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Susan Cowsill Still Deals With Hurricane Katrina's Toll On "Lighthouse"

Mar 11, 2010 8:32am

Susan Cowsill of The Cowsills is putting out her second solo album, and this one deals with the devastating loss she faced after Hurricane Katrina....

Fun Fun Fun

Mar 9, 2010 8:21am

Global Spectrum announced the Beach Boys will play the South Okanagan Events Centre May 13....

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this" 1966, Phil Spector produces the monumental Ike & Tina Turner track "River Deep, Mountain High" it's rumored that he spent more than $22,000 creating the orchestral backing track - an...

Supergroups struggle to succeed unless fronted by serious, nomadic musicians

Mar 5, 2010 7:22am

Have you seen the Coachella poster with the festival's full lineup on it, including "Thom Yorke ????" scheduled as a headliner? What does that mean? Well, remember how Yorke had been noted performing new songs and Eraser material with an above-average crew? It turns out those shows were the answer...

Celebrity birthdays on March 2

Mar 3, 2010 7:01am

Bluegrass musician Doc Watson is 87. Author Tom Wolfe is 80. Actor Jon Finch is 69....

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus

Mar 1, 2010 7:00am

Recommended Originally airing from 1963 to 1989 and relaunched in 2005, Doctor Who has become the Bonanza or The Simpsons of science fiction television....

Queen tribute CD release party at Maxwell's

Feb 26, 2010 4:00am

Dennis Dunaway and his band 5th Ave. Vampires are among the acts performing at the Main Man Records concert at Maxwell's Friday night....

Enigmatic icons

Feb 24, 2010 2:56am

Lennon Naked will be the second film of the past 12 months to tackle the subject of one of British music's most enduring and enigmatic icons - John Lennon....

Supergroups: 10 of the best

Feb 14, 2010 8:30pm

The supergroup -- that pop-music phenomenon where already-famous musicians collaborate to create a new, sometimes short-lived band -- is still alive and well....

One Friend - Dan Seals

Feb 9, 2010 11:35am

After scoring several hits as part of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, Dan Seals reinvented himself as a country-pop singer and enjoyed a tremendous run of success during the latter half of the '80s. Born in McCamey, TX, in 1948, his brother was Jim Seals,...

Steve Winwood's 'Nine Lives'

Feb 7, 2010 11:27am

Early in the proceedings on his latest album, 2008's "Nine Lives," Steve Winwood delivers a statement that is at once both straightforward and wholly appropriate for one of rock 'n' roll's great survivors: "I believe in every new day." After more than four decades of success in the music industry,...

Steve Winwood must mix it up for live shows

Feb 5, 2010 11:10am

Steve Winwood, who'll be at Foxwoods Friday, has been working for 40 years in musical settings as diverse as the '60s white R&B of The Spencer Davis Group , the folk-jazz eclecticism of Traffic and the sleek, mature pop-soul '80s solo hits - and his current work sounds like a...

10 Things I Learned from the 2010 Grammy Awards Show

Feb 2, 2010 3:44pm

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Show Provided Plenty of Entertainment-and Taught Me a Few Things About the Music Industry Green Day's 'American Idiot' album will soon be a Broadway musical....

Contemporary Christian Music Concert by local group "Blind Faith"

Jan 31, 2010 3:41pm

The musical group Blind Faith will present a concert of joy and praise at Mt. Washington Baptist Church on Wednesday, February 10th at 7:00pm. Blind Faith is a local group of talented musicians who perform contemporary music to celebrate God's Love to His People....

The playlist: Clapton, Winwood, other Grammy nominees

Jan 20, 2010 5:42pm

British legends Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood will be in it to win it. Little Walter and John Fogerty are up for Grammys, too....

Doctor Who #7

Jan 18, 2010 5:30pm

The Doctor takes Emily and Matt, his new companions, on a quick tour of the TARDIS cloak room....

Lifestyles Food Digest

Jan 16, 2010 5:14pm

The AP Lifestyles Food package for Jan. 15, 2009. TOP STORIES: FOOD-BOUTIQUE BOOZE SPOKANE, Wash....

sacramento cover

Jan 14, 2010 5:02pm

Some invasive species of birds are more welcome in Sacramento than others. Homegrown Cultivating business From cremini to truffles, Sacramento-area fungus farmers are cashing in on the mushroom craze....

Hair - Cowsills

Jan 12, 2010 4:54pm

The real-life inspiration behind the hit television series #The Partridge Family, the Cowsills -- comprised of teen siblings Bill, Bob, Barry, John, Susan, and Paul in tandem with mother Barbara -- were one of the biggest pop acts of the late '60s, scoring a series of hits including "The Rain,...

Lifestyles Food Digest

Jan 8, 2010 9:43am

The AP Lifestyles Food package for Jan. 8, 2010. TOP STORIES: FOOD-DESIGNER DOUGHNUTS CHICAGO a ' Pomegranate thyme and bing cherry balsamic may sound like salad dressings, and lemon chamomile creme custard may evoke thoughts of fancy teas, but they're actually cutting edge flavors in the latest fad to hit...