With 122 high-energy Hard Rock Cafes and eight Hotels/Casinos in 47 countries, Hard Rock International is one of the world’s most globally recognized brands. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world’s greatest collection of music memorabilia, which is displayed at its locations around the globe. Hard Rock is also known for [...]
Robert Plant. Mick Jagger. Maybe even Ozzy Osbourne or David Bowie. These are just a few of the names that spring to mind when casual conversation turns to ordaining one still-living music legend as The Last Great Rock Star. Oozing machismo and replete with pasts steeped in sex, scandal, and substance abuse, these aging, [...]
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Pop on November 15th, 2007
They have careers outside music. And the apparent darkness found in their songs, and the band’s name, is not as it seems. “So much of the rock scene is filled with anger,” Clouse said. “The overall feel of this band is positive. That whole rock star mystique — get wasted, do drugs, get trashed [...]
The lead singer of Montreal pop darlings Stars - who recently returned from a sold-out U.K. tour - believes that pop music should be simultaneously beautiful, profound and ridiculous. With Miracle Fortress. Nov. 17, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Commodore, 868 Granville St. Sold out.
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Music on November 15th, 2007
Four young New Brunswickers are treated like rock stars when they tour China and Japan but barely register a ripple among chamber-music diehards in Toronto. But we should heed the Asians. Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc, which played at the Jane Mallett Theatre for Music Toronto Tuesday night, presents the best kind of classical music: thoughtful as [...]
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Rock on November 15th, 2007
Gloria Estefan has been making records for over twenty years. Her latest album “90 Millas” honors the musical traditions of Cuba, the country where she was born. The songs express a longing for the home she left as a young child. Estefan helped write most of the songs on the album, which are in [...]
While he never had a top-10 tune after 1974, his records continued to sell and until he slowed down in recent years, he toured up to 250 nights each year. In 1997 his duet with Junior Brown, “Gotta Sell Your Chickens,” made him one of the few artists ever to hit the charts in [...]
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Music on November 15th, 2007
7 minutes ago NEW YORK - Michael Jackson knows his reputation as a freak but just ignores it. Jackson, a twice-divorced father of three, says he hasn t changed all that much since releasing his blockbuster album “Thriller” nearly 25 years ago.
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Concert on November 15th, 2007
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No less a music authority than Isaac Hayes has pronounced The Enchantment, the collaboration between Chick Corea and B la Fleck, a work of genius. If it seems odd for soul legend Hayes to be weighing in on a hybrid jazz project, how much more improbable is it that one of the great keyboard [...]
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