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School news
The following teams were recipients of the Section XI Sportsmanship Awards for the fall sports season: JV & Varsity Field Hockey and coaches Kim Hannigan, Mary Jo Malone and Cassie Gallo; Varsity Girls Cross Country and coach Eddie Arnold; and Varsity Football and coaches Phillips, Franklin and Schreck.
The Southampton Press & The East Hampton Press |
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Hot BlackBerry Curve 8320 Warms the Cold Winter Blues With Seamless, Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Access From AT&T
AT&T is turning up the heat with the ever-popular BlackBerry® Curve smartphone. AT&T Inc. and Research In Motion announced today the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone with built-in Wi-Fi®, which gives AT&T customers with unlimited corporate or personal BlackBerry service plans free and seamless access to thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots in the U.S.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Schankman pledges $50,000 to UMSL jazz programs
University of Missouri-St. Louis alumnus Steve Schankman, founder and president of Clayton-based Contemporary Productions, recently announced a pledge of $50,000 to the department of music at UMSL.
St. Louis Business Journal |
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Leone MusicReader Releases Mac OS X Version
Leone MusicReader B.V. announces the release of the Mac OS X version of their flagship product MusicReader. This Mac version has the same innovative functionality as the Windows version and makes it possible to run the software on Apple Macintosh computers.
Harmony Central |
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Eddie Van Halen Launches the All-New EVH® Wolfgang® Guitar: Available Jan. 2009
Eddie Van Halen launches the all-new EVH ® Wolfgang ® electric guitar, available worldwide beginning Jan. 2009. The EVH Wolfgang guitar represents Eddie’s 35 years of experimenting with guitars, over two years of intense research and development, and a full year of brutal road testing during the top-grossing Van Halen 2007-2008 tour.
Centre Daily Times |
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AAPD Releases Digital TV Transition Music Video
WASHINGTON , Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) recently released a music video on YouTube.com featuring a tune sung by a cast of people with disabilities aimed at educating the disability community about the digital television transition.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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SongVest auctions financial interest in tunes as memorabilia
By Allan Maurer CARY, NC – So you always wanted to be in the pop music business? SongVest, an online auction site, lets music fans bid for a percent of songwriter ownership in tunes such as the Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville,” or the theme to the TV soap opera, “Days of Our Lives.”
TechJournal South |
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After Chicago, Rob Roy Musical To Play Toronto March-April 2009; Cariou Directs
Rob Roy The Musical, the new musical based on the legendary 18th-century Scottish hero, will make its Canadian premiere at Toronto's Elgin Theatre in March 2009 following its North American debut in Chicago.
Playbill |
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Widowed Support Group of Southern NH enjoys Christmas party
While everyone was dressed in their season’s best, music played and friends talked and enjoyed their meals together. President Toni Kretsepes emceed the event, introducing the founding father, Byll Reeve.
Foster's Daily Democrat |
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Win a Trip to Langerado Music Fest!
SPIN is giving away a pair of VIP tickets to the Langerado festival held March 6-8, 2009 at Bicentennial Park in Miami, FL. The festival features an amazing group of performers including Death Cab for Cutie, Snoop Dogg, Girl Talk, Gym Class Heroes, Broken Social Scene, Against Me!, Black Kids, and Ra Ra Riot. One grand prize winner will receive a pair of VIP tickets, airfare, and four ...
Spin |
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Blogger changes tune, pleads guilty to posting leaked Guns N' Roses songs
A U.S. blogger accused of posting leaked tracks from the long-delayed Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to a criminal charge of copyright violation.
CBC |
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There are countless under-appreciated American bands in music history and The Jayhawks are certainly one of the toppers. The Americana group never seemed to get its due and has been put into cold storage. Olson was the band’s original songwriter.
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Morrissey to play UB Center for the Arts in March
Alternative music icon Morrissey -- former lead singer with influential '80s alt-rock outfit the Smiths -- will play the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. March 19 as part of his U.S. tour in support of new album "Years of Refusal."
The Buffalo News |
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Jazz trio tries to revive San Jose music scene
When one thinks of jazz venues in the Bay Area, San Jose isn't in the forefront.Sure, the three-day San Jose Jazz Festival is turning 20 in August 2009, but there's little else the rest of the year.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Hospital music therapy room named for AC/DC singer
SARASOTA, Fla. -- A new music therapy room at a hospital on Florida's Gulf Coast is being named for AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson. Johnson and other rock stars have supported an effort to buy music equipment and provide music educa
Post-Bulletin |
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Pandora Radio Now Available on Select WinMo Phones [Pandora]
Pandora's free internet radio service is now streaming personalized music to WinMo devices—well, the Motorola Q9c and HTC XV6900 on Verizon and the Motorola Q9c and HTC Touch on Sprint anyway....
Gizmodo |
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Writer, musician can't get El Paso out of his head
EL PASO -- Lee Simmons is a business journalist by day, musician by night and husband and father all the time.
El Paso Times |
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Oakland's Keyshia Cole presents 'A Different Me'
Oakland-bred singer-songwriter goes for a lighter, sexier feel in her new album, concert tour
Contra Costa Times |
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Army Wages iPod Warfare in Baghdad
During a humanitarian mission in Baghdad's Sadr City, Staff Sgt. Kent Crandall brought along a nifty iPod accessory: an Army psychological operations loudspeaker. Crandall had loaded the iPod with Iraqi pop music, which he cranked during the halal food handout in this war-torn neighborhood. This is only one of the tools in the psychological operations arsenal in theater. ...
Wired News |
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Centenary Stage Company seeks volunteer ushers
HACKETTSTOWN -- The Centenary Stage Company (CSC) has the perfect opportunity for music lovers who would like to enjoy great entertainment on a budget. CSC is seeking volunteer ushers for the 2009 Jazz in January concert series, which will present...
The Warren Reporter |
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Young women exhibit their own brand of feminism
The pop history now being recorded in year-in-review essays and lists is mostly focused on other forces: rock's commercial savior, Coldplay; hip-hop's new jack king, Lil Wayne; indie's sensitive souls, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes. But in a moribund year for pop, young women provided much of the spark.
Contra Costa Times |
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On the town: Getting to the holiday spirit
Although the Grinches of Wall Street have done their best to steal our Yuletide spirit, the festivities seem to go on, as the song goes, "because we need a little Christmas, right this very minute .
Pasadena Star-News |
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Features: Lazaro's Dog Annual Christmas Rockstravanganza
The Lazaro's Dog annual Christmas Rockstravanganza is this year going to help put a Christmas meal on the table for homeless people in Adelaide via the Hutt St Centre in a unique way.
Faster Louder |
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Joost Grows Indie Music Catalog
Joost today announced it has added nine independent music labels and aggregators to its ever increasing content library. There are now more than 18,000 music assets -- including music videos, interviews and live performances -- available in the Music section of Joost.com.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Eddie Van Halen Launches the All-New EVH® Wolfgang® Guitar: Available Jan. 2009
LOS ANGELES----Eddie Van Halen launches the all-new EVH® Wolfgang® electric guitar, available worldwide beginning Jan. 2009. The EVH Wolfgang guitar represents Eddie’s 35 years of experimenting with guitars, over two years of intense research and development, and a full year of brutal road testing during the top-grossing Van Halen 2007-2008 tour.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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