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Sunday May 19 | The York Daily Record

Celebrity birthdays for May 19

Today's birthdays: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Ac/DC

Thu May 16, 2013

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Celeb birthdays for the week of May 19-25

May 19: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78. Actor James Fox is 74.

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Related Topix: Peter Mayhew, Star Wars, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Singer, Pop/Rock, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Grace Under Fire, Comedy

Wed May 15, 2013

MarksFriggin.com

The Howard Stern Show - Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ZZ Top Replays, Song Parodies And More. 05/15/13. 6:00am Show opening bits and songs included: ''The Scott Salem Assertiveness Training CD'' commercial parody, Weezer performing ''Hash Pipe'' live in the Howard Stern Show studio.

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Related Topix: The Howard Stern Show, Entertainment, Television, Weezer, Pop/Rock, Roger Daltrey

The Paramus Post

JD & The Straight Shot Perform Springsteen's 'Pink Cadillac' In-Studio for ARTISTdirect

JD & The Straight Shot gives ARTISTdirect an exclusive peek into the band's recent rehearsal at Sear Sound Studios in NYC! Watch JD & Straight Shot's bluesy/down-home rendition of "Pink Cadillac" by Bruce Springsteen, here: http://bit.ly/12mUuJm. Founded by frontman Jim Dolan, JD & The Straight released their fourth studio album Midnight Run last ... (more)

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Related Topix: Artistdirect, New Orleans, LA, New Orleans, Jazz, Pop/Rock, Celebrities, The Eagles

Mon May 13, 2013

Knoxville News Sentinel

Visit Knoxville.com to win ZZ Top tickets

From "Tush" and "La Grange" to "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Cheap Sunglasses," the Texas-born trio has been a hallmark of good times.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Texas, Sports

Thu May 09, 2013

Guitar World

ZZ Top's First 10 Albums to Be Released as Box Set in June

ZZ Top's first 10 albums will be reissued in a boxed set titled ZZ Top: The Complete Studio Albums on Warner Bros Records.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Lexington Herald-Leader

Walter Tunis: Soundgarden doesn't seem to have lost its grungy edge

ZZ Top at the EKU Center for the Arts in Richmond: On paper, it was a dream combination: a ZZ Top concert on Cinco de Mayo.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Soundgarden, Texas

Wed May 08, 2013

SeacoastOnline

Beards at the beach: ZZ Top heads to the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom

There are few rock bands as well branded as Houston, Texas' ZZ Top. It's all in the beards - and the hits - a list just as long as those epic beards.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue May 07, 2013

NorthJersey.com

ZZ Top returns with new album and a pair of shows

Producer Rick Rubin had a simple directive for ZZ Top as the band began work on its first album in nine years.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Houston, TX, Music, Entertainment

Mon May 06, 2013

Brooklynvegan

Austin Psych Fest: Day 3 in pics (Moving Sidewalks, Goat, Roky...

Sunday was also about giving credence to the forbears of pysch-rock. Roky Erikson put on an energetic show to a loving and enthusiastic audience.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The 13th Floor Elevators

Fri May 03, 2013

The Miami Herald

ZZ Top knows what it takes to last: play together, stay together

In the credits for every song on the new ZZ Top album "La Futura" - listed before everything, in fact, save for the title and running time - are these words: "Performed by Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard." If you are even a casual fan of this veteran Texas trio, the repetition of such info might seem an epic overstatement of the obvious.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Houston, TX, Blues, Black Entertainment, B.B. King

Thu May 02, 2013

Q104.5

They will kick off the tour in Newkirk, Oklahoma

ZZ Top is taking their show on the road. The Texas trio will be performing Thursday night at the First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma to launch their 2013 tour.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Theater, Arts, Westbury, NY, Pavilion, NY

Wed May 01, 2013

San Jose Mercury News

Hicks: Former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, drummer Alex Van Halen top my list of underrated musicians

He's not the most famous Rolling Stone, but he represents what many fans think was the band's best period, to which his excellent guitar skills and musical taste contributed mightily.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Van Halen, Blues, Mick Taylor, Science / Technology, Entertainment

KLZZ-FM Saint Cloud

New ZZ Top Box Will Include Original Mixes of First 10 Albums

ZZ Top have a new box set coming out in June, and this time they're getting it right.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue Apr 30, 2013

WWFX-FM Worcester

ZZ Top Releasing Expansive Box Set in June

A new box set collecting all of the studio albums ZZ Top released during its two decades of existence will be released on June 10.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Apr 26, 2013

OnMilwaukee

Les lives on with new Les Paul Artist Advisory Board

The 22-member board is comprised of musicians, recording engineers, producers, music journalists, and corporate partners from around the country and will serve as a "brain trust" of visionaries who support the growth and development of the Les Paul Experience at the Waukesha County Museum.

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Related Topix: Waukesha County, WI, Pop/Rock, Steve Miller, The Steve Miller Band, Waukesha, WI, Music, Entertainment

Wed Apr 24, 2013

The Austin Chronicle

Moving Sidewalks

Onstage, a lean figure in an impressively tailored suit , wide-brimmed hat, and flowing, rabbinical beard known the world over grins beneath his Ray-Bans, squeezing barbecue blues runs from what looks like a Silly Putty impression of a Telecaster, stalking the stage front in that Texas gunslinger manner, barking like a 90-year-old cotton picker at ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Bar-B-Q, Texas, Punk, Gibbons, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Examiner.com

Live music preview: 5 bands you should watch at Austin Psych Fest

The 6th Austin Psych Fest begins Friday at Carson Creek Ranch located near downtown this weekend .

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Related Topix: Watches, Pop/Rock, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Mutantes

The Paramus Post

JD & The Straight Shot To Open for ZZ Top in Morristown, NJ on May 9th

"J.D. And the Straight Shot have made themselves a well known fixture on the music festival circuit, playing their own unique mix of southern blues rock and Louisiana swamp music to the delight of an ever growing fan base" - The Examiner Featured in Billboard Magazine: http://bit.ly/BillboardJD JD & The Straight Shot will open for rock legend ZZ ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, New Orleans, LA, New Orleans, Jazz, Celebrities, The Eagles

Washington Examiner

Waukesha museum names board for Les Paul exhibit

The museum recently named an advisory board with some big name musicians. Steve Miller, of the Steve Miller Band, has been named co-chair along with Les Paul's son Rusty Paul.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Cheap Trick