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A Florida man convicted of attempted murder in a confrontation over loud music won't be sentenced until after his retrial on a murder charge.

On Sunday night at Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Cantigas , which bills itself as "Washington's premier Latino chorus," will present "Connecting Hearts and Minds: Music From the Jewish, Latin American, And Arabic Traditions."

The line for Jay-Z and Kanye West at the Austin Music Hall stretched like Black Friday at Walmart, extending all the way down Cesar Chavez.

A man has been charged with two counts of murder after crashing into a crowd of people during a police chase in Texas.

Fans before the Arcade Fire concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Thursday March 13, 2014.

It's been a pretty good year thus far for Mr. Mars. The Hawaiian-born singer picked up Best Pop Vocal Album for Unorthodox Jukebox at the Grammy Awards, a BRIT award for International Male Solo Artist and gave a spectacular performance during the Super Bowl half time slot .

A free performance brought together strings players from Bearden High School and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.

The Austin Ballroom of the Convention Center bustled with this town's finest Wednesday night: fiddle phenom and scion Warren Hood, Octopus Project theremin temptress Yvonne Lambert, KUTX favorite Jay "Silver Fox" Trachtenberg, and the members of horn line Hard Proof Afrobeat.

The Metropolitan Orchestra of NJ will present its winter concert, "Simply Classical," on Sunday, March 16, at 3 p.m., in the Millburn High School Auditorium, 462 Millburn Ave., Millburn .

I heard a commotion, but nothing specific. The news kept trickling in around me as "are you okay?" texts began circulating.

What would get Lil Wayne to do another album after Tha Carter V ? Josh Homme forgives and forgets, and two hip-hop heavyweights recreate rap magic.

Red flag: an album accompanied by a navel-gazing narrative on how the artist, in response to some trauma or another, isolated herself to read and write and marinate in pain and emerged on the other side triumphantly bearing a document of that time period.

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Three years ago this month, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding played at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live, and introduced herself to the United States after her debut album "Lights" went to No.

Counting Crows, The Fray and Annie Bosko will perform at Pimlico Race Course's Black-Eyed Susan Day on May 16, the Maryland Jockey Club announced this morning.

Neil Young has long complained about the quality of digital music formats. Now he's doing something about it -- and he's getting help from some friends.

Just two days after she received her brand-new Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas insurance card guaranteeing her coverage, Alexis Kidd was in the Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Hermann Northwest.

Lady Antebellum is getting a new honor. The country trio has been tapped to receive the Recording Artists' Coalition Award at next month's Grammys on the Hill event.

"I need your help," Seaford-based signer-songwriter Ron Fetner wrote in a mass e-mail, explaining that he's about to mark his 25th year as a solo recording artist.

You're not a real fan until you know the hand signals. These fine folks definitely know the hand signals.