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Carole King honored with Gershwin Prize
Carole King has amassed some impressive accolades in her storied five-decade career. Now she can add the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to her mantle. The prolific singer-songwriter was feted with the songwriting award — named...
Tags: Politics, Whitney Houston, Library of Congress, Music Industry, Adele (music artist)
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Sigur Ros to get animated for 'The Simpsons'
Sigur Rós members are adding themselves to the long list of musicians who have gotten drawn into the crazy world of “The Simpsons.” The Icelandic art rock outfit will guest star in and compose music for the long-running animated Fox sitcom....
Tags: Elton John, U2 (music group), Iceland, The Simpsons (tv program), Music Industry
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John Lennon's first car, a 1965 Ferrari, headed to auction
It’s a good time for Beatle fans to be collecting cars. First, Paul McCartney’s 1964 Aston Martin DB5 sold for almost $500,000 in October 2012. Now bidders will have the chance to snatch up the first car John Lennon ever owned: a 1965 Ferrari...
Tags: Ferrari, Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Auction Service, Services and Shopping
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Tom Jones shakes his soul with fresh 'Spirit'
Tom Jones sits in a cozy booth along one wall of a favorite Beverly Hills restaurant. At 72, his curly hair and neatly manicured mustache and goatee are more salt than pepper after his decision to give up black hair dye a few years ago. But Jones...
Tags: Tom Jones, Symbols and Symbolism, Johnny Cash, Music Industry, Twitter, Inc.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 induction a real Rush
It was an emotional roller-coaster at the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday night in Los Angeles, even more so than usual for the annual event. Consider disco queen Donna Summer, whose husband and three daughters accepted the...
Tags: Nancy Wilson, Donna Summer, Christina Aguilera, Axl Rose, John Mayer
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'The Voice' recap: Knockouts halve Teams Adam and Shakira
It's the Knockouts, that instant elimination round sandwiched between the Battles and the live shows, on "The Voice" this week. On Monday night, in the first of two back-to-back two-hour shows that will trim 32 contestants to only 16 (four from each team)...
Tags: Battles (music group), Adam Levine, Hell on Heels (music group), Theft, Services and Shopping
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For Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones on new ground
The 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' birth in 1962 has had no shortage of commemorative activities: Last year the group was the subject of a retrospective film documentary, a triple CD survey of their recorded output and a handful of celebratory...
Tags: Ron Wood, National Hockey League, Crossfire (music group), Brian Jones, Los Angeles Lakers
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Justin Timberlake sings for Obamas at White House soul tribute
Having already dominated the Grammy Awards, late-night television and the Billboard 200, Justin Timberlake rode his rolling promotional juggernaut to the White House on Tuesday night, taking part in an all-star tribute to Memphis soul along with Mavis...
Tags: Politics, Grammy Awards, The Washington Post, Charlie Musselwhite, Barack Obama
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Coachella promoter, Indio strike deal, but locals' concerns linger
On the official website for the low desert city of Indio, the letter "I" is a cherry-red electric guitar propped up with a stack of amplifiers — a nod to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which has edged out the date shake as the town'...
Tags: Politics, Brad Paisley, Environmental Pollution, Elections, Festive Events
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A taste of the dream in bands' uneven lives
For a big swath of last year's Coachella, I followed around the young Kentucky rock band Sleeper Agent as they made their festival debut. They weren't an especially hyped or sonically au courant act, just a charismatic, road-dogging power-pop group on a...
Tags: Radio Industry, Justin Bieber, Music Industry, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Quick Takes: 'Walking' to the top
"The Walking Dead," which has already shattered viewer records for AMC, scored another milestone with its season finale. The end of the third season of the zombie apocalypse drama scored its biggest audience ever with 12.4 million viewers Sunday night,...Tags: Demographics, Motown Records, Music Industry, Arts and Culture, AMC (tv network)
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Beatles debut album released 50 years ago
It was 50 years ago today….a Beatles album came out in the U.K. That would be the Fab Four’s debut album, “Please Please Me,” released March 22, 1963. To mark the occasion, the Beatles official website is posting the five-minute...
Tags: George Harrison, John Lennon, Charles Mingus, Eric Idle, The Beach Boys
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