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SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11
SpiralFrog(TM) (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and easier access to SpiralFrog's huge library of free songs.
Centre Daily Times |
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BurnLounge Promoter Settles FTC Complaint
The promoter of a digital music service settles a U.S. FTC complaint against him.
PC World |
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CHO won’t lose routes– for now
Despite any frantic buzz rustled up across the country by the Business Travel Coalition’s release of threatened regional airports last Wednesday, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport reports its airline service is safe from the chopping block. As of now, the only loss CHO will suffer is a suspended Delta flight to Cincinnati beginning in September. However, Delta plans to add another ...
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Flaming Lips Lend New Song to Okie Noodling Sequel
Okie Noodling is a stupendously entertaining 2001 documentary about a group of rural Oklahoman practitioners of "noodling": that is, fishing using only one's hands. As you might imagine, the folks who do the hand fishing are kind of a unique bunch. The film, directed by Bradley Beesley (who also co-directed Summercamp! ), featured a soundtrack boasting a few tunes from another ...
Pitchfork |
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Rothbury nearly ready for Music Festival
Just days before 70 acts and 40,000 fans descend on a town of less than 500 people, organizers of the Rothbury Music Festival are smoothing out the last minute details.
WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids |
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Restaurant makes meal out of war
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.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Jordanian music festival boycotted over organizer's 'ties to Israel'
Arab singers will boycott a music festival in Jordan next month over claims it is being set up by the same company which organized Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations in May, a union leader said on Monday. The month-long Jordan Festival, scheduled to open on July 8, will feature local and international artists including.
The Daily Star Lebannon |
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CONTRA BAND: How Old Is Old? 2 Jul 2008, 0021 hrs IST, JANARDHAN ROYE
There's no stopping good old music, they thought. Until the electricity supply went kaput and bailed them out. It happened one night when a retro session was in full swing.
The Times of India |
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Buzz Briefs: Will Smith, Heath Ledger
Will Smith is superhero fit. "Dark Knight" music captures essence of Heath Ledger's Joker. Pam Anderson helps to save the snakes. Uma Thurman is getting hitched. Bon Jovi to rock Central Park.
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Baker & Taylor Names Thomas Morgan Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world's largest wholesale distributor of books and entertainment products, announced today that Thomas I. Morgan has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 7, 2008.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Basque Festival kicks off Friday at celebration
ELKO - The red, white and blue will be joined by the red, white and green during Independence Day festivities Friday night at the Elko County Fairgrounds.
Elko Daily Free Press |
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Biography
Xiomara Laugart is Cuban. This alone makes her a competitor in the music industry. She was born with a fusion of rhythms in her veins. Moreover, Xiomara Laugart is a “Guantanamera,” also the name of a quintessential Cuban folk song.
All About Jazz |
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Atlus and NIS America Continue Distribution Partnership with Three Upcoming Titles
Atlus to Serve as Exclusive North American Distributor for Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, Disgaea DS, and Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
GameInfoWire |
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Prepared to get 'Warped', Atlanta
NOW THAT BOTH Lollapalooza and Ozzfest have forgone the touring format for a less rigorous single event, it might seem that the summer music festival is no more. But the Vans Warped Tour remains a musical juggernaut with dozens of punk, metal and alternative acts performing on multiple stages, plus extreme sports, video gaming, eco-friendly initiatives and various other activities.
Access Atlanta |
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Fourth of July festivities
THURSDAY, JULY 3 Join us for an All-American evening of music, fireworks and family fun. Celebrate Freedom will feature children’s activities and a concert by the United States Air Force Heritage of America Band. The event starts at 6:30 pm, with the concert beginning at 7:30 pm.
Midlothian Exchange |
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MySpace Rocks the Vote with a Battle of the Bands
Pay no mind to the not-so-catchy nomenclature chosen by Rock the Vote and MySpace for their new voter registration drive, dubbed “DemROCKracy,” a competition that enables any and all musical groups with pages on the network to encourage fans and followers to prepare themselves for the upcoming U.S. presidential elections. The DemROCKracy Band Competition, as [...]
Mashable |
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The East End Celebrates Old Glory
The Fourth of July is the only holiday that celebrates the United States, as the country commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It's marked by three-day weekends, barbecues, and of course, fireworks.
East Hampton Independent |
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Musicnotes launches free 'tabs' site
Musicnotes Inc., a Madison online provider of digital sheet music, said Tuesday that it has officially relaunched MXTabs.net , a Web site that offers free, legal guitar, bass and drum tablature downloads.
The Business Journal of Milwaukee |
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Jessica Simpson's country crossover acclaimed
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When Jessica Simpson announced plans to go country after her last pop album flopped, there was a collective eye roll in Nashville. To some skeptics, it...
Boston Herald |
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Dad doesn't dub it down
The stay-at-home dad has gone rock 'n' roll. Well, maybe "stay-at-home" isn't really the right term. As Keller Williams answers the phone, his 10-week-old son shows that his pops isn't the only one with pipes, letting go a yelp as he squirms in his baby sling. Williams is one busy guy, touring solo, playing with friends and producing an album as well, taking time where he can for bottles and ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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BENEFITS
CHARITY MOTORCYCLE RIDE to raise funds for widows of military veterans begins at B&M Custom Cycles, 508 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach at 10 a.m. Registration 9-10 a.m. $20 per person. Group ride ends with free admission to Hard Rock Park. 626-4647 THEATERSHOWS THE ALABAMA THEATRE, Barefoot Landing, U.S. 17, North Myrtle Beach, will present Eddie Miles' Salute to Elvis at 7 p.m. Sunday; ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Silent auction benefits Christian Life Center
Ankeny First United Methodist Church is holding a silent auction to raise money for athletic equipment for a new Christian Life Center. The auction is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27, at the church, 206 S.W. Walnut St. Items include sports memorabilia, music collectibles and signed books.
The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index |
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Join celebration of God and country
Live patriotic and gospel music will be presented Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Arlington Park in downtown Hot Springs. The event is sponsored by the Watchmen of Garland County and a number of Garland County churches.
Hot Springs Village Voice |
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Various Artists: Québec
(Putumayo World Music) Sometimes it takes an outsider to showcase Quebec francophone music for English Canada and elsewhere. New York-based Putumayo World Music has done just that with a lively collection of Québécois roots music to mark Quebec City's 400th anniversary.
Toronto Star |
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Ry Cooder: I, Flathead
(Nonesuch) The final episode in Cooder's ambitious trilogy chronicling traces of a lost California is a 14-song tribute to an imaginary would-be racing-car driver/country music singer Kash Buk, who seems to inhabit a shadowy desert landscape locked permanently in the late 1950s.
Toronto Star |
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