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NEWQUAY, UNITED KINGDOM - A wakeboarder practices in the waves off Fistral Beach, Newquay on August 4 2008 in Cornwall, England. The seaside resort town, famed for its good surf, is playing host to the Rip Curl Boardmasters 2008 surfing festival. Tiscali
Music Notes: the Golden Hornet Project, Bun B, David Byrne & More
David Byrne is kicking off the "David Byrne, Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno" tour in early September, and he's scheduled to do a show at the Paramount here in Austin on Sept. 25th in addition to his headlining performance at the ACL Fest. As of now, you can sample his new record, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today on on his Web site . No word on ticket sales for the ... Austinist
'High School Musical' recap: Teens get to be in HSM 3 movie
After two weeks of auditions, the final twelve are finally heading to the High School Musical campus to work their way to stardom. Portsmouth Herald
Music Review: Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer's first album was historically important and very loud. Blue Cheer was named after a pure strand of LSD. Dickey Peterson (bass and vocals), Leigh Stephens (guitar), and Paul Whaley (drums) were average musicians and fair songwriters, but they had a vision that would lead to a far different type of rock music than was being produced in the late 1960s. They were a quintessential power ... Blogcritics.org
Music Review: Keith Anderson's new CD
Keith Anderson, "C'Mon!" (Columbia Nashville) AP via Yahoo! News
Fiddlers, fans gather at North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in St. John's, N.L.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - For New Brunswick fiddler Ivan Hicks, the bow is as important to his music as his violin, if not more so. "What gets the music to the violin? It's the bow," Hicks says. Brandon Sun
Condoleeza Rice talks music in Aspen
ASPEN — Saturday's lesson for Aspen Music School students might have been this: Don't despair if you’re not a prodigy; there still is time to be secretary of state. Vail Daily
Not just Sox
I began my trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame earlier this spring with three good friends, departing from Attleboro accompanied by good conversation and music (Steely Dan, Beatles, Moody Blues), ready to see and in some instances, relive history. Stoughton Journal
Music Review: Singer Lloyd's New CD Falls Short
Lloyd, "Lessons In Love" (Universal Motown) CBS News
Fiddlers, fans gather at North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in St. John's, N.L.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - For New Brunswick fiddler Ivan Hicks, the bow is as important to his music as his violin, if not more so. Jam! Showbiz
Weekly Music Agenda
Exit Clov. Photo by Mehan Jayasuriya. MONDAY They're alums of both Unbuckled and Three Two Stars . Yessir, they don't come any more DCist-approved than Deleted Scenes . At the Black Cat's Backstage with the Never and the Bee Team , $8, 9 p.m. Nothing says summer like sitting in the grass at Fort Reno . And even if you're not into Exit Clov (pictured)-- who we ... DCist
Despite losses, 'family' ties remain strong
Some friendships are meant to last a lifetime. If you don't believe that, ask Rick Derer, Bobb Nagel, Dave Woody, Jack Morris and Greg Baum. Or, as they call themselves, The Family. These five men, along with their late friends Rick Boss and Rick Columbo, graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in 1970. Since then, in spite of the fact that they attended colleges across the country, they all ... The Doings Oak Brook
UOMO Media's Tricky Stewart Produces LL Cool J Hit Track "Baby"
UOMO Media Inc. (OTCBB:UOMO), a multi-channel entertainment and media company, is proud to announce Tricky Stewart produced LL Cool J's latest single "Baby" featuring The-Dream. The song appears on LL Cool J's thirteenth and final Def Jam album, "Exit 13." Centre Daily Times
Roberto Sierra to compose inaugural Sphinx commission for 12 orchestras
Composer Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell, has been selected to compose the inaugural work for the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium. Cornell News Service
After Saawariya, Monty Sharma is a busy bee
Monty Sharma, the composer who made it big with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya , has joined the league of successful music directors and is scoring music for 21 films. Hindustan Times
Midday Update
We have new dates for Bassnectar , Avril Lavigne , Ben Kweller and Ozomatli , plus links to items about Warner Music Group's tough day on Wall Street, Sony's agreement to keep Louis Vuitton apparel out of the label's music videos, Social.fm going belly-up, Condoleezza Rice's Aspen piano performance, looking back to when 2 Live Crew were scandalous, and meeting up with the real Jack Nasty. POLLSTAR
Music Reviews: Journey, Kansas, Oxygene8, Sugar's Cane, Three Miles Out, Your Highness Electric, Straight Line Stich, ...
Pomp, prog, a little modern rock with a reggae kicker. What else you want? Well this week's or rather last week's column is rather late. I have already gotten emails concerned for my welfare. I was off in DC for a week sniffing around for a possible position there and seeing some friends. Needless to say, I had my various digital music reproduction devices with me and I was listening to a whole ... Blogcritics.org
Songbird MacNeil came under RCMP lens in '70s spying on women's groups
RCMP spies infiltrated the women's movement in the early 1970s, monitoring marches and rallies to keep an eye on feminists including Rita MacNeil, who would become a much-admired Maritime songstress. Times & Transcript
SAfrica's Zuma in court for graft trial
South Africa's ruling party head Jacob Zuma entered the dock Monday for a long-awaited graft trial which could make or break his chances to become the country's president next year. TurkishPress.com
New Service Offers Free Marketing Analysis for Black Authors
Austin, TX (BlackNews.com) - For years, African-American Authors have struggled to survive in their craft with an alarming number of black book stores closing across the country. BlackNews.com
Live, Collective Soul rock RiverPlace
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Watch Billy Currington's music video CMT Insider News Now - 8.4.08 - Billy Currington for free on CMT.com cmt.com
Around Broadneck:
Ever stop to wonder how many musical, artistic, imaginative creative people live on the Broadneck Peninsula? Broadneck High School teen musicians frequently win awards for their marching band and many homes are filled with head-turning masterworks created by local artists. The Capital
White Christmas Will Make Broadway Debut in November, Playing to Early 2009
Snow is expected on Broadway this fall. Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the stage musical packaged by a Broadway creative team since 2004 for such major markets as Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto and San Francisco, will make its Broadway debut this fall, producer Kevin McCollum announced Aug. 4. Playbill
Review: 'Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
THE SHOW "Johnny Cash: Newsday