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Singing Up to a Capulet Andrew Mac Laughlin I have always loved music. On the day I was born, Stevie Wondera s a oeI Just Called To Say I Love Youa had just taken a proud position at number 1 in the charts of my home country, Ireland, a position which it would hold onto for five weeks.

T he Goo Goo Dolls plan to have their next album, "Something For the Rest of Us," finished in February and out in late spring, according to bassist Robby Takac.

The Goo Goo Dolls have gone bluegrass. Well, not really. But Iron Horse , the Muscle Shoals bluegrass band, recently released a cover album of Goo Goo Dolls called "A Boy Named Blue: The Bluegrass Tribute to the Goo Goo Dolls." Tonight, Iron Horse will gallop on into Huntsville for a show at the Flying Monkey Arts Center, located at 3320 Seminole ...

Along with such similarly styled outfits as the Goo Goo Dolls, the New Orleans-based trio Better Than Ezra helped open the floodgates for countless alt-pop acts of the late '90s by merging college rock influences with mainstream aspirations.

Today is Saturday, Dec. 5, the 339th day of 2009. There are 26 days left in the year.

Maine Fast Facts : The puffin population had to be reintroduced to the popular nesting site on the island of Eastern Egg Rock in the 1970's and 80's after hunting seriously diminished the numbers.

Singer Little Richard is 77. Guitarist J.J. Cale is 71. Opera singer Jose Carreras is 63.

Black Balloon does refer to a Goo Goo Dolls song. But Black Balloon Studios is a truly original concept.

If you're only familiar with the music of the Goo Goo Dolls from the past 15 years or so, chances are you might pop a forehead vein if you stumbled upon this 1989 track from the band's sophomore album, Jed .

Early in their career, Buffalo natives the Goo Goo Dolls were frequently dismissed by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, they refined and mainstreamed their sound enough to become one of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the '90s, selling millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with ...

November 13, 2009, 6:46 AM / Pop anomaly Japan's Shonen Knife formed in 1981, and ever since, has been carrying the flag for underground indiepop with a punk aesthetic.

College of Eastern Utah and CEUSA present John Allred in concert on Saturday, Nov.

Danielle Jackson and Christopher Thorn, both 32, wed on August 29, 2009. They now reside in Ross Township.

WELSH rockers Kids In Glass Houses are playing the Orange Box in Yeovil on Saturday.

Fresh off its well-deserved induction last week into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame - where it joined the likes of Ani DiFranco, Willie Nile and the Goo Goo Dolls - moe.

The building at the corner of North and Franklin streets is unimposing. It seems to fold back into the surrounding scenery, and is easy to pass without noticing.

Soon, the last remnants of the bar where the Goo Goo Dolls got their start will be gone.

September 11, 2009, 7:25 AM / Since leaving his native Buffalo 10 years back - scene of many a victorious club gig where he first worked with the much-missed Marvelous Sauce, and later, fronted his own funk-soul collective C. O. Jones - keyboardist/singer/ songwriter Dave Schulz has been a busy boy.

September 13, 2009, 7:10 AM / "If there's anything you haven't tried, today's the day to try it," Robby Takac exclaimed Saturday afternoon on the front steps of the Albright-Knox - referring, of course, to art forms.

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Music is Art, taking place all day Saturday.