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Remembering Reg Presley of the Troggs: Unsung hero of rock & roll
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticRaise a pint to Reg Presley, the singer and co-founder of the Troggs, who died Monday at age 71 after a battle with lung cancer. Yes, of course, stand at attention for the band’s mega-hit, “Wild Thing,” and for the primal pleasures of...Tags: Lung Cancer, The Rolling Stones (music group), The Who (music group), Music, Iggy Pop
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Clapton Talks Up Custom Crossroads Guitar Collection
Guitar giant Eric Clapton and the Guitar Center have teamed to produce and sell the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Collection, featuring replicas of some of his most famous guitars. Proceeds will benefit the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s...
Tags: George Harrison, Buddy Guy, Cream (music group), Photography and Video, Eric Clapton
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Reg Presley, Troggs lead singer, dead at 71
Reg Presley, lead singer of the Troggs, who made our hearts sing with the primal-scream, proto-garage-rock anthem "Wild Thing," as well as more tender tunes including "With a Girl Like You" and "Love Is All Around," has died at age 71. The BBC reports...
Tags: BBC, Fall Out Boy (music group), Pete Townshend, Music
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Jagger Named Most Stylish
Mick Jagger has been named the most stylish rock star of all time by lifestyle website Complex. He leads their top 50 list ahead of Prince, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious and Keith Richards. Complex say of Jagger: “Hands-down one of the best-...
Tags: Slash (music artist), Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, John Lydon, John Lennon
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Muse
VarietyOn the surface, Muse's brand of brash, high-concept rock seems exceedingly out-of-place in an era of pop music that continues to champion a highly-danceable, hyper-melodic style of songcraft. Indeed, a glance at the sold-out Staples Center audience on...Tags: Staples Center, Robert Plant, Muse (music group), Led Zeppelin (music group), Concerts
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The Go Guide Weekend Preview: Pitbull talks, King Mango struts
When your goal is worldwide domination, you gotta do what you gotta do. For Pitbull, hardcore Miami Heat fan, that means getting in bed (figuratively speaking) with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “Yeah, we don’t talk about that,”...
Tags: Miami Heat, Jennifer Lopez, Museums, Norton Museum of Art, Satellite and Cable Service
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Led Zeppelin flies high again in Allentown native's new book
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIn 2009, TV and radio producer Denny Somach saw the value in a program that disc jockey Carol Miller was doing on New York’s classic rock radio station WAXQ-FM, 104.3. She was playing the music of iconic rock band Led...... -
Ravi Shankar got by with a little help from his friends
Among the items the Grammy Museum included in its George Harrison “Living in the Material World” exhibit that opened about this time last year was a letter the ex-Beatle received following the all-star Concert for Bangladesh fundraiser he...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Music Theater, Leon Russell, Woodstock Festival (1969)
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Local bands make good -- headliners, that is. Musikfest Cafe tapping more regional acts
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGBack in 2008, when the concept for Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks was being formulated, ArtsQuest Vice President of Performing Arts Patrick Brogan drew up a mock calendar of headlining performers. Sarah Ayers on stage at Musikfest Cafe.... -
Bootsy Collins to headline funk festival at Hampton Coliseum
As has been the standard operating procedure recently, Hampton Coliseum made the announcement on its Facebook page: The great Bootsy Collins will headline the 2013 Hampton Funk Fest. The event, set to take place Friday, Feb. 1, at Hampton Coliseum, will...
Tags: Ice Cube, Hampton Coliseum, George Clinton, Bobby Womack, Samuel L. Jackson
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Ed Cassidy dies at 89; drummer for band Spirit
Ed Cassidy, the drummer whose musical background influenced the jazz-tinged sound of the band Spirit, which emerged in the late 1960s as one of the West Coast's premier rock groups, has died. He was 89. Cassidy died Thursday of cancer at an assisted...
Tags: Stairway to Heaven (song), Led Zeppelin (music group), Rock and Roll (genre), Tampa, Music Industry
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listens to us, inducts Rush. How'd we do on other predictions?
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGRush’s non-induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been one of the institution’s biggest criticisms. Now the argument has been taken away. Rush's Geddy Lee at Allentown Fair in 2010 Hall of Fame voters listened to us,......
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