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Proof of piracy not needed says MPAA
An attorney for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has suggested that the organization should not have to provide proof of piracy in future trials.
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POLICE have charged a man with murder after a knife attack in a Crumpsall street. Thirty-nine year-old violinist Michael Kahan was found dying outside shops on Middleton Road at 10am on Sunday.
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Picking the right career can boost job security
Since finishing high school in 2006, Robert Howard, 19, said he's been serious about making a career out of music.
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The first running of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in the month of June has not affected ticket sales so ...
Funding for Scotland's only specialist domestic abuse court is to be doubled to £1.2m, allowing 500 more cases to be handled this way and improving the handling of other cases in mainstream courts.
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Roots and Rhythm festival makes blues gospel
HONESDALE- “When the king has gathered around him all the savants and artists,” once wrote poet Ezra Pound, “all his riches will be fully employed.” On Saturday morning, as all the artists and vendors were setting up for the 3rd annual Roots and Rhythm Festival at Central Park in Honesdale, artist Dane Tilghman had an artistic revelation, an epiphany of sorts, pondering this ...
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CD release party
Singer-songwriters Robert Sanders and Michael Howerton of the Americana/country rock band Whitby Quinn invite all to the CD release party for their debut album, "She's Gone," from 7-10 p.m. June 26 at the Frisky Mermaid in the Florida House Inn on Third Street in Fernandina Beach.
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City still dancing to 'musical chairs'
The music's still playing for a civic improvement plan as Fernandina Beach Commissioners agreed Tuesday to consider purchase of the soon to be vacated First Baptist Church buildings downtown.
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Musicians honored for 120 years at keyboard
June 22 was like many other Sundays at McHenry United Methodist Church, two miles east of Carmi.
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MTV Moves Awards to L.A.
The MTV Video Music Awards are going Hollywood. After broadcasting from Las Vegas last year, the awards will air live from Paramount Studios in Los Angeles on September 7, MTV announced Monday. MTV said it plans for the first time to enlist its Web-savvy, youthful audience to help decide the nominees. The network intends to take over the movie studio's lot and present the awards show from ...
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Bill T. Jones To Direct Fela Kuti Musical
The Tony Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones will direct and choreograph a new musical about Fela Kuti, slated to open in September, Variety reported. "Fela!" was written by Jim Lewis and Mr. Jones, who won a Tony last year for his choreography of "Spring Awakening," and is based on the life of the politically active Nigerian musician. Kuti, who died in 1997, spent years as a political ...
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Dion becomes worlds worst cover versionist
Dion never released the song as a single but performed what the magazine called the 'offence' against music at a Las Vegas concert six years ago in a duet with Anastacia.
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iTunes sells 5 billionth song
Apple's iTunes music store has reached another milestone.
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Third season of show scouts for talented amateurs
There's something about "America's Got Talent" - free-form, freestyle, free of rules - that seems to fit its place and time. "It's a kind of showcase for all American talent," said Piers Morgan, one of the judges. "In that way, we've become a sort of patriotic show."
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Stocks founder on the usual suspects
Wall Street's music was a broken record today — the "Oil Up, Financials Down, Bleeding Banks Blues." The Dow Jones and S&P 500 ended the day right back where they started, while the Nasdaq dropped almost 1%. There were nearly...
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DISPATCH FROM LOS ANGELES Unleashing the Film Geek Within
"This is great. I'm going to geek out here for a second," muttered Los Angeles Film Festival director Richard Raddon last Thursday night as an aside in his introduction for the soon-to-be-famous Russian sci-fi maestro Timur Bekmambetov . It was just an offhanded quip, but truer words could not have spoken for the official opening ceremonies for the 2008 LAFF, a movie geek's paradise.
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‘Charlie Brown’ act coming to Crowder
The Crowder College music and theatre departments are pleased to present a Crowder Community Theatre production of “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown” this Thursday and Friday at Crowder.
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Philippa: Can you describe your sound/style for those who haven't checked you out yet? RETAIL: Black & white psychedelica. > P:Do you play everything on the music you've recorded so far or have you worked with other people?
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Quick Hits: Coldplay, The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, Timbaland, The Shins, MTV VMAs, The Law
Coldplay pulled off a rare feat this week, as the band currently has both the #1 album and single in the U.K. Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends spends its second straight week atop the sales chart, while the song "Viva La Vida" becomes the band's first-ever U.K. #1 single.
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News: Bon Iver Extends Tour Into the Fall
Photo by Shannon McClean Following the completion of a fairly extensive North American tour (including a stop at the Pitchfork Music Festival ), it's back to Europe for Justin Vernon and the boys of Bon Iver . They'll take to the continent for just about a month of shows that kick off in early September. The winsome Wisconsinites, still touring in support of that ...
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Jonas Brothers ‘Rock’ Aquarium Party
In collaboration with Radio Disney AM 680 out of Louisville, Ky., the Newport Aquarium will celebrate the new 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie "Camp Rock" starring the Jonas Brothers.
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Remix Hotel New York to Feature All-Star Panelists, Including Pete Rock, Rob Swift and Junior Sanchez
NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- Remix Hotel will return to New York for its annual music technology weekend June 27-29 at the SAE Institute of Technology in Herald Square. Remix Hotel is a traveling music production and performance showcase produced by Remix(R) magazine, a Penton Media publication.
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Tom Waits returns to the road with searing two-hour set
Tom Waits doesn't play live very often, so when he does, it's an event. The elusive musician began his Glitter and Doom tour Tuesday with a searing two-hour set that traipsed through his 20-album catalog. The show at the Orpheum Theater is the first of 28 Waits plans to play in the United States and Europe.
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Hip Hop Bringing Political Change? Think Again
News & Notes , June 23, 2008 · A new generation of activists have used hip hop music and culture to get young people into politics.
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Wrigley's country music night changes acts
Wrigley Field's annual country-themed promotion is still scheduled during Tuesday night’s game, but originally scheduled red-hot duo Sugarland has had to back out.
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