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Celebrity Drive: Legendary Grateful Dead front-man Bob Weir jams in a hybrid Lexus, saves the love for his 1963 Stingray
Bob Weir may be the folksy vegetarian-Birkenstock-wearing founding member of the Grateful Dead, but he is all about new technology when it comes to transportation choices.
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This Just In: 80/35 to raise food and funds for flood victims
The Des Moines Area Religious Council is partnering with next weekend’s 80/35 Music Festival to raise food and cash donations for Iowa flood...
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How to find the cheapest tickets around
Tens of thousands of music fans have descended on Glastonbury this weekend, for the UK's largest annual arts festival. Tickets for the full three days would have set you back £155. However, if that didn't seem expensive enough, there's then the £5 booking fee as well as a further £4 transaction fee, taking the total to an eye-watering £164.
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BBC marketing man named head of radio
Tim Davie is to take over from Jenny Abramsky as director of audio and music
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Children learn magic of music
AS A father of four, unemployed for "years and years and years", Charles MacNab vividly remembers how he found out El Sistema had arrived in Stirling's tough Rapl
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Mandela is free, but another star is in purgatory
The world has changed since 1986. But not that much. Back in the day, thousands of footsore opponents of South Africa's apartheid regime marched through south London to Clapham Common, where they settled back to enjoy a free concert to highlight their righteous cause. The event, a year after Live Aid, heralded a sea change in popular opposition to the Pretoria government. Today – two major ...
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Q-C area kids learn to rock
Drew Hance wants to scream during the last song of his band’s set when it performs this weekend at the Redstone Room.
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EMI sounds out rising Reckitt star for top job
British music company close to poaching one of Reckitt Benckiser's best-performing executives, Italian Elio Leoni-Sceti
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Where the Wild Things Are
On a recent, scorching afternoon at the crowded corner of 12th Street and Maple Avenue, a little boy and a girl blowing bubbles gathered around a display of miniature turtles in tiny plastic containers. In a nearby plaza, mariachi music competed with hip-hop and the noise of hundreds of shoppers.
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Stars celebrate Mandela's 90th birthday with concert
Will Smith charmed the crowd, Amy Winehouse wowed them just by showing up - but Nelson Mandela proved the biggest star of all at a concert Friday in honour of the South African statesman's 90th birthday.
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People Party In Political Panties
The scene in a Lawrenceville lounge last week was an interesting one - like a laundromat-themed nightclub - and there were panties everywhere. Panty-Palooza 2008: Boudoir Bazaar, this year held at Your Inner Vagabond coffee shop and lounge, is an annual event organized by Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania Action Fund, the political arm of Planned Parenthood.
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Dylan Jones: If you ask me
If you ask me, "Blue and Green" by Van Morrison is as good a blues record as you're likely to hear, or indeed you deserve to hear, this century. It is, quite simply – in at least two senses of the word – brilliant, and has certainly restored my faith in the bitter, curmudgeonly old cove.
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Around Castro Valley: East Bay rock star finds harmony
NOW THAT THEY have headlined at the legendary Fillmore, The Matches, a popular Bay Area alternative rock group, is setting its sights on bigger stakes, like the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View.
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Cillit Bang star is tipped for EMI's big stage
An Italian executive from the consumer goods industry has emerged as the frontrunner to run EMI's recorded music division.
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Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Somerset
This year's Glastonbury has one of the most diverse line-ups ever seen at the world famous festival. But last night, the line-up more closely resembled the traditional set of bands than the rest of the weekend, with Kings of Leon headlining the main stage, and to round up the trio of headliners, the anthemic radio-friendly indie rock bands, Editors and The Fratellis.
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WTCI Announces Line Up Of Nostalgic Programming For July
WTCI, the community's PBS station, will celebrate July with a series of programs celebrating personalities from television, music and the big screen who helped shape and influence today's entertainment industry.
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Late-night downpour dashes all hope of a mud-free Glastonbury
They said this was the year it wouldn't happen, but Glastonbury wouldn't be the same without a downpour. And so, for the third year running, its name became mud, as revellers at Britain's largest music festival again found themselves drenched and wading through the sludge in their wellingtons.
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TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
Kind of a slow weekend ahead folks, even on the movie channels, Sunday's programming is particularly deplorable. Rejoice though, in the new s that Sony, within the next three years, will be offering a video-downloading service through all its key products, including its televisions, computers, music players and videogame devices. It plans to give most of its products network and wireless ...
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Make Your PC Phone Home: How to Access Your Computer Remotely
Traveling this summer? Don't lug your data with you -- just set up your laptop to talk to your machine remotely and access your music, e-mail, photos and other files from thousands of miles away. In Wired's How-To Wiki.
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David Lister: The Week in Arts
Congratulations to that excellent conductor Sir Mark Elder. The congratulations are not just for his recent knighthood, though that is, of course, well deserved. What left an even more lasting impression on me was a short interview he gave this week in The Independent about a concert he was conducting for the City of London Festival at St Paul's Cathedral.
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William F. Ludwig II
The name of Ludwig is synonymous with the manufacture of drums, and Ludwig instruments have been played by generations of drummers. William F. Ludwig II's father was the founder of the drum-making dynasty, but it was William junior's marketing expertise that established the company as a world leader.
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Stars gather to celebrate Mandela's 90th birthday
Will Smith, Amy Winehouse on hand for celebration, which comes 20 years after concert for South African leader's freedom
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PGDC support in question
While he didn’t ask the board to reverse its vote, Tuesday night Plymouth Growth and Development Corporation board member Jeff Fischer second-guessed last week’s decision to donate $5,000 to sponsor a downtown festival next month.
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Bogus Bonnaroo Ticket Seller Sought
Metro police are looking for a man they said sold five bogus tickets to an annual music and arts festival held in Manchester. Jessie P. Martinez is wanted for selling counterfeit tickets. He is charged with criminal simulation.
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Martin wants to be Aussie classical star
Young New Zealand singer Will Martin is on a mission to bring classical music to Australia's youth.
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