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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.