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Hot Chip, School Of Seven Bells, Panda Bear added to Moogfest line-up

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.

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Acts will join Massive Attack, MGMT and Jonsi at the North Carolina event ...

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Ra Ra Riot, 'The Orchard' (Barsuk)

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This sextet's poetry-quoting, cello-chugging debut came with plenty of stop-start, hum-along rockers, as if the band was out to prove that liberal-arts fops could soundtrack keggers. But here, they deliver the sort of mid-tempo, orch-pop fussiness that they'd been praised for transcending. A few tracks possess a quicker pulse, like the intriguingly twitchy "Massachusetts" and the aerobic, bass-driven fairy tale "Boy," while "Too Dramatic" resurrects the band's crowd-pleasing ambitions, with a

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Funkadelic and Parliament guitarist Phelps 'Catfish' Collins dies

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 9:01 a.m.

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Legendary musician also played with James Brown ...

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Allman Brothers Return to the Road This Fall

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 8:03 a.m.

The Allman Brothers will return to the stage on November 18th for the first time since Gregg Allman's liver transplant, kicking off three nights of shows at Boston's Orpheum Theatre. "I've been itching to play since I got the operation," Gregg Allman said in a statement. "Can't thank everyone enough ...

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Athlete To Release Best Of Album

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 11:10 p.m.

The band will also tour to support the retrospective ...

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M.I.A. Cuts Set After Stage Invasion

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 9:21 p.m.

The crowd get rowdy at Big Chill this weekend ...

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The Libertines Announce London Date

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 8:36 p.m.

Details of the Reading and Leeds warm-up show announced ...

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Katy Perry, 'Teenage Dream' (Capitol)

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:29 p.m.

When Katy Perry revealed the title of her sophomore album earlier this year, the members of dream-pop duo Beach House took to Twitter and vented about the linguistic proximity to their own latest, Teen Dream ... Yet if anyone seems qualified to invoke the fantasy life of America's youth, surely it's the woman who sealed her transition from Christian-pop piety to electro-glam abandon with "I Kissed a Girl." ... Teenage Dream won't disappoint parents looking for reasons to worry about their

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The Big Chill, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

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"Get any more chill, this place is gonna be a mortuary," grumbles ex-Faith No More man Mike Patton. But really, the Big Chill remains a healingly relaxed, eclectic festival. Even Sunday's closing act, Lily Allen, is uncharacteristically dressed down, for well-publicised reasons. "'Scuse my very casual clothes, but I'm pregnant," she nervously laughs, blaming her safety-conscious boyfriend for unpacking her high heels. He left her well-balanced, rapidly maturing attitude intact, in a jaunty,

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Villagers, Sneaky Pete's

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

Between this Edge Festival show going on sale and the date of the performance, Conor J O'Brien and his band have found their debut album, Becoming a Jackal , nominated for a Mercury Prize. So the audience were treated to the rare sight and sound of a group on the crest of a popular wave playing in one of Edinburgh's smallest and most atmospheric venues ...

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