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Tug Of War Shaping Up Over Bob Marley’s Guitar
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Yamaha SG1000 was considered a prized catch for Christie’s when the auction house put the guitar on the block for sale this past November. Bids were expected to range between $30,000 and $40,000. Turns out, however, the guitar may not have belonged to Angus Reid, who submitted the guitar, but rather to Wailers bassist Aston Barrett.
Claiming Marley gave him the Yamaha following the Wailers final 1979 world tour, Barrett is suing Reid and also seeking $50,000 in compensation from Christie’s. He’s seeking the safe return of the guitar as well, saying he simply passed the Yamaha along to Reid in 2000 for "safekeeping."
Yamaha presented the guitar to Marley when he visited the Yamaha factory in Hamamatsu during the Japan leg of the tour. Photographs of the reggae star playing in Tokyo and Osaka were included with the auction sale. At press time, further details regarding the whereabouts of the guitar, or the original sale, were not available.

word pictures peak, and his music rocks with authority. Tracks like 'Downtown,' 'Crossroads of America,' 'Hopper's Town,' and 'You, Coney Island' are as authentic as many of Lou Reed's best works."

Katy Perry's titillating year (she 'Kissed a Girl') wasn't enough to snag a best new artist Grammy nod, and her boyfriend is calling it "a fluke and a f--- up on the Grammys' behalf." Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy tells PopEater: "We got the Jonas Brothers being nominated for Best New Artist and they're on their third record." (Chillax kids, he's ticked at the academy, not JB.)




Lily Allen Cleans Up Her Actposted: 11 HOURS 43 MINUTES AGOcomments: 1
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Lily Allen is hanging up her party shoes. The 'Smile' singer, notorious for her tabloid exploits, claims she hasn't had a drop to drink since late September, but knows no one will believe her. "I've become a character in a comic,' she says. "That's what it feels like. And that character is always drunk! I wish my comic character wasn't that, but there's nothing I can do."

This song had me hooked from the first 3 chords, the groove was infectious. Killer song with an 80's style feel, but a modern touch. I can't quite put my finger on why this song is so cool, so you'll just have to listen and find out. As for the band, loved the name & sound; the female lead kinda reminds me of a cross between Lita Ford & Kim Wilde (all their good qualities). Loved y'all & wanna hear more

This song had me hooked from the first 3 chords, the groove was infectious. Killer song with an 80's style feel, but a modern touch. I can't quite put my finger on why this song is so cool, so you'll just have to listen and find out. As for the band, loved the name & sound; the female lead kinda reminds me of a cross between Lita Ford & Kim Wilde (all their good qualities). Loved y'all & wanna hear more.

Heidi Klum: Nudity Normal in Our Homeposted: 5 DAYS 16 HOURS AGOcomments: 68
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GettyHeidi Klum insists that being nude is actually a normal occurrence in her home -- even when her children are there. "People are pretty open with their bodies in Germany and the children see you naked or in lingerie all the time so it's not a big deal... We don't hide inside a room and change -- it's all very open," Klum revealed.
ScarJo's Now a Brunette Bombshellposted: 5 DAYS 12 HOURS AGOcomments: 4
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Getty ImagesLet's be honest: Scarlett Johansson could have purple-and-yellow streaked hair, and she'd still look fabulous. Still, her new brunette 'do made its debut in Madrid at the premiere for her new movie 'The Spirit.' Like it or leave it?

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Effect of a music intervention on noise annoyance, heart rate, and blood pressure in cardiac surgery patients JF Byers and KA Smyth .
BACKGROUND: Exposure to noise in a critical care unit may trigger a response by the sympathetic nervous system, thereby increasing cardiovascular work in patients recovering from cardiac surgery. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of a music intervention given twice on the first postoperative day on noise annoyance, heart rate, and arterial blood pressure in subjects with high (n = 22) and low (n = 18) sensitivity to noise. METHODS: A prospective, quasi-experimental, repeated-measures design was used. Based on results of power analysis, the sample size was 40. Subjects were recruited preoperatively, and their sensitivity to noise was assessed. On the first postoperative day, repeated-measures data were collected on levels of noise annoyance and physiological variables during 15 minutes of baseline and 15 minutes of music intervention on two occasions. Subjects completed a follow-up questionnaire regarding their perceptions of the noise in the critical care unit and the music intervention. RESULTS: Repeated-measures analysis of variance showed that subjects had lower levels of noise annoyance during music intervention than at baseline. Heart rate and systolic blood pressure decreased during the music intervention compared with baseline. Diastolic blood pressure decreased during the music intervention from baseline during time 2, but not time 1. Subjects with high baseline scores of noise sensitivity preoperatively had higher baseline levels of noise annoyance in the critical care unit the first postoperative day. Subjects rated the music intervention as highly enjoyable regardless of their baseline noise sensitivity or noise annoyance. CONCLUSION: Results of this study support the idea that noise annoyance is a highly individual phenomenon, influenced by a transaction of personal and environmental factors. Use of a music intervention with cardiac surgery patients during the first postoperative day decreased noise annoyance, heart rate, and systolic blood pressure, regardless of the subject's noise sensitivity.

What Is West Coast Rap?
Hip-hop is a postmodern style of music borne of the fiercely impoverished neighborhoods of the South Bronx borough of New York City during the early 1970s. The rough economic situation and subsequent closure of many government-funded music programs led people to remake, rearrange, or remix existing recordings into completely different compositions with the use of turntables. DJs would extend the break or "get down" section of previously released songs by alternating between duplicate copies of a vinyl recording with the use of two turntables and a mixer. Soon MCs entered the equation to enhance the DJ's efforts and act as a crowd moderator. Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc is credited with creating this medium that soon blossomed into a subculture that encompassed five main components: DJing, MCing, beat-boxing, graffiti, and break dancing. In time, live instruments, drum machines, synthesizers, and computers became the tools by which artists created their music. The first hip-hop recordings, made in the late '70s and early '80s, exposed the genre to a national audience, and by the turn of the century it morphed into a worldwide phenomenon. As a result, numerous subgenres and fusions of hip-hop were developed based largely upon the geographic, musical, and environmental influences prevalent in each particular region of the world.
Notable Artists: Public Enemy, the Wu-Tang Clan, Grandmaster Flash, Snoop Dogg.

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Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".[1]
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.
To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."[2] According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."[3]

Adele Arrives on the Interface
London singer-songwriter Adele is poised to be the new face of soul. The 19-year-old -- with a Brit award and a No. 1 single under her belt -- brought her transcendental tunes to the Interface, performing four bare-bones tracks from her forthcoming U.S. release of '19.' "I like to think of myself as a soul singer, hugely influenced to Roberta Flack, Lauren Hill and Etta James," she tells Spinner.

Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has accused the members of Coldplay of lifting "substantial original portions" from one of his songs and using it in the band's recent hit, 'Viva La Vida.' With his copyright infringement suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles, the 52-year-old shredder is seeking damages and "any and all profits" from the group for allegedly plagiarizing his 2004 instrumental 'If I Could Fly.'It's not clear whether the complaint dives into specifics of the "substantial" similarities between the two songs. However, a quick, side-by-side listen to both tracks reveals a kinship between the melodies in Coldplay's verse and Satriani's main riff.Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has accused the members of Coldplay of lifting "substantial original portions" from one of his songs and using it in the band's recent hit, 'Viva La Vida.' With his copyright infringement suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles, the 52-year-old shredder is seeking damages and "any and all profits" from the group for allegedly plagiarizing his 2004 instrumental 'If I Could Fly.'It's not clear whether the complaint dives into specifics of the "substantial" similarities between the two songs. However, a quick, side-by-side listen to both tracks reveals a kinship between the melodies in Coldplay's verse and Satriani's main riff.

Almost two months shy of releasing their third album, 'Perfect Symmetry,' Keane have finally touched down on American soil for a string of intimate dates. The band, which arrived earlier this week, started off their campaign by recording an outdoor concert for an upcoming episode of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' which airs later this month. Meanwhile, they have three tiny gigs in Los Angeles, starting today, before heading back home for the holidays. But Chaplin said the band is looking forward to heading west once again after the New Year.

Liza Gets Personal Before Broadway Run
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Liza Minnelli opens up to New York Magazine about her return to Broadway with 'Liza's at the Palace.' "I have so much trouble losing weight. But I've lost 35 pounds just doing this show," she says. Minnelli also talks about her godmother in the interview, but there is one thing she's not allowed to mention.