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Music Listings
The Dempseys - . Wednesdays, 8 p.m., Thu., July 3, 9 p.m., Thu., July 24, 9 p.m., Fri., July 25 and Sat., July 26, 10 p.m. Blues City Cafe 138 Beale Memphis (Beale Street) 526-3637.
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British folk-rock duo plays working holiday
British musician Dave Pegg has played for sold-out arenas with Jethro Tull and festival crowds of 20,000 or more with Fairport Convention. But his current musical incarnation draws a more intimate audience.
Daily Record |
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Nigeria: Awolowo Varsity Hosts Earthquake Monitor
A collaboration between the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife and UNESCO has produced an Earth Stethoscope, which has been installed at the university to monitor earth movement in the country.
AllAfrica.com |
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DATEBOOK
Northeast Photography Club: meetings, first Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m., Suite No. 6, 5 Morgan Highway. Lackawanna County CareerLink: resume writing, Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.; Internet job search, Thursdays, 3 p.m.; career decision making, Fridays, 10 a.m. 135 Franklin Ave.
The Scranton Times-Tribune |
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Reps in tune with stations on royalties
The National Association of Broadcasters said Tuesday a majority of the House of Representatives now opposes legislation that would require radio stations to pay a performance royalty to all artists whose music it plays.
New York Daily News |
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EMI EMPLOYEES FEEL THE HEAVY HANDS OF JOB CUTS
The ax is finally falling at troubled music major EMI. On the same day that the company announced Coldplay would top the Billboard charts with 720,000 albums sold in the US, it is making good on a January pledge to trim 1,500 to 2,000 staffers...
New York Post |
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Arjun shakes a leg in Geneva
Actor Arjun was in Geneva, Switzerland recently filming for a film titled Durai. Two song sequences were canned there. A commercial entertainer, Durai is directed by A Venkatesh, and features Kirat Bhattal and Gajala in lead roles.
IndiaGlitz |
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Singer Natalie Reeves 'forced to take overdose' by boyfriend
A FRENCH market trader beat and drugged his glamorous musician girlfriend before trying to kidnap her, jurors have heard. Frederic Poullain is alleged to have forced his girlfriend, singer and entrepreneur Natalie Reeves, to take an overdose of paracetamol at knifepoint.
Liverpool Echo |
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Today on the presidential campaign trail
IN THE HEADLINES Obama asks his fundraisers to help Hillary Clinton pay off millions in campaign debt ... The next Hollywood hit: a star-studded fundraiser for Barack Obama, Democratic Party ... Obama discusses his 'eclectic' tastes in music, raps about rap's bad rap ... Missouri senator McCaskill emerges as a top surrogate for Obama's presidential hopes
Boston Globe |
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Clubs/Meetings
Townfest - Palo Alto Chamber Event Annual all-member meeting and mixer. Join fellow Chamber members and special guests for an evening of music, food, mingling and a program to thank outgoing board members and Leaders Circle members. Wed., June 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 members $20 non-members.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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Rabbi's rock star ambition
In 2003, a guitar-playing Sardar sang his way into the nation's charts and hearts with an unlikely mix of rock music and Punjabi lyrics. Rabbi Shergill was then a breath of fresh air.
rediff.com |
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Rock Springs Road to close to traffic
Beginning June 30 and continuing for 60 days, Rock Springs Road in Smyrna will be closed from StoneCrest Boulevard to Isabella/Springhill Drive.
Daily News Journal |
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Stevie Wonder on tour, working on other music projects
DETROIT - Even as he hits the road in support of his "A Wonder's Summer Night" 2008 tour, Stevie Wonder is in the midst of two and possibly three recording projects.
Philadelphia Daily News |
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T-Pain, Alicia Keys rock BET Awards
Los Angeles -- T-Pain transformed the BET Awards into a circus Tuesday with a multi-artist medley that showed the rapper and singer's wide-ranging influence on urban music.
The Springfield News-Leader |
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view SINGH IS KINNG movie stills
Promotion of SINGH IS KINNG has begun and though one waits with a bated breath to hear and see how the Snoop Dogg song eventually turns out to be (rumoredly it is going to cost Rs. 7 crores for the makers), what one can be sure about is the fact that overall, the soundtrack of this Anees Bazmee film is going to be one 'dhamaal' affair.
Glamsham.com |
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T-Pain, Keys rock BET Awards; West among winners
LOS ANGELES -- T-Pain transformed the BET Awards into a circus Tuesday with a multi-artist medley that showed the rapper and singer's wide-ranging influence on urban music, while best-selling rapper Lil Wayne and songstress Alicia Keys gave rousing performances of their own.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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PERFORMING ARTS
Three songs by contemporary Vienna-based composer Wolfram Wagner had their world premieres at baritone Randall Scarlata's Austrian Embassy recital on Monday evening. Spare and quietly melodic, Wagner's subtly crafted Three Songs on Poems by Weldon Kees filtered the romantic art-song tradition...
Washington Post |
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If Young Bach Had Had an iPod . . .
Acts of rebellion are all relative. Johann Sebastian Bach, that 17th-century teenage rogue, was known to abscond with his older brother's music book and stay up late into the night, copying scores by Vivaldi, Reincken and Buxtehude. He would awaken, cheeks smudged with ink, wasted candle a mound of...
Washington Post |
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Drummond's advice is music to top sprinters
ARLINGTON, Texas - The most relaxing 3 hours of Jon Drummond's typical week are spent some 30,000 feet in the air, on a nonstop flight out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Philadelphia Daily News |
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Stand down, Shaq
SOMEONE CUE UP some mix music. 'Bout to bust some rhymes. Shaq's rap on Kobe is all over the news.
Philadelphia Daily News |
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Today on the presidential campaign trail
Wed, Jun 25, 2008 (12:42 a.m.) Obama asks his fundraisers to help Hillary Clinton pay off millions in campaign debt ... The next Hollywood hit: a star-studded fundraiser for Barack Obama, Democratic Party ... Obama discusses his 'eclectic' tastes in music, raps about rap's bad rap ...
Las Vegas Sun |
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Koenig recalls "difficult" teaching days
Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig says juggling teaching and music was "difficult".
Digital Spy |
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Today on the presidential campaign trail
Obama asks his fundraisers to help Hillary Clinton pay off millions in campaign debt ... The next Hollywood hit: a star-studded fundraiser for Barack Obama, Democratic Party ... Obama discusses his 'eclectic' tastes in music, raps about rap's bad rap ...
The Post-Standard |
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Opera aims for innovation
Annapolis group seeks wider appeal in season Annapolis Opera will present an innovative 2008-2009 season, including two concerts featuring the Annapolis Opera Chamber Orchestra and widening the scope of its popular December candlelight concert beyond an all-Mozart repertoire.
Baltimore Sun |
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Thea Gilmore
Uncut magazine called Thea Gilmore "the best British singer-songwriter of the last 10 years...and then some". Speak to critics, musicians, or indeed anyone that’s stumbled across her work and you’ll find few who disagree.
RainbowNetwork.com |
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