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 MoMa Shines Light on 
 NYC's Punk Revolution 

Materials by Patti Smith, Ramones showcase cultural shift

Aug 19, 09 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York’s Museum of Modern Art is showcasing the gritty glamour of the city’s 1970s and early ’80s music scene, where punk, New Wave, DIY, and noise rock ruled, Rolling Stone reports. New Yorkers were feeling alienated—the city was bankrupt in 1975; President Ford told it... More »

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entertainment • music • New York City • rock and roll • Museum of Modern Art • Talking Heads • Patti Smith • Gerald Ford • punk music • Ramones • Sonic Youth • exhibition • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - In 1959, Miles Davis was looking to forge a path away from the bebop spearheaded by mentor Charlie Parker, Fred Kaplan writes on Slate. “Parker not only invented bebop, he perfected it,” Kaplan continues, leaving Davis nowhere else to go. So when Davis was introduced to so-called “... More »

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entertainment • music • jazz • Miles Davis • Charlie Parker • John Coltrane • Bill Evans • Cannonball Adderley • Kind of Blue • bebop • modal

 New Kiss Disc 
 to Land at Wal-Mart 

Group becomes latest classic band to move merch through retailer

Aug 17, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The deal was sealed with a Kiss: the heavy metal band is joining the ranks of classic bands releasing their music through Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, the AP reports. Their new collection, “Sonic Boom,” comes out Oct. 6 only at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club; it... More »

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music • retail • Kiss • Sam's Club • heavy metal • Wal-Mart • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Word processors, dot-matrix printers, rotary phones, and other formerly state-of-the-art technologies are just about gone and nearly forgotten. Carrying the torch for the likes of holding up a cigarette lighter at a concert is JR Raphael of PC World, who lists 40 leading lights of abandoned technology:
  • Looking up
... More »

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music • technology • punctuation • typewriter • printers • pay phones • phone booth • grammar • word processor • boombox • phone book • phone directory • rotary phone • cigarette lighter • mix tape

(Newser) - We may have Erik Satie to blame for hold music—the composer “developed a very cynical attitude” toward a distracted listening public and decided modern music would be more like a chair than an intellectual pursuit—but the science behind it is state-of-the-art, Newsweek reports. Studies on the... More »

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music • science • business • composer • telephone • scientific study • hold • Erik Satie

MUSIC REVIEW

 Dance the Night 
 Away With Handclap 


Band has high-profile guests and a fun vibe that runs a bit too long

Aug 14, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Phenomenal Handclap Band gets a leg up on its self-titled debut from buzzworthy guests like TV on the Radio and the Dap-Kings—but one of the unfortunate consequences is that “there's a feeling of anonymity to the band,” writes Paul Thompson for Pitchfork. Nonetheless, when it comes... More »

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music • album release • Dap-Kings • music review • TV on the Radio • Jay-ZTV • Phenomenal Handclap Band

 Mel, Babymamma Record Duet 

Duets with babymama to be released, plague us all

Aug 14, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 40th anniversary of Woodstock—what a perfect day for the announcement that Mel Gibson is making what is sure to become known as musical history. The actor provides guest vocals for two of the tracks on babymamma Oksana Grigorieva’s upcoming album, the Mirror reports. In not nearly... More »

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entertainment • music • celebrity • Mel Gibson • album • Oksana Grigorieva • duet

OPINION

 The Music Sucked at Woodstock 


Aug 14, 09 7:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Woodstock become an iconic event of the '60s, but according to Wall Street Journal critic Jim Fusilli, it was a mediocre festival at best. Major artists like Lennon, the Doors, and Led Zeppelin stayed away, those who did show were drugged up, and sound equipment failed—the whole thing was... More »

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music • 1960s • music festival • Woodstock

obituary

 Music Legend  
 Les Paul Dead at 94 

Inventor, guitarist 'changed the course of 20th-century popular music'

Aug 13, 09 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Musical innovator and guitar legend Les Paul died today in White Plains, NY. He was 94. A “virtuoso guitarist” himself, in the early 1940s Paul pioneered the “log” guitar, “probably the first solid-body electric guitar," writes Jon Pareles of the New York Times. His popular Gibson... More »

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music • music industry • obituary • innovation • guitarist • guitar • Jay-ZTV • Les Paul • Mary Ford • Gibson guitar

 Best Rock Documentaries 


Aug 11, 09 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - In honor of Woodstock—which happened 40 years ago this weekend—and the “seminal documentary” that captured it, John Farr shares his list of the 10 best rock concert/performance films—all of which are “meant to be played loud,” he writes on the Huffington Post. “So... More »

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music • Rolling Stones • Bob Dylan • list • documentary • rock and roll • concert • Elvis Presley • Beatles • rock bands • Neil Young • Jay-ZTV

appreciation

 Happy 100th to the 
 Man Who Changed Rock 

Leo Fender, inventor of the Stratocaster, born Aug. 10, 1909

Aug 10, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a man who forever changed rock and roll—even though he couldn’t play the instrument inextricably associated with his name. Leo Fender designed guitars and amplifiers that have endured for decades, including the legendary Fender Stratocaster, played by Jimi Hendrix,... More »

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music • rock and roll • guitar • rock music • amplifiers • bass guitar • Fender Stratocaster • Leo Fender

MUSIC REVIEW

 Radiohead Stuns With 
 Anthem for WWI Vet 


Aug 10, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Radiohead made waves when they let fans download their last album for whatever price they wanted, yet a new online-only track has been released in the past week to far less fanfare. "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" commemorates the last British veteran of World War I, who died last... More »

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music • veterans • music downloads • British military • Radiohead • Thom Yorke • World War I

ALBUM REVIEWS

Maxwell and K'Jon Force
Soul Music to Grow Up

Maxwell, K'Jon lead return to classical soul era's adult themes and sound

Aug 8, 09 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Soul music has always been adult, conveying mature themes like financial insecurity and emotional anxiety. Now, with the emergence of K’Jon and the return of Maxwell, it finally sounds adult, too, Jon Caramanica writes in the New York Times. “K’Jon and Maxwell represent a strain of R&... More »

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music • hip-hop • music review • R&B • Jay-ZTV • soul music

 New Generation 
 of UK Rappers 
 Steps Out  

Kids are coming out of the woodwork earlier to become Internet sensations

Aug 7, 09 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Grime—a musical genre fusing, among other things, hip-hop, electronica, and Caribbean influences—is being rejuvenated and redefined by “youngers,” the new generation of Internet-savvy MCs reaching for the charts, the Independent reports. “The ‘olders’ grew up listening to rap and hip-hop and other artists... More »

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music • London • hip-hop • rapper • rap music • Jay-ZTV • grime

(Newser) - Beastie Boy Adam Yauch has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland and is recovering at home, Rolling Stone reports. The rapper says he had the procedure a week and a half ago, and spent just one night in the hospital. Though his recovery is... More »

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entertainment • music • surgery • hip-hop • parotid tumors • Beastie Boys • Adam Yauch • throat cancer • MCA • radiation treatment

Interview

 Boyle: I Did It for My Mom  

Fame hasn't gone to singing sensation's head

Aug 6, 09 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Soaring to stardom was “too big for anyone to handle,” says Susan Boyle. But in her first major magazine interview, the singer doesn't pause when asked whether she’s glad she went on Britain’s Got Talent: “Come on! It goes without saying,” she tells... More »

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music • celebrity • singer • interview • fame • Susan Boyle • Britain's Got Talent

ALBUM REVIEW

 Hip-Hop's 
 Next Big Thing 
 'Fine, Fresh, Serious' 

Sure, her life wasn't all hard, but don't write her off as a rapper

Aug 6, 09 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Even in a ‘post-race’ world, street sells,” writes Amy Granzin for Pitchfork. That would explain why some looked at Speech Debelle—the once-homeless UK rapper turned Mercury Prize nominee and "hip-hop's next big thing"—and spun “a tiny bit of flash into blinding... More »

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entertainment • music • hip-hop • rapper • album release • rap music • music review • Jay-ZTV • Speech Debelle

Seacrest, Idol Alums Sorry
to See Abdul Go

Hosts, finalists Tweet their sadness over resignation

Aug 5, 09 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paula Abdul’s surprise announcement that she won’t return to American Idol has disappointed fellow host Ryan Seacrest and several Idol alumni, E! Online reports.
  • "I was shocked," Seacrest said on his radio show this morning. "I'm just bummed because we've worked together for
... More »

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television • music • American Idol • competition • Ryan Seacrest • Twitter • Paula Abdul

(Newser) - Some complain about the explicit lyrics in rap, but modern MCs have nothing on early-20th-century blues singers. Compared to them, “the members of NWA are levelheaded concerned citizens,” says Cracked. A sampling:
  • "A to Z Blues," Blind Willie McTell, 1956: "I'm gonna cut A,
... More »

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entertainment • music • murder • list • rap music • lyrics • blues • sexually explicit

Asperger's Man Could Be Next Susan Boyle

Briton who can barely leave the house wows X Factor judges

Aug 5, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - A young singer with Asperger’s syndrome who once spent 7 years without leaving his home is poised to take the British reality TV world by storm, the Independent reports. 21-year-old Scott James’ yet-to-be broadcast audition on the show X Factor features a rave review from Simon Cowell,... More »

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entertainment • music • reality TV • autism • Simon Cowell • England • singer • Asperger's Syndrome • X Factor • Scott James

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