The Guardian
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 leper hospital and forge with just enough space for about 120 people (the 12 Bar Club), to a drag club (Madame Jojos), a dilapidated old pickle factory (the Astoria), a one-time art deco cinema (Brixton Academy) and finally, when they've made it to the top, Britain's most infamous and expensive white elephant (the O2 Arena). (23/06)
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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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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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Before he died in November of 2007 of brain cancer, Ernie Barbour made the drive from his home in the East Bay to visit a friend and teaching colleague ...
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For the past several years, Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger has wanted to make a movie that focuses on the music business over three decades. In doing ...
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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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The Police will reunite to open the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, The Recording Academy said today, fueling speculation that the ...
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Sources close the Holy See are saying that during his upcoming visit to the St. Cecilia Music Academy, Pope Benedict XVI may address the need to recover ...
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THIS is strictly a best-of-Broadway list, which means a number of my favorite shows are not contenders. (That includes the splendid Russian-speaking “Twelfth ...
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