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On its grainy, black-and-white surface, "The Blank Generation" (FOUR STARS out of four stars) is 50 minutes of silent, home movie-style images recorded on 16mm at the legendary New York punk club CBGB in the mid-1970s. Raw live recordings back the footage, and there's no effort to get the lips in sync.
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Many people catch the music bug after theyve learned how to play an instrument. For Hugh Pool of the blues duo Mulebone, he literally had to catch the bug before he picked up a guitar. As a teenager, Pool said he contracted a bad case of pneumonia, an read more
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Mulebone brings the blues to G-A
At age 7, twins Hannah and Madison Katein of Sinking Spring have already mastered the art of negotiation. "I'll trade you a peace sign for a lipstick," Hannah told Charlize Wanner during a Silly Bandz Trading Party Thursday afternoon in A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Wyomissing.
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Trades part of nationwide fad at Silly Bandz party in Wyomissing
Argus-Press Photo by Jeff Arenz GRAND FUNK member Don Brewer sings during the bands set Tuesday night at the Showboat Music Festival.
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DURHAM For the third year in a row, the world-famous 34th Annual Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival returns to the 200-acre Walsh Farms in Oak Hill, and guitar pickers everywhere are rejoicing.
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Jammin under the stars
By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong, and everywhere was a song and a celebration.
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Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Tom Di Nardo, James Johnson, Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff.
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Here's the lineup on Philly stages tonight and in the coming week
As she sat on her grandmother's couch with a black and brown Epiphone guitar on her lap, Kayla Kelly could barely contain the smile that curved from one blushed cheek to the other Sunday afternoon.Just hours before, Kayla was in Cincinnati, Ohio, backs
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Make-A-Wish teen meets pop sensation Bieber
Jim "Mudcat" Grant has returned to Fargo for the Roger Maris Celebrity Golf Tournament a handful of times. And each trip provides the legendary pitcher a trip down memory lane.
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Mudcat Grant returns to the city he loves thanks to Roger Maris golf tournament
Tony Meeks (from front), Tony Stewart and Marc Nesbitt work on Zither Minis at different stages. Allison P. Smith/Banner-Press Parents may spend thousands of dollars on guitar lessons for their children only to watch them get frustrated with the demands of a standard-sized guitar.
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Meeks makes guitars for kids learning how to play