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Muxtape suspends its mixtape service, citing RIAA 'problem'
Music "mixtape" sharing site Muxtape has been pulled offline, with a notice saying it has to " sort out a problem with the RIAA. " Its blog today contains the glib but equally nebulous statement, "No artists or labels have complained."
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Billboard.com -- Beachwood Sparks Eyeing Studio After Tour
After some nudging from Sub Pop to play its recent 20th anniversary bash, psychedelic country rock outfit Beachwood Sparks has its sights set on a third album after hitting the road.
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Teacher sentenced to prison
A middle school teacher who taught music and history for a dozen years in Tierrasanta had downloaded thousands of pieces of child pornography before investigators identified him through an Internet payment system, prosecutors said.
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Dulcimer mania
Mike Anderson, left, of Jacksonville, Ill., helps Kayli Passwater, 9, of Lapel, Ind., play a chord on a dulcimer during a class at the Gateway Music Festival at the National Our Lady of the Snows Shrine in Belleville. The event featured classes and concerts and the Gateway Dulcimer Society sponsored it.
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METRO EAST: 'Crank It Up' set Friday, Saturday
The cast of "Crank It Up-"the Kids Caring for Cancer benefit slated for this weekend at the Katy Cavins Center in O'Fallon-invites the public to revisit the days of cheap gas, cruising and reaching for the volume control when a favorite song came on the radio.
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Cancer benefit 'Crank It Up' set for Friday, Saturday
By J.W. Campbell Staff writer The cast of "Crank It Up"-the Kids Caring for Cancer benefit slated for this weekend at the Katy Cavins Center in O'Fallon-invites the public to revisit the days of cheap gas, cruising and reaching for the volume control when a favorite song came on the radio.
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Teacher sentenced to prison
FEDERAL COURT – A middle school teacher who taught music and history for a dozen years in Tierrasanta had downloaded thousands of pieces of child pornography before investigators identified him through an Internet payment system, prosecutors said.
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Party to star turns for free
RESIDENTS can party beneath the stars at a popular musical extravaganza. The spectacular Under the Stars returns to Central Park, East Ham, from August 28-31.
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Solid Cast Keeps Old Hit Fresh
Live! On Stage! By Mary Alderson A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum is the fourth and final show of the season at Huron Country Playhouse and with it, Drayton Entertainment has another hit.
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PHOTO CALL: A Tale of Two Cities Comes to Broadway
Charles Dickens' classic tale comes to life on stage in the new musical A Tale of Two Cities, which begins previews on Broadway Aug. 19.
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QU music program selling excess instruments
The Quincy University music program will be selling excess inventory that includes a large number of instruments -- flutes, clarinets, saxophones, cornets, French horns, trombones and a tuba.
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Isaac Hayes' Strange Funerals
Isaac Hayes, Oscar-winner, R&B legend and musical icon, got two sendoffs in two days here in his Tennessee hometown, and each was as strange as it was surreal.
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Ridge Farm festival ready for annual run
A small group of organizers have finalized plans for the Ridge Farm Family Festival to take place Friday through Sunday at Ward Park in Ridge Farm.
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New rules for a new school year at LSC
Gabe Anderson enjoyed his first day of school Monday. The Miami Elementary second-grader attended music and library and didn't have too much class work.
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Reverend And The Makers - Reverend And The Makers Singer To Quit Music Industry
REVEREND AND THE MAKERS frontman JON MCCLURE has vowed to quit the music industry after releasing his band's next album. British rocker MCClure, who formed the group in ...
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Groups launch war vs human trafficking
Various organizations from different sectors launched on Tuesday a campaign that declared war against human trafficking. Led by the Visayan Forum Foundation Inc (VFFI), the latest campaign seeks to put an end to trafficking of Filipino women and children.
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Muxtape down, RIAA blamed, users weep
Popular digital mixtape-making service Muxtape has been shut down by the RIAA. A pity, because the service was one of the best music resources online, and a big favourite here at Tech Digest.
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Local News
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen – Country music fans are hardy folk, able to survive torrential rain and a hailstorm and keep on partying.
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Various Artists - Nobody Knows Anything - DFA presents Supersoul Recordings
Artist: Various Artists Review: Having built the most reliable brand in freakably fusion-minded dance music with artists like LCD Soundsystem and the Rapture, DFA Records has decided to globalize. The debut release on its international Death From Abroad imprint collects tracks from Supersoul, a two-year-old Berlin label whose bastardized beats flaunt the same formal disregard that makes DFA so ...
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Various Artists - Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
Artist: Various Artists Review: David Byrne and Brian Eno retreated to pop's periphery years ago, but their influence is suddenly front and center. There are echoes of Byrne's old band, Talking Heads, in the avant-funk of LCD Soundsystem and other dance-rock bands, and you can hear the singer's workaday hysteria in the cadences of Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock. Coldplay ...
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Death Vessel - Nothing is Precious Enough For Us
Artist: Death Vessel Review: No, Joel Thibodeau is not a girl. Though the Death Vessel mastermind, whose falsetto matches his pixielike stature and long hair, is probably used to people making that mistake. On Thibodeau's Sub Pop debut, his voice is as delicate as Juliana Hatfield's, threading wispy notes into haunting ballads that crib from the backwoods folk of acts like Iron and Wine. The ...
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Wireless Phone Users at Ferris State University Now Experience Even Clearer Reception and Fewer Dropped Calls
Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site in Big Rapids that expands network coverage on the campus of Ferris State University. The new site enables more students, faculty, staff and visitors to use their wireless phones concurrently to make voice calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; access the Internet; view high-quality videos; and download music, games and ...
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Real Minimalism: Rhys Chatham’s Cancelled Performance
What’s real minimalism? It’s not there at all. And that’s exactly what happened to Rhys Chatham’s eagerly awaited piece for 200 electric guitars, "A Crimson Grail," on Friday night. But what about the other two performers -- Beata Viscera and Manuel Göttsching?
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Could net radio's extinction be close?
Faced with huge song royalty increases, Net radio may soon face extinction. That is according to Internet radio Webcaster Pandora's founder Tim Westergren . He told the Washington Post his popular music Webcasting site is about to go offline because of increases in royalties his company must pay to the music industry . Westergren says that the Copyright Royalty Board's agreement with ...
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Group doesn't want LaVigne to perform
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- 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 Monday. Lavigne
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