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300 Monks Designs Music for Starburst and Johnson & Johnson
300 Monks recently designed music and sound for Mars' Starburst website launching in July. Working with ad agency Digitas, the project called for a "golden age of Hollywood" look and feel.
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Tres Jazz: Jazzercise International Fitness Convention, New Orleans, LA (July 10-13)
----Jazzercise: WHAT: Thousands of fitness enthusiasts from around the world will be working out over four days in more than 70 fun, intense and dynamic group fitness classes. Classes include high-energy Jazzercise, Street Jazz, Jazzercise Swing, Guts & Butts, Dancin' Abs, Salsa, Body Sculpting, Pilates, Yoga and more led by fitness pioneer & Jazzercise founder/CEO, Judi Sheppard Missett, ...
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HMV
HMV's head of games, Tim Ellis, has told GamesIndustry.biz that videogames have entered a "golden period" for the retailer, and "are the new rock 'n' roll" when it comes to popularity for consumers.
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Warner Music Joins Nokia's Comes With Music
News by Ricky Cadden on Tuesday July 01, 2008. Note: Sponsored advertising links, if any, are in green. Nokia announced today that Warner Music has agreed to participate in Nokia's music strategy.
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It’s that time of year again…
The third edition of the Malta Arts festival will be taking place between July 1 and 17. This year, more than 200 artists (a substantial number of which will be foreign) will grace venues in Valletta, Floriana and Sliema to make up the central cultural event of the summer.
Malta Today |
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Nokia signs music deal with Warner
HELSINKI, FINLAND: The world's top cellphone maker Nokia signed a deal with Warner Music Group to make Warner titles available through its "Comes With Music" service and Nokia music store, Nokia said on Tuesday. "Comes With Music" from Nokia, the first cellphone maker to push heavily into cont...
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Facebook beach party forces alcohol ban in Torbay
A seaside resort is to stop every shop and pub from selling alcohol after it was targeted as the venue for a "night of mayhem" beach party for 10,000 people organised on the social networking site Facebook.
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Tavira, one-handed violinist, dies at 84
Angel Tavira, a one-handed violinist who dedicated his life to Mexican folk music and won a Cannes Film Festival award for his first movie at age 82, has died.
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Short Takes
UPDATED: 08 :48 a.m. EDT, July 01, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a field archaeologist. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
The Plain Dealer |
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BBC to air Beatles lost interview for the first time in 44 years
The BBC Corp. will air a long lost Beatles interview featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about the day they met and their songwriting partnership.
Pravda Ru |
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Round up the kids, fire up the barbecue, it's Canada Day
OTTAWA - Round up the kids, fire up the barbecue - it's Canada's 141st birthday. Yes, it's Canada Day - a day for burgers, hot dogs, music and fireworks.
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Sector movers: Retailers fall as JPM cuts targets
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Retailers are out of sorts after JP Morgan cut price targets in the sector. Fashion chain Next is one of the FTSE 100’s worst performers after seeing its price target cut to 1,100p from 1,280p, while CD and DVD retailer HMV , whose price target the broker cut to 130p from 138p, is in the FTSE 250’s bottom 10.
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Germany, England, Japan and the United States Win Grands at the New York Festivals 2008 International Advertising ...
The New York Festivals Grand Trophies were awarded to Nordpol + Hamburg, Abbott Mead Vickers/BBDO, London, Projector Inc., Tokyo, BBDO, NY and Ogilvy, Frankfurt.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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All Dates for this Event:
ACOUSTIC MUSIC AND SONG SERVICE featuring A.G. and Kate from Holland will be at 7 p.m. July 6 at the First Baptist Church located at 42 Hart Ave. in Buckhannon. A love offering will be accepted to help with their travel expenses.
The Inter-Mountain |
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Movie Review: My Blueberry Nights
Singer Norah Jones debuts in Wong Kar Wai 's first English language film. Wong Kar Wai's films live in the space between romantic daydreaming and obsessive longing. His films dwell in the ether that hangs over nostalgia for an ex-lover, where one idealizes all of that person's qualities and flaws fade away. Music that may have played in the background of a long ago encounter is never forgotten. ...
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Nokia signs music deal with Warner
HELSINKI, FINLAND: The world's top cellphone maker Nokia signed a deal with Warner Music Group to make Warner titles available through its "Comes With Music" service and Nokia music store, Nokia said on Tuesday.
CIOL |
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Sector movers: Retailers fall as JPM cuts targets
Retailers are out of sorts after JP Morgan cut price targets in the sector. Fashion chain Next is one of the FTSE 100's worst performers after seeing its price target cut to 1,100p from 1,280p, while CD and DVD retailer HMV, whose price target the broker cut to 130p from 138p, is in the FTSE 250's bottom 10.
ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance |
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Le Vent Du Nord's 400-Year-Old Musical Gems
Morning Edition , July 1, 2008 - As Americans get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July, many of our neighbors to the north are also observing a major historical event: This weekend marks the anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's founding of Quebec City on July 3, 1608. At 400, the picturesque Canadian city is one of the oldest in North America, and a yearlong celebration of Quebecois culture is ...
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Rockford gospel group among performers picked for state fair
The Illinois State Fair has announced an award-winning country band as part of its lineup for free concerts during the event in Springfield this August. Other free entertainment at the fair includes the Bucket Boys, two drummers who bang on buckets, and Sound of Good News, a gospel group from Rockford.
Rockford Register Star |
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Illinois State Fair announces free concerts
Country music fans are in luck.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Review: Sandisk Sansa Fuze portable music player
Sandisk, known for its memory cards, also has a fair pedigree in portable music players, and it recently updated its range with the new Sansa Fuze.
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Cafe takes on war zone theme
AT Buns and Guns you can order a Kalashnikov sandwich from a bullet-shaped menu, prepared by chefs in military fatigues with the roar of explosions as background music.
Herald Sun |
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Stars shine at ARIA ceremony
CLOUDS couldn't stop the stars shining in Melbourne, when the who's who of the music industry strutted the red carpet at the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Herald Sun |
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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'canadaday'
Happy Canada Day! There is lots of stuff going on around town, including fireworks tonight at Ashbridges Bay, Ontario Place, Downsview Park, and Mel Lastman Square, where Mel Lastman will be fired into space on a giant skyrocket.
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Smoke to fade; jazz, blues, too?
On Monday night, when its doors are usually shuttered, Blues on Grand planned a rebellion.
The Des Moines Register |
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