Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
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Calexico s co-headlining and collaborative sets with Iron & Wine on Tuesday night at the Wiltern looked and felt like the indie-rock version of The Last Waltz, complete with a few surprise guests and...
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Between hosting the popular radio show From the Top, performing around the world and preparing to record an Elliott Smith album, classical pianist Christopher O Riley, 49, has lots on his plate. Then...
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The Redwalls sound wise beyond their years. Not one of them is older than 22. But hearing their music, it sounds like they ve been around for 40. This Chicago band plays honest-to-goodness rock n roll...
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Fans of Radiohead take their love of the band very seriously. Classical pianist Christopher O Riley, however, has taken his admiration further. O Riley has recorded two full albums of Radiohead transcriptions...
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A trip to The Red Light District scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday. The Atlanta rapper/actor s fourth Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South effort sold...
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It s been almost a year since singer-songwriter Elliott Smith committed suicide, and fans and friends will be looking for answers as the posthumous From a Basement on the Hill is released. Smith, known...
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Mississippi blues label Fat Possum Records and its owner Matthew Johnson have sued former joint-venture partner Epitaph Records, alleging that Epitaph hatched a malicious plot ... to financially destroy...
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Busted want you to know: They re pop, not plastic. The London-based trio, currently on a sold-out stadium tour of Britain, may be freshly scrubbed moppets whose melodic punk-pop thrills fans. But don...
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Performers at the nation s biggest gathering of bands here always face Vegas-style odds. Yet acts ranging from major-label properties to unsigned regional groups -- more than 1,200 in all this year --...
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It was bound to happen. Music talent-contest fever has been sweeping across TV networks, and UPN finally has a series of its own. UPN has teamed with Missy Elliott for a new reality show/contest with...
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Eight years after the release of her critically acclaimed Atlantic debut, Dreamland, jazz singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux has teamed with Rounder Records for her second release. Drawing comparisons...
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Tests to determine whether an Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter was murdered or committed suicide were inconclusive, a coroner s spokesman said Tuesday. Elliott Smith , 34, died in a hospital on Oct...
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Universal Music Group said Tuesday it reached a deal to buy DreamWorks Records, the music unit of the entertainment company formed by film and music moguls Steven Spielberg , Jeffrey Katzenberg and David...
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On Monday (November 4) at a memorial concert held at Los Angeles s Henry Fonda Theater, Beck, Beth Orton, and other esteemed artists and admirers paid tribute to late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith,...
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Elliott Smith , a singer-songwriter whose dark, introspective songs won him critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for the film Good Will Hunting, has apparently committed suicide, coroner s...
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He was once dubbed the unhappiest man in the land. His most renowned song was called Miss Misery. Nevertheless, Elliott Smith sounded disappointed that he was often asked, Why are you so sad? The...
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(10/22/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, best known for his dark songs on the 1997 soundtrack to the film Good Will Hunting, died Tuesday (October 21), an apparent suicide at the age...
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(4/13/99, 8 p.m. PDT) - Microsoft Corp. s Windows Media Technology 4.0 will make its debut Wednesday (April 14) at 6 a.m. PDT on LAUNCH.com with more than 45 tracks from more than 45 different artists...
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(3/9/98) - Big belters will belt em out at the March 23rd Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences show, better known as the Oscars. Singing nominated original songs will be Michael Bolton ( Go The...
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(2/11/98) - The Titanic juggernaut continued during yesterday s nominations for the 70th annual Academy Awards. Titanic captured a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations (the only other film to receive...
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