Thursday, November 03, 2005 - Posts
Beach Boys member Mike
Love has filed a lawsuit against former band mate Brian Wilson over
Smile--the famously unfinished Beach Boys opus that Wilson
completed and released on his own last year to much acclaim, and at
Love's expense.
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Madonna stole the show at the MTV Europe
Music Awards on Thursday with the first live televised
performance of her new single "Hung Up," emerging from a giant
glitter ball wearing purple leather boots and matching leotard.
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A banner reading "1966" hangs above DJ Rena Durrant and her turntables at Club Satisfaction in Hollywood. On the dance floor, doe-eyed girls in polyester A-line dresses and bobbed hair shimmy and shake alongside boys in three-button suits and Beatle boots.
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Ready or not, Kevin Federline is making his rap debut.
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Madonna kicked off the MTV Europe Music
Awards on Thursday with the first live televised performance of
her new single "Hung Up," emerging from a giant glitter ball
wearing purple leather boots and matching leotard.
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Disappointed musicians clutched their instruments outside Radio City Music Hall as thousands of ticketholders streamed past Thursday for the annual "Christmas Spectacular," where recorded holiday music replaced the usual live orchestra in a
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Baaba Maal was inspired as much by thirst for adventure as for learning when, as a young Paris conservatory student, he persuaded his teachers to let him spend two years collecting songs and stories in villages across his homeland of Senegal.
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Country Music Television is airing a preview next week of a proposed reality show based on Kinky Friedman's independent run for Texas governor.
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Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring
Jamie Foxx topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a
ninth consecutive week Thursday, while R&B rookie Chris Brown's
"Run It!" and funk band Black Eyed Peas' "My
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Lindsay Lohan's new album has been
pushed back by two weeks to December 6.
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A showdown devoid of holiday cheer loomed Thursday at Radio City Music Hall, where management debuted its annual "Christmas Spectacular" with recorded music amid a bitter labor dispute with its orchestra.
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Alternative singer-songwriter Bebe carried Thursday's Latin Grammys into a new era, with the awards show being broadcast in Spanish for the first time and showcasing a broad cross-section of music, including hip-hop, reggaeton, R&B and rock
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Parts one through twelve of the dramatic, over-the-top cheating story were released on DVD this week. Kelly says he actually had 22 chapters completed — "and (it's) still going."
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America Online Inc. expanded its offerings to digital music consumers with the acquisition of the MusicNow subscription service from Circuit City Stores Inc., AOL said Thursday.
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The dawn of Kevin Federline's hip-hop career has begun, though it remains to be seen if it will last past breakfast.
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Stevie Wonder wants to add more Grammys to his trophy case.
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A showdown devoid of holiday cheer loomed Thursday at Radio City Music Hall, where management said its annual "Christmas Spectacular" would go forward with canned Christmas tunes amid a bitter labor dispute with its musicians.
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Music videos were stifled by the
downloading that crippled record companies, but they have found
new life in the past year on the Internet, mobile phones and
DVDs, and are helping rescue the ailing music industry.
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Surrounded by fall foliage and hundreds of military boots, Robert Cray filmed a video for "Twenty," the anti-war title track of his latest album.
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Fans camped out overnight for a
front-of-stage view of Madonna, who performs the first single
from her eagerly awaited new album later on Thursday at the MTV
Europe Music Awards in Lisbon.
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With much of Florida still
recovering from Hurricane Wilma, Bruce Springsteen has been
forced to cancel his November 3 solo acoustic show near Ft.
Lauderdale because of officials' concerns about public safety.
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Les Paul -- nonpareil
guitarist, inventor and studio innovator -- turned 90 on June
9. He celebrated the occasion with the August 30 release of an
all-star Capitol/EMI album, "Les Paul and Friends: American
Made World Played," a rock album featuring
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It was the season's first performance of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" ("The Marriage of Figaro") at the Metropolitan Opera, but the cast still had a tough act to follow — at least during Act I.
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The first song opened
with an ancient blues riff, then careened into a playfully
rocked-up mid-'60s L.A. folk sound. The next had a Summer of
Love vibe and enough oooh-ahhh backing vocals to be a "Pet
Sounds" outtake. And on it went.
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Queen won't be rocking you on the Las Vegas Strip much longer.
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When presenters crack jokes and artists make acceptance speeches during Thursday's 6th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, they'll be doing something natural for them but novel for the show — speaking in Spanish.
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Destiny's Child knows how to make a grand exit; 'N Sync, not so
much.
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R&B trio Destiny's Child's "#1's"
lived up to its misleading title with a chart-topping bow on
the U.S. albums chart Wednesday, although sales fell far short
of those for its previous No. 1 release.
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