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Yesterday | All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Bruce Hornsby | 11.14 | Illinois

Images by: Norman Kind Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14.09 :: Centre East Theatre :: Skokie, Illinois Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14 :: Illinois Bruce Hornsby walked onstage carrying a stack of requests, waived to the audience, and began to play.

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Related Topix: Skokie, IL, Pop/Rock

Yesterday | India Gazette

Top global jazz musicians to play in capital

Jazz lovers in the capital have an exciting weekend in store. The 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 Saturday and Sunday will feature some of the biggest names in international jazz.

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Related Topix: Beatlejazz, Jazz, David Kikoski, Eric Vloeimans, David Binney, Pop/Rock, The Allman Brothers Band

Fri Nov 20, 2009

NewsTimesLive.com

14 Dead Heads busted for drugs

Undercover cops smoked out a series of illegal sales Thursday night outside the Grateful Dead tribute concert performed at The Klein, the city-owned auditorium on Fairfield Avenue, police said.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Pop/Rock, New Haven Metro, Waterbury, CT, Waterbury Metro

St. Louis - riverfronttimes.com

Range Life: Bruce Hornsby updates B-Sides on his new noise and...

Bruce Hornsby: Looking at the man in the mirror. Details: Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers 8 p.m. Thursday, November 19.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Bruce Hornsby, The B-Sides, St. Louis, MO, World's Greatest Dad, Music, Entertainment

Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Austin Chronicle

Songs of Devotion

Shucking monikers Soft White Underbelly and Oaxaca, Grateful Dead acolytes STG finally became Blue yster Cult, their shelved debut from 1970 jamming online in 2001 as Stalk-Forrest Group: St.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Punk, Stoned, San Francisco, CA, Joan Osborne

West Life

JiMiller Band to play at The Winchester

What do you get when you mix the Grateful Dead, Phish, blues, folk, jazz and good 'ol rock 'n' roll? You get the JiMiller band, which is playing its seventh annual night before Thanksgiving show at The Winchester in Lakewood.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Folk, Lakewood, OH, The Allman Brothers, Westlake, OH

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Metromix Cincinnati

Phish phanatics psyched

Trey Anastasio fronts two Phish concerts this weekend at U.S. Bank Arena. A '90s bumper sticker summarized the stereotype of Phish fans: "Jerry's dead, Phish sucks, get a job." "Jerry" would be late guitarist Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, the Baby Boomer jam band to which Phish frequently is compared, often with a caricature of Phish fans as ...

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Related Topix: Phish, Pop/Rock, Jerry Garcia, Cincinnati, OH, Music, Entertainment

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Creative Loafing

Grateful Dead-opoly now available

I guess it was only a matter of time before someone created it a ' Grateful Dead-opoly. Based on the classic Monopoly game, this one has you buying master album recordings instead of properties and concert venues instead of railroads as you "tour with the Dead" from gig to gig.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Nov 16, 2009

ABC News

Wanted: Dead Heads and Pot Heads

Dead heads and pot heads take note. While the straight economy goes up in smoke with double digit unemployment , job prospects for hippies are booming -- and not just for boomers.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Alternative, Santa Cruz, Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Jewish News Weekly

At a Grateful Dead Shabbat, Yah's got everything I need

At the last Friday night Shabbat service I attended, the woman behind me was wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt emblazoned with a skeleton face that had a joint dangling from its mouth.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, San Francisco Metro, Oakland Metro

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Penticton Herald

Deadheads rejoice: Janaceka s opera given much-delayed debut at the Met

This photo taken Nov. 9, 2009 shows Vladimir Ognovenko, second from left, playing a prison commandant and Willard White, second from right, plays Alexander Petrovich Gorianchikov in the dress rehearsal for the Metropolitan Opera's "From The House Of The Dead" in New York.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Pop/Rock

PressConnects.com

Dark Star Orchestra: The interview

Rob Barraco, the keyboard player for Dark Star Orchestra, recently spoke with this newspaper by phone.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, New Paltz, NY

Thu Nov 12, 2009

PressConnects.com

At The State: 'Righteous,' rock and reborn

It might be time to break out your flannel and Doc Martens because 2009 looks like a '90s revival in Ithaca.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Ithaca, NY, Ani Difranco, Folk, Pop/Rock, Dark Star, Punk, Buffalo, NY

Wed Nov 11, 2009

JamBase

Now Hiring: Grateful Dead Archivist

Jerry Garcia by Blakesberg The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Jerry Garcia, UC Santa Cruz

Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Toronto Star

Wanted: Grateful Dead librarian

If you were there in '77 at the Barton Hall show at Cornell when Jerry Garcia absolutely tore up 'St. Stephen', well, that wouldn't hurt.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Libraries, Jerry Garcia, UC Santa Cruz, US Travel, Travel

Mon Nov 09, 2009

ResourceShelf

Are You a Deadhead? The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz is Looking for an Archivist

In a September post, we listed many of the projects that were going to receive National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, UC Santa Cruz

Sun Nov 08, 2009

JamBase

moe. | 10.31.09 | Albany, NY

Images by: Heather Ainsworth moe. :: 10.31.09 :: The Washington Avenue Armory :: Albany, NY Al Schnier - moe.

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Related Topix: Albany Metro, Albany, NY, Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 06, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Pearl Jam | 10.31.09 | Philly Spectrum

Pearl Jam :: 10.31.09 :: Wachovia Spectrum :: Philadelphia, PA Pearl Jam celebrated Halloween by performing the final show ever at the legendary Philadelphia Spectrum .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Pearl Jam, Philadelphia, PA Metro, Life, Holidays, Halloween, The Doors

The Frederick News Post

Bringing the Dead back to life - and then some

Dark Star Orchestra, "possibly the most talented and accomplished tribute band out there," according to Rolling Stone, started like most cover bands - small but focused, a place for local musicians to come together and celebrate the work of a cherished band.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Relix

Halloween Mash-Ups for Umphrey's

Umphrey's McGee celebrated All Hallow's Eve at Las Tortugas Dance of The Dead in Groveland, CA.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Groveland, CA, Corey Hart, The Bee Gees

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