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• Australia’s Big Day Out 2008

  As the undisputed leader in Australian music festivals, Big Day Out 2008 is the touring music festival that music lovers in Australia and beyond clamor to attend. Each year the festival ...

• MP3’s and iPods: Listening Etiquette

  Headphones are a blessing for everyone! Recall when you were last upset by someone else playing music you did not like on a loudspeaker. Think of how listening to music on your personal recorder ...

• Global Drum Project on the Road Again

  Fifteen years ago the widely acclaimed album “Planet Drum” earned a Grammy Award in the World Music category. After an absence from the touring scene for almost a decade, the Global Drum ...

• Weezer – Musicians.com

  Weezer, a kickback to the alternative rock music explosion of the early nineties, were admitted geeks, and even used that nerdy look of thick-rimmed glasses and plaid shirts, despite the grunge ...

• Bruno Missone – Inspired by Aviation

  Bruno Misonne is a composer from Belgium who has created a unique concept in music, blending airplane sounds and air traffic control communications with his musical compositions. This new ...

• Music Practice Makes Kids More Intelligent

  Those musicians who were fortunate enough to have music training as a child may have always felt as though they were in a group of ‘elite’ people – people who were educated, well spoken and ...

• Susan Boyle: A Success Story

  Susan Magdalane Boyle, born in 1961, has taken the world by storm. Within a year she has become a renowned figure in homes around the world, taking second place in Britain’s Got Talent and ...

• Spotlight On: Chuck Berry

  Widely considered to be one of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Chuck Berry was recently honored with Sweden's 2014 Polar Music Prize at a ceremony in the city of Stockholm's Concert ...

• Billboard.com’s Green 10 List

  Billboard.com’s Green 10 lists the ten top acts that have been making a difference with regard to environmental issues during the past year. Not only do these musicians use their influence to ...

• CMT Music Award Winners for 2008

  Some feel that it is the CMT Music Awards that reveal who the truly popular artists are. This is one of the few awards dictated solely by popularity and fans. Instead of a an elected group ...

• 2010 Mercury Music Prize

  In the year 1992, the British Association of Record Dealers and the British Phonographic Industry joined forces to establish the Mercury Music Prize, or Mercury Prize, which has become a ...

• MTV Video Music Award Nominees Announced

  Every year MTV hosts the most amazing award shows, where the best in the business come out and strut their stuff as they are rewarded for their years of hard work in the entertainment ...