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Manhattan: Not Over Yet
Around this time last year, we all panicked over the state of the NYC music-venue scene: Tonic is over! CBGB is over! Live Nation is taking over Manhattan! (Brooklyn, too!) But maybe the outlook wasn't as bleak as it appeared, because this summer, at least two new artist-run venues are accepting ...
The Village Voice |
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The Hold Steady Return With Another Fist-Pumping Ode to Triumphant Fatigue
After one or two or 12 rounds, few finer drinking games exist than Hold Steady Mad-Libs. It's like freestyling for music nerds. As Shock G once said, it's real easy to do—check it out: "I was [synonym for 'relaxing'] in [midsized Midwestern city] at the [place where underage people hang out...
The Village Voice |
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The Melvins: Older, But the Same Age
Black humorists who play Black Sabbath riffs, the Melvins have always been rock's idiot savants, singing in goofy cartoon voices while wallowing in a singular mix of mud-churning guitars, humongous percussion, and ground-rattling low bass. That they've managed to stick to this stew while keeping ...
The Village Voice |
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Coldplay's world tour off to solid start
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Coldplay is striving for arena-rock epic greatness, but it's not there yet.
Reuters |
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"Music and Mayhem" in Fresno
Valley rock fans were treated to the first ever Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival Tuesday at Fresno’s SaveMart Center. The hard-music festival featured three stages, thirteen bands and a motocross show.
KSEE 24 Fresno |
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State Street's Banjo Kyle arrested for heroin
Kyle "Banjo Kyle" Miller, a State Street performing artist, was arrested Saturday evening and charged with possession of heroin with intent to deliver and a host of warrants for other offenses. Miller, 32, tried to lie to police when they first approached him in the 200 block of State Street while he was performing a number on his banjo. Miller told police his name was Robarto Caronado, but had ...
The Capital Times |
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Hawaii children showcase learning through music
WAILUKU, Maui (KHNL) - More than 1,000 youth from the islands of Maui, Molokai and Lanai showcased their learning through song and dance on Maui last Friday as part of the County's PAL (Play and Learn Sessions) Hoolaulea.
KHNL News 8 Honolulu |
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Coldplay's world tour off to solid start
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Coldplay is striving for arena-rock epic greatness, but it's not there yet.
Reuters.co.uk |
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Original material to be highlighted in Thursday night show
Three singer songwriters join together to bring you an incredible evening of West Coast songwriting this Thursday (July 17)at the Black Stilt Coffee Lounge.
Victoria News |
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Reuters Entertainment Summary
"The Class" to open NY Film Festival NEW YORK - Organizers of the New York Film Festival said on Tuesday they will open this fall's event with the North American premiere of French director Laurent Cantet's "Entre les Murs" , winner of this year's top prize at Cannes. The New York festival, which opens in late September, is one of the top cinema gatherings in the United ...
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Coldplay's world tour off to solid start
Coldplay is striving for arena-rock epic greatness, but it's not there yet.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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American Idol shortcut comes to Elk Grove
Hundreds of people lined up outside of Skip’s Music to try to nail a guaranteed audition on American Idol when it stops at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on July 17.
Elk Grove Citizen |
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Coldplay's world tour off to solid start
Coldplay is striving for arena-rock epic greatness, but it's not there yet.
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News |
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'Supervoice' Chaw's Singapore debut
SINGAPORE: It seems it would be rather inappropriate to put Malaysian singer Gary Chaw as high up on the pedestal as the Heavenly Kings in music - he is, afterall, still relatively new to the scene.
Channel NewsAsia |
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CAPITAL CITY NEWS
The story "80 years of music" in the July 9 issue of the Capital City Weekly reported that Carol Beery Davis was the original organist of the Kimball Organ and played at W.D. Gross' Coliseum Theatre for six years.
Capital City Weekly |
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Coldplay gets all rock-star at the Forum
The introspective Chris Martin and the group swagger into big-band status touring for 'Viva la Vida.' IN THE title track of Coldplay 's new “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,” frontman Chris Martin admits that "people couldn't believe what I'd become." He's singing from the perspective of a freshly deposed king, reflecting on the delights of his authoritarian reign, but the line also ...
Los Angeles Times |
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Gay Love Songs
Thanks to the lovely new Civil Partnership Act gay couples can now legally get all loved up! So, to mark the start of the new queer ‘wedding’ ceremonies we thought we’d take a look at a few our favourite records to get all smooched up with on the sofa.
RainbowNetwork.com |
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Music City refugee
Eric Hisaw has always enjoyed carnivals, albeit for slightly unusual reasons. Whereas many people frequent carnivals to experience gravity-defying rides and down cotton candy and soda, Hisaw prefers to watch the the workers who operate those gravity-defying rides and shill the cotton candy.
San Antonio Current |
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Rocking With The Sox: Brandon Moss
When Brandon Moss hit a game-tying homer in the first game of the season - in Japan no less - it was a shocker. But no more shocking than discovering at a family reunion that...
Boston Herald |
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Rhapsody, Hot Topic mix it up with iTunes on MP3s
Maybe the key to competing with iTunes isn't doing things better, but differently. Online music service Rhapsody and mall-based retailer Hot Topic want to take...
Boston Herald |
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Math camp, music courses, skateboard science: Educators worry summer programs widen achievement gap
They call it the "summer slide." As June slips into July and then the dog days of August, many of the math skills, history lessons and new vocabulary words that students acquired during the school year slip without the routine of daily classes.
San Jose Mercury News |
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WordHasIt: Raining on the budget
THE 11th Rainforest World Music Festival experienced another remarkable showing. This year, the recently-concluded festival attracted 25,000 people from 36 countries including the United States, Britain, Africa, the Middle East, Singapore, Indonesia, China and Europe.
The New Straits Times |
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Parton's 9 to 5 coming to Broadway
"It's the most fun I've ever had as a songwriter," Dolly Parton twanged.
WABC-TV New York |
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College Park student sings praises of renowned arts camp
THE WOODLANDS – A Woodlands student is learning from the best in the business how to pursue a career in music....
The Conroe Courier |
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A lovely day for a picnic
Children and adults enjoy some skateboarding fun at Tuesday’s Youth Day at the Science Hill High School Alternative Center. Attendees enjoyed a backyard cookout, games, prize giveaways, live music and more.
Johnson City Press |
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