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Rock Band heading to Japan News by
Harmonix and MTV Games are teaming up with Q Entertainment to launch Rock Band in Japan. Rock Band came out in North America last November on PS3 and 360 and launched in Europe last month on 360, but the trio acknowledged it's about time the game arrived in "the birthplace of rhythm games".
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Concert review: Kanye West/Rihanna
Perfection, it is said, takes time. This might be an explanation for why Kanye West's space-flight was delayed by 30 minutes. While no photographers were allowed in the show to capture images, save fans with cellphones, you'll just have to take my word for it. This is an incredible production.
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Panic to strike Saltair with youthful energy
If you didn't know the ages of band members in Panic at the Disco, their offstage activities - "Halo3" and hacky-sack - might give you a clue. Average age of the four members of the Nevada rock band is 21.
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Singer is 'free like a bird'
Born Michelle Johnson, she changed her name as a teenager to Meshell Ndegeocello, which means "free like a bird." Freedom is important to 10-time Grammy nominee Ndegeocello (pronounced n-deh-gay-o-chel-o), who will headline the Utah Pride Festival Saturday.
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ASU softball's Vasquez is a little bit country
There are 957 miles between Arizona State University and ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. Despite the distance, Arizona State outfielder Jackie Vasquez feels right at home. The senior, who spent one year at the University of Kansas, is a self-proclaimed country girl.
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Pop Top: Audio file
Usher's latest is a routine tribute to sex, heartache Usher, "Here I Stand" Grade: B- Few songs on Usher's new album "Here I Stand" stand out.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Instruments strike a chord with museum goers
VERMILLION, S.D. - One visitor might be drawn to the six-string Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs. Another might gaze in awe at one of just a handful of Stradivarius violins still with its original neck, or a 1767 Portuguese grand piano
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Radio City shows true colors
The True Colors Tour returns to Radio City Music Hall at 7 tonight with an exciting new line-up of legendary and up and coming artists including Cyndi Lauper, the B-52s, Regina Spektor, Indigo Girls, Kate Clinton and The Cliks. The shows emcee is Carson Kressley. Tickets for this five-hour musical extravaganza are $55-$255. Radio City is located on Sixth Avenue between 50th and 51st street., ...
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Guide to summer fun: robots, rockets and watersheds
It’s high time for families to be finding fun things for kids to do this summer. The following is a sampling of 4-H activities slated for youth. If your agency or group has summer events you’d like to publicize, please send them to frontdoor@tdn.com or to czimmerman@tdn.com
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Yesterday once more, 35 music years later-英语点津
The same orchestra, the same program, the same venue. Only that the first and latest performances were 35 years apart. The Philadelphia Orchestra played to a full house at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities yesterday to mark the 35th anniversary of its first visit to Beijing in September 1973.
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Stars and starlight
Bonnie Bishop is a Texas girl with a voice perfect for the country music scene.
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Diddley was rock 'n' roll trailblazer
Seventeen months before he took his final breath, rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley was handed the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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GHS choirs final concert
The Gilroy High School choir performs its final concert of the year Friday at the school as part of 'An Evening of Music and Food.' The concert and barbecue were part of a fundraiser for the 2008 Alumni Choirs trip to Gilroy's sister city Takko-Machi, Japan this summer.
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Rock icon Bo Diddley dies at 79
Before Buddy Holly did it, before the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and a million unknown garage bands, there was Bo Diddley — and the beat that bears his name. Diddley, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the genre’s undisputed icons, died Monday at his 76-acre spread in rural Archer, Fla., about 10 miles out of Gainesville. He was 79.
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Patricia Nicholson Parker: Everyone Has a Vision
Patricia Nicholson Parker has been an indefatigable organizing spirit in New York City's artistic community centered on the Lower East Side since 1981, when she directed and helped to organize “A Thousand Cranes Peace Opera,” for the opening of the UN Special Sessions on Disarmament.
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Tomasz Stanko Quartet with Billy Harper at MoMA: Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda
Starting last April, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) began running a series, called Jazz Score , celebrating original jazz composed for the scores of movies from the 1950s to the present.
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Creative Outlaws. U.S. Underground 1962-70
A themed compilation like this is revealing not only of the highs, but also the lows in arguably the most important decade in the history of popular music. As defined here it reveals also that the U.S. underground of that time was as open to cynical opportunists as it was to fervent idealists.
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Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
The distinction made between jazz and classical music is usually one of rhythm and artistic depth, of improvisation versus composition, of the player being the creator versus the player as interpreter.
All About Jazz |
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Tiny Resistors
An active sideman, bassist Todd Sickafoose is best-known for his work with DIY singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. But he's also been very busy on the outer edges of jazz, working with artists including John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), Tin Hat Trio on The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope, 2002), and Scott Amendola Band on the drummer's very fine Cry (Cryptogramophone, 2003). It may be ...
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Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at 79
Guitarist known for `I'm A Man,' suffered heart failure while recovering from stroke.
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Trio Arc
Trio Arc is bassist Mario Pavone's 18th recording as a leader, and the first to consist entirely of totally improvised music.
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Promoter pushing for fall festival at Boulder Rez
A local concert promoter is taking a second shot at hosting a multi-day music, art and camping festival on the banks of the Boulder Reservoir.
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Grandfather of rock 'n' roll Bod Diddley dies
Rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley has died, aged 79, at his home in Florida. In a career spanning more than five decades, Diddley racked up several rock classics.
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Music stars in CD vs rape mining, deforestation in RP
MANILA, Philippines -- An environmentalist group has gathered some of the country’s top musicians for a different protest against the continued destruction of the country’s environment -- an album launch.
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Martin Guitar marks 175th anniversary
NAZARETH, Pa. - C.F. Martin IV sure knows how to build guitars. Just don't ask him to play one in public. ''I'm an abysmal guitar player,'' confesses Martin, sixth-generation CEO of the eponymous guitar maker C.
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