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Human Contributes Music/Sound Design to Three 2008 "Webby Award" Winners
--Human, one of America s pre-eminent original music composition and sound design agencies specializing in unique and compelling music for the international advertising industry, recently contributed Music and/or Original Sound Design to three 2008

Vegoose Festival Flies South...For Good
The show will apparently not go on this year for the Las Vegas festival called 'Vegoose'. Co-producer of the festival Jonathan Mayers of Superfly Presents announced to Billboard last week that he will not be planning a 2008 show, and doubts the festival

Pop Tarts: Producer Offers Chelsea and Hillary Clinton $1 Million to Appear in Music Video
LOS ANGELES Los Angeles-based music producer Al Walser (a Goodwill Ambassador for the tiny principality of Liechtenstein, who was brought to the States by Michael Jacksons family and previously resided in their Encino, Calif., compound) is a former

Dave Matthews Band to play cancer benefit concert
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R. Kelly Accused Of Bribery, Judge Denies Delay Request
As jury selections for the R. Kelly sex trial began today, new claims surfaced that an aide to Kelly allegedly paid off a woman to get her to return an incriminating sex videotape featuring the Grammy Award winning singer. According to the Chicago

DMX Arrested Twice In One Week, Charged W/ Animal Cruelty
After being freed on bond from a prior arrest this week, embattled rapper DMX was busted again this morning at his home in Arizona for animal cruelty and drug possession. According to TMZ, DMX (born Earl Simmons) was arrested at 3:00 am at his home in

Hipster Hip-Hop: Nerds in Rap Paradise?
'If Andre 3000 came out right now they'd call him hipster rap,â? says The Bronxâ??s Mickey Factz. â??Right now it's a trend for 50 Cent and Lil Wayne to sing with a vocoder. What weâ??re doing isnâ??t a trend, itâ??s real.

Lincoln and Hip-Hop Superstar Common Announce the 'Lincoln Spotlight' Grand Champion Lyricist
DEARBORN, Mich., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- West Hollywood, California resident and aspiring lyricist Jael Gadsen has been chosen the grand champion of the Lincoln Spotlight online music competition by a panel that included Grammy Award-winning hip-hop

Hats Off To Men Without Pants
Longtime Lower East Side sideman Russell Simins is heading up a side-project this time. Naturally, the debut from Men Without Pants, will be out July 22 on Expansion Team. Men Without Pants is Simins' collab with producer/multi-noise maker Dan The

My Morning Jacket To Tour, Hang With That 'Transformers' Guy
So, let's say you're in My Morning Jacket. You're considered one of the greatest live acts of your generation, your set at Coachella draws raves and you have a heavily buzzed about new albumEvil Urges (ATO)dropping June 10. Yeah, its pretty awesome to

Music Go Music Go Mythical
More than 25 years since Sweden's greatest export, ABBA, was of any chart significance, that big pop and syrupy disco sound has been revived by the curious L.A. band Music Go Music. This sequin-encrusted three-piecewhich can sometimes scale to as many

Echo And The Bunnymen Rain Down On Radio City Music Hall
To celebrate their 30th Anniversary as a group (which apparently includes the seven year period when the band broke up in 1990 before reforming in '97), post-punk gods Echo And The Bunnymen will perform their fourth (and widely hailed as their classic)

CMJ Badge Discount Ends Soon
May is cookin'. Among the many month-long celebrations, May dishes out National Barbecue Month, National Egg Month, National Hamburger Month, National Salad Month, National Salsa Month and Navajo Code Talkers Month. That last one's not really

Tina Turner unveils first concert tour in 8 years
(Reuters) - Soul legend Tina Turner on Friday unveiled plans to tour for the first time in eight years after her friend and film icon Sophia Loren told her it was time to hit the road again. Turner, 68, came out of retirement when she sang her hit song

Alanis Morissette plans fall U.S. tour
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Ashes Divide Takes To Road For First Tour
As he takes his new Ashes Divide on the road, Billy Howerdel calls the project 'a work in progress. I'm ready to grow with this band.' But he's not ready to say the touring edition of Ashes Divide will turn what was essentially a solo project into a

Lincoln & Hip-Hop Superstar Common Announce The 'Lincoln Spotlight' Grand Champion Lyricist
DEARBORN, MI. (Top40 Charts/ Lincoln Mercury) - West Hollywood, California resident and aspiring lyricist Jael Gadsen has been chosen the grand champion of the Lincoln Spotlight online music competition by a panel that included Grammy Award-winning

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A judge has ruled that jury selection can begin in singer R Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Vincent Gaughan denied a defence motion to again postpone the trial in which the Grammy-winning star is accused of

Bid to halt R Kelly's trial denied
A judge has ruled that jury selection can begin in singer R Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Vincent Gaughan denied a defence motion to again postpone the trial in which the Grammy-winning star is accused of

Beatles Fan Creates Fake Reunion Album Online By Overdubbing Group And Solo Demo Tapes
An enterprising and talented fan has created a virtual Beatles reunion album and posted his results on youtube.com, according to the Beatles fan website Abbey Road Best (abbeyrd.best.vwh.net). A man identified as Octavio has taken rare Beatles and solo

DMB Joins Cancer Benefit Concert Series
The Dave Matthews Band will perform at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sept. 10 as part of the inaugural Stand Up For A Cure concert series, designed to raise funds and awareness for lung cancer research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mellencamp's 'Life' Goes Hi-Fi With Hear Music
John Mellencamp's 'Life, Death, Love and Freedom,' produced by T-Bone Burnett and via Hear Music, will be released in a new high-definition audio format dubbed CODE. CODE technology, developed by Burnett and a team of engineers, creates high-definition

Soundtrack Of Their Lives: The Wave Pictures
We at DIY are a curious bunch. We want to know what makes musicians tick and what brought them to their current role. We'll be aiming to bring to you the tracks which helped shape the music you listen to, what gems are uncovered, what crimes are admitted

Alanis Morissette Plans Fall U.S. Tour
With her new album, due out June 10 on Maverick/Reprise, Alanis Morissette is planning an intense spate of road work that will include headlining dates in North America this fall. 'I would believe a North American tour would start mid-September,' the

R. Kelly Arrives At Court For Porn Trial
R. Kelly arrived at a Cook County courthouse in Chicago Friday to face child pornography charges filed after a videotape allegedly showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. The Grammy-winning R&B singer didn't acknowledge the crowd as he walked

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Ne-Yo Launches New Blog
Writes personal and professional life R&B singer/songwriter Ne-Yo has launched his very own blog called "Year of The Gentleman" to promote his album of the same title. In his blog, Ne-Yo writes his experiences on his latest tour alongside R&B diva

Los Lonely Boys Look To Be 'Forgiven'
Los Lonely Boys is hoping its forthcoming album Forgiven, out July 1 on Epic, gets people back on the train with Los Lonely Boys, according to bassist JoJo Garza. 'Forgiven' is the follow-up to the band's 2006 effort 'Sacred, which debuted at No. 2 on