Release date set for 'lost' Beach Boys LP

The original recordings for the Beach Boys' legendary "lost" album Smile are to be released this autumn, 44 years after it was first due to come out. The Smile sessions were recorded in 1966, but the album was left unfinished after the group's co-founder Brian Wilson suffered an emotional breakdown.
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Moogfest2011

Moogfest2011 - Annual multi-venue event that honors the remarkable vision of Robert Moog and his amazing musical inventions. Held in Asheville, NC, October 28-30, Moogfest features concerts from contemporary artists
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Author uncovers John Lennon's letters

More than 250 letters and cards sent by John Lennon to his family and friends are to be published for the first time
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Patti Smith and Kronos Quartet accept Polar music prize

Rocker Patti Smith and US string group Kronos Quartet have received the 2011 Polar Music Prize
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Apple rolls out beta of iTunes Match for developers

iTunes Match, the iTunes portion of Apple's iCloud was rolled out as a developer beta last night. The service scans a user's local library of music files and mirrors the content on an iCloud server so it can be accessed on any connected device. The service will cost $24.99 per year and let users store as many as 25,000 songs
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US blues musician David 'Honey-Boy' Edwards dies

US blues musician David "Honey-Boy" Edwards has died at his home in Chicago at the age of 96, his manager has said
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Katherine Jenkins tells fans NOT to buy her music

Katherine Jenkins has pleaded with her fans NOT to buy her latest album. She does not want to make money out of the new release, 'One Fine Day'. The record is a compilation of old material cleverly repacked and Katherine believes this will con fans
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Naxos Music Library subscribers now have access to the recordings of EMI Classics, Virgin Classics and Blue Note Records

Naxos Music Library has announced the addition of the EMI Classical and Jazz catalog to its streaming audio collection. This vast catalog of recordings includes EMI Classics, Virgin Classics and Blue Note Records. On August 19, more than 200 albums were made available to subscribers with the remainder of the 7200 album catalog available by the end of 2011. New releases will be added as they occur
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Nick Ashford dead at 69: Motown great co-wrote 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'

Nick Ashford, who with his wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown's most powerful love duets, died Monday in a New York hospital. He was 69 and had been undergoing radiation treatments for throat cancer
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Elvis Presley songwriter Jerry Leiber dies at 78

Jerry Leiber, the songwriter who penned such classic rock and roll hits as Elvis Presley's Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock, has died at the age of 78
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Phil Spector denied murder appeal

A US court has refused to allow music producer Phil Spector to appeal against his 2009 murder conviction. The 71-year-old was jailed for 19 years for shooting actress Lana Clarkson at his California home in 2003
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Record industry braces for artists' battles over song rights

Since their release in 1978, hit albums like Bruce Springsteen's “"arkness on the Edge of Town," Billy Joel's "52nd Street," the Doobie Brothers' "Minute by Minute," Kenny Rogers's "Gambler" and Funkadelic's "One Nation Under a Groove" have generated tens of millions of dollars for record companies. But thanks to a little-noted provision in United States copyright law, those artists - and thousands more - now have the right to reclaim ownership of their recordings, potentially leaving the labels out in the cold
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London riots: warehouse fire hits indie record labels

Around 150 independent record labels have been hit with a serious problem since their CD stocks became a casualty of the London riots, burning up with the Sony warehouse in Enfield that was the PIAS distribution centre
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UK National Trust and Decca Records release 'Never Mind the Dovecotes' Punk Collection

From safety-pins to Mohawk haircuts, the National Trust and Decca Records have joined forces to release Never Mind the Dovecotes – a celebration of British punk. The album features 18 tracks from the heyday of British punk music with artists such as The Jam, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Lene Lovich and The Fall
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UK to legalise private copying of CDs

(Reuters) - Britain will signal on Wednesday that it intends to legalise copying of CDs or DVDs onto digital music players or computers for personal use, a government source said on Tuesday
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