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The iTunes Store turned 10-years-old today. The iTunes Store, originally the iTunes Music Store ITMS — a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. — opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the biggest music vendor in the United States since April 2008. The iTunes media player application developed by Apple Inc. [...]

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The 55th Grammy Awards is scheduled for February 10, 2013 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Grammy Awards scheduled broadcast is at 8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m./8:00 PT on CBS. For the second consecutive year CT LL Cool J hosts the 55th annual event with the following artists scheduled to perform: Adele, Travis Barker, [...]

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MUSIC VIDEO: “Mind Games” is John Lennon’s fourth post-Beatles album, and was recorded and released in 1973. In his lifetime John Lennon favored playing a Rickenbacker 325, a Epiphone Casino, a Gibson J-160E. The Beatles evolved in 1960 from Lennon’s first band, the Quarrymen, which he founded in September 1956 when he as 15. The [...]

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25 or 6 to 4 Scheduled for Friday, June 15, 2012 at Campbell Street and Vail Avenue. Peoples’ Bank of Arlington Heights has generously offered to be the primary sponsor of the Village’s Sounds of Summer concert series, which runs June 7 – August 9 in Harmony Park, from 7 -8:30 pm. The bank will [...]

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“Toes” off of the album Siberia released October 4, 2011. A big crowd for Lights turned out at Durty Nellies for a Canadian electronic musician, named Valerie Anne Poxleitner at birth, and signed to her own personal label, Lights Music. Her most notable singles include “Ice”, “Second Go” and “Toes”. In 2009, Lights was awarded [...]

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The 54th Grammy Awards is scheduled for February 12, 2012 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. LL Cool J hosts the 54th annual event with the following artists scheduled to perform: Adele; Paul McCartney; Coldplay; Rihanna; Foo Fighters; Taylor Swift, and more. In addition, the Grammy Awards are being re-worked to honor the passing [...]

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Madonna is set to play the Super Bowl Halftime Show — and TMZ has the photos of what her much anticipated show will look like. Madonna is scheduled to perform at the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show to be broadcast on NBC on February 5, 2012, from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The performance [...]

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“I came to get down! No I came to get down!” 01 ‘King of Rock’ Run-DMC 02 ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ LL Cool J 03 ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’ D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince 04 ‘Me, Myself & I’ De La Soul 05 ‘Supersonic’ J.J. Fad 06 ‘Baby Got Back’ Sir Mix-a-Lot [...]

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Eddie Money playing the harmonica and performing “No Control” at Schaumburgfest, Saturday, September 3, 2011. Money became a police officer in the late 1960s. He eventually ended his law enforcement career in favor of becoming a full time musician, and moved to Berkeley, California. In the 1970s, Eddie Money charted with singles such as “Baby [...]

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Multi-Grammy winning producer, Quincy Jones reminisces on his sixty year career ahead of an all-star celebration concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Quincy Jones was born in Chicago and discovered music in grade school at Raymond Elementary School on Chicago’s South Side where he took up the trumpet. When he was 10, his family moved to [...]

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Haley Reinhart in top form back in March before voting for American Idol Season 10 (2011) semifinals. After a very respectable run on American Idol, Haley Reinhart learned that she had the least votes in this week’s American Idol competition, and did not qualify to make the American Idol finale.

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Some people loved Black Eyed Peas, Slash and Usher performing at the Super Bowl XLV Halftime. But the older crowd disliked the robotic voices and hip-hop style of BEP. Many criticized BEP and Fergie for not having the usual energy, and singing in a microphone that didn’t work until half-way through a verse. How do [...]

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