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28th Annual New Year's Eve 'Toast of the Nation' Program Features Broadcast in Full Neural-THX(R) Surround (Popularity:  )
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Neural Audio Corporation, a market leader in developing advanced audio and surround sound technologies, and THX Ltd., the leading provider of technologies, certification programs and quality assurance standards for the entertainment industry, announced today that Toast of the Nation, the annual nine-hour New Year's Eve music special produced by NPR Music and WBGO/Jazz88.3 FM in Newark, NJ, will be broadcast in 5.1 Neural-THX(R) Surround. "Toast of the Nation is the ...
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Nonesuch Records Helps Habitat for Humanity Bring the Music -- and the Musicians of Modest Means -- Back to Hurricane-Battered New Orleans (Popularity: )
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Nonesuch Records donates $1 million to Habitat for Humanity International from sales of "Our New Orleans," a benefit CD recorded last September with a genre-spanning group of Louisiana musicians. The generous gift will be used to aid those affected by Hurricane Katrina. All of those funds will go toward providing housing in partnership with musicians and others who lost their homes, via the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village. "The devastation ...
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Virtuoso Music: Bringing Music Into Homes Across America (Popularity: )
http://www.virtuosomusic.com
Franchise businesses are found in every city across the country, but not all of them promote a meaningful cause, meet a real need in the community and provide a profitable business model at the same time. Virtuoso Music(R) (http://www.virtuosomusic.com/), an established business based in Atlanta, GA, does all this and more. Founded in 2004, Virtuoso Music provides music lessons and other related products and services at customers' homes, schools, and ...
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Contemporary R&B Master Raphael Saadiq Scores Three Grammy Nominations with The Way I See It (Popularity: )
http://www.raphaelsaadiq.com
It's been a big week for R&B performer Raphael Saadiq, whose critically acclaimed new album, The Way I See It, has just been named iTunes #1 Best Album of 2008. With an average customer rating of four-and-a-half-stars, The Way I See It is praised in an iTunes online review for "inhabit(ing) the atmosphere of late-Sixties Motown and Philadelphia International, incorporating the distinctly echo-laden drum shuffles of Smokey Robinson and Marvin ...
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Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon Partner With EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to Donate Net Proceeds From Plastic Ono Band's 'Give Peace a Chance' 40th Anniversary Digital Single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (Popularity: )
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To celebrate the unifying spirit and 40th anniversary of the Plastic Ono Band's universal anthem, "Give Peace a Chance," Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon have partnered with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to donate net proceeds from the sale of a commemorative 40th Anniversary digital single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). Beginning today, iTunes will exclusively offer the single's special anniversary edition for download purchase, ...
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Metallica Looks Outside the Music Industry for Design and Branding (Popularity: )
http://www.turnerduckworth.com
Multi-platinum selling rock band Metallica release their new album "Death Magnetic" today. Never afraid to break with convention, the band worked with design company Turner Duckworth to create packaging and branding for the album. Turner Duckworth is better known for designing logos, packaging and visual identity systems for consumer brands like Coca-Cola and Amazon.com than for working with rock bands. With the music industry in a state of rapid change, ...
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The Walt Disney Company Is Presenting Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato in a Special Concert to Benefit City of Hope on September 14 (Popularity: )
http://www.cityofhope.org
Fans of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers will have more reasons to cheer this September, when the Disney Music Group artists take the stage with other performers at Disney's Concert for Hope, a benefit concert supporting cancer research and treatment programs at City of Hope. It will be held Sunday, September 14, at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City. Tickets for the concert will be available Saturday, August 16 ...
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Capital Gold Group - Gives Back With 'American Idol' (Popularity: )
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Capital Gold Group gives back and sponsors "Idol Gives Back Foundation" -- The "IDOL GIVES BACK FOUNDATION" is a new U.S. 501(c)(3) charitable organization, working to help young people living in poverty in the U.S. and around the world. Capital Gold Group joins celebrity endorsers to the "Idol Gives Back Foundation," including Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Brad Pitt, Forrest Whitaker, Dougherty, Fergie, Robin Williams and many others, in sponsoring the ...
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W Hoboken Partners With VH1 Save The Music (Popularity: )
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W Hoboken and VH1 Save The Music Foundation (VH1 STM) today announced an exclusive partnership dedicated to restoring instrumental music programs in schools across the country.As part of the partnership, W Hoboken will dedicate the hotel's Fantastic Suite to supporting VH1 Save The Music Foundation, where a percentage of the room rate will be donated to support the Foundation's work to restore instrumental music education programs. The newly decked out ...
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Brazilian Carnival at the Playboy Mansion (Popularity: )
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Ever dreamed of going to the Playboy Mansion? Every year, Carnival draws hundreds of thousands of revelers to Brazil. Not to be outdone, San Diego-based Partying for a Purpose presents "Brazilian Carnival," its fifth annual benefit at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Partying for a Purpose is the fundraising branch of It's All About the Kids Foundation, an organization that benefits less fortunate children in Southern California and Arizona. The evening ...
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