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Native N.C. troubadour Hank Barbee, who has been touring extensively throughout much of the southeastern U.S. since January, is preparing to record a sophomore album to follow up his self-titled debut release of 2013.

Cassettes occupy a reclusive distance from the whims of the masses. Since tapes aren't enslaved by prescribed pop expectations, a history of idiosyncratically edgy music endures.

Nine months ago, the worst flood in Colorado's history had a particularly devastating impact on Lyons and its surprisingly robust music scene.

Organizers of the 13th annual MidPoint Music Festival, set for Sept. 25-27, have announced the artists slated to perform at the Taft Ballroom.

Taylor Swift, Coldplay and One Direction are part of the star-studded lineup for this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival.

The flamboyant rock troupe, which has sold over 80 million records during its three-decades-plus career, will hang up the hair spray at the end of its descriptively titled Final Tour.

'Weird Al' on his weirdly successful week in music 'Weird Al' on his weirdly successful week in music Check out this story on jconline.com: http://on.jconline.com/1ryiuHm "Weird Al" Yankovic poses for a portrait in Los Angeles.

If you're not familiar with Case Work, it's likely you've encountered their frontman, Chandler Strang, elsewhere in gushworthy projects like Saskatchewan and Dromes.

In 2008, Victory Gardens Theater created its Ignition Festival of New Plays, a staged reading series of new works to highlight the theater's mission of bringing diversity to its stage through presentation - and possible development of - new works by playwrights of color under 30. That year, it received 120 submissions and developed two plays into ... (more)

Details: Saturday 7:30 p.m. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N MacInnes Place, Tampa.

Librarian James Billington said Tuesday the singer-songwriter, whose hits include "Piano Man" and "Uptown Girl," will receive the prize in Washington in November.

Kanye West is declaring Kanye West the winner in a court fight over the makers of a digital currency called Coinye.

The life of a big-time dance-music producer seems easy enough. You travel the world, hang out with your buddies, meet adoring fans, and you make tons of money while doing it.

Helen Mirren is reprising her role as the Queen yet again for a stint on Broadway which she has admitted she would "prefer not" to do.

Charlie "Bird" Parker has been called the greatest saxophonist who ever lived, a jazz legend who not only spearheaded the bebop movement but also laid the foundations of modern jazz.

Ted Nugent's Idaho Concert Canceled By Native American Tribe Over Racism Charges Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 07.21.2014 He was set to play a casino... Ted Nugent's August 4th concert in an Idaho casino is no more.

Composer John Adams often has described his transformation from born-and-bred New Englander to born-again West Coaster.

A plaque marking the George Harrison Tree, planted in 2004 in Griffith Park. The original tree died recently, the result of an infestation of beetles.

Steven Seagal of the Steven Seagal Blues Band performs on stage Saturday in Leeds, U.K..

If Toronto was music festival city last summer, 2014 started out packed and is now becoming somewhat of a joke - or would be if local music fans weren't so thirsty for the word "festival."