Slayer/Megadeth Canadian Tour Back On

02/01/10 Veteran thrash bands Megadeth and Slayer have rescheduled their joint American Carnage North American tour.

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Video: St. Vincent Performs With David Byrne and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon

02/01/10 Last Friday, St. Vincent and her band hit Lincoln Center's American Songbook performance series at the stunning Allen Room, which overlooks Manhattan's Columbus Circle. (Check out some great pictures of the gig at BrooklynVegan .) And she brought out some very special guests, too: David Byrne , Bon Iver leader Justin Vernon, and current collaboration king Bryce Dessner of the National. (These ...

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Hear Erykah Badu's Lil Wayne Collab: "Jump in the Air and Stay There"

02/01/10 When Billboard first reported on Erykah Badu 's forthcoming album New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh , due March 30 from Universal Motown , the magazine said it might include a track called "Jump in the Air and Stay There" that would include nine rappers, including Lil Wayne and Andre 3000. Plans changed, though, when an early version leaked. Now the song has been bumped from the album and ...

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Joanna Newsom Reveals Album Cover

02/01/10 Have One on Me is the name of Joanna Newsom 's upcoming triple album, which comes out worldwide February 23 on Drag City . And that picture of Ms. Newsom lounging amidst too many antiques and animal prints serves as its cover. ( Via MBV .) She looks comfortable. New song "'81" is streaming at Drag City's site right now.

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ING Miami Marathon finishers, Part 2

02/01/10 601. Jose Vargas, Santo Domingo; DOM, 3:55:17; 602. Bronwyn Miller, Miami, FL, 3:55:18; 603. Sigredo Torres Jr., Bayonne, NJ, 3:55:19; 604. Corona Horton, Mableton, GA, 3:55:20; 605. Leonides Beltran, Miami, FL, 3:55:21; 606. Alexander Barquero, San Jos, FL, CRI, 3:55:25; 607. Ivan Colet, Basse-Terre; GLP, 3:55:33; 608. June McAlarey, Whitby, ON, CAN, 3:55:34; 609. Marcia Martinez, Orlando, FL ...

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Benjy Davis Project Set New Album Release

01/30/10 A top story from this week. Benjy Davis Project plans to release its new album, "Lost Souls Like Us," on March 2

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Surfer Blood Adds Tour Dates and Drops New Video

01/29/10 The West Palm Beach-based quintet Surfer Blood has just announced more dates ...

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The National Announce Tour Dates

01/26/10 The National have confirmed their first shows of the new decade.

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Full Sail University Announces The 2010 Hall of Fame Induction Class

01/25/10 Full Sail University (fullsail.edu) announced six new inductees who will make up the 2010 class of the Full Sail University Hall of Fame.

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Benjy Davis Project Set New Album Release

01/24/10 Benjy Davis Project plans to release its new album, "Lost Souls Like Us," on March 2

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2010 Arts Preview: Cultural organizations offer peek at coming year

01/23/10 Online: Hear Anna Van Cura tell about the grants funding the upcoming appearance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble. By Susan Pierce spierce@timesfreepress.com Less than one month into the new year, area cultural arts organizations are scheduling

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Gang Gang Dance Sign to 4AD

01/22/10 Photo by Takahiro Imamura The fuzzed-out, percussive New York psych quartet Gang Gang Dance has made the leap from the small NYC label the Social Registry and signed with 4AD , as 4 AD's website reports . Later this year, 4AD will release the band's follow-up to Saint Dymphna , one of our favorite albums of 2008 . In March, the band will play a few U.S. shows, and we've got those dates below ...

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Lookout Mountain, Ga. Residents Urge Community Support For Haiti Relief

01/21/10 Keith Sanford, Frank McDonald and other Lookout Mountain, Ga. residents addressed their city council on Thursday to suggest their community focus their financial support for Haiti relief among several small, but quite effective, ministries operating on the earthquake-ravaged island, particularly in the city of Leogane.

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Retribution Gospel Choir Look To Britney Spears Connection For Aggression

01/21/10 Fans of Minnesota's Low probably never expected they'd see a day when there was only one degree of separation between Alan Sparhawk, the trio's frontman, and Britney Spears.

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Nashville ministry speeds adoptions from Haitian orphanage

01/20/10 Brent Gambrell won't airdrop food and water directly to a mountainside orphanage that his Nashville ministry is supporting in Haiti. Looters in the earthquake-ravaged country would target the home, where 47 children under age 7 live.

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Nashville ministry speeds adoptions from Haitian orphanage

01/20/10 Brent Gambrell, whose Nashville ministry supports a mountainside orphanage in Haiti, plans to camp out in an airport hangar in Port-au-Prince and work to get orphans with adoptions in progress out of Haiti.

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Big Ears Adds New Bands

01/13/10 The National, Dirty Projectors, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Tracy Silverman, and Buke & Gassjoin expanding lineup for second Big Ears Festival

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Jay Reatard Dead at 29

01/13/10 Garage-punk rocker Jay Lindsey, a.k.a. Jay Reatard, has died at his home in Memphis, TN, according to Memphis newspaper The Commerical Appeal . He was 29 years old. The Memphis police have opened an investigation into the rocker's death, said spokesperson Jennifer Robinson. Lindsey was found around 3:30 A.M. in his bed. Memphis' Goner Records, Lindsey's onetime label home, posted about the death ...

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Happenings

09/23/09 8 a.m. to noon second Sundays at Somers Point Volunteer Fire Company No. 2. Call 609-653-6503.

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Buffalo Bills Team Report

08/04/09 Running back Fred Jackson is expected to start in front of Dominic Rhodes with Marshawn Lynch's three-game suspension upheld.

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