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BBC Kills Off Electric Proms to Save Cash

Getty Images The BBC is axing the annual Electric Proms concert series as part of "efficiency savings". The shows which began in 2006, were intended as a spin-off from the classical music Proms and saw pop artists collaborate with orchestras and choirs. During its five year run the Electric Proms featured the likes of Oasis performing with ...

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Bjork Premieres New Music on Solar System iPad App

Jamie McCarthy, WireImage Bjork has composed the introduction music for a new iPad app which shows 3D models of the solar system. The instrumental track is the first new material since her contribution, 'The Comet Song,' to the soundtrack of the Moomins movie last year. The epic piece of music, which features distorted brass, is taken from her ...

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Courtney Love Apologizes for Appearing Nude for Interview

Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Courtney Love has apologized to a journalist for being drunk and naked during an interview with the New York Times last Thursday. Love, whose life since the suicide of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain in April 1994 has lurched from one wild meltdown to the next, has been attempting to cast herself as a reformed ...

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White Lies Announce Second Album Details

Steve Gullick White Lies have announced that their new album will be called 'Ritual' and that it will be released on Jan. 17, 2011. The long-awaited follow-up to 2009's No. 1 album 'To Lose My Life... has been produced by former Depeche Mode colaborator Alan Moulder in London and will be available in a 7-inch single box set as well as vinyl and ...

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Guns N' Roses' Jam Session With British Schoolkids

PA Photos Two members of Guns N' Roses were the guests of honour at an Oxfordshire music project on Tuesday night. Guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thai and drummer Frank Ferrer took time away from their world tour to join aspiring rockers from the Witchwood School of Rock in Whitney, according to Gigwise. They played several classic Guns N' ...

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Johnny Flynn Poised to Be Latest British Folk Star

Johnny Flynn has packed plenty into his life. A classically trained actor and singer, the 26-year-old spent his tender years -- after emigrating from South Africa -- in a professional choir and in his late teens studied the Stanislavski acting method. Inbetween was a spell in the country idyll of Hampshire, where along with his country pals he ...

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German Church Service Pays Tribute to Love Parade Victims

Oland Weihauch, AFP / Getty Images Thousands of people gathered at memorial services in Duisberg, Germany yesterday at to honour the victims of last weekend's Love Parade disaster in which 21 people lost their lives in a crush at the entrance to the dance festival. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was among the mourners attending a service at ...

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