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Country music singer Kevin Sharp dies at age 43
Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:32pm
FAIR OAKS, Calif. (AP) â Kevin Sharp, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, has died. He was 43.
Canada's Kiesza grabs top spot in British music charts with debut
Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:49am
Female Canadian singer-songwriter Kiesza grabbed the top spot in Britain's music charts on Sunday with her debut single "Hideaway", which sold more than 136,000 copies, the Official Charts Company said. Calgary-born Kiesza is a classically-trained ballerina and a former codebreaker in the Royal Canadian Navy where she says she began writing songs. In the albums chart, Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini snatched the top spot with his new album "Caustic Love", the fastest-selling album of the year so far. The Official Charts Company said the release, Nutini's third studio album, had sold more than 109,000 copies over the last seven days and was the 27-year-old's second UK number one album.
Coachella's young audience a marketers paradise
Saturday, April 19, 2014 8:25am
INDIO, Calif. (AP) â When it first started in 1999, Coachella was a couple of stages and a dance tent. Tickets were $65. A few dusty stands sold hot dogs and Cokes. It was the end of grunge and the start of a new millennium, and it was all about the music. All for one weekend.
Prince reaches agreement with music label
Friday, April 18, 2014 12:55pm
NEW YORK (AP) â Prince now owns the rights to the music he recorded on Warner Bros. Records after years of disputes and battles with the record label.
Music films hit distinct note at annual Tribeca Film Festival
Friday, April 18, 2014 7:15am
By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Music and movies played together even before sound revolutionized film during its infancy, and so it is at the Tribeca Film Festival where the documentary lineup is heavy on musical subjects, from hip hop star Nas to shock rocker Alice Cooper. And while documentaries have traditionally comprised as much as half of Tribeca's scores of offerings, films about musicians Bjork, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, James Brown and others have lent this year's festival a decidedly tuneful air. "We never program to an agenda," said Tribeca's director of programming, Genna Terranova.
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