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Of the many thousands of concerts Indian master musician Ali Akbar Khan has performed, he particularly disliked a famous 1971 benefit show organized by Beatle George Harrison. "That was not music but I'd say a war of music," said Khan, the world's best-known maestro of the sarod, a fretless stringed instrument similar to the lute.
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Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ...
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John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ...
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It's my favorite show! I love it!” says 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, speaking of Sex and the City over spinach-artichoke dip in a dingy Toluca Lake restaurant ...
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At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ...
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Showbiz, they say, is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent show?. But there is no denying the fact that without the 10 per cent show there is no business ...
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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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It's good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ...
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Radiohead_social As their former label readies a greatest hits compilation to showcase their past, Radiohead continue to forge an innovative path into ...
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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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The Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition devoted to the style and fashion of Kylie Minogue is the most popular show in the museum's history before ...
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If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ...
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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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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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If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ...
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Ahead of the release, researcher Laurent Jeanneau, who compiled the selection, organised a performance at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on Mar. 18, where ...
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The audiologist walked through the packed lunchroom, holding a wand-like instrument near the 200 middle school students laughing, shrieking, and drumming ...
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What importance might traditional Turkish music instruments such as the ney, tanbur, kopuz and rebap, and Western classical music staples like the French ...
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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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Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet ...
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These pictures have let the cat out of the bag. Nigeria's supermodel, Oluchi Onweagba is not only modelling these musical instruments, there are strong ...
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ABBA fans, start making your travel plans now. A museum dedicated to the musical group will open in Sweden in 2008. Organizers are still looking for a ...
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Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous.
"A lot ...
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Some moments in history are great when they happen: an inaugural speech, a call to dream, a final farewell from a television icon who has told you for ...
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As a nation that spent many decades under the constant watch of Soviet Russia, singing was an expression of a culture that refused to be crushed. It was ...
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Twenty minutes before our concert last week I was trying to calm myself with judicious decisions: which notes to skip and where to drain the spit?
We'd ...
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Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ...
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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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Sir Paul McCartney is donating £1.6 million to a landmine charity after pulling out of a fundraising event he was due to host with his estranged ...
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As we report on Portfolio.com today, within hours of Led Zeppelin's historic reunion concert in London on Monday, fans in attendance started posting videos ...
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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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Funk rockers Jamiroquai (you know, the future - virtual insanity...) are having a tough time getting gigs these days apparently. The band just played a ...
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Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ...
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If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ...
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Just weeks after US singer Gwen Stefani covered up for a concert in Malaysia amid a furore over revealing outfits, her compatriot Beyonce is facing similar ...
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Once upon a time, in the pre-digital analog world of yesterday, people bought albums at brick-and-mortar establishments known as "record stores" and ...
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Seventeen summers ago I was hanging out in Iowa City, sweating through grad school, and too engrossed in my work to care much about the periodical cicada ...
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If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ...
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