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Six Seconds with: Jason Sudeikis
Kason Sudeikis first won us over as one half of the “A-Holes” (brilliantly paired with Kristen Wiig) on Saturday Night Live. Now, Jason, 32, is turning up everywhere from 30 Rock (his wife, Kay, is a writer for the show) to a role as a smarmy music exec in The Rocker, out Aug. 20. The Fairfax, Va.–born actor, who now calls the West Village home, has only lived in Manhattan for five years, ...
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Jessica Simpson performing in Akwesasne
Jessica Simpson will attempt to sing her way into the hearts of Akwesasne as the headlining act at a music festival later this summer. The Akwesasne Music Festival is scheduled to feature the fluffy songstress and pop rock band Smash Mouth at the Discount Concert Grounds in Hogansburg, New [...]
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Free Spirit: Sheryl Crow
On a balmy Wednesday night in Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow is standing on stage in all white-white jeans, white vest-and playing songs from her sixth studio album Detours to a crowd of 5,800 people at the outdoor theater at Griffith Park. While the band begins to strum the opening chords of her hit 1993 song “Leaving Las Vegas,” Sheryl says she wants to tell the crowd a little more about ...
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Trend: The New Romantics
AGYNESS DEYN & ALBERT HAMMOND JR. are the new KATE MOSS & JAMIE HINCE THE DUO: After splitting with her longtime boyfriend, Paddingtons guitarist Josh Hubbard, Vogue model Agyness, 25, stepped out with fellow East Villager Albert, 28, at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in June. Gene Jacket singer Agyness and solo artist Albert (his record ¿Cómo Te Llama? dropped a few weeks ago) can ...
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Rascal Flatts returns to the X
Hard-touring country act Rascal Flatts will return to the Xcel Energy Center Oct. 10, the trio's fourth show in the St. Paul venue since 2002.
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All are welcome; 4 Peaks headliner Everyone Orchestra is aptly named
Proclamation Whereas the 4 Peaks Music Festival, happening today and Saturday near Tumalo (see “If you go”), is a gathering of jam bands; and Whereas one of the core elements of the jam-band genre is jamming; and Whereas Webster’s dictionary defines “jam session” as “an informal gathering of musicians ... to play improvised music;” Now, Therefore, I, Ben Salmon, serving as the guy writing this ...
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Fairly frightening; Shock rocker Alice Cooper descends upon the Deschutes County Fair
It’s 6:45 a. m. on a Monday, and I am sitting glassy-eyed at my desk at The Bulletin. I’m not a morning person. Nor am I a coffee drinker. Actually, I feel a little woozy. At my desk at 6:45 on a Monday morning. It’s not my worst nightmare, but it’s close. I’m here because I’m waiting for a call from Alice Cooper, a founding father of shock rock and the inhabitant of quite a few nightmares ...
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Friends and traditions define annual festival
To many Oswegonians, Harborfest means traditions. Thus is the case with lifelong friends, John LaRock and Eric Grimshaw, who have turned their tradition into an annual event, enjoyed by hundreds of Harborfest boaters each July.
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Organized chaos; Local band El Dante is ready for its close-up
Most bands need — or need to hire — someone who’ll take care of all the off-stage stuff.Booking gigs. Setting up a Web site. Getting promo photos shot. Often, right-brained musicians aren’t great at that left-brained stuff.Take local funk-rock band El Dante, for example.
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The name's the thing; Conor Oberst releases his first solo album in 13 years
When America elects a president with a pre-teen child, folks talk about watching the kid grow up before our very eyes.So it is with indie-folk singer Conor Oberst, who’ll perform with his new Mystic Valley Band at Midtown Ballroom on Thursday (see “If you go”).The prolific native Nebraskan is only 28, yet he has more than a dozen albums in his discography, most under the alias Bright Eyes.
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'Sound of Music' daughter returns to Austria
Seventy years after fleeing the Nazis, a woman whose family was immortalized in "The Sound of Music" has returned to Austria to visit her former home.
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Keep On Keepin' On
Stuart Bauer The Flint Journal Blu Mykals (right) of Flint plays at the Keep On Keepin' On Afrikan American festival at Riverbank Park in downtown Flint on Friday afternoon. Listening are Ron Freitas (left) of Madison, Conn., who is visiting Mary Edwards (middle) of Flint.
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Rock titles drive revolution in games
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Record first-half sales of video and computer games got a big boost from Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" and Activision's "Guitar Hero III."
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Wolfgang Wagner opens last Bayreuth festival as chief
Wolfgang Wagner, longtime director of the renowned Bayreuth Festival, helped usher in the latest edition of the annual opera celebration in the eastern German city on Friday.
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Heritage Turnip Green Festival This Weekend In Easton
The show will go on for one east Texas town, gearing up for its annual Summer festival dedicated to turnip greens.
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Smartphone review: Motorola Q9c for Verizon
The Moto Q9m is reborn on Verizon as the Motorola Q9c. The Q9c leaves out access to the Verizon music store, but adds a GPS that works with VZ Navigator. The Moto is a CDMA phone with EVDO rev. ...
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The tradition continues: Fourth annual Tourney for Tim and Rockin’ for Roberts return to North Andover
Get your wiffleball bats ready and tune up your guitars, because the fourth annual Tourney for Tim and Rockin’ for Roberts is returning to North Andover on Aug. 9 at the North Andover Middle School, beginning at 8 a.m.
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Shuttle snarls mar Pemberton Festival opening
The first act at the Pemberton Music Festival hit the stage Friday afternoon but thousands of concert-goers who showed up Thursday night to pitch their tents spent the night stranded on an airport runway being used as a makeshift parking lot.
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Reuters Technology Summary
Rock titles drive revolution in games LOS ANGELES - Record first-half sales of video and computer games got a big boost from Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" and Activision's "Guitar Hero III." Previewed at the E3 game industry conference July 16-18 in Los Angeles, music game titles due by year's end promise to kick annual sales to new highs, among them Konami's new ...
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Rock titles drive revolution in games
By Steve Traiman
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'Sound of Music' daughter returns to Austria
Seventy years after fleeing the Nazis, a woman whose family was immortalized in "The Sound of Music" has returned to Austria to visit her former home.
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Meryl Streep keeps surprising viewers
MANILA, Philippines—Some viewers who have enjoyed Meryl Streep’s musical performance in “Mamma Mia” express surprise that the acclaimed actress has turned out to be such a good singer. How could she have pulled it off, they wonder? Did it take months of intensive voice lessons under a brilliant teacher?
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Biography
The Latin Giants of Jazz is one of the most exciting, colorful and authentic orchestras currently on the music scene. It is no surprise that blazing trumpets, swinging saxophones, blaring trombones, melodic vocals and an exciting percussion section comes from the alumni of Tito Puente's orchestra.
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Rolling Stones switch label to Universal
The legendary British rock band leaves EMI Group, signing a long-term deal with Vivendi SA's Universal Music.
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Bedford will honor its finest with music
The city of Bedford is hosting an all day event to honor police, firefighters, and rescue personnel. The Hometown Heroes Concert will be held at Liberty Lake Park from 11:00 AM until 9:00 PM Saturday, July 26th.
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