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Bon Jovi Deliver Classic Set at New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011

Getty Images Two days after Bon Jovi announced that guitarist Richie Sambora would take a break, allegedly to return to rehab, the group started a new tour by headlining at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday (April 30). And the veteran band did so without missing a beat. Filling in for Sambora was the extremely ...

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Jeff Beck Communicates Through His Guitar at New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011

Getty Images There are more than 100 acts playing the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival over its two-weekend span, but only one certifiable rock god, as was clear the moment Jeff Beck took the Acura stage before a crowd of more than 20,000 on Friday afternoon (April 29). The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer -- as both a member ...

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Robert Plant Dives Into Led Zeppelin Tunes During New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011

Getty Images His days as a Byronic love god may be long past him, but Robert Plant proudly wore his Led Zeppelin past on his T-shirt sleeve during a stirring 90-minute set to close the first day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Friday (April 29). Dressed in a blue T-shirt, blue jeans and cowboy boots, with a chartreuse ...

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k.d. lang Gets 'Loud' About Tony Bennett, Strip Clubs and Public Backlash

kdlang.com When k.d. lang recorded 'Sing It Loud,' her first studio album since 2008's 'Watershed,' the process went so smoothly that "it's like we were hit over the head by some magic wand," the singer tells Spinner. "We" is her new band, the Siss Boom Bang, her first group since she recorded with the Reclines more than 20 years ago. Lang ...

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Low Anthem Battle Factory Bats and Acoustics to Record 'Smart Flesh'

Ryan Mastro As the members of the Low Anthem recorded their new album, 'Smart Flesh,' in an abandoned pasta sauce factory, the folk/Americana quartet found out the Central Falls, R.I., building wasn't so empty after all. "What's better -- the ghost or the bat story?" Jeff Prystowsky asks his bandmates, sitting at a picnic table at Los ...

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Tina Sinatra Laments the Loss of Her Dad Frank and the Death of Rat Pack Cool

Bettmann, Corbis It's been around 50 years since the Rat Pack, perhaps the world's first supergroup, hit the Las Vegas strip, and they've defined cool ever since. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. personified an era where music was smooth, cocktails were neat and the way you wore your hat meant everything. The new collection ...

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Peter Asher Denies Responsibility for Beatles' Breakup at L.A. Show

Rebecca Sapp, WireImage Rock 'n' roll could have looked very different if not for Peter Asher. To be sure, there are the obvious roles the Grammy winner played in musical history: as part of British invasion duo Peter and Gordon, as the Apple A&R executive who signed and nurtured James Taylor and as producer of such acts as Linda Ronstadt ...

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