Battles (music group)

Headlines for Wednesday,  May  22,  2013 SAVING ABEL: Get New Single for Free Saving Abel are giving away a download of their new single. Fans can get the track "Mystify" at SavingAbel.com now. It will appear on the band's as-yet-to-be titled new EP,...

Bill Daley Bill Daley is a Chicago Tribune food writer who covers food personalities, cooking techniques and trends. He answers food and drink queries from readers in a weekly online column called “The Daley Question.” He is active on...

By Kari Howard The stories I read spark musical connections every day. It’s a bit more rare when the walk to work does. But one of my favorite moments this week came when I was strolling down Broadway past Grand Park in downtown LA, a section...

Comedian Lloyd Ahlquist steps onto the stage, girded for battle. Wearing the uniform of a Soviet officer, with medals dripping from his chest, he channels dictator Joseph Stalin and prepares to deliver a rhyming smackdown on Russia's mad monk, Grigori...

Christopher Buckley, the Forbes editor, journalist and author whose books tackle political and cultural sacred cows with a satirical twist, will give a free talk Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road., Lakeville. Son...

For the second and final night of Knockouts on "The Voice" Tuesday, the members of Teams Blake and Usher took the stage in pairs to vie for the live rounds. As Teams Adam and Shakira had done the night before, they selected their own songs and, after...

It's the Knockouts, that instant elimination round sandwiched between the Battles and the live shows, on "The Voice" this week. On Monday night, in the first of two back-to-back two-hour shows that will trim 32 contestants to only 16 (four from each team)...

It’s just 24 notes sounded on a bugle — and it lasts only 50 to 60 seconds all told. Yet no piece of music is more widely known in America than the strains of “Taps” — or more deeply felt. When the plaintive call was...

Tera Melos w/ TTNG, Ports of Spain, Langosta. April 30, 7 p.m., $12, The Space, 295 Treadwell St., Building H, Hamden, (203) 288-6400, thespace.tk.   Is it John Clardy catching a hot dog plushie and cradling it as if it was a baby? Is that the...

Time for spring cleaning, dear readers, The Havre de Grace department of public works sponsors clean-up days April 20 and 27 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Havre de Grace Community Center, 100 Lagaret Lane for Havre de Grace residents. For details,...

The Producers Guild of America honored nine people for their contributions to the advancement of digital entertainment and storytelling in an event held in the Bel Air mansion of entrepreneur Elon Musk. The Digital VIP awards celebration attracted...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...