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Innovative arts festival set for Oct. and Nov. in HK
HONG KONG, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The New Vision Arts Festival featuring innovative music, dance, theate...
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Loading Zone Reloaded
The Loading Zone opened for the Who at the Fillmore on the band's first American tour, hung out with Janis Joplin and the Dead, and toured with Jeff Beck. Founded by Richmond-raised organist/vocalist Paul Fauerso in 1965, the rock 'n' rhythm combo was a regular part of Bill Graham's retinue of acts.
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Scarlett Johansson Has Plans for Second Album
Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson is planning a follow-up to her first music record, just months after its release.
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ARCHIVE SEARCH
Home invaders keep invading, citizens fight blight, and a leopard-skin smuggler can't change his spots. AC Transit board members. How his Another Planet Entertainment beat the competition to host the epic Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival.
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Music Review: Fear Falls Burning - Frenzy of the Absolute
A beautiful drone record that deserves patience and imagination from its listener. With the lingering tone of a single sustained guitar chord, Fear Falls Burning opens up a world of sound that is improbably consoling and petrifying at once. Launched in the bitter winter of 2005 as a channel for vidnaObmana’s love of post-rock music, the solo act was forged in the sludge of drone music and rose ...
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The Reinvention of Kirsten Dunst
A few weeks ago, at a party for the second Chelsea location of 303 Gallery, a crowd of downtown creative types milled around, outfitted in ’80s Ray Bans and indie rock T-shirts. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore was the guest DJ, and the Virgins, a New York band of perfectly disheveled young men whose songs have been featured on Gossip Girl , performed onstage next to a pile of rubble. (The ...
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Why Internet Radio Rocks For Classical Music
"When I go to a recordings store these days I find myself going through the motions. My eye drifts nervously up to the clock as I calculate what time it is at various radio stations across the globe, plotting my next date with the live concerts on my computer.
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IOC pressing organizers to improve some Olympic crowds
BEIJING - After the first few days of the Beijing Games, some cracks have appeared in China's perfect party - empty seats at the venues, disappointing crowds at the Olympic grounds, ticket scalping, a lack of buzz around the city and even official acknowledgment of trickery during the opening ceremony.
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Songs in the key of strife: Could protest songs be making a comeback?
Jamie Laurie, one of two frontmen for the suddenly successful alt-rock/rap outfit Flobots, is onstage at a crammed Pontiac Garage, the smaller room at the House of Blues, explaining his choice of neckwear: an American flag.
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ism Week: Day 3
Alternative rockers ism's great new sophomore album 'Urgency,' just hit stores last week and to celebrate the release we asked frontman Andre Mistier to tell us a little about his five favorite tracks. Andre went well beyond the call of duty! So let's cut this intro short and let Andre tell you about today's song
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Tumultuous applause for Leese says it all
The Glenroy Auditorium was full last night for Chamber Music New Zealand's recital by London-based New Zealand soprano Anna Leese and Dunedin pianist Terence Dennis.
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Director: Child singing star was a fake
BEIJING: The little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, the show's musical director has revealed.
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Joss Stone to record Barack Obama campaign song
British soul singer Joss Stone is recording a song for US democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, it has been claimed.
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Brew Ha Ha: Drinking Beer for a Good Cause
For those beer lovers tired of all these wine tasting events, your time has finally come! A couple weekends ago, the Pine Meadows Lawn of the Autry National Center was the site of the first annual Brew Ha Ha . A few dozen microbreweries and brewpubs represented at the beer tasting festival, and some great catering was provided to soak up all the beer. Live entertainment was provided by Bill ...
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Mass Gymnastic Display "May Country Prosper" Presented
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- The mass gymnastic display "May Country Prosper" produced on the occasion of the 60th founding anniversary of the DPRK was presented at the May Day Stadium here on Tuesday.
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Doctor: Soul singer Hayes died from stroke
Los Angeles - Soul music legend Isaac Hayes died from a stroke while exercising on his treadmill, according to a doctor's report quoted Tuesday by police in Memphis, Tennessee. No post mortem examination was conducted on Hayes, but in paperwork filed...
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Britney in MTV ads, but not confirmed for VMAs
NEW YORK (AP) - Britney Spears may get a shot at redemption during this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
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Nene Katey Ocansey I dies at US home
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — American funk-soul legend and Academy Award-award winning musician Isaac Hayes was found dead Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, officials said. He was 65.
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B.C. music festival that attracted 40,000 fans may need new venue
B.C.'s Agricultural Land Commission says the Pemberton music festival, which drew about 40,000 people to the area, is inappropriate for prime farmland and promoters should find a new venue if they want to repeat the event next year.
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Hi-Fi's celebrate 50 years with fundraiser concert
East Cessnock Bowling Club will host the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Cessnock Volunteer Support Group's latest fundraising venture – a rock 'n' roll spectacular showcasing the 50th birthday celebrations for popular band The Hi-Fi’s.
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Reg Lindsay's life will live on in song
Tributes flowed in following the death of Reg Lindsay, a true legend and pioneer of country music, both in Australia and the U.S. Reg passed away in Belmont Hospital at 11am on August 5 after a long illness.
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Peace at Asogli should spread for peaceful elections - Agbogbomefia
Ho, Aug.10, GNA - Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli Traditional Area on Saturday, prayed that the peace and tranquillity prevailing in the traditional area should extend to the rest of the country for peaceful elections on December 7. He noted that since his installation five years ago, there had been absolute peace in the area and all activities had been undertaken in tranquillity.
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Swedish princess to visit New Zealand
Princess Birgitta of Sweden will be visiting Auckland for a week in October as patron of Swedish Style New Zealand. Chairman of the local organising committee Stig Ehnbom said they were honoured such a high ranking member of the Swedish royal family was patron.
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People: John Prescott, Alfred Molina, Will Young
John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister, paused from recounting his bitterness at press inaccuracy to disclose to the Book Festival that the Croquet Association had recently presented him with a mallet in gratitude for raising the profile of the game.
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