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Music companies to police illegal downloads
No sooner had Britain’s six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) agreed to monitor illegal file sharing than the web was abuzz with suggestions to get around the scheme.
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Suspected British file-sharers of copyrighted material are to receive warning letters from their internet service providers after the six largest ISPs in the UK signed a government-brokered memorandum of understanding with the country's record label association, the BPI.
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Internet providers crackdown on piracy
Britain's six biggest internet service providers have agreed to work with the government and music industry to clamp down on illegal downloading, a music industry association says.
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Kick up your heels at Wyatt’s Saloon
Wyatt’s Cafe & Saloon now offers a full summer of entertainment including country dancing lessons and live music. On Wednesdays, Joe Vonish of DJ Services teaches the two-step, country swing, the cha-cha and more. Lessons are free and open to all levels, from beginner to advanced.
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Russell Brand hosting MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand.
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Television - Entertainment
It seems the birth of Nicole and Keith†s little Sunday Rose has prompted a tribute from an unlikely fan. Beau Davidson is a country singer from Tennessee, and he has written a special something for the little baby celebrity.
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Memories are made of bits
While I access most of my music, photographs and movies in digital form, I also have many precious memories locked up in analogue in the shape of vinyl LPs, family photographs and film.
Financial Times |
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Muze Adds Track Level Data to MuzeMusic 2.0 Media Information Solution
Muze Inc., the leading independent provider of innovative entertainment information products and media preview and discovery services, today announced that it will now provide track-level data as a part of its forthcoming release of MuzeMusic 2.0, the company's next-generation media information solutions portfolio for music product sales, audience development, and social networking applications.
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SOULFUL BLOG: Santogold Has Jay-Z’s Attention + Trey Songz Sings for SOHH
With everyone who is anyone in music clamoring to work with her., it looks like my girl Santogold will soon be blessed by a collaboration with Hov. The singer was recently quoted discussing some major projects in the works, including a musical dalliance with Jay-Z himself.
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LA SALUD, LA CANCIÓN Y EL SOL
GALDE, the Gay and Lesbian Dominican Empowerment Organization, leads a group of community organizations in hosting the 18th annual picnic and health fair serving LGBTs and their straight allies, families, and friends in the Dominican and broader Latino communities.
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Here We Go Again: Yahoo! Music Throws Away the DRM Keys Electronic Frontier Foundation
Just over a month after consumer backlash caused MSN Music to rescind its decision to deactivate the digital rights management ("DRM") servers that allowed MSN Music purchasers to "reauthorize" music files after upgrading operating systems or buying new computers, Yahoo!
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2008 New Wave international music festival kicks off in Latvia
TV broadcaster Maxim Galkin and singer Alla Pugacheva attend an unveiling ceremony of the 2008 New Wave international festival for young pop singers held in Dzintari concert hall, in the Baltic resort of Jurmala, Latvia.
Itar-Tass |
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Forward.com
Analogies between music and language abound. Sometimes we liken music to a universal language that is able to transcend ordinary linguistic and cultural boundaries.
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Forward.com
Judaism Musical and Unmusical By Michael P. Steinberg *University of Chicago Press, 270 pages. $21. *
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Jay Babcock's Harsh Feelings on LA
The man behind Arthur Magazine , Jay Babcock, recently took the indie rag's operation to Brooklyn where he decided to resettle. Soundboard, the LA Times music blog, got a hold of him for a short interview . His answer to the first question, "what prompted the move to Brooklyn?", is quite a read: New York is just a more hospitable environment than L.A. ever has been or will be. L.A. is ...
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Festival closes with “Die Fledermaus”
The closing performance of the Duxbury Music Festival, featuring “Die Fledermaus,” will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 25, at Duxbury Performing Arts Center.
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Keep Your Brass In Pocket
Seminal rockers The Pretenders are back this summer with their first new album in six years, Break Up The Concrete . But the best news is they're giving it away for free.
POLLSTAR |
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Homegrown Sounds
-- Area musicians have been busy laying down tracks. Here's a look at recent local CD releases, including works in rock, hip-hop, folk and fingerstyle guitar.
Daytona Beach News-Journal |
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Review: Joan of Arc entrancing at the church
Before the whiney dread of emo became pop fodder, there was Tim Kinsella's band Joan of Arc. Sure, the Chicago singer with the nervous voice and the battery of angry guitars wrote weighty confessional lyrics in his first band, Cap'n Jazz. But that was 1995. Everyone was sour in '95.
Philly.com |
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Sudan's Bashir pledges peace as he wraps up visit to Darfur
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir paraded as a man of peace on Thursday as he wrapped up a heavily protected tour of Darfur defying accusations that he masterminded genocide in the region. Wearing a safari suit, shades and a giant ring, he danced on stage and beat his silver-topped cane to nationalist music.
The Daily Star Lebannon |
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Woodstock museum recalls 1969 music fest
Finally, I made it to Woodstock. It only took me 39 years.
Newsday |
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Cincinnati Jazz Festival showcases Patti LaBelle
BY FELIX WINTERNITZ
Dayton Daily News |
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Arts Agenda
Not many exhibit openings this week, but that doesn't stop the galleries from throwing big parties for any reason they can find. Keep reading for derby arm wrestling, two concerts from our three star alums, DJs, poetry readings, and of course, tons of (mostly) free alcohol. Head over to Hillyer Art Space on Friday night for the Barrelhouse Magazine Roller Derby Issue launch party, ...
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EA staging 'Madden' festival at Rose Bowl
Electronic Arts Inc. is staging a "Maddenpalooza" at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as part of the launch of the newest member of the 20-year-old "Madden NFL" franchise, "Madden NFL 09." (ERTS)
Los Angeles Business Journal |
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friday, july 25
ballet A George Balanchine Evening Le Baiser de la fée. Prodigal Son. Symphony in C one act ballets. Mariinsky Theater Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, and performed by the St. Petersburg Theater of Classical Ballet.
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