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Los angeles (AP) -- Cocktails won't be served, but ABC says a new online 'music lounge' will offer a full menu of songs and artists featured on its shows....

. Ruling means Balls faces teaching union boycott . Move to discourage creation of league tablesA review of Sats commissioned by the schools secretary, Ed Balls, will rule today that formal science tests taken by 600,000 11-year-olds every year should be scrapped.Every child in England will receive a detailed graduation certificate listing their achievements at the end of primary school, to help ease the transition to secondary school by giving their new teachers details about their accomplishments.But the expert group behind the review will stop short of recommending that all national tests be abolished - leaving the government to face a showdown with two teaching unions, which say they will boycott next year's tests if they are not reformed. The Guardian understands the group will recommend that the controversial system of testing all 11-year-olds in English and maths should continue.Tests could be replaced by 'single level tests' in years to come based on the model of music grade ex

. Ruling means Balls faces teaching union boycott . Move to discourage creation of league tablesA review of Sats commissioned by the schools secretary, Ed Balls, will rule today that formal science tests taken by 600,000 11-year-olds every year should be scrapped.Every child in England will receive a detailed graduation certificate listing their achievements at the end of primary school, to help ease the transition to secondary school by giving their new teachers details about their accomplishments.But the expert group behind the review will stop short of recommending that all national tests be abolished - leaving the government to face a showdown with two teaching unions, which say they will boycott next year's tests if they are not reformed. The Guardian understands the group will recommend that the controversial system of testing all 11-year-olds in English and maths should continue.Tests could be replaced by 'single level tests' in years to come based on the model of music grade ex

Another lawsuit has been filed in New Jersey against Ticketmaster over the way it sells tickets over the Internet.

Grace Church Chichester release album through Kingsway Music

We've been playing around with a pre-production Samsung M7600 BEAT DJ music phone for a couple of weeks and have put together a brief pre-review that includes 2 HD videos of the BEAT DJ in action. Read the full story here.

Music News: Emphasis on progressive tunes began early -- ABC's 'Grey's Anatomy' is a show about a lot of things -- doctors, relationships, life and death -- but before the show even began its pilot, producers realized there had to be one more thing included in that list: music.

The founder of X and pioneer of U.S. punk scene, John Doe says technology is has been good for music but people should pay for songs they download.

Sonoma Wire Works released an updated version of its FourTrack music application for the iPhone and iPod touch. There are three major additions to the app with...

World-renowned trumpet visionary Jon Hassell composes what he calls Fourth World music. It's an innovative sound that melds various ethnic styles, particularly African and Asian, with electronic techniques. On World Cafe, his band performs three songs from his new album in a session with host David Dye.