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2nd Spears comeback almost as good as the first
It was only last year that Britney Spears attempted to put the focus back on her once-spectacular music career with "Blackout." The disc didn't have a chance. Now she seems on the road to recovery and ready for a rebirth with "Circus."
SouthtownStar |
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Pat Green enjoys recording success, remembers his roots
Rising country star Pat Green is jazzed about playing Las Vegas again.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Visionary’s backing band carries on his singular rodeo rock ’n’ roll
Chris LeDoux was a champion bareback rider and innovative musician who created a genre all his own — rodeo rock ’n’ roll.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Bringing it back home with 'Holidays'
Actor Freddy Rodriguez got a bit ''verklempt'' as he talked about his new film, ''Nothing Like the Holidays,'' which was celebrated at a Chicago premiere Monday night at the Music Box Theatre.
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Arts in Brief
The Brewery, 233 E. Beaver Ave., will host the final punk rock-themed show of the semester at 9 tonight, featuring local unsigned talents The Whatleys and The Pugilist.
Penn State Collegian |
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Jazz bands to perform variety of styles
Tonight is the last chance of the semester to catch Penn State jazz bands Inner and Outer Dimensions in concert.
Penn State Collegian |
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Harrison to host 'country' Christmas celebration
HARRISON - Santa Claus is coming to town next week, along with a variety of festive events. The 23rd annual Christmas in Harrison, with the theme "A Country Christmas," starts on the evening of Thursday, Dec. 11, and runs through Sunday, Dec. 14.
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Jonathan Storm: Costello and friends in a fine 'Spectacle'
When Elvis Costello turned up on Saturday Night Live in 1977, many viewers (including me) couldn't tell whether it was supposed to be a joke or real music. Ahh, how time and experience can change our perspective.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Music To Chainsaw Bayonet To News
Microsoft confirms the release of the soundtrack to the Last Day, the new trailer for Gears of War 2...
Total Video Games |
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Online music sales climbing
Digital music sales account for 18 percent of the US music market and that figure will grow to 41 percent in five years, according to a report.
Independent Online |
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Classical musicians get shot at fame
YouTube will take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses by holding an online competition where the public chooses musicians to play at Carnegie Hall.
Independent Online |
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Pacelli, SPASH choirs to perform with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
While performing a large-scale choral-orchestral repertoire at a high school concert is sometimes difficult, directors at Stevens Point Area Senior High and Pacelli High School found a remedy.
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As economy squeezes local concert attendance, promoters improvise
Louisville is a famously unreliable market for pop and rock promoters. No one has figured out why, but it's a certainty that a number of shows will go begging here, while doing big business elsewhere. That's under the best of conditions, and a recession is clearly not the best of conditions.
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More News
— TERRY BONIFANTI Italy, Sicily travelers meet in Dunmore An exhibit of Italy and Sicily by photographer Michael Coviello, Moscow, greeted Joe and Dolly Michalczyk’s travelers as they entered Anna Maria’s Restaurant in Dunmore for a reunion. Music by the Italian Tenors heard on their trip provided the background as they dined on a sumptuous Italian buffet, the highlight of which was chicken ...
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Marketing style leaves maestro miffed
Concertgoers last week lost a rare opportunity to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra play under the baton of a legendary Russian conductor in the twilight of his career. Gennady Rozhdestvensky, 77, was scheduled to conduct the BSO, but he angrily pulled out of all four performances at the last minute and left town.
Toronto Star |
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Tuning into new music with YouTube orchestra
The world is getting a 21st-century twist on the old saw about putting a bunch of monkeys in a room with typewriters in the hope of getting a Shakespeare masterwork.
Toronto Star |
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Alternative country mag is back in a new format
RALEIGH, N.C. - Started with a meager print run more than a decade ago, alternative country magazine No Depression helped launch the careers of Ryan Adams and Wilco. As it picked up subscribers and advertising dollars, it also exposed fans to country stalwarts whose radio airplay dwindled while the genre went pop.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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People, Places and Things
LOS ANGELES - Punk musician Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM will perform together for the first time since the duo survived a fiery plane crash in South Carolina.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Whitehaven News
CHRISTMAS has certainly arrived early for all music fans this year. This autumn and winter features some of the most popular and highly-anticipated albums being released to the eagerly awaiting public.
The Whitehaven News |
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As economy squeezes local concert attendance, promoters improvise
Louisville is a famously unreliable market for pop and rock promoters.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Acclaim Announces ROCKFREE Closed Beta
A new multiplayer online music based game gets ready for BETA testing. December 1, 2008 - People around the world are playing music games like Rockband and Guitar Hero, but the price for these music based games can be expensive.
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'Keep the faith with India and Bombay'
The Melbourne, Australia-born Roberts who, since escaping from Pentridge Prison has made a new life in India and who, famously, wrote his best-selling novel Shantaram seated in a corner table of Leopold's Cafe in South Mumbai, makes an eloquent plea on behalf of the country that changed him from convicted bank robber to much lionized author
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Sympathy was the goal, but it seemed the only person feeling sorry was Steinke as he talked about his miserable ...
All that was missing were violins, providing some suitably mournful background music.
Calgary Sun |
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For pro athletes, owning guns is a status symbol
To honor Sean Taylor, who was gunned down a year ago in the prime of his football career, his family and the Redskins made an interesting song choice while his highlights played on the video screen before Sunday's game against the Giants. It was "Big Things Poppin" by gangsta rapper T.I., and the lyrics went like this:
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Down the drain... £100,000 superloos for school
A SCHOOL has been accused of flushing away taxpayers' money by spending £100,000 on toilets that play classical music to pupils.
Yorkshire Post |
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