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The Memphis Flyer: The Buzz

Blogwire CNN had this story from Florida yesterday: Abraham Shakespeare Authorities in Florida are offering a $5,000 reward for information on... David BelisleThree French Hens Hello everyone! If you're a regular visitor to Slog, you're probably aware that Strangercrombie is The... Paul John HigginsAfter months of FOIA wrangling with City Hall, ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sun Dec 06, 2009

AltWeeklies.com

Welcome to Your Nightmare

Suze Orman has been touted as a 'trusted national advisor' and a sensible financial guru.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Kansas City InfoZine

Was (not Was) to Release Three-decade Retrospective Set 'pick of the Litter

On February 23, 2010, Micro Werks will release Pick of the Litter , a 19-song disc that opens with the ZE/Antilles 12" single "Wheel Me Out" and closes with a trio of tracks from later years which featured Mel TormA©, Leonard Cohen, Kim Basinger and Ozzy Osbourne.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Los Angeles, CA, Marcus Miller, Jazz, Prison

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Billboard.com

Was (Not Was) Turns 30 With Hits Collection

W as will trip through its past early next year with the Feb. 23 release of "Pick of the Litter ," a 19-song compilation which commemorates the 30th anniversary of the inventively warped dance/rock/soul/funk/jazz group's recording career.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, W., Best of 2007, Mel Torme, Jazz

Wed Dec 02, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Was (Not Was) to Release 3-Decade Retrospective...

Was to Release 3-Decade Retrospective Set, 'Pick of the Litter ' 19-song compilation features Sweet Pea Atkinson, Sir Harry Bowens, Wayne Kramer, Booker T. Jones, Iggy Pop, Al Kooper, Doug Fieger, Marcus Miller and more LOS ANGELES, Calif.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Marcus Miller, Jazz, Michigan

Tue Dec 01, 2009

AltWeeklies.com

Immigration Checkpoints Put Cancer Patients to the Test

The contest between Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison is a microcosm of the Republican party's search to keep itself relevant.

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Related Topix: Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, US Politics, Pop/Rock, Blog News

Sun Nov 29, 2009

AltWeeklies.com

Midday Veil Live in San Francisco

Blogwire Greg Harmangharman@sacurrent.comFor CPS Energy CEO-lite, Sr. Steve Bartley, four pounds may be a small price to pay... QueBlog The Apeman Driving crazy hours in the taxicab, I listen to a lot of radio.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

Bostonist

Thursday Happenings

Rochester's Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad makes a compelling case that there are roots upstate.

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Related Topix: Reggae, Dub Squad, Pop/Rock, Cambridge, MA, Jamaica-Plain, MA

Tue Nov 24, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

Stone Temple Pilots Postpone Dates In Order To Complete New Album

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have postponed their previously announced December and January tour dates until next year so they can complete work on they highly anticipated new album.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Stone Temple Pilots, The Rolling Stones, Scott Weiland, Velvet Revolver

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Blogs.newsobserver.com

Lyle Lovett is cooler than you

A figured out something a long time ago: You can get away with saying just about anything, as long as your delivery can pass for polite.

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Related Topix: Champaign Metro, Champaign, IL, Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Inquiring Minds: Elizabeth Cook on Rodney Crowell, Florida Folk and "Apron Strings"

Most mornings, Rocks Off wakes up to Elizabeth Cook's country-as-cornbread drawl on her Outlaw Country satellite-radio program, "Apron Strings" . On her 2007 LP Balls - produced by the Houston Kid himself, Rodney Crowell - Cook was as frank and charming on songs like "Times Are Tough In Rock and Roll" and "Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman." ...

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Electronics, Arkansas, Pop/Rock, Guy Clark, Country, Dwight Yoakam

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Music-News.com

Ringo reunites with McCartney on new single

For the first time ever, Starr produces himself on his most personal album yet. Ringo is joined on Y Not by old and new friends including Paul McCartney, with whom Starr sings on Y Not's stunning first single, 'Walk With You,' a moving new song about the power of friendship.

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Related Topix: Ringo Starr, Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 20, 2009

101.5-WQUT

STP Call Off 2009 Dates, Head for Studio

Stone Temple Pilots have decided to postpone the rest of their dates this year in order to focus on 'their highly anticipated record, which will be coming out in the early spring of next year,' the group wrote on their website.

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Relix

Paul McCartney, Ben Harper Among Guests on New Ringo Release

Ringo Starr has recruited a number of guests for his next studio album, Y Not . The album, the drummer's first self-produced release, will be available on January 12 via Hip-O Records/UMe. Paul McCartney sings on the album's first single, the Starr and Van Dyke Parks collaboration "Walk With You," and plays bass on "Peace Dream." Other guest ...

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Boston Globe

Don Was to perform with Berklee faculty member and students

Berklee students are in for a treat when they gig with producer and composer Don Was .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Roy Orbison, Music, Entertainment

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Boston Globe

Names: Brady's an iron man in GQ issue

A day after we got our hands on GQ's "Men of the Year'' cover featuring Tom Brady , we got a glimpse of the issue's other shot of everyone's all-American. Perhaps to make the gridiron god seem merely mortal, the Pats QB is pictured ironing.

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Related Topix: The Hangover, Star Trek, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Ann Arbor.com

Old Crow Medicine Show rocks to a traditional beat at Michigan Theater

Old Crow Medicine show performs at the Michigan Theater on Friday. Aaron Farrington "We're a rock 'n' roll band with fiddles and banjos." That's how Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show describes the band.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Detroit Metro, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Iowa City Press-Citizen

CD reviews

Pieta Brown 'Shimmer' EP Red House Records Presented with near-arthroscopic intimacy by legendary producer Don Was , this laid-back, whisper-in-your-ear valentine celebrates Pieta Brown's signing by indie-folk bellwether Red House.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, CCR

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Variety

MusiCares' old, new in tune for Young

Neil Young's contemporaries who came of age in the late '60s/early '70s -- including Jackson Browne, Crosby, Still and Nash, Emmylou Harris, John Mellencamp and James Taylor -- will join contemporary acts including Dave Matthews, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Josh Groban and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in an all-star tribute to Young at MusiCares' ...

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

LiveDaily

Delbert McClinton stays busy with late-year dates

7 in Kinston, NC, and has lined up dates well into 2010, with a batch of nine shows in November and December representing the bulk of his current schedule.

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Related Topix: Kinston, NC, Pop/Rock, Theater, Arts

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