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5 hrs ago | Voices Online

Keb' Mo' Band with special guest Kristina Train

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 ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Train, Georgia

Sat Nov 07, 2009

TheBlueSheet

Obama: Fort Hood Shootings Show 'Worst Of Human Nature' but also 'Best of America'

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Fort Hood, TX, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Telegraph Herald

Rock group America coming

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Denver Post

Live review: Hanson @ the Ogden Theatre

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Hanson, Tulsa Metro

Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Georgia Straight

America has been great to Brazil-born Cyro Baptista

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.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Cyro Baptista, Pop/Rock

Tue Oct 27, 2009

SF Gate

Celebrity birthdays for Nov. 1-7

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

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Related Topix: Country, Bill Anderson, Barbara Bosson, Robert Foxworth, Kinky Friedman, Marcia Wallace, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Mon Oct 26, 2009

JamBase

Yeasayer: Album/Guggenheim Gig

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 .

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Related Topix: Album, Pop/Rock, October, Woodstock, NY

Sat Oct 24, 2009

The Newtown Bee

Flirting With 40, America's Hits Still Shine In Concert

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, California

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Boston Globe

What Jay Leno can learn from Weezer

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.

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Related Topix: Weezer, Pop/Rock, Mariska Hargitay, Music, Entertainment

Tue Oct 20, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Why Fleet Foxes will never be as big as America

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 ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Oct 19, 2009

The Independent

Lloyds to axe hundreds of jobs

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Sal Pizarro - Mercury News Arts & Ent...

Review: Rascal Flatts in San Jose

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.

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Related Topix: Country, Rascal Flatts, San Jose Metro, Y'all, Pop/Rock, Waylon Jennings, Hannah Montana: The Movie

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Irish Examiner

FTSE loses ground

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Financial Markets

Thu Oct 15, 2009

KTKZ-AM Sacramento

Obama Insider: Mao Tse Tung "Favorite Philosopher"

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" ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Herald-Mail

WEG's top five

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

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Related Topix: US National Parks, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Life, Food, Food Festival, Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 14, 2009

NewsTimesLive.com

America to perform at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Ridgefield, CT, Thursday, No Name, Multi, Danbury, CT

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Reuters

Tokio Hotel aims to translate Euro success to U.S

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tokio Hotel, MTV Video Music Awards, Music!, Video, Hollywood, Miley Cyrus

Sat Oct 10, 2009

LiveDaily News

Kenny G offers 'Rhythm & Romance' into 2010

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

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Related Topix: Jazz, Kenny G, Pop/Rock, Canada, Black Entertainment, Mariah Carey, Phoenix, AZ

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Bridgeton-Millville News

Deerfield Harvest Festival Idol contestants named

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

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Food Festival, Pop/Rock, TV-2, Jr., Crumb, Juliana

Tue Oct 06, 2009

Orange Co. Register

Frank Mickadeit: Plants, birds, rocks & things

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Santa Ana, CA, Lompoc, CA, Santa Barbara Metro

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