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Las Vegas: Stars (sort of) power trio of tribute shows
The list of superstar tribute shows in Las Vegas is expanding this week. Beginning Thursday, the long-running "Legends in Concert" opens in its new home at the Flamingo. On Friday, "Stars in Concert," the genre’s newest entry, premieres at the...
Tags: Britney Spears, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, Cher, Tina Turner
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PASSINGS: Michael Parrish, Bobby Sharp
This article has been corrected. See note below for details.Michael Parrish Former editor of the Los Angeles Times magazine Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles...Tags: Music, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Periodicals, Peace Corps
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Song recorded in Burr Ridge honors Sandy Hook victims
Jim Peterik, best known as a member of the band the Ides of March, says the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., inspired him to put his feelings on paper and write a song. The song "Newtown (You're Not Alone)" was recorded...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Sylvester Stallone, Barack Obama, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Top 50 Concerts of the Year for 2012
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGThere’s no arguing that popular music concerts have taken a great leap forward in the Lehigh Valley the past two years. The May opening of Sands Bethlehem Event Center, with its 3,500-person capacity and affiliation with Sands Casino and promoting..... -
Gil Friesen dies at 75; longtime president of A&M recording label
A&M Records spent much of the 1960s, '70s and '80s as one of the leading independent labels in the music business, buoyed by a remarkably consistent string of hits from superstar acts, beginning with label co-founder Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and...
Tags: Radio Industry, Music, Satellite and Cable Service, The Carpenters (music group), Entertainment
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Former A&M president Gil Friesen dies at 75
Hollywood executive and music mogul Gil Friesen has died. He was 75. Friesen, best known for his tenure as president of A&M Records and A&M Films, passed away at his Brentwood home on Thursday. Friends of the executive told Deadline, which first...
Tags: Music, Satellite and Cable Service, Entertainment, Capitol Records, Arts
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Review: Graham Parker & the Rumour return to form at the Roxy
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticOne of Graham Parker’s great choruses is his simplest. The British singer and songwriter delivered it near the end of a reunion set at the Roxy on Tuesday night with his razor-sharp band the Rumour. “Passion is no ordinary word,” sang...Tags: Van Morrison, Music, Entertainment, Nick Lowe, Fleetwood Mac (music group)
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'The Voice' recap: The top four sing in the semifinals
"The Voice" trimmed itself down to a tidy hour on Monday for this season's penultimate performance show, but on Tuesday night's elimination show only one artist will head home, meaning three of the remaining four contestants – Trevin Hunte and...
Tags: Mall of America, Music, Entertainment, Keith Urban, Christina Aguilera
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Review: Alex Clare stays too far away at Fonda Theatre
Is Alex Clare a singer or a song? In October this bearded Brit reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 with “Too Close,” a dubstep-inflected power ballad originally released on YouTube in early 2011. Co-produced by the cool-hunting hitmaker Diplo,...
Tags: Music, Ellie Goulding, Diplo, Entertainment, Taylor Swift
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Still hip to be square: Huey Lewis and the News to perform at Luhrs Center
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comIt's been 30 years since Huey Lewis and the News asked if we believed in love. Today, the band continues to show that the heart of rock 'n' roll is still beating by playing their blend of old-tme rock 'n' roll, mixed in with a good taste of blues and...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Arts, Huey Lewis and the News (music group), Music Industry
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Rock and Sprawl: Tedeschi Trucks Band's Big, Retro Sound Returns to Connecticut
The ’70s was the era of the Big Family Band. Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen toured with more than 30 musicians. The Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends (with Eric Clapton), Santana, the Mothers of...
Tags: Music, Susan Tedeschi, George Harrison, Entertainment, Eric Clapton
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'America's Got Talent' recap: Trudging through sludgy semi-finals
I'm probably taking this show a little too seriously over here, but some presentation as to how the 24 acts are divided up into two groups would be nice, because the second week of the semi-finals is full of acts that could never compete with the ones...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Dance, Entertainment Events, Cirque du Soleil
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