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Submitted by StateTheatre on Mon, 2009-11-09 13:55. Start: 2009-11-09 20:00 End: 2009-11-09 22:00 Timezone: Price: $44 Singer-songwriter and guitarist Keb' Mo's music is a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America - informing all of its musical roots - before evolving into a ...

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Calling Thursday's shooting in Fort Hood, Texas one of the most devastating ever committed on an American military base, President Obama said that while "the worst of human nature was on full display" the "best of America" was also shown that day.

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, for the Saturday, Jan. 30, performance of 1970s rock group America at the Diamond Jo's Mississippi Moon Bar.

Twelve years ago, when "MMMBop" was on the collective radios and lips of America, the Hanson brothers were three ambitious kids from Tulsa, Okla., vying for position among the now defunct boy-bands of the a 90s.

Sonic adventurer Cyro Baptista admits to a tricky domestic problem. The 58-year-old Brazilian master percussionist collects or creates so many instruments that they're filling up his house.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 1-7: Nov. 1: Country singer Bill Anderson is 72.

YEASAYER TO RELEASE ODD BLOOD ON FEBRUARY 9, 2010 See Yeasayer Live At The Guggenheim Museum in NYC October 30, 2009 Yeasayer We are pleased to relay details of the long-awaited second album from New York's Yeasayer .

The popular - 70s-era acoustic rock act America, fronted by co-founders Dewey Bunnell, left, and Gerry Beckley, hit all the buttons with a nearly sold-out crowd at Ridgefield Playhouse October 15.

There was Jay Leno the other night, again, on TV, talking about one of the tens or maybe hundreds of cars he's accrued since he's gotten wealthy enough to have them.

Their debut album might be a modern classic, but Fleet Foxes need to write radio-friendly anthems if they are to match the success of the 1970s folk rockers Can people be blinded by hype into accepting absolute garbage into the rock'n'roll canon? I refer to a dispute I had recently over the meteoric rise of Fleet Foxes .A A friend of mine believed ...

Lloyds Banking Group today said up to 460 full and part-time jobs would go after it agreed to sell its Halifax Estate Agencies division for 1. The sale of the loss-making business to Your Move owner LSL Property Services will see the closure of 121 banking counters within the agency's offices early next year.

Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus must need glasses. That's the only reasonable explanation for the silly comment the bassist made to the crowd assembled for his band's show at San Jose's HP Pavilion on Friday night.

The FTSE 100 Index dipped into negative territory today after poor earnings from US groups General Electric and Bank of America knocked investor confidence.

At what point does America correlate Obama's friends and associates with him? Why is it that we can discern fakes, phonies and degenerates when choosing our friends but fail to use those principles when choosing the leader of the free world? POLLS: Majority oppose Obamacare, Majority oppose Obama "In America" by Michelle Ross "New York, I Love You" ...

On Friday, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park starts three busy days of commemorating the 150th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown's raid.

America comes to Ridgefield next Thursday. Best known for tunes such as "A Horse with No Name," "I Need You" and "Sister Golden Hair," the band brings its pop-rock sound to the Ridgefield Playhouse for an 8 p.m. show.

Sometimes, much weirder things happen at the MTV Video Music Awards than Kanye West interrupting an acceptance speech.

His itinerary also includes a trio of 2010 dates that reach into spring. Details are shown below.

Amateur singers from New Jersey and nearby states will compete for the Deerfield Township Harvest Festival Idol title this weekend.

I probably pay too much attention to the lyrics, which has deprived me of embracing songs in which the rhythm and melody are quite original and engaging but the words fall short.