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News: Performance / Tour

Bob Dylan Sets Tour with Nelson and Mellencamp

April 27, 2009

Bob Dylan Sets Tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp Bob Dylan Along with fellow troubadour Willie Nelson, this summer The Bob Dylan Show will also feature John Mellencamp, marking just the second time in the past 24 years that these three performers have shared the concert stage. bobdylan.com is happy to offer pre-sale tickets for ...

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News: Technology

Yahoo Shutting Down Geocities

April 27, 2009

Carol Bartz does not mess around. Ever since taking the helm from the company's long-demonized Jerry Yang, the new Yahoo CEO has made it very clear that her primary objective is streamlining the struggling search giant. The latest casualty of the company's cuts is Geocities. Yes, Geocities is still around--or it was, until now. Yahoo, which ...

News: Technology

Yahoo's Cuts Fall on Geocities; Service Will Shut Down

April 27, 2009

It's the end of an era. Yahoo announced Thursday (April 23) that it will shut down GeoCities, the Web site building business it acquired a decade ago. “We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tale Ognenovski

April 27, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Tale Ognenovski's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Tale OgnenovskiTale Ognenovski was born in the village of Brusnik near Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia on April 27, 1922. Tale Ognenovski is the greatest clarinetist, reed piper, zourlist and small bagpiper of all ...

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News: Interview

Chris Botti Newsweek Interview

April 26, 2009

Chris Botti talks about why his instrument is like an ex-wife, living like a “vagabond" and shots with Joni Mitchell. Newsweek's Friday arts video series continues as they chat with Chris Botti, the famed jazz trumpeter whose latest live-performance album, Chris Botti in Boston is on the Billboard 200 chart. NEWSWEEK: 7 Things You Don't Know ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Joe Lovano the Man Who Improvises with the Tenor Sax

April 26, 2009

SPONTANEOUS The saxophonist Joe Lovano in a performance earlier this month at Birdland in Manhattan. LAST October, acting on a whim, the saxophonist Joe Lovano showed up uninvited at the trumpeter Wynton Marsaliss show at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill. Horn in hand, he came ready to play and play he did, adding ...

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News: TV / Film

Recording the 'Wolverine' Score

April 26, 2009

A look at Gregson-Williams in the studio It's a Tuesday afternoon in late March on the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century-Fox. Harry Gregson-Williams, looking a bit haggard after having been up most of the night finishing the music of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine," stands before a 40- voice choir as they prepare to sing -- in ...

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News: Music Industry

William Morris and Endeavor Set to Form New Talent Agency Powerhouse

April 26, 2009

Talent agencies William Morris and Endeavor are expected to vote Monday on a merger that would create a representation powerhouse in Hollywood that would rank second only to the long-dominant Creative Artists Agency. The combined entity, easily the most talked about hookup in town since Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, would be better positioned to survive ...

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News: Technology

Pirate Bay Defendants Demand Retrial

April 26, 2009

Swedish judge denies conflict of interest BERLIN A defense lawyer in Sweden's Pirate Bay copyright case has called for a retrial following reports that the judge in the case is a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several of the main entertainment industry reps. Earlier this month Judge Tomas Norstroem convicted the four operators ...

News: Recording

In a Digital Age, Vinyl Albums Are Making a Comeback

April 26, 2009

Origami Vinyl is one of three new vinyl-only record stores opening next month in Los Angeles. Sales of such albums were up 89% in 2008, which has fueled a mini-boom in neighborhood record stores in L.A. At least one member of the Who seems to approve. Neil Schield knows the grim state of the ...