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1 hr ago | Film School Rejects

'The Blues Brothers' Wastes Too Much Time With Music Numbers to be Considered Action Comedy Canon

Movies that are able to effectively blend action and comedy tend to be real crowd pleasers.

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Related Topix: The Blues Brothers, Comedy Movies, Action Movies, Musical Movies, The General, Country, Celebrities, John Belushi, The Green Hornet

1 hr ago | The Modesto Bee

Appetizers: BottleRock festival singing the financial blues

All looked smooth from the outset: Thousands of music lovers grooving to such bands as The Black Keys and Cake while noshing on fine Napa food and sipping world class wine.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Black Keys, Napa, CA, Wine, Drink

2 hrs ago | Vail Daily News

Salt Lake City band The Weekenders play at Shakedown Bar in Vail Wednesday

The Weekenders are a raw rock n' roll band hailing from Salt Lake City. Fans and critics compare the quartet's blues-rock hybrid sound to The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin and more.

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Related Topix: Vail, CO, Sundance Film Festival, Pop/Rock, The Black Keys, The Velvet Underground

6 hrs ago | Something Else! Reviews

Something Else! sneak peek: Booker T., "Father Son Blues" from Sound The Alarm

Booker T.'s "Father Son Blues" - which, yes, features his talented offspring Ted Jones - opens with a grease-popping organ lick before recapturing a groove familiar to anyone who ever soaked up a Stax Records side back in the day.

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Related Topix: Z.Z. Hill, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Booker T. & the MGS

10 hrs ago | LA Weekly

How Marc Maron Picks Music For His Show

Marc Maron, the salt and pepper podcaster and personality behind the fledgling IFC comedy Maron , knows his way around a guitar.

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Related Topix: The Black Keys, Pop/Rock

15 hrs ago | Live Music Blog

Music Midtown 2013: Phoenix, RHCP, Queens of the Stone Age and More Lead ATL Festival

Atlanta's Music Midtown returned in 2011 with an extremely successful single-day festival led by Coldplay and The Black Keys after a lengthy hiatus in the mid-2000s that left a huge hole in the Atlanta summer music calendar for several years.

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Related Topix: Midtown (Atlanta, GA), Queens of the Stone Age, Pop/Rock, The Black Keys

Mon Jun 17, 2013

EDGE

A Good Day to Die Hard

Someone please remind the film makers of "A Good Day to Die Hard" that the Cold War is over.

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Related Topix: A Good Day to Die Hard, Celebrities, Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney

EDGE

A Good Day to Die Hard

Someone please remind the film makers of "A Good Day to Die Hard" that the Cold War is over.

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Related Topix: A Good Day to Die Hard, Celebrities, Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney

KMVT Twin Falls

Twin Falls Tonight Kicks Off Wednesday

Twin Falls, Idaho This is the 14th year in a row for the "Twin Falls Tonight" concert series.

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Related Topix: Twin Falls, ID, The Blues Brothers

Football365

Calm Yourselves Over New Signings...

The madness of the summer transfer window is well under way, but the excitement generated by new signings could soon turn to embarrassment... There's something of a void at Real Madrid - a void that is usually filled by a shiny new signing, but things are being held up at the Bernabeu, writes Tim Stannard... But this was no ordinary tumescent ... (more)

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Related Topix: Kenny Wayne Shepherd

WFNT-AM Burton

Bravest Mom Ever Runs Over Carjacker to Heroically Save Her Kids

A Baytown, Texas woman driving with her two kids looked more like Bruce Willis in 'Die Hard' when she outfoxed a carjacker in a violent confrontation after he burst into the vehicle.

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Related Topix: Baytown, TX, Celebrities, Bruce Willis

South Wales Guardian

Green Valley festival

Appearing on the Blues main stage will be Sisters in Grease, a duo who have played at the pinical of the British blues stages.

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Related Topix: Blues, The Blues Band

Austin American Statesman

Austin Music Source: This Week's Playlist: Juneteenth spotlight - notable black Texas artists

This week we recognize Juneteenth, the annual holiday that celebrates the emancipation of slaves living in Texas almost three years after the end of the civil war, with a playlist recognizing notable black Texas artists .

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Related Topix: Texas, Dallas, TX, Barbara Lynn, DJ Screw, Rap, U.G.K.

Colorado Daily

Kanye's 'Yeezus' leaks, Internet goes crazy

Yeezus, the highly anticipated new album from Kanye West, leaked online Friday morning, resulting in immediate Twitter trending and sending less-ethical fans all over the world to various illegal download and mirror sites to get a free copy.

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Related Topix: Latimore, Omega, Pop/Rock

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Examiner.com

Donald Ray Johnson closes Bryan Blues Festival in style

The second annual 2013 Bryan Blues Festival is now an important part of history in the Brazos Valley, and what a conclusion the overflow crowd experienced Saturday night with the astounding dynamic blues by Bryan native Donald Ray Johnson, who showed his powerful voice that truly soared across the night air and left nothing but good vibrations for ... (more)

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Related Topix: Blues

MetaFilter

Skip James' Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

James survived his misspent youth, and the story of his later years provides plenty more of the kind of misery that fueled his music.

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Related Topix: Skip James, Robert Johnson

CBS Local

Repair Bids For Muddy Waters' Chicago Home To Be Presented Thursday

This Thursday could be an important day for a long-neglected piece of Chicago blues history, reports WBBM's Kris Kridel.

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Related Topix: Muddy Waters, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel, Chicago, IL

Something Else! Reviews

Books: Eric Clapton, Day by Day: The Early Years, 1963-1982, by Marc Roberty

In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Eric Clapton, Day by Day: The Early Years, 1963-1982 , Marc Roberty takes us into the earliest days of Derek and the Dominoes All of this takes place before the arrival of Duane Allman, the doomed slide-guitar genius of Allman Brothers fame.

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Related Topix: The Early Years, Alternative, Pop/Rock, The Cream, Classic-Rock, Blind Faith, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Delaney & Bonnie

Sunherald.com

Hot Property: Bruce Willis seeks action on his Beverly Hills estate

The walled and gated estate includes a 1928 Spanish-style house with a porte-cochere, a swimming pool surrounded by a wide wooden deck and a tennis court on the acre of landscaped grounds.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Pulp Fiction, Drama Movies, Celebrities, Bruce Willis, Beverly Hills, CA, Home Listing, Home, 9

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Burnley Citizen

Stevens: I'm based in US for now

Dan Stevens has revealed he is basing himself in America for the moment because it "makes sense" for his career.

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Related Topix: Dan Stevens