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Blue Grass: Echoing from the Hills of Kentucky – Musicians
Somewhere in the hills of Kentucky on a back porch with a view, there's a young lad picking away on his grandfathers banjo. And in that moment, the lifeblood of Blue Grass music continues. From ...
Popkomm 2007 – Europe’s Premier Music Industry Event
Popkomm is a world renowned music festival and trade show for the music and entertainment industry in Europe. This massive international event, held each year in Berlin, attracts thousands ...
Coldplay Comes Out Tops at Q Awards
Every year the Q Awards pay tribute to the World’s best musicians. UK music magazine Q runs the annual award ceremony and it has been held regularly since 1990. Today the Q Awards are one of ...
VMA Nominations 2010
The very first Video Music Awards were hosted by MTV in 1984 to pay tribute to the artists and the creativity of the music videos made that year. Over the years it has grown to be a ...
Musicians: The Offspring – Loud and Proud
This group is famous for their yelling out loud lyrics and their conglomeration of punk, alternative, and metal sounds. Origins of the band date as far back as 1984 when Bryan “Dexter” Holland ...
New Michael Jackson Album
The world of music and Michael Jackson fans came to a standstill when news of his death was released in June 2009. The loss of such an amazing music icon seemed too much to bear for some, ...
Music’s Best Storage and Filing Practices
We will never be free from untidy stacks of old records, tapes, CDs, and whatever new recording media may be invented for music! You are not alone if you often feel frustrated at not finding the ...
Most Downloaded Latin Artists Named
The recently published global download survey carried out by Nokia’s Ovi Music confirmed what Shakira fans no doubt already knew – for the second year running, the popular Colombian singer ...
2011 Hall of Fame Inductees
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1983, but the breathtaking building along Lake Erie in Cleveland was only opened in 1995. It is an organization that is dedicated to paying ...
2010 Prodigy UK Tour
The popular UK band The Prodigy was established in 1990 by Liam Howlett and has won a faithful following of fans over the years. Their unique sound that pioneered the dance genre of big beat ...
Simply Red – A Successful Band of the 1980s and Beyond
Mick Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman formed Simply Red, an English pop band, in 1985. In previous years Mick Hucknall had been involved with a punk group called “The Frantic Elevators”, ...
Battle of the Corporate Bands
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has been paying tribute to musicians, artists, producers and other members of the music industry for many years. Famous names such as Elvis Presley, ...