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1 hr ago | Hometown Life

Crowd warms to cool jazz on Big Beaver

They clapped hands and moved to the rhythm June 26 as Valerie Barrymore and the Foundation of Funk performed in the city's first jazz concert of the summer.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Detroit, MI, Duke Ellington, Jazz, Troy, MI

Sat Jul 05, 2008

Grand Rapids Press

Music moves huge Rothbury crowd

From their perch on a small hill overlooking Rothbury's main concert stage, Rick Girdler and Lisa Rennie had the perfect vantage point to survey what the first-time music festival was all about.

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Related Topix: Canada, Rothbury, MI, Manufacturing, Automakers, The Wailers, Reggae

Fri Jul 04, 2008

411mania.com

The Mosh Pit 07.04.08: Are We Due For A Revolution In Music?

The Mosh Pit 07.04.08: Are We Due For A Revolution In Music? Posted by Dan Haggerty on 07.04.2008 The Mosh Pit takes a moment this July 4th to take a brief look at the history of rock music and asks "Are we due ...

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Music, Entertainment

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Kansas City InfoZine

'The Very Best of Little Richard' Nails the Specialty Records Years

When Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti" in 1955 at Cosimo's Studio in New Orleans with A&R man Bumps Blackwell, rock 'n' roll was taken to a thrilling new level.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, Jazz, Manufacturing, Automakers, Little Richard, Rock-N-Roll

Tue Jul 01, 2008

XtraMSN Real Estate

R&B trio Labelle making first album since 1976

R&B trio Labelle is hitting the studio for a reunion album to be produced by legendary soul hitmakers Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff as well as Lenny Kravitz.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers

XtraMSN Real Estate

Spalding plays 'cool' blend of jazz, R&B, bossa nova

Moments after Esperanza Spalding finished singing "Precious" on NBC's "Late Show With David Letterman" in early June, the host strode right up and anointed her "the coolest person we've ever had on the show." ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, David Letterman, Manufacturing, Automakers, Late Show with David Letterman

Mon Jun 30, 2008

The Skanner

MLK Memorial Funds

National Memorial; Guy Vickers, President of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation; Dr.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Atlanta, GA

Miami New Times

Over the Weekend

The heat was off the charts this weekend and we are fully into the summer season.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Miami-Beach, FL

Sat Jun 28, 2008

Oldies108.com

Hot R... - Commander Cody & His ...

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were equally adept at stripped-down basic rock & roll, R&B, and gritty country-rock. Commander Cody's country-rock rocked harder than the Eagles or Poco -- essentially, ...

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Country, Rock-N-Roll, Commander Cody

Fri Jun 27, 2008

National Public Radio

Joe Lovano and Mike Stern at J&R Music Festival

JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater , June 26, 2008 - Guitarist Mike Stern has played sideman to both Miles Davis and Michael Brecker, and last summer was the special invited guest for six consecutive nights with ...

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Manufacturing, Automakers

Wed Jun 25, 2008

All About Jazz

CD/Download Release: 'The Very Best of Little Richard' Nails the Specialty Records Years

The pounding piano, the high voice and trills, and the sexually suggestive lyrics catapulted the former Richard Penniman to the top of the charts and to legendary status.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Little Richard, Rock-N-Roll

Mon Jun 23, 2008

Aiken Standard

Versatile musicians bring mastery into play in concert6/23/2008

By SUZANNE R. STONE Staff writer Preston and Weston bring the party to Hopelands Gardens tonight for the Hopelands Summer Concert Series.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Aiken, SC

Sat Jun 21, 2008

The Age

R Kelly acquitted

R. Kellyhas been acquited on child porn charges. Photo: Supplied A jury acquitted R&B star R. Kelly of child pornography charges on Friday, finding he did not make an explicit videotape showing him having sex ...

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Related Topix: R&B, R-N-B, Black Entertainment, R. Kelly, Manufacturing, Automakers

Thu Jun 19, 2008

All About Jazz

CD/Download Release: "Rush Hour" by Phillip Brooks Hits #1 Most Added

"Rush Hour by Phillip Brooks Hits #1 Most Added in Radio & Records Indicator Charts First Week Out Phillip Brooks' new single, "Rush Hour," from his Just Between Us CD, hit the #1 Most Added in R&R Indicator ...

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro

Tue Jun 17, 2008

NBC 15 Online

"Gossip" is good for Teen Choice Awards

Actors Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen and Ed Westwick attend the launch party for CW Network's 'Gossip Girls' at Tenjune on September 18, 2007 in New York City.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Gossip Girl, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Mon Jun 16, 2008

Time

The Acquittal of R. Kelly

In the end, it was Cook County prosecutors' failure to call the woman at the center of R. Kelly's trial on child pornography charges that cost them the case.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Black Entertainment, R-N-B, R. Kelly

Sat Jun 14, 2008

Knoxville News Sentinel

Jury acquits R. Kelly in child pornography trial

RB singer R. Kelly leaves the Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago after a jury found him not guilty on all counts Friday in his child pornography trial.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Black Entertainment, R-N-B, R. Kelly

Thu Jun 12, 2008

Philly.com

'Bonnie' denies Calif. charge

J OCELYN KIRSCH , the 22-year-old former Drexel student under house arrest somewhere in Philadelphia, had a court hearing Monday in San Rafael, Calif.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Philadelphia, PA

Tue Jun 10, 2008

KVML

R. Kelly lawyers try to revive tattered defenses

R. Kellys attorney guided his electric scooter down a hallway outside the courtroom where his client is on trial for child pornography, exclaiming as he sped past several reporters, "In the morning, we attack!" ...

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, R-N-B, R. Kelly, Manufacturing, Automakers

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

Introducing R. Kelly's 'Rapt in the Courtroom!'

I just finished reading a story about some R. Kelly courtroom drama that was just ridiculous enough to sound like an outtake from the "Trapped in the Closet" sessions.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, R-N-B, R. Kelly, Manufacturing, Automakers

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