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Beckham musical set for West End debut
“Beckham’s story is a modern-day fairytale of heroes, villains, love, Manchester United and what it means to lead your country,” explained Mark Archer, the songwriter behind this celebration of Beckham’s first 33 years.
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Macross Ace Frontier Song List Revealed
Plus, defeat enemies with the power of emotion. August 19, 2008 - Macross Ace Frontier is gearing up for an October 9 PSP release over in Japan.
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Fiddle Contest at Historic Westville
Lumpkin, GA ((August 19, 2008) - On Saturday August 30, 2008 Historic Westville will host their annual Fiddle Contest where guest will enjoy a symphony of sound. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winners and admission for contestants and one guest will be free.
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Music Review: Uh Huh Her doesn't have much there
Uh Huh Her, "Common Reaction" (Nettwerk)
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Neil Young touring with Death Cab, Wilco
Neil Young has teamed up with two of alternative music's biggest bands - Death Cab for Cutie and Wilco - for his North American tour this fall.
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The 160-mile Download Diet: Local File-sharing Drastically Cuts Network Load
New research shows that sharing music and video files locally would be five times as efficient, relieving the stress on the Internet's major arteries. A research project that promotes a more neighborly approach to sharing files is attracting interest from the computing industry.
Newswise |
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Legendary Composer, Conductor, and Performer Lalo Schifrin Celebrates His Life with Autobiography
LOS ANGELES, Aug 19, 2008 -- Scarecrow Press will release the autobiography of six-time Academy Award nominated composer Lalo Schifrin this summer. Mission Impossible: My Life in Music , edited by Richard Palmer, is a journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and jazz atmospheres in Paris in the 1950s; from his jazz career with Dizzy Gillespie to his development as a ...
All About Jazz |
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BWN GROWS LA PRESENCE WITH OUTLAW ACQUISITION
LOS ANGELES - Music and sound design company BWN has expanded its LA offerings with the recent acquisition of Outlaw (http://outlawsound.com), a full service audio post facility. BWN purchased the studio from owner Allan Roth, who is retiring after a successful 25-year run.
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Apple: Battery problem caused iPod overheating
SEATTLE (AP) _ Apple Inc. said Tuesday that batteries from a single supplier are to blame for the meltdown of some models of its tiny iPod Nano digital music player.
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Weather worries aside,Pig-Out a winner
Mark Kidder, 9, and his brother John, 12, faced off during the jousting competition at the Third Annual Rock and Roll Pig Out in Cle Elum Monday as Officer Dave Houseberg of the Cle Elum-Roslyn-South Cle Elum Police Department supervised.
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Gospel Music Channel Launches Web Site To Support Heritage Month Initiative
The Web site , dedicated to extolling gospel’s long-standing contribution to American culture, will build toward September, adding such content as exclusive online performances; programming and videos; interviews with legendary genre artists who've kept the heritage alive; current and up-and-coming artists discussing their musical influences; and gospel facts and figures.
MultiChannel News |
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Sing-Along "Mamma Mia!" Will Arrive in Theatres Aug. 29
Select movie theatres around the country will offer a sing-along version of the hit film "Mamma Mia!" — based on the long-running musical of the same name — beginning Aug. 29.
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Sony to strive to make PS3 music peripherals work across all games
Oh, how I long for the days when buying a video game console was the end of the story. After that, all you needed were the games. Sure there were a couple of hokey add-ons for the original Nintendo, and there was that whole “32X” thing for the Sega Genesis, but today things have simply [...]
Geek.com |
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Overheatings blamed on bad iPod batteries
The government is investigating a possible battery defect in the popular iPod Nano music player after reports that two overheated in Tokyo, scorching paper and a tatami mat, an official said Tuesday. No one was injured, and there was no further damage, according to Hiroyuki Yoshitsune of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Read the full story
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School of Music founded
The KSU Department of Music was recently granted a very prestigious honor by officially becoming the School of Music, fully accredited by the National Associations of Schools of Music.
The Sentinel |
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Country Acres helps animals find good homes
Seven-year-old Carter is blind. A domestic longhair orange tabby cat, Carter has been adopted and returned twice and is hoping the third time will be the charm.
West County Journal |
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‘Dancin' Doug’ does Waterfront
See Doug dance. See Doug dance to Tex-Mex, rock, country and polka music. Vote for the “Dancin’ Doug” you like best in the “Dancin’ Doug does Waterfront” video at blogs.e-rockford.com/askgeo/. The Doug referred to here? Rockford Ald. Doug Mark, R-3, whose district includes downtown Rockford, the place where the 25th On the Waterfront music festival will take place on Labor Day weekend. ...
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Kindergarten party busted after complaint
Officials at an Auckland, New Zealand, kindergarten said a disco party set up for the little tykes was shut down by authorities for blaring Bob the Builder.One Tree Hill Kindergarten head teacher Lisa Gordon said a council noise control officer told teachers to shut the party down at 6:30 p.m. Friday after a neighbor complained that the kiddie disco was making too much noise with musical numbers ...
Moldova.org |
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SFist Tonight
FILM : Bring your barbiturates and deep-seeded melancholy the Castro Theatre screens two of Marilyn Monroe's finest . Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - the story of two showgirls, Monroe and Jane Russell, singing very gay songs and falling in and out of love - and How to Marry A Millionaire (1953) - featuring Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable as gold digging whores ...
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Lawn chair music night planned
A lawn chair night is planned for 5 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Shannon City Community Churchyard. Free food is available. Entertainment will be provided by “The Basement Gators” (classic rock), Eli Hoffman & Band, Sheri Plough (gospel) and many others.
Creston News Advertiser |
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Apple says battery problem caused iPod overheating
SEATTLE -- Apple Inc. said today that batteries from a single supplier are to blame for the meltdown of some models of its tiny iPod Nano digital music player.
Los Angeles Times |
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Blue Mountain returns with new album 'Midnight'
For seminal alt-country band Blue Mountain - torn apart by divorce - breaking up was hard to do. Getting back together, it turned out, was pretty easy. The Mississippi trio will release its sixth studio album, "Midnight in Mississippi," along with a re-recorded greatest hits album, "Omnibus," on Tuesday. It's an event fans would not have imagined seven years ago when the band broke up after ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Tony Nominee Dale Revisits West Side Story for Dallas Staging
Original West Side Story cast member Grover Dale will stage that landmark musical for the Lyric Stage in Dallas, TX.
Playbill |
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Legendary Composer, Conductor, and Performer Lalo Schifrin Celebrates His Life With Autobiography
LOS ANGELES , Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Scarecrow Press will release the autobiography of six-time Academy Award(R) nominated composer Lalo Schifrin this summer.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Canadian musical diversity the goal for Radio 2 fall relaunch
With a goal of highlighting the diversity of Canada's music scene to its listeners, CBC Radio hosted a launch event in Toronto on Tuesday, two weeks before the introduction of a revamped Radio 2 this fall.
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