Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:41:53 PM CET
Soul museum to mark Stax label
The influence of legendary US soul music label Stax is to be recognised with the opening of a $20m (£12m) museum in April next year. The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is part of a urban and cultural renewal programme for a rundown area in Memphis, Tennessee, known as Soulsville USA .
¬> <a href="news.bbc.co.uk"target="_blank">BBC
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 7:48:17 PM CET
hmm Seattle marks Hendrix's 60th
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The city of Seattle is marking what would have been the 60th birthday of pioneering rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix, famed for his outrageous live shows, died of asphyxiation after choking on his own vomit in 1970, aged 27.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:14:31 PM CET
Hendrix's 60th
Not much to show for legendary guitarist in hometown. Sixty years after his birth, one of the most important artists ever to emerge from Seattle is -- at least officially -- almost invisible here. There's no Jimi Hendrix Boulevard, no Hendrix Arena, no Hendrix Elementary School. The only thing the city has done to recognize the man many consider the world's greatest guitar player is to give him a rock -- in the African Savanna exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:27:39 PM CET
A Little Egg Music: Mozart for chickens
A Mozart festival in the western German city of Mannheim is to put on events for chickens to test whether the music helps them lay eggs.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 11:16:45 PM CET
Whitney sticks it out with Bobby
NOT sure what Whitney Houston thought she would achieve by sticking her tongue out in court, but it didn't help the case for her bad-boy husband, Bobby Brown.
¬> <a href="www.heraldsun.news.com.au"target="_blank">Melbourne Herald Sun
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 12:20:51 PM CET
CHECHENZ WITH ATTITUDES "STRAIGHT OUTTA GROZNY"
Proud to Be a Chechen, Y’all! President Vladimir Putin may have succeeded in using the so-called "anti-terrorist campaign" in the breakaway Caucasus republic of Chechnya to rally Russian voters behind his dirty election campaign, but Chechen forces continue in their struggle, repeatedly inflicting heavy Russian casualties through guerilla campaigns in the mountains and in those regions that the Russians claim already to have "liberated."
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 3:19:12 AM CET
Pop eats itself
I was flicking through 12-inch singles in an independent record shop the other day, idly perusing the ever-proliferating multitude of genres and sub-groupings (from "broken beat" to "electroclash") that constitute the dance section, when I was struck by a particularly enticing new category: "bastard pop".
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:58:09 AM CET
Joan Jett's open letter to Rolling Stone
I tried to find some cleverly worded way to express my disgust with your "Women in Rock" issue, but what i have to say is really quite simple: You guys are completely retarded.
By RS standards, Rock is no longer a style of music but a trendy costume to be whipped up by expensive stylists and slapped onto the latest pop tart barbie doll. Give a girl some tight pants and a spiky bracelet and POOF! She ROCKS!
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Topic: - on November 23, 2002 at 9:34:18 AM CET
Partitur mit Handschrift Gustav Mahlers entdeckt
Erste Symphonie muss wegen persönlicher Anmerkungen nun wahrscheinlich umgeschrieben werden.
¬> <a href="derstandard.at"target="_blank"> Hier gehts zur Geschichte
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Topic: - on November 23, 2002 at 9:33:10 AM CET
Partitur mit Handschrift Gustav Mahlers entdeckt
Erste Symphonie muss wegen persönlicher Anmerkungen nun wahrscheinlich umgeschrieben werden.
¬> <a href="derstandard.at"target="_blank"> Hier gehts zur Geschichte
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:37:12 PM CET
Top 100 albums of the 80's
It's said that the 1980s are responsible for the worst fashion, fads, and music of any decade of the 20th century. But as we see the decade recycled and updated with post-millennial minimalism, it's becoming clear that the 1980s had more to offer than we've given them credit for. As the calendar left the classless earthtones and polyester of the 1970s behind, musicians looked to the future for inspiration in new genres. With this feature, Pitchfork seeks to prove that, amidst the smooth-jazz of Kenny G, the vanilla soul of Hall & Oates, and the white-trash hair-rock of Warrant, lay a revolution in sound.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:21:33 PM CET
Ted Nugent Wanted For Michigan Gubernatorial Run
If some Michigan residents have their way, Ted Nugent will be running for governor of the state in 2006.
Following the recent election of Jennifer Granholm as Michigan governor, radio station WOOD-AM in Grand Rapids asked its listeners who they'd like to see oppose her in four years. The survey is still going on, but Nugent has been named in about 90 percent of the responses every day, beating out others such as speaker of the Michigan House Rick Johnson and former Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus.
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