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Lollapalooza attendees attempt to shelter themselves from the rain after being evacuated from the music festival when the National Weather Service issued a severe storm warning for Chicago on Saturday, Aug. 4.
Evacuation announcements were broadcast over speakers, posted on signs and tweeted on official Twitter account.
"ATTENTION: Serious weather is about to hit Grant Park. ALL festival goers must evacuate IMMEDIATELY. Head to our 3 evacuation locations NOW," the official Lollapalooza Twitter account tweeted about the same time.
-- Reported by NBCChicago.com
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A couple takes a bath in a huge puddle at the summer music festival "Prznek Woodstock" in Kostrzyn, Poland on Aug. 2.
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A woman crowd surfs in an inflatable dingy at the 18th Przystanek Woodstock in Poland on Aug. 2.
The music festival, Przystanek Woodstock (Polish for Woodstock bus station), officially kicked off Thursday in Kostrzyn, Poland near the Polish-German border. The festival which runs from Aug. 2 - 4 has free entrance and claims to be the largest open air festival in Europe.
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Pianists perform KUN, a composition for 64 baby grand toy pianos and 64 toy pianists by Wendy Mae Chambers, on a pier as part of Make Music New York Day in New York, New York, USA, 21 June 2012. The sixth annual event features free small concerts all around the city in public spaces on the first day of summer.
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Singer Carrie Underwood performs at the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee June 6, 2012.
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Singer Eric Church performs at the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee June 6, 2012.
Does anyone go to a concert and just listen anymore? Why do we feel compelled to make pictures with our phones?
See more photos from the CMT awards show in ourslideshow below:
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The Band Perry, Carrie Underwood, Willie Nelson and more celebrate country music at the annual ceremony.
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A music group performs on a path amid fields to greet the farmers at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong on June 6.
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Fans use small boats to chase after Justin Bieber in the harbor after his performance at the Norwegian Opera House on May 30, in Oslo, Norway.
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Fans gather in the harbor prior to Justin Bieber's performance at the Norwegian Opera House on May 30, in Oslo.
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Hordes of young fans gather by the Norwegian Opera waiting for Justin Bieber to hold a outdoor free concert on May 30.
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Justin Bieber performs live at the Norwegian Opera House.
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Justin Bieber fans gather at the Norwegian Opera House.
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Claudio Sanchez, frontman for the rock band Coheed and Cambria, plays a few bars with his face during his performance at the Beale Street Music Festival, May 6, in Memphis, Tenn. The weather cooperated for a third straight day as crowds gathered to watch Coheed and Cambria and other acts like Bush, Herbie Hancock, and Wiz Khalifa.
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Kermit Ruffins performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, La., May 6.
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Labour Party youth leader Eskil Pedersen speaks as thousands of people turn up in poor weather to participate in the singing of a popular children's song at Youngstorget Square in Oslo on April 26, 2012.
Reuters reports — Up to 40,000 Norwegians staged an emotionally-charged sing-along in Oslo on Thursday near the court house where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organizers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.
"It's we who win," said guitar-strumming folk singer Lillebjoern Nilsen as he led the mass sing-along and watched the crowd sway gently in the rain. Many held roses above their heads, and some wept.
Norwegians to protest mass-killer, singing song he hates
The crowd chose to sing a song - "Children of the Rainbow" - that extols the type of multicultural society Breivik has said he despised and one that he specifically dismissed during the trial as Marxist propaganda. Read the full story.
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Of the many people who turned up in poor weather to participate in the singing of "Barn av Regnbuen" ("Children of the Rainbow"), quite a few went on to place flowers for the victims near the entrance to the Oslo courthouse, where the trial of Anders Behring Breivik continued.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Oslo to sing a children's song calling for peace, as a protest against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
Friends and family of his victims looked on Friday as Anders Breivik calmly describes chasing down and killing dozens of teenagers during a shooting spree last year on Utoya Island in Norway. Msnbc.com's Al Stirrett reports.
The nation looks to rally after a bombing and shooting spree leaves 77 people dead.
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Fans watch One Direction perform live on stage at St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand on April 22, 2012.
Previously on PhotoBlog: Devotion of the locked-out boy band fan
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South Korean Christians pray during a service as they call for the cancellation of a concert of U.S. pop star Lady Gaga at a church in Seoul, South Korea, April 22. Lady Gaga's April 27 concert in Seoul was banned to under-18s by the Korea Media Rating Board as the Gender Equality Ministry considers one of her songs to be performed at the show as "inappropriate" for minors.
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U.S. pop diva Lady Gaga waves upon her arrival in Seoul, South Korea, April 20.
Local media in Seoul said the ratings board had a particular objection to the song “Just Dance,” which was on the set list for the highly choreographed concert. The song had earned an over-18 rating from another censoring agency, something called the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s Commission on Youth Protection.
-- Reported by IHT, the global edition of The New York Times
Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Phish, Lana Del Rey and Foster the People are just a small sample of artists preparing to drop rare vinyl come Record Store Day on Saturday. The annual event was conceived five years ago by a group of record store employees and pop music fans to put a spotlight on the 700 or so independent record store dealers in the U.S. It’s since grown into a major cultural happening, with hundreds of recording artists releasing collectible CDs and very limited edition vinyl (the latter of which has seen a major sales resurgence recently).
“It’s definitely put a spotlight on the music industry as a whole -- not just record stores but the entire music industry,” said Gary Gebler, owner of the Baltimore-based Trax on Wax. “It’s like Christmas in April for record stores."
-- By Tony Sclafani, msnbc.com contributor
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Owen Cooksley, age 8 from Philadelphia, looks at the album in his father's hand on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music, April 21, in Philadelphia. On Record Store Day, new and limited edition vinyl records become available for the first time drawing buyers to their local record stores.
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Becky Blumenthal, from Philadelphia, right, waits to be one of the first people in the store on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music, April 21, in Philadelphia.
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Mike Hughes, from Philadelphia, looks through the window as he waits in line on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music in Philadelphia.
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Buyers browse the selections on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music, April 21, in Philadelphia.
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Legendary music impresario Dick Clark as he hosts the "American Bandstand 50th...A Celebration" show,in Pasadena, Calif.
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From "American Bandstand" to "New Year's Rockin' Eve," the man dubbed "America's Oldest Teenager" was a mainstay in American living rooms.
Dick Clark is one of those huge personalities that populated the summers of my youth. I saw him every day on the game show, “Pyramid” and then again every Saturday morning on “American Bandstand”. That show introduced me to most of the music that I came to know and enjoy.
TODAY news services report that famed television personality Dick Clark died of a heart attack Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, his spokesman confirms. Clark was 82.
Clark is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as "American Bandstand," the game show "Pyramid" and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."
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