Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

• Musicians lobby G-8 leaders with protest songs

  Sting, Green Day, Ed Sheeran and Mumford & Sons are among musicians raising their voices against poverty by re-recording classic protest songs. 

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  In Coens' Cannes hit, Oscar Isaac gets his break

  Joel and Ethan Coen had almost given up on casting the lead for their film "Inside Llewyn Davis." The part, a folk musician in early 1960s Greenwich ... 

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  Coens' folk revival 'Llewyn' serenades Cannes

  The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a ... 

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  Epic to pull song with offending Lil Wayne lyric

  Epic Records says it is making "great efforts" to take down a new Future remix with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of a black U 

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  Troggs singer Reg Presley dies of cancer at 71

  The structure is simple, the guitar riffs basic, the lyrics at best inane, but the Troggs' "Wild Thing" remains a garage rock classic more than 45 ... 

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  Messi wins record 4th world's best player award

  Lionel Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or award on Monday as an expected reward for his astonishing 91-goal year for Barcelona and Argentina in 2012. 

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  US forward Wambach named world's best player

  United States forward Abby Wambach was named FIFA Women's World Player of the Year on Monday, adding the game's biggest individual prize to her London ...