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Entertainment
With a back catalogue of 60 albums and more than 500 songs he composed, musician Reg Lindsay leaves behind a thriving Australian country music industry thanks to his groundbreaking work.
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Police Blotter
Man charged in incident MORGANTON - The N.C. Highway Patrol charged Dwight David Carter, 23, of 1877 Duckworth Circle with reckless driving and hit and run in relation to a Saturday night incident on Old N.C. 18. Trooper Brad Clark said Carter's vehicle was traveling north on the highway when he entered a curve too fast. Carter lost control and careened into a yard at approximately 2:15 a.m. ...
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Walk the Line into the Services Club
With the success of the Johnny Cash Movie Walk the Line, musicians Alan Bowles and Christina DeRoche have joined together to bring the show to life, by performing all over Australia.
Canowindra News |
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No Genre Is the New Genre
Are avant-garde music fans too apathetic for the field's own good? (And here I clearly don't mean you, Jim Altieri .) Audience passion for this music clearly must exist--you have to work to access it in real life, whether in concert or on recording, and then work some more (generally speaking) to access it intellectually and emotionally once the music is right there in front of you.
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Make Me A Maestro: Alex James goes to Baton Camp
How do you solve a problem like Von Karajan? The BBC thinks it has the answer. In a new music reality show, Maestro, eight celebrities – Jane Asher, Peter Snow, Goldie, Katie Derham, Alex James, Bradley Walsh, Sue Perkins and David Soul – will compete with each other to become a conductor, and display their new skills at a BBC Proms in the Park concert, in front of an audience of 30,000, and ...
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Wilson Dixon Rides Again, The Stand, Edinburgh Festival
Wilson Dixon, the alter ego of Australian comedian Jesse Griffin, is more of a good ol' boy than a Rhinestone cowboy in the canon of country music pastiche. His mellow, unruffled delivery of song and chat is both the strength and weakness of his show, as ultimately the lack of pitch and range make that country road look a little flat in places.
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Meat Loaf, Excel Centre, London
On the spectrum of humiliations that can befall a venerable rock act, this isn't quite as bad as being billed, like Spinal Tap, beneath a puppet show, but it's not far off. Meat Loaf appears tonight in an arena erected on Docklands riverside at the furthest reach of the British International Motor Show. His task: to provide an evening's diversion for a few thousand people wearing "I am the ...
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The DVD map of Britain: What we're watching and where we're watching it
* It seems Scottish cities have the same impeccable tastes as the Academy. Aside from London, Edinburgh and Glasgow are the biggest renters of No Country For Old Men and Juno, which won five Oscars between them at this year's Academy Awards. Glasgow is also the top renter, outside London, of George Clooney's Michael Clayton, which earned Tilda Swinton the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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Club gets permits for music, dance 08/06/08
GIBRALTAR — The Sunseekers now will be able to dance to the music at their boating club on Gibraltar Road.
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Clips for Aug. 6-8
Organizers are calling for local artists, poets, painters, dancers, singers, writers, sculptors, painters, performance artists, rock stars and
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Tokio Hotel Gush About VMA Nomination, 'Sexy' Rihanna, Jonas Brothers
Tokio Hotel gushed about their MTV Video Music Award nomination, Rihanna and the Jonas Brothers.
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Celebrities - Lawson wins NBC’s ‘Nashville Star’
NASHVILLE — A Texas mother of five is the new “Nashville Star.” Melissa Lawson beat fellow finalist Gabe Garcia on Monday night for the title on the country music reality series. Shawn Mayer came in third.
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New World Symphony delights Deer Valley with American theme
A combination like the backdrop of Deer Valley and Antonin Dvorak's America-celebrating "New World Symphony" sound like the perfect marriage and the
Park Record |
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Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for US$900 million
LOS ANGELES - Sony Corp. said Tuesday it is buying Bertelsmann AG out of their 50-50 music venture Sony BMG for US$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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Canoe hockey
To celebrate John Galt Day in Guelph, residents dig out their paddles and take to the river. Hillside has mellow moments and ones that rock as the festival wraps up Sunday at Guelph Lake.
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Bleeding hearts for hire
Park City may not be Nashville, but more out-of-town songwriters from the country scene are starting to find gigs in town.
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Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes Featured on Elvis Duets Album
Carrie Underwood and LeAnn Rimes weren't yet born when Elvis Presley died in 1977, but they're just two of the country artists who will be featured singing with the King on Elvis Presley Christmas Duets , a new album being created as a partnership between Elvis Presley Enterprises and Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
cmt.com |
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The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
BACK in the 1960s and 1970s, the hippie movement was in full swing — the expression of freedom of soul and mind was made through hippie clothes and music.
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Record Label Seeking an International Distribution Deal, Marketing, Promotion and Booking Agent Services for KG
Kgomotso Tsatsi: The voice of Lauryn Hill meets the soul of Alicia Keys. Hip Hop soul meets powerful R&B. This young singer sings songs of love, addiction and paradise.
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Ghost Tigers From Beyond: Tiger Army is coming, lock up your caskets
The word “psycho” conjures many images: psycho killer, psycho ex-girlfriend/boyfriend, psychosomatic, psychologist, psychosexual, any number of suffixes will bring about an exponentially larger number of thoughts. When you attach –billy to the prefix, the visuals shift to a highly stylized music genre, which is succinctly defined by the band Tiger Army. The trio made its stage debut in 1996, ...
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From Utah, With Love: Matt Lewis freestyle raps, loves alt-country and Alaska
Matt Lewis and his band live in Utah and they don’t have a problem with that. Some musicians might think of Provo, Utah as about the last place they’d want to call home base. Hell, some folks, buying perhaps a bit too deeply into Utah’s ultra-conservative reputation, might not even be aware that rock music is even allowed within the state – forever banned in some sort of sweeping Footlooseian ...
The Source Weekly |
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Entertainment: Sony buys Bertelsmann out of joint music business
Move could provide partner with financial firepower to buy all or part of BSkyB's controversial 17.9% stake in ITV
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Yahoo Sings Out With Music API
Yahoo opened a new API for developers, this time tapping their index of information about music and artists. read more
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Cook's debut album set for fall release
American Idol winner David Cook has teamed up with producer Rob Cavallo for his debut album, 19 Recordings/RCA Records said Tuesday. The record label said Cook's CD is due out this fall.Best known for his work with Green Day, Cavallo has also produced records for artists such as Kid Rock, Eric Clapton, My Chemical Romance and Goo Goo Dolls. He is also working with the Dave Matthews Band on an ...
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Rock Never Dies: The Pedaljets prove that sometimes it just needs a 20-year time-out
It's July 5, and Lawrence's Replay Lounge is packed. Veterans of the '80s underground are everywhere. One-time Lawrence singer-songwriter Lori Wray, back from Minneapolis and onstage with her old band, the Von Bulows, has just thrilled Shelle Rosenfeld, writer and former editor of The Note, by repr ...
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