Music
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Emmy-winning composer Silvestri to receive BMI Icon Award
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Emmy- and Grammy-winning composer Alan Silvestri will be honored with the BMI Icon Award next month in Beverly Hills, California. BMI announced Monday th...
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Singer Abel Pintos reflects on his 11th album, '11'
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Argentine musician Abel Pintos says he found his calling as a child. "I was clear that music was going to become a language for me," he told The Assoc...
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Havana named as host city for 2017 International Jazz Day
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Herbie Hancock has twice before visited Havana to perform intimate solo-duet concerts with his Cuban counterpart Chucho Valdes, but at the end of April t...
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Digging deep for that classic Deep Purple sound on new album
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - Deep Purple "inFinite" (earMUSIC) This album is so Purple even Prince would love it. Deep Purple, those space truckers from the late '60s whose four-chord intro to "Smok...
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Review: For Father John Misty, doomsday is 'Pure Comedy'
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - Father John Misty, "Pure Comedy" (Sub Pop) Father John Misty, Josh Tillman's alias, makes his bleak, wordy account of today's human condition sound like a long-lost Elto...
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Drake, the Chainsmokers lead with 22 Billboard Award nods
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Rapper Drake and EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Billboard Music Awards with 22 nominations each. Dick clark productions announced Mond...
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Michelle Branch returns, thrillingly, after some time
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - Michelle Branch, "Hopeless Romantic" (Verve Records) The last time Michelle Branch released a full-length solo album was the same year Apple launched iTu...
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Review: The Chainsmokers disappoint on new, same-old album
Apr 10, 2017 7:00 am - The Chainsmokers, "Memories... Do Not Open" (Columbia) The Chainsmokers wowed with their infectious single "Closer" and gave Coldplay a trendy EDM makeover on "Something...
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Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Dennis DeYoung, more to play ArcadaApr 10, 2017 1:00 am - Pat Benatar and Dennis DeYoung are among the new shows coming the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles. Tickets are now on sale for: • Styx founder and former frontman Dennis D...
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3 rock acts to headline Naperville's RibfestApr 10, 2017 1:00 am - Ribfest in Naperville looks to become "a little old place where we can get together" this summer, with "Love Shack" band the B-52s joining headliners Toby Keith, Shinedo...