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Music stars rock the Grammys red carpet Music's brightest stars bared lots of skin on the Grammys red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday, oozing sex appeal and taking fashion risks on the industry's biggest night.

27 January 2014

Music helps elderly remember: movie at Sundance It won't cure dementia or Alzheimer's disease, but music can nevertheless help sufferers "wake up" their memories, reveals a moving documentary presented at the Sundance Film Festival.

22 January 2014

Italian violinist strikes a chord with street kids A leading Italian violinist has swapped gilded concert halls for audiences of street children around the world, using music therapy to help those less fortunate.

18 January 2014

Travel through time with Haydn and Mozart: Astana Opera The Great Names: J.Hayden, W.A. Mozart concert will take place on January 16 at the Astana Opera.

15 January 2014

Bullock, Timberlake top winners at People's Choice awards "Gravity" star Sandra Bullock, chart-topping singer Justin Timberlake and blockbuster "Iron Man 3" were the biggest winners at the public-voted People's Choice awards show Wednesday.

09 January 2014

Amateur singer in Kazakhsan Voice final An amateur singer Timur Omarov, 20, from Temirtau has made into the final of The Kazakhstan Voice contest.

08 January 2014

Classical music radio launched in Astana The new FM radio is broadcasting at 102.7 MHz in Astana.

06 January 2014

New Bruce Springsteen album 'High Hopes' goes online Bruce Springsteen's 18th studio album "High Hopes" went online in the United States Sunday, 10 days before its general release -- and on the 41st anniversary of The Boss's debut outing.

06 January 2014

Tribune buys music data service from Sony for $170 mn US media company Tribune plans to acquire Gracenote, a giant in music data, for $170 million from media giant Sony, the companies announced Monday.

24 December 2013

Migraine secret of Wagner's opera Repetitive migraines lie at the heart of "Siegfried," the second part of Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy of operas, German neurologists suggest.

14 December 2013

German police build 'Nazi Shazam' to track banned music German police are touting a new high-tech tool to identify illegal neo-Nazi songs in seconds, dubbed "Nazi Shazam" after popular music identification software.

13 December 2013

PSY and Ylvis top YouTube 2013 video hit list A Norwegian comedy duo and South Korean rap music sensation PSY topped a list of hit videos shared at Google-owned YouTube this year.

12 December 2013

Music lovers seek to pump up digital audio quality When he sees people listening to music on portable digital devices, David Chesky cringes.

11 December 2013

Elton John challenges Russian gay ban from stage British pop icon Elton John escaped serious criticism in Russia on Saturday after using a sold-out Moscow concert to challenge a highly contentious law banning the "propaganda of homosexuality" to minors.

09 December 2013

Live 'Sound of Music' woos TV viewers, disappoints critics US television network NBC's one-night live revival of the venerable Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" pulled a respectable 18.5 million viewers, but it failed to thrill the critics.

07 December 2013

Jay-Z tops Grammy nominations, snub for Timberlake Veteran rapper Jay-Z topped nominees for the 2014 Grammys announced Friday with nine nods, while Taylor Swift and Daft Punk were also among those in the running in major categories.

07 December 2013

Son Pascal makes new music video in Astana Italian singer Son Pascal, who is popular in Kazakhstan for his songs in Kazakh, has shot a video for his new song Makhabbat in Astana.

06 December 2013

Bob Dylan charged in France over Croat comments: source Bob Dylan has been charged with insulting behaviour and incitement to hatred in France after a Croat group filed a complaint about an interview he gave to Rolling Stone magazine.

03 December 2013

Evening of Choral Music in Astana Opera On December 4, Astana Opera theater will have an evening of choral music.

02 December 2013

Famous Kazakhstan athlete shows judo throws for music video Famous Kazakhstan judoka Marian Urdabayeva shows throws and holds for in a music video of Lyubimiy Sputnik band.

01 December 2013

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