In 2011, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested and detained for eighty-one days, allegedly for tax evasion, but really for speaking out against his government.
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Last summer, when Blur were reuniting to record a couple new tracks and play the closing ceremonies of the 2013 Olympics, I wrote here about the great English band's 10 best songs.
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Last week saw the anniversary of one of the most horrific events in American history, the shootings of four unarmed college students by National Guardsmen on the campus of Ohio's Kent State University.
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Ex- The Mars Volta man Cedric Bixler-Zavala has announced plans to release a solo record.
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He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
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There's no rule that says winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist guarantees a long and successful career, but it's sort of implied.
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Jason Bonham , the son of late Led Zeppelin basher, John Bonham , has made a career of keeping his father's legacy alive.
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You know, if someone wrote an essay insisting Thin Lizzy provided the backbone for his teen experience in the mid 1970s, every rock critic in America would nod their head in agreement.
Read MoreSix years ago, Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett died after spending nearly 40 years as rock's most famous recluse.
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Led Zeppelin, one of the most seminal and popular acts in rock history, triumphantly received Kennedy Center Honors earlier this month from President Obama and the nation's elite (the event will be broadcast on CBS on Dec. 26, 2012, from 9 to 11 p.m. ET).
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He's been recording albums for more than ten years, and Kevin Devine decided to have a party to celebrate.
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Once again, South By Southwest (SXSW) has announced a new list of bands playing in 2013 and since this sort of stuff makes for really easy and thoughtless posts, we figure we would take a look at the new announcements and comment on it.
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Don't Forget This Song (Abrams ComicsArts) is a hardcover, beautifully-colored, long-form comic art biography about the first superstar family of country music (and inspiration on popular music in general), with an accompanying CD of rare radio sessions.
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The singer went on Radio 1 this morning and responded to the storm of criticism about the gruelling tour schedule, during which alcohol was plentiful but food was "weird" and access to the singer almost non-existent after she shrouded herself in an inflight "panic room".
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I had one of those moments last week when I felt quite incredibly old.
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Funnily enough, it all started at the Maryland Deathfest.
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At one point in Celebration Day , the new film of Led Zeppelin 's 2007 reunion concert in London, the camera stays long and tight on Jimmy Page 's hands as they execute the introduction to "Stairway to Heaven" on the six-string neck of his double-neck Gibson guitar.
Read MoreSix years ago, Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett died after spending nearly 40 years as rock's most famous recluse.
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Finally winding down from my annual trip and I'm here to say that 2011 is the year the Americana went mainstream.
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Michael J. Fox's rendition of "Johnny B. Goode" in 1985's Back to the Future hooked me; at that moment, I learned about the power and fury of seminal rock 'n roll and I have never fully recovered.
Read MoreThis October, Irish multi-influenced musician Pat Dam Smyth releases Friends, the new single from debut album The Great Divide on Monumental Music Group.
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Back in 2011, when thousands of birds fell from the sky and millions of fish washed up on shore in freak die-offs across North America, most people were happy to accept the media's flimsy scientific explanations.
Read MoreIn honor of Independence Day, KEXP is saluting some of our favorite indie record labels who's DIY-spirit helped revolutionize the music industry.
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Two high-wire art-pop all-stars, St. Vincent and David Byrne, have teamed up to make a full-length collaborative album called Love This Giant together, and they're also getting ready to head out on a full-scale North American tour.
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Return to Forever, as Lenny White proudly told me , was a "jazz quartet on steroids" — with all of the muscular virtuosity and boisterous flourishes implied.
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International Pop Overthrow is the name of a series of mostly free but well organised sets of gigs taking place in cities all over the world.
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Everything from child-friendly boutique weekends to full-scale heavy rock events are feeling the chill wind.
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It was back in spring 63 when The Beach Boys sampled the taste of chart success, reaching number two on the US Billboard chart with sophomore disc 'Surfin USA'.
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FatBoy Slims Big Beach Boutique is returning with a new home at Brighton Football Clubs new state of the art stadium the Amex Stadium.
Read MoreHe's carrying around mixes of the new album on his MacBook, and he plonks it on the table, plugs in some earphones, and obligingly gives me a blast of The Winner.
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The Jackson's will return to the studio to work on their first album of new material since 1989's '2300 Jackson Street', according to eldest brother Jackie Jackson.
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On their way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Guns N' Roses got together for one more gig.
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Paramount Theater, Oakland, Ca March 20, 1999.
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Only four people graced the stage at Chicago's Metro on Wednesday night.
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In an announcement of cosmic proportions, RockNess confirms a constellation of electronic acts guaranteed to unleash an unearthly level of dancefloor devastation this June. THE ARCADIA UFO - the likes of which Scotland has never seen!
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RockNess today confirms a constellation of electronic acts guaranteed to unleash an unearthly level of dancefloor devastation this June. The Arcadia UFO - the likes of which Scotland has never seen!
Read More"I've spent 25 years playing the big concertos, which is great," says Bell, "but it's time for something new. I already had some experience of this role with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra in the US, so when this offer came, I grabbed it."
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They have landed a deal with Ant and Dec's agent and have a US tour in the pipeline � all since winning on Sunday.
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