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The Spanish folk and world music community was in shock this morning when the Spanish press announced the death of timple virtuoso José Antonio Ramos. He was 38 years old and was found dead today (June 4) in the recording studio where he was finalizing his fifth album titled Very Jar. Ramos had been working out on a stationary bicycle and was found dead, apparently of a heart stroke. The Canary Islander was one of the leading timple players in Spain. The extremely talented Ramos ventured into jazz, flamenco, Celtic music, and classical music, taking his small guitar to uncharted territories as a solo instrument. José Antonio Ramos was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) in November 10th, 1969. At the age of nine he started his timple studies with Totoyo Millares. Later, he con...

AP - Gavin Rossdale, 'Wanderlust' (Interscope)

UPLAND, Calif., June 4 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Before the 'Go Green' movement began, well known hit songs such as Country Roads, Rocky Mountain High and Sunshine on My Shoulders tied music together with the environment years before it was socially popular. Long before carbon foot printing became a household word, John Denver created Plant It 2000, a nonprofit foundation.

Argentina probably isn't the first place you think of for groundbreaking electro-pop music, but for the past several years it's been turning out a number of stunning recordings from some of the genre's most inventive artists. The brother-sister duo Isol and Zypce (that's ee-SOLE and ZIP-see) is about to release one of the year's more curious CDs: a spectacular headphone album, with a richly layered world of blips and clicks, called Sima.

At the birth of motion pictures, moviegoers would watch the silent films to the sound of the house Wurlitzer organ. Today, jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas and his band are taking a second look at these silent films with brand-new scores and a new way to distribute music.

The former Talking Heads frontman has turned the inside of a defunct ferry terminal into a giant musical instrument by retrofitting an antique organ and wiring it to the pipes, the beams, and even the plumbing of the Battery Maritime Building.

A new Vanity Fair article about Bill Clinton's "post–White House escapades" has made at least two bold-faces a little irate. A lawyer for Gina Gershon, who currently stars in the Broadway musical Boeing Boeing, said in a statement released yeste

SWINGTOWN. 10 p.m. tomorrow, Channel 3.TELEVISION KEEPS trying to adjust the picture on my memories of the '70s.First it was "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson's touching pronouncement that the 1970s were his favorite musical decade, casting a rosy light on an era that, OK, maybe sounds a little better from a distance than it did to those of us jammed next to the speakers.

Music News: Rapper joins Dillon, Elba in crime drama -- Screen Gems has made a three-picture deal with T.I. that will launch with the crime drama 'Bone Deep,' in which the hip-hop star will join Matt Dillon and Idris Elba.

Music News: Celebrations to include McCabe's, moon landing -- Celebrations of the 50th anniversary of McCabe's Guitar Shop, the 40th anni of the first moon landing and the 20th anniversary of Hal Willner's Disney music tribute album 'Stay Awake' are included on the 2008-09 UCLA Live calendar.