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? Pro-Science Rapper’s Shout Out for Evolution

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ben Paynter - Dec. 28 (Special Report) - Baba Brinkman—dubbed the hip hop Richard Dawkins—is releasing music videos from his Rap Guide to Evolution album in hopes that teachers will punch up their science lectures.

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The Big Man, E Street Band Sax Player Clarence Clemons Dies

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Jun. 19 (News Report) - Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen's life and music through four decades, has died. He was 69. Clemons died Saturday night after being hospitalized about a week ago following a stroke at his home in Singer Island, Fla. Heard On 'Weekend Edition Sunday' Remembering The Big Man Springsteen acknowledged the dire situation earlier this week, but said then he was hopeful. He called the loss "immeasurable." "We are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly 40 years," Springsteen said on his website. "He was my great friend, my partner and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band."

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Judges hand down the law with help from Bob Dylan

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - May. 09 (News Report) - The protest era's vagabond poet is cited more often than any other songwriter in legal opinions and briefs. His ballads have become models for legal storytelling.

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YouTube Launches Towson Teens' Music Career

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - Mar. 30 (News) -

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Madonna's Malawi charity 'squandered millions'

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By David Smith - Mar. 25 (News) - Managers ousted after damning audit reveals that £2.4m has been spent, but school project has not even broken groundThe managers of Madonna's charity in Malawi have been ousted after they squandered $3.8m (£2.4m) on a school that will never be built, it has been reported.The damning audit came as Raising Malawi confirmed it has scrapped plans for a $15m elite academy for girls.The charity's executive director Philippe van den Bossche, the boyfriend of Madonna's former trainer, left in October after criticism of his management style and spending at the school, according to the New York Times ."These included what auditors described as outlandish expenditures on salaries, cars, office space and a golf course membership, free housing and a car and driver for the school's director," the paper said.In a shakeup at the charity, the board of directors has been removed and replaced by a caretaker board that includes the 52-year-old singer and her manager, it added.The abandonment of the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls – backed by prominent Hollywood figures and Madonna's associates in Kabbalah – was announced in January. This caught the Malawian government by surprise and caused anger among villagers who had surrendered their homes to make way for a 117-acre construction site near the capital, Lilongwe.When the project began to turn sour, Madonna, who has reportedly invested $11m, turned to the Global Philanthropy Group for help. Its report on Raising Malawi's work, seen by the New York Times, was critical of the way Bossche oversaw both the building plans and the curriculum."Philippe's level of mismanagement and lack of oversight was extreme in both aspects of the project and the lack of success of the players on the ground is in large part a result of his inability to effectively manage project plans, people and finances," it was quoted as saying.The audit also gave a withering verdict on Anjimile Oponyo, who was supposed to head the school. "Her charisma masks a lack of substantive knowledge of the practical application of educational development, and her weak management skills are a major contributor to the current financial and programmatic chaos."Trevor Neilson, a founder of the Global Philanthropy Group, said $3.8m had been spent on the unbuilt school, much of it on architects, design, salaries and two cars for employees who had not yet been appointed."Despite $3.8m having been spent by the previous management team, the project has not broken ground, there was no title to the land and there was, overall, a startling lack of accountability on the part of the management team in Malawi and the management team in the United States," he was quoted as saying. "We have yet to determine exactly what happened to all of that $3.8m. We have not accounted for all the funds that were used."Construction of the academy was also delayed over a dispute between Raising Malawi and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land. The building had been due for completion in December this year.Michael Berg, a co-director of the Kabbalah Centre and co-founder of Raising Malawi, accepted defeat this week. He wrote to the centre's contributors: "A thoughtful decision has been made to discontinue plans for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, as it was originally conceived."But Madonna, who has adopted a boy and a girl from Malawi, insisted the charity will continue to work in the impoverished African nation. "There's a real education crisis in Malawi," she said. "Sixty-seven percent of girls don't go to secondary school, and this is simply unacceptable. Our team is going to work hard to address this in every way we can."Raising Malawi has made progress despite the setbacks, she added. "While I'm proud of these accomplishments, I'm frustrated that our education work has not moved forward in a faster way."In January, Madonna said she would now focus on building secondary schools across the country so she could reach thousands rather than hundreds of girls.In an interview last month , now leading the charity's efforts, told the Associated Press: "Basically, what we'd be doing is expanding the ability for a group of nonprofits to provide education to more kids."Madonna increasingly began to have concerns about the effectiveness of the existing strategy and management team, and as a result has made sweeping changes in order to better serve more children in Malawi."The Kabbalah Centre, once a part of the project, is no longer involved, Neilson added.MalawiMadonnaUnited StatesNew YorkDavid Smithguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Lyric Opera Baltimore announces inaugural season

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Tim Smith - Feb. 14 (News) - Memories of Baltimore Opera's demise might fade soon, if all goes well for Lyric Opera Baltimore, which has gradually emerged, partly from the ashes of the former company, and has just announced a three-production season for 2011-2012.

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The Songs Of The Egyptian Protests

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Elizabeth Blair - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Musicians have not been silent in the movement that brought down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Perhaps the most popular song of the Egyptian revolution is by Mohamed Mounir, a singer so revered, he's known as "The Voice of Egypt." The song is called "Ezzay," which means "How come?" Dalia Ziada, a blogger and human-rights activist in Cairo, says Mounir compares Egypt to a lover in the song. "He's telling it, 'I love you, and I know you love me, too, but you have to appreciate what I'm doing for you. I will keep changing you until you love me as I love you,' " Ziada says, adding that that's exactly how Egyptians feel about their country. Mounir's song was not played on Egyptian state radio, but the video is online, and it's been watched hundreds of thousands of times.

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Terra Firma and EMI: The magical misery tour

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Feb. 03 (News) - PRIVATE equity is no stranger to public embarrassment. But Terra Firma’s struggle to control EMI, a British music label whose assets include the Beatles’ back catalogue, has been particularly humiliating.

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Elton John Naples gig gets organisers into hot water

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 19 (News) - The organisers of an Elton John concert in Italy have been told to pay back the money they used to stage the event.

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Fernando del Valle, Tenor Honors Katrina | NOLA.com

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - Aug. 28 (News) -

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Apple Is Said to Face Inquiry About Online Music

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brad Stone - May. 25 (News) - The Justice Department is examining Apple’s tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.

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Film - The Runaways - The Girls Who Kicked In Rock's Door

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 17 (Other) - The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.

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Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - Sep. 17 (News Report) - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

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Jury awards $675K in Boston music downloading case by AP

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Denise Lavoie - Jul. 31 (News) - A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing music online to pay $675,000 to four record labels

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Pondering Prehistoric Melodies

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Daniel J. Wakin - Jun. 28 (News Analysis) - “I have a reasonable good ear in music,” says Bottom in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “Let’s have the tongs and the bones.” A Stone Age ancestor living near what is now Ulm, Germany, did Bottom one better. He took the hollow bone of a griffon vulture, carved five holes in it and made one of the first flutes known to exist. (Perhaps it was a she; there are lots of great women flutists.) This was at least 35,000 years ago — maybe even 40,000 years ago. Could it have been around the time of the birth of human-made melody, a period when speech perhaps began to develop? It must have been a fine improvement on the whack of tongs and bones.

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Haydn: Classical Music's Cheerful Servant

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - May. 31 (Special Report) - Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday. He was, by any measure, a prolific composer. In addition to the five dozen or so string quartets, he wrote hundreds of trios, piano sonatas, oratorios, masses, operas, songs and concertos, as well as more than 100 symphonies. In Haydn's time, promising talent didn't sign with a music company. Instead, one found a patron — some rich family that would sponsor all musical endeavors. When Haydn left school and St. Stephen's boys choir in Vienna, however, he didn't have many composition skills, his voice had cracked and he wasn't even very attractive. But music historian Robert Greenberg says that didn't stop Haydn.

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Pro-internet piracy party on course for EU seats

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Marcus Oscarsson - May. 22 (News Report) - The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. "The plan is Sweden, Europe, the world. In that order," said Christian Engstrom, the Pirate Party's top candidate. The Pirate Party received 8 per cent in the poll and if the trend continues it will take a number of seats in Brussels.

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The Pirate Bay Guilty; Jail for File-Sharing Foursome

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Oscar Swartz - Apr. 18 (News Report) - Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of contributory copyright infringement, and each sentenced to a year in prison.

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The Apollo at 75 - Uptown Shrine’s Upbeat Anniversary

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Feb. 27 (Special Report) - “The Apollo is shorthand for both American and African-American culture,”

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Gregg Allman Returns to the Solo Road

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

MusicNewsNet - Oct. 24 (News Report) - Now back in good health, Gregg Allman plans to hit the road as a solo artist once again, beginning this December for his long-delayed first solo dates of the year. Allman, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, recently finished up

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Heart sisters' Palin song anger

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Sep. 07 (News Report) - Singers Ann and Nancy Wilson said a cease-and-desist letter had been sent to the party asking it not to use the song, a US hit in 1977. "The Republican campaign did not ask for permission, nor would they have been granted permission," they said.

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Heart to McCain/Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda'

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By David Beard - Sep. 05 (News Report) - Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there.

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Singer Dan Fogelberg, 56, Dies of Cancer

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Nekesa Mumbi Moody - Dec. 17 (Other) - Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.

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Radiohead's bid to revive music industry: pay what you like to download albums

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:45:44 -0700

The Guardian - By Owen Gibson - Oct. 02 (News Report) - A spokesman for Radiohead said one motivation behind the new model was to get the album out to fans more quickly than the usual three- to six-month lead time required by record labels. Diehard fans are also being offered the opportunity to spend £40 on a physical "discbox" version of the album. After downloading In Rainbows next week, in December these fans will be sent a deluxe box containing the album on CD and two vinyl records, as well as a second CD containing more new songs, digital photographs, artwork and a hardback book.

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Like Amazon's DRM-Free Music Downloads? Thank Apple

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:47:29 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Sep. 25 (News Analysis) - "As long as the iPod is dominant, they're going to have to reconcile themselves with dealing with what the consumer wants: something that will play on the iPod," Leigh said. "The smartest thing they can do is sell music without DRM. It's not as though DRM is stopping pirating in other ways, anyway."

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