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Debate is raging on internet message boards over whether Madonna's "rocking" Live Earth performance owed more to technical wizadry than musical talent.
Madonna at Live Earth: It was rocking, but was it real? Millions of people around the world saw the American singer, not known for her strumming skills, wrap a guitar strap around her neck and play along to her hit Ray of Light on Saturday night. (11/07)
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Jake Shimabukuro travels great distances from his childhood home in Honolulu, but he packs light. "I don't have a lot to carry," he says, while on the ...
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On a short notice a large number of music and heritage lovers throng Sethi House that evening. They were as thrilled as they have found a very precious ...
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A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ...
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How To Do Business In China, China CEO, The New Chinese Consumer... my shelves here in Beijing are stacked full of such books, all trying to throw some ...
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Seemingly spurred on by the song's lyrics (“I am a moth who wants to share your light / I'm an insect Trying to get out of the dark”), the film features ...
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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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Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics Co and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit. The suit, which came to ...
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Citizens For A Better America, a band that was created for the sole purpose to ridicule Paris Hilton, has hit it big with their first single "Go Away ...
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Every few years you get one of those irresistible, guilty pleasure Latin pop songs that seem to get the whole country wiggling in a giddy inter-cultural ...
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European Union culture ministers have backed plans to transform Europe's massive film and broadcast archives into digital form and make them available ...
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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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A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and ...
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Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ...
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Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ...
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Later this year, over 30 young people from Shillong and Lucknow will travel to Rio and experience the work of Afro Reggae first hand.
In the heart 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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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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Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation ...
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A 12-year-old boy is on the streets, hanging out in derelict tenement blocks next to a motorway. At 13, he's hooked on crack cocaine, carrying a gun and ...
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HIP-HOP kids may not want to hear it, but the godfather of turntablism is a 52-year-old white guy who was raised in Switzerland, lives in London, collaborates ...
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You are more likely to discover broken pint glasses than a revolutionary music business model on the spittle-flecked floor of Camden's Barfly venue. However, ...
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan lives in a world of sound and harmony — and that's true, literally. He's now pushed the boundaries further by turning composer ...
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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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Who doesn't want to lead a stress-free life? Indeed, people aren't hesitant while taking various steps to make their lives smoother. Be it playing with ...
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"Dutch researchers have developed a network for a new generation of p2p file sharing through which, they say, faster down- and uploading and live video ...
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Madonna is pondering hanging up on Warner Music Group in favor of life without a traditional record contract. With the Material Girl's existing pact with ...
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The King is dead. Long live the King. At least he sort of lives in “All Shook Up,” a jukebox musical riding the nostalgia train on two dozen tunes Elvis ...
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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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