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Allman Family Revival Reveals 2021 Tour Dates
The annual celebration has evolved into a coast-to-coast tour, based on the format of “The Last Waltz,” with the Allman Betts Band as the house band.
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Bruce Springsteen Live Exhibit to Be Presented By Grammy Museum
The traveling exhibit will feature artifacts, live performance footage, instruments and stage costumes, posters and photos, and unique interactive displays
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George Wein, Founder of Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, Dies
In a career spanning seven decades, the promoter was, at one point, the most influential presenter of music around the globe
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New Book Unveils the Story of Rock’s First Bootleg Record Label, TMQ
“No one had ever been crazy enough to do such an audacious thing before. The god’s official record label was not amused but the music fans were thrilled.”
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Rolling Stones Add Date to 2021 Tour
The 13 concerts will mark the rock and roll legends’ first public performances following Charlie Watts’ death. Opening night is Sept. 26
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Steve Perry to Release Holiday Album, ‘The Season’
“I hope it brings people back to those golden moments with their loved ones and gives them that feeling of joy and connection and comfort”
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AXS-TV to Air Documentaries on Music’s Unsung Heroes
The network will air 6 films about the little-known figures who had a big impact on music, from session musicians and supporting vocalists, to iconic studios
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Listen to ’25 or 6 to 4′ From ‘Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete’ Edition
They became the first non-classical group to perform 6 nights in a row there. All 8 shows in their entirety are coming for the first time in a 16-CD deluxe box
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‘Southern Man’ Memoir: Music and Mayhem in the American South
The book is the story of Phil Walden, a son of Macon, Georgia, and his passion for R&B and rock ’n’ roll in the South during the Sixties and Seventies
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New John Bonham Biography Author Talks About ‘Beast’
The drumming legend is the subject of a first full narrative biography, Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin. Author C.M. Kushins offers some insight
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