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11 hrs ago | Halesowennews.co.uk

Bobby shines a calmer light

As Primal Scream release their 10th album, frontman Bobby Gillespie tells Andy Welch how revisiting the past helped to inspire the new tracks Interviewing Bobby Gillespie brings certain expectations.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Primal Scream, Parliament, Europe, World News, United Kingdom

22 hrs ago | The York Daily Record

Celebrity birthdays for May 17

Today's birthdays: Actor Peter Gerety is 73. Singer Taj Mahal is 71. Singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester is 69.

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Related Topix: Taj Mahal, Blues, The Brothers Johnson, Enya, New-Age

Yesterday | City Paper

Chuck Brown Fans, Friends Assemble for Joyous Tribute at Howard Theatre

The day Chuck Brown died, fans gathered in front of the Howard Theatre for a sprawling candlelight vigil as outdoor speakers cranked go-go into the streets.

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Related Topix: Chuck Brown, Theater, Arts, Trouble Funk, Music, Entertainment

Yesterday | The Washington Post

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Sheila E. had no plans to become a professional musician. She grew up playing drums and watching her father, Pete Escovedo, a Latin jazz musician, play in a band called Azteca.

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Related Topix: Pete Escovedo, Latin, Chuck Brown, Family, Kids

Fri May 17, 2013

Ain't It Cool News

Aicn Horror looks at Errors of the Human Body! Separation! Home Sweet Home! Nine Miles Down! & More

AICN HORROR looks at ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY! SEPARATION! HOME SWEET HOME! TIED! NINE MILES DOWN! HOUSE OF BAD! LUSTER! THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE! A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Remake! Greetings, all.

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Related Topix: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Horror Movies, Thriller, The Human Body

National Public Radio

Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring'

In spite of the robotic persona they've cultivated for years, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo elected to make the latest Daft Punk album in a real studio, with real musicians.

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Related Topix: Electronic, Daft Punk, Robots, Science / Technology, Nile Rodgers

Tucson Weekly

Big Boi's Wild Ride

Back in 2003, when the white-hot OutKast released dual solo albums - Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and Andr 3000's The Love Below - something peculiar happened: Big Boi arrived.

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Related Topix: Big Boi, Outkast, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, George Clinton

Thu May 16, 2013

The Gorse Fox

The Bomb Squad

On this anniversary of the Damnbusters Raid, the Gorse Fox thought he should mention a problem that that has been vexing the Silver Vixen and Gorse Fox.

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Related Topix: The Bomb Squad

Nippertown!

LIVE: The Bernie Worrell Orchestra @ Putnam Den, 5/10/13

If there were any doubt that the Capital District is solidly on the Funk map, recent events should take care of that.

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Related Topix: Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Black Entertainment, George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic

TBD.com

Remembering Chuck Brown: Go-Go legend died one year ago

It's hard to believe that it was one year ago when the music world, and the D.C. area, lost Chuck Brown.

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Related Topix: Chuck Brown

BroadwayWorld.com

20th Annual Telluride Blues and Brews Festival Announces Lineup

The 20th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival proudly announced their 2013 festival lineup .

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Related Topix: Telluride, CO, Blues, Anders Osborne, Otis Taylor, The New Mastersounds, Mountain Village, CO

WAPT-TV Jackson

Kool & the Gang to perform at Nissan celebration

Camille Young, Nissan's spokeswoman at the Canton plant said in a news release that the event will be held at the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson.

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Related Topix: Kool & the Gang

Tue May 14, 2013

Montreal Gazette

Peggy Curran: Mayoralty race about to get real

Or maybe that's just the blurry haze from our collective concussion. Montrealers have been wandering around in a big funk for a couple of years now, a metropolis punch-drunk from the lingering effects of being battered by falling paralumes and clanging pots, then hit over the head by the daily thump-thump of corrupt officials, bagmen and wily ... (more)

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Related Topix: Parliament

Live Music Blog

Rooster Walk 2013: Leftover Salmon, Dumpstaphunk, Kung Fu and More

The 5th annual Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival is set to go down once again in Martinsville, VA over Memorial Day weekend in the scenic rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Related Topix: Martinsville, VA, Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Ivan Neville, Charlottesville, VA

Examiner.com

Dave Koz: Summer Horns

Tower of Power's 1974 album, "Back To Oakland," was the first album ever that Dave Koz remembers buying.

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Related Topix: Tower of Power, Sly & the Family Stone, Black Entertainment, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Pop/Rock

Mon May 13, 2013

Business Journal

State fair concert series features Weird Al, Four Tops

The California State Fair has announced its lineup of concert for the fair scheduled to run between July 12 to 28.

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Related Topix: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Pop/Rock, Kool & the Gang, Offbeat

Boing Boing

Kool & The Gang's "Summer Madness"

From the February 22, 1975 episode of Soul Train, the marvelous jam " Summer Madness " by Kool & The Gang, whose slick suits beat robot helmets any year.

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Related Topix: Kool & the Gang

Philadelphia's WB 17

Mother's Day Trip to Boardwalk Hall

The Eye Opener family hopes you had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday! The rain departed just in time for a beautiful Sunday! I enjoyed the occasion by spending my Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City for the 5th annual Mother's Day Music Festival presented by Platinum Productions.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Mother's Day, The Gap Band

Sun May 12, 2013

Public Address

Hard News: Media3: Parliament Live

I doubt that anyone would have anticipated that one of 2013's television hits would have been captured by the cameras of Parliament TV, yet that is what happened .

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Related Topix: Parliament, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Scotsman.com

Bobby Gillespie on Primal Scream's 10th album

INTERVIEWING Bobby Gillespie brings certain expectations. Since their debut, Sonic Flower Groove, was released in 1987, his band Primal Scream have been something of a byword for rock'n'roll excess.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Primal Scream, Parliament

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