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Oktoberfest's music not all German, but it pleases the (big) crowd
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGThe music at the second year of ArtsQuest’s Oktoberfest at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, which kicked off this weekend (it continues noon-9 p.m. today, Oct. 7, and Oct. 12-14) was decidedly not all German. Polka band The Adlers play on the...... -
Live Music Week of 08/27
Isaac came and South Florida survived, but the winds and rains did dampen the whole weekend, pun intended. To make up for lost time you may have spent indoors, watching your trees sway, here are this week's best rock shows. That they fall mostly on Friday...
Tags: Entertainment, Biscuits, Concerts, Music
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PASSINGS: Jon Lord, Bob Babbitt, Donald J. Sobol
Jon Lord Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, 71, a British keyboardist for Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died in London on Monday of a pulmonary embolism after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said a statement on his official website. Lord co-wrote...Tags: Music Industry, The Temptations (music group), Lymphoma, Smokey Robinson, Rock and Roll (genre)
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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of... -
Marking Supreme Court's Arizona ruling with songs about immigrants
Pop & HissIn light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down much of a controversial immigration law, The Times' August Brown finds five great songs about immigration that are worth revisiting.... -
moe. again kicks off summer concert season
Since 2001, the unofficial kickoff of the summer concert season in the Chicago area has been the Summer Camp Music Festival at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Ill. In each of those 11 years, including this weekend, the headliner has been moe., a...
Tags: Pretty Lights (music group), Festive Events, Radiohead (music group), Summer Camp (music group), Apple iPod
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September 13: Music Lounge - Tweed Funk
WGN NewsTweed Funk Appearing: Tonight 9:00 p.m. House of Blues Back Porch Stage 329 N. Dearborn Chicago www.tweedfunk.comTags: House of Blues Chicago, Tweed Funk (music group), WGN, Arts and Culture, Fine Arts
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PASSINGS: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bob Boozer, Jim Abdnor, Chuck Brown, Herbert Breslin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Renowned baritone championed German lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, a renowned baritone who led a worldwide revival in popularity for German lieder, died in his sleep Friday at his home in the southern German city of...Tags: Washington, DC, Music Industry, Oscar Robertson, Germany, Milwaukee Bucks
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Chuck Brown dies: King of D.C. go-go music, influential sample source
Pop & HissChuck Brown, the "king of go-go music," has died in Washington D.C. The musician, whose work with big band funk in the 1970s and '80s was influential both as a bandleader and as inspiration on early electronic dance music. Times pop music critic Randall... -
Beastie Boys' sampling in 'Paul's Boutique' again in spotlight
Pop & HissLast week TufAmerica, Inc., which administers the rights to the recordings of Washington, D.C. go-go band Trouble Funk's catalog, filed lawsuit in federal court accusing the Beastie Boys of sampling without permission the group's 1982 funk classics, "Drop... -
Dooley Invention members hope to revive Illicks Mill scene with OLD School
Lehigh Valley MusicIn the late 1960s when Stephen Molchany was lead singer in The Dooley Invention, when it was one of the Lehigh Valley’s most popular bands, and when Illick’s Mill in Bethlehem was one of the Valley’s most popular venues, Molchany...... -
Jazz hero Lonnie Liston Smith to play at Hampton University tonight, April 6
Lonnie Liston Smith, the influential jazz keyboardist and singer whose music crosses many boundaries, will perform tonight, April 6, at Hampton University's Ogden Hall. Smith, a Richmond native, is known mostly as a band leader whose funky 1970s...
Tags: Soul (genre), Contemporary Music (genre), Music Industry, Concerts, Jazz (genre)
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Aug 27, 2012
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May 28, 2012
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May 17, 2012
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Apr 27, 2012
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Apr 6, 2012
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