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McDonalds asks MySpacers to update special sauce song
McDonald's asks MySpacers to match 2008 music to 1974 words in honor of the Big Mac The year was 1974: Gas prices were high, inflation was rampant and an unpopular Republican occupied the White House. McDonald's introduced a spirit-lifting jingle: "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun."
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Hear Hounddog's Rockin' Blues at Alive@Five
Alive@5 features live music by Hounddog’s Rockin’ Blues, children’s activities, concessions and more at the Milwaukee Depot. Admission is free. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Music Researchers Have More Options Thanks to an Agreement between EBSCO Publishing and Alexander Street Press
Mutual Subscribers Are Able to Link from RILM to Classical Music Library
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Gamecues Deployed as a New Distribution Model for Video Game Music Licensing
LOS ANGELES----Resnick Interactive, a software developer and leading provider of quality audio production for video games today announced a web offering aimed at the video game development industry.
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3 TO TRY
Outdoor drums T hrow a rock, and you're likely to hit an outdoor summer show -- but not every music festival will allow you to play percussion. The Music in the Parks series will present an interactive drumming circle tonight at Thompson Park , 4350 Woodbridge Rd., Upper Arlington. Eric Paton, a specialist in Japanese taiko drumming and Brazilian samba, will lead the circle from 6:30 to ...
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ALSO ON TAP
Music Box Society International Band Organ Rally HISTORIC ROSCOE VILLAGE, 381 HILL ST., COSHOCTON (740-622-9310, 1-800-877-1830; WWW.ROSCOEVILLAGE.COM) M echanical music will unwind with clocks, calliopes, band and carousel organs, nickelodeons and more.
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EU Looks To Make Music Royalties Lifelong
"Aging rock stars and session musicians will keep receiving royalties for their old recordings for the rest of their lives under a European Union plan. Performers currently lose the rights to their recordings after 50 years."
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Scarlett Johansson Gets Live on EP
Though she's probably best known as an actor in films like Lost in Translation , The Nanny Diaries and The Other Boleyn Girl Scarlett Johansson has recently begun dabbling in music.
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The Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival Comes To Fredericton This Fall
Though the summer music festivals tend to wrap up as the weather begins to cool there always tend to be a few stragglers in September including Fredericton's Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival.
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Gene Simmons to be 'Jingles' judge
LOS ANGELES, July 17 (UPI) -- Rock icon and reality TV star Gene Simmons has signed on to judge a U.S. competition reality series seeking the next great jingle composer, CBS said.
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Brass band at Crane Library
An all-brass concert is set for Sunday at 3 p.m. on the Thomas Crane Public Library lawn, 40 Washington St., Quincy.
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FROM HAZLETON TO 'THE SHOW' Shining Ray of hope
Hazleton native Joe Maddon has led perennial doormat Tampa Bay into contention. Terri and Dave Cassarella had every detail planned out. The cake. The flowers. The music.
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Girls Aloud to join teen soap
Girls Aloud are set to feature in a soap opera about the music industry in which the show's main character is based on Simon Cowell.
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ZOE Creative Services LLC. Panel Discussion -- "Has the Internet Killed the Video Star?"
NASHVILLE, TN -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/17/08 -- ZOE Creative Services LLC. Announces a Panel Discussion on the eve of the 27th Anniversary of the launch of MTV. Music Television , as we have known it since the launch of MTV, is rapidly losing advertising revenue and viewership to Internet Music Services and membership affinity portals.
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WYD concert rocks crowd of 150,000
WORLD Youth Day (WYD) pilgrims have rocked out for a good cause at Sydney's harbourside Barangaroo site tonight.
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Samsung Unveils Four New Compact Cameras
Four point-and-shoot models from Samsung feature advanced abilities, such as high-definition output to HDTVs, HD video capture, and even music and video playback via the iPod.
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Aimee Mann: I Know There's a Word
Aimee Mann travels great distances in just a few words. From her first hit, with 'Til Tuesday in 1985 (the ubiquitous “Voices Carry") through an Academy Award nomination in 1999 for “Save Me" in Paul Thomas Anderson's harrowing masterpiece Magnolia through the unfussy perfection of her new album, @#%&! Smilers (released June 3 on Superego Records), Mann is a songwriter's songwriter.
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Flood relief gets hairy at Picador
In the 80 Hours Calendar, events are divided into the typical arts and culture categories - music, theater, "words" (also known as readings), and so forth. Then there's that pesky category at the end that goes only by "Misc." Cultural, yes, but not quite fitting anywhere else, this is where such items as country fairs and yes, farmers' markets are classed.
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'Powerpop' Troester, influenced by country, metal, will play Mill
After an adolescence spent "chicken-pickin' " country tunes and a teenage stint of thrashing out Matellica, Brian Troester finally understands his niche in the arena of power pop. While Garth Brooks and Ozzy might not find a special place in their hearts for the style that birthed Tommy Tutone's "Jenny, Jenny (867-5309)" or Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me," aspects from both the country and ...
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A bonanza of blueberries and old-time fun FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
BLUEBERRY FOODS The Blueberry Food Tent is the place for blueberry, strawberry, rhubarb and peach pies, blueberry strudel, blueberry coffee cake, blueberry swirl and vanilla ice cream, and fresh blueberries. For blueberry pancakes and fresh fruit with blueberries, check out the Heaven on a Bun stall. Have a hankering for blueberry funnel cake? JR's London Broil has it.
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Review: Irex Iliad Book Edition ebook reader
Book publishers have so far escaped the kind of disruption IT caused to the music and film industries, and most seem to believe this will continue. Even bookseller Borders, which sells this Iliad ebook reader, believes it will not dent print sales.
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"Wii Music"
pjmaybe wrote: No DLC And a track listing like that? I think I'm going to be ill... Ah, come on, twinkle twinkle little star's a classic. Who said no DLC?
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Lips Video Preview
MajorNelson checks out Lips, a motion-sensing microphone game that pulls music from your Zune:
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West Akron’s Kate Lieberth performs with dance troupe
AKRON — San Francisco area-based ballet group Company C, led by Artistic Director Charles Anderson, will kick off the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival with appearances at Goodyear Heights Metro Park July 18-19 at 8:45 p.m.
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Art, music, dance return to Hardesty Park with Arts Expo
WEST AKRON — If it’s time for the Akron Arts Expo, then Copley leather artist Mark Mowen will be there. Mowen, who creates handbags and accessories with wife Phyllis, has lost track of how many years he has participated in the juried arts show and sale portion of the four-day festival.
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