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Aimee Mann, Musician
In June of this year singer/songwriter Aimee Mann released her sixth solo album, called @#%&*! Smilers ; in August she played two sold out shows in New York, as well as a free show at Barnes & Noble. At the end of that week she told us about a quintessential New York moment she had that started at the latter show and ended at the rooftop of the Hotel Chelsea, as well as how to pronounce ...
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ARTISTdirect Launches Lyrics Site
Santa Monica-based ARTISTdirect, Inc., a provider of music and entertainment news, said today that it has inked two licensing deals on music lyrics. According to ARTISTdirect, it will provide lyrics to popular songs from EMI Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group, which will allow the firm to add a new lyrics section to its site. Financial details of the licenses were not ...
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Casting company expands in area
Boston Casting, the region’s largest casting company, recently announced plans to open a satellite Media Performance Institute in Middleboro at The Burt Wood School of Performing Arts.
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Olympic Terror Clampdown Targets Beijing Uighurs After Attacks
Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The 31-year-old musician knew something had changed when two Beijing policemen kept coming to his apartment. The first two times they asked the ethnic Uighur, who was born in the far western province of Xinjiang, to fill out the same registration forms.
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Weekend Box Office
UPDATED: 08 :44 a.m. EDT, August 18, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes an Akron Blackstockings player. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
The Plain Dealer |
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Outdoor brass concert ideal in garden setting
UNION TOWNSHIP -- Five members of the Northwest Indiana Symphony renewed an American tradition of outdoor brass concerts for more than 120 music lovers at Taltree Arboretum and Gardens on Sunday in Valparaiso.
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The Jazz Session #38: Aaron Parks
Jason Crane interviews pianist and composer Aaron Parks. Parks is 24 years oldand he started college 11 years ago. A child prodigy who entered the University of Washington at age 13 as a triple major in math, computer science and music, Parks quickly found that music was his true calling.
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Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug
Pandora, one of the Internet's most popular streaming radio stations, may have to close its doors due to significant royalty payments owed to the music industry. One more last-ditch effort could save the day, but even Pandora's founder isn't optimistic. Read More...
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UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup
There was talk in the Godolphin barn about running Music Note against the boys in next weekend's Travers Stakes rather than in Saturday's $600,000 Alabama. Her dominating size and strength, the theory had it, would make her tough in any company.Perhaps trainer Saeed bin Suroor should have saved Music Note for the Travers because she never could get past the diminutive but determined Proud Spell ...
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Celebrate Morganton’s history
MORGANTON – The 27th annual Historic Morganton Festival is coming up Sept. 5-6, with more than a mile of crafts and vendors, live music, rides for kids and a variety of other activities throughout eight city blocks in downtown. Hours are 3-11 p.m. Sept. 5 and 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Sept. 6.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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First Bytes: Pandora, U2, F.C.C., TechCrunch vs. Demo
- Pandora, the popular online music service, is drowning under the weight of the royalty fees it must pay to music rights-holders. [WP ]- Several new U2 tunes have made their way to the web.
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Islamists want Lavigne concert canceled; on-stage moves 'too sexy'
Malaysia's Islamic opposition party has urged the government to cancel a concert by Avril Lavigne, saying the Canadian singer's on-stage moves are "too sexy," an official said today.
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Iran denies De Burgh live concert
Authorities in Iran deny that singer Chris de Burgh is to play a live concert in Tehran, an Iranian news agency says.
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Barbara Schultz
UPDATED: 08 :29 a.m. EDT, August 18, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes an Akron Blackstockings player. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
The Plain Dealer |
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In pictures: V Festival 2008
Muse, Girls Aloud and Amy Winehouse are among the acts at the V Festival at Staffordshire and Essex.
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Song, fun put 72nd county fair in books
The 72nd Monterey County Fair closed Sunday after two nights of celebrity country music and impressive prices at the livestock auction.
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In pictures
Muse, Girls Aloud and Duffy at the 2008 V Festival
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Ten Best Bluetooth Stereo Headphones
A2DP ahoy! The first Bluetooth headsets were simple mono devices, designed to sit in one ear as you took a call on your mobile phone. However, as handsets has developed into sophisticated entertainment devices that can play music and video, so headsets have started to develop too.…
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Big Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know About the Miracle of Exercise: Bob Livingstone Reveals Medication Alternative in ...
The statistics are alarming. The sale of antidepressant drugs has skyrocketed in recent years. Late-night television ads are provoking you to ask your physician for the latest pill to pull you out of the doldrums.
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Body found outside Macon music store
Authorities are investigating the discovery of a dead body this morning near I-475.
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Paso Robles to host Olive Festival Saturday
The olive oil ice cream is free for all who dare lick it at Saturday's Olive Festival in Paso Robles.
The Salinas Californian |
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Nigeria: With My Dream 2008, We're Setting a Brighter Future for Country Youths - SECHI BOS
As music lovers today shuffle their feet and shake their heads to the reality songs of Original Stereoman, Ekwe, a young lad who has risen in fame with his e dey pain me song, chronicling the struggles and living conditions of people of Niger Delta, many may have not heard of the man that discovered him.
AllAfrica.com |
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NEIGHBORHOODS
Caitlin McSherry, an award-winning fiddler and member of the Monterey Symphony, will perform a free concert on Friday in the Rotunda at City Hall, 200 Lincoln Ave.
The Salinas Californian |
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The Verve - Verve Dispel Rift Rumours With United Show
LATEST: Reunited British rockers THE VERVE hit back at reports of a rift within the band - by playing a sensational headlining set to close a U.K. music festival. Last ...
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Music Review: Peter Bradley Adams - Leavetaking
Former eastmountainsouth troubadour delivers a strongly compelling second solo album. Peter Bradley Adams began his singer-songwriter career as one half of eastmountainsouth, whose critically acclaimed album hovered in genres spanning Americana, alt-country, Appalachin folk and mainstream pop. The duo shared both lead vocals and songwriting responsibilities. So it was an intriguing prospect ...
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