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Mary Frisbie Wood: Pepsi's Pop Songwriter
October 11, 2012 5:35 PM EDT Making her mark with a soft drink jingle, Mary Frisbie Wood writes for commercials just like any pop song. If TV advertising is the new radio, then songwriting is steering dangerously close to the new marketing. That's the delicate line betwe ...
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Ask Billboard: Readers' 2010 Top Picks, Continued
January 07, 2011 5:15 PM EST Ask Billboard is updated every Friday. As always, submit your questions about Billboard charts, sales and airplay, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com . Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and co ...
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Mandy Moore Continues To Grow On 'Amanda Leigh'
May 20, 2009 11:31 AM EDT Mandy Moore is hoping her forthcoming sixth studio album, "Amanda Leigh," continues the gradual process of transitioning from teen hitmaker ("Candy") to greater acceptance as a bona fide musical artist. "I find it silly that ...
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Indie Rockers Feel The 'Frequency' In L.A.
November 29, 2007 12:00 AM EST Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall will host two concerts this January as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic-presented Concrete Frequency, a series of events that explores the effects of urban en Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall ...
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Indie Rockers Feel The 'Frequency' In L.A.
November 29, 2007 12:00 AM EST Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall will host two concerts this January as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic-presented Concrete Frequency, a series of events that explores the effects of urban environments on music and art. The first con ...
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The Bird And The Bee
February 09, 2007 12:00 AM EST Call it what you will -- space age bachelorette pad music seems fitting -- just as long as you don't call it "modern standards" or "jazz pop." And even if Inara George and Greg Kurstin have hipster na Call it what you will - ...
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Nada Surf, Rogue Wave Team For Tour
January 26, 2006 12:00 AM EST College radio mainstays Nada Surf and Rogue Wave will begin a North American tour Feb. 8 in Federal Hill, Md. College radio mainstays Nada Surf and Rogue Wave will begin a North American tour Feb. 8 in Federal Hill, Md. The outing will run through M ...
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Coldplay, Wilco, Crowes Lead ACL Lineup
May 04, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Coldplay, Wilco, Widespread Panic, Oasis, the Black Crowes, Jimmy Cliff, Death Cab For Cutie, Doves, Buddy Guy, the Allman Brothers Band and Franz Ferdinand lead the lineup for the fourth Austin City Coldplay, Wilco, Widespread Panic, Oasis, the Bla ...
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All Rise
January 29, 2005 12:00 AM EST "Will you take me as your mistress/ Long and dark hair/Will you cut it off when it's useless/All of my hair." Inara George's gorgeous opener "Mistress" on her debut "All Rise" reads and sounds like Sy "Wi ...
