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Southside City Fest to feature music, food, fireworks
Would you like your Southside City Fest on the rocks? Then get ready to rock - Southern style - with Confederate Railroad and local acts at the annual event scheduled for Saturday.
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Usher's Camp New Look 2008 Continues to Empower and Educate Inner-City Youth
Grammy Award winning entertainer and philanthropist Usher Raymond IV, in conjunction with his New Look Foundation, will welcome 126 underserved youths from throughout the country to the Atlanta area for this year's Camp New Look.
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AX08: Shoko Nakagawa Interview
The Japanese pop sensation talks about her new album, cosplay, and more! July 14, 2008 - On July 2nd through July 5th, thousands flocked to the Los Angeles Convention Center for the 2008 Anime Expo. Anime and manga enthusiasts from all over the country attended the four day event in a celebration of Japanese pop culture.
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Grand plans for Australia Day
AN ambitious Summer Island couple is orchestrating plans for an annual Australia Day fundraising extravaganza at the Kemp-sey Showgrounds.
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Death Cab for Cutie to play Bumbershoot 2008
Seattle's Death Cab for Cutie and a slew of other bands complete the final lineup for the 2008 Bumbershoot festival on Labor Day weekend at Seattle Center.
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MGMT, 'The Best New York Band About,' On-Board Beck's Upcoming Autumn Tour Beginning September 19 in San Diego
The Brooklyn-based futurist rock/pop ensemble MGMT will follow the group's sizzling summer concert schedule opening for Beck on the post-modern musical collagist's forthcoming autumn tour beginning September 19 in San Diego .
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E3 2008: Rock Band 2 Setlist Announced
80 tracks on disc, and 20 bonus downloadable songs coming to rock your world.
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The vicarious life
There is something magical and glamorous about the Jerusalem Film Festival. Not that you'd ever get confused and think that you're at Cannes - there are, for example, no red carpets, no evening dress, no beach within miles.
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T in the Park: Music fan was stabbed 11 times
Man suffers eight stab wounds to body and three to head in attack now being treated as attempted murder
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Common indecency: Lucy Morgan on life for ex-pats in Dubai
Following a British woman's arrest for allegedly having sex on a beach in Dubai, Lucy Morgan reveals the realities of life for the UAE's 100,000 British expats
Guardian Unlimited |
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EU to introduce new music rights system despite lobby
High-profile songwriters and composers' campaign overruled in digital media rights case
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Mick Hucknall, Indigo, O2, London
When I close my eyes, it all sounds pretty good. When Mick Hucknall retired Simply Red, to some extent he put the criticism behind him too. What remains is a 47-year-old Mancunian soul boy with a special voice. His debut solo album, Tribute to Bobby, which he's showcasing tonight, takes on songs defined by the blues singer Bobby Bland, and, Hucknall has said, is an end to being "a slave to pop ...
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T In The Park, Balado, Kinross
Like Scotland's football team, the country's premier music festival, T in the Park, is making steady progress. This year, 85,000 fans saw 185 acts on eight main stages, which puts the festival – now a three-day event – on a scale roughly half that of Glastonbury. And T sold out within hours of tickets being made available once again this year.
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Tea and Opera, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
It's doubtful if the drinking song from La Traviata has ever been sung to the clinking of teacups, but the Cheltenham Music Festival's Fine Tea Tasting and Opera event was something of a first in every respect. Not many concerts of operatic excerpts are preceded by a short film about the processing of leaves from Camellia sinensis assamica. But Mackwoods, whose single-estate tea leaves from Sri ...
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Preview: Melody Gardot, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
When Melody Gardot sings "It's a miracle I'm alive, I do not think I can survive", she's singing from the heart. The lyrics come from the first song she wrote, in the aftermath of the traffic accident that almost killed her. Today, '"Some Lessons" is still the song that defines her.
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Singer-Songwriter Jason Reeves Signs with Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records is pleased to announce that it has signed up-and-coming singer-songwriter Jason
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Yarkın’s new album archival work, preservation of musical tradition
With the release of their debut album, "Ten" (Skin), the Yarkın brothers expanded the horizons of Turkish music.
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After 4 years, Seattle Symphony has its concertmaster
The search for a new concertmaster for the Seattle Symphony ended up almost where it began four years ago.
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'Take me out to the ballgame' turns 100
CLEVELAND - It's the third most frequently sung song in the United States, yet few know all its lyrics. It’s been recorded by more than 400 artists, from Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa. It’s been performed live by Mike Ditka and Ozzy Osbourne — with varying skill levels.
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Junkanoo & Speedometer
Junkanoo in The Bahamas, which has been compared to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in Rio, is staged in the early hours of 26 December and again in the early hours of 1 January, New Year's Day. The parade, or "rush out" is characterized by colourful costumes and a rhythmic blending of goatskin drums, cow bells, horns fill the air as the Junkanoo groups, comprising sometimes dozens of ...
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Recommended Daily Allowance
RDA first performed at the Scoop at More London last year in their nascent trio line-up. They return as a full 8-piece, sounding like a cross between Steely Dan and the Cinematic Orchestra.
London SE1 |
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Don’t Let Farish Street Historical District pass into oblivion!!
After visiting the Farish Street Historical District yesterday (July 13, 2008) I was shocked,saddened and got a little teary-eyed since as a student of the Blues and a Blues musician/singer/composer for over 25 years I know well of Farish Street’s historical value and it’s rightful place in the legacy that still lives in our great state’s musical heritage.
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TuneUp Automatically Updates and Fixes Your iTunes Metadata [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Music application TuneUp scans your iTunes library to fill in and clean up your music's metadata, including album art. After you install it, just point it it at songs in your library...
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Blues Traveler's Verve Debut Album North Hollywood Shootout
After selling ten million records worldwide, six gold or platinum albums, and 2,000 shows in front of three million fans, Grammy Award-winning Blues Traveler ventured out of its creative comfort zone to explore some adventurous new horizons for its new album (and Verve Forecast label debut).
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Henri's Notions to Take Stage at Mountain City Lights & Stars
Henri's Notions creates a musical mix of traditional Celtic and American music, as well as original compositions that have a rhythm and voice reflective of its Southern heritage, which lends a pleasing familiarity to the music. The Notions will take the stage July 25 for the fifth concert in Burritt's on the Mountain's City Lights and Stars summer concert series, sponsored by Knology.
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