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After award nominations are handed, out come the stories of snubs and misses. However, with the Grammys, can one really tell?
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According to a report, AT&T receives more than $10 million per year from the CIA, and in return the CIA can access the company's database of international phone records, which also includes information on Americans.
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Sure, there were a few box office bombs this summer but that didn't stop it from setting a record. The summer of 2013 goes down as the best summer ever, money wise, at the domestic box office.
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Australian duo Atlas Genius released their newest studio album “When It Was Now” on their label, Warner Brothers Records.
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Laurie’s love affair with New Orleans blues music takes a detour into the American heartland with 'Didn’t It Rain'. And surprise! This is no vanity project.
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A French driver named Guerlain Chicherit is one of the first known people to do a complete 360 degree back-flip with a motorized vehicle.
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According to the NOAA annual State of the Climate reports, 2012 demonstrated its share of dramatic weather changes across the United States.
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A website with a name searchable index to birth, marriage and death records of Jews from Poland from 1808 to 1911 exists through the efforts of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Stanley Diamond of Montreal, and an international group of volunteers.
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As one of 2012's inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, legendary singer-songwriter Donovan reflects on his half-century of making music.
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Jody Quine is a talented Vancouver-based singer/songwriter who has shown she is multi-talented and blurs music genre lines.
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Nearly 6,000 United States weather records–in large part due to the unusually warm temperatures–have been broken thus far in March.
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Oh Yay, Oh yay, read all about it! An enterprising concept to digitise every newspaper, periodical and journal ever printed in Britain has been made available online.
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The Croatian Cultural Centre in Vancouver was hosting The 2011 Record and CD Convention on Sunday.
Once a year, enthusiasts of black vinyl records, tapes, music CDs and concerts on DVD get together here to exchange and trade both old and new music.
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After a public inquiry by Hawaii's Democratic Governor Neil Abercrombie to release President Obama's birth certificate, Hawaii's attorney general says the records are protected under state privacy laws.
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According to a survey from Internet security company AVG, a whopping 81 percent of children around the world have an online presence by the time they are two years old. In the U.S., that number is as high as 92 percent.
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Produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, the biggest coin in the world is more than half a meter wide, weighs 100 kilogram and will be on auction in Vienna next week. How weird does one have to be in order to buy this, to want to own this?
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Mary Josephine Ray, the oldest U.S. woman, passed away Sunday at the age of 114. Ray was born on May 17, 1885 in Canada.
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“Alta cocker” is a Yiddish expression meaning “old man” and is how his owner describes his cocker spaniel, Uno, who turned 22 on New Year’s Day. He suspects the dog may be the “alta-est” in the world.
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Susan Boyle, who became famous overnight after her appearance on Britain's Got Talent, has broken the record for CD pre-orders on Amazon. The album will see its release on Monday in the UK and is entitled "I Dreamed a Dream."
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Researchers said Wednesday that 4,317,119 births in 2007. That sets a national record for births topping the record from 1957 at the height of the baby boom. There were also more babies more out of 'wedlock' than any other year.
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The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declined to investigate reports that phone companies turned over customer records to the National Security Agency, citing national security concerns.
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Public health and education records may soon be easier to find online. But privacy experts are concerned that Social Security numbers will be compromised.
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Starbucks to launch music label.
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Christina Aguilera has recorded a song about oral sex. Called "F*** You, Suck You." She wont release it as it may be a bad blow for her career. Arf.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday, he was 83.
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Willner's talent for recognizing artistically interesting combinations is one originating in his youth. “I grew up at the tail-end of where that was very normal,” the 57 year-old producer says, “you know, let’s call it music-as-vaudeville, when records became an art form in the same way literature, and art, and movies were, and the variety shows on TV: you had Dr. John next to Miles Davis next to Buffalo Springfield.”
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Corinne Merrell
“I'm referencing quite a bit," San says of the themes behind Nufonia Must Fall. "Everybody feels like the world is moving a little too fast and is getting a little too complicated. But every robot has a story.”
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Photo Courtesy of Kelly Christine Musgraves
Country singer and Mercury Records Nashville recording artist Kacey Musgraves score Top 10 hit with "Merry Go 'Round"
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