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Record label sues two Stone Temple Pilots
Warner Music Group Corp's Atlantic Records label on Thursday sued two members of the alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots for trying to end their recording contract early.
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Long awaited CD release
Local guitar duo EphenStephen are releasing ther second album, an ambitious project that arranges Bach’s Goldberg Variations into a masterpiece for two classical guitars.
Armidale Express |
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Just a Minute With: Musician Peter Gabriel
LONDON (Reuters) - Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice, failed to democratise the pop industry as much as was hoped and eroded the quality of what people listen to.
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Lively Arts: Have some fun in the park with the bard
HAPPY FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH! It's June, and it appears that summer finally has arrived. And if summer has arrived that means the Shakespeare festivals are not far behind.
Contra Costa Times |
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Garden events: What's on (June 14 - 24)
Your guide to the week's gardening events, up and down the country.
Daily Telegraph |
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Alesia: It's 'Once' more at a concert setting in Madison
Remember late February? Lots of snow, yes, but remember the Academy Awards? Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova — the two stars of the lovely low-budget, music-filled "Once" — perform the gorgeous "Falling Slowly," then they win the Oscar for Best Original Song. Hansard gives a pumped-up acceptance speech, music plays and the show cuts abruptly to commercials. When it returns, host Jon Stewart ...
Wisconsin State Journal |
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Just a Minute With: Musician Peter Gabriel
Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice, failed to democratise the pop industry as much as was hoped and eroded the quality of what people listen to.
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Belarusian Festival coming to South River
St. Euphrosynia Belarusian Greek-Orthodox Church, South River, will hold its annual Belarusian Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 28 at the Belarusian-American Center, 284 Whitehead Ave., South River. The event will feature ethnic food and music, tricky trays, prizes, baked goods and more. For more information, call Tanya at 732-516-8661.
East Brunswick Sentinel |
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Hadassah offers trip to see 'Dancing Queen'
Alisa Chapter of Hadassah, Monroe, will sponsor a July 23 trip to the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, to see a live performance of "Dancing Queen," featuring the music of ABBA. The bus will leave at 9 a.m. from Greenbriar, Monroe. Departure from Atlantic City is set for 5:30 p.m. Cost is $28 and includes show ticket and a $10 return in coin.
East Brunswick Sentinel |
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Caught in the Net by Elisa Bray
Prince, and his label NPG Records, may have made a fuss about fans' YouTube clips of his version of Radiohead's "Creep" performed at Coachella, claiming copyright infringement and asking for them to be removed, but Radiohead has no such qualms about website exposure. As Thom Yorke says: "Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our song". Since then, the band's new song, "Super Collider", performed ...
Independent |
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Album: Dennis Wilson, Pacific Ocean Blue (Sony BMG)
His fellow Beach Boys were shocked when, in 1977, their feckless drummer boy became the first Wilson brother to release a solo album: shocked not just that he had found time in his tomcat-hedonist schedule to write and record it, but that it should be so darn good.
Independent |
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Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column
This week I have been driving up and down and around and all over the South Downs. I have decided that out of all of my minuscule driving experience, the road that heads from the M2 towards Dover, and then up and over to Folkestone, could possibly be one of the loveliest driving experiences in the world. The road, all smooth and creamy, winds around and up and down and you have a really good ...
Independent |
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Perez HIlton's Clothing Line
M.I.A. in concert and more. From online learning to 4-year colleges, LA Weekly's Education Guide '08 has answers to all your education questions.
LA Weekly |
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Missouri Theatre to host Festival of the Violin
COLUMBIA — Philippe Quint and Vadim Gluzman will be coming to the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts this Friday and Saturday for the Festival of the Violin. Tickets, available at the Missouri Theatre box office or at motheatre.org, are still available for both nights.
Columbian Missourian |
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What's new in entertainment
A look at what's new in movies, books, music, television, video games and DVDs for the weekend. MOVIES: "THE HAPPENING" Director M. Night Shyamalan returns to the horror genre with this thriller about a teacher (Mark Wahlberg) who's trying to take his family to safety as a mysterious threat wipes out city after city. With Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley. Released by 20th ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Missouri Theatre to host Festival of the Violin
COLUMBIA — Philippe Quint and Vadim Gluzman will be coming to the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts this Friday and Saturday for the Festival of the Violin. Tickets, available ...
Columbia Missourian |
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Music Comes Naturally to Blind Twins
Often when people lose one of their senses, others become heightened. That may be the case for Ansley and Madison Hendrix, who are blind, but at age three were able to play piano.
WTOK-TV Meridian |
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Weezer Weezer (The Red Album)
Although weaned on prog-metal, educated in classical music at Harvard, and once viewed as a representative of the indie rock set, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo prefers to write simple music that can be easily enjoyed by a mass audience.
Pitchfork |
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Country Fever And Phantom Arrive In Green Country
The Phantom of the Opera opens on Wednesday. Country Fever is underway now.
News On 6 Tulsa |
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LaFleur nets Cajun French scholarship
Cameron Michael LaFleur, a May graduate of Orangefield High School, recently received a $500 scholarship from the Cajun French Music Association — Golden Triangle Chapter. LaFleur plans to attend Lamar University this fall, where he will major in Engineering.
The Orange Leader |
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Tamworth is heading in the right direction
TOURISM Tamworth has said the release of the long-awaited O’Neill report into the NSW tourism industry has validated the direction the organisation has been taking for the past four years.
Northern Daily Leader |
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Concert on Slim’s birthday
Plans for the multi-million dollar Slim Dusty Centre, to start construction later this year, are a far cry from an early plan to relocate his Nulla Nulla homestead to South Kempsey Park as a museum.
The Maclay Argus |
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Morgan Freeman and Charleston's first integrated prom
When the actor Morgan Freeman was growing up in Greenwood, Mississippi, there was only one movie theatre in the town.
Independent |
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ArtShip draws crowd despite heat
Folks came out to enjoy the first ArtShip festival Saturday despite grueling heat and humidity. The festival featured artists, musicians and wineries and breweries at venues throughout downtown Shippensburg as well as on the grassy triangular property on North Earl Street on the Shippensburg University campus.
The Sentinel |
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Party in the Parking Lot
Rochester, N.Y. - The "Party in the Park" concerts were moved from High Falls to Corn Hill this year.
13WHAM Rochester |
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