
A hearing is set for today where the House Judiciary Committee will examine the Performance Rights Act, which was introduced last year by Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA). The Act calls for artists to be paid a royalty when their music is played on the radio.
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In Brief - June 11, 2008
Dave Wellington exits WBCN, Clear Channel talent announced for XM KISS 21, the BBC and EMI Music join forces
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City Sues Speedway For $.5 Million
The city of Nashville said it is missing nearly half a million dollars in property taxes, and they are pointing the finger at the Music City Motorplex.
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Biography
Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s. Along with Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters,it is seen as a definite representation of jazz fusion in the 1970s.
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Global Metal Looks At Headbangers Around The World
During the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn premiered a little movie called Metal: A Headbanger's Journey that they co-wrote and directed about their favorite musical genre.
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It's Happening - York
INDOOR GARAGE SALE, Central King Senior's Residence, 15 King St., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. STRAWBERRIES AND ASPARAGUS Festival, Cedarvale Park, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Day-long festival promotes public space, local and organic food, local sustainable business, nature appreciation, music and fitness and health.
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The M's Have No Plans, Other Than Enjoying Beer
According to their Polyvinyl Records bio, The M's made their early home recordings with "the aid of many, many beers." So it comes as little surprise that when asked what Canadian music fans should know about the Chicago-based quartet, singer/guitarist Josh Chicoine offers a simple, straightforward answer.
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HDTV Entertainment: Is Your Home Theater Ready?
SAN FRANCISCO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Digital TV and high-definition (HD) entertainment have finally arrived. New HDTV channels, HD programming, movies, and music videos are constantly being announced as networks and studios strive to release more HD content.
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