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TOKYO — “This is harder than coal mining — but a lot more fun,” spurted frontman Roger Daltrey as he sweated through the midpoint of the first of two nights of concerts by The Who at storied Tokyo martial arts hall the Budokan...

Carbon Fiber Guitar Resembles Mediaeval Stealth Lute

The Blackbird Rider Nylon is an odd guitar, a mix of the traditional and the high-tech. First, the "nylon" in the name refers to the strings -- the guitar itself is made from carbon fiber, from the single piece body...

Hit & Run: Lost in music

It's tempting to hope that The Beatles' fabled 14-minute track "Carnival of Light", which Paul McCartney wants to release 41 years after its recording, will be a magnificent avant-garde assemblage of noise. But the truth is...

Presented by Best Buy, Rachel Fuller 'In the Attic' With Pete Townshend and Friends at the...

Best Buy's special presentation of "Rachel Fuller IN THE ATTIC with Pete Townshend and Friends" delivered an extraordinary night of music and camaraderie at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on Friday, November 7.

Capital Region Scrapbook: Space travel, fashions, movies were in news at end of 1960s

Capital Region residents found time for faith, film and fashion in November 1969. Fans of science were fans of space travel; “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” and “Apollo manned space missions” were words everyone...

Tacoma’s Wailers want to create museum

Tacoma. The band’s two longest-tenured members, Kent Morrill and Buck Ormsby, believe they finally have found the perfect home for their dream – The House of Rock and Roll – in a building much older than the oldies they play....

Creating A Perfect Playlist

Gina and I are having guests to the house tonight for our family game night. It's a once a month thing we do so that we have time with folks without kids or other guests around. So while Gina gets the snacks prepared I assemble...

Music DVD Review: Smashing Pumpkins' If All Goes Wrong

After almost two hours of documentary and 115 minutes of exclusive performance, I’m still asking, “Who the fuck is this band?” I’m not even sure the almighty Corgan has a real answer. If they never had it in the first place,...

Conman posed as Status Quo star Francis Rossi to enjoy town's hospitality

A conman pretended he was a member of rock band Status Quo to take advantage of a seaside town's hospitality. Francis Rossi: a conman posed as the Status Quo frontman to enjoy a day of free hospitality in Dover Photo: BBC When...

Obituary: Mitch Mitchell

Though the Jimi Hendrix Experience released only three albums in its three-year existence, the trio's influence remains huge. Their drummer, Mitch Mitchell, who has died aged 61, apparently of natural causes, in a hotel in...

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