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            <title>R. Kelly arrested again in Chicago on federal sex charges</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago Thursday on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:57:18 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Stevie Wonder says he&#039;s set to receive a kidney transplant</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stevie Wonder surprised concertgoers in London on Saturday night by announcing that he will take a break from performing so that he can receive a kidney transplant this fall.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2019 07:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Brazilian bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto dies at 88</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation, died Saturday, his son said. He was 88.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 17:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>All-day music festival at Bayfront Park in Duluth on Saturday</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Trampled By Turtles will be headlining an all-day concert Saturday at Bayfront Park in Duluth.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:37:14 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Independence Day: &#039;To Honor and Inspire: U.S. Military Bands Special&#039;</title>
            <description><![CDATA[For your Fourth of July listening, an hour of music, including marches by Sousa, Jewell and Gould, and classical works by Copland, Saint-Saens and Holst.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>It&#039;s been 50 years since Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones died</title>
            <description><![CDATA[July 3, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the day that Brian Jones was pronounced dead. Jones founded the Rolling Stones, gave them their name and was their first business manager.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:21:24 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Judge: Andy Warhol didn&#039;t violate Prince picture copyright</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Andy Warhol transcended a photographer&#039;s copyright by transforming a picture of a vulnerable and uncomfortable Prince into an artwork that made the singer an &quot;iconic, larger-than-life figure,&quot; a judge ruled Monday.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:57:28 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>&quot;Hot Stuff&quot; tops charts 40 years ago</title>
            <description><![CDATA[&quot;Hot Stuff&quot; by Donna Summer reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart 40 years ago today. The disco classic features a solo by former Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff &quot;Skunk&quot; Baxter.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:08:44 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>A new hope: Seal learns to sing &#039;Star Wars&#039; theme</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Researchers say teaching seals to copy melodies might help inform speech therapy for humans.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 03:32:17 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>How Prince worked his magic on the Bangles&#039; &#039;Manic Monday&#039;</title>
            <description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, Prince wrote one of the Bangles&#039; biggest hits, &#039;Manic Monday.&#039; Now, The Prince Estate has released the demo version of the track as part of the artist&#039;s posthumous album, Originals.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 08:27:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Alone together: Robyn&#039;s &#039;Dancing On My Own&#039; opens the corners of community</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The magic of Robyn&#039;s millennial anthem is its bait and switch: It&#039;s a fun, energetic dance song about being lonely and heartbroken. And yet, the minute you hear it, you instantly feel less alone.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:40:24 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Wu-Tang Clan set to make history as first hip-hop act to headline Ryman Auditorium</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nashville&#039;s Ryman Auditorium, nicknamed &quot;The Mother Church of Country Music,&quot; has never hosted a hip-hop show. After 125 years, Wu-Tang Clan will be the first rap act to headline at the venue.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2019 08:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Lil Nas X&#039;s &#039;Old Town Road&#039; inspires Minnesota boy with autism to sing</title>
            <description><![CDATA[An Atlanta rapper&#039;s take on country music has inspired a mostly nonverbal Minnesota boy with autism to sing.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2019 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>&#039;Dr. John,&#039; legendary New Orleans musician, dies at 77</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. John, the New Orleans singer and piano player who blended black and white musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, died Thursday, his family said. He was 77.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Opera company soon to exit Mill City Museum stage</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Historical Society, which operates the museum, wants to move toward programs more in keeping with its mission.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:55:58 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>R. Kelly pleads not guilty to latest charges</title>
            <description><![CDATA[At an arraignment in Cook County, Ill. court on Thursday morning, the embattled R&amp;B singer entered a not guilty plea on 11 felony charges.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:45:54 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Dylan releasing 14-disc Rolling Thunder box set</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The shows during Bob Dylan&#039;s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour were considered some of the most dynamic and interesting of his career.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:57:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>A Beautiful World: How music can make you better</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Yes, music can help Alzheimer&#039;s patients; but it can help the rest of us, too.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 13:25:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>First listen: Bob Dylan, &#039;The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings&#039;</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bob Dylan&#039;s Rolling Thunder Revue occupies a mythic place in the history of rock tours. It was an experiment on a conceptually grand scale to create music on an intimate scale.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 12:50:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>So, how old aria? Minnesota Opera&#039;s newest work targets tots</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Opera takes the expression &quot;start &#039;em young&quot; just about as far as it can this weekend with its latest production, &quot;Nooma.&quot; It&#039;s &quot;an opera for babies,&quot; but don&#039;t call it that.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Minnesota music legend Tony &#039;Little Sun&#039; Glover dies at 79</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Known internationally for playing harmonica with Koerner, Ray and Glover, Glover is being remembered for his musical artistry and influence -- and his remarkable writing.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 17:29:08 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>R. Kelly charged with 11 new sex-related crimes in Chicago</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Prosecutors in Chicago have charged R&amp;B singer R. Kelly with 11 new sex-related counts, including some that carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 14:58:56 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Prince&#039;s bodyguard deposed in wrongful death lawsuit</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Prince&#039;s former bodyguard answered questions from attorneys for seven hours as part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of the late rock star.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 10:39:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>In &#039;We Get By,&#039; Mavis Staples keeps singing &#039;songs of change&#039;</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nearing 80, the solo artist has a new album out. Decades after she brought a gospel score to the civil rights movement with The Staple Singers, she remains hopeful in her enduring mission for change.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>This &#039;Greatest Hits&#039; album is real. Its artist is fiction</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Laura Barnett wrote a novel about an aging singer-songwriter sizing up her life in 16 tracks. Then she approached musician Kathryn Williams, who created the book&#039;s original soundtrack.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2019 09:50:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Lizzo on feminism, self-love and bringing &#039;hallelujah moments&#039; to stage</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The flute-playing pop star celebrates self-acceptance on her latest album, Cuz I Love You. &quot;About 10 years ago, I made the decision that I just wanted to be happy with my body,&quot; she says.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 13:25:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The Improvised Life: Sam Miltich takes his message of jazz and mental health across Minn.</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago, Sam Miltich was a teenager on top of the world. He taught himself how to play jazz guitar growing up in the woods outside Grand Rapids. And he got so good that at 18 he played in Europe and New York. Then, four years later, something happened that made it hard for Miltich to comprehend living, much less making a living playing jazz.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 11:55:25 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Minnesota-inspired Cuban American Youth Orchestra launches its first tour</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Eleven members of the Minnesota Orchestra will join 25 young U.S. musicians in Cuba for the inaugural tour of an organization inspired by the 2015 Minnesota Orchestra visit to Havana.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The Netherlands wins Eurovision Song Contest</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Netherlands won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv Saturday, with Duncan Laurence&#039;s doleful piano ballad &quot;Arcade&quot; crowned champion of Europe&#039;s annual music extravaganza.]]></description>
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            <title>Lil Nas X&#039;s &#039;Old Town Road&#039; video is here to lasso the yeehaw agenda</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Folks, the yeehaw agenda has reached its absolute apex. Chris Rock, Rico Nasty, Vince Staples, Diplo and, of course, Billy Ray Cyrus guest in the video for the smash hit.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 14:47:07 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Legendary actress and singer Doris Day dead at 97</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed Day died early Monday at her Carmel Valley, Calif., home. The foundation said she was surrounded by close friends.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 08:12:31 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Cuban diva Omara Portuondo feels as strong as ever on &#039;Last Kiss&#039; world tour</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Now 88 years old, Cuba&#039;s musical matriarch wants to perform for audiences until she dies. &quot;What I have left to live for is smiles,&quot; Portuondo says.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A performing arts group has found the child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is facing a loss of corporate funding and will stop sponsoring a contemporary chamber music series and pre-concert discussions starting next season.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Madonna was back on top of the charts 30 years ago this week with her most controversial song to that point in her career. &quot;Like a Prayer&quot; was a mashup of religion and sexuality.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[NPR&#039;s David Greene and Rachel Martin look back at famous theme songs from pop culture, and remember the old Morning Edition theme as the show debuts the updated version of the song.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not unusual for music directors to serve multiple orchestras at one time.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Prince estate has announced plans to release Originals, another album of previously unreleased tracks -- many of which were hits for other artists -- he recorded between 1981 and 1991.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[&quot;&#039;The Beautiful Ones&#039; is the deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him,&quot; Random House announced.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chief organist Olivier Latry shares recordings of music played on Notre Dame Cathedral&#039;s famed organ &amp;mdash; and looks ahead to the church&#039;s extensive renovation process after the fire on April 15.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[British singer/songwriter Billy Bragg is in Minneapolis for his &quot;One Step Forward, Two Steps Back&quot; tour. On each stop of the tour he is playing three nights.]]></description>
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            <title>Art Hounds: Globally infused banjo tunes on &#039;Intermodal Blues&#039;</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Plus, Art Hounds recommend an ice-skating performance inspired by black social dances and an Earth Day singalong with Dan Chouinard.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The recording of her historic 2018 performance, titled Homecoming: Live Album, includes new songs and arrives just as a documentary of the concert begins streaming on Netflix.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world-renowned cellist brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Saturday.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Gershwin estate stipulates that &quot;Porgy and Bess&quot; should be performed by an all-black cast. The Hungarian State Opera in Budapest reportedly asked its mostly white cast to say that they are black.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A news release says Heaven&#039;s Door Spirits will transform a 160-year-old church into the Heaven&#039;s Door Distillery and Center for the Arts, featuring the distillery, a whiskey library, a restaurant and a 360-seat live performance venue.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nipsey Hussle, a respected rapper who earned a Grammy nomination this year for his major-label debut, was fatally shot outside his clothing store, authorities said.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Rolling Stones are postponing their latest tour so Mick Jagger can receive medical treatment.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thursday afternoon she&#039;ll be playing in the intimate Clown Lounge under the Turf Club. Then Friday night she&#039;ll be at the Palace Theatre in downtown St. Paul.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Researchers exposed cheese to different genres of music for 24 hours a day over six months to find out that hip-hop might create the tastiest cheese.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[80 years ago Kate Smith recorded what would become her signature song &quot;God Bless America.&quot; The original version was written in 1918 by Irving Berlin. He re-worked the lyrics a bit and when Smith sang it on her nationally-syndicated radio show, it became an immediate hit.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like &quot;Miserlou&quot; and &quot;Let&#039;s Go Trippin&#039;&quot; earned him the title &quot;King of the Surf Guitar,&quot; has died at age 81.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Arkansas-born blues singer looks back on her career and discusses &quot;Travelin&#039; Woman,&quot; her first album in more than 20 years.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Born 100 years ago today, Nat King Cole topped the charts year after year, sold more than 50 million records, pushed jazz piano in a new direction and paved the way for later generations of performers.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A spokesperson for the Cook County Sheriff&#039;s Office said Kelly would not be released from jail until he pays the full child-support debt. His next hearing was scheduled for March 13.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The singer, out on bail following his Feb. 22 arrest in Chicago, said he has done &quot;lots of things wrong&quot; when it comes to women, but said he has apologized. He denies doing anything against their will.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[R&amp;B star R. Kelly has been released from jail after posting the required bail of $100,000 -- 10 percent of the bond. He entered a not-guilty plea Monday in response to being charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A judge on Saturday gave R. Kelly a chance to go free while the R&amp;B star awaits trial on charges that he sexually abused four people, including three minors, in a case that seemed likely to produce another #MeToo reckoning for a celebrity.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Peter Tork, who studied at Carleton College in Northfield and later rose to teen-idol fame in 1966 playing the lovably clueless bass guitarist in the made-for-television rock band The Monkees, has died. He was 77.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento died Wednesday. He was 91. Known for his eclectic range of work, he composed operas such as &quot;Casanova&#039;s Homecoming&quot;, &quot;The Dream of Valentino&quot; and &quot;Miss Havisham&#039;s Fire.&quot;]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The mayor of Cremona, Italy, blocked traffic during five weeks of recording and asked residents to please keep quiet so master musicians could play four instruments -- note by note -- for posterity.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[No single artist dominated, but over the course of a night in which a handful of artists won major awards, a thread became clear: The Academy was attempting to make amends for past mistakes.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Back in 1967, Bobbie Gentry sang a haunting ode to young love and sad endings in the deep South called &quot;Ode to Billie Joe.&quot; A year later, Gentry released a country-rock opera, &quot;The Delta Sweete.&quot; It hardly sold at all &amp;mdash; but has since become a cult classic.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[&quot;He sang strictly country,&quot; said Larry Byers, a former DJ in Lubbock, Texas, who heard Buddy Holly&#039;s early performances. &quot;Until he saw Elvis Presley and decided that maybe he should change his style a bit.&quot;]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sunday&#039;s Super Bowl pits the New England Patriots against the Los Angeles Rams. LA&#039;s talent-packed offense gives New England&#039;s head coach Bill Belichick a tough choice on who to target.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sixty years ago this week, the Winter Dance Party concert tour was crisscrossing Minnesota and neighboring states, featuring Ritchie Valens, J.P. &quot;the Big Bopper&quot; Richardson and Buddy Holly. Then came &quot;The Day the Music Died.&quot;]]></description>
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            <title>&#039;Proud Mary&#039; released 50 years ago</title>
            <description><![CDATA[John Fogerty wrote the song shortly after being discharged from the National Guard.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Musicians hope their visits to north Minneapolis will result in lasting relationships.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The breakout song from Disney&#039;s &quot;Frozen&quot; has inspired many marginalized groups -- but its message of rejecting stigma holds special resonance for disabled people and their families.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Murphy was part of the Minnesota music scene for decades, and fronted the band Willie and the Bees. &quot;One of my main crusades (is) to get people to dance,&quot; Murphy told MPR News in 2009.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Anything can happen in live theater, and audience members seeing &quot;Beautiful,&quot; the life story of Carole King, got a surprise when King appeared in the role of herself to celebrate the show&#039;s fifth anniversary on Broadway.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 2017, the Fyre Music Festival was billed as an exclusive event in the Bahamas. The reality was very different. Director Chris Smith tells the behind-the-scenes story in a new Netflix documentary.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[He&#039;ll be playing a record release show Friday night at Icehouse in Minneapolis.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The uber-viral children&#039;s song &quot;Baby Shark&quot; landed in the top 40 of the Billboard charts this week, years after it debuted on YouTube.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[&quot;O, Colored Earth&quot; by Minnesota composer Steven Heitzeg was performed by the Minneapolis Youth Chorus during the inauguration ceremony Monday at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The singer-songwriter&#039;s latest album, &quot;Black Cowboys,&quot; chronicles the role played by African-Americans in settling the West after the Civil War. The album has been nominated for a Grammy.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The I-R-M Crew -- the first Twin Cities hip-hop group to release an album in the mid-1980s -- reunites for a performance Friday night at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.]]></description>
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            <title>Remembering Daryl Dragon</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Daryl Dragon, better known as the Captain in the Captain and Tennille, died Wednesday at the age of 76.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hibbing native Connie Evingson will be performing tonight at Crooners Lounge in Fridley. That&#039;s one of your many musical options this New Year&#039;s Eve.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rosanne Cash&#039;s latest album, &quot;She Remembers Everything,&quot; cuts a path through gun violence, sexism and the relentless march of time. &quot;There&#039;s no point in hedging my bets about what I write about anymore,&quot; she says.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:30:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Glen Campbell&#039;s &quot;Wichita Lineman&quot; reached number one on the Billboard Country chart 50 years ago today. Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song, told Songfacts that the inspiration was an image he witnessed while driving one day.]]></description>
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            <title>New U.S.-Cuban youth orchestra to create diplomatic notes</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The idea for the ensemble grew out of the Minnesota Orchestra&#039;s visit to Cuba in 2015.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:07:11 -0600</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The latest album is mostly made up of songs that Jayhawks leader Gary Louris initially wrote for other artists like Jakob Dylan and Carrie Rodriguez. He wrote it with the Dixie Chicks.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:08:59 -0600</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tickets for the May 3 show go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alarmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise a means of controlling, rather than banning, the popular music.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Friday called on Garth Brooks to add another Minneapolis show to his upcoming stadium tour &amp;mdash; and it sounds like the country music star is on board with the idea.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 09:20:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Programmers have banned the song after fielding listener complaints that the song is offensive, only to face a backlash against that decision.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:54:55 -0600</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vanska will step down at the conclusion of his contract, in August 2022. Vanska made the announcement at the Orchestra board&#039;s annual meeting Wednesday.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[While conducting research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, a music theory professor discovered manuscripts of music that haven&#039;t been heard since World War II.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Recorded during the 2018 International Trombone Festival, this brass choir elevates the cover game.]]></description>
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            <title>Mac Miller died from overdose involving fentanyl, coroner finds</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles medical examiner said cocaine and ethanol were also present at the time of death.]]></description>
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            <title>Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove dies at age 49</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Many of Roy Hargrove&#039;s peers regarded him as the greatest trumpeter of his generation. Through his own bands and as a sideman, Hargrove brewed his jazz with African and Latin sounds, R&amp;B, soul, pop, funk and hip-hop.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[With her latest release, Barbra Streisand has done something different: Her new album, Walls, addresses songs -- including some of her own originals -- to the president of the United States.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[For decades, Cologne-based violinist Geoffry Wharton has played jazzy crowd-pleasing encores written in the 1930s by an obscure composer, Audrey Call. Then Wharton discovered a spooky connection with her.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ed Sheeran will be performing Saturday night at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Sheeran is a one-man band, creating his music using only his voice, guitar and loop machines.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 60 seconds, the commercial showcases a medley of horror film tropes, including a maniacal doll that presumably kills a group of young people whenever they play a catchy pop song.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 05:59:11 -0500</pubDate>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:38:42 -0500</pubDate>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota musician describes why it was time to put her story in print instead of in an album.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:04:53 -0500</pubDate>
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