The New York Times
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)
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If I invented a genre of music, it would contain Hammond organ solos, Necronomicon-inspired lyrics, and the drums would be played by a tank. And it seems ...
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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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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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tended drum solos. Prog-rock concept albums. Kenny G. We endured all these — and much worse! — to bring you Blender's list of the 50 most talentless music ...
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The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The gig last Sunday evening at Score bar in Cilandak Town Square seemed much like any other organized by major sponsors trying to tap in to the youth market, ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever ...
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