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Tributes were paid yesterday to Jon 'Fat' Beast, the music promoter who was best known as the warm-up act for indie rock band Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Fans and [...]

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Nearly 9 Million Medicare Beneficiaries to Have Access to Coordinated Care Almost 9 [...]

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A couple of years ago, when the Pixies were almost 300 concerts into their second life as reunited heroes of alternative rock, they played a casino in Canada. The symbolism [...]

Byline: Ilan Berman, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Last summer, when the so-called Arab Spring was in full bloom, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey was riding high. [...]

Byline: Dan Simmons June 28--UW-Madison music professor Richard Davis has been awarded a 2014 Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation's highest honor in jazz. [...]

Byline: STEVE PERSALL; TIMES STAFF WRITER On a summer night at a roller rink in 1966, two teenage Jersey boys bought $2.50 tickets to their destinies. - One was named [...]

Byline: Angela Oliver Sept. 10--Show slated for Oct. 27 at Pangea Cafe's The Venue With a few successful live music shows in their recent past, Pangea Cafe owners Justin and [...]

Byline: Andrea Noble, THE WASHINGTON TIMES More than 9,000 Chuck Brown fans flocked to the Washington Convention Center for the musician's memorial service Thursday to pay tribute to the man [...]

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- He was that impossible rarity in modern music, a figure at once indelibly international and utterly local, whose shows in his hilltop barn drew fans and musicians [...]

Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard An energetic show that draws on the graphic legacy of 1960s rock 'n' roll posters is wrapping up this weekend at a gallery in the [...]

Byline: Pete Cashmore Keir Hardie Hall Working Men's Club in Norwich looks like . . . well, a working men's club in Norwich. But on this particular Sunday, the clientele [...]

Byline: Lindsey Adkison Feb. 22--For every generation, collective memories play to a specific sound track. For people born in the 1980s, the alternative rock bands Green Day and Weezer definitely [...]

AUCTIONS London -- British newspapers are reporting that one of John Lennon's teeth sold at auction for a remarkable £19,500 ($31,813) Sunday. The buyer was Canadian dentist Michael Zuk, 49, [...]

Byline: PIPER CASTILLO; TIMES STAFF WRITER He might be 63, a grandfather and cancer survivor, but don't expect to see Ronnie Montrose, a pioneer in American-bred hard rock guitar, performing [...]

Byline: SEAN DALY; Times Pop Music Critic Will 2012 be the year when battling bros Slash and Axl Rose finally stop acting like morons and get the original grunts in [...]

Byline: JAN GLIDEWELL Every once in a while you should delve into something about which you know absolutely nothing. As long, that is, as it represents no danger to yourself [...]

It's the year of the woozy in indie rock, the time to get lost. Everywhere, everywhere is sludge. The haze began a few years ago as a response to a [...]

Reunited and it feels so good: four members of the vintage-1990s rock band Hole, which never got along as smoothly as any Peaches & Herb song, are planning to reconvene [...]

A look back at the hours and days after the death of a music legend. Above, thousands of mourners gathered at Central Park West and 72nd Street on Dec. 14, [...]

Tokyo JOHN and I are in our Dakota kitchen in the middle of the night. Three cats -- Sasha, Micha and Charo -- are looking up at John, who is [...]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Jerry Moss has survived cancer. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is a Bronx native who went to college in [...]

WASHINGTON It's the Year of the Woman, all right. In a bad way. Some of the women running in high-profile races are not my cup of Tea. And some of [...]

Byline: Suparna Thombare Music band Pearl Jam, over the last 20 years, has been inspiring many musicians around the world, playing various genres of music and the same stands for [...]

Byline: Kassie Barroquillo Jan. 8--Some recognize the white sequined suit. Others remember the black slacks and light blue jacket. But there is no denying that Elvis Presley is still one [...]

Byline: BRUCE DESSAU MAYBE not all publicity is good publicity after all. The West End transfer of this play about musical icon Ian Dury made the news last week when [...]

Byline: Edna Gundersen and Steve Jones Friends and colleagues expressed admiration and sadness for rock 'n' roll architect Bo Diddley, who influenced generations of musicians with his signature primal beat. [...]

Tales of Ralph Rapson, the 'rock star of Minnesota architecture,' delighted 600 friends and colleagues who gathered Monday at the Guthrie Theater for a memorial service. Rapson, 93, died at [...]

Twin Cities funeral director Marvin D. McKee, who in 1959 prepared the bodies of famed rockers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens after they were killed in an airplane crash in [...]

NEW YORK George Takei already had a place among the stars in the minds of millions of 'Star Trek' fans. Now he's taking up permanent residence as the namesake of [...]

Byline: MATT HARTLEY 'My life's an open book, you read it on the radio,' begins a famous song by seminal Canadian rocker Neil Young. That may be so, but given [...]

LISTEN On August 10, 1977, Elvis Presley died on a toilet in his Graceland mansion, grotesquely overweight, drugged up to his eyeballs and long since deemed culturally irrelevant. Thirty years […]

This year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, who will be honored tonight in New York, demonstrate the wide stylistic swath covered by the first three words of the [...]

For 26 years, Yoko Ono mostly kept her feelings to herself on Dec. 8, the day her husband, John Lennon, was murdered. 'It has always been a day of meditation,' [...]

It is oddly fitting that Junichiro Koizumi, a prime minister whose five-year term has been shaped by his annual pilgrimage to a controversial shrine dedicated to Japan's war dead, should [...]