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    <title>Music for Richmond Times-Dispatch</title>
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          <title>Aerosmith postpones Sunday concert in Virginia Beach</title>
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Aerosmith has postponed its Sunday show at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater because of an unspecified &#8220;artist injury.&#8220; The band, on tour this summer with ZZ Top, also postponed last night&#8217;s show in Cincinnati and tonight&#8217;s gig at Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania. A rescheduled date is expected to be announced soon. Previously purchased tickets will be honored.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Aerosmith postpones Virginia Beach show</title>
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Aerosmith has postponed its Sunday show at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater due to an unspecified &#8220;artist injury.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sonic Youth to play The National on July 8</title>
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The connection between songwriter and song is one that regularly draws comparisons to that linking parent to child. So typically, when a songwriting band member takes his creation to his musical cohorts, he trusts that they will handle it with care.&nbsp; In the case of Sonic Youth, singer-guitarist Thurston Moore trusts his band mates to disregard all that.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Opening&#45;night tickets for CenterStage on sale now</title>
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Tickets for the grand opening performances at Richmond CenterStage are now on sale.&nbsp; The show, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in the Carpenter Theatre, will include a performance by each of CenterStage&#8217;s nine producing resident companies.&nbsp; Tickets range from $35 to $100 and can be purchased at http://www.ticketmaster.com (search for &#8220;Carpenter Theatre&#8221;).           ]]></description>
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          <title>First eight performers announced for Richmond Folk Fest</title>
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From dobro to go-go, the first eight performers announced for this year&#8217;s Richmond Folk Festival indicate the event isn&#8217;t straying from its eclectic roots. Nashville&#8217;s Jerry Douglas, regarded as the master of the dobro, along with D.C.-based go-go group Trouble Funk, Louisiana&#8217;s Jeffery Broussard &amp; The Creole Cowboys and yodeler Wylie Gustafson are among the artists announced yesterday by Venture Richmond, the organization that produces the event.           ]]></description>
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          <title>MUSIC NOTES</title>
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Natasha Bedingfield will celebrate the Fourth of July with a performance at the 29th annual &#8220;A Capitol Fourth&#8221; concert in D.C. The show will air live at 8 p.m. on  SpringsteenPBS. Joining Bedingfield are Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin and the cast of &#8220;Jersey Boys.&#8220;&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Also on Saturday, Sirius XM satellite radio will broadcast at noon a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert recorded the night before in Frankfurt, Germany. The show will air on Springsteen&#8217;s dedicated channel. Sirius XM is also giving Sonic Youth&#8212;who perform at The National on Wednesday&#8212;the freedom to steer a nightly two-hour &#8220;Sonic Youth Show&#8221; on the Sirius XMU channel starting Monday.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora have teamed with exiled Iranian singer Andy Madadian for a cover of Ben E. King&#8217;s &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221; as a message of solidarity to the people of Iran. The track, produced by Don Was, is not being sold, but it can be found online as an embeddable video (search YouTube for &#8220;Bon Jovi and Stand By Me&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find it).&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Alice in Chains is offering fans a peek at its new album by posting the new seven-minute song, &#8220;A Looking in View,&#8220; at http://www.aliceinchains.com. The band&#8217;s &#8220;Black Gives Way to Blue&#8221; album is due Sept. 29.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Castleton Festival of chamber opera kicks off in Rappahannock</title>
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The opera is on in Rappahannock County beginning tomorrow with a 7 p.m. performance of &#8220;The Turn of the Screw.&#8220;&nbsp; The first Castleton Festival&#8212;believed to be the only chamber-opera festival in the country&#8212;kicks off at the farm of Lorin Maazel, the recently retired director of the New York Philharmonic, and his wife, actress Dietlinde Turban L. MaazelMaazel. It&#8217;ll run through July 19, with performances most days.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Massive increase in Jackson&#8217;s radio play</title>
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Michael&#8217;s music During the first half of last week, total national airplay for Jackson&#8217;s most popular 20 songs averaged about 350 spins a day. On the day of his death, that number spiked to 10,000 spins, and on Friday, 20,000 spins. The top five Jackson songs played last Thursday between 3 p.m. and midnight:&nbsp; &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Thriller&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Rock With You&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Man in the Mirror&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Beat It&#8221; SOURCE: Nielsen BDS           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Beat: Remembering Jackson&#8217;s music</title>
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The will. The kids. The parasitic father. The funeral plans. The London concerts refunds. The Beatles catalog. The unreleased vault of songs.&nbsp; It&#8217;s exhausting thinking about the fallout from Michael Jackson&#8217;s death and more draining to realize we&#8217;re going to hear about these things for a very long time.           ]]></description>
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          <title>LIVE MUSIC</title>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Uproar, The Pogo, Transit Fear, more, 7 p.m. Thursday, $7.&nbsp;  ANDY&#8217;S RESTAURANT&#8212;Henry Clay Shopping Center, 412 England St., Ashland, 798-9751. Loose Gravel, (classic rock), 9 p.m. Friday, $3.&nbsp;  ASHLAND COFFEE &amp; TEA&#8212;100 N. Railroad Ave., Ashland, 798-1702. Latitude, 8 p.m. Friday, $10-$15. The Taters, 7 p.m. Wednesday, $5. Amy Speace, 8 p.m. July 9, $10-$15.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Vibe magazine shut down today</title>
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Hip-hop magazine Vibe shut down today, 16 years after it was founded by Quincy Jones. That will leave just one other major national hip-hop magazine, The Source. The announcement was made today by Steve Aaron, Vibe Media Group&#8217;s chief executive officer. &#8220;It is with a heavy heart that I share some tough news, VMG is closing down effective today, June 30 due to lack of additional financial investments,&#8220; Aaron said in a memo.           ]]></description>
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          <title>AP Exclusive: Jackson&#8217;s net worth $236M in 2007</title>
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Michael Jackson claimed to have a net worth of $236 million as of March 31, 2007, according to financial documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed light on the late pop star&#8217;s murky finances and prodigious borrowing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Questions swirl around doctor in Jackson&#8217;s death</title>
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Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood&#8217;s best-known entertainers.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:10:55 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Parents file papers to administer Jackson estate</title>
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 Michael Jackson&#8217;s mother asked a Superior Court judge to name her administrator of her late son&#8217;s estate so she can ensure the King of Pop&#8217;s three children are its beneficiaries.
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          <title>Janet Jackson makes emotional appearance at BETs</title>
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Telecast was completely revamped to recognize the legacy of Michael Jackson. For the most part, it was a joyous wake.

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          <title>Remember Jackson&#8217;s artistry, not his foibles</title>
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Before the ugliness begins. Before the tug-of-war over children and a dwindling estate become a sordid tabloid feast. Before Michael Jackson&#8217;s status as the greatest globally revered pop-music superstar in history is overshadowed by toxicology results and the flapping gums of &#8220;family friends&#8221; who will attest to his self-destructive behavior but never mention why they didn&#8217;t bother to intervene.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:42 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>N.Y. theater to honor singer</title>
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The Harlem theater that helped launch Michael Jackson&#8217;s career plans a star-studded musical memorial on the same stage where he and his brothers once did 31 shows in one week, for $1,000. &#8220;They couldn&#8217;t pay their hotel bill,&#8220; recalled Bobby Schiffman, whose family owned Harlem&#8217;s Apollo Theater in 1967. That summer, after the Jackson 5 won the Apollo&#8217;s Amateur Night competition, Schiffman says he gave them the gig that covered the bill so they could go home to Indiana.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:04 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Sirius XM satellite radio launches &#8216;The Michael Jackson Tribute Channel&#8217;</title>
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Sirius XM satellite radio has launched The Michael Jackson Tribute Channel, which will run through Monday at 11:59 p.m. on Sirius channel 51 and XM channel 62.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:28:39 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmonder wins national celebrity lookalike contest</title>
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People always told Manaya Mabry that she strongly resembles Mary J. Blige, and now that likeness has won her a trip to the BET Awards. Richmonder Mabry, 28, defeated more than 4,000 contenders in the 2009 Celebrity Lookalike Contest sponsored by BET and Dr. Miracle&#8217;s beauty care. Her prize is travel and a hotel for a two-night stay in Los Angeles and a pair of tickets to Sunday&#8217;s awards show.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Michael Jackson, the &#8216;King of Pop,&#8216; dies at age 50</title>
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LOS ANGELES (AP)&#8212;Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the &#8220;King of Pop&#8221; and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virgin Mobile FreeFest is Aug. 30</title>
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There aren&#8217;t any heavy hitters such as The Police or Kanye West, but there is a bigger change to this year&#8217;s Virgin Mobile Festival&#8212;it&#8217;s free.&nbsp; Changing from a multi-day fest at Pimlico racetrack outside of Baltimore to a one-day event at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., the Virgin Mobile FreeFest on Aug. 30 will include performances by Weezer, Blink-182, Franz Ferdinand, Public Enemy, Jet and The Hold Steady.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tickets: Paul McCartney coming to FedEx</title>
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Paul McCartney has added a D.C.-area date to his growing summer tour.&nbsp; The artist whom &#8220;Guinness World Records&#8221; lists as the most successful musician and composer in pop music history, will perform at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1.&nbsp; Tickets have been on sale all week for American Express cardholders, but will be available to the general public at 10 a.m. tomorrow.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Music notes: Vote for KISS to come to Richmond</title>
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This is the last week to vote at http://www.eventful.com to lure KISS to perform in Richmond. The band decided to allow fans the opportunity to decide where it will play on an upcoming tour (whether the results will prove real or this is another KISS gimmick remains to be seen). In any case, right now, Richmond is number 128 on a list of about 500 cities. But unless you want to get beaten by Dubuque, Iowa, and Pikeville, Ky.&#8212;both ahead of us in the list of cities in the running&#8212;get voting.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Coming next year, Jessica Simpson, back with a reality  Simpsonshow. VH1 has picked up &#8220;The Price of Beauty,&#8220; where we&#8217;ll be able to watch Simpson travel the world to see how ordinary women and celebs achieve their idea of beauty.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; On Aug. 3, Sugarland will preview their DVD (out the next day) with an hourlong special on ABC. The TV sample and the DVD come from a show shot in Lexington, K.Y., last fall.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hampton Jazz Festival bringing classic and contemporary sounds this weekend</title>
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LaBelle &nbsp; Babyface &nbsp; Even though the lineups in recent years have leaned more toward R&amp;B/pop with some smooth jazz acts sprinkled in, the Hampton Jazz Festival is a legendary annual occurrence.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not unusual for music fans from Georgia to New York to make the drive for the three-day event to not only listen to music, but to gather ritualistically with friends.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Beat: A concept for concerts: performing whole albums</title>
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The Decemberists did it at The National a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; Aerosmith ripped through it last weekend at Nissan Pavilion and will repeat the stunt July 5 at Virginia Beach Amphitheater.&nbsp; Even Van Morrison and Motley Crue are jumping on the trend.&nbsp; You want a little something different at your concerts this summer? You&#8217;re getting it from these bands&#8212;and a few more&#8212;who are incorporating the performance of an entire album, start to finish, into their live sets.           ]]></description>
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          <title>LIVE MUSIC</title>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Girls Get All the Action CD release with Colin Healy &amp; the Jet Skis, Hello Conductor, Audible View and others, 4 p.m. Friday, $10-$12. Bush League, Photosynthesizers, Brad Moss &amp; the New Age and Elevation Click, 10 p.m. Friday, $5-$7. Bobaflex, Unheard Concept and others, 5 p.m. Sturday, $10-$12. 1000 Yard Stare and others, 10 p.m. Saturday, $7. Traveling Nachos, Last Epidemic, The Hotdamns and others, 4 p.m. Sunday, $8-$10. Uproar, The Pogo, Transit Fear, more, 7 p.m. July 2, $7.           ]]></description>
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Tickets for Jamie Foxx&#8217;s Richmond stop on his &#8220;Intuition&#8221; tour will go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m.&nbsp; Foxx will perform at the Richmond Coliseum on Aug. 23 at 7:30 p.m.&nbsp; Tickets are $38.75-$58.75.&nbsp; Tickets can be purchased at the venue box office, http://www.ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000.&nbsp; . . .           ]]></description>
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Jason Mraz joins the company of Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Green Day and Kanye West in being nominated for several Teen Choice Awards. The trophies will be given out Aug. 10 on Fox.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; For the third time, Sirius XM Radio has extended the run of E Street Radio, the channel dedicated to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Sirius listeners can tune in to all-Bruce-all-the-time on Sirius Channel 10 and XM Channel 58.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; According to a Ryan Seacrest Twitter, &#8220;American Idol&#8221; winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert will host &#8220;American Top 40&#8221; sometime next month. Lambert also has gotten a jump on his recording career, spending time in a studio this week with producer RedOne, the guy behind Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8220;Poker Face&#8221; and &#8220;Just Dance.&#8220;&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Look for Lionel Richie on an episode of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;One Life to Live.&#8220; The veteran crooner filmed his guest spot last week.           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. 5th Degree Burn and A Voice of Reason, 6 p.m. Thursday, $8-$15. Krass Judgement, Property and others, 10 p.m. Friday, $5-$7. Zero Boys, Wasted Time, Chronic Seizure and others, 2-11 p.m. Saturday, $25. Zero Boys, Government Warning, Carbonas and others, 2-11 p.m. Sunday, $25.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>The Beat: a look at three music&#45;centric TV shows</title>
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Though it will take me awhile to forgive ABC for canceling &#8220;Samantha Who?&#8220; (Really? You ax an adorable Christina Applegate sitcom but last night brought back something called &#8220;I Survived a Japanese Game Show&#8221;?), I do give the network credit for burning off the remaining handful of episodes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Frontiers/Limelight concert at Innsbrook After Hours scheduled for tonight has been postponed until July 1. Promoters cite &#8220;unforeseen circumstances&#8221; as the reason for the delay of the show featuring Journey and Rush tribute bands. The concert will remain a free &#8220;recession buster&#8221; for general admission; gold circle seats are available for purchase through http://www.ticketstobuy.com for $25.           ]]></description>
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Alternative rock station WDYL will change its frequency from 101.1-FM to 100.9-FM next month. The dial-position change, to take place at 2 p.m. July 17, comes with a transition to a new tower, which will quadruple the boost of broadcast power for the station to 15,000 watts. The station currently shares its frequency with D.C. rock station DC101.           ]]></description>
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VIRGINIA BEACH When Gwen Stefani performs as a solo artist, she plays the part of a flirty pop idol, cooing lyrics and acting coy in her sexy outfits. Now that she&#8217;s back with the boys in No Doubt, Stefani plays like them&#8212;strolling the stage with a confident swagger and bopping around in pirate pants and knee-high boots, her blond tresses swept up in a garden of no-nonsense knots.           ]]></description>
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Almost 18,000 people packed the Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater Wednesday night to greet the ska-pop group, who tore through a 90-minute greatest hits set with unflagging energy           ]]></description>
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Let&#8217;s get the obvious question out of the way.&nbsp; Yes, there are five women in Celtic Woman.&nbsp; And yes, their name is singular, despite being a plural outfit.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll let Chlo&euml; Agnew, the baby of the group who turned 20 two days ago, explain this grammatical conundrum:           ]]></description>
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You&#8217;ve seen him in movies and on TV, and now, Jamie Foxx fans can experience his musical side live.&nbsp; The Oscar winner/musician is embarking on a Foxx50-city summer tour that comes to the Richmond Coliseum at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23.&nbsp; Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 19, for $39.75 and $59.75.           ]]></description>
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Richmond&#8217;s Rachel Leyco Band has a new, self-titled CD, its first in five years. The group performs a CD-release show at 7 tonight at the Henrico Theater. Get details at http://www.rlband.com/tour.shtml.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Along with the news that should have surprised only the most clueless&#8212;that he&#8217;s gay &#8220;American Idol&#8221; runner-up and LambertRolling Stone cover boy Adam Lambert also announced this week that he has signed a record deal with 19 Recordings and RCA Records. Look for his debut this fall. &#8220;Idol&#8221; winner Kris Allen also signed a similar deal this week, with 19 Recordings and Jive Records.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Green Day has performed all week on &#8220;Last Call With Carson Daly,&#8220; but tomorrow&#8217;s appearance will be as its alter ego, the Foxboro Hot Tubs.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Along with appearing in several episodes of &#8220;Weeds&#8221; this season on Showtime, Alanis Morissette is working on a book. She said it&#8217;s a combination of anecdotes, photos, essays and other insights.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Look for Bryan Adams on the June 26 episode of CMT&#8217;s &#8220;Crossroads.&#8220; He&#8217;ll perform with country singer Jason Aldean.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Beat: top five must&#45;see summer concerts</title>
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Take a look at the upcoming concert lineups at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Nissan Pavilion in Manassas, the Verizon Center in Washington and, on a smaller scale, The National.&nbsp; Now do some simple even-a-journalist-can-handle-it math.&nbsp; Combined, there are about 50 shows&#8212;give  or take a couple, since I didn&#8217;t cross-reference every concert playing both Virginia Beach and Nissan. And numbers aren&#8217;t my thing.           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Divine Profitz, Crunk Squad and others, 9 p.m. Thursday, $7. Dragonship, Chalkline Beauty, Sleepless Empire and others, 5 p.m. Friday, $6-$8. 360 Boys, Suicide Squad and others, 10 p.m. Friday, $6-$7. Threat of Scarlet, Serial Crusher Theory and others, 4 p.m. Saturday, $6-$7. Third Stream Giants, Howie Do It and others, 10 p.m. Saturday, $8. 5th Degree Burn and A Voice of Reason, 6 p.m. June 18, $8-$15.           ]]></description>
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PETERSBURG Achance encounter as a child with an FM radio station playing classical music helped shape Ulysses Kirksey&#8217;s future. At a time when others were listening to 1950s rock&#8217;n'roll, Kirksey was memorizing symphonies from Brahms and Beethoven or watching renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein on the family&#8217;s black-and-white TV. &#8220;It was a strange thing - I never really experienced this music before, but I identified with it,&#8220; Kirksey said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Concert review: The Decemberists at The National</title>
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An open secret in the hipster-dipster indie/folk rock world for years &#8211; Conan O&#8217;Brien and Stephen Colbert have frequently given them a platform &#8211; The Decemberists has barreled into a new stratosphere with their opus, &#8216;The Hazards of Love.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Wet weather is moving Fridays at Sunset indoors tonight and forcing the cancellation of Friday Cheers.
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With a lineup led by Trey Songz, Eric Benet, SOS Band, The Clipse, Twista and Jim Jones, the Stone Soul Music and Food Festival could actually be called the Stone Soul, R&amp;B and Rap Festival.&nbsp; But who cares about technicalities when this number of well-known acts&#8212;and a dozen soul food vendors&#8212;is being assembled in one place?           ]]></description>
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Critically acclaimed bands are plentiful, with the Vivian Girls no harder to locate in the marketplace than the Pussycat Dolls.&nbsp; While the stratum of about-to-break acts contains plenty of folks waiting for their hot-button launch moment, it&#8217;s exciting to see someone occasionally run from the fringes and trample conventional what&#8217;s-hot wisdom.           ]]></description>
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It will be just like 1980 again when Journey and Night Ranger hit the Richmond Coliseum this fall.&nbsp; The double bill will come to the venue Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m.&nbsp; Journey, which includes longtime members Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Ross Valory and Deen Castronovo, has had great touring success since enlisting former Journey tribute band singer Arnel Pineda as lead singer in 2007.           ]]></description>
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Sunday&#8217;s Tony Awards will feature live performances from Dolly Parton and the cast of &#8220;9 to 5: The Musical,&#8220; Elton John with the cast of &#8220;Billy Elliot, The Musical&#8221; and, obviously in tribute to the nominated&#8217;80s rock throwback &#8220;Rock of Ages,&#8220; hair-band Poison. The show airs live on CBS from 8 to 11 p.m.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; A concert from Ben Harper and his new band, Relentless 7, will air Monday at 9 p.m. exclusively on DirecTV.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; The Taylor Swift-Def Leppard episode of CMT&#8217;s &#8220;Crossroads,&#8220; which aired last year, will be released on DVD on June 16. It&#8217;s the first DVD release from the series and will be available exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam&#8217;s Club locations and http://www.walmart.com. Swift and the Leps perform that night on the 2009 CMT Music Awards.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band already sold out three shows for Giants Stadium&#8217;s last hurrah this fall, so two more shows, Oct. 8-9, have been added. Tickets go on sale Monday through Ticketmaster.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Perdition, Aghast, Mega Minge, Transit Fear and others, 7 p.m., all ages, $7. Trees Above Mandalay, Airstrike, Centuries in the Sky and others, 4 p.m. Saturday, $7. Telepath, The Former Champions and Jason &amp; the State, 9 p.m. Monday, $10. Florence Terrace, Goot, Bexley and others, 6 p.m. Tuesday, all ages. Stages &amp; Stereos, Faster Faster, Lannen Fall and others, 6 p.m. Wednesday, all ages, $8.           ]]></description>
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Priorities often get in the way of fun.&nbsp; These days, if the choice is between an extra trip to Ukrop&#8217;s or a concert ticket to see that band you&#8217;ve loved for years, deciding what to do can be a bit difficult.&nbsp; So even with the recession supposedly loosening its chokehold on the economy, the time is  right&#8212;overdue, actually&#8212;for the concert industry to step up and make it worthwhile for people to hire a baby sitter and go out for the night.           ]]></description>
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If you&#8217;re one of the people who really believed the overhyped bit between Eminem and Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Bruno&#8221; character was real, well, guess what? It was rehearsed many, many times.
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Susan Boyle is getting better after an anxiety attack caused by the pressures of her overnight fame and celebrity judge Simon Cowell plans to help her launch a professional career,            ]]></description>
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I&#8217;ve never watched the show, but for the millions of you addicts who do, the third season cast of VH1&#8217;s &#8220;Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinsky&#8221; has been unveiled.           ]]></description>
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Scottish sensation finished second in nationwide talent competition after being heavily favored to win.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dream ends as Boyle finishes 2nd</title>
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She dreamed a dream, and it very nearly came true. But Susan Boyle&#8217;s reality-show journey finished yesterday with a second-place finish in the finals of &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Got Talent,&#8220; an ending that didn&#8217;t fit the fairy tale. Instead of the 48-year-old Internet sensation, an exuberant dance troupe called Diversity took the $159,000 prize and will perform for Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Variety Show.           ]]></description>
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Fans headed to Sunday&#8217;s K95 Countryfest will be permitted to bring two unopened bottles of water (24 ounces or less) to help combat the warm temperatures being forecast. Gates for the concert, at Innsbrook&#8217;s Snagajob.com Pavilion, will open at 3 p.m., an hour later than originally scheduled. Sunday&#8217;s weather forecast is calling for highs in the upper 80s and strong sun.           ]]></description>
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Dave Matthews talks about deceased bandmate LeRoi Moore in an interview airing this weekend on CBS&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning.&#8220; The frontman for the Dave Matthews Band tells CBS correspondent Anthony Mason that Moore, who died last summer from complications after an ATV accident, &#8220;was a real difficult person. He was maybe my most difficult friend because he loved and hated with such a passion. But from the first time I heard him [play] it froze me. . . . I wish I could&#8217;ve told him.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Christian electro-pop band eleventyseven and Christian rock singer Stephanie Smith will perform at Richmond Community Church in Glen Allen at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 the day of show and $8 in advance for groups of 10 or more; they can be purchased at Lifeway Christian Store locations and C28 in Short Pump. Tickets are also available online at http://www.itickets.com or by calling (804) 366-4848.           ]]></description>
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Classic rockers Journey, along with fellow &#8216;80s arena-fillers Night Ranger, have teamed for a tour that will stop at Richmond Coliseum on Sept. 15.           ]]></description>
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Competing against 17 women&#8217;s a cappella show choruses from four states, the Greater Richmond Chorus won the 2009 Blue Ridge Region Chorus Competition of Sweet Adelines International. The competition took place May 9 at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, N.C. GRC has won this honor five times since 1998. This year&#8217;s score, indicating an A-level performance, was the highest that any chorus has achieved in this region for more than 20 years.           ]]></description>
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Carbon Leaf knows something about change.&nbsp; In the three years since its last release, &#8220;Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat,&#8220; the Richmond-based band lost two band members, gained two replacements and took some time to reflect and, as frontman Barry Privett says, &#8220;fall in love with writing again.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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The numbers, like the artist, are a complete contradiction.&nbsp; First week sales for Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;Relapse&#8221; album&#8212;his first in five years&#8212;topped 600,000, making it the biggest seller of 2009 so far.&nbsp; But commercial radio is treating current single &#8220;We Made You&#8221; as if it&#8217;s coated with Chris Brown repellant.           ]]></description>
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The pop-punk-emo-riffic lineup of Blink 182, Fall Out Boy and All American Rejects will make its way to Virginia Beach Amphitheater on Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m.&nbsp; Tickets go on sale at noon Saturday (lawn tickets $20; reserved prices TBA) at http://www.livenation.com, participating Blockbuster locations and by calling (877) 598-8698.&nbsp; . . .           ]]></description>
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To support Tuesday&#8217;s release of &#8220;Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,&#8220; the Dave Matthews Band will commandeer its own channel on Sirius XM. Through June 8, the band will host &#8220;Dave Matthews Band Radio&#8221; on Sirius Channel 17 and XM Channel 56. Along with songs spanning the band&#8217;s career (including the new album), a different live DMB recording will be broadcast nightly at 9.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Saturday at 9 p.m., DIRECTV customers can tune in to watch a No Doubt performance.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Chickenfoot, the supergroup of Joe Satriani, former Van Halen mates Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers&#8217; drummer Chad Smith, will make its TV debut with Conan O&#8217;Brien on June 5&#8212;the end of his first week as host of &#8220;The Tonight Show.&#8220;&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; The Fray has released a new single, &#8220;Never Say Never,&#8220; as a free download at http://www.Myspace.com/ToyotaMusic.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Gary &#8220;Baba Booey&#8221; Dell&#8217;Abate, producer of &#8220;The Howard Stern Show,&#8220; will hopefully remember lyrics better than he pitches on tomorrow&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget the Lyrics.&#8220; The show airs at 9 p.m. on Fox. The Booey&#8217;s backups are Mark  TaylorMcGrath and Jon &#8220;Jump the Shark&#8221; Hein.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Jay Leno will be serenaded by James Taylor tomorrow when he signs off &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; after a 17-year tenure.           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Arizona and The Milk Stains, 10 p.m. Friday, $8. Murphy&#8217;s Kids, Tsunami Rising and others, 6 p.m. Saturday, all ages, $5.&nbsp;  ANDY&#8217;S RESTAURANT&#8212;Henry Clay Shopping Center, 412 England St., Ashland, 798-9751. Grendel (classic rock), 9 p.m. Friday.           ]]></description>
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Josh Ritter, 6 p.m. at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for Groovin&#8217; in the Garden  B Side Electric Blues, 5 p.m. at downtown Capital Ale House Music Hall; at 10 p.m. The Sometime Favorites  The Lee Boys, 6 p.m. at Brown&#8217;s Island for Friday Cheers           ]]></description>
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          <title>POP CULTURE BLOG: Chris Brown says he&#8217;s &#8216;not a monster&#8217;</title>
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A guy who looks like Chris Brown (except a little thin), sounds like Chris Brown and flashes a peace sign like Chris Brown can be seen in this video, where he&#8217;s apparently bowling with rapper-turned-actor Bow Wow.           ]]></description>
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The organizers of Innsbrook After Hours will keep the Memorial Day spirit chugging into the week. For tomorrow&#8217;s co-headlining show of Little Feat and Tea Leaf Green, all military personnel and those who work as first responders will be admitted to the concert for free. &#8220;It seems the proper thing to do,&#8220; said Laurin Willis, one of the promoters of the Innsbrook series. &#8220;In this post-9/11 world, these are the people who have been the heroes the past seven years.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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URBANA, Ill. (AP)&#8212;Jay Bennett, a former member of the band Wilco, has died at age 45, according to his record label.           ]]></description>
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Eminem has given hundreds of hometown fans in Detroit extra reason to celebrate his first new album in almost five years&#8212;a free show. The rapper put on a free concert at MotorCity Casino&#8217;s 1,500-seat Sound Board theater Tuesday&#8212;the same day his album &#8220;Relapse&#8221; was released. Spokesman Dennis Dennehy says Eminem performed eight songs. The set was largely new, except for &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221; from the film &#8220;8 Mile.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Britain&#8217;s unlikely singing sensation Susan Boyle, the church volunteer who wowed the world with her angelic voice, yesterday was voted into the next round of a TV talent show that propelled her to global fame. Boyle will now perform in a live show today. Boyle&#8217;s performance last month on the &#8220;American Idol&#8221;-style show &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; has been viewed almost 60 million times on You Tube and saw the shy Scot feted by celebrities.           ]]></description>
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Though not as formidable in number or in impact as the hat acts of the&#8217;80s and&#8217;90s (Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, et al.), combos producing a twang-light version of country pop are casting an increasingly large presence on the Billboard country charts and mainstream radio airwaves. Along with groups like Reckless Kelly, Eli Young Band and The Lost Trailers, the Zac Brown Band has recently made the jump from local heroes to contenders for the title of Nashville&#8217;s newest greatest thing.           ]]></description>
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The National has added the double hit of Reel Big Fish and The English Beat to its schedule.&nbsp; The bands, which peaked commercially in the&#8217;90s an&#8217;80s, respectively, will perform July 20 at 8 p.m. with Supervillians.&nbsp; Tickets, on sale today at 10 a.m., are $20 ($23 day of show).           ]]></description>
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Jamie Foxx is hitting the road this summer for a 50-city tour to support his &#8220;Intuition&#8221; album. An Aug. 23 date is penciled in for Richmond.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; AOL&#8217;s pop culture site, http://www.popeater.com, has the exclusive premiere of the debut single from last night&#8217;s winner of &#8220;American Idol.&#8220;&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s debut as host of &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; on June 1 will include musical guest Pearl Jam.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; The John Lennon Songwriting Contest (http://www.jlsc.com) is accepting entries through June 15 from amateur and professional songwriters. A committee of judges, including Natasha Bedingfield, Al Jarreau, Bob Weir and The Black Eyed Peas, will select 12 grand-prize winners and 36 finalists.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Even if you can&#8217;t make it to Coldplay&#8217;s show tonight at Nissan Pavilion to receive the free live album the band is giving to concertgoers, you can download it for free as well. &#8220;LeftRightLeftRightLeft&#8221; is available at http://www.coldplay.com.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Kings of Leon have joined Eminem as the live entertainment during the &#8220;2009 MTV Movie Awards. Andy Samberg hosts the show, which airs live May 31 at 9 p.m.           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. D-Black, High Hopes of Sleeping and others, 7 p.m. Thursday, $5-$7. Reasons, Ready the Way, Amen the Animal and others, 5 p.m. Friday, all ages, $7. Imaginary Boys (Cure tribute), 10 p.m. Friday, $10. Three Mile Crisis, Cursed to Black and others, 5 p.m. Saturday, all ages, $6-$8.           ]]></description>
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If I had to make a dopey mistake, at least it turned out to be an amusing one.&nbsp; In Friday&#8217;s ZZ Top concert review, I inadvertently referred to the band&#8217;s song &#8220;Tube Snake Boogie&#8221; as &#8220;Tube STEAK Boogie.&#8220;&nbsp; Thanks to all of you who  called and wrote to inform me of the error, which actually was just a typo, since I checked the name of the song not once but twice before typing it.           ]]></description>
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The R&amp;B/jazz-centric concert series, Fridays at Sunset, returns next month for its 14th season.&nbsp; The concert series, held at 6 p.m. weekly at Kanawha Plaza downtown, will kick off June 5 with a performance from soul-jazz artist Kem.&nbsp; The series does have one non-Friday show this year: India.Arie, who will perform Saturday, June 20.           ]]></description>
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The Little Feat-Tea Leaf Green show at Innsbrook on Wednesday will reward first responders and members of the military.&nbsp; All police, firefighters, EMTs and military will be given free admission to the concert by showing their official identification at the gate.&nbsp; The double bill begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are still available for $12.50 (general admission) and $30 (gold circle seating.           ]]></description>
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In what might have been the most awkward closing moments of an &#8220;Idol&#8221; season ever, Kris Allen was crowned the season eight winner as Simon looked on in stunned misery.

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It&#8217;s not exactly shocking, but still pretty cool that Jason Mraz will be a guest performer on Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;American Idol&#8221; finale.           ]]></description>
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Recession? What recession? Despite the sour economy, radio has been remarkably free of songs about tough times. The top songs from this week&#8217;s Billboard&#8217;s Hot 100 are heavy with dance tracks by the Black Eyed Peas, Lady GaGa and Flo Rida. &#8220;I think people are partying on,&#8220; said Silvio Pietroluongo, director of charts for Billboard magazine, who couldn&#8217;t think of a single song about the nation&#8217;s economic woes in pop, rock or R&amp;B.           ]]></description>
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Anumber of Gustav Mahler&#8217;s contemporaries commented on how his Ninth Symphony was a classic purview of death, or at least deathly thoughts. Friday night at Second Baptist Church, conductor Mark Russell Smith and the Richmond Symphony Orchestra brought the magnificent piece to great life. This being the final Masterworks concert series before Smith exits stage right as music director of the RSO after 10 seasons on the podium, the Minnesota-bound conductor brought forth obviously one of his favorites as he led a mostly full orchestra through the massive 1&#189;-hour piece with no intermission.           ]]></description>
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The concert series, held weekly at Kanawha Plaza downtown, features its usual array of jazz and R&amp;B artists.            ]]></description>
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ZZ Top has always been a dichotomy&#8212;a band that projects a cartoonish image with the beards, hats, shades and furry guitars, yet musically, churns out swampy blues rock that rivals idols such as Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix. Both ZZs showed up last night at Innsbrook&#8217;s Snagajob.com Pavilion, with the classic rock radio-friendly hits &#8220;Got Me Under Pressure&#8221; and &#8220;Gimme All Your Lovin&#8217;&#8221; launching the 90-minute show.           ]]></description>
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Before Elliott Yamin takes the stage at Innsbrook May 23, he&#8217;ll make a stop at the Best Buy near Chesterfield Towne Center. Yamin, whose second album, &#8220;Fight for Love,&#8220; arrived last week, will be at the store from 2:30-4:30 p.m. to meet fans, sign autographs and pose for photos. There will be no performance. The former Richmonder and &#8220;American Idol&#8221; finalist will then play at 7:30 p.m. at the Snagajob.com Pavilion in Innsbrook.           ]]></description>
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Christian music star and author Michael Card will perform Sunday at St. Giles Presbyterian Church. Card is best known for penning &#8220;El Shaddai,&#8220; which turned into a signature song for Amy Grant, and also for writing or co-writing 16 books about Christianity. Card and a special guest will play at 7 p.m. Tickets are $18.50 for the first 10 rows ($20 day of show) and $14.50 for the remaining rows and balcony ($15 day of show).           ]]></description>
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Take a glance at the quintet that is Lamb of God, and you might be a bit intimidated.&nbsp; These are musicians who, on record, claw through guitar strings, roar in often-unintelligible bursts of words and jackhammer the pedals on the double bass drums fast and hard enough to sound like a barrage of thunderbolts.           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. 360 Boys, V Bois and others, 10 p.m. Thursday, $5. Blood Corps, Infliction, Permanent Descent and others, 10 p.m. Friday, $7-$10. Undefined, The Lost Vagabonds, Sleepless Empire and others, 4 p.m. Saturday, $8-$10. Dot Dot Curve, And Then There Were None, The Ready Set and others, 5 p.m. Tuesday, $10-$12. D-Black, High Hopes of Sleeping and others, 7 p.m. May 21, $5-$7.           ]]></description>
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While conducting his first concert as the Richmond Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s new music director in 1999, Mark Russell Smith wasn&#8217;t scared, but he had a lot on his mind.&nbsp; &#8220;I was excited, slightly nervous, looking forward, dreaming, analyzing, figuring out potential, fact-finding, seeing the lay of the land,&#8220; Smith said during a recent interview. &#8220;When I came to Richmond, I planned to be here for a good while. So in a case like that, you take the time to invest and investigate.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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New to the Innsbrook schedule is Yonder Mountain String Band with Martin Sexton. The bill comes to Snagajob.com Pavilion on June 24 at 6 p.m. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. for $15 (general admission) and $35 (gold circle seating).&nbsp; Also added to Innsbrook and on sale now:           ]]></description>
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Tomorrow until midnight, the Virginia Beach Amphitheater is offering $10 lawn tickets for a slew of shows, as well as $10 premier parking passes. The eligible concerts (and parking passes) are: Coldplay, Def Leppard, New Kids on the Block, Kid Rock with Lynyrd Skynyrd, No Doubt, Nickelback, The Fray, Bad Company with The Doobie Brothers, Incubus, 311, Aerosmith, the Rockstar Mayhem Festival with Marilyn Manson, and Crue Fest 2 with Motley Crue. Tickets are available at http://www.livenation.com, select Blockbuster locations or by calling (877) 598-8698.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Alanis Morissette will join the wacky crew of Showtime&#8217;s &#8220;Weeds&#8221; for at least seven episodes this season, which begins June 8. The singer plays an obstetrician.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; &#8220;Guitar Hero: Van Halen&#8221; is scheduled for release in the latter half of 2009. Game creator Activision hasn&#8217;t announced specific tracks, but it has confirmed info about three new music-based games coming this year: &#8220;DJ Hero,&#8220; &#8220;Guitar Hero 5&#8221; and &#8220;Band Hero.&#8220;&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Tuesday at 10 p.m., CMT presents the &#8220;2009 CMT Music Awards Nominee Special,&#8220; hosted by Kellie Pickler and CMT&#8217;s Lance Smith. The show will be simulcast on http://www.cmt.com.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; A&amp;E brings back &#8220;Gene Simmons Family Jewels&#8221; for 15 new episodes, starting June 7.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Beat: Tracking Green Day&#8217;s evolution</title>
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In 15 years, three bratty punks from California have transformed from writing slacker anthems, such as &#8220;Longview,&#8220; to crafting some of the most lyrically insightful and musically bold albums of the decade.&nbsp; The evolution of Green Day began with 2004&#8217;s &#8220;American Idiot,&#8220; a rock opera that spared  no targets with its political invectives. It&#8217;s a robust album that combined the band&#8217;s signature three-chord slashing with the first glimpses of Billie Joe Armstrong&#8217;s growth as a melodic writer on the pensive &#8220;Wake Me Up When September Ends&#8221; and &#8220;Boulevard of Broken Dreams.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Company resolving Springsteen ticket sales</title>
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Slightly more than 300 ticket orders for Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s Monday concert at the Verizon Center in Washington have been affected by an issue with ticket reseller TicketsNow.com.
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2009-10 Richmond Symphony Schedule           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s no place like home - just ask the Richmond Symphony. After five seasons of playing &#8220;on the road,&#8220; musicians, staff and support personnel are looking forward to their return to downtown Richmond and a renovated concert hall in which to play. The renovation of the Carpenter Center - which has gone through several fits and starts since the work began in 2004 - is almost complete. The Carpenter Theatre is set to reopen in September as part of the Richmond CenterStage performing-arts center.           ]]></description>
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A civil jury says Snoop Dogg didn&#8217;t hit a man who came on stage at a 2005 concert near Seattle. The rapper wasn&#8217;t in court Friday when the jury&#8217;s verdict cleared him of civil assault and battery claims. The jury did find that Richard Monroe Jr. suffered serious injuries during the concert and awarded him $449,400 in damages to be paid by a record label and others involved in the show.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tickets: Closest &#8216;American Idol&#8217; tour stop will be in D.C.</title>
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We still have a few weeks to go before we know if Adam Lambert will get a confetti bath on the &#8220;American Idol&#8221; finale or if some dark horse (hint: Kris Allen) will steal Lambert&#8217;s glammy thunder.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s definite that Lambert, Allen and the other eight who make up the top 10 contestants from season eight will be on the summer camp tour known as &#8220;American Idols Live!&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial prospect Terry McAuliffe will spend Monday making campaign stops with Black Eyed Peas&#8217; (and &#8220;Wolverine&#8221; co-star) will.i.am. The musician, a big McAuliffe supporter, will appear with him at 5 p.m. at The Camel Caf&eacute;, 1621 W. Broad St.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Coldplay is saying thanks to fans by giving them a free live album at every concert for the rest of the year. &#8220;LeftRightLeft-RightLeft&#8221; will also be given away as a free download at http://www.coldplay.com. The band performs at Virginia Beach Amphitheater on May 20 and Nissan Pavilion in Manassas on May 21.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; &#8220;Austin City Limits&#8221; is in production for its 35th season. The premiere is set for October. Some artists on the docket are Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, Sonic Youth and Elvis Costello.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Music channel Fuse will hail Green Day on May 15 with 24 hours of Green-centered programming. Separate blocks of videos will air at 11 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., while at 6 p.m. comes the documentary &#8220;The Green Day Chronicles.&#8220; Videos and interviews will be available all that day at http://www.fuse.tv.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. The Me Project, Say Your Prayers and others, 5 p.m. Friday, all ages, $7. Mo Melody, Maintain, Kill Bill and others, 10 p.m. Friday, $5. Atotaroh, Freddy B&#8217; Massacre and others, 4 p.m. Saturday, all ages, $9-$10. Joe Stump, Mike Orlando and others, 10 p.m. Saturday, $12. 360 Boys, V Bois and others, 10 p.m. May 14, $5.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Idol&#8217; finalist Lambert impresses rocker Slash</title>
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Despite landing in the bottom three last week, &#8220;American Idol&#8221; front-runner Adam Lambert has found another fan: Slash.
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Rihanna is back - on the red carpet, at least. The pop singer arrived Monday at the annual Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum gala in New York. It was her first such appearance since then-boyfriend Chris Brown allegedly beat her in February.
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BETHEL, N.Y.&#8212;Some performers from the 1969 Woodstock concert will get back to the garden for a 40th anniversary show this summer. On the bill for Aug. 15 are The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain and Country Joe McDonald. They&#8217;ll perform at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel. It was built on the site of the dairy farm trampled on by some 400,000 people on the weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969.           ]]></description>
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