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Kris Allen performs on American Idol.

ADVERSTISMENT

Swift quick to nab top music award

Singer youngest to win country title

By CHRIS TALBOTT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted: November 12, 2009 5:03 a.m.

Taylor Swift on Wednesday became the youngest person and the first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year award.
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Listen to live streaming from the CMJ music showcas

Posted: October 22, 2009 2:21 p.m.

For more than 20 years, the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival has been showcasing the best in rising musical talent.
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MUSIC REVIEW: A singer possessed, Swift grabs crowd

By Jennifer Christman
Posted: September 28, 2009 4:32 a.m.

Kanye West better beware.
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Taylor Swift offers up stormy performance

19-year-old plays to over 14,000 in LR

Posted: September 27, 2009 1:49 a.m.

Kanye West better beware. Taylor Swift might usually seem cute and cuddly, but the 19-year-old country music sensation is a fierce force to be reckoned with. Especially if you're a man who has ticked her off (as West did two weeks ago, interrupting her MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech).
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Strep did in Mozart? Researchers offer up theory

By The Associated Press
Posted: August 18, 2009 3:05 p.m.

For more than two centuries, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has endured - as has the speculation about what led to his sudden death at age 35 on Dec. 5, 1791.
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Les Paul dies at 94

By The Associated Press
Posted: August 13, 2009 11:54 a.m.

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.
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SPIN CYCLE: Shocker: Kris Allen is a nice guy!

By Jennifer Christman
Posted: August 2, 2009 4:29 a.m.

American Idol finalists Allison Iraheta, Scott MacIntyre, Anoop Desai and Michael Sarver wanted to discuss the tour, their recording plans and careers.
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Jazz-guitar legend takes inspiration from personal-injury mogul

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Posted: July 26, 2009 4:34 a.m.

Until now, the song most closely identified with the Little Rock personal-injury lawyer Peter Miller has probably been the television jingle that concludes with his phone number, drawing the final double zeroes into an elongated but cheerful moan.
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The buzz

By Ellis Widner
Posted: July 26, 2009 4:10 a.m.

Composer Lori Laitman and poet David Mason are working on their second opera, based on Mason's verse novel, Ludlow.
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MUSIC REVIEW: Crowd shows noisy love for state's idol

By BY JENNIFER CHRISTMAN ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Posted: July 26, 2009 3:25 a.m.

American Idol Kris Allen arrived ready to perform.
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Tour minus, Allen says: Less sleep

By Jennifer Christman
Posted: July 26, 2009 3:24 a.m.

Before taking the stage Saturday night, American Idol Kris Allen, clad in a faded Transformers T-shirt, took questions from reporters during an afternoon media hour at Verizon Arena.
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American Idol makes stop in Arkansas

By ArkansasOnline
Posted: July 25, 2009 2:44 p.m.

The American Idol tour, led by winner and erstwhile homecoming king Kris Allen, brings its song and spectacle to Verizon Arena in North Little Rock tonight.
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PAPER TRAILS: Kris Allen's faith is quiet but strong

By Linda Caillouet
Posted: July 24, 2009 4:27 a.m.

HEART AND SOUL: Just two days before their son Kristopher headlines the American Idol tour's stop at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, parents Kim and Neil Allen shared with local media what their son's whirlwind life has been like since winning on Fox's TV show American Idol.
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Rock at Riverfest Amphitheatre, barbershop at UALR

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Posted: July 15, 2009 11:16 a.m.

The rock band Switchfoot will kick it into gear at Little Rock's Riverfest Amphitheatre at 6:30 p.m. Friday for the Sonic Music in the Park concert, as reported in Thursday's Arkansas Weekend section.
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Help pay for Jackson service, LA asks fans

By The Associated Press
Posted: July 7, 2009 1:33 p.m.

Deficit-ridden Los Angeles is asking Michael Jackson fans to help pay the bill for police and other public servants needed for the entertainer's memorial service.
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