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Oz Bans Snoop Dogg

Rapper denied visa to host MTV Australia Awards after  high-profile "incidents"

Apr 26, 07 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Add Australia to the list of countries that don't want Snoop Dogg making a mess in their yards. Just weeks after the U.K. turned away the recording artist and actor, Oz canceled his visa. "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Immigration... More »

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music • Australia • violence • Snoop Dogg

Rove to Sheryl Crow: "Don't Touch Me!"

Bush mastermind strikes sour note with singer/activist

Apr 23, 07 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Dismissive, condescending, and quite frankly a bully," is the verdict on Karl Rove from environmental activist Laurie David and singer Sheryl Crow. In their Huffington Post account of the White House Correspondents Dinner, they say Crow tapped Rove's shoulder when he turned from a conversation about global warming,... More »

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music • Karl Rove • global warming • White House • correspondent • Sheryl Crow

Sanjaya Gets
The Boot

Loved, hated, off-key  'Idol' contestant says goodbye at last

Apr 19, 07 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reality caught up with reality TV last night, when "American Idol" contestant Sanjaya Malakar was finally booted from the show. Sanjaya, as he's known to legions of fans and detractors, gained attention for his missed notes, his faux-hawk, and his popularity on the sabotage website votefortheworst.com More »

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entertainment • television • music • reality TV • American Idol • Sanjaya Malakar

Tiny Bubbles Stop

Legendary Hawaiian entertainer Don Ho dead at 76

Apr 15, 07 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Ho, perhaps the best known Hawaiian entertainer ever, died yesterday at age 76 of heart failure.   Ho worked Waikiki as its leading entertainer for 43 years, performing his last show just a few days before his death.  He is best known for his song "Tiny... More »

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music • obituary • Hawaii • Don Ho • Waikiki

Virtuoso Snubbed in Train Station

What Happens If A violinist Plays in The Subway And Nobody Hears It?

Apr 15, 07 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington Post reporter Gene Weingarten put world-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell, in a subway station in Washington DC one rush hour morning to see if people would notice him. Mostly, they didn’t. More »

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music • Washington DC • Stradivari • Joshua Bell • violin • commute

Turkish Band
Faces Jail in
YouTube Flap

Fan's video of 7-year-old song dissing entrance exams runs afoul of officials

Apr 9, 07 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - A seven-year-old song resurrected on YouTube has five punk rockers facing time in a Turkish prison. The song, an anti-authoritarian rant against the Turkish college entrance exam by the band Deli, was the sound track to a video posted by a fan, who lip-synched the lyrics while jumping around frantically... More »

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music • Turkey • Internet • YouTube • free speech • college

Keith Richards: "I Snorted
My Dad"

Rolling Stones guitarist is just as weird as we all suspected

Apr 4, 07 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Legendary rock guitarist and professional strange person Keith Richards—still alive against all apparent odds—admitted yesterday to snorting cocaine laced with his own father's ashes. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he... More »

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entertainment • music • drugs • Keith Richards • Rolling Stones • rock stars • weird • cremation • cocaine

Idol Boots Curly-Haired Christian

Clever, chubby Chris Sligh gets axe;
nine little Idols remain

Mar 29, 07 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Crimped contestant Chris Sligh was voted off this season's American Idol last night, just minutes after Simon Cowell predicted that it would be, "Bye-bye-curly." Sligh was known for being clever, chubby, and Christian—as well as his shock-mop curls. Saved from elimination was improbable teen hearthrob Sanjaya Malakar,... More »

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television • music • American Idol • Sanjaya Malakar • Simon Cowell • Chris Sligh

CD Sales Drop 20%

Mar 21, 07 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - CD sales plunged more than 20% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, and online music sales didn't come close to making up the difference. Closing stores, weak albums, and over a billion songs shared illegally every month combined to deliver the sharpest... More »

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music • music industry • music downloads • compact discs • brands • consumer • CDs • merchandise

Satellite Sisters

XM and Sirius may
have unlikely
rescuers from
the Chicago School
of Economics

Mar 18, 07 8:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jim Surowiecki describes how the “Chicago School” of economists revolutionized anti-trust thinking in the 1970s. By arguing that it is not the number of competitors but rather their strength that mattered, these economists posited that some mergers stimulate competition. More »

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entertainment • music • Mel Karmazin • satellite radio • Sirius • economics • merger • Chicago School • XM Satellite Radio

Lawsuits Aimed at Swapping Students

Record honchos hit college campuses
to make the music stop

Mar 5, 07 10:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The recording industry is bringing out the big guns in its battle to stop illegal music downloads, threatening to sue hundreds of college students each month if they don't stop swapping swiped tunes. The kids need to be taught some download etiquette, says RIAA President Cary Sherman. "Remember... More »

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education • music • Internet • music industry • music downloads • Cary Sherman • Recording Industry Association of America • network • file sharing • college • college student

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