The Blues Brothers News

After the highly-anticipated Rock Week turned out to be a bit of a damp squib , The X Factor heads back to more familiar territory tomorrow night with its Songs From The Movies theme.

All hail rap's returning queen at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Star of the Desert Arena at Buffalo Bill's, Interstate 15 South at Primm.

Apple has begun to promote music-themed movies on the iTunes Store with a new landing page, a place the company plans to fill with exclusive content.

Have you been on one of the best historical tours in Chicago yet? " The Chicago Film Tour is the first of it's kind in the Chicagoland area and is both entertaining and educational, with a mixture of both old and new." In less than 2 hours you'll embark on an adventure from Chinatown to Uptown, Lakeview to Downtown and everything in between.

Downchild Blues Band is among the best of the white blues bands, whose music inspired the Blues Brothers, whose star Dan Aykroyd founded the House of Blues, which was poked by The Onion newspaper in a headline that read: "House of Blues Actually House of Whites." Let us marvel at the great cycle of life.

Every Samhain for the last several years, Dagonet Dewr has compiled a list of the year's dead.

The Manic Street Preachers followed their recent creative revitalisation with their first American tour in a decade.

The 1980s were strange and deliriously productive years for horror. The boundaries of taste had already been pushed past their breaking point.

Comic actor Dan Aykroyd, who is guesting with Downchild on several eastern Canadian dates of this tour, became one of the group's biggest fans.

The Orchard in Dartford is proud to be hosting the premiere of the fabulous Blues Brothers Xmas Party from November 4 to 7, before the show embarks on its new UK tour.

Few people can say they were members of a high school marching band that won a Grand Championship in each of their four years of school.

UPTON pub The Kinga s Head is hosting a Blues Brothers Tribute Show, plus support acts, on Saturday, October 31.

Stepping out, we were ready to celebrate life and be social butterflies. It seemed Reading was on the same page, as every corner we turned and every door we entered we were greeted with like-minded folks making the most of what the town has to offer.

IT'S SHOWTIME, with three major stage productions coming soon to schools near you! From the teenage love story of 'Grease' to the cool tunes of 'The Blues Brothers' straight through a diverse range of acts in a variety show, post primary students in County Carlow will show us how to shake off the blues of the recession.

It's the time of year we've all been waiting for: GIE+EXPO time! GIE+EXPO is the place to look ahead to 2010.

In a famous call-and-response blues tune, Blind Willie Johnson asks, "Well, who's that writin'?" And the answer is his song's title, along with that of Irish music journalist Peter Murphy's contemporary first-person coming-of-age novel.

Donnie Walsh walks with his band Downchild which is celebrating 40 years with a cross-Canada tour.

Look out, unsuspecting farm animals: The werewolf is planning a comeback. Lycanthropes, lately being outdone by vampires in the court of pop-culture opinion, will have high-profile roles in a pair of upcoming films: The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Wolfman , a remake of the 1941 horror classic.

This week, Jason Solomons meets director John Landis to discuss his 1981 landmark comic horror film An American Werewolf in London on the eve of its re-release. Landis regales us with some of the challenges in making the picture in London, how he managed to get permission to film the famous sequence in Piccadilly Circus and why he fought the unions ...

Donnie Walsh, a man often referred to as a oethe father of Canadian blues,a is coming to rock the Golden Civic Center, on Thursday, October 22 as a highlight feature of the Live Kicks series put on by Kicking Horse Culture .