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Loud bar music makes you drink more
Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.
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Paul Simon sues Japanese clockmaker for using song
NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. singer and songwriter Paul Simon sued a Japanese clockmaker for $5 million for copyright infringement on Friday for claiming the company used one of his songs as a composition on their clocks.
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South Park Flea Market Drops to Once a Month
The South Park Artisan and Certified Farmers Market will no longer take place each Sunday, because of consistently low turnout, said organizer Phillip Dane. Starting immediately, the market will take place only on the third Sunday of every month, with the next event on Aug. 17. If the monthly market does not garner bigger crowds, said Dane, he will pull the plug altogether.
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ABC Invites You to Summer's Hottest Music Event, 'CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock'
***MEDIA ALERT*** LADY ANTEBELLUM OMITTED FROM YESTERDAY'S RELEASETaylor Swift, Kellie Pickler and Julianne Hough HostTrace Adkins, Rodney Atkins, Bucky Covington, Billy Ray Cyrus, Faith Hill, Jul...
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John Mayer writing his own kind of cool
John Mayer is many things — an incredible guitarist, an accomplished songwriter and a famed heartthrob with admirers all over the globe.
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David Kim takes final bow as head of Kingston Chamber Music Festival
After two decades at the helm of the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, violinist David Kim, the event’s founder, is bowing out.
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Travel digest
ill rock and roll at the end of August DES MOINES, Iowa -- Gov. Chet Culver wants Iowa to rock the weekend of Aug. 30. Culver has signed a proclamation designating the weekend of Aug. 30 through Sept. 1 as "Iowa RockNRoll Weekend." The state is recog
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Lakewood man one of two concertgoers who died in Mich.
ROTHBURY, Mich. -- Authorities say an Ohio man was among two people who died while at Michigan's Rothbury music festival.
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Top things to do July 18-20
The Pacific Symphony plays to 'The Wizard of Oz,' Rooney rocks the House of Blues and the Santa Ana Zoo offers a night of jazz.
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Rock Band 2 Sonic FAQ
The lowdown on all the music featured in the upcoming game. July 18, 2008 - What a surprise! A few days ago -- just in time for E3 -- Harmonix and MTV Games announced the song set list for Rock Band 2 , the much-anticipated, sure-to-be-much-loved sequel to their hugely successful Rock Band . Featuring over 100 songs, with over 80 songs on the release disc plus an additional 20 bonus tracks that ...
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Music on the hillside on Sunday
Sunday’s concert begins at noon in the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens, at the hillside on the western side. Tickets are R60 for adults, R40 for students and pupils. Tickets can be purchased at the gate, which opens at 10 am, or at Parklane Spar.
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"Small Miracle" Set to Repeat Itself at Shrine Bowl
The amazing transformation from over 200 high school musicians representing more than 90 Kansas high schools into smooth, college-quality marching band begins Tuesday in Emporia. That's when 216 students from all over Kansas report to Emporia State for the 25th Annual All-State Masonic Band camp at Emporia State University.
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Buoyant, homegrown music ignites concert
Seraphic Fire's luminous, scrupulously refined vocalism in classical repertoire is so well-known a commodity that one is constantly taken aback by the group's ability to tackle populist genres that seem light years removed from its home ground.
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Huge Catholic teen conference at UA next weekend
Many teenagers reject organized religion because they see it as nothing but a bunch of "thou shalt not" rules.
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Cop tips to fight piracy
Police officers from Calcutta and six districts of the state on Friday attended a workshop on new forms of music piracy and ways to curb them.
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Choir Pays Tribute to Shoals Musician
One group inspired by Dwight L. Winston vow to keep his legacy and passion for music alive.
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Air Guitar Gets Bloody in Brooklyn
Taryn Kapronica, stage name Bettie B. Goode , may be the sickest air guitarist in the region, but the Brooklynite's title has come with a hefty price: her toe. The Daily News says the winner rocked her U.S. Air Guitar Championships Brooklyn Regional performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg so hard that her toe bent backwards and was later amputated! She told the paper that: "By the ...
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Ritual leaders pray for ‘Frank’ victims
MANILA, Philippines – The chants, dances and music of performers, plaintive or celebratory, in an ongoing international conference here, have prayed for the healing of thousands of Iloilo flood victims.
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SPIN's Week in Review, July 14-18
We're in the thick of the summer's dog days and you're either loathing or adoring 'em, depending on how well you’re air conditioner works. But our sweat glands have been heavily secreting as well, as SPIN.com stalked the red carpet at VH1 Rock Honors' tribute to the Who; worked up stern warnings to superstars like Bruce Springsteen and Madonna to stay alive and avoid getting heinously remixed ...
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Little Julian Herrera where have you gone?
In the movie “La Bamba,” the scene where the plane crashes and richie Valens mother screams “Richie, Not My Richie,” was meant to symbolize the heights to which Richie Valens reached in his short but meteoric career as a Rock and Roll star and the explosion and fire came to mean the loss of hopes and dreams of every Chicano teenager in California and elsewhere, who believed that they could one ...
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Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried from "Mamma Mia!"
Since "Mamma Mia!" burst onto the stage at London’s West End nearly a decade ago, tens of millions of fans have left theatres throughout the world singing the music of 1970s Swedish pop band ABBA. This joyous, feel-good musical revolutionized contemporary musical theatre, spurning a series of other jukebox musicals – shows that feature popular songs, usually by one musician, as the score – ...
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Loud bar music makes customers drink more: study
LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.
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Sing us one last song at Shea, Piano Man
(AP:NEW YORK) In 1965, more than 55,000 screaming fans jammed into Shea Stadium to watch the Beatles perform what was one of the most remarkable shows in the history of rock 'n' roll.
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Gyroscope boys kept grounded by Perth
As their profile soars, Australian rock group Gyroscope credit Perth for keeping them grounded. Gyroscope's popularity has been on the rise since their third album Breed Obsession hit number one on the national ARIA charts earlier this year.
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Sing us one last song at Shea, Piano Man
NEW YORK July 18, 2008, 05:25 pm ET · In 1965, more than 55,000 screaming fans jammed into Shea Stadium to watch the Beatles perform what was one of the most remarkable shows in the history of rock 'n' roll.
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