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Forget Ozzfest as you know it because the annual summer heavy-metal rock concert is changing things up this year by no longer touring the country and performing nonstop. Instead, they will be making Ozzfest a one-day mega event. It will take place in Dallas at the Pizza Hut Park on Saturday, August 9th with headliners Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Manager Sharon Osbourne commented on the change saying “Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour, so I think he deserves a summer off. We’re going to be a stadium destination festival for now — we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We’ve given everyone else the blueprint and we have to keep evolving Ozzfest.”

Category : Heavy Metal, Metallica, Music Festival, Ozzy Osbourne

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People may be saying that Whitney Houston is more than ready for a comeback but maybe that’s strictly for the recording studio. The recovering crack-head performed for 30 minutes for a reported $3 million to a sold out crowd at the Plymouth Jazz Festival on Sunday. According to BV Buzz, her voice was anything but ok and that it became raspy by the third song. She was also unable to hit the big finish for ‘I Will Always Love You’. To add to that, she has no sense of geography as she kept shouting to the crowd “I love you Trinidad!” The thing is, she was in Tobago.

Category : Music Festival, Song, Whitney Houston, jazz

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Cedella Booker, the mother of reggae legend Bob Marley, has passed away in Miami at the age of 81.

Cedella had been a resident of Miami for the past 30 years.She was an active figure in the promotion of her son and in 1993 started the Bob Marley Movement Festival that featured Santana and Wyclef Jean.

Mrs Booker gave birth to her son Robert when she was 18 years old. Bob died in May, 1981.

Cedella Booker also had her own music career. She released two albums, ‘Awake Zion’ and ‘Smilin’ Island of Song’.

Category : Bob Marley, Cedella Booker, Music Festival, Music Legends, News, Reggae, Santana

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It has been announced by organizers on Monday that the surprise performer at the legendary Glastonbury music festival in the UK this summer will be none other than Neil Diamond. The 67-year old ‘Sweet Caroline’ singer will perform on the main stage on the final day of the three-day event which will start on June 27. Does it even count as a surprise when it gets announced?

Jay-Z has also been confirmed as a headliner for one of the other nights. Well, that’s an interesting mix. At least, they weren’t slated to perform on the same day. That would surely put together a weird crowd.

Category : Concert, Music Artist, Music Bands, Music Festival, Neil Diamond

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The diva has really done it this time! Diana Ross actually pissed off a crowd of 40,000 at the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday where the 63-year old was booed and heckled by Jamaicans in attendance at Montego Bay after organizers told them that “to honor Miss Ross’ wishes, she will not be shown on the monitors”. That piece of news was met with a whole lot of hissing. The audience in the stadium-sized arena was unable to see the diva onstage but she wouldn’t allow to put her performance on the big screen but she would not go on stage if any cameras were present. The booing continued for her whole hour-long set when the crowd beyond the first section couldn’t even see her.

Category : Concert, Diana Ross, Music Festival, Performance, jazz

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When Britney Spears’ ‘Blackout’ album came out, everyone pretty much knew that this was it for her and all hopes of her actually getting accolades for her work has gone down the drain. But then again, we can end up getting corrected. The pop wreck actually took home the award for Best International Album at the NRJ Music Awards which was held in Cannes, France on Saturday. The fallen pop star beat out big names like Mika, Amy Winehouse, James Blunt and Rihanna. It’s unbelievable. This is such a travesty! I demand a recount! There’s no way she could have beaten Rihanna!

Category : Amy Winehouse, Award, Britney Spears, Music Festival, Rihanna, Scandal

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While the full line up of performers has yet to be revealed, the organizers of Coachella has announce a couple dozen of the acts that will be performing at the West Coast edition of the music festival this April. The list includes the Raconteurs, The Verve, Jack Johnson, Kraftwerk, Portishead, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Love and Rockets, Justice, M.I.A., The Breeders, Rilo Kiley, Sasha & Digweed, Café Tacuba, Fatboy Slim, Spritualized, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The National, Animal Collective, Mum, Pendulum, Sharon Jones, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Spank Rock, Minus the Bear, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santogold, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Booka Shade, Murs, Cool Kids, Sia, Les Savy Fav, Holy Fuck, Black Kids, Black Mountain, Man Man, I’m from Barcelona, Kid Sister, The Horrors, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Luckyiam, Autolux, Modeselektor, The Bees, Professor Murder, Cut Copy, Busy P and VHS or Beta.

Category : Coachella, Concert, Music Artist, Music Bands, Music Festival, Performance

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