Archive for the 'General Music' Category
My daughters favorite and country music star Taylor Swift ranks at number 69 as the most powerful celebrity in the world. This is according to the annual Celebrity 100 list produced by Forbes. After all the publicity she has gained this year who can be surprised!
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American [...]
The New York art world does such a wonderful job of satirizing itself that further assistance hardly seems necessary. But with “(Untitled),’’ writer and director Jonathan Parker takes for granted the trumped-up stakes, the humorlessness, and the artists’ capacity for opportunism and willful absurdity. The players in this movie are cynical, but, amazingly, Parker is [...]
Between Smooth Jazz, World Fusion and New Age Music
0 Comments Published January 2nd, 2009 in General Music.Scheherazade is both the name of the narrator of the legendary age-old tales “One-Thousand-and-One Arabian Nights” as well as the title of composer and instrumentalist Al Conti’s latest album which quickly hit #1 on the international New Age Reporter airplay charts.
Scheherazade (pronounced sheh-hair-uh-zahd) is Conti’s third album and contains ten original world-fusion tunes that musically [...]
Harvard researchers Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner say that their findings apply not only to tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity, but also to tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion.
During the study published online in PLoS ONE, the researchers compared 41 eight- to eleven-year-olds who had studied either piano or a string [...]
Officer Pulls Gun During Stop Of Diddy?s Entourage – Access Hollywood
1 Comment Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.Officer Pulls Gun During Stop Of Diddy?s EntourageAccess Hollywood - 10 hours agoAccess goes on set exclusively as the guys shoot their new music video on a Malibu beach for their new upcoming single, ?Summertime. …Jonas Brothers: Pure pop? Chicago Sun-TimesTrio latest Mouse creation Akron Beacon JournalThe Jonas Brothers loom large on the pop landscape Chicago [...]
NZ music a highlight of current NZSO China tour – New Zealand Herald
0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.NZ music a highlight of current NZSO China tourNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 8 hours agoWe are really lucky that our new music director Pietari Inkinen was available to conduct us on this tour. Pietari started his role as MD at the beginning of …
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New judge will instantly improve ?Idol? – MSNBC
0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.New judge will instantly improve ?Idol?MSNBC - 4 hours agoBut DioGuardi?s experience, age and newness should inject long-overdue life into a show that desperately needs some credibility, hipness and vigor. …SIMON COWELL TOUTS WILD CARD REVEAL ON NBC'S "AMERICA'S GOT TALENT" The Futon Criticall 572 news articles
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DMI Music & Media Networks Connects RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen to … – MarketWatch
0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.DMI Music & Media Networks Connects RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen to …MarketWatch - 2 hours agoDMI works with brands to create their soundDNA(R)– the audio footprint that consumers recognize as the brand's identity across all product lines, age …
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At Last, This Classical Pianist Gets the Spotlight She Deserves – Wall Street Journal
0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.Wall Street Journal
At Last, This Classical Pianist Gets the Spotlight She DeservesWall Street Journal - 2 hours ago"I had lessons twice a week, two hours long, and I had to bring new music each time. I was practicing seven hours a day and rarely getting any praise from …
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Where Everything Is Recycled and Sustainable, Including the Grudges – Washington Post
0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.Where Everything Is Recycled and Sustainable, Including the GrudgesWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoIt was the start of a veritable carnival of new-age healing and spiritual harmony as Democrats opened their convention here. And this is a party in need of …
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Out and About: Aug. 27 – Sept. 7 – Whitman Times
0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in General Music.Out and About: Aug. 27 – Sept. 7Whitman Times, MA - 5 minutes agoOutdoor Electronic Music Festival. 2 pm to 1 am, Marina Bay Beach Club, 333 Victory Road, Quincy. DJ Armand Van Helden and Junior Sanchez to headline with …
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The 50 Cent MachineForbes, NY - 19 hours agoRecord sales are declining, new media are playing havoc with the music industry, and it seems unlikely that hip-hop acts will ever lure stadiums of …
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Def Leppard Launches "ROCKZIMITY MARKETING" on August 23rd at Joe … – Trading Markets
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.Def Leppard Launches "ROCKZIMITY MARKETING" on August 23rd at Joe …Trading Markets (press release), CA - 14 hours ago"Songs From The Sparkle Lounge" contains 11 new songs including the hit single "Nine Lives," featuring a groundbreaking collaboration with country music …
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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT Tops Billboard's New Age Chart For Fourth … – Blabbermouth.net
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.BLACKMORE'S NIGHT Tops Billboard's New Age Chart For Fourth …Blabbermouth.net, NY - 12 hours ago1 on the Billboard New Age chart for the fourth straight week. The CD recently entered the German Media Control chart at position No. …
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'Harry Potter' Vs. 'Twilight': Battle Of The 'Bands About Books' – MTV.com
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.'Harry Potter' Vs. 'Twilight': Battle Of The 'Bands About Books'MTV.com - 9 hours ago"We wanted to play music that you wouldn't normally see on the TV or the radio," Harry and the Potters singer/keyboardist Joe DeGeorge said. …
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Indie Favorite Stereolab To Pre-Release New Album 'Chemical Chords … – Top40-Charts.com
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.Indie Favorite Stereolab To Pre-Release New Album 'Chemical Chords …Top40-Charts.com, NY - 8 hours agoIn fact, the touchscreen broadband network not only reaches the coveted 21-34 age demographic, but Ecast consumers feel passionately about music and 70 …Hesitant Steps Into the Future: Stereolab and the Walkmen New York Sunall 2 news articles
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Music Review: Glen Campbell puts stamp on cover songs with new CD – The Canadian Press
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.Music Review: Glen Campbell puts stamp on cover songs with new CDThe Canadian Press - 6 hours agoPerhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that Glen Campbell, at age 72, would release a collection of songs as ambitious as this. Still, "Meet Glen Campbell" …
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A memoir of New Orleans' strength, not Katrina's – Los Angeles Times
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.A memoir of New Orleans' strength, not Katrina'sLos Angeles Times, CA - 5 hours agoBy her 20s, she'd become what locals refer to as "a regular out-of-towner," there to partake in the sort of music and food and excess that only New Orleans …
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Constantines reach for new HeightsBlast, MA - 3 hours agoBy Elizabeth Raftery It wasn?t all that long ago that Canada was the veritable laughingstock of the music industry, with such smirk-inducing exports as …
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Atlantic's Jerry Wexler Showed – Wall Street Journal
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in General Music.BBC News
Atlantic's Jerry Wexler ShowedWall Street Journal - 38 minutes agoThe 14 albums Wexler and Franklin made together resulted in music for the ages. As a producer, Wexler made records to capture moments born of preparation …Legendary Hitmaker Jerry Wexler NPRCarry that weight … Media Matters for AmericaMusic Producer Jerry Wexler Dead At 91 Chatter [...]
Rock Band Goes New WaveantiMUSIC.com, CA - 15 minutes agoWith "Rio" from their 1982 release Rio, Duran Duran found success in the music video age and their second hit in the US One of the most commercially …
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Letting his geek flag fly – Detroit Free Press
0 Comments Published August 18th, 2008 in General Music.Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com
Letting his geek flag flyDetroit Free Press, United States - 22 hours agoLater, he talked openly about his luck in landing "The Office," his big-screen goals and even the music he's starting to introduce to his 4-year-old son. …Rainn Wilson: funnyman, spiritualist, 'crazy sea mammal' Chicago TribuneRainn Wilson?s fight for the spotlight Wilkes Barre [...]
Spa soundsLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 21 hours agoHe's signed contracts with veteran musicians from around the world who are creating music to be heard inside or outside spa walls. Culled from New Age, …
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Lucrecia Kasilag, grand dame of RP music, dies at 90 – Inquirer.net
0 Comments Published August 18th, 2008 in General Music.Lucrecia Kasilag, grand dame of RP music, dies at 90Inquirer.net, Philippines - 16 hours agoSaid pianist Jonathan Coo, graduate of the Philippine High School of the Arts and who, like Kasilag, also studied at the Eastman School of Music in New …Kasilag, national artist for music, dies; 89 Inquirer.netall 5 news articles
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Trio Da Paz, Joe Locke, Harry Allen and Maucha Adnet the music of … – Jazz Police
0 Comments Published August 18th, 2008 in General Music.Jazz Police
Trio Da Paz, Joe Locke, Harry Allen and Maucha Adnet the music of …Jazz Police, MN - 15 hours agoHe received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City. …
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Software offers new (photo) realityInternational Herald Tribune, France - 5 hours agoIn the digital age, people treat photos like mash-ups in music, combining various elements to form a more pleasing whole. "What we're doing," he said, …
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A soul talent's divine future – Globe and Mail
0 Comments Published August 18th, 2008 in General Music.A soul talent's divine futureGlobe and Mail, Canada - 15 minutes agoThe disc's 12 new songs pay the sincerest kind of homage to the types of soul music she heard when she was a kid, from doo-wop to funked-up disco. …
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Record producer Jerry Wexler dies – Kansas City Star
0 Comments Published August 17th, 2008 in General Music.CBC.ca
Record producer Jerry Wexler diesKansas City Star, MO - Aug 15, 2008The son of Polish immigrants and a music buff since his teens, Wexler graduated from Manhattan?s George Washington High School at age 15 in 1932, …Jerry Wexler, Produced Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Dies at 91 BloombergFond memories of the great Jerry Wexler Creative Loafing TampaJerry [...]
Jackson, Madonna hit the big 5-0 – Toronto Star
0 Comments Published August 17th, 2008 in General Music.Jackson, Madonna hit the big 5-0Toronto Star, Canada - 20 hours agoDaniel Paquette, a publicist and music columnist for Fab magazine, calls her "the queen of manipulating media." "With the release of each new album she …
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Nah … We've dynamic skills for a digital age – Ottawa Citizen
0 Comments Published August 17th, 2008 in General Music.Canada.com
Nah … We've dynamic skills for a digital ageOttawa Citizen, Canada - 17 hours agoYes, we've grown up in a new Digital Age, where information has been condensed into bite-size kernels that we can consume at the click of a mouse, …is this the dumbest generation EVER? Canada.comall 9 news articles
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