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Music sales rise with video game appearances
Sun, Dec 21, 2008 (12:33 a.m.) Artists who have released songs on its "Guitar Hero" platform have seen separate sales of those tracks triple on average, according to Activision Blizzard Inc.
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Boom in music video games helps original artists
Sun, Dec 21, 2008 (12:33 a.m.) "This song is dedicated to Debbie Harry," flinty-eyed Lisa Hsuan purrs into a microphone on the red-lit stage of Hyperion Tavern. It's a cozy dive where patrons drink Coke and beer from bottles and a fading chandelier dangles overhead.
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THE Queen's composer is leading a peace mission to Iraq - using classical music.
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The year in review: Pop music
The pop-music world continues to be dominated by Songwriting 101 cartoonish fluff: American Idol grads (yes, I know, Daughtry's a true force), Janet Jackson (yes, I know, she used to be in control), Britney Spears (no comment) and the new bubonic plague, otherwise known as teen Disney phenomena Hannah Montana and High School Musical (someone just make it stop, please).
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Planning ahead makes small gifts special throughout Hanukkah
By LISA A. FLAMAssociated Press Socks. Board games. Underwear. Movie tickets. Musical toothbrushes? They're probably not the big presents most kids say they wan ...
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What our writers love this week
World music Gypsy Soul Ready for a new kind of Christmas music? Let the Oregon-based world-Celtic band Gypsy Soul bust you out of the Rudolph-Frosty...
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Music hallucinations sometimes caused by drugs
People's Pharmacy: Joe and Teresa Graedon answer questions about drugs. This week: musical hallucinations and iron absorption.
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Music sales rise in harmony with game appearances
Sun, Dec 21, 2008 (12:21 a.m.) Artists who have released songs on its "Guitar Hero" platform have seen separate sales of those tracks triple on average, according to Activision Blizzard Inc.
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Annual Buford Family concert becoming a tradition
When The Alluvian opened in 2003, one of the goals was to have a special holiday event there that could become a Delta tradition. The Buford Family’s annual Christmas concerts have already become such a tradition for many, drawing listeners from all over the Delta and beyond.
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Party place nixes show at 11th hour
A pre-Christmas bash for nearly 1,000 teens at a Manhattan club was canceled unexpectedly Saturday, prompting outrage from members of the hip-hop community who organized the event.
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Pop Quiz: John Doe of X
When you think of Christmas, you don't usually think of Los Angeles punk icons X. That is, unless you spell it Xmas. Anyway, the original lineup, featuring singer Exene Cervenka, bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake - together more or...
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Oakland Interfaith director puts fire in choir
"That doesn't sound like a spiritual to me," Terrance Kelly barks at the 64-voice Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir during a run-through of "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" at a rehearsal for a forthcoming series of Christmas concerts. "It sounds like a gospel choir...
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Rap hits and top hats for T-Pain
Just three years ago, T-Pain released his first album, the appropriately named "Rappa Ternt Sanga." But in the short time since, the rapper-turned-singer has taken over mainstream hip-hop not just with his own songs but, more significantly, with his cameos.
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MARK STRYKER FRESH THOUGHTS ON NEW MUSIC: Dave Liebman, Kirk Lightsey, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, more
Speaking to Down Beat magazine in 1977, the Japanese-born composer-arranger-pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi said that her aspirations for the big band she co-led with her husband, tenor saxophonist-flutist Lew Tabackin, was that it be the kind of an orchestra that in later years people talk about the way they talk about Dizzy Gillespie's legendary late-'40s big band. "I'd like this band to leave ...
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Season's musical greetings from Pixanne
It is her energy, at first, that is so startling. Jane Norman -- also known to the world as "Pixanne" -- positively bristles with it.
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Weekly entertainment calendar
"A Christmas Carol": The Charles Dickens family classic adapted by Charles Nolte, final performances 2 & 6:30 p.m. Meadow Brook Theatre, 207 Wilson Hall, Auburn Hills. 248-377-3300. $25-$40. Computer Show and Holistic Festival: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Gibraltar Trade Center -- Taylor, 15525 Racho Blvd., Taylor. 734-287-2000.
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Piano serves as current of communication for deaf RIT student
Jingjing Pan, a deaf RIT student, has found new ways to express herself through playing the piano.
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This Week
S MUSIC KAT PARRA During the course of two albums, "Azucar de Amor" and "Birds in Flight," she's established herself as one of the Bay Area's finest Latin-jazz singers. But Kat Parra has even bigger ambitions. She got a Zellerbach Foundation grant to explore...
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Marty Stuart takes tradition to television
The Marty Stuart Show is modeled after country programs that existed in a world before Starbucks, Applebee's or minivans. Here, twang is held high.
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Hootie and a hollerin' now
The Hootie Guy has hung up his cowboy hat. It just doesn’t fit Darius Rucker anymore, now that the Hootie the Blowfish frontman has gone country. Photo caption: Darius Rucker, formerly of pop million-sellers Hootie & the Blowfish, has launched a successful country career, charting a No. 1 single and album. Photo by Courtesy photo
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Rory Feek shares insight into the 'Life of a Song'
America met Rory Feek on CMT's talent-search show Can You Duet earlier this year, when he appeared with his wife Joey. The duo, dubbed Joey + Rory, came in third on the series, and now has a record deal with Vanguard/Sugar Hill, a new record called The Life of a Song and a Billboard-charting country single in "Cheater, Cheater."
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Hanukkah begins at sundown
Adding a little bit of light to the longest night of the year, Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, arrives at sundown today on the winter solstice.
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Co-host of Bandy and Bailey in the Morning dies at age 37
Country radio personality Michael Bandy, the co-host of Bandy and Bailey in the Morning on Lexington's WLXX, 92.9 The Bear, died Saturday afternoon. He was 37. Mr. Bandy had suffered from a long illness, according to a news release issued Saturday by Cumulus Broadcasting. He died in the hospice unit of St. Joseph Hospital. "This is a terrible loss for country music radio, our station and ...
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Citizen One
PROFILE: Born in Kent County, Wright left her Chatham home at 19 to pursue a career in country music. Her first album, released in 1988, met with modest success, but her second produced four hits and was certified gold in Canada.
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Def Leppard Enlists Ace Marketing & Promotions Inc.; Proximity Marketing to Deliver Branded Content via Bluetooth(R) ...
Epic Rockers Def Leppard continue their commitment to the fan experience and adding a strong production value to their live show with Rockzimity (sm). (PRWeb Dec 21, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1775894.htm
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