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Music Critic Must Testify About R. Kelly Sex Tape (New York Times)

A music critic for The Chicago Sun-Times who gave the police the tape that prosecutors say shows R. Kelly, right, having sex with an under-age female must testify at Mr. Kelly?s child pornography trial, a judge ruled Friday. Judge Vincent Gaughan of Cook County Criminal Court ruled that the defense can question the critic, Jim DeRogatis, about what he did with the VHS cassette between the time …

MySpace Music to stage its 150th Secret Show (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

The secret’s out: MySpace Music Secret Shows are a hit. Social networking pioneer MySpace has created its most successful music program with the intimate Secret Shows series, whose 150th installment will feature Gnarls Barkley on June 8 at Irving Plaza in New York.

Neurologist, gospel choir explore music’s healing power (USA Today)

Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.

R. Kelly trial: Defense will quiz music critic (Chicago Tribune)

Judge orders Sun-Times writer to discuss tape A Sun-Times music critic whose stories about R. Kelly’s relationships with teenage girls led to the R&B superstar’s indictment must testify at the singer’s child pornography trial, a judge ruled Friday.

2008 Summer music guide: Who’s hitting the road? (USA Today)

Track over 100 tours and festivals all season long with USA TODAY’s summer music guide.

School of Rock Music presents Pink Floyd’s "The Wall" (The Plain Dealer)

Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” isn’t your standard spring musical, but that’s what young students from the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Highland Heights are putting on this weekend at the Grog Shop.

David Cook comes in first on reality show and first among contestants for digital music sales (The Kansas City Star)

David Cooks American Idol win is already paying dividends on the music charts.

Music group hires leader (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

Nearly seven months after its search for new leadership began, the Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission has hired an executive director.

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It is the repetitiousness even of him which overpowers them and engourdit temporarily critical

It is the repetitiousness even of him which overpowers them and engourdit temporarily critical perception and intelligence, and reduces that which worries or the tensions they test. It is a manner of the relaxation, I suppose, like consuming alcohol. But even alcohol changes quality considerably; and so not consumed judiciously, can make more evil than good. Thus, as with alcohol, moderation in the consumption of the music of noise is also wise. I think that a part of this is generations, too. My generation is known like baby-boomers, people of which the formative years coincided with the arrival and the growth of the TV, popular entertainment of media in general, and. . rock’n'roll! For the majority of the individuals of this age, the rock’n'roll is synonymous with youth.

0 Comments : 05.27.08

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Faithful turn up music to reach youths (Detroit News)

Don Keith has started a radio broadcast of contemporary music with Christian themes and messages. And he has two Web sites that allow Christian teens to interact without going against their religious values — and the values their parents seek to instill.

Labour MP aces NZ Music Month quiz (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra Entertainment)

Labour MP Winnie Laban goes to the top of the class this month, after scoring 98 percent in fellow MP Judith Tizard’s annual New Zealand Music Month quiz.

Attendance continues to climb at Stax Museum of American Soul Music (BizJournals)

Five years ago, Stax Museum of American Soul Music opened its doors in an area of Memphis now known as Soulsville. Located five minutes from Downtown on East McLemore, Stax reinvented itself in a neighborhood that has begun to reawaken after decades of decay.

Yala students discover unity in the rhythm of their music (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news)

It may not be beyond the ability of students in Yala to drown out the sound of gunfire with the sound of their own music. Despite being shrouded by the gloom of daily violence, many strive to fill their lives with peace and happiness.

Music professor receives teaching award, Boudreaux takes learning outside classroom walls (Carroll County Online)

Providing an excellent music education and inspiring students are just a couple reasons Margaret Boudreaux, professor of music and director of choral activities, received the Distinguished Teaching Award May 4 at McDaniel College.

Rain stops play at music festival (BBC News)

A free music festival to showcase local talent is postponed after forecasts of heavy and persistent rain.

Fans find their groove at Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival (Detroit News)

The sun beamed in the noon-day sky as revealers trickled into Hart Plaza, on Sunday, May 25, for day two of Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival.

Violence blamed on hip-hop music (The West Australian)

Hip-hop music is fuelling gun and knife crime in Britain, says music star Tricky. He says some parts of the United Kingdom are now worse than New York’s notorious Bronx district.

Joel Madden on Music and Diapers (TheCelebrityCafe.com)

Now that the Good Charlotte has Nicole Richie and daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Madden, he seems to sport a more refined life. He tells People that one of his favorite things to do with the baby is listen to music and change diapers.

Music on Main returns to Denison (The Herald Democrat)

By Jessica Richardson Herald Democrat DENISON Music on Main is back. The six-week concert series is free to the public at 7 p.m. on Friday for the remainder of May and the month of June. It was launched by Denison Merchants Association several years ago.

0 Comments : 05.26.08

Complexity is not only particularly valid, but the exceptional music seems to have much facets,

Complexity is not only particularly valid, but the exceptional music seems to have much facets, and supports well and continues to interest even after many listenings. Do you smell yourselves frankly stimulated, better, richer, fuller, or improved in an unspecified way to have understood the piece? This can seem much to envisage, but the truly large pieces (which, or the course the majority of music, even very fine music, will not be) often have a beneficial effect on the careful listeners. As the axiom of nutrition “are us what we eat,” (who, although obviously nonliteral, make the remark that our physical health is affected by our mode) in arts let us be that us what we consume, and what we usually listen to affects our spirits.

0 Comments : 05.22.08

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Apple Looking for More Mobile Music (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Apple is seeking new deals from the music labels to add ringtones and other offerings to the iPhone.

First Music Download Trial May Get A Do-over (CBS News)

A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation’s first music download trial may get another chance with a jury.

They Might Be Giants tilts sights toward making children’s music (The Kansas City Star)

The world of childrens music has changed the last several years, thanks in large part to rock musicians who had their own kids and started making their own childrens music.

Council cracks down on loud music from cars (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Milwaukee aldermen voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to crack down on loud music from cars, by making it easier to file…

Music store founder offers scholarships (The Republican)

SPRINGFIELD - After personally evaluating 50,000 instrumental music students over a 50-year career as founder and chief executive officer of Falcetti Music, recently retired Sam Falcetti is homing in on select students to launch the Falcetti Foundation and its first round of music college scholarships.

Music professor receives teaching award, Boudreaux takes learning outside classroom walls (Carroll County Online)

Providing an excellent music education and inspiring students are just a couple reasons Margaret Boudreaux, professor of music and director of choral activities, received the Distinguished Teaching Award May 4 at McDaniel College.

Country music’s finest: Times panel makes picks on who will come out on top atthe 43rd Academy of Country Music Awards … (Carroll County Online)

Will Kenny Chesney repeat as Entertainer of the Year at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards? How many awards will 18-year-old sensation Taylor Swift win?

Singers offer music programs (The Republican)

WESTFIELD - The Dan Kane Singers will offer two music programs for children ages 6 to 15 this summer. A two-week Talent Enrichment Camp for Young Singers will start for the sixth time at Westfield North Middle School on June 30.

0 Comments : 05.21.08

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‘Sound of Music’ villa in Austria to become hotel (USA Today)

The former home of a family made famous by the Hollywood hit musical “The Sound of Music” is being refashioned into a hotel, an official said Tuesday.

Apple Looking for More Mobile Music (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Apple is seeking new deals from the music labels to add ringtones and other offerings to the iPhone.

Austrians protest ‘Sound of Music’ hotel plan (Detroit News)

Plans to run a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in the movie “The Sound of Music” have triggered fierce resistance from neighbors who fear tourists will tie up traffic and make a nuisance of themselves.

Apple, Music Labels Discuss 3G iPhone Possibilities (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)

Apple is in talks with major music labels to beef up its ringtones and offer over-the-air music downloads on its upcoming 3G iPhone, according to The New York Times.

0 Comments : 05.20.08

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The last was intended to play an important part in the music crtoise in years which followed. Of importance particular to poetry and the music crtoises was the influence of the verses rimants towards the end of 14th C A.D. The years of the cultural stagnation invited of Crtois to adopt this artistic and literary innovation and to assimilate it to the meter iambic fifteen-syllable which existed since the age of Aristophanes. The resulting combination is currently known like m”antinada”, C-with-D. a rimant verse of fifteen syllables. This became one to two edges, but the majority of favourite, tool of personal expression, applied to the moments of the joy and sorrow. The artistic influences on Crete continued just after the autumn of Constantinople, when a mass of musicians of church gave up the capital of Christendom to come to Crete.

0 Comments : 05.19.08

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Excerpt from ‘Quick, Before the Music Stops’ (USA Today)

Quick, Before the Music Stops

Scarlett Johansson Debuts Album On Free Music Streaming Site (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)

InformationWeek - The third-largest social network in the United States also boasts recent launches of music from The Rolling Stones, Avril Lavigne, and Ray.

Von Trapp’s "Sound of Music" villa to become hotel (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

“The Sound of Music,” one of Hollywood’s greatest money-spinners, will scale new heights when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July.

0 Comments : 05.15.08

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Report: Apple weighing giving iPod users unlimited music bundle (San Francisco Chronicle)
Report: Apple weighing giving iPod users unlimited music bundle (San Francisco Chronicle)
Apple Inc. is negotiating with record labels over a deal to give iPhone and iPod customers free access to the entire iTunes music library if they pay extra for the devices. The Financial Times is reporting that the sticking point in the talks is how…

0 Comments : 05.12.08

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MUSIC (Washington Post)

Ever since the Sex Pistols failed to destroy rock-and-roll, U.K. pop pundits have been suspicious of “rockism.” So it took some cheek for British Sea Power to name its latest album “Do You Like Rock Music?” As the Brighton quartet demonstrated Thursday night at the Black Cat, it’s derived new…

Warner Music Loss (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

The Warner Music Group suspended dividends Thursday after reporting that higher costs and a shift to digital music resulted in a wider second-quarter loss.

‘American Teen’ music getting a 2008 update (Los Angeles Times)

The documentary will be infused with a bit of 2008, at least when it comes to its music.

DSO’s new director seeks greater role for classroom music (Detroit News)

WASHINGTON — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s in-coming music director said Friday that music should become an integral part of public education — including in history classes, where it can be imaginatively drawn on to teach about key moments and figures.

2008 Summer music guide: Who’s hitting the road? (USA Today)

Track over 100 tours and festivals all season long with USA TODAY’s summer music guide.

0 Comments : 05.10.08

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