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Peter Gabriel brings world together through music
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOK, so cut Peter Gabriel some slack for taking too long to finish an album: "Big Blue Ball," a long-simmering world music project he launched back in 1991, is finally surfacing today. In the intervening 17 years, he's released four other collections of...Tags: Popular Music, National Government, Music Industry, Jimmy Carter, Robbie Williams
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Deeply committed to Gnarls Barkley
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOST pop acts would love to have a hit single, but be careful what you wish for. Topping the chart can be hazardous to an artist's health, especially an out-of-nowhere hit by an unknown. It can make a career, of course, but it can also overexpose the...Tags: OutKast, Jay-Z, Music Industry, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills
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Radiohead's new album is surprisingly joyful
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPop's latest moon landing happened Tuesday around midnight Pacific time, when the download code for Radiohead's "In Rainbows" hit inboxes around the world. The English band startled the music industry when it announced this release 10 days ago,...Tags: Space Programs, Health and Safety at School, Dance, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith
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Beastie Boys
Special to MetromixALBUM: "The Mix-Up" (Capitol) Everyone's favorite hip-hop white boys pull a complete about-face from their last album, the verbose and politically charged "To the 5 Boroughs," with the smooth and mellow "The Mix-Up." For their seventh release, the...Tags: Music
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Manchester's new, true grit
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterManchester, England If you live in Los Angeles long enough, you forget how intoxicating height can be. Here I was, 23 stories up in the coolest new hotel in northwestern England, looking across several counties and several centuries. The bar at the...Tags: Movies, Music Industry, Jazz Music, Culture, Music Theater
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Subtle but memorable at Coachella
Times Staff Writer"I tell you, that's a very loud ice-cream van over there," Damon Albarn told his audience Saturday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival's Outdoor Theater. It wasn't actually an ice-cream van. It was dance-music star Tiësto, the only DJ at this...Tags: Popular Music, Los Angeles, Music, Festive Event
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Snipe site
For a band whose songs rarely have lyrics, Mogwai sure wields a poisonous pen. The subjects of the Scottish band's ire, however, aren't mentioned on any of its five albums, but rather on its web site. "I have spewed blood down dirty toilets with more...Tags: Grammy Awards, Bob Dylan, Gucci Group NV, Florida, Folk Music
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Is eight enough?
Daring rapper Kanye West, veteran diva Mariah Carey and soulful newcomer John Legend led the way Thursday with eight nominations each for the 48th annual Grammy Awards, an acknowledgment of the powerful confluence of hip-hop and R&B as the sound of pop...Tags: Kanye West, Hip Hop, Music Industry, Political Candidates, Ray Charles
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No 'Grey' area for Danger Mouse
Not long ago the music business was warning Danger Mouse to "cease-and-desist." On Thursday it told him, "Come on down!"
The musician, producer, mixer and DJ was nominated for a producer of the year Grammy, capping a remarkable transformation from...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Jay-Z, Music Industry, Los Angeles, Music
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Slackers in Icelandin '101 Reykjavik'
TIMES FILM CRITIC"What is it you do in life?" Lola asks Hlynur. "Nothing." "What kind of nothing?" "The nothing kind of nothing." Hlynur is not exaggerating. The protagonist of "101 Reykjavik," possibly the first and certainly the most successful Icelandic slacker...Tags: Popular Music, Pedro Almodovar, Movies, Folk Music, Los Angeles
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Rock review, Gorillaz at the Riv
Tribune staff reporterGorillaz fans who sold out the Aragon Ballroom Sunday night did not hallucinate. The record did not skip. British pop sensation Gorillaz actually repeated not one, but two songs —"5/4" and star-making hit "Clint Eastwood" — during its encore. Perhaps...Tags: Music, Cartoons, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas
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Cartoon characters
Tribune rock criticGorillaz, which makes its Chicago debut Sunday, March 3, at the sold-out Aragon, is the latest and perhaps most fully realized of fabricated pop bands: It's the Archies with a Web site, the "Yellow Submarine" Beatles with a hip-hop makeover, the Jackson 5...Tags: Buena Vista (Buena Vista, Virginia), Liam Gallagher, Hip Hop, Michael Jackson, Music Industry
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