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The Coen Brothers return to their cultural and geographical roots with one of the year's strangest comedies.

Folk singer Greg Brown performs Thursday at the Kent State Folk Festival. Kent -- Gravelly voiced Greg Brown, bluegrass master Del McCoury, former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and Country Joe McDonald are among the headliners for this year's 43rd annual Kent State Folk Festival.

This article has been read 840 times. A popular saying among those who considered themselves part of the '60s counterculture went something like, "Never trust anyone over 30." In that context, it's interesting that quite a few of that era's iconic figures celebrated the applicable birthday before the calendar turned to 1970.

Elk Grove Village trustees voted to approve a $70,000 contract to bring some well known bands to the village's 2010 Summer Concert Series next July.

Jefferson Airplane/Starship guitarist Paul Kantner is the original source of the cleaned-up quote.

Good morning. Today is the 302nd day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers during the early 20th century.

Forty years after pioneering a cultural revolution, Grace Slick is leading another movement.

Given what audacious, far-ranging, and sensually intoxicated filmmakers they are, Joel and Ethan Coen have never shown much of a rock & roll side.

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. The top-selling, '80s pop-rock band Starship is scheduled to land at Silver Springs, thus filling the park's "Mystery Band" slot.

A new DVD set showcasing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sprawling, intermittently incoherent, puzzling and yet endlessly fascinating.

A Serious Man , the Book of Job according to the Coen Brothers, is set to the music of Jefferson Airplane.

The standard line on A Serious Man, and I see no reason to deviate from it, is that this is the Coen brothers' most "personal" work to date.

1957 - Elvis Presley released "Jailhouse Rock". 1964 - The Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts secretly married Shirley Ann Arnold.

Michael Stulhbarg plays a Jewish physics professor in the Coen brothersa third film in three years, A Serious Man.

The new off the wall film from the Coen brothers explores questions of faith, mortality and dental phenomena.

Only the Coen brothers would think to turn the lyrics of Jefferson Airplane's summer-of-love song, "Somebody to Love," into a religious metaphor for an Orthodox Jewish man seeking to understand his perplexing Hashem, or God.

I have always had a special affinity for the bands that played at Woodstock just over 40 years ago: from Sly & the Family Stone , who took the Woodstock crowd higher through their "boom-shaka-laka-laka's," to Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe & the Fish , who celebrated the joys of hippiedom, to guitar-god Jimi Hendrix , whose epic take on the ...

It's been quite a year for flatpicking legend Larry Keel, but he's quick to point out that the show is far from over in 2009.

Joel and Ethan Coen aren't known for talking a whole lot about the meaning of their movies.

"A Serious Man," the most Jewish and the most personal film in the Coen brothers' 25-year career, is pitched squarely between the musical magnetic poles of Ukrainian-born vocalist Sidor Belarsky and Haight Ashbury's Jefferson Airplane.