DETROIT - Now this is the band you expect to see at a dusty, holiday weekend festival with a green tint: Widespread Panic, the long-running, long-touring group that carries a jam band torch for post-Grateful Dead generations.
Old Crow Medicine Show got its start much like their name might suggest: by traveling from town to town in a van playing music for anyone who would listen, much like the old medicine shows that sold elixirs and secret remedies to anyone looking for a cure-all.
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Booker T. and the MGs, the Memphis Horns and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section will become the newest members of the Musicians Hall of Fame.
Conductor George Manahan will remain a music director of the New York City Opera under incoming general manager Gerard Mortier, agreeing to a four-year contract through the 2011-12 season.
A Beatles interview from the 1960s in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussed the way they composed songs together was broadcast on British radio Tuesday after it was found in a film can in a damp garage in south London.
Angel Tavira, a one-handed violinist who dedicated his life to Mexican folk music and won a Cannes Film Festival award for his first movie at age 82, has died. He was 84.
Bon Jovi will perform free concert July 12 in Central Park.
Tom T. Hall and the Statler Brothers were formally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame with a musical tribute.
Leonard Pennario, a Grammy-winning pianist and best-selling classical recording artist, has died. He was 83.
Brothers Harold and Don Reid of the country and gospel group the Statler Brothers are coming clean about which career award meant the most.
Rapper Lil Wayne is the latest addition to the lineup for this year's Voodoo Experience in the rapper's native New Orleans.
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A founding member of '70s New York proto-punks the Dictators and later the leader of the great roots-rocking Del-Lords, Scott Kempner has had a career far shorter on luck than talent. His first solo album in 16 years shows that adversity (personal as well as professional) has only sharpened his muse.
Stevie Wonder is fidgeting with his camera phone, embarrassed because he can't get it to work right.
Ira Tucker Sr., longtime lead singer of the gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds, which influenced many other performers and backed up Paul Simon on "Loves Me Like a Rock," has died. He was 83.
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Kanye West defended himself from criticism over his delayed performance at Bonnaroo, saying on his blog that the flak he's taken has left him "the most offended I've ever been."
Coldplay's new album is already living the life.
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