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The Stream 08/14/08

Posted at 8:54 AM on August 14, 2008 by Barb Abney

Segments of The Verve's latest, Forth, are streaming online.

The Roots touring with Estelle this fall.

Pitchfork announces the big names in the upcoming CMJ Festival line-up.

Today in Music History:
1941 - David Crosby was born.
1951 - Slim Dunlap was born.
1962 - Pete Best was released from The Beatles.
1966 - Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders and Belly) was born.
1976 - Nick Lowe's "So It Goes" was the first record released on Stiff Records.
1977 - Ed Harcourt was born.
1985 - Michael Jackson outbid Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney for the rights to more than 250 songs written by Lennon and McCartney.
1988 - Roy Buchanan hung himself in a jail cell.
2005 - Pete Doherty (Babyshambles) was strip searched and held at an Airport in Norway until customs officers ensured he was not carrying drugs.

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