and make it a good one
On Tuesday, Lollapalooza will confirm its 2010 headliners as previously reported in the Tribune and other news sources: Lady Gaga, Soundgarden, Green Day, Arcade Fire, the Strokes and Phoenix.
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2010 Lollapalooza lineup announced
Lollapalooza's 2010 headliners include Lady Gaga, Soundgarden, Green Day, Arcade Fire, the Strokes and Phoenix.
In the transcendent scene from Jonathan Demme’s “Neil Young Trunk Show: Scenes from a Concert,” which opens Friday in theaters, the director and guitarist take the viewer on an epic tour of a song called “No Hidden Path.”
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Movie review: 'Neil Young Trunk Show: Scenes from a Concert' (Chicago Tribune)
With Emperor, Ihsahn defined black metal. In his solo career he's pushed the style he developed beyond its limits, imbuing it with the dynamics and emotion that his earlier work sometimes lacked. The trilogy's conclusion is possibly its best, and undeniably its most experimental, entry.
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5 Star: Ihsahn - After (antiMUSIC)
"I didn't watch the whole thing—I know what state the union's in," says Gil Scott-Heron, sizing up his reflection in his living room's enormous TV—it's half the size of the wall, glossy, and incongruous in the 60-year-old's small, cluttered Harlem apartment. He doesn't see so well, he...
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Now Bowie fans can rejoice over the news that A Reality Tour has finally been remastered as a double-CD (plus a DVD)
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David Bowie's Live Reality Revisited (antiMUSIC)
Yo La Tengo: The indie darlings head into a second quarter-century of smartly stylized rock. The trio is touring in support of its adventurous recent album, "Popular Songs." Opening are fellow rock literates Times New Viking. 7:30 p.m., the Crofoot Ballroom, 1 S. Saginaw, Pontiac. 248-858-9333. $17.
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BRIAN MCCOLLUM: Big gigs: Yo La Tengo, Tim Eriksen, Mariah Carey (Detroit Free Press)
With a No. 1 bow for her album "Animal," Ke$ha is just the 12th female artist to conquer the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 on her first tries.
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Chart Beat Thursday: Ke$ha, Elvis Presley, Rihanna (Billboard)
Ten years, 40 albums. Not necessarily the biggest sellers, the best-reviewed or year-end list-toppers, but the ones that had an impact on music, the business or culture. These are the albums of the '00s that signified the arrival of new voices, new ways to get music to listeners or new paths to take when crossing boundaries. A few familiar faces are in there as well. In the decade of digital and ...
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40 albums that defined the decade (LiveDaily)
By DAVID YONKE BLADE STAFF WRITER The cotton crop hasn’t been too good this year, hope you’re not expecting a lot of Christmas presents. But Daddy killed a squirrel, Louise made bread, and Riva decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed. I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack. … That’s the backdrop Johnny Cash paints as he spins a heartwarming tale in the song "Christmas As ...
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Holidays past and present celebrated on CDs (The Toledo Blade)