The Blues Brothers News

Filmmaker Ruben Fleischer is having a very good 2009. The former music video director has seen his debut feature, Zombieland , open at number one at the US box office and take in nearly $75 million domestically, while earning an impressive 89% Fresh rating from critics -- not bad for a horror-comedy road movie revolving around the undead.

In the movie " The Blues Brothers ," the hapless band finds its way to Bob's Country Bunker, desperately seeking a paying gig.

Over the weekend, Dan Aykroyd was in town signing bottles of Crystal Head vodka at Applejack Wine and Spirits .

Like the blues , Jake and Elwood will never die. Blues Brothers tribute band The Blues Brotherhood is helping to make sure of that by providing the Blues Brothers concert experience, complete with signature Ray-Ban glasses, funky moves and soulful sound.

Chris My favourite "musical" has to be The Blues Brothers a ' fantastic soundtrack, oodles of memorable lines and about 170 cars destroyed.

BACK once again to bring the best seasonal celebration to the public, The Blues Brothers are about to wreak havoc.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 pirate radio monitoring Time to catch up on newsletters and logs, to see what the pirate radio fans have been monitoring lately.

Review The bluesmen still flip, flop and fly Dan Aykroyd performs with the Downchild Blues Band NASA put a man on the moon in 1969, the same year the then-named Downchild Blues Band began the process of putting Canadian blues on the map.

416-872-4255 http://www.masseyhall.com Though many friends will make guest appearances with the local blues institution as it celebrates four decades, the most famous one will likely be fictional.

In "The Blues Brothers" when Elwood asks a bartender, "What kind of music do you usually have here?" she responds: "Oh, we got both kinds.

10-11 Who: Curtis Salgado When: 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 10-11 Where: Crystal Bay Casino's Red Room Cover: free Curtis Salgado's getaway remains clean.

Government Sachs had 119 trading days in the last two quarters that they made over $100 Million.

What are the chances that you could see a blues legend on a Wednesday? This week, your chances are very, very good.

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.