Music
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After Kaepernick's protest, singers question anthem
Oct 13, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Grammy-winning R&B singer Anthony Hamilton has sung the national anthem in the past. Don't ask him to sing it in the near future. Hamilton's frustration ...
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Music Review: David Bromberg Band shine on new blues album
Oct 13, 2016 7:00 am - David Bromberg Band, "The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues" (Red House) Among his many attributes, David Bromberg is a generous bandleader, and so the fi...
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Food and drink combine with arts at ECC's MicroFestOct 12, 2016 11:00 pm - Elgin Community College Arts Center will host its first MicroFest Saturday, Oct. 15. Described as a handcrafted night of music, theater, beer, and bites, the Arts Cente...
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Roger Waters includes 2 Chicago shows on 2017 'Us + Them' tourOct 12, 2016 11:00 pm - WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Fresh off his politically charged performance at the Desert Trip music festival in California, Roger Waters says he'll launch a 51-city North Am...
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The genius of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's storytellingOct 12, 2016 11:00 pm - Thursday morning, we learned that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize for literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." ...
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Nearly 6 months later, Prince superfans still mourning
Oct 12, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Have you ever missed someone so much that even the thought of them made you burst into tears? Now imagine that feeling drenched in purple rain. Nearly si...
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Drake nabs 12 Soul Train Awards nominations; Beyoncé gets 8
Oct 12, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Drake has nabbed 12 nominations for the 2016 Soul Train Awards. Nominations for the rapper-singer, who canceled three shows this week due to an ankle inj...
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Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service
Oct 12, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon is launching a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field. Amazon Music Unlimited is being positioned to comp...
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Singer-songwriter Jacob Whitesides blazes his own music path
Oct 12, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - If you're a fan of singer-songwriter Jacob Whitesides and wondering when he next tours, who's joining him on the road, how much tickets will cost and eve...
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Pianist Lang Lang steps out of comfort zone with new CDOct 12, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - During his musical career, classical pianist Lang Lang has tackled some musical titans like Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. Now he's g...