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Big Daddy on Kickstarter for retro Broadway-Hollywood comeback
One of the great left-field surprises of the 1980s pop music scene came with the arrival of Big Daddy, a whimsical band that reimagined hits of the day as they might have sounded had they been recorded in the 1950s. The conceit was that the group’s...
Tags: Kickstarter, Activision Blizzard, Inc., Entertainment, Music, Rock and Roll (genre)
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Kimbra brings 'Vows' to the Fonda Theatre
An experienced presence in her native New Zealand, Kimbra bent American ears -- and quite a few of them -- earlier this year as the female voice on Gotye's Hot 100-topping "Somebody That I Used to Know." But that acoustic quirk-pop hit only hints at a bit...
Tags: Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Destiny's Child (music group), Music, Entertainment
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Less Is Morrissey: Fans Continue to Embrace One of Pop Music's Great Enigmas
Morrissey Sat., Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. $42. Palace Theater, 100 East Main St., Waterbury. (203) 346-2000, palacetheaterct.org. Last week, pop singer and lyricist Morrissey was in the news when he rushed to the assistance of an elderly woman who had...
Tags: Waterbury, Palace Theater, Music, Entertainment, Morrissey
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Future bright for 'Idol' runner-up Sanchez
FOX 5 San Diego StaffCHULA VISTA, Calif. -- Chula Vista singing sensation Jessica Sanchez finished second in the 11th season of "American Idol'' but isn't expected to fade away from the spotlight any time soon. Sanchez, 16, embraced crooner Phillip Phillips of Leesburg, Ga.,...Tags: America's Got Talent (tv program), Rihanna, Music, Entertainment, Ryan Seacrest
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The minstrel's legacy
The new book "Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop," by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen, explores the history of minstrelsy, dissecting how it became the most popular form of American entertainment before vaudeville and identifying how...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Zora Neale Hurston, Chicago Tribune, Social Issues, Music
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Christopher Cross to perform his hits in Pa.
amyc@herald-mail.comHe won five Grammys in 1981, the same year he picked up a Golden Globe and an Oscar, but Christopher Cross makes it clear that his biggest accomplishment is being a father of three. "(My children) are what I'm most proud of. I've tried to raise three...Tags: Dudley Moore, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Religious Festivals, Music
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Of pop & poetry
Jay-Z, Sonic Youth, Guns N' Roses, Ghostface Killah, Slayer, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Britney Spears, The New Pornographers, Mobb Deep, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Prefab Sprout, Pink, The Beatles, Van Halen, Big Star, Bob Dylan,...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, The New Pornographers (music group), Music, Entertainment, Rock and Roll (genre)
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Pink Tops Billboard Album Chart, 'Gangnam' No. 1 Digital Song
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop rocker Pink scored her first Billboard No. 1 album on Wednesday, while South Korean singer Psy, who has taken the Internet by storm with his horsey dance moves, landed at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with his hit "Gangnam...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Justin Bieber, The Truth (music group), Human Interest
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Hal David dies at 91; songwriting partner of Burt Bacharach
Hal David, the renowned pop music lyricist whose prolific collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach produced a wealth of enduringly memorable hits in the 1960s and early '70s, including "Walk On By," "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and the Oscar-...Tags: Julio Iglesias, Angie Dickinson, World War II (1939-1945), The Carpenters (music group), NPR
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Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68; award-winning composer of popular music
When Marvin Hamlisch auditioned for the Juilliard School of Music, he played not Chopin or Mozart but the American folk standard "Goodnight, Irene," a choice that could have had lamentable results for any other prospective student. But Hamlisch quickly...
Tags: Music, Jack Jones, Music Industry, Ceremonies, Music Theater
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Michael Feinstein: Championing classic American songs
In our time, few musicians have addressed the classic American pop song with the scholarly attention of Michael Feinstein – and few scholars have performed this repertory with Feinstein's panache. So Feinstein's performance this weekend at the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Manhattan (New York City), Music, Entertainment
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Seclusion helps All-American Rejects singer re-focus
A few years ago, Tyson Ritter, the lean lead singer of the All-American Rejects, was a walking rock 'n' roll cliche. After experiencing "life-changing" success thanks to "Gives You Hell" — his band's 2008 single that sold more than 4 million copies...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Music Industry, Haiti, Katy Perry
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