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Forty years after he galvanized the audience as the opening act at Woodstock, Richie Havens still takes inspiration from the music and communal spirit of that era. Read More

The Tom Humphrey Guitar Series continues at 3 p.m. Read More

BY CHRIS MAUTNER cmautner@patriot-news.com Shoppers may still be suffering from the recession, but DVD, CD and video game manufacturers are unleashing big ticket items for the holiday season. Read More

Fremont's Festival of Lights holiday parade (4 p.m. Nov. 28, Rodger Young Park to Flag Park) will kick off a week of seasonal fun, from I Spy Window, Where's Rudy and Ugly Sweater contests to wine tastings, historical walking tours and a free holiday movie. Read More

"1969 and you're 15 years old. For the previous three years you've been swamped in lysergic symphonies, marathon guitar solos (even worse: drum solos) and blissful acoustic drippie-droning about pixies and bed-sits. The raw garage thrash that careered out of the '64 UK R&B explosion seem like a distant memory. Even the Stones had a touch of blurred vision in '67 before getting back to blues basics on Beggars Banquet. In '69, there were only mavericks, madmen and geniuses to rely on, like Jimi, the Doors, Beefheart and Tim Buckley, maybe the Velvet Underground if they survived. It would be a few more months before Mott The Hoople came along to sow the seeds of UK punk rock. Read More

To help raise fund for the Clayton Center for the Arts, which is nearing completion on Maryville College campus. Read More

Without question, the last decade has seen a massive shift in the way we collect music, with an emphasis on the collect – thanks to mp3s, music has become one big all-you-can-eat buffet, devaluing everything from bootlegs to boxed sets while changing the definition of "huge collection" from hundreds of CDs to tens of thousands of binary files. Read More

With ISU students on fall break and many out of town over the holiday, local live music venues know attendance may be down. Read More

Jessica Simpson must have done quite a number on the most genial tall-dark-and-handsome of the 2000s. Read More

2008 is one of the first years I actively pursued finding new music from beginning to end and also had a lot of money. Read More