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After years of sellouts, area music festival cancelled for lack of interest
Lehigh Valley MusicNEARFest, the festival that has brought progressive rock to South Bethlehem for the past 11 years — almost all of which have been sell-outs — has been canceled for this year because of poor ticket sales, organizers say. Keith Emerson,...... -
Top 3 Concerts of the coming week
Lehigh Valley MusicTop 3 Concerts of the coming week: 1. JON ANDERSON Jon Anderson was the founding lead vocalist and creative force behind Yes, perhaps the greatest progressive rock group of all time, and was the author of and a major creative...... -
Lineup announced for new SteelJam festival at SteelStacks
Lehigh Valley MusicThe jam band Umphrey's McGee, which was scheduled to headline the annual NEARFest progressive rock festival in South Bethlehem before it was canceled last month, will instead headline the first SteelJam Festival, Sept 2-5 at the new SteelStacks... -
Musikfest Cafe's first public show is gift of music
Lehigh Valley MusicIf anyone enjoyed Sunday night’s first public concert at the Musikfest Café in Bethlehem more than the 400 or so people in the audience, it was probably the performers on stage. “What an honor and privilege this is,” regional favorite...... -
Circa Survive, Anberlin work Croc Rock into a frenzy. But which was better?
Lehigh Valley MusicBoth Anbelin and Circa Survive, who co-headlined a sold-out Sunday show at Allentown’s Crocodile Rock Café, owe a lot of their sound to earlier bands – as nearly every band does. But of the two, Anberlin made a lot better...... -
Arianna Forster dies at 48; singer was known as Ari Up in the punk group the Slits
Arianna Forster, better known to her fans as Ari Up of the influential punk band the Slits, died of an undisclosed illness Wednesday in Los Angeles, her stepfather, John Lydon — a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols — announced on his...Tags: Bee Gees (music group), Sex Pistols (music group), Entertainment, John Lydon, England
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Crack the Sky talks missed chances, Baltimore love
When Crack the Sky guitarist Rick Witkowski recalls the first time the band played Baltimore, his enthusiasm is palpable — as if the show happened just last night and not in the mid-1970s.
"We walked into the club and got a standing ovation...Tags: Radio, Homes, CBS Corp., Nickelodeon (tv network), West Virginia
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Getting progressive: The Rock Hall votes in Genesis. Is Yes or Procol Harum next? *[Updated]
Pop & HissIs the impending induction of Genesis the beginning of progressive rock getting its long-denied due from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Or is this just tokenism, a one-time exception made because of all the pop hits Genesis scored...... -
Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson: Prog-rock is antidote to 'frivolous' iPod era
Turn It UpProgressive rock couldn’t have been more unfashionable when Steven Wilson formed Porcupine Tree in the U.K. more than 20 years ago. He knew then that the chances of sustaining a career based on prog-rock ideals were pretty slim. “I started...... -
Rock Hall: Genesis become prog-rock ambassadors
Pop & HissThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight -- on the Ides of March, no less -- will be a prophetic moment for Genesis’ old classmates from the progressive rock movement. A small inner cadre of nominators decides...... -
Shakira, other Latin American stars sing for their cause -- ALAS
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMEXICO CITY -- Not so long ago, Latin American artists who spoke up for social causes often risked prison, exile or far worse. What a difference a generation makes. On Thursday, a phalanx of Spanish-speaking pop artists headed by Colombian superstar...Tags: Dixie Chicks (music group), Mario Vargas Llosa, Companies and Corporations, Judges, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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