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It's Ubuntu, Baby [Featured Desktop]
Reader Don Lelek shows off his Linux desktop: It's Hardy Heron running Conky, Awn, Conduit, Transmission, the global menu applet, music applet, Pidgin with the Facebook plug-in, and gnome-do. The...
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Music Review: Jake La Botz - Sing This To Yourself And Other Suggestions For A Personal Apocalypse
Jake La Botz's blues are the best medicine that money can buy. There's a big difference between feeling depressed and suffering from depression. If you're feeling depressed it's a temporary thing that you'll usually pull out of within a few days, after the effects of whatever it was that caused you to feel down wear off. Clinical depression, on the other hand, is a permanent condition that ...
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All-Star Fan Fest tonight in Troy
The New York-Penn League All-Star Fan Fest takes place in downtown Troy starting at 5 p.m. There will be great music, food and entertainment as well as a chance to meet the New York-Penn League All-Stars.
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Queen Latifah Announced as 2008 Honorary Chair of Urbanworld Film Festival Presented by BET Networks
The Urbanworld Film Festival presented by BET Networks, the largest international competitive festival of its kind, today announced that Academy Award-nominated actress Queen Latifah will serve as Honorary Chair of this year's festival.
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Tanglewood Leverages PermissionTV's Interactive Features to Bring Its Summer Concert Series to Life on the Web
Building on the initial success of the Boston Pops' online video initiative, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and PermissionTV, a leading online video platform provider, have expanded the interactive experience to showcase the Tanglewood summer concert series on the Web.
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McCain Sued for Using Browne Song
Senator McCain has been sued for using a popular rock star's song.
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Revived Coho Salmon Festival ready to go
This Benzie County community's National Coho Salmon Festival appeared at death's door a couple years ago, but a small group of residents resurrected the annual event and it's now going swimmingly.
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Organizers ready to celebrate: Labour Day
The Labour Day tradition in Grand Falls-Windsor will continue this year with three days of festivities.
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Record labels want bigger video game slice
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. record labels are seething that they aren't getting what they see as their fair share from popular music-based games like Guitar Hero, analysts say.
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Evolution of DRM: streaming services use unencrypted MP3s
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohman has found that two sites that stream ad-supported music simply send their users MP3s with minimal steps taken to obscure their content. Read More...
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Mud and music - It’s V 2008
Mud, music and miles of tailbacks – that about sums up this year’s V Festival. Today, as the last of the 85,000 or so revellers left Staffordshire’s Weston Park, local roads were brought to a standstill for hours.
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Top artists stage exhibit for benefit of singer Susan Fernandez
MANILA, Philippines – Some 40 of the Philippines' top artists opened a sort of garage sale of their works last August 12 for the benefit of Susan Fernandez, a pioneer in Filipino alternative music and a singer of songs for socially-oriented causes.
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How immigration can save rock'n'roll
Culture: Steven Wells: The baby boomers are retiring; only immigration can save us from a cultural wasteland
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Back to school:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - In keeping with popular tradition, organizers of the annual "Back to School Night" event for students of the St. Clairsville-Richland City School District are, again this year, combining resources with The St. Clairsville Downtown Revitalization Task Force and the Downtown St.
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Longstanding friendship revisited
St. Clairsville resident Virginia Alderman got to reconnect with an old friend this past Saturday. Alderman and country music legend Merle Haggard have known each other since the 70s and had the opportunity to catch up after a concert in Wheeling on Saturday. Alderman first met Haggard in 1970 when she interviewed him after a performance at the Capitol Music Hall.
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Live Nation Rocks On
In the old days, musicians launched a concert tour to promote a new album. That, of course, was before the days of MP3s and free music downloads, which have essentially eroded artists' rights to their own recordings and the ability to make real money from them. Now, albums are the marketing tools of...
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Verve dispel rift rumours with united show
Reunited rockers The Verve hit back at reports of a rift within the band - by playing a sensational headlining set to close a music festival.
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Pandora prepares to join titsup.com club
Web radio outfit struggling to cover royalties This weekend saw a cry for help from personalised web radio outfit Pandora. It blubbed that music industry royalties are too high for it to survive on meagre web 2.0 advertising revenues.…
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Tap hosts open mike tonight
Local musicians will showcase their talents during tonight's open mike night at The Uptown Tap, 1024 Broadway.
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ARTISTdirect Announces Licensing Partnership with Universal Music Publishing Group
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Elliott Carter @ 99
"The constant remark made about Carter during the Tanglewood festival was that he is unique in music history. No major composer has ever been so vital for so long."
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Pop Music on TV This Week
There are a number of repeat performances this week as a result of it being late summer. However, MTV is the place this week to pick up what's hot...
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Seranak, where Tanglewood's past and present mingle
Seranak, where Tanglewood's past and present mingle If the spirit of Serge Koussevitzky, the late conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and founder of Tanglewood, still keeps an eye on the annual summer proceedings in Lenox, Mass., he probably does so from Seranak. That distinctive name refers to his former home atop Baldhead Mountain on 170 acres of wooded land just west of the main ...
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Music Review: Chris Difford - The Last Temptation of Chris
The new record from Squeeze's Difford is easy like Sunday morning. Chris Difford's album The Last Temptation of Chris is the perfect Sunday morning record.You wake up early, or maybe a little late, and probably a bit groggy from the night before. You slip into autopilot and start up the coffee, grab a bagel, snatch the paper.You flip through the CD racks for the soundtrack to your A.M. ...
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Progressive Rock Band Influenced by Gandhi Releases Songs Addressing World Issues
Truth On Earth, a socially conscious, progressive teen rock band for the ages, recently announced the release of new original music to further their fight of world problems.
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