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Review: 'Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love'This documentary is an exemplary look at the African superstar's life and the fallout over his album 'Egypt.' Art that spans global divides often relies either on the loveliness of gauzy universals or the shock of gritty minutiae. Chronicling a tumultuous period in the career of an urbane internationalist, the African music superstar Youssou N'Dour, filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi tries to split the difference between these approaches in her documentary "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love."
LA Times Friday, July 03, 2009Radio stations step up battle against Performance Rights ActFor more than 80 years, commercial stations have aired songs without paying royalties to musicians, but a bill making its way through Congress would change that. Broadcasters call the Performance Rights Act a tax. To the music industry, it's more like a royalty fee. But the legislation, which is gaining momentum in both the House and the Senate, is making radio stations nervous.
LA Times Friday, July 03, 2009Public Jackson memorial to be held at Staples Center TuesdayA free public memorial for Michael Jackson will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, but the date is yet to be determined.
USATODAY Friday, July 03, 2009Gig review: Silversun PickupsSILVERSUN PICKUPS *** ORAN MOR, GLASGOW
Scotsman Friday, July 03, 2009U2 could be fined for noiseBARCELONA authorities might fine U2 for rocking too long and loudly during rehearsals for their latest world tour, the city council said yesterday.
Scotsman Friday, July 03, 2009Los Angeles police under scrutiny in Jackson deathLOS ANGELES -- The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.
Seattle Post Intelligencer Friday, July 03, 2009Mellencamp Muses About Mortality, 'Love'John Mellencamp joins Terry Gross to talk religion, politics and his album Life, Death, Love and Freedom. And he performs solo acoustic versions of four songs from the album from his Indiana home studio.
NPR Friday, July 03, 2009Jackson Memorial Is Tuesday; L.A. Rushes To PlanIn Los Angeles, city officials are scrambling over the holiday weekend to try to figure out how to accommodate a public memorial service for Michael Jackson at a venue that can hold no more than 20,000 people.
NPR Friday, July 03, 2009Courtly Confusion: Rossini's 'Voyage To Rheims'The opera has a scatterbrained story, full of decidedly goofy characters. Yet Rossini's gift for musical profiling, plus a raft of bravura arias and ensembles, make this La Scala production a comic gem.
NPR Friday, July 03, 2009L.A. officials brace for Jackson serviceMusic News: 20,000 tickets
available for Staples Center event -- City officials in Los Angeles are scrambling over the holiday weekend to try to figure out how to accommodate a public memorial service for Michael Jackson at a venue that can hold no more than 20,000 people.
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