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Philadelphia freedom: Daryl Hall and John Oates, from the photo sessions for 1978's Along the Red Ledge , are feted in a new box set.

While the gift of music these days can come just as well in downloadable form -- iTunes gift card, anyone? -- those of the baby-boomer generation and older still appreciate holding something tangible.

TobyMac calls it a "Winter Wonder Slam" tour. But fans should expect to hear Christmas songs as well as regular hits when the Christian rapper and three other artists perform 7 p.m. Saturday at the ShoWare Center.

Daryl Hall and John Oates, the forces behind the pop duo Hall and Oates, were nominated for a Grammy award this week for their hit "Sara Smile" from the " Live at the Troubadour" album.

One of the legends of pop-rock is in San Francisco for a rare live performance tonight Todd Rundgren is performing a concert version of his classic 1973 album, "A Wizard, A True Star" in four California cities.

'Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music Of Daryl Hall And John Oates,' This Oct.

After a week where we rarely saw the sun, the weekend's weather seemed to make up for the days of gray.

John Oates sans Daryl Hall: One is not the lonliest number. Details: 'Stache Bash '09 featuring John Oates 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 30.

Dr. Aaron Perlut, Ph.D., CM, and chairman of the American Mustache Institute , called Friday night's second annual 'Stache Bash "a celebration of ridicularity." With the main floor of the Roberts Orpheum Theater full of costumed and mustached people taking advantage of free Budweiser products, ridicularity reigned supreme for a good cause.

Pop singer John Oates has re-grown his world famous mustache after a two-decade hiatus.

Friday Night Live at Uptown Altamonte presents Charlie DeChant at 7PM in the Eddie Rose Amphitheater.

The commercial above, by Lowe Brindfors in Sweden for an electronics retailer, picks up where advertising's previous psychotic rodents left offa 'in particular, the kidney-eating guinea pig from the G4 Midnight Spank spot below, as well as Las Vegas tourism's killer chinchillas .

The best deal in town? Friday night's triple bill at the Spectrum: The Hooters, Todd Rundgren and Hall & Oates for an admission fee that maxxed out at $6. The deep discount reflected ticket prices in 1967 when the Spectrum first staged concerts.

Who doesn't love Hall and Oates ? There has yet to be a duo who has had as much influence on "rock and soul." Their back beat in "I Can't Go For That " was somewhat an inspiration for Michael Jackson 's "Beat It" and who didn't enjoy Joseph Gordon-Levitt 's musical number set to "You Make My Dreams" in Days of Summer ? Yet, with decades of hit ...

RATHER THAN SIMPLY COLLECT an artist's well-known hits along with a smattering of unreleased tracks, the best box sets have something to prove.

October 18, 2009 - GUY RAZ, host: It's 1967 in Philadelphia. A battle of the bands is going on at a local venue called the Adelphi Ballroom.

Hall and Oates just released a box set titled Do What You Want, Be What You Are .

HuffPost Reviews : Hall & Oates, Baez & Dylan, Simon & Ondrasik, and more, plus Deathcab's Twilight Video, and This Week's New Albums What's Your Reaction? On Wednesday, October 7, MTV premiered "Meet Me On The Equinox," Death Cab For Cutie's theme song for The Twilight Saga: New Moon .

Today, October 13, the long career of Philadelphia natives Daryl Hall and John Oates is captured in the release of a four-CD boxed set that spans their career, including rare tracks, live cuts and all the hits that made them one of the top-selling duos of all time.

Ah, the '80s. In popular memory, which is forever determined to turn everything to kitsch, the Decade of Reagan is now reduced to pastel colors, overworked synthesizers and parachute pants.