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FILE - This May 18, 2013 file photo shows Mick Jagger, center, and Keith Richards, of the Rolling Stones performing on the "50 & Counting" tour at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Rolling Stones memorabilia will be displayed in a new exhibit, "Rolling Stones 50 Years of Satisfaction," at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The exhibit opens on Friday, May 24. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, file)

Summer Rock Tours Bring Scalping

Saturday, May 25, 2013

New York — Kid Rock is a scalper. The 42-year-old Grammy winner, who is launching a summer tour where most tickets are priced at $20, said he’s holding about 1,000 tickets from each show and reselling them on ticketsnow.com — owned by Ticketmaster — to make up for the cheaper regular price he’s offering. “I’m in the scalping business, but …

Toots and the Maytals Still On For Lebanon

Thursday, May 23, 2013

If there’s a hall of fame for the great road warriors of music, there must be room inside for one Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, especially after last weekend. While fronting the legendary reggae band, Toots and the Maytals, at a concert in Richmond, Va., Hibbert was felled by a vodka bottle thrown from the …

Carole King Receives Gershwin Prize

Thursday, May 23, 2013

One fine day in 1957, a 15-year-old named Carol Klein got off the express train from Brooklyn to Manhattan with schoolbooks under one arm and sheet music under the other. She wore bobby socks, white sneakers and a black skirt with a pink poodle embroidered on it. Starting with the “A”s in the …

Keith Richards: No iPod

Friday, May 3, 2013

New York (ap) — He’s rock royalty and likes to keep it old-school: Keith Richards says he doesn’t own an iPod. The Rolling Stones guitarist says he isn’t a fan of the ultra-popular music device. “I don’t have an iPod. ... I still use CDs or records actually. …

Jeff Bridges and The Abiders Go on Tour

Friday, April 26, 2013

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles — Jeff Bridges took home the lead actor Academy Award for his portrayal of down-and-not-entirely-out country singer Bad Blake in the film Crazy Heart, but that star turn on the big screen wasn’t entirely an act. Bridges has been as passionate about music …

Entertainment Highlights: Upper Valley Choral Groups Greet Spring With Concerts

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Several houses of worship in the Upper Valley will be filled with melodic tones this weekend when two of the area’s foremost choral groups perform their spring concerts. The Bel Canto Chamber Singers will provide a three-course meal …

Fall Out Boy Wants To ‘Save’ Rock

Monday, May 20, 2013

New York — When Fall Out Boy learned that Elton John was a fan of their music, they jokingly thought he might want to record with them. As it turned out, he did. “We were nearly done with …

Entertainment Highlights: Cuban Pianist Improvises a Career In Jazz

Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Cuban jazz pianist Alfredo Rodriguez had already distinguished himself as an improvisational wunderkind by the time the legendary producer Quincy Jones came knocking. Between his in-home musical training — he has the same name as his father, …

British Conductor Colin Davis Dies

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Washington Post Colin Davis, the British conductor who guided some of the world’s leading orchestras in often-revelatory performances of Mozart, Berlioz, Sibelius, Britten and Tippett, died Sunday in London. He was 85. The London Symphony Orchestra, where he was principal conductor for 11 years before stepping down …

‘Accidental Racist’ Courts Controversy

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Los Angeles — One sobering aspect of the heated debate on TV, radio, the Internet, Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere over Brad Paisley’s song Accidental Racist from his new Wheelhouse album is that in 2013 it’s still controversial to …

Fleetwood Mac Tours Again

Friday, April 12, 2013

New York — Fleetwood Mac starts over with every tour. Though Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks will celebrate their 40th anniversary together next year, they approach each tour as its own experience. And the …

‘Mad Men’  Begins Its  6th Season

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Don’t Miss Mad Men — You would think that a holiday vacation to Hawaii would do a lot to loosen up Don Draper (Jon Hamm). But as Season 6 of this celebrated drama opens on the shores of Waikiki, our main man finds himself in a melancholy, contemplative …

Country Pushes in New Directions

Sunday, April 7, 2013

In an age of milquetoast, pickup-truck-obsessed himbos, Brad Paisley is one of the few country artists to regularly wrestle with race and class, and what happens when those issues intersect with some of Southern culture’s darker impulses. He’s almost certainly the genre’s only superstar to take pride in …