Daley Plaza in Chicago has played host for the past 10 years to Christkindlmarket, a festival that has German roots...
The Slits' head mistress makes it clear the U.K. all-girl rockers are not a retro band Getting in touch with Ari Up is no easy task...
Whitney Houston begins in earnest to record her comeback album today. Houston, who's been in rehab for about a year in Southern California, is about to make the tentative steps toward reclaiming her once-flourishing career...
Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild can't worry about the fact the Bills have had the red zone blues for what seems like forever. He wasn't here for most of that track record, and he can only control the here and now...
by (tracking-software) @ Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:19:45 -0500 Staying true to the tradition, I welcome Toronto artist Adam Marshall to the show for a 60 min. podcast on all things techno...
Bochco: Web best suited for snippets of entertainment Adjust font size: LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Emmy Award-winning writer Steven Bochco has become the latest Hollywood leader to embrace the Internet, teaming with a video site to produce a...
Married or Not...Here They Come It's been just over two years since the release of Elephant, and now deliver to us what could possibly be their best record yet. is their fifth release to date and is an eclectic blend of all their styles in one...
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Jon Caramanica is the music editor of Vibe magazine. Ann Powers is the chief pop-music critic of the Los Angeles Times. Her most recent book is Tori Amos: Piece By Piece, co-authored with the artist.
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In 2006, the Colombian-Lebanese firecracker seemed more unstoppable than ever. Miraculously, she made Wyclef Jean , and her music, more than any other superstar's, is pointing the way to pop's globalized future: blithely genre-mashing, Spanish accented but proudly polylingual, intensely rhythmic. The only comparable figure is Manu Chao, the Spanish-born, Paris-bred global nomad whose was the best I saw all year.
At the pre-show press conference, Chao fielded questions in four languages, sloganeering and shouting out Joe Strummer and Subcomandante Marcos like a lefty of the old school.
Pretty dull long weekend, this one. Bangalore was practically deserted as most of the floating population floated away to their respective native places . I forgot to book tickets well in advance and was forced to stay back in Bangalore...
Fifty years after his first appearance on the show that became known as "American Bandstand," Dick Clark is ready to let go of the microphone...
Josh Davis goes outside, and disappears in the light Oct 11, 2006 The New York Dolls and Scissor Sisters still find veins of rich material in the old velvet goldmine Oct 4, 2006 Electric Light Orchestra reissues deliver mdash;and dilu...
Chris Smither calls Boston home, but in his lifetime he has covered a lot of ground. He was born in Florida and raised in New Orleans before he relocated to Beantown and started performing in the '60s. And where is he today? For a moment, he isn't sure...
Born: October 15, 1935 in Oklahoma City, OK Along with Bob Dylan's emergence came countless other folk-based "protest singers" in the early to mid-'60s, including Barry McGuire...
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