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Boulder Beer's 5th annual Goatshed Revival
What happens when you mix goats, craft beer, rock and roll, bean bags and all-terrain tricycles? You end up with Boulder Beer’s 5th annual Goatshed Revival, happening August 23 from 12 to 7 p.m.
Colorado Daily
United front for The Verve at V
Reunited rock band The Verve close the V Festival, despite rumours of rifts within the band.
BBC News
Lyric Culture: Wear the words
Online music thieves can't interfere with the hundreds of songwriters Hanna Rochelle Schmieder has on her payroll. Her company, Lyric Culture, prints famous song lyrics on high-end jeans and T-shirts -- and pays artists for the privilege.
Colorado Daily
Crowd swings into city for jazz weekend
There are two big reasons people come to the Dubbo Jazz Festival - the music and the people.
Daily Liberal
Homebake sells out in 10 minutes
Sydney's all-Australian music festival sells out in record time over the internet.
Sydney Morning Herald
Students get into the swing of things
Students from the St John’s College Big Band got an early taste of the Dubbo Jazz Festival yesterday, workshopping with the Sydney Secondary College Jazz Orchestra in preparation for tonight’s Big Band Concert as part of the annual festival.
Daily Liberal
Atl Blog: Fantasia Teams Up With Rocky City For New Album! Plus, Jermaine Dupri, Ryan Cameron, Big Boi & Chilli Come ...
American Idol winner, as well as platinum artist, Fantasia Barrino is hard at work on her new album here in the ATL. And SOHH Atlanta has exclusively learned all the details. Check it out below.
SOHH.com
Tap dancers display fine chemistry with jazz band
Angst? Malaise? How about suicidal depression? Don't count on finding these somber sisters at a jazz and tap dance concert -- especially not at the Jersey Shore, in August.
The Star-Ledger
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North Wildwood’s very popular “Concert Under The Stars” concert series continues with live music that includes genres from beach party, oldies, classic rock, and more.
Cape May County Herald
Browns are ready for prime time
BEREA:On Saturday, Browns coach Romeo Crennel cited a couple of instances of overexuberance in practice. And he wasn't referring to quarterback Derek Anderson dancing a jig to Alabama's Mountain Music or linebacker David McMillan copying Michael Jackson's Thriller routine as Crennel used music to simulate crowd noise.
Akron Beacon Journal
Volunteers prep for another successful Terryville fair
PLYMOUTH - Preparations are in full swing for the town's biggest event of the year - the 60th annual Terryville Country Fair.
The Bristol Press
Ore City Teen Wins Texas Country Music Hall Of Fame
The annual Texas Country Music Hall Of Fame competition took place Saturday night in Carthage and a teenager came out on top. 
KLTV 7 Tyler
Proud Spell edges Music Note in Alabama Stakes
Proud Spell got the best of 2-5 favorite Music Note to capture Saturday's $600,000 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. The two fillies are considered two of this year's best three-year-old females in training. Proud Spell, ridden by Gabriel Saez, broke well from the gate and joined Little Belle, Music Note's entry-mate, on the lead. On the clubhouse turn Little Belle assumed the lead with Proud Spell ...
Lexington Herald-Leader
Rolling Stones - Stones Music Revives Man In A Coma
The ROLLING STONES have been hailed unlikely life-savers after waking a British fan from a coma. Sam Carter lost consciousness after contracting severe anaemia but came ...
ContactMusic
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NORVILISKES, LITHUANIA - A music fan enjoys a mud bath during the second international musical festival Be2gether on August 17, 2008 in Norviliskes.
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The Vinyl Record Resurgence
"According to the Recording Industry Assn., shipments of vinyl soared 36.6% from 2006 to 2007. That amounts to 1.3 million units nationwide. While the numbers are minuscule compared to CD shipments of 511 million for 2007, the news is much-welcomed by a faltering music industry."
Arts Journal
Music That Morphs From Sounds
"A new piece commissioned by the BBC from Jonathan Harvey will give the power of speech to an oboe, violins, a cello, and even an entire orchestra.
Arts Journal
A Moveable Finnish Feast
The Mostly Mozart Festival is celebrating Finland: Two conductors, three soloists, and one composer took up residency on the Upper West Side in a moveable feast of musical events showcasing the nation currently most dedicated per capita to the cause of our beloved art form. On Saturday evening, Osmo Vänskä, who moved to Minneapolis in order to feel that he had stayed home on the Baltic, led the ...
The New York Sun
Their Gig, Their Glory
SALZBURG, Austria — The Vienna Philharmonic is hard at work, as it usually is at the Salzburg Festival. This is their summer home — their gig, their glory. Late last week, they played programs of Bartók and Brahms. Those programs give us plenty to chew on. This is something of a Bartók summer here in Salzburg. About a dozen of that composer's works are sprinkled throughout the festival, ...
The New York Sun
Saariaho's Take on 'Simone'
The oratorio "La Passion de Simone," performed last week at the Rose Theater, had as its sole props a writing desk and a richly burnished, framed door. While the audience was being seated, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra filtered in among dozens of chairs and music stands, and those spare devices seemed a mite inconsequential. But director Peter Sellars hadn't left any tricks up his ...
The New York Sun
Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee tells 'Barrio' story
The recording studio of Daddy Yankee is in a modest house that looks just like any other in Carolina, a town on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, that is home to the reggaeton movement. Inside, it's a different story.
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Musical interludes
So, the boys are trying out string instruments this year. Wesley's taking up the cello and William will attempt to play the viola. We picked up their instruments from the local strings shop last night and the music has begun. Of course, it sounds more like caterwauling. The boys are immune to my suggestions. They are sure they know what they are doing. All I know is that it sounds like brakes ...
Journal & Courier
CARLSBAD: 'Dog Squad' marks its 100th rescue
CARLSBAD ---- The Dog Squad, a Carlsbad nonprofit organization that rescues dogs from animal shelters, recently celebrated two milestones, organizers said: The group's first anniversary and the rescue of its 100th canine. The group was founded in Aug
North County Times
Bono blamed for unreleased U2 songs on Internet
U2 front man Bono reportedly caught playing new songs too loudly on his stereo, allowing a passerby to copy and post the music on the Internet.
CNET
The Genius of Jeff Healey
Any discussion of blind idols in the movies would probably start with the comic book hero "Daredevil," move to the fictional Frank Slade (portrayed to Oscar-winning effect by Al Pacino) in "Scent of a Woman," and arrive at the very real Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx, also an Oscar winner for the role) in "Ray." But to me, the greatest of them all was the real-life guitarist and trumpeter Jeff Healey ...
The New York Sun
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