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Nickelback Signs Up With Live Nation
By signing the Canadian rock band, Live Nation took another step toward expanding its role at the center of the music industry.
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Oasis gets Clef award
Oasis have received this year’s Silver Clef lifetime achievement award in recognition of their contributions to music. The band received the honour at the 33rd O2 Silver Clef Lunch at Park Lane Hilton in London last week.
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Where My Girls At?
"Plus, you know, it'd be great 'cause you're a girl." The comment was not atypical. Sigh. I know where she was coming from. When the diversity call goes out in the new music field--when "just the usual dudes" just won't do--we often find ourselves playing an awkward affirmative action game.
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Summer Concert Series returning to Fremont
First show scheduled for Thursday in Central Park
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What's in a name? When it comes to this summer's music festivals, the answer is often … not much. Bonnaroo? Rothbury? Lollapalooza? But there's one festival in the works with a name that says it all.
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Mexican traditions celebrated at McIver Arena (with Charreada slideshow)
A traditional Mexican Rodeo known as a Charreada took place at McIver Arena Saturday. Events included roping, bull riding, music and food.
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Peruvian rapper sheds light on 3rd World
Immortal Technique is not afraid to speak his mind. And it's a good thing, too, for the often revolutionary and always vicious rhymes that pour from his mouth have created some of the most visually-driven, intellectually captivating and downright brilliant hip hop in recent memory.
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Freewheelin' singer-songwriter Beck Hansen has made a career out of being a shape-shifter whose integrity stems from the fact that he doesn't go out of his way to capitalize on his commercial success.
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Keri Noble is back after her much-praised debut, Fearless, with a new six-song EP, Leave Me in the Dark. It provides a teasing glimpse of her full-length album due in February 2009. Noble, who's been compared to Norah Jones, is far from a carbon copy because she has a darker side that often leads to more revealing songwriting.
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Luu Hong Quang, a young talented pianist
VietNamNet Bridge - Young pianist Luu Hong Quang has recently won the second prize of the annual Val Tidone International Music Competitions in the Italian city of Piacenza. He is a new hope for Vietnam’s piano.
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Matt Skiba is a pretty prolific dude. He's constantly writing, recording and touring. If he's not making music with Alkaline Trio, he's working on material with his side projects Heavens and Jerkwater.
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Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly
Perusing Howie Smith's musical résumé - work with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Jazz Unit, Australia's Jazz Co-op, along with numerous other classical and jazz associations and composing credits - it's tempting to slice this multi-instrumentalist and Cleveland State University professor into distinct parts: the classical and the jazz; the teacher and the artist; ...
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Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly
Four years ago, local alt-country darlings Rosavelt were off to Europe, but one of its members, bassist/singer/songwriter Keith Hanna, wasn't aboard. He was having trouble with his passport, and the band, nervous he wouldn't make it, took another bassist along.
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Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have such storied musical pasts that even a seasoned musician would find them intimidating. Plant joined Led Zeppelin in 1968 and went on to release some of the best-selling albums in rock history.
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Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly
Brian Marshall is managing artistic director of Mercury Summer Stock. His brother Dan is its associate artistic director. And for Mercury's next production, the pair, both accomplished Equity actors, will be playing brothers in its version of the long-running British musical Blood Brothers.
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Elvis Costello, The Roots and More for Music Festival
Elvis Costello and The Imposters, The Roots, and Canada's own Broken Social Scene are among the artists that have been tapped for the inaugural Whistler Music Festival
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River of No Return is a fascinating look at the life of an aspiring aboriginal actress who dares to dream beyond the vast countryside that surrounds her in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Get caught up in the latest happenings in the entertainment world, from East Lansing to around the world. The Features desk discusses everything from weekend happenings to the latest movies, music and celebrity gossip.
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Smash hit finally arrives
, the sequel to the Disney Channel original movie, High School Musical , hit the CCTV-6 Movie Channel at 10 pm on July 6, marking the film's debut show to Chinese audiences.
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Britney Spears To Film Video For Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour
Five years after they famously locked lips at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna and Britney Spears are set to ...
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Visual and performing arts camps
For creatively inclined minds or those who want nothing more than to perform on stage.
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Skunk Hollow Christian Music Fest begins Friday
SHERRODSVILLE – Calvary United Methodist Church will present the Skunk Hollow Christian Music Festival from Friday through Sunday in Sherrodsville Community Park at Rts. 39 and 212.
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Music releases 7.08
Beck, Willie Nelson/ Wynton Marsallis, Gaelic Storm and more.
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Band bio: On the road with Mad-Sweet Pangs
These Spark Summer Music Series alums hit the road to promote the release of "Witness and Wait."
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Music Review: Nat King Cole - The Touch of Your Lips/I Don't Want to Be Hurt Anymore
Another interesting twofer from Collectors' Choice, this one highlights arranger/composer Ralph Carmichael's work with Nat King Cole. Collectors’ Choice has compiled another interesting twofer, arranging a collection of songs that not only highlights Nat King Cole’s impeccable baritone but also the work of Ralph Carmichael. Carmichael served as the arranger throughout the last phase of Cole’s ...
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