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For the past few weeks, we (British radio station Planet Rock) 've been asking Planet Rock listeners to vote for the greatest guitar solo ever. We compiled your favourites and here's how you voted : 1. Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb 2..... (29/08)
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The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans ...
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Right now, in the smoke-filled boardrooms where corporation bosses make their decisions, a bunch of suits are high-fiving each other while listening to ...
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With most of us spending 40-plus hours at work, that leaves less time to pal around with our four-legged friends. We try all sorts of ways to distract ...
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There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
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This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ...
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Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ...
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TiVo Inc. and Rhapsody America LLC said Tuesday they've partnered to deliver digital music to consumers through any broadband-connected TiVo box. Alviso, ...
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Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit may shut down their Web radio services after being hit with a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. ...
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Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ...
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Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ...
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Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ...
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Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ...
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Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ...
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The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans ...
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Right now, in the smoke-filled boardrooms where corporation bosses make their decisions, a bunch of suits are high-fiving each other while listening to ...
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With most of us spending 40-plus hours at work, that leaves less time to pal around with our four-legged friends. We try all sorts of ways to distract ...
More
There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ...
More
This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ...
Read
Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ...
Read
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ...
Read
TiVo Inc. and Rhapsody America LLC said Tuesday they've partnered to deliver digital music to consumers through any broadband-connected TiVo box. Alviso, ...
Read
Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit may shut down their Web radio services after being hit with a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. ...
Read
Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ...
Read
Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ...
Read
Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ...
Read
Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ...
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Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ...
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ...
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Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
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Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ...
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ...
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A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ...
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Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ...
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It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ...
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Playing music on plastic guitars is big business. Guitar Hero 3 has become quite the runaway hit at retail, and with Rock Band now released, we have two ...
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The lilt of a girl singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music school in ...
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Edge's Gibson Les Paul, Lennon's sunglasses, Springsteen's hand-written lyrics and a signed sax from Bill Clinton are among 200 pieces of music memorabilia ...
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The US Music Publishers Association (MPA) has begun licensing websites that want to reproduce guitar tabs, the notation that tells guitarists where to ...
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Zack de la Rocha crouched in front of Brad Wilk's drum kit and surveyed the nearly 60,000 people at his feet. All around him crested a noise that had ...
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It's the big irony of the electric guitar. Its body mimics the waist and curves of a woman. And yet, alone among instruments, the electric guitar is still ...
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DISTINGUISHED highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, (OON) is dead at 71. He passed on last Friday, according to his family in a statement. It ...
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
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No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ...
More
Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
Read
Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ...
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After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ...
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With record sales of 100 million and countless awards for her music, she is probably the best-selling star never to have topped the British charts. But ...
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Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ...
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ...
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Some of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead ...
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A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ...
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Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ...
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If you're in the mood to feel disturbed by the British music scene, a glance at the album chart usually does the trick. Sure enough, this year's bestsellers ...
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It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ...
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The 500-year-old cultural, linguistic and historical bridge linking Spain and Latin America has shrunk to the size of a mobile phone, at least in terms ...
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