The internet may have been a miracle for music fans, Duran Duran star John Taylor says, but instant access to decades of recordings and artists' inner thoughts is not all good.

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Recently Added: Newsvine, What's on your iPod? (3rd Edition, Sept '09)

Once again, I'm sharing some of what has been recently added to my iTunes list, partly for those of you who've told me you share some of my admittedly unfocused tastes, and partly because the conversation surrounding these articles always exposes me to a whole raft of great new a …

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This song is bad ass and the electronic beat couples with her lyrical vocals makes for a great song. I've been listening to it on repeat for the whole morning.

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Greatest Rock Vocalist

Welcome to another highly subjective Newsvine music poll! Our subject this time is the age-old question: who is the greatest rock vocalist ever? What I am looking for is your opinions on those hard rock or classic rock vocalists who - whether solo or as part of a group - offer …

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80s Music Videos Revolutionized Video Production

Its amazing to watch the progression in technology when you watch the music videos from the 1980's. In the early 80's, around 1980 when MTV first started the production value was extremely low and within a matter of 3 years you see a vast improvement in video quality.

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Time To Remember, "Valley Girl"

I still can not fathom why the 1983 film, Valley Girl doesn't have hip cred yet. It is the first starring feature of Nick Cage, under his then new moniker.

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Anyway, the lead singer of Black Time has decided to take on the name of this secret agent. That doesn't say anything at all about the music he makes, but at least he knows which films to boast about watching.

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Great primer for French New Wave director Eric Rohmer.

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The Top Five Seminal Early '80s Albums

The early 1980s was an amazing time for music. The excesses of the stadium rock movement were finally bringing that bloated dinosaur to a doddering end, and the roughest edges of the punk explosion of '76-'79 had been abraded away by the twin influences of record sales and fame.

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Two-thirds of the original line-up of The Jam, have confirmed BBC Radio London's Gary Crowley as special guest DJ at their Birmingham, London and Brighton concerts on their forthcoming autumn UK tour.

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I don't know what true conservatism is, but while doing research for my forthcoming book I spent a lot of time studying the history of the American political movement that calls itself conservatism — and Mr. Bush hasn't strayed from the path at all.

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Then there's The Killers. I remember a few years back, maybe in 2002 or 2003, my buddy Jeff Lindquist e-mailed me a couple mp3s he'd nicked off an unsigned bands site. Those two tracks were "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" and "Mr.

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The Overwhelming Burden of the Overweight

I am 53 years old, 5'10" tall and I weigh 190 pounds. According to the Body Mass Index (BMI) I am overweight. I even look fat and have developed a paunch. A person is considered overweight when their BMI is over 25. Mine is 27.3. A BMI of 30 is obese.

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Hilly Kristal, the founder and owner of CBGB's, has died at the age of 75. Kristal was responsible for the so-called 'birthplace of punk' which kicked off the careers of legendary New York acts such as the Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Blondie and Patti Smith.

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So it Goes...

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She came to pop stardom late - in her early thirties - and enraptured us all as the lead singer of Blondie. Even when she lost top billing to Madonna and many of her friends to drugs, she never lost her cool. Now 62, she holds a new generation in awe. Tim Adams meets her

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Photos from Heatwave - Summer Music Festival, Aug 23 1980. Line-up w/ all original band members: Elvis Costello & The Attractions the B-52's, The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Rockpile w/ Nick Lowe, The Clash (never made it), The Kings, Teenage Head

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Goodbye, Ric Ocasek. Hello, Todd Rundgren. Joined by original members guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes, the revamped band announces after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday that they will soon tour with the new moniker the New Cars.

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One of the world's largets security firms is expecting a large wave of criminal activity to be unleashed in zombie computers within the next 6-18 months.

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