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VMAs have no rhythm
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn Sunday, as television's family hour gave way to raunchy prime time, a strange thing happened in living rooms across America. Britney Spears appeared on the annual MTV Video Music Awards in a sparkly black bikini, but the real disturbance developed...Tags: Nelly Furtado, Fergie (singer), Kanye West, Linkin Park (music group), YouTube
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Deeply committed to Gnarls Barkley
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOST pop acts would love to have a hit single, but be careful what you wish for. Topping the chart can be hazardous to an artist's health, especially an out-of-nowhere hit by an unknown. It can make a career, of course, but it can also overexpose the...Tags: Gorillaz (music group), Damon Albarn, Jay-Z, OutKast (music group), The Odd Couple (tv program)
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Calendar: Events from July to August 2008
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterANAHEIM National Train Show When, where: July 18 to 20 at Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W. Katella Ave. Highlights: Model-train displays, operating model railroads and landscapes made from Legos, free appraisals of old train sets, children's play area...Tags: Children, Entertainment, Dance
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The cool part about being a N.E.R.D.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTALK about a tour manager's worst nightmare. Chad Hugo had missed his flight from Virginia, skipped rehearsal and wasn't picking up the phone. Worse still, with less than an hour until show time it appeared the 32-year-old multi-instrumentalist and...Tags: Metallica (music group), Jay-Z, Ice Cream, Kanye West, Linkin Park (music group)
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Rap for Grandma
All that noise and no singing -- that's not music. That's what they said about Glenn Miller! Probably not, but people rioted over Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." My point here is that I've heard some old-people music, so you should trust me. Try...Tags: Biz Markie, John Wayne, LL Cool J, Minority Groups, Death
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'Dueling Harps' at REDCAT mixes strings, vocals
Special to The TimesThere's nothing like a little harp music to soothe jangled nerves. Popular at weddings, funerals and not a few brises, the age-old instrument, with its sensual curves and ethereal-sounding glissandi, not only has an aristocratic air but also seems an...Tags: Jefferson Airplane (music group), Henry Purcell, Frank Zappa, Irving Berlin, Movies
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SUCH TASTY NECK CANDY
Times Staff WriterBOW ties are back, and not just with über-geeky Republicans such as Tucker Carlson. Jay-Z, Brandon Flowers of the Killers and Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo are all making fashion statements with them — the sleek black bow ties that accompany classic...Tags: Republican Party, Sean John Combs, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Hugh Laurie, Jay-Z
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Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson and the style that lasts: R&B
Times Pop Music CriticLOOKING classic-casual in a summer blazer, gray fedora and matching silk scarf, Ne-Yo leaned over his laptop in a West Hollywood recording studio one mid- August afternoon, playing selections from "Year of the Gentleman," his third solo album, out Sept....Tags: Stevie Wonder, Amy Winehouse, Marvin Gaye, YouTube, Prince (music artist)
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No little-sister act for Solange Knowles
Special to The TimesSolange Knowles has a background in overcoming unexpected obstacles. In 2004, the soul chanteuse -- familiar to most who've heard her name as the younger sister of Beyoncé Knowles -- married football player Daniel Smith when she was only 17. Later that...Tags: Pineapple Express (movie), Aaliyah, Chris Brown, Timbaland, Sports
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'The Voice' recap, ugh, Cassadee Pope
Well, America, now you've done it. By eliminating Dez Duron last week, you’ve officially knocked Christina Aguilera out of competition on "The Voice," and I warned you, I WARNED you, that she would become insufferable if she had nothing else to do...
Tags: Avril Lavigne, Rod Stewart, Music, Rascal Flatts (music group), Christina Aguilera
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Happy Pills: Exploring 12 shades of heartbreak with Norah Jones and Brian Burton
Everyone, it seems, works with Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse), eventually: Damon Albarn (in Gorillaz and the Good, the Bad and the Queen), the Rapture, the Black Keys, Beck, Cee-Lo Green (in Gnarls Barkley), the Shins' James Mercer (as Broken Bells), and...
Tags: Gorillaz (music group), Norah Jones, Brooklyn (New York City), Damon Albarn, The Black Keys (music group)
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