Britney Spears fails to surprise at MTV awards (Reuters)
Reuters - A year after her disastrous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears opened the event's 25th annual installment on Sunday in anti-climactic fashion, leaving the singing to others.
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Fashion Week Starts Strong With Fashion Rocks (E! Online)
E! Online - She's got style for miles. Kicking off New York Fashion Week, Beyoncé looked fabulous in this beautiful banana-colored gown at Friday night's Fashion Rocks event.
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In the house: The view from the VMA audience (AP)
AP - Getting inside this year's MTV Video Music Awards might be more difficult than getting discovered in Hollywood. First, audience members actually have to score a ticket to the show. Then, they have to wade through security and be escorted through Paramount Studios past the sound stage where "Dr. Phil" is filmed and down a faux New York City street to Stage 16.
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Donny and Marie bring G-rated variety to Vegas (Reuters)
Reuters - Veteran sibling performers Donny and Marie Osmond are about to begin a 26-week stand in Las Vegas, and Marie Osmond points out that they just might turn Sin City into Sincere City.
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Hispanic radio targets young listeners (Reuters)
Reuters - Hispanic radio is showing new interest in reaching a bilingual and bicultural population.
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Justin Timberlake goes for 'Mr. Sexy Backwoods' (AP)
AP - Justin Timberlake is shaking his "Mr. Sexy Back" reputation for something more like "Mr. Sexy Backwoods."
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Chris Brown busy writing songs for Britney Spears (AP)
AP - Chris Brown was tied to two of the hottest women at the MTV Video Music Awards: Rihanna and Britney Spears.
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Heart says "Barracuda" use is fishy (Reuters)
Reuters - The rock group Heart, angry that its '70s hit "Barracuda" is being used as the unofficial theme song for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is taking aim at the Alaska governor.
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One More Time: Britney sweeps MTV VMAs (AP)
AP - It took a year, but Britney Spears' comeback on the MTV Video Music Awards is finally a reality.
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Pal: Ashlee and Pete Expecting Twins (E! Online)
E! Online - Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz could find themselves facing another round of twin rumors.
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Madonna dedicates "Like a Virgin" to pope (Reuters)
Reuters - Pop star Madonna, once accused by the Vatican of staging one of the most satanic shows in history, surprised fans by dedicating her hit "Like a Virgin" to the pope at a sold-out concert held in Rome.
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Winners of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards (AP)
AP - A complete list of winners of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards:
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Fall Out Boy rolls out viral campaign for "Folie" (Reuters)
Reuters - A starlet having lunch at the Ivy is not a rare sight in Los Angeles; it's common knowledge that the restaurant is the place to see and be seen by the paparazzi.
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Burning Q's: Slick Jonas Duds & Baby-Pic Dollars (E! Online)
E! Online - I feel like a total creep asking this (I'm too old to be thinking about them!), but I'm a fashion student and I simply must know: Do the Jonas Brothers have a stylist? What are some of the labels they wear most?
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DUI Plea All Greek to TV Star (E! Online)
E! Online - The star of Greek may be in for a bit of a hazing by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
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Side events bring out celebs in advance of VMAs (AP)
AP - Though the MTV Video Music Awards are the main event in town this weekend, some celebrities are satisfied enough with the side activities connected to the extravaganza.
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Sting Can Be Your Hero, Baby (E! Online)
E! Online - Every note you fake, it will look like Sting is watching you.
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'Rent' brings down the curtain on Broadway run (AP)
AP - They cheered, they cried and gave the show a standing ovation even before the first note was sung.
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Lindsay and Samantha rock the runway crowd (AP)
AP - Nobody draws attention like Lindsay Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson.
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Britney's Not Rehearsing for the VMAs (E! Online)
E! Online - E! News has confirmed that the Britney Spears dance video leaked yesterday on MSN.com does not show a rehearsal for a performance on Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Styles:
Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.
http://allmusic.com/
Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles
Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal.
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php
Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre
About two dozen musical genres including blues, a capella, dance/techno, and Southern gospel, with as many as several hundred links to Christian music artists in each.
http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_Genre
Free Classified Ads Portal
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DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.
http://datadragon.com/education/genres/
Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art, beautiful and fierce, and traditional.
http://ectoguide.org/genre
Indiana University School of Music: Genres
Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music.
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html
Music Classification by Genre: System Performance
Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples.
http://cnx.org/content/m11690/latest/
Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres
Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.
http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html
Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art
Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available Online. [PDF]
http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/references/to_read/music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf
Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000. [PDF]
http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf
Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre