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Songwriters devote album to baseball
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dusk is setting on a cool evening at Yankee Stadium, as Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte sets down the San Diego Padres. Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey, two songwriters behind new band The Baseball Project, are doing what they love: sipping beer and talking baseball and music.
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Two CD releases with the Colorado connection
Breckenridge-based artist Jeremy Dion clearly has a grasp on what makes a song good. He takes a very basic approach to writing, telling a personal story through his lyrics then layering harmonizing strings and simple percussion over the top.
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Best rock albums of 2008 so far defined by naturalism, rawness
NEW YORK - The first half of 2008 has already seen some great albums.
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Classicial guitarist at MSU
Classical guitarist Christopher Parkening will instruct music students starting Wednesday and continuing through the end of the week.
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Songwriters devote album to baseball
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dusk is setting on a cool evening at Yankee Stadium, as Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte sets down the San Diego Padres. Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey, two songwriters behind new band The Baseball Project, are doing what they love: sipping beer and talking baseball and music.
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NY folk music songwriter and guitarist Artie Traum dead at 65
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. - Artie Traum, a veteran folk songwriter and guitarist who came out of the famous Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s, is dead.
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Biography
Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise in the public’s interest of world music, Cyro has managed to record and tour with some of music’s most popular names.
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Jason Solomon's Trailer Trash
The dirt on A Fish Called Wanda stage musical, Ray Winstone return to Blighty and Brad Pitt's peculiar ageing
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Weekly Music Agenda
MONDAY No better way to overcome a case of the Mondays than by heading up to Fort Reno. Tonight's lineup will get you shaking and singing along, with Ra Ra Rasputin , Pup Tent & North of Canada . As always, music starts at 7:15 and ends promptly at 9:30. TUESDAY People sure do love The Ting Tings ! And by people, I of course mean music blogs. Get your dose of dancey UK indie ...
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Music label Avex’s annual summer open-air live concert “a-nation” will be held in five cities from Aug 8. According to the organizers, the event will kick off in Aichi Prefecture and tour Miyazaki, Ishikawa, Osaka, Aichi and Tokyo.
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Warner Music Group Corp. to Conduct Earnings Conference Call on Thursday, August 7, 2008
Warner Music Group Corp. will release fiscal second quarter financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2008 prior to the opening of the NYSE on Thursday, August 7, 2008 and will hold an earnings update conference call that morning at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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Pencil This In: Monday
FILM : AFI at the ArcLight brings everyone’s favorite Reese’s Pieces-eating alien back to the big screen tonight. Find out if Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extraterrestrial still holds up after 25 years -- and how cute Drew Barrymore as a kid actor. BURLESQUE * Black Bird Burlesque brings an evening of illustion, comedy, burlesque and live music to Safari Sam’s tonight at 8 pm. The ...
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Ocean City Music Hall Summer Concert, Stayin' Alive
Stockton Performing Arts Center summer concert, Ocean City Music Hall, Stayin’ Alive, Bee Gees Tribute Band, 8 p.m., $20. Tickets available online at www.ocnj.us or 525-9300.
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Jessica Simpson's father, agents, thrilled with her first country show
Members of Jessica Simpson's career team say they are thrilled with her first country performance Saturday at Country Thunder, a Wisconsin music festival.
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Jessica Simpson gets mixed reception at first-ever country concert
Country music fans in Wisconsin expressed their displeasure at Jessica Simpson's foray into the genre at her first concert to promote her upcoming country album, Usmagazine.com reports . Some fans booed the singer, who opened for Sara Evans at the Country Thunder USA festival in Randall, Wisconsin on Saturday.
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Music Review: Paul Weller's Ambitious '22 Dreams'
Paul Weller, "22 Dreams" (Yep Roc)
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MTV Viewers are Taking Over the '2008 Video Music Awards'
MTV is letting fans participate in the 2008 Video Music Awards by giving them the opportunity to help decide this year's nominees, creating a kickass awards show with the music they want to hear and see.
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Mobile Music Revenues Will Get A Needed Boost From Ads By 2013: Report
Well, the good news for record companies is that they will be able to make some money from mobile music; unfortunately, says eMarketer, they won't see as much as they've been hoping for. eMarketer forecasts worldwide mobile music retail revenues will grow from $2.4 billion in 2007 to over $13 billion by 2012—but full-track download sales will not even comprise half of that in five years.
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Favtape: Full Playback For Your Favorite Last.fm And Pandora Songs
One of the most frustrating things about online music services like Last.fm and Pandora is that they don’t allow users to play back songs in their entirety on demand. The sites have made some progress in the last few months (Last.fm introduced full-song playback for some labels in January and iLike implemented it this [...]
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Djangofest Colorado, September 19-21, 2008
DjangoFest comes to Mt Crested Butte, CO for a weekend festival that celebrates the music and spirit of the great French/Belgian Gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt.
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Miller, Cocker in top rock form
If more aging rockers were in as good a shape as Steve Miller and Joe Cocker, the world - or at least the summer shed circuit - would be a better place. It was especially...
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Woodstock musician Artie Traum dies
WOODSTOCK (AP) - Artie Traum, a veteran folk songwriter and guitarist who came out of the famous Greenwich Village music scene of the '60s, is dead. He was 65.
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The top producer who hit the skids
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Just a few years ago, Scott Storch was one of the top producers in pop music, living in a $10.5 million mansion on an exclusive Miami island, driving a phalanx of luxury cars and dating the likes of Paris Hilton and Lil Kim.
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Fiber Arts Festival in the works
Iron Horse Farm will sponsor the annual Fiber Arts Festival on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., rain or shine, at the Sherborn Community Center, 3 Sanger St.
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Billboard.com -- Paul Westerberg Offers New Album For 49 Cents
Despite the fact that he doesn't have a computer and may never have been online in his life, Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg is the latest artist to embrace the Internet for rapid dissemination of new music.
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