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Reuters – At the end of “Pirate Radio” — the 2009 feature film about a ’60s illegal rock ‘n’ roll radio station in Europe’s North Sea — an array of albums is displayed: iconic symbols of musical independence that bucked the status quo. Among the albums on display is Public Enemy’s 1990 treatise, “Fear of a Black Planet.” [more...]

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Reuters – As Drive-By Truckers prepare for the release Tuesday (March 16) of their album “The Big To-Do,” its follow-up is practically in the can. [more...]

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Reuters – When Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson started a band in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in 1970, he had no idea that 40 years later he would still be at the helm of one of America’s most adventurous musical outfits. [more...]

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AP – Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. [more...]

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AP – And then there were 12 on “American Idol.”

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