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Friday Jul 3 | Broward-Palm Beach - News

Tuesday Night: Average White Band and War at Hard Rock Live

War and the Average White Band Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Better Than: Hearing both of these groups play in another 10 years.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Funk, Average White Band, Live, Los Angeles, CA, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural

Thu Jul 02, 2009

BetaNews.Com

What's Now: Recording industry wins big against Usenet file sharing service

WN was singing the refrains of "Why Can't We Be Friends?" from the classic group "War." Apparently, we've got more readers in Australia these days .

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Related Topix: Usenet, Pop/Rock, P2P

Tue Jun 30, 2009

MiamiHerald.com - Miami & Ft. Lauderd...

The Calendar for June 30

Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee presents his newly redesigned website DaddyYankee.com at this VIP soiree.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Funk, Average White Band, Miami-Beach, FL, Entertainment

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Daily Breeze

War returns ... but as the Lowrider Band

Get ready for a rock 'n' roll homecoming. The '70s band War, responsible for megahits "Why Can't We Be Friends?" "Low Rider" and "The Cisco Kid," got its start playing in San Pedro, and this weekend it'll make its return.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, San Pedro, CA, Inglewood, CA

Fri May 29, 2009

A-Infos Radio Project

Connecting the notes: Connecting the notes

WAR is best known for their songs Low Rider, The Cisco Kid, and Why Can't we be friends.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Animals

Wed May 27, 2009

Santa Barbara Independent

WAR

The - 70s funk group WAR has a much-loved hybrid sound that, in its own way, conjures the perpetual summertime feel of Southern California as thoroughly as the Beach Boys.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon May 25, 2009

Miami New Times

WAR and Average White Band to Funk Up Hard Rock June 30

Multicultural funk is coming to Hard Rock Live thanks to WAR and Average White Band .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Funk, Average White Band, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural, Live

Fri May 22, 2009

Vallejo Times-Herald

Fair Locke's up talent schedule for 60th year

War, what is it good for? Hopefully a lot of sold tickets when the funk band brings "Low Rider, "Spill the Wine" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?" to the Solano County Fair on July 24.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Solano County, CA, Con Funk Shun, Funk, Vallejo, CA

Mon May 18, 2009

Contra Costa Times

Jim Harrington: Ziggy Marley giving kids music a try

SOME IDEAS just make sense. Well, at least to me. For instance, I had no problem understanding why Ziggy Marley was the right candidate to put out a children's CD.

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Related Topix: Ziggy Marley, Reggae, Family, Kids, Bob Marley, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Thu May 14, 2009

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Muskegon Summer Celebration completes most of its lineup

Pop Evil will perform at the 2009 Muskegon Summer Celebration on June 25. Give 'em an "American Idol," some "Pop Evil," a little "White Trash," another shot of country and it's clear that there's going to be a "War" at Muskegon's 2009 Summer Celebration.

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Related Topix: Muskegon, MI, Pop/Rock, Edgar Winter, Billy Squier, Hard-Rock, The Burn, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Tue May 12, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Celebrations to mark Pittsburg arts building s 50th anniversary

It took some enhancements to maintain its figure, but Pittsburg's Creative Arts Building is still looking good approaching its 50th birthday.

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Related Topix: Pittsburg, CA, Theater, Arts, Symphony, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Pop/Rock

Mon May 11, 2009

Palm Beach Post

You dirty dog

Clean dogs may not be as happy as we are when we have a bath, but boy, do they smell better! Celebrity Dog Wash means clean pups, money for shelter animals.

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Related Topix: Jupiter, FL, Pop/Rock

Fri Apr 10, 2009

PC World

Newspapers vs. Google: It's War

Listen, can you hear it? That choked gurgling is the sound of newspapers drowning in a pool of ink.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Pop/Rock, Blog News

Sun Mar 15, 2009

SFGate

New Lowrider name, old sound

Drummer Harold Brown went to see War, the band he started 40 years earlier but now includes only one original member, keyboardist Lonnie Jordan.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Pomona, CA, Los Angeles County, CA, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, North-Hollywood, CA

Thu Feb 26, 2009

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

This means WAR

WAR's self-described brand of universal street music has left a mark on the music industry for the past 40 years.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Riverside Metro, San Bernardino, CA, Joshua Tree, CA

Sat Jan 24, 2009

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Sound Check: New faces in Hall of Fame

Every year, musicians whose music has become an irreplaceable and indispensable part of our lives are inducted into the world-famous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Related Topix: Disco, Chic, Pop/Rock, The Yardbirds, US News, US Politics

Fri Jan 09, 2009

PR-inside.com

WAR to Break out at Latino Inaugural Gala on Heels of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nomination

Multi-platinum, multi-cultural recording group WAR will perform live in Washington's historic Union Station for the Latino Inaugural Gala - "Renewing America's Promise, Celebrando el Cambio" two days before the ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

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