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Tuesday Jun 11 | Hispanic Business

Sun Records Re-Launches With Its First New Release in Decades

Julie Roberts' "GOOD WINE AND BAD DECISIONS" Arrives Everywhere on October 29th; Three Month PledgeMusic Pre-Sale Launched June 8th NEW YORK, NY -- -- 06/11/13 -- Sun Records, the legendary home of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison, has announced the release of "GOOD WINE AND BAD DECISIONS," the eagerly anticipated new ... (more)

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Related Topix: Johnny Cash, Country, Pop/Rock, Nashville, TN, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Mon Jun 10, 2013

BroadwayWorld.com

The Looking Turns American Folk into Alt-Pop Rock with Songs for a Traveler, 6/11

SONGS FOR A TRAVELER, the new album from The Looking, turns American folk classics and old country songs such as like "Wayfaring Stranger," "900 Miles," "River in the Pines," and "Blue River" into solid alt-pop rock.

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Related Topix: Stranger, Pop/Rock, Morrissey, us Travel, Travel, Symphony, Arts

Fri Jun 07, 2013

Herald Journal

MN musician Paul Christian to perform June 23 during HL's GND

After a devastating break-up from a long-term relationship, Minnesota musician Paul Christian did some soul-searching and decided to take a leap of faith in 2006 to focus on a career writing and performing his original music.

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Related Topix: Howard Lake, MN, Pop/Rock, Minneapolis, MN

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Greenhills concert series stretches across summer

Elvis rocked the Commons as he opened the 16th annual Concert on the Commons series June 5. Kyle Ryan brought his Elvis Tribute to the series, sharing the pavilion stage with the Voices of Legends including tribute performances from J.D. Jones as Roy Orbison, Johnny Combs as Johnny Cash and Bobby Lewis as Jerry Butler.

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Related Topix: Greenhills, OH, Pop/Rock

Thu Jun 06, 2013

The Daily Herald

Phil Dirt & the Dozers open Fountain Park

One of the area's favorite Oldie's Rock 'N Roll Bands returns to Fountain Park in downtown Van Wert this Friday night for a 7 p.m. concert.

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Related Topix: Oldies, Phil Dirt & the Dozers, Van Wert, OH, Rock-N-Roll, Rock & Roll, The Four Seasons, Pop/Rock

Wed Jun 05, 2013

The Charlotte Observer

Hot concerts

An award-winner in his native Boston, Dailey is featured in the all-star soundtrack for the John Mellencamp/Stephen King musical "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County."

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Charlotte, NC

Penrith City Star

Finely crafted bow

The diddley bow workshop was so successful that the Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest will hold another one on Sunday, June 23. Join Andrew Rignold from Rignold Cigar Box Guitars for a hands-on workshop to make your own one-string diddley bow , a traditional musical instrument associated with the early blues of the late 19th century that ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Johnny Cash, Country

Tue Jun 04, 2013

Examiner.com

Nicole Hart & Anni Piper: Girls rock

Double your pleasure, double your fun with Nicole Hart and Anni Piper's tuneful team-up Split Second .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Music-News.com

Roy Orbison family requests fans footage

The family of Roy Orbison has a new enterprise that is aiming to bring rare recordings of live shows to the singer's fans.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Jun 03, 2013

This Is Bristol

REVIEW: That'll Be The Day at the Bristol Hippodrome 9/10

THE perennial summer show That'll Be The Day returned again with their perennial summer show and once more managed to come up with a fresh and astonishingly versatile programme of music from the Fifties through to the Seventies.

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Related Topix: Status Quo, Pop/Rock, Buddy Holly, Rock-N-Roll

Hollywood Reporter

Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice to Score Anne Hathaway Movie

The duo already has a collection of original tunes for the film, as well as plans to score the upcoming picture.

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Related Topix: Walk the Line, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Music!, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Something Else! Reviews

Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "I Wish I Were Blind"

Haven't we all been in this situation? I know I have. There's a breakup and somewhere down the road you see your ex with somebody new.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Pop/Rock, Bruce Springsteen

Sun Jun 02, 2013

Bend Bulletin

Bio captures Orbison behind the sunglasses

The singer's first wife died in a motorcycle accident with Orbison just a few hundred yards down the road ahead of her; two of his sons died as boys in a house fire while the singer was overseas.

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Related Topix: Western, The Fastest Guitar Alive, Musical Movies, Pop/Rock, The Traveling Wilburys, Texas

Fri May 31, 2013

Cape Breton Post

Fan connects with Roy Orbison's family

A Dominion man was such a huge fan of the late Roy Orbison, he actually taped a concert he attended at the old Sydney Forum on June 2, 1981.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Canada,

WBIR-TV Knoxville

10 About Town 5/30 - 6-2

Thursday night means another installment of the WDVX's weekly concert series on Market Square.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Marty Stuart, Country

Cincinnati.com

Greenhills concert June 5

Kyle Ryan with his Elvis Tribute Band, The Mystery Man with his tribute to Roy Orbison and surprise guests will provide the music at the season's first concert.

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Related Topix: Greenhills, OH, Pop/Rock

Thu May 30, 2013

Knoxville News Sentinel

4 things to know today

New movie: The action-thriller "After Earth" will open at 10 p.m. today at area theaters.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Sports

Wed May 29, 2013

The Stranger

Wednesday Morning News: Storm Watch in the Midwest, Plus Good Times...

Beatriz Has Lupus, Her Fetus Has a Birth Defect Almost Certain to Kill Him, and Beatriz Has Another Infant to Care For : An El Salvador court considers whether an abortion would be against god .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Myrtle Beach Online

New biography captures the Roy Orbison behind the sunglasses

When biographer John Kruth writes that Roy Orbison's "life seemed to mirror that of Job's from the Old Testament," he is not stretching too far to make a point.

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Related Topix: Western, The Fastest Guitar Alive, Musical Movies, Pop/Rock, The Traveling Wilburys, Texas, Entertainment

Mon May 27, 2013

ABC News

The Habits, charting from Ulverstone

Ulverstone duo The Habits were making video clips in their bathroom one day and shooting to Number 4 on the JJJ Unearthed chart the next.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Beatles