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8/5/08 Cobrasnake Photos
Free OBEY prints and sets by Diabetic and Trouble Maker round out the night of support for the elitist candidate. Find the hottest concerts and festivals this summer in the LA Weekly's Summer Concert Guide.
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Disaster-relief benefit festival goes bust
Associated Press - August 5, 2008 9:14 PM ET CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) - A music festival designed to benefit victims of this year's natural disasters wound up with more bands than fans.
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Club Notes: The Break and Repair Method play FREE Wednesday
Don't forget to listen to Grammy Award winning blues singer/songwriter Keb' Mo' in KBCO Studio C on Wednesday, after 2 p.m. Listen to the session, 97.3, for your chance to get tickets to his show at Chautauqua Auditorium on Wednesday night.
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Treasury hires Morgan Stanley on Fannie, Freddie; Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for $900M
MORTGAGES
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Disaster-relief benefit festival goes bust
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) - A music festival designed to benefit victims of this year's natural disasters wound up with more bands than fans. The "Better Than A Dream" music festival began last Friday and ended Monday.
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Willie Nelson's Red Lodge concert still a go
Concert set for August 22
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Wine tasting to aid girls' program
A wine tasting 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday in Scottsdale will help benefit a program to help girls ages 8 to 11 increase their physical activity and improve their emotional health. The Second Sundays Wine Series is at the Terroir Wine Pub, 7011 N. Scottsdale Road. Each month's proceeds goes to benefit a different cause, organizers said.
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Judge mulls new trial in music downloading case vs. Brainerd woman
DULUTH -- A decision isn't expected until next month on whether a Brainerd woman convicted of pirating music files will get a new trial, but the federal judge who handled the case said he might have made a mistake
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Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for $900 mn
Sony Corp. said it is buying Bertelsmann AG out of their 50-50 music venture Sony BMG for $900 million.
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Rufus joins music greats in concert
The funk group Rufus has had many hits and more than its fair share of influence. With all that out of the way, the group can do what it loves most -- just play music.
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Google's Music Search in China Goes Live; Working With Music Labels
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched its free music search engine in China, in a sector which has seen its fair share of controversies. The users can search for songs by singer, song or album title on Google's search page and then download licensed music files for free...this will only be accessible to users in China. Some details to this effect were leaked earlier in the year. Back then, Universal ...
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ARTS & CULTURE
Abandoned as a baby at the Ospedale della Pietà in 18th-century Venice, a fair-haired, dark-eyed little girl grows up as a member of the figlie di coro, daughters of the choir: female foundlings trained to be musicians under the tutelage of the composer they call Don Vivaldi.
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Local Licks
Ed Reed , The Song Is You . The jazz singer who cut his teeth in San Quentin and Folsom prisons and released his first record at the age of 78 returns a year later with a sturdy sophomore album of smooth, romantic, crooner jazz.
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New-School Hero
Dwele, the Detroit singer-songwriter noted for his innovative fusion of old-school soul roots with elements of hip-hop, was all of two years old when Maze featuring Frankie Beverly released "Joy and Pain" in 1980. The anthem-like song has, however, been a staple of family gatherings for as long as Andwele Gardner can remember.
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Creative Reports Net Loss on Lower Music-Player Sales (Update1)
Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Creative Technology Ltd., the Singapore-based maker of accessories for Apple Inc.'s iPod, posted its biggest loss in nine quarters after sales of its music players declined.
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Bossier City National Night Out
Bossier City is also giving crime a going away party tonight. Local law enforcement were at First United Methodist in Bossier City enjoying National Night Out. The church celebrated with music, food and fun. The night out will last until 9pm tonight. .
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Performance Review: NOW Program 3
The closing program of the fifth annual New Original Works Festival (NOW) ended this weekend at REDCAT with a trio of works-in-progress. Composer Anne LeBaron with librettist Douglas Kearney , choreographer Rosanna Gamson and performance artist Kristina Wong presented excerpts from projects they’re currently working on in all their not-fully-edited, let’s try this, and ...
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ARCHIVE SEARCH
It was a crippling lack of productivity that led to the genesis of the Immersion Composition Society. Nicholas Dobson was writing, singing, and playing guitar about eight years ago with a band in Sonoma County.
East Bay Express |
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life
The music of Patti Smith slaps you in the face with its energy, audacity, and fearlessness.
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David Crosby - Crosby Nash Were Like A Married Couple
Rockers DAVID CROSBY and GRAHAM NASH insist super trio CROSBY, STILLS + NASH are still going because they've learned to respect each other over the years. The two ...
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Tooele County Fair deemed a success by organizers
The 2008 Tooele County Fair was a success for another year with traditional crowd favorites and new attractions. “I think it was a success,” said Misti Williams, one of the fair organizers and assistant director of Tooele County Parks and Recreation.
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Singing a story about real life characters
The Rotary Club of Armidale is holding a dinner-concert at the Armidale Bowling Club on Friday August 15 (6pm for 6.30).
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Shippensburg man wins $500,000 in stock market contest
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. Like in Monopoly, it was play money that the 254,000 contestants in the CNBC.com Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge used to buy and sell stocks and currencies, but the $500,000 that went to the winner of the 10-week contest was for real. In the end, it was not a stock broker or fund manager who prevailed, but a freelance musician and cancer survivor with a passion for golf who ...
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Puppies, Live Music, and Flying Toilet Paper Unite at McCarren Park Pool
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Librairies are turning a new leaf
As libraries across the country try to reach out to people more at ease using search engines than hunting along bookshelves, some institutions are chosing to stock some unconventional material.
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