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Students rock, register with reality TV stars
For people who love to rock and vote, Thursday evening was a dream come true. Rock the Vote, hosted by Syrus Yarbrough from "Real World: Boston" and Brooke LaBarbera from "Real World: Denver," took over the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium. For those too cool to watch corporate music television, Rock the Vote is a successful political awareness campaign that began in 1992 and teamed with MTV.
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Asleep at the Wheel takes fans down familiar road
Ray Benson is the quintessential front man. Standing 6 feet 7 inches and wearing size 16 boots, his ivory cowboy hat glistened under the hot lights of Laxson Auditorium on Aug. 27. Towering over the crowd, Benson delivered a determined guitar solo while the six-piece band behind him watched just as intensely as the audience.
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Stevie Wonder Wins Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder as the winner of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
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Morrissey splits with manager after 3 months
LONDON (Billboard) - Morrissey has split with artist management firm ie: music after just three months. An ie: music spokesman confirmed that it had parted company with the ex-Smiths frontman, but declined to give any details.
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Blaine event aims to put diverse folks in same spot
A need to build trust and cultural understanding is behind the city's first World Fest, with free food, music and information.
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EXCLUSIVE: Lefsetz Jumps The Shark With Axl Rose
The music industry has been asking itself when Bob Lefsetz would `jump the shark`. Well, it has finally happened. `Jump The Shark` is a term used in the US television industry for when a show has past its use-by-date by veering off into ridiculous story lines.
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Local contest emphasizes alternative, green options
Motorists and pedestrians may have to accommodate unicycles and other alternative modes of transportation traveling on Fourth and Guadalupe streets Friday. The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will host the Commute Solutions Month Kickoff event Friday to illustrate different commuting options in the Austin area.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Morrissey has split with artist management firm ie: music after just three months. An ie: music spokesman confirmed that it had parted company with the ex-Smiths frontman, but declined to give any details.
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Lollapalloza offers diverse performance
(Editor's note: This is part two in a series about the Lollapalooza festival.) Amidst an absolute sea of people making their way towards the main stages of the the Lollapalooza festival, an ambient noise rose from the south side of the park.
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Vintage salsa
World famous DJ Henry Knowles will be spinning vintage salsa music all night long at Vintage Restaurant & Bar. Free salsa lesson by dance SALSA studios, plus drink specials and hors d’oeuvres. There is a $10 cover. 171 Main St. White Plains, 914-328-5803.
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Headliners perform big at Bonnaroo
(Editor's note: This is part two in a series about the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.) MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Even the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival headliners with their iconic stature felt the need to perform big.
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Apple to unveil new iPods possibly at lower cost
Apple Inc is expected to unveil new iPod music players -- and possibly price cuts.
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Pillow talk with Queens
While grubbing El Chilito burritos and sipping Negro Modelo, local Austin band Pillow Queens gave a little insight into their past and present as well as their future intentions to make it big. "The plan was always to get up on stage," said bass guitarist Eric Loftis.
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Music For Gossip Girls
Atlantic Records has announced the upcoming release of "Omfgg Original Music Featured On Gossip Girl No. 1," the first companion soundtrack to the hit CW series, Gossip Girl.
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Get into the spirit of Salt Lake festival with a taste of real Greek cuisine
The Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake will host its annual festival this weekend. Besides music, dancing and crafts, there are more than 27 culinary specialties, such as gyros, souvlakia, spanakopites, dolmathes and baklava.
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Morrissey splits with new manager
Morrissey has split with artist management firm ie: music after just three months.
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New Cash boxed set features 33 unissued songs
It was Jan. 13, 1968, when Johnny Cash recorded his live album at Folsom Prison in northern California and little did he know the impact it would have on his career. It would spend 122 weeks on the charts plus earn Cash a Grammy and a Country Music Association Album of the Year award.
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Incognito: Connecting the World to Music
What is in a song? Why is it that we connect to music? These are questions that the founder of Incognito, Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick has asked himself for the past several years.
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A gritty portrayal of 'Bessie Smith'
With her powerful voice, Miche Braden captures the turbulence of blues singer's life and career.
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Michael Occhipinti: The Sicilian Jazz Project
It is a fact of history that modern music can be traced to the seven-note diatonic scale (do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti)—solffeggio—that came into existence when the Benedictine monk, Guido of Arrezo created its scale.
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Moods
For those in search of a reasonably unique ensemble, the Austrian-based Michaela Rabitsch and Robert Pawlik Quartet has something to offer. Rabitsch is one of Austria's most popular jazz trumpeters and vocalists, while Pawlik—her musical and domestic partner—is a guitarist.
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Woodstock Film Festival honors director Smith with a Maverick
He's responsible for launching the careers of both Ben Affleck and Jason Lee. Now Kevin Smith is coming to Woodstock.
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Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Anja Lechner ECM Records (2008)
Exploring similar territory as the sublimely beautiful Chants, Hymns and Dances (ECM, 2004), pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos and cellist Anja Lechner switch the emphasis on Melos . Chants focused largely on the writing of rebel philosopher Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866-1949)—for whom musical composition was more a means to an end, encouraging students to strive for a higher state of awareness ...
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Cut Copy battles Customs, invades America
At this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, Cut Copy pulled off the unthinkable - surviving a seven-hour battle with U.S. Customs to return to a crowd that had just watched Jay ...
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Vampire Weekend moves from the Ivy League to Flavor Flav
They call themselves "Upper West Side Soweto." Islands' Nick Thorburn calls them "trust fund frat-rock." While they've been given many definitions, their name is on the lips of everyone from ...
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