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Music News for Today
Essence Festival wraps up in New Orleans
(AP)
 AP - The Essence Music Festival wraps up its 14th year with musical performances Sunday in the Louisiana Superdome, headlined by Grammy Award-winner Mary J. Blige and comedian Chris Rock but that was not the only draw for thousands of festival goers.
Bobby: New Edition Brown Out "Best Thing for Me"
(E! Online)
 E! Online - It remains to be seen whether New Edition and New Kids on the Block teaming up will be a super group or more of a stupor group. But whatever happens, it's all gravy to a suddenly philosophical Bobby Brown, who now sees getting kicked out of New Edition years ago as a good thing when viewed in the rearview mirror:
Indie Acts Gear Up For Festival Season
(Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Rock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago's Lollapalooza and New Jersey's All Points West events around the corner in early August.
Hizzoner, the Mayer of Fibbington
(E! Online)
 E! Online - With rumors spreading like wildfire, perhaps the best thing to do is spread some more...kinda like firemen setting a backfire to sap a blaze's energy. Maybe that's John Mayer's strategy, because he told the crowd at his St. Louis show last night:
Kylie Minogue receives OBE
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress
who become one of the world's most famous female recording
artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.
Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U
(AP)
AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.
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