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Freeman's up, Grammer's out and Miller's man went back to his wife
Morgan Freeman is doing well after undergoing surgery Monday night to reconnect nerves and repair damage in his left arm and hand. ...
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"Harold and Maude" the musical at Cain Park's Alma Theatre: Tony Brown Plain Dealer review
"Mamma Mia!" is getting all the attention: There's a huge new movie musical based on the huge 2002 Broadway hit based on the hugely popular songs of Swedish supergroup ABBA , and the North American tour is now playing the huge State Theatre at Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare .
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www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent
Crowds lined the streets of Margate on Sunday to enjoy a carnival full of colour and music which brightened up a gloomy afternoon.
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Country stars to duet with Elvis on Christmas CD
NASHVILLE — Carrie Underwood wasn’t even born when Elvis Presley died in 1977. Nonetheless, through technological slight-of-hand, Underwood will sing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” with the king himself.
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LONDON (Reuters) - For Anglicans who still haven’t found what they’re looking for, the Church of England is staging its first "U2-charist" communion service -- replacing hymns with hit songs by the Irish supergroup.
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Music award nominations come the Yukon’s way
Yukoners could be seeing some hardware out of the Western Canadian Music Awards set for October.
Whitehorse Star Daily |
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Skating, music, Thursday nights
Oswego youths should have another place hang out Thursday nights tentatively beginning next week.
The Palladium-Times |
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New Release Tuesday: Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild (Vapor) The walls and lockers of punk rock's past are lined with magazine pull-out posters of Jonathan Richman. Why not? He was straight before McKay, made wit and snark a cornerstone of indie rock, and combined his enduring embodiment of the past into the future of rock effortlessly. At this point in his life -- a ...
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Call for Submissions: Austin Underground Film Festival
Image from AUFF site Austin may be the Live Music Capital of the World, but it’s known for more than just that. For years now, great filmmakers have been poking their heads out of the crowds and displaying a talent for visual storytelling that isn’t often seen this far away from the coasts. Why, we can barely walk down the street without crossing in front of a tiny DV camera and ...
Austinist |
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Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for $900M
(AP:LOS ANGELES) Sony Corp. said Tuesday it is buying Bertelsmann AG out of their 50-50 music venture Sony BMG for $900 million, giving it full ownership of a roster of artists including Alicia Keys and the increased ability to leverage music over an array of electronic devices.
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Paul McCartney's new love song for ... Heather Mills
Sir Paul McCartney has written an "emotional and powerful" love song for ex-wife Heather Mills.
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Benefit Concert Rocks to Help Deaf Child Hear
Help Me Hear Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to giving hearing restoration devices to impoverished deaf children, is putting on a benefit concert to raise funds to purchase a cochlear implant for a deaf child. "Help Me Hear the Music!" will take place on Friday, August 22 at The Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, MN.
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Motorola announces three new ROKR phones
Motorola has announced three new models to its ROKR lineup. The new additions include a candybar phone, a clamshell device, and a slider. As you can probably imagine since the phones are a part of the ROKR product line you can bet that music is a key part to the functionality of the new phones. The [...]
Geek.com |
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Music: Facts About Funerals' 'Love Songs & Funeral Homes'
Facts About Funerals alt-country songs are moody, down-tempo affairs that start lethargically but often stretch their legs into hearty rock 'n' roll waltzes.
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Conor Oberst Album Review
The Who: Conor Oberst is an indie rock darling and the face of Saddle Creek Records, the Omaha, Nebraska-based label that put the Cornhusker state on the music map.
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Country Singer Tim McGraw Wrangles $2 Million Copyright Suit
Country music legend Tim McGraw is wrangling with a $20 million lawsuit for allegedly lifting lyrical inspiration from a fellow cowboy, according to reports from tmz.com.
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In Beijing, ancient collides with modern
BEIJING -- The capital of the world's most populous country and the host of the 2008 Olympics is really two cities in one, and you'd better run at 100-meter-dash speed to catch a glimpse of old Beijing before it is lost beneath the glass towers and soupy haze of new Beijing.
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Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for $900M
Sony Corp. said Tuesday it is buying Bertelsmann AG out of their 50-50 music venture Sony BMG for $900 million, giving it full ownership of a roster of artists including Alicia Keys and the increased ability to leverage music over an array of electronic devices.
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Last Bytes: Yahoo, Apple, Delta, Rocketboom
-- Yahoo's vote-counter says it screwed up the proxy vote at the company's annual meeting. [All Things D ]-- Here's the full email from Apple chief executive Steve Jobs where he calls the MobileMe launch, "not up to Apple standards." [Ars Technica ]-- In good news for Apple, the company's iTunes music store remains the nation's top music retailer. [NPD Group ] -- Delta is rolling out broadband ...
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Indie Music Site CDBaby Gets Sold, Finally
CDBaby, one of the largest online sellers of music for indie bands, has finally been sold, to CD and DVD duplicator Disc Makers. The deal also includes CD Baby's online storefront and Web hosting service, HostBaby. The The Portland, Oregon-based company was launched in 1998, and over the last 10 years became a popular sales conduit for unsigned artists, who received $6 to $12 for each CD sold ...
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Music Review: Wired Desire - Barely Illegal
When Nazareth's own Dan McCafferty describes them as their best support band in 40 years - it's time to take notice. When someone with the hard rocking pedigree of Nazareth main man Dan McCafferty says, "This is the best support band we’ve had in forty years" you would be criminally insane not to sit up and take notice. I am really grateful that I did because within seconds of pressing play on ...
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Music Review: Art Blakey and the Giants of Jazz - Live at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
Art Blakey and the Giants of Jazz exemplify the term "supergroup" in their incredible 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival performance. Music critics and fans use the term “supergroup” to label bands formed by artists already famous in their own right. The word originated to describe rock bands such as Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Cream, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, the Traveling Wilburys, and the more ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Rapper signs deal with The Orchard
(AP:NEW YORK) Lil Jon, who was musical limbo after his longtime record label TVT Records went bankrupt earlier this year, has reached an agreement that frees him from his TVT obligations while entering into a new venture with digital entertainment company The Orchard, which is purchasing TVT's assets.
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INTERNATIONAL FOOD & CULTURAL FESTIVAL ON AUG. 16 A VINELAND STAY-CATION
Instead of taking an expensive vacation, take an inexpensive “stay-cation” right in downtown Vineland at the second annual International Food & Cultural Festival, to be held on Saturday, Aug. 16, from 3 to 8 p.m., on the 500 block of Landis Avenue, in Vineland.
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Music House plans annual barn sale
ACME -- The Music House Museum will hold its annual barn sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday at the museum. All proceeds will benefit the Music House Museum.
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