Pink Floyd wins downloads suit
msnbc - 03/11/2010 18:00
In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rat...
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EMI Music Names a New Chief
nytimes - 03/11/2010 09:00
Charles Allen was named executive chairman of EMI Music. He replaces Elio Leoni-Sceti, who is leaving the company.
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Corey Haim's Hollywood story is sadly familiar
msnbc - 03/11/2010 05:01
Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-pow...
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Arts, Briefly: Lady Antebellum Returns to Top of Chart
nytimes - 03/11/2010 02:00
Six new albums entered the Billboard Top 10 this week, but none could best the two titles that have dominated the chart for the last five weeks.
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Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum
nytimes - 03/11/2010 02:00
On Tuesday, the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth, the Ying Quartet performed the composer’s Op. 11 String Quartet in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Lib...
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Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier
nytimes - 03/11/2010 02:00
The Grawemeyer Players, a faculty ensemble from the University of Louisville, performed works by winners of the university’s annual composition prize at Weill Reci...
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'Anna Nicole' opera to premiere next February
msnbc - 03/10/2010 20:20
The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model...
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For New York City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works
nytimes - 03/09/2010 19:00
The struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season.
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Domingo Has Polyp Removed From Colon
nytimes - 03/09/2010 17:40
A spokeswoman said surgeons used laparoscopic surgery to remove the polyp and that Placido Domingo is expected to fully recover.
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The Bowery Presents....Shows in Boston
nytimes - 03/09/2010 17:40
The company will present live music at the Royale club.
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Sparklehorse singer kills himself
msnbc - 03/08/2010 23:00
Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was 47. Mark Li...
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Arts, Briefly: Stevie Wonder Honored in France
nytimes - 03/08/2010 19:20
Almost 30 years after he was first named to receive the Commander of Arts and Letters award, Stevie Wonder accepted it from the French Culture Minister Frédéric...
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Music Review | Todd Snider: A Bit Wry and Rough at the Edges
nytimes - 03/08/2010 09:00
The 43-year-old alt-country singer-songwriter Todd Snider looked the epitome of a scruffy modern troubadour ambling along a rutted Southern highway on the way to nowhere.
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Music Review | Boston Baroque: Praise of Mary at Eventide Resounds Across 400 Years
nytimes - 03/08/2010 09:00
Boston Baroque’s music director, Martin Pearlman, says he considers the Vespers one of the ensemble’s signature works, with good reason.
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Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel
nytimes - 03/08/2010 09:00
One way to understand the music of the improvising electro-acoustic quartet Glissando bin Laden is as a fight between rigid law and individual choice.
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'Alice' sets 3-D record in opening weekend
msnbc - 03/08/2010 00:40
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as "Alice in Wonderland" earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend - a record for a...
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Haitian Singer and His Guitar Fight Urge to Weep
nytimes - 03/07/2010 06:00
Beken, known for songs about redemption, lost his home and is struggling to find the will to make music again.
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Complete list of Spirit Award winners
msnbc - 03/06/2010 18:40
Following is a complete list of winners at the 25th annual Spirit Awards, the independent film world's version of the Oscars, held on Friday in Los Angeles. Los Angeles -...
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Pattinson still brooding in 'Remember Me'
msnbc - 03/11/2010 06:40
In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause." Keep looking. ...
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'Green Zone' may pave way for more war films
msnbc - 03/11/2010 06:40
They conjured box office magic with their "Bourne" spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller ...
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Kristen Stewart wasn't allowed to grope Dakota
msnbc - 03/11/2010 03:23
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning share a smooch in their new rock 'n' roll movie, "The Runaways," but Stewart said one thing got in the way - the law. KristenStewart - ...
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‘The Nose,’ and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera
nytimes - 03/11/2010 02:00
Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “T...
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Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
nytimes - 03/11/2010 02:00
A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is the first large-scale public showing of artifacts from a large archive of historical materials devoted to the Grate...
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Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ‘Trunk Muzik’ Mixtape
nytimes - 03/10/2010 03:00
Yelawolf, while an easy fetish object — white, rural, tattooed, skateboarder-friendly, an anomaly among anomalies — isn’t an outsider in Southern rap...
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Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall
nytimes - 03/10/2010 03:00
The concert presented by Max Lifchitz and his North/South Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday was billed as a 30th-anniversary gala.
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Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993
nytimes - 03/10/2010 03:00
There’s a lot of meta-sublimity going on right now in indie rock. Sometimes it really is sublime. Now Harvey Milk is on tour for a record it made in 1993.
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MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico
nytimes - 03/10/2010 03:00
MtyMx, a rock music festival in Monterrey, Mexico, will take place on the grounds of a drive-in movie theater over three days beginning March 20.
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Next celebrity children's author? Hilary Duff
msnbc - 03/09/2010 23:00
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers said Tuesday that actress-singer Hilary Duff will work on a series of young adult novels that starts with "Elixir," to be publish...
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Leibovitz enters new deal to manage debt
msnbc - 03/09/2010 19:41
Leibovitz won an extension last year to repay a $24 million loan to the Manhattan firm Art Capital Group. The financial dispute had threatened her rights to her own image...
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For Lil Wayne, Third Sentencing Date Yields a Year at Rikers
nytimes - 03/09/2010 17:40
The rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., had pleaded guilty in October, after being arrested in 2007.
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Webber's 'Pantom' sequel opens in London
msnbc - 03/09/2010 16:40
High expectations as 'Love Never Dies' picks up the story 10 years later. Love Never Dies - Andrew Lloyd Webber - London - Phantom of the Opera - England
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'Remember Me' lets Pattinson ditch the fangs
msnbc - 03/09/2010 03:00
"Twilight" mega-star Robert Pattinson has always played period or fantasy roles, so he was eager to accept the starring role in his latest film, in which he plays an ordi...
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Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel
nytimes - 03/09/2010 02:00
Both the concise and the verbose sides of Shostakovich were represented on Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall.
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