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Amy back to best as she plays Scotland and Ireland in one weekend
Emerging on stage at Ireland's Oxegen festival just minutes past her scheduled start time, Amy Winehouse looked ready to rock. The beehive-topped singer put aside recent troubles to give fans at two of the summer's biggest festivals in Ireland and Scotland a taste of the talent which has earned her five Grammys.
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Creative Introduces the ZEN X-Fi and the ZEN X-Fi With Wireless LAN - the Only Players to Improve the Quality of MP3 ...
Creative, a worldwide leader in digital entertainment, today announced the ZEN® X-Fi® and ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN digital media players for music, video and photos.
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Sir George Martin and The Who honoured in the US
London, July 14 : British record producer Sir George Martin, at times referred to as 'the Fifth Beatle', and English rock band 'The Who' were honoured at separate ceremonies in Los Angeles.
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No pirate paradise vows China
Visitors to Beijing's Olympic Games hoping to snap up cheap pirate copies of hit movies and music will be disappointed, Chinese authorities say, announcing a round-the-clock drive to stamp out bootleg sellers.
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Snoop walks the line
Snoop Dogg has reworked one of Johnny Cash's most famous songs as part of an upcoming album.
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Black confirmed for 'School of Rock 2'
Jack Black and Richard Linklater confirm that they will be returning for School Of Rock 2.
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28th Annual Blissfest
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 6:42 a.m. People enjoyed a weekend of festival fun and musical bliss at the 28th Annual Blissfest in Cross Village. Festival goers spent the day enjoying lots of entertainment from several bands on three different stages.
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Your client reaching folks at their desk
Advertisers have long been eager to reach out to consumers during work hours, and one way has been to catch them coming and going with elevator advertising.
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'Wizard' may lead you to purchase a real piano
Sure, you can live the plastic fantasy of rock hero with EA's “Rock Band” or Activision's “Guitar Hero” games, but if you actually want to learn something that boosts real musicianship potential, you'll want the “Piano Wizard” by Allegro Multimedia's Music Wizard Group.
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Jazz at the Albright-Knox opener flooded with swing and sunshine
For most of Sunday morning, it seemed like the weather wasn't going to be ideal for an outdoor jazz show. Grey skies and a persistent drizzle threatened to make the kickoff to The Buffalo News Jazz at the Albright-Knox series a less-thanswingin' event. But like John Coltrane's “A Love Supreme,” a day that began a little ominously gave way to a beautiful resolution.
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Japanese company tests eye, touch controls for electronics
YOKOSUKA, Japan -- Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for “wearable” gadgets.
The Buffalo News |
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Laser show left dancers blind - report
Russian doctors have been inundated with patients seeking eye treatment after allegedly being blinded by the lasers at a music festival in the town of Vladimir.
Independent Online |
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Bayreuth's festival will offer opera online
BERLIN -- Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of “Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg” live via the Internet. The catch is the price -- $77.
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SINGfest set to play on and on
SINGAPORE: Fans of SINGfest, get ready for a new era of live music entertainment! Already touted as the biggest contemporary music festival in Singapore, producer Midas Promotions is already setting sights on creating an even bigger SINGfest come 2009 and offering not just an outdoor extravaganza.
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Report: Revellers left partially blinded in Russian rave laser show
Moscow - A laser show left over 30 ravers partially blinded at a techno music festival near Moscow, daily Kommersant reported Monday. Since the night of the show, scores of young people have been checking into hospitals all over the capital with the ...
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Review: Audio Kontrol 1
Native Instruments has the perfect compact audio interface for today's music producer. It is small, compact, portable, and made of sturdy light-weight aluminum. The Audio Kontrol 1 has a continuous controller knob, three buttons, a mic or instrument input, a line input, four outputs, a MIDI input and output, and a headphone output. It is a USB...
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Billerica's new home for talented musicians
BILLERICA -- She found it on craigslist. The quirky little two-room building with the enormous overhang near the center of town was most recently the home of a locksmith, but had served as a small gas station years before.
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Record-setting festival numbers;
The Kinsmen Cornwall Lift-Off Hot Air Balloon Festival attracted its biggest crowds yet over the weekend, particularly with the mainstage concerts put on by Dennis Deyoung of Styx and Canadian band Theory of a Deadman. Saturday afternoon before the latter band played event chairman Chris Savard told the [...]
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Theory of a Deadman rocks
Lift-Off's Saturday afternoon was a low-key stretch that gave way to a buzzing throng of spectators eager to see Canadian band Theory of a Deadman's headlining show on the main stage built in front of the bandshell. Event chair Chris Savard said the Lift-Off musical acts of recent [...]
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ShirleyFest rocks on for Habitat
SHIRLEY -- Mike Swanton was driving past the Benjamin Hill Recreation Park last winter, when he looked out at the freshly cleared hill for sledding and it hit him. It would serve as a great amphitheater for a blues concert.
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Mashed potato wrestling at Maine potato festival
Mashed potato wrestling is making its return to this year's Maine Potato Blossom Festival in Fort Fairfield.
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There is never enough singing
ZANESVILLE - Voices could be heard up to the heavens Sunday afternoon at the Union Baptist Church at 56 Eighth St., as members of area churches and those in the community united to express their faith in song.
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Gig roundup: Watsons step up with "Fire Songs"
When Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis released "Rabbit Fur Coat" -- a collaboration with The Watson Twins -- in 2006, Lewis was clearly out front. But it didn't take careful listening to hear that The Watson Twins wouldn't be in Lewis' shadow for long.
OnMilwaukee.com |
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That’ll be the day as rockers end festival
The sound of the 70s filled the air of a South Staffordshire village when rock and rollers Showaddywaddy brought its music festival to a close in spectacular style.
Express and Star |
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Russian laser show blinds revellers: report
Dozens of young revellers were blinded by a laser show at a dance music festival near Moscow last week and doctors fear the damage may be irreparable, the Kommersant daily has reported.
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