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CRAMMED in a van loaded with guitars, a drum kit and a couple of Fender amplifiers, and driving from one American gig to the next, the four scruffy musicians in the indie-rock band the Figurines tried mightily to enjoy themselves. They snapped pictures of one another, ate junk food and drank Red Bull, which is barred from sale back home in Denmark. (14/11) Read
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Indy music braves uncharted waters

The Gazette | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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Music opens new world to Afghan girls

The News | 29/08/06
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 ... Read

Under The Hammer For Music Rising

U2 France | 27/03/07
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After an anemic start, Rage Against the Machine delivers at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Los Angeles Times | 01/05/07
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 ... Read

The 50 Worst Artists in Music History

Blender | 05/12/06
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Bamboo music rekindled in Philippine

CCTV | 23/06/08 iMuzique
The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ... More

Music venues: the weird and the wonderful

The Guardian | 23/06/08 iMuzique
Bands playing London are pretty lucky. During the snakes and ladders game of the music business they can play venues that rise in capacity from a former ... More

The next big Ting?

Boston.com | 16/06/08 iMuzique
The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ... More

The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom

Timesonline | 18/05/08 iMuzique
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More

Tika: The fearless songstress returns

Jakarta Post | 11/05/08 iMuzique
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Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08 iMuzique
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
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

Why modlife / Angels & Airwaves have a right music model

Philgalland's Weblog | 18/04/08
Modlife is interactive website for fans of the band Angels & Airwaves (created by Tom Delonge, former lead singer of punk-rock band blink182). People who ... Read

A million-dollar reason to be a rock star in China

Xinhuanet | 25/12/07
Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ... Read

Yorke Addresses EMI Renegotiation Report

Billboard | 01/01/08
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has responded to a report that his band demanded an exorbitant advance from EMI for its next album as well as control of ... Read

Led Zeppelin promoter wishes eBay would 'drop dead and die'

The Guardian | 08/10/07
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

Concert sites slam agency's levy

Telegraph | 05/12/07
Band managers behind 400 artists from Robbie Williams to Radiohead and KT Tunstall have formed a new rights society that hopes to collect a slug of the ... Read

Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead

Telegraph | 09/10/07
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 ... Read

Nine Inch Nails tells fans to steal music

VNUnet | 20/09/07
The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails has urged fans of the band to steal its music as a protest against the high price charged by record companies. Trent ... Read

Gym music favourites revealed

pinknews.co.uk | 23/03/07
It's official: gay icons and boybands make the best music to get sweaty to. A nationwide Standard Life Healthcare poll yesterday revealed that the Scissor ... Read

Vomiting Skitzo Rocker Hospitalized

antiMusic | 23/03/07
Lance Ozanix of the California-based band SKITZO was admitted to the hospital late last night after suffering from severe stomach pain. After being seen ... Read

Bo Diddley dead at age 79, spokesman says

Orlando Sentinel | 02/06/08 iMuzique
Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ... More

New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music

The Korea Times | 23/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Music video game linked to injuries

TV5 | 18/05/08 iMuzique
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

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
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Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?

Wired News | 01/05/08
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Global guitar star is born on the Web

Times of India | 12/09/06
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 ... Read

Hendrix Heir Sues Over Jimi-Branded Vodka

TMZ | 09/03/07
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Arrest that stanza! lyric sites a target

New York Post | 17/09/07
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The new girl power

The Telegraph | 17/11/07
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Best guitar solos named

Planet Rock | 29/08/06
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 ... Read

Songs included in Guitar Hero 3 see a dramatic leap in digital sales

Ars Technica | 23/11/07
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 ... Read

Music opens new world to Afghan girls

The News | 29/08/06
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Under The Hammer For Music Rising

U2 France | 27/03/07
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 ... Read

Music publishers license guitar tabs for the Web

PCpro | 03/04/07
The US Music Publishers Association (MPA) has begun licensing websites that want to reproduce guitar tabs, the notation that tells guitarists where to ... Read

After an anemic start, Rage Against the Machine delivers at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Los Angeles Times | 01/05/07
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Waiting for women to take the lead

The Telegraph | 06/02/07
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Osadebe, High-Life Music Maestro, is Dead

allAfrica | 15/05/07
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The Smoking Gun | 10/10/06
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