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Radio By sickinfla Sort of like Radio or Not! Right? Well, tonight, I'm thrilled to welcome Don Was to the show.A Don came to fame as half of Was before becoming known as one of the best music producers working today! Although I've always been a fan, I've never had the opportunity to interview Don.A But over the past week, I've seen this video ...

Buckingham Palace says that public funding for Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family cost British taxpayers the equivalent of $1.14 each last year.

Nashville Soul man Delbert McClinton has completed a new album, due out August 18 on New West Records, called Acquired Taste.

"It was fate," music producer Don Was says of the recording of a special version of "Stand By Me" by Jon Bon Jovi , Richie Sambora and Iranian musician Andy Madadian as a tribute to the people of Iran in the wake of their turbulent national elections.

Can producer Don Was do for Delbert McClinton's career what he did for Delbert's pal Bonnie Raitt on "Nick of Time"? The Was-produced "Aquired Taste" , which finds D-Mac doing what he does best, only with deeper lyrics, hits stores Aug.

On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy Madadian went into an LA recording studio with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and American record producers Don Was and John Shanks to record a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran.

Jon Bon Jovi has teamed with Andy Madadian, an Iranian vocalist, to cover the Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me" as a symbol of faith and resolve for the people of Iran.

Detroit music master Don Was got together with some of his friends, including Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora and Iranian pop star Andy Madadian and recorded the Ben E. King song "Stand By Me" to show solidarity with the Iranian people.

"On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy Madadian went into an LA recording studio with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and American record producers Don Was and John Shanks to record a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran.

With nearly wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Jackson's death, it might be easy to forget the ongoing struggle taking place in Iran.

WHERE: Gramercy Theatre, 127 E. 23rd St., Manhattan; livenation.com. HOW MUCH: $18. WHO: 311 with Ziggy Marley and the Expendables.

After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot... Sound of the City LOCAL CLASSIC ROCK TIDBITS *Just learned Friday that former Detroiter, Was cofounder and super-producer Don Was is currently working on nine or so... Music Blahg Dubstep Mini-Doc on Current TV ...

The Iranian Uprising: Tiananmen 2.0? Boston Phoenix It took several weeks for the demonstrations in Tianamen Square to elicit international attention in 1989.

My friend Harold made these mix tapes. Sick tapes. Wonderfully sick tapes. You become a father, and so Harold starts you off sweetly enough, Loudon Wainwright III warning: "Be careful there's a baby in the house." Things develop from there.

The band's latest release, Bang, ... You're Dead , has no ambitions of transcending genre expectations, but it's a finely tuned, heavily produced album with all the over-the-top guitar solos and ear-piercing vocal lines a heavy-metal fan could ask for.

On Monday, the Boston Newspaper Guild rejected the Times Co.'s latest contract offer, paving the way for a protracted legal fight.

On Monday, the Boston Newspaper Guild rejected the Times Co.'s latest contract offer, paving the way for a protracted legal fight.

One of last year's most distinctive musical adventures is about to get a sequel.

It's probably hard to freak out producer Don Was, but when Robert Earl Keen opened his set Sunday with an amazing version of "White Room" by Cream, Was had to make sure he wasn't hearing things.

Gustav Mahler, the most neurotically tortured egotist in music, has his fans, God knows, but of his 10 symphonies, the one least infected by Mahler hysteria, is the Sixth.