Music
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Scores of suburbanites audition for spot on 'The Glee Project'Nov 06, 2011 11:00 pm - It would be tough to find a more passionate fan of the musical-comedy television show “Glee” than Eduardo Marquez of Des Plaines. Marquez, a 19-year-old Maine West High ...
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Sting, pure and simple, at Rosemont TheatreNov 05, 2011 12:00 am - There were no former bandmates from back in the day. No symphony orchestras. No theatrics. No distractions. It was Sting distilled. Playing a one-night show at the Rosem...
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Vince Gill bucking music's youth trendNov 01, 2011 11:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vince Gill thinks "Guitar Slinger" is his best album, and that's saying something. Yet he figures the average country fan won't hear it. That listene...
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Lambert blazes her own trail on new CDNov 01, 2011 6:00 am - Miranda Lambert, “Four the Record” (RCA Nashville) Six years after Miranda Lambert torched a new path for country music with her debut album, “Kerosene,” she contin...
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Rising star Miranda Lambert reveals more on 'Four'Nov 01, 2011 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Producer Frank Liddell compares most country music stars to drivers in Manhattan. They circle and circle until they find a parking spot, and once they...
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N. Barrington rocker-turned-author embraces his dark sideNov 01, 2011 12:00 am - Jeremy Wagner guesses he has a “dark seed.” As a kid, he was drawn to the horror novels of Stephen King. And when Wagner was in his teens and 20s, his love of the dark s...
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Award-winning pianists perform in SchaumburgNov 01, 2011 12:00 am - Award-winning pianists from Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts gave a recital at the university's Schaumburg campus Tuesday afternoon, previewing ...
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Lucinda Williams strikes a variety of tones on her new album, 'Blessed'Oct 31, 2011 11:00 pm - Lucinda Williams has become known for songs about unrequited love and broken relationships, so much so that when the 58-year-old singer-songwriter got married recently, ...
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Metallica walks on the weird side with ReedOct 31, 2011 3:00 pm - Lou Reed and Metallica, “Lulu” (Vertigo) I'm still not sure if this is the worst piece of junk to be produced in album form in the last 20 years, or genius at a lev...
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Collaborating with Lou Reed 'scary' for MetallicaOct 31, 2011 3:00 pm - NEW YORK - Metallica and the word "scared" don't usually go together. But fear was one of the emotions that band members felt when they began work on their latest album...