Read more musician stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9544/musician.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:02:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74283/composers-seek-pay-tune-up-with-teamsters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA group of composers for movies and TV seeking a better deal now have the Teamsters in their corner. The musicians, who complain that their pay is shriveling as studios expect them to absorb more costs, were one of the few groups of Hollywood workers not covered by union contracts....http://www.newser.com/story/74283/composers-seek-pay-tune-up-with-teamsters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 4:58:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73049/how-to-tell-if-your-wedding-band-hates-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Dexter Lake Club Band is a fixture at a certain type of New York-area wedding. Guests leave exclaiming over how good the music was—if the happy couple and their entourage have behaved in a way that suits the musicians. If they haven't, and what the band members the...http://www.newser.com/story/73049/how-to-tell-if-your-wedding-band-hates-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Nov 2009 16:26:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68161/new-orleans-clinic-gives-jazz-musicians-free-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne New Orleans couple is so passionate about jazz that they give musicians free or low-cost health care, NBC News reports. The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic, founded 11 years ago, tries “to prevent death by lifestyle" for low-paid musicians who can’t afford treatment, says one founder. "We do anything we...http://www.newser.com/story/68161/new-orleans-clinic-gives-jazz-musicians-free-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 30 Aug 2009 17:48:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67908/lavigne-hubby-headed-for-split.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRocker couple Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley are headed for divorce, sources tell the New York Daily News . The two, married since 2006, haven’t been photographed together since last December, and have been spotted at events and on vacations alone. Lavigne recently “wanted to get away from Deryck and have...http://www.newser.com/story/67908/lavigne-hubby-headed-for-split.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 11:17:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67625/this-bitch-of-a-life-offers-frank-view-of-fela-kuti.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCarlos Moore’s Fela: This Bitch of a Life , a newly re-released 1982 authorized biography, contains the usual makings of sociomusical hagiography: Fela’s stunning music, his uncompromising anticolonial message, and the many beatings and imprisonments he suffered as a result. But most readers likely already know the legend—what will surprise,...http://www.newser.com/story/67625/this-bitch-of-a-life-offers-frank-view-of-fela-kuti.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 24 Aug 2009 19:35:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67278/rocks-worst-career-moves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBob Dylan’s decision to record a Christmas album is certainly ill-advised—“fans may have stuck by him throughout the musically self-destructive late '60s, the God-bothering late '70s, and the Grateful Dead-collaborating-Madonna-imitating mid '80s, but surely even Bob's fans have a limit,” writes John Matthew Hall for the Independent. But Dylan’s...http://www.newser.com/story/67278/rocks-worst-career-moves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 17:15:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67150/gps-rescues-600k-violin-left-in-nyc-cab.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGPS technology reunited a violinist with the $600,000 instrument he left in a New York cab yesterday, the Times reports. After Korean musician Hanh-Bin left a vehicle without his 18th-century instrument, the Taxi and Limousine Commission was able to find it in less than an hour, using the cab’s...http://www.newser.com/story/67150/gps-rescues-600k-violin-left-in-nyc-cab.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 11:49:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62817/i-fantasize-about-killing-ex-manson.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMarilyn Manson, that fine upstanding Goth rocker, offers his fans a little TMI in the latest issue of Spin —including the admission that, when it comes to ex Evan Rachel Wood, he fantasizes “every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.” Other highlights: On the Christmas after his...http://www.newser.com/story/62817/i-fantasize-about-killing-ex-manson.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Jun 2009 11:05:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58672/old-school-new-school-kids-rap-to-better-grades.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA novel afterschool program, developed in Chicago and Cleveland and just now hitting Denver, uses rap music to make kids better students, the Post reports. “They learn about similes, different poetic devices,” the program’s founder said. They “learn to rap a Shakespearean piece.” One decidedly non-Shakespearean result: “I got to...http://www.newser.com/story/58672/old-school-new-school-kids-rap-to-better-grades.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 11 May 2009 15:41:01 CDT