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    Mar 21, 2013 |Story| WSBT Radio

  1. Pink Floyd Added To National Recording Registry

    <span style=&quot;font-size: small;">Pink Floyd&lsquo;s legendary 1973 album, &lsquo;The Dark Side of the Moon&rsquo; is one of 25 recordings to be inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The record received the highest number of public nominations among this year&rsquo;s class. In the release accompanying the announcement, &lsquo;The Dark Side of the Moon&rsquo; is called &ldquo;an example of brilliant, innovative production in service of the music.&rdquo; They go on to cite the harmonies of David Gilmour and Richard Wright, as well as the successful integration of Roger Waters&lsquo; interviews of the studio staff into the album&rsquo;s concept. Also added to the registry,&lsquo;Cheap Thrills&rsquo; by Big Brother and the Holding Company, which launched Janis Joplin to national prominence, the self-titled debut by the Ramones and the Bee Gees soundtrack to &lsquo;Saturday Night Fever.&rsquo; Created in 2000, the National Recording Registry annually selects 25 recordings that are &ldquo;culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant&rdquo; and &ldquo;reflect the diversity and creativity of the American experience.&rdquo; You can find out about all of this year&rsquo;s inductees, which range from spoken word to opera to jazz, at the Library of Congress&rsquo; website.</span>
    Pink Floyd‘s legendary 1973 album, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ is one of 25 recordings to be inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The record received the highest number of public nominations among...

    Tags: Bee Gees (music group), Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company (music group), Library of Congress, Roger Waters

    2. May 28, 2012 |Story| WSBT Radio

  2. Pink Floyd Guitarist Flees Home For Bomb Scare

    <span style=&quot;font-size: small;">Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his wife were forced to flee their home after an unexploded World War II incendiary device was unearthed nearby. Their six-storey mansion in East Sussex is midway through extensive renovations, during which builders discovered a 150cm pipe-shaped device which caused alarm. The area was evacuated and a Navy bomb disposal team were called in. They identified the German weapon and removed it safely. No one was injured.</span>
    Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his wife were forced to flee their home after an unexploded World War II incendiary device was unearthed nearby. Their six-storey mansion in East Sussex is midway through extensive renovations, during which...

    Tags: Pink Floyd (music group), World War II (1939-1945)

    3. Apr 10, 2012 |Story| WSBT Radio

  3. Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" Making-of Documentary Coming to DVD, Blu-ray in June

    A documentary about the recording of<span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Pink Floyd</strong>&lsquo;s classic 1975 album,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><em>Wish You Were Here</em>, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 26.&nbsp; Titled<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><em>Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here</em>, the documentary was produced with the approval and cooperation of all of the legendary space-rock group&rsquo;s surviving members.
    A documentary about the recording of Pink Floyd‘s classic 1975 album, Wish You Were Here, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 26.  Titled Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here, the documentary was produced with the approval and...

    Tags: Blu-ray Discs, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd (music group), DVDs, Documentary (genre)

    4. Aug 5, 2012 |Story| Aberdeen News

  4. Stand-in for Duluth band back strong after jail time

    DULUTH, Minn. - It's hard to imagine how Eric Pollard could call his arrest last year on five felony counts of selling marijuana "a good thing," but he'll do just that. "I doubt I'd be in the position I'm in now," said the Retribution Gospel Choir...

    Tags: Halloween, Pink Floyd (music group), Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment

    5. Jul 15, 2012 | Allentown Morning Call

  5. Roger Waters' 'The Wall' a spectacle of absorbing proportions at Citizens Bank Park

    Lehigh Valley Music
    Roger Waters' “The Wall” returned to Philly Saturday night, but this time the spectacle was under the stars (well, clouds) at the near capacity Citizens Bank Park. And what a spectacle it was – pyrotechnics, giant puppets, an airplane...
    6. Jun 9, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Concert review: Roger Waters, 'The Wall' at Wrigley Field

    Roger Waters has been touring his Pink Floyd-era double-album &ldquo;The Wall&rdquo; around the world for the last two years, giving the 1979 warhorse a long, lavish victory lap that landed Friday at Wrigley Field.
    Roger Waters has been touring his Pink Floyd-era double-album “The Wall” around the world for the last two years, giving the 1979 warhorse a long, lavish victory lap that landed Friday at Wrigley Field. Perhaps only Waters could build a...

    Tags: Roger Waters, Pink Floyd (music group), World War II (1939-1945), United Center, Music

    7. Jun 16, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  7. Concert review: “The Wall” Live at Amway Center

    Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando Sentinel
    Forget all those mind-boggling Pink Floyd planetarium shows, classic-rock loyalists. That’s nothing more than a laser-powered nostalgia trip now, a collection of balloon animals at a child’s birthday party compared with the emotionally charged...
    8. Feb 27, 2012 |Story| Daily Press

  8. Concerts announced Monday include Steve Winwood, Merle Haggard, Lunatic Luau

    It's been a happy Monday when it comes to concert announcements. It's starting to look like a logjam has been broken.
    It's been a happy Monday when it comes to concert announcements. It's starting to look like a logjam has been broken. Live Nation and WNOR-FM (98.7) said that the Lunatic Luau hard rock festival will return May 4 with a lineup including Shinedown and...

    Tags: Fine Artists, Merle Haggard, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Artists

    9. Feb 13, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  9. Have a Cigar: The Pink Floyd Experience tackles Wish You Were Here at the Jorgensen Center in Storrs on Feb. 17-18

    <span style=&quot;font-size: medium;">If you grew up in the &rsquo;80s and had hip older siblings, chances are you had LPs or cassettes of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVQ3-Xe_suY" target="_blank"><em>Dark Side of the Moon</em></a>, <em>Wish You Were Here</em>, <em>Animals </em>and <em>The Wall</em>, the classic quartet of post-Syd Barrett Pink Floyd albums, floating around your house. When you made your way through those, you may have toyed with owning a few others, like&nbsp;<em>The Piper at the Gates of Dawn</em>, <em>Atom Heart Mother</em>, <em>Ummagumma</em>, <em>Obscured by Clouds</em>, <em>Meddle</em> and <em>The Final Cut</em>, the dour end to an epoch-making run.</span>
    If you grew up in the ’80s and had hip older siblings, chances are you had LPs or cassettes of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, the classic quartet of post-Syd Barrett Pink Floyd albums, floating around your house....

    Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Storrs, Transportation Accidents, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, Pink Floyd (music group)

    10. Oct 2, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Jazz review: Angel City Jazz Festival at the Ford Amphitheatre [Updated]

    Culture Monster
    Tigran Hamasyan and Rudresh Mahanthappa lead the Angel City Jazz Festival's biggest night, which featured sounds as diverse, rewarding and tough to define as the city it calls home....
    11. Sep 1, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  11. Fall preview 2010: Top albums

    Turn It Up
    Weezer's "Hurley" album. Fall is traditionally the season of would-be blockbuster albums. The music industry inevitably rolls out its biggest hitters in hopes of generating sales for the holidays. This year is no exception, with major releases expected...
    12. Sep 2, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  12. Sleep returns in a cloud of heavy smoke

    Turn It Up
    Guitarist Matt Pike can laugh about it now. In the ‘90s, his band Sleep made “Dopesmoker,” an album so radical that it got the trio kicked off their record label, led to their break-up, and yet ended up becoming one......
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