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Album: Little Feat, Join the Band (Proper)
There's nothing wrong with a band reviewing their own history in the company of a few guests, but if the collaborators are mostly drawn from country music, it does tend to skew things too much in that direction.
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Vilar summer is packed with cultural offerings
Country music star Clint Black is just one of the many concerts on tap for the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek this summer. Black performs on July 12 at 8 p.m.
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Album: Kaki King, Dreaming of Revenge (Velour)
Kaki King's unorthodox approach to the guitar has already secured her a guest spot on the last Foo Fighters album, and a Golden Globe nomination for her soundtrack to Into the Wild.
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Album: Leon Jean Marie, Bent Out of Shape (Island)
For all the widespread talk about the music business currently being an industry in crisis, there has rarely been a year of such racing-certainty newcomers as 2008.
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Summerfest 2008 underway
Summerfest is now underway. This is the 41st year of the music festival. The music will be going at the world's largest festival for 11 days. CBS 58's Alina Machado reports down by the lakefront.
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Is the next Alison Krauss among us?
MorgantoN - Young musicians can hit the high notes at camp next week at the Collett Street Recreation Center. Each year as part of the Red White and Bluegrass Festival beginning- to accomplished-pickers gather to play and learn at the Bluegrass Camp for Kids. This year's instructors are Chris Jones & the Night Drivers. The cost is $75 and campers receive instruction on guitar, banjo, mandolin, ...
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Robert Plant and Allison Krauss
Former Led Zeppelin vocalist and respected solo artist Robert Plant comes to UC Berkeley's Greek Theatre Friday night with bluegrass songbird Allison Krause and a band led by guitarist T-Bone Burnett to perform songs from their acclaimed collaborative album 'Raising Sand.'
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High-school ensembles will steal the show at the JGB Syracuse Jazz Festival
Some of the best big bands in Central New York aren’t even made up of professional musicians. But the students who play in groups such as Syracuse Department of Parks &
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Review by
Guitar Hero's history may not be as long and storied as Aerosmith's, but the young music game's popularity and commercial success has propelled the series to comparable stardom: North American sales alone are worth over a billion dollars; the band who wrote the third game's end song, Dragonforce, enjoyed a 126 percent spike in CD sales the week after the game came out; and there's even a whole ...
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Summerfest Big Wig Explains His Master Plan
There's music you want to hear. There's food you want to eat. Those running Summerfest say, more than ever, they're focused on you. FOX 6's Nicole Koglin chats with the festival's top dog about the Big Gig's big picture.
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Snow Flies on 'Files
Composer Mark Snow and producer Frank Spotnitz discuss the score of I Want to Believe.
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What's new in entertainment
A look at what's new in movies, books, music, television, video games and DVDs for the weekend. MOVIES: "WALL-E" After spending hundreds of years cleaning a garbage-littered Earth, a humble robot named Wall-E falls in love with a sleek search unit named Eve. When Eve is taken back into space, Wall-E hitches a ride through the cosmos so he can be with his synthetic sweetheart. Featuring ...
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Cascade Festival of Music files for bankruptcy
The news out of Bend, the wealthy central Oregon town, isn't good. On Thursday, musicians at the Cascade Festival of Music began hearing that the festival had filed for bankruptcy.
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Wolfgang's Vault New Music Includes Concerts by Roger Daltrey, Grateful Dead, Simple Minds and More
Wolfgang's Vault, the online destination where live music lives, and which adds nearly two dozen new concerts for free streaming and download each week to The Concert Vault, today features new music by bands as diverse as Roger Daltrey, Grateful Dead, Country Joe McDonald and Simple Minds.
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Glastonbury brightens up after critical storm
One question hovers on the lips of 130,000 people: is it going to rain? And so they began gathering at Michael Eavis's Somerset farm for this weekend's Glastonbury Festival in wellingtons.
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Easing pain at the pump music to Tanglewood's ears
In Berkshire County, finding a way to ease your pain at the pump is a big challenge no matter where you live. But one entertainment hot spot in Lenox has come up with an idea that may make it, at least, a little more bearable next time you're filling up your gas tank. Ryan Burgess explains.
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Does the Glastonbury Festival Still Rock?
As younger music fans look in other directions and some hard-liners question the addition of rap headliners, a live-music tradition in England faces an identity crisis.
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Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
HALCALI, a Japanese female hip-hop duo that performed in New York for the first time in early June, is eager to make further strides on the international music scene.
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Side roads: Shakespeare on the river
Winona, Minn. Two of Shakespeare's classic plays --"The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merchant of Venice" -- will highlight the Great River Shakespeare Festival through July 27 at Winona State University in Winona, Minn. Showtimes vary on Tuesdays through Sundays (no show this Tuesday).
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Live Music Preview: King Louie and Sweet Baby James
"I guess I've had my 15 minutes of fame," Sweet Baby James says, "but with these guys, I'm starting to look for it again." He's talking about the band that's given him renewed enthusiasm: King Louie and Sweet Baby James . They're recording Friday night at Jimmy Mak's for the group's second CD, and James will bring more than his jump rhythms and talking blues to the stand.
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Gates open at Glastonbury (+pics, video)
GOING GREEN: A festival-goer painted in green and covered with leaves laughs at the annual Glastonbury Festival. WHAT A PIG: A stall holder selling pig masks stands at his stall at the annual Glastonbury Festival.
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Live music 6.27.08
Max’s Garage, The David Kay Band, 116 N. Main St., 9 p.m., $5 cover, 682-0500, http://myspace.com/maxsgarage.
Muskogee Phoenix |
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LOCAL SCENE: Widespread and Warped
Widespread Panic, the Warped Tour, and the Southern Comfort Music Experience – with Gnarls Barkley -- are coming to town. Oh yeah, this is the weekend to take a musical road trip to Denver or Red Rocks.
Colorado Daily |
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Eye controls for electronics tested
Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD are "wearable" gadgets being tested in Japan.
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Evening news roundup
Hi all, Korina Lopez here again: - Might be time to pull out your Birkenstocks: A Phish reunion is a possibility, according to bassist Mike Gordon. - Global Music Group has bought Suge Knights' Death Row Records for $25 million....
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