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AIR's 'Voyage Dans le Lune': Silent-Film Soundtrack Explores Slavery, Aliens
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AIR's 'Voyage Dans le Lune': Silent-Film Soundtrack Explores Slavery, Aliens

Wendy Bevan In 1902, visionary French filmmaker Georges Méliès released 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune,' known to English-speaking audiences as 'A Trip to the Moon.' Considered the first-ever science-fiction film, the wildly inventive 16-minute silent feature follows a group of astronauts as they blaze a trail into the cosmos. After ...

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Beach Boys Grammys: Band Performing With Foster the People, Maroon 5

Alexandra Wyman, Getty Images The Beach Boys have been added to the list of performers at this year's Grammy Awards, according to a press release. And as Brian Wilson and company share a stage together for the first time in more than two decades, they'll have help from a couple of fellow Southern California bands: Foster the People and Maroon ...

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Jack White, 'Machine Gun Silhouette': Former White Stripe Rocks With Fiddles

Frederick Breedon, WireImage You can take the boy out of the White Stripes, but you can't, well, you know the rest. Last month, Jack White unveiled his debut solo single, 'Love Interruption,' and while it was a lovely tune -- all sunny organ and whimsical clarinet -- the B-side, 'Machine Gun Silhouette,' packs a bit more firepower, proving ...

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Bon Iver Beatific on 'SNL'; Kristen Wiig Defends Lana Del Rey

C Brandon, Redferns As we learned last month, when Lana Del Rey's iffy 'Saturday Night Live' performance had everyone from indie snobs to Brian Williams crying foul, people like authenticity -- or at least what they perceive as such. Last night's guest, Bon Iver, have never been called out for their genuineness, and performing 'Holocene' and ...

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Bruce Springsteen Playing NYC's Apollo Theater to Celebrate 10 Years of SiriusXM

Taylor Hill, FilmMagic On his 2007 single 'Radio Nowhere,' Bruce Springsteen sang about "spinnin' round a dead dial" and searching in vain for life on the airwaves. The answer, it seems, was switching from terrestrial to satellite. Next month, the Boss will help SiriusXM celebrate its 10th anniversary with a special show at New York City's ...

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Bird Peterson and Ocelot Craft DIY Horror Flick for 'Soul Survivor' -- Video Premiere

Ruvan Wijesooriya At the top of Bird Peterson and Ocelot's banging single 'Soul Survivor,' a voice-over tells us there has been "a real mean killing, and the wrong guy died." The luckless chap was buried, "but his soul survived." Right there, you've got the makings of a great horror flick, and when Ocelot went to shoot the video, that's ...

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Don Cornelius Dead: 'Soul Train' Creator, Host Dies of Apparent Suicide

Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images Don Cornelius, who helped popularize black music and culture through 'Soul Train,' a show he created and hosted for more than two decades, was found dead earlier today (Feb. 1) in Sherman Oaks, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 75. According to sources, the cause of death was a self-inflicted ...

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