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Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail into orbit for U.S. women. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Gloria Steinem, Air Transportation Delays, Space Programs, Jane Fonda
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Website to pay $950K for posting Beatles hits
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A website that sold Beatles songs online for 25 cents apiece before they became legally available has agreed to pay record companies nearly $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton Tucker...Tags: Lily Allen, Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System, Anti Trust Crime, Lawyers
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They conduct classical, but they love pop and rock too
Ever wonder what longhairs listen to when they let their hair down? Once upon a time, when conductors were regarded as remote intellectual titans, no one would have thought to ask. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, once described...
Tags: James Conlon, Deep Purple (music group), Carnegie Hall, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Pop-music group to play on national TV two days before sold-out Allentown shows
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGTwo days before it plays two sold-out shows in the Lehigh Valley, a pop music group will perform for viewers nationwide on a popular television show. Straight No Chaser, the10-member male chorus that has had hit albums singing a cappella...... -
So Cal singer scores Times Square New Year's Eve performance
The musical lineup for what surely is the most widely seen New Year’s Eve bash in the country, the annual “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” held in Times Square in New York City and telecast on ABC-TV, will again feature a raft of...
Tags: YouTube, ABC (tv network), Taylor Swift, New Year's Day, New York City
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Best of 2012 Pop Music: Albums
What follows are the favorite 10 albums of 2012 as chosen by Times pop music staffer Todd Martens: 1. Frank Ocean, “Channel Orange” (Def Jam). No doubt this is Ocean's moment, what with his Grammy nominations and the romantic topicality of...
Tags: Robyn, Manhattan (movie), Entertainment, David Prowse, Gaming
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'Gangnam Style' by Psy gets opera style treatment
With more than 1 billion YouTube hits, "Gangnam Style" by the Korean singer Psy is the most popular music video of the year. It has been imitated, parodied and re-purposed by fans around the world. It has been remixed in many different musical styles,...
Tags: Opera (genre), James Conlon, Entertainment, Justin Bieber, Ai Weiwei
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Portland Cello Project records complete 'Song Reader' by Beck
As Times pop music critic Randall Roberts wrote earlier this week, much of the fun of Beck's new "Song Reader" project -- 20 songs released not as recordings, but as old-fashioned sheet music -- is beholding the variety of interpretations it's inspired....
Tags: Kenny Chesney, NPR, Entertainment, Bruce Springsteen, Sting
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Faces to Watch 2013: Haim, Earl Sweatshirt and more
Potential breakouts in the pop music world for 2013? Times pop music staffers throw the spotlight on another member of the hip-hop collective Odd Future that gave us Frank Ocean this year, along with a trio of pop-rock singing siblings from the San...
Tags: Josh Groban, Times Square, Entertainment, OFWGKTA (music group), Music
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Advancing on a 'Territory of Jazz'
Choreographer Valery Tereshkin had a very long day ahead of him as he sat in a hotel lobby in Glendale this week. Just days before, his Russian Jazz Ballet had performed “Territory of Jazz” at the Alex Theatre, dancing to popular songs from...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Diana Krall, U.S. Congress, Music Industry, Dance
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Pop musicians' (final?) tweets for the apocalypse
Here's how end-of-the-world projections, based on the Mayan calendar, are being greeted in some quarters of the pop music world on Twitter. Pop & Hiss has decided to include two end-of-the-world tweets from Weird Al Yankovic because 1) he had the...
Tags: Entertainment, John Cusack, NASA, Music, ABC (tv network)
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'I Got a Boy' delivers a scattered anthem of the Girls' Generation
The new single by South Korean pop group Girls' Generation is called "I Got a Boy," and if the song and its accompanying music video are a signal about pop's direction in the year to come, we better buckle our seat belts. Clocking in at 41/2 minutes, "I...
Tags: Poetry, Entertainment, Radio, Rihanna, Social Media
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