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Music Review | The Gaslight Anthem: Telling Stories Inside Stories, in Songs With Shades of Punk and Pop
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:30:08 -0000
The Gaslight Anthem brought rich, punk storytelling and shades of another Jersey export to the Knitting Factory on Saturday.
Music Review | Ron Miles and Bill Frisell: Two’s a (Quietly Harmonious) Crowd
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:25:53 -0000
Trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell evinced their uncommon musical rapport at the Jazz Standard on Thursday.
Music: Prokofiev, a Russian in Exile Who Became a Soviet at Home
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:30:45 -0000
Most of the concerts at the Bard Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday centered on a single issue: What effect did returning to Russia have on the composer’s music and career?

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Stephen And Damian Marley At The Newport Folk Festival
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:52:00 -0400
When all the electricity in Newport, R.I., went out, Stephen Marley proudly announced that their generator stage was one of the few places in the town still wired. Sharing both the stage and their songs — including one by their father — brothers Stephen and Damian Marley tag-teamed a celebratory concert at the Newport Folk Festival.
Classical Music Is Houston's Best-Kept Secret
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:33:00 -0400
Education and musicians in residence fuel a robust contemporary classical scene in the Texas city. It's supported by the success of the Houston Symphony and local public radio, which has helped build an open-minded audience for music that's both cerebral and fun.
Songs For A Hot August Night
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:17:00 -0400
August is a month for moving at a relaxed pace, so it's a perfect time to seek out a tall cool one and some music to go with it. Here are five tunes to help you find the happily you're ever after.

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Jackson, Montgomery Gentry give Sony reasons to celebrate
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:20:00 -0500
Music Row celebrated the successes of two Sony BMG Nashville artists this week: Montgomery Gentry earned two parties to honor No. 1 "Back When I Knew It All," and a massive gathering at Vanderbilt's Student Life Center feted Alan Jackson, who recently reached the milestone of 50 million records sold.
Briefs
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:12:00 -0500
Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group was sued for allegedly cheating members of The Allman Brothers Band out of some $10 million in royalties on music recorded from 1969 to 1980. Band members Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johanson alleged Universal is paying only a "small fraction" of the royalties due them for digital downloads of their songs and is refusing to negotiate royalty rates for newly released digital configurations, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan. UMG spokesman Peter Lofrumento declined to comment.
Hip-hop's bible, 'The Source,' relaunches
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:19:00 -0500
NEW YORK — The Source, which was in bankruptcy last year, is relaunching with a 20th-anniversary issue and a new focus — a direction that its co-publisher says will restore the magazine, once known as hip-hop's bible, to prominence.

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The Man Who Wasn't There
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:18:38 -0700
Robert Downey Jr. has made the leap from tortured rebel to leading man. So why does he feel he's "still not human"? • Peter Travers on Robert Downey, Jr.'s Best Roles At a restaurant called Craft, in Los Angeles, near the new CAA building, outside, under sunlight, not on a couch but on the warm, warm ground, Robert Downey Jr. lights a cigarette, takes a sip of his double espresso, listens politely to a waitress extolling the virtues of the halibut, orders the halibut on her recommendation, regards her through the dark bubble of teardrop shades, remembers then what his first thought of the day was...
Mellencamp's New Blues
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:25:56 -0700
The heartland hero settles into a happy middle age — and makes his unhappiest album yet • John Mellencamp: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide The coughing fit doesn't last long, but it's ferocious: Four sharp hacks, and then John Mellencamp can speak again. "Fuckin' cigarettes," he says, catching his breath. Mellencamp is sitting on a brown leather couch in the rural Indiana studio where he's recorded all of his music since 1985 — including a haunting new album called Life, Death, Love and Freedom that leans hard on the death part. It's disquieting stuff,...
Q&A: Katy Perry
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:57:26 -0700
This summer's newly minted pop sensation on her titillating smash single, hating Fox News and losing her virginity • Video: Katy Perry Performs "I Kissed a Girl" Live Katy Perry vows she's never actually kissed a girl. If she had, it would probably have been a certain ballerina. "When I was growing up, I was enamored with this one friend," says Perry, 23, of a teenage crush. "She had the most beautiful complexion and skin, and strawberrylike lips." Those lips would eventually inspire "I Kissed a Girl," the infectious, bi-curious pop nugget that has earned her props from Madonna and the top slot on the...

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Earshot: 'Misunderstood' Single Available On UG Profiles
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:46:00 -0000
"Misunderstood," the first single form the band's new album "The Silver Lining," is streaming at UG Profiles!
Edguy: New Album 'Tinnitus Sanctus'
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:16:53 -0000
Power metal band Edguy have annouced their ninth upcoming studio album Tinnitus Sanctus.
30 Seconds To Mars Sued For $30 Million By Virgin
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:14:26 -0000
30 Seconds To Mars has been hit by a lawsuit that claims the band owes its record label, Virgin Records America, three albums.

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