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Major Brazilian Artist to Perform in Nelson
A pioneer of Bossanova, and icon of popular music in Brazil will open the 2nd Annual Play It Again Auction to benefit The Nelson School of Music.
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Cobrasnake at Katy Perry's Carnival
LAFF 2008: Transsexuals! More Than Meets the Eye! Find the hottest concerts and festivals this summer in the LA Weekly's Summer Concert Guide.
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Branson Tourism Numbers Down
It's known as a tourist destination, but the music city is not making as much money when it comes to visitors this season. The Branson Chamber of Commerce says tourism is down seven percent this year and that's affecting several local businesses.
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London Dome Is A Surprise Hit
The Millennium Dome was a huge bust for the purpose it was built. But "since then the former Millennium Dome has become the most popular music venue in the world, with the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Spice Girls selling out its 20,000-seat arena."
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Band says thanks with family concert
THE ARMIDALE City Band said thank you to Armidale at the annual family concert on Sunday. It was the first outing for the junior band, who performed as well as the main band.
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Jewel connects with country crowds on Brad Paisley tour
Jewel says she will continue to perform her pop and rock songs for country audiences. Jewel is touring with Brad Paisley this summer. She says she intends to do all her hits.
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by Alejandro Escovedo
The ninth solo album for the former punk rocker was produced by Tony Visconti.
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Weekend
Hoodoo, a five-piece funk and rock band, will perform on center stage at this month's Last Fridays celebration in downtown Hillsborough on Friday.
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Weekend
The Backbeat, a Chapel Hill-based band that plays the music of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who and other '60s British Invasion acts. Contributed photo
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Weekend
Cyril Lance presents "Songs of Freedom and Hope" at The ArtsCenter Friday, June 27, at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $14, $12 for ArtsCenter Friends. Call 929-2787 or see www.artscenterlive.org .
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Weekend
Master old-time fiddler James Leva, above, and West African griot Cheick Hamala Diabate (not pictured) will perform and folklorist Cece Conway will discuss the influence of African musical traditions on southern Appalachian fiddle and banjo music June 26 at UNC.
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Music Review: John 5 - Requiem
The newly crowned King Widdler attempts to keep his crown. And so it comes to pass that the former Marilyn Manson, Rob Halford, Paul Stanley, David Lee Roth, and Rob Zombie sideman releases his fourth solo album, following on from the not that long ago The Devil Knows My Name. And it's alright.I'm working on the principle that Mr. 5 must use up all his melodic instincts as a writer / muso for ...
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Mike Clasper takes HMRC chair
The former boss of BAA has ended his short stint in private equity to become chairman of HM Revenue & Customs, the tax office rocked by recent data security blunders.
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Media stocks on the move Tuesday
You wouldn't know it from the lackluster movement on the general indexes, but media shares were rocking and rolling Tuesday.
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Music Review: Ashanti - The Declaration
It will sell well, it's easy-to-digest and flavourless, and it's wholly unremarkable. Ashanti has always struck me as one of those doomed-for-background-vocals type girls. Her unexceptional voice was always better suited to singing hooks behind some over-exuberant, crusty pop-rapper. After a set of mild albums and singles, Ashanti stepped outside of her standard set of producers from The Inc. ...
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Ricky Skaggs Reworks His Country Hits for New CD
Ricky Skaggs has re-recorded his country hits to give them a bluegrass spin for a new project.
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The Grindermen
To the devoted skateboarder, the sound of trucks grinding is already music to the ears. Canadian sound sculptors Christian Nicolay and Sam McKinlay wish to prove it to the rest of us. By mic-ing a live skateboarder on a custom-built railing wired for sound, breath, metal, and wheels are captured and ...
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Park It for the Summer
Attending open-air summer music events has universal hazards, from scorching sun and drunken lunkheads to the abject horror of overflowing Porta Pottis. San Francisco also offers the oddly nonsummer twist of absurdly broad temperature variables, as well as the possibility of pea-soup fog and gale-fo ...
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Minnetonka festival features the perennial family favorites
The ice cream social will be at the Burwell House, a Victorian mansion built by Charles Burwell, a Minnetonka Mills Company manager. The 1883 home, which is on the National Register of Historic places, will be open for self-guided tours.
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Takitimu Together Again After 5 Centuries
Waikoko Gardens will fill with laughter, song, dance and oratory as thousands of descendants from the Takitimu Canoe converge in Hastings for an unforgettable celebration in November.
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Music for Swingers
Individualism is a trait not often encouraged in team sports. Players wear identical uniforms, fight for a common goal, and are inculcated early on with the lesson that there's no "i" in "team." In baseball, it's especially difficult to get a sense of a player's unique personality when all the quote ...
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Chicago Public Library Gets A Tech Upgrade
"Library patrons can now renew and reserve books from their home computers and download audio books and digital music, thanks to an $11 million technology expansion almost entirely paid for by largesse generated by the Chicago Skyway lease."
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Fleet Foxes: the new buzz on Seattle's softer side
It's been nearly 20 years since the Northwest first affected pop culture in a profound way with the explosion of grunge. While the DIY-punk spirit of the early '90s still rages through dirgy guitars and authority-bucking attitudes of rock bands making music there, Seattle has been home to a new, qui ...
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A brief history of vocal fakery from Zapp to "Lollipop"
When the vocoder was first invented in the 1930s, it was intended as a telecommunications encoder for speech encryption and transmission. Okay, so the history is dry, but the signal is wet, and the pitch-shifting, compressed sound has been drizzled over popular music for almost 40 years. Since the 1 ...
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Grandmaster Flash spins his story in new autobiography
New York DJ Grandmaster Flash is credited as one of the godfathers of hip-hop music and culture. In his new autobiography, The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats, he claims that while he didn't invent DJing, he transformed it into an art form by developing the mixing technique of ext ...
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