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News roundup
Hi everyone, Korina Lopez reporting. Here's your daily evening dose of music news: - Goldfrapp is getting ready to go on tour, which includes a stop at Radio City Music Hall. - Battle of the video games: Rock Band and...
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CSNY: music and the war
During the Vietnam War, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young created some of the best protest songs of that era, including "Ohio" and "For What It's Worth.
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Mercury Music Prize - sing when you're winning
Perhaps the toughest choice for an award-winner is who to thank. For a jury-based prize like the Mercury, you have a clearly defined group to nod to, while with popular votes victors can bow to fans who took time to email, text or phone. Beyond that, you have the decision of how far to include family, mentors and the people behind Pro Tools who allow you sing in tune.
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Mercury barometer: the stars on what the award did for them
Talvin Singh ('Ok' - Winner 1999 ) People got to know my music that had never heard it before, so that is a positive point, and the Mercury Prize can stretch your career in that way, but I've never really taken much advantage of that because I've been on a bit of sabbatical from recording for the past few years. When I won you couldn't get my records for four months because the record company ...
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Miley writes
Miley Cyrus grows up and away from Hannah Montana and flexes her songwriting skills.
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Nelly - It's called adult entertainment
Nelly is one of the most loved and loathed rappers in America. For his lady fans, the multi-platinum-selling star ticks all the right boxes: there's the unnerving sexiness, courtesy of the bulging tattoos and the well-earned torso he frequently flaunts. Then there's his songs, some deliciously poppy and others tailor made for the strip-club, like smash hit "Hot in Herre".
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A higher calling: Why Bill Drummond swapped rave for choir practice
This is about a choir... A choir that has existed inside my head for almost a score of years. About how the voices of this choir torment and inflame my imagination. How they provide my internal soundscapes with some of the most beautiful and terrifying music I have ever heard. And how over these past few months I've been dragging this choir out of my head and into some sort of shared reality ...
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Rapper Lil Wayne sued for Stones copyright breach
NEW YORK - A MUSICAL publishing company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones' song Play With Fire sued United States rapper Lil Wayne on Thursday, saying he released an altered version of the song without permission.
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Monkey: Journey to the West, Royal Opera House, London
It's not often that London has to wait this long to witness a show as renowned and spectacular as Monkey: Journey to the West, and the delay seems all the more surprising given that composer Damon Albarn has the city in his blood, and that it's home to his co-creator Jamie Hewlett, too.
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Entertainment
British actor and comedian Russell Brand has been named as the host for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on September 7. Brand recently co-starred in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the Reese Witherspoon-produced fairytale Penelope.
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Courtney Love sued by management firm
Rock-star widow Courtney Love has been sued by a management firm for allegedly failing to pay commissions for the partial sale of her share of the Nirvana publishing catalogue.
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You write the reviews: Sinead O'Connor, Sage, Gateshead
In the impressive setting of the Sage music centre in Gateshead, Sinead O'Connor enthralled the audience at this show with the power and passion of her voice. This was a rare UK performance from the Irish singer as part of a summer tour of European venues, accompanied only by the acoustic guitarist Steve Cooney and the keyboard player Kieran Kiely.
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City Watch
THE St George Girls School Ex-Pupils Association, Federal Territory and Selangor is organising a fund-raising sale of costume jewellery handcrafted by Pamela Ong at Function Room 7 & 8, Convention Centre Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel tomorrow from 2.45pm to 9pm and Sunday between 11am and 9pm.
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Lil Wayne sued over Rolling Stones song
A musical publishing company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones' song Play With Fire has sued US rapper Lil Wayne, saying he released an altered version of the song without permission.
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Highlands Fest set for night of nostalgia with Chubby Checker
ABINGDON, Va. — The Virginia Highlands Festival is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a Free Street Party featuring Chubby Checker & The Wildcats Saturday on Main Street.
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Robinella, Clark light up MOTS
It’s a Knoxville night in downtown Jonesborough as folk/bluegrass singer Jay Clark will open Music on the Square for Robinella today at 7 p.m. Labeled as a jazz-country hybrid, Robinella is the band of singer Robin Ella Contreras.
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Andy Burnham: In a lawless zone, we must protect the vulnerable
Young people – and today I am addressing 300 of them at the European Youth Parliament in Liverpool – might think this a contentious statement: I believe we should pay for music. I don't mean pay through the nose, as we did from the 1970s through to the 1990s, but the principle must be that we should pay something.
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Terence Blacker: Why are doctors so oddly thin-skinned?
There will be more grumpiness than usual this week in doctors' surgeries across the country. GPs, already wearied by the demands of anxious, needy members of the public, have another reason for discontent. They are not, as a profession, trusted quite as much as they feel they should be. Under a new scheme, they are to be appraised, of all humiliating things, once a year. Worse still, there will ...
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UK ISPs Agree To Help Tackle Music Piracy
The BPI (who represent the Britsh music industry) have agreed on a plan with six leading UK ISPs , which will lead to thousands of net users suspected of illegally sharing music receiving warning letters. The six ISPs who have agreed to co-operate are BT, Orange, Virgin, Tiscali, BSkyB and The Carphone Warehouse. Customers of those ISPs who are alleged of sharing music illegally by the BPI can ...
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Hugh Mendl: Producer at Decca Records
In the history of British popular music, the record producer Hugh Mendl's name deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as George Martin's. Although more of an old-fashioned artists and repertoire man than a studio wizard, Mendl was, among many achievements, responsible for Lonnie Donegan's Decca recording of "Rock Island Line", without which the Beatles-to-be and many other future legends ...
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Making the most of summer
STAY out of the sun? No way; not for the Mat Salleh who love summertime. Free concerts, al fresco dining all over the place and ice-cream truck Mister Softee look more inviting these days.
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The R-C Morning Report
There's a free concert tonight of the Continental Worship Band 6:30 p.m. at the new First Baptist Church of Minden-Gardnerville. This sounds like an opportunity for the curious to take a look at the new church and enjoy some music at the same time.
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson, Coleman Hawkins and John Patton
It might strike some as odd that a jazz standard bearer like Wynton Marsalis would team up with a country legend like Willie Nelson, but the charming results achieved on "Two Men with the Blues" (3 stars, Blue Note), taped live at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2007, prove it's not really that far-fetched.
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MUSIC REVIEWS: Pop, country/roots, jazz and classical releases
"Man, we make our own movies," Craig Finn sings in "Slapped Actress," the nod to filmmaker John Cassavetes that comes just before the house lights go on at the close of "Stay Positive," the fourth album by the Brooklyn-based bar band par excellence.
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MUSIC REVIEW: Beck detours into dystopia with Danger Mouse
Beck, "Modern Guilt" - By the time of "Sea Change" it was clear, by now it's just plain obvious: Beck is impervious to production. No matter who he selects to enhance his surroundings - it's been the Dust Brothers, it's been Nigel Godrich, now it's Gnarls Barkley mastermind and mash-up master Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton) - the coats of paint slapped on Mr. Hansen's creations only amount to so ...
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