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LMFAO duo are serious about being funny
MINNEAPOLIS - LMFAO are silly, and they know it. They're also smart and resourceful. In the past year, the Los Angeles electro-pop duo has catapulted from dance-club up-and-comers to colorful stars who boast two No. 1 smashes, a Super Bowl halftime performance with Madonna and an arena headline...
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Illinois man who changed his name to honor his favorite band dies
CHICAGO - Led Zeppelin II has died.
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N.Y. concertmaster joining USC faculty
Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for more than 30 years, will be leaving the venerated orchestra and joining the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles.
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Elton John in hospital with 'serious infection,' cancels Vegas gigs
LOS ANGELES - Sir Elton John has been forced to cancel three upcoming concerts due to a respiratory infection, the superstar singer announced Thursday morning. According to information sent out by John's publicist, he developed a "serious respiratory infection" over the weekend during his weekly...
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Jason Aldean returns to the road for a summer party
ATLANTA - When we last talked to Jason Aldean, he was preparing to headline a big-for-him arena concert and shrugging off his continued brush-offs at the Country Music Association awards.
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Loudoun Wainwright III forgives and forgets with dry, wise humor
SEATTLE - The extended family tree of singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III is beginning to look like one of those intermarrying European royal families.
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All in all, it's more bricks in 'The Wall'
LOS ANGELES - When Pink Floyd first took its concept album "The Wall" to the concert stage more than three decades ago, even lead singer and chief songwriter Roger Waters couldn't have imagined a day when rock music might get any bigger.
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Library of Congress names new entries for National Recording Registry
LOS ANGELES - Donna Summer's throbbing 1977 hit "I Feel Love"; Prince's 1984 "Purple Rain" album; the first known commercial sound recording, dating to 1888; the Sugar Hill Gang's watershed rap record "Rapper's Delight"; and 1930s and '40s news reports and speech excerpts from journalist Edward ...
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Kid Rock's 'Chillin' the Most' cruise floats fans' boat
MIAMI - The Carnival Destiny cruise ship hasn't even left port, and half the ship's guests are already wasted.
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David Lee Roth promises Van Halen to return, with monster trucks
LOS ANGELES - Van Halen will be back, lead singer David Lee Roth promises, and when the band returns, it may be bringing along some extra heavy machinery.
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Michael Jackson's 'Bad' to get 25th anniversary reissue
LOS ANGELES - In the three years following Michael Jackson's death, his estate has been conservative with posthumous releases from the King of Pop's archives while focusing on other endeavors such as a hit video game and a Cirque du Soleil production.








