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Sukhwinder misses Oscar ceremony, but very happy for Rahman
He was to have performed with music maestro A.R. Rahman at the 81st Annual Academy Awards but could not due to some snag. But 'Jai ho' singer Sukhwinder Singh is extremely happy at Rahman's twin wins at the Oscars.
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H-Town Rock
For the Week of February 23rd - 25th, 2009 Tuesday, February 24th Having seen Jay Farrar and Son Volt perform a couple times back in college, tonight will be a nice trip down memory lane. Granted, like most acts commonly associated with "alt-country," this band avoids that tag like the plague, but Son Volt achieves its escape from that dubious descriptor by easily and deftly ...
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Best picture 'Slumdog' wins 8 Oscars ... Kimmel teases Gibson about DUI ... Springsteen set for Glastonbury festival ... Nicole Richie pregnant with baby No. 2 ... News from United Press International.
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Indians Celebrate ‘Slumdog’ Oscar Success, Laud Composer Rahman
“Slumdog” won eight awards at the 81st Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, including best picture and best director for Danny Boyle , a Briton. Rahman, dubbed “Mozart of Madras,” and lyricist Gulzar also won the best song Oscar.
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For immediate release: the arts are marketable
I was sitting in the last row of the orchestra at Alice Tully last night and, at one point during a performance, the woman to my left leaned back and loud-whispered to an usher, "There's someone taking pictures down there!", gesturing to her right dramatically.
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News in Brief: Bruce Springsteen, the Feelies, Saint Etienne, Deadmau5
-- It's hard to believe Bruce Springsteen -- stadium king and worldwide mega-concert icon-- has never done the granddaddy of all music festivals, Glastonbury . That will change this year when Springsteen and his E Street Band head over to England to headline this year's fest , which takes place June 26-28. According to the NME , other rumored headliners include Neil Young and ...
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Grand Blanc Township native Will Stratton copes with tours in combat zone, separation from family with song
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- After a 14- to18-hour day of intelligence work in Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Will Stratton would return to the haven in his room, where headphones and a wine red electric guitar waited. Through his music,...
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The new iTunes paradigm, release your music as an app
If you're band looking to distribute your music via iTunes you put your album and tracks into the iTunes store, right? Well usually, yes. There's a new movement that turns the traditional (if there is such a thing) iTunes store concept on its ear: release your music as an app. Wired last week reported on an innovative new concept in digital music: pop music ensemble The Presidents of the United ...
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Eircom to block Pirate Bay
'Automatic' music label salute Eircom, Ireland's biggest internet provider, has agreed to block access to any website the music industry says is responsible for illegal music-swapping.… Free whitepaper - The virtual support centre: Delivering support anytime, anywhere
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MONTREAL - Montreal's Secret City Records likely won't be a secret much longer. The indie label has signed a distribution and production deal with EMI Music Canada.
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Jamaica is trying to clean up its anything-goes image. But will tourists flock to any island paradise that bans “daggering?” The go-to spot in the Caribbean for escaping winter’s doldrums is trying for a little respect.
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Shamrock again ready to blaze trail
Frank Shamrock again finds himself at the dawn of a new era.
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Bagna Caulda Festival dishes out fun in Cle Elum
Upper County residents line up Saturday at the Bagna Caulda Festival in Cle Elum. Mary Swift / Daily Record CLE ELUM — Could bagna caulda, a traditional Italian dish that is a winter favorite in the Upper County, find its way onto the menu at Suncadia Resort?
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Comedian Jim Breuer to perform at Mount Olive High School
MOUNT OLIVE — Comedian Jim Breuer will be performing stand-up for one night only at the Mount Olive Performing Arts Center on March 14 to help send the Mount Olive High School Percussion Ensemble to the Music for all National Festival.
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Tycoon Expands Top-Of-The-Line Signature Series With New "Heritage" Conga Drums
Featuring the tone, craftsmanship and playability that today's leading artists have come to demand from super high-end world percussion — and come to expect from Tycoon Percussion &mash; the renowned company is proud to introduce the latest addition to its Signature Series line of conga drums: the "Heritage" model.
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Antioch district, police to talk with parents tonight about music teacher's arrest
ANTIOCH — Antioch Unified School District and Antioch Police Department officials will meet with parents and members of the public at 7 tonight to discuss the case involving local music teacher James Carlile, who was arrested Feb.
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Slumdog makes India proud with 8 Oscars
The Indian music industry reacts to AR Rahman's bagging two Oscars for Best Original score and Best song.
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Cure vs Radiohead
Robert Smith has dismissed Radiohead 's "In Rainbows" album giveaway, calling the idea "nonsense". The Cure 's iconic frontman has been speaking about the recent upsurge in downloading across the world of music.
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New Video: Black Lips' Psychedelic Cartoon
It's Saturday morning cartoons on mescaline, Black Lips style! More Black Lips on SPIN.com: 200 Million Thousand (Vice) Review: Good Bad Not Evil (Vice) Exclusive: Black Lips Talk About India Fiasco In their music video for "Short Fuse," a garage rock tune off their SPIN-approved new album, 200 Million Thousand , the Atlanta "flower punk" quartet employ Scooby ...
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Mermaid 's Creighton Will Be Cagney! in World Premiere Musical at Florida Stage
Robert Creighton, the song-and-dance character actor seen as Chef Louis in Broadway's The Little Mermaid, will play actor James Cagney in the world-premiere musical Cagney! for Florida Stage, March 21-May 3.
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Ireland's largest ISP to block file-sharing sites
Irish ISP Eircom has agreed to block Internet users from accessing some file-sharing web sites in an agreement reached with the music industry.
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"88 x 2": A two-piano concerto
Ukiah Symphony's February concert is titled "88 x 2" -- presenting a two-piano concerto by Francis Poulenc, and two world premiere piano concertos, all featuring local soloists Elena Casanova and Elizabeth MacDougall.
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Former teacher pleads not guilty in sex case
A former music and drama teacher at Montville High School has pleaded not guilty to charges of having sex with underage students at the school.
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Eric Sardinas satisfies Blues Blowout crowd with sizzling steel guitar solos
WATERLOO --- At Saturday's Blues Blowout, headliner Eric Sardinas donned brown skin-tight velvet bell-bottoms, a cowboy hat embellished with a turquoise gem and a Western shirt opened wide enough for part of the rattlesnake tattooed on his chest to peek out at fans.
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The musical influence of 'non-musician' Brian Eno
For a self-described "non-musician," Brian Eno has made an indelible impact on the evolution of modern music. In what is arguably the most comprehensive written retrospective on the audio innovator to date (Eno's "diary"A Year With Swollen
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