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Kid Rock To Play 'All Summer Long' At VMAs
Kid Rock is returning to the Video Music Awards for another hit performance _ and this time it doesn't involve a fistfight with Tommy Lee.
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Shine a Light
Synopsis: Director Martin Scorsese captures The Rolling Stones live in his first concert documentary since 1978's The Last Waltz . The music is culled from a two-night stand at New York City's Beacon Theater during Fall 2006. The performances are supplemented by pre-production footage and archival interviews throughout.
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Taking a long look back on life
Nostalgia keeps changing. The music, TV shows and junk food that leaves one generation misty-eyed are regarded by the next as quaint curiosities from a distant past, until they finally pass into that dead, hallowed realm known as history. That mist often forms a couple decades or so after high-school graduation, when youth is definitely over, never to return. Not only old pop-culture detritus, ...
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Another scorching Summer Sonic
Held simultaneously in Tokyo (well, Chiba's Makuhari Messe and Marine Stadium) and Osaka, Summer Sonic pulled a combined 190,000 music fans for a weekend of polite debauchery under a scorching sun on Aug. 9-10. The Tokyo leg kicked off in fine style. With 120,000 punters watching 107 acts from around the world, boredom was never going to be on the agenda, but opening the Dance Stage with lo-tech ...
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Feel Brazil: Asakusa Samba Carnival
Tokyo's Asakusa district, central to the capital's traditional shitamachi (downtown) area, will be filled with Brazilian rhythm on Aug. 30 for the 28th Asakusa Samba Carnival. The event, held annually since 1981 on the last Saturday of August, was launched to revitalize the town by an association of local stores, modeling carnivals in Brazil. The festival drew some 500,000 spectators last year, ...
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Boy, can he play guitar
Any devotee of the electric guitar soon comes to learn the names of those pioneering musicians who realized the instrument's potential: people like Charlie Christian, who first started overdriving his amps and incorporating distortion into his playing, or Jimi Hendrix, who took that concept to the nth degree, and also threw in feedback, phase shifting, wah-wah and backward effects. One of the ...
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Island Lake's Cornfest organizers expecting 800-900
Rain or shine the Island Lake Lions Club is planning loads of fun for its 49th Annual Cornfest, according to club president and event coordinator Roy Schnur.
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Herbie Hancock comes to Westhampton Beach
'Herbie Hancock is the quintessential border crosser," wrote Down Beat magazine, unofficial arbiter of all things jazz. And that was before he became just the second jazz artist in Grammy history to snag the album of the year prize.
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Lone Star Sounds
Summer is concert season -- and this week bring an especially hectic line-up of acts to the Metroplex. Listen to Preston Jones and Ryan Peterson as they talk about five concerts arriving in town, from the Motown-licious Boyz II Men to perennial faves Lyle Lovett and Dave Matthews. Segment One: Boyz II Men Mmmm, smooth multi-part harmonic goodness. Takes ya right back to the early '90s, ...
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Ex-NMH Member Plays Central Park to Stuffed Animals
Julian Koster, member of the Elephant 6 Collective, former member of the legendary Neutral Milk Hotel and current leader of The Music Tapes, will be playing in Central Park tonight to his two stuffed animals. An acorn will be your ticket in, and there are plenty of other instructions that should keep you busy up until show time, which is 10:46 p.m. (not a moment sooner). This is a rain date ...
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Chris Brown upset over leak of unfinished song
New Chris Brown music has been popping up on the Web — and the singer is not happy about it.
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friday, august 15
Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, and performed by the St. Petersburg Theater of Classical Ballet.
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Bay Area Summer Ending Music Fest
It's that time of the year to feel ... festive. At least musically; because so many big musical events are coming to the Bay Area the next couple of weeks. It's almost as if the music gods are trying to throw as much music at you before school starts, so no one will complain later.
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Vancouver's Royal Canadian Jazz and Music Happenings
Steve Winwood Classic rocker performs songs from his new album, Nine Months. River Rock Casino Resort, Richmond, Aug. 14, 8 pm, $69.50/89.50, 604-280-4444.
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rock, etc.
C.N.N./Info Cheshire Cat. 8 p.m. La Minor Urban folk. Griboyedov. 9 p.m. Klyaksa Rock. Fish Fabrique. 9:30 p.m. Mosty Pop rock. Jambala. 8 p.m. Pulya Rock.
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Jacques Loussier La Jolla Music Society SummerFest
Jacques Loussier's Two Musical Loves Bend, Blend in Unique Ways He calls himself the “grandfather of crossover music," and tomorrow, veteran French jazz pianist/composer Jacques Loussier presents his latest example, “Divertimento," at La Jolla Music Society SummerFest.
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Conducting: Next Stop the Jazz Maestro?
Celebs may try baton-waving coordination on TV's Maestro, but let's compare how jazz legends conduct themselves and their orchestras...
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Get Your Latino-Metal-House-Rock-Jazz Groove on in Bourgas UK
Is there anyone who is not participating in the Spirit of Burgas?
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News roundup
Some news you can use: - Gary Glitter, the disgraced former British rock star, has completed a 27-month stint in a Vietnamese jail for molesting two 11-year-old girls. Their families need not worry about Glitter returning to their village, he's...
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Fitch Affirms Warner Music Group's IDR at 'BB-'; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has affirmed the Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) and outstanding debt ratings on Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE:WMG) and its subsidiaries:
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SOULFUL BLOG: Cassie Tells All, Solange Performs With the People, Omarion Gets A Cut + New Music from Bobby V
Cassie popped up on my girl Angela Yee ’s Sirius Shade 45 Morning Show yesterday. I have links to the full interview below for all you Cassie stans (all two of you! j/k). She discusses the Ryan Leslie & Diddy rumors, her COMPLEX photoshoot and her nipple rings.
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Raceway wants vroom to grow
MOTOR racing facilities at Eastern Creek could be upgraded to world's best standards in a $93 million proposal from the raceway's operator that includes building a convention centre, music arenas and a concert bowl.
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Live Music
Joe Sharino The Joe Sharino Band is a mix of pop, rock, motown, funk, country, disco, r&b, jazz, Latin and swing from six decades. Thu., Aug. 14, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. For more information, call City of Mountain View Recreation Division at 650-903-6331 or visit www.mountainview.gov . Civic Center Plaza, Located outside City Hall on Civic Center Plaza, Mountain View
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LAist Interview: The Anders' of the Don’t Knock the Rock Film Festival
You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 , played at the Silent Movie Theater Thursday Night as a double-feature with DFW Punk, a like-minded feature about punk in the Ft. Worth/Dallas area of Texas. They were just two of the many great (and wildly varying) films playing at this year’s Don’t Knock the Rock film festival, curated by Allison Anders and her daughter, Tiffany ...
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Christian jazz group promises 'good-time music'
Pete Gonzales doesn’t like to say he plays smooth jazz.
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