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Melting iPods: Batteries Blamed
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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Glitter 'fit to travel'
Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter fell ill during the night, missing his flight to London from Bangkok after leaving Vietnam on his release from prison.
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L’Chayim at U of H Special to the Jewish Ledger
WEST HARTFORD -- Jonathan Adam Ross, a widely acclaimed Jewish theatre artist, will give a free performance of his one-man show, “L’Chayim,” at the University of Hartford on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 3 p.m. The show, presented by the University’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, will take place in Millard Auditorium, in the Fuller Music Center building on the University campus, 200 ...
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Local Licks
Antioquia , Gringolandia . What a name for the debut of four white musicians playing a unique hybrid of Latin, African, and American music. Like San Francisco Afrobeat troupe Albino!, Antioquia doesn't seek to transcend its identity so much as transport it, then share the results through music.
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A Festival Reinvents Itself
Freight & Salvage is offering downtown Berkeley a big ol' howdy this weekend in anticipation of the venerable folk club's move from its West Berkeley digs up to the Downtown Arts District next year.
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A Guide to the 'Hoods
Classic neighborhoods stand apart because they're organic. They sprout up on their own, over time, coming to life when the right economic mix coalesces. In the East Bay, we're blessed with some of the best neighborhoods anywhere. Funky, eclectic, upscale, hip — you name it; we've got it all.
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Soy Oh Soy
It's sweet in the same the way that very old music played in dark rooms is sweet: sly, hypnotic, holding back a bit because it knows. It's bitter in an arch, you-know-you-want-me way: bright cacao bitterness that goes out on a limb because it can. Spooned up, it curls fudgily thick.
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Energy companies met with PMO as gas prices rose
As the price of gas was soaring to new records in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's senior advisers filled their calendars in July with one-on-one meetings with some of the country's biggest oil companies, including Shell, Petro-Canada and Suncor.
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Music festival will benefit New Hope Foundation
Jim Morris and the Big Bamboo Band will take the stage at New Hope Foundation's Trop Rock Festival 1-7 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Shore Casino in Atlantic Highlands. Other featured musicians will include John Frinzi, Doyle Grisham, Rackett, Sunny Jim White, Charlie De- Cosa and Gary Philips. Tickets are available at a cost of $40 per adult and $15 per child at www.
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Entertainment
Like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, as one music festival falls, another takes its place. Next month’s Nanga Music Festival takes over where the Araluen Festival left off last year. Dubbed “the friendly festival”, Nanga promises a dynamic and intimate celebration of acoustic and folk music.
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Back in the swing of things
Wayzata students could find themselves high above the grounds on a new ropes course when school starts. Students at Hopkins High School can lay down some tracks in the school's new music studio. Minnetonka students will enter school through new secured entrances.
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THP trooper accused of snooping on media, musician
NASHVILLE - A Tennessee state trooper was suspended Tuesday after investigators said he used his position to conduct 182 background checks - at least some of them unauthorized - on people including two journalists and a country music figure.
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Aug. 19: Local News Briefs
The Vermillion Friends will host revival meeting Wednesday through Sunday at 7 p.m. Special speakers will be Stephen and Nicole Cassidy. Featured music will be by the Messiah Bible Fellowship Ministers. At noon Sunday, there will be a carry-in dinner followed at 2 p.m. with a celebration service.
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Community Notes
The annual Newberry Festival will be held Friday and Saturday. Karoke is featured starting at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the park.
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Blue Mountain returns with new album 'Midnight'
JACKSON, Miss. -- 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.
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Take That greatest boy band
Take That have been voted the ‘greatest boy band’ in a poll of 5,000 music fans.
NZCity |
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Bono cranks new U2 tunes, fan steals them
Rock stars may have to rein in their taste for loud music after a fan overheard U2 frontman Bono listening to tracks from the group’s forthcoming album and recorded them before posting the songs on the Internet.
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Apple iPod nanos catch fire after 'defective batteries' overheat
At least three fires have been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, the trade ministry of Japan has said. The overheating music players could have been caused by a battery defect, the ministry said.
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Tenn. trooper accused of snooping on media, musician
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (5:39 p.m.) A Tennessee state trooper was suspended Tuesday after investigators said he used his position to conduct 182 background checks _ at least some of them unauthorized _ on people including two journalists and a country music figure.
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Making the band:'Rocker' fella Wilson can't pump life into tired comedy
A wannabe "School of Rock" meets "This is Spinal Tap!" But "The Rocker" isn't as good as its predecessors. Its music by Chad Fischer...
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"The Rocker"
Is this comedy about a heavy-metal wannabe a Gen X rock 'n' roll fantasy?
Salon.com |
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LEWSITON: Getting all jazzed up
It appears a little thing like losing a $70,000 backer couldn’t slow down the Lewiston Jazz Festival. The festival, preparing for its seventh year, is back this weekend with about 40 performances spanning three days.“It’s a wonderful opportunity to enjoy summer in Western New York with some of the finest music available,” said Sandra Hays-Mies, president of the Lower Niagara River Region Chamber ...
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Jazz and R&B Photography by Skip Bolen on Youtube
This video contains an impressive portfolio of Skip Bolen's music portraits from New Orleans and Los Angeles: James Brown (The Godfather of Soul), the luminous jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott, plus many other jazz and R&B musicians including Wayne Shorter, Henry Grimes, Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Nicholas Payton, David Murray, Marcus Roberts, Terence Blanchard, Irvin Mayfield, Ellis ...
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Ari Hoenig Set to Release "Bert's Playground" in September
Artistic inspiration can come from anywhere at all--even from a deceased pet. On Bert's Playground , Ari Hoenig's second recording for Dreyfus Records and his fifth outing overall, the young master drummer starts from a simple appreciation of Bert, his “one and only goldfish, the only fish in a tank full of snails."
All About Jazz |
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Tenn. trooper accused of snooping on media, musician
A Tennessee state trooper was suspended Tuesday after investigators said he used his position to conduct 182 background checks - at least some of them unauthorized - on people including two journalists and a country music figure.
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