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Funkadelic and Parliament guitarist Phelps 'Catfish' Collins dies

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 9:01 a.m.

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Legendary musician also played with James Brown ...

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Allman Brothers Return to the Road This Fall

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The Allman Brothers will return to the stage on November 18th for the first time since Gregg Allman's liver transplant, kicking off three nights of shows at Boston's Orpheum Theatre. "I've been itching to play since I got the operation," Gregg Allman said in a statement. "Can't thank everyone enough ...

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Athlete To Release Best Of Album

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 11:10 p.m.

The band will also tour to support the retrospective ...

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M.I.A. Cuts Set After Stage Invasion

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 9:21 p.m.

The crowd get rowdy at Big Chill this weekend ...

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The Libertines Announce London Date

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 8:36 p.m.

Details of the Reading and Leeds warm-up show announced ...

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The Big Chill, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

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"Get any more chill, this place is gonna be a mortuary," grumbles ex-Faith No More man Mike Patton. But really, the Big Chill remains a healingly relaxed, eclectic festival. Even Sunday's closing act, Lily Allen, is uncharacteristically dressed down, for well-publicised reasons. "'Scuse my very casual clothes, but I'm pregnant," she nervously laughs, blaming her safety-conscious boyfriend for unpacking her high heels. He left her well-balanced, rapidly maturing attitude intact, in a jaunty,

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Villagers, Sneaky Pete's

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

Between this Edge Festival show going on sale and the date of the performance, Conor J O'Brien and his band have found their debut album, Becoming a Jackal , nominated for a Mercury Prize. So the audience were treated to the rare sight and sound of a group on the crest of a popular wave playing in one of Edinburgh's smallest and most atmospheric venues ...

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Parliament Guitarist Phelps "Catfish" Collins Dies at 66

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:58 p.m.

Phelps "Catfish" Collins, the legendary funk guitarist who played with James Brown and Parliament/Funkadelic, died Friday in Cincinnati after a battle with cancer. He was 66. "My world will never be the same without him," said his brother Bootsy Collins in a statement. "Be happy for him, he certainly is ...

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James Blackshaw, 'All Is Falling' (Young God)

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:39 p.m.

For his ninth LP of pastoral plucking, British guitarist James Blackshaw graduates from gifted fingerpicker to masterful composer, combining John Fahey's tender arpeggios and Terry Riley's cycling rhythms. Presented as a 45-minute suite, All Is Falling sweeps his electric 12-string into a tangle of keening cellos, dive-bombing violins, pinprick glockenspiels, and clacking percussion. It's essentially a chattering crescendo of melody and tension, with piano-based snowdrifts giving way to

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, 'Hawk' (Vanguard)

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:37 p.m.

Isobel Campbell wrote and produced nearly all the songs on her previous two collaborations with former Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age growler Mark Lanegan, and this time, the ex–Belle and Sebastian singer-cellist takes complete control of the album's direction. Yet her wispy voice recedes further into the background, as the genial creak of folk-pop prodigy Willy Mason complements Lanegan's foreboding rumble, and James Iha lends tastefully bluesy guitar. Overall, Hawk faithfully

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