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French–born guitar virtuoso Stephane Wrembel - whose original theme song for Woody Allen’s smash hit Midnight in Paris is currently topping charts - announces stops in select markets this winter.

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The Fox Theatre is turning 20 years old and we're throwing ourselves quite the 20th Anniversary bash! Celebrate with The Funky Meters on March 1st and 2 nights of Leftover Salmon on March 6th & 7th! Tickets for these special shows will go on sale this Friday, Jan.

The Ragbirds are in the midsts of a large national tour including stops in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraksa, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa and back to their home state of Michigan before heading to their first showcase performance at SXSW. A band to watch in 2012, The Ragbirds just released their fourth studio release, Travelin' Machine, now available for review.

The Devil Makes Three continue their seemingly never ending tour with new dates that will take them from Vermont to Texas playing with Brown Bird and Flogging Molly.  The Devil Makes Three's true power is best experienced live and their latest release Stomp and Smash is a live LP recorded over a two night, sold out stand at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma by Kark Derfler, best known for his work with Tom Waits. Give a listen to the rousing

This Saturday, January 21st on PBS Stations across the nation, Austin City Limits presents an extraordinary performance by Joanna Newsom!

Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer started Royal Baths without a plan in mind but soon the foundation for their writing found inspiration from Cox’s interest in the alternate and open tunings of delta blues, their shared fascination in the African rhythm of early Chicago blues, and Baer lyrically attempting to reflect with black humor and little judgment, and the thrills and troubles they stumble through.Recording on whatever cheap four or single-track cassette recorder they could f

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is proud to present a major exhibition devoted to a truly unique American rock and roll band, Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip.

Chances are if you’re a Dead Head you’re already well-versed in the glorious spring of 1977. Back a year since their mid-’70s performing hiatus, and fresh from recording their Terrapin Station album in L.A. with producer Keith Olsen, the Dead returned to the road invigorated and excited that spring. There were fantastic new songs (including the “Terrapin Station” suite, “Estimated Prophet” and “Fire on the Mountain”) and their older tunes seemed imbued with new vigor and vitality.

Storyteller-musician-activist-cyclist-Kentuckian Ben Sollee is heading into the studio this week to lay down tracks for his 3rd studio record release, Half-Made Man.

Well, 2011 has come and gone, and what a year it was!  Many standout Furthur shows, including Red Rocks, Madison Square Garden, the Greek, the whole Abbey Road album live... and a New Year's dragon!  Yours truly got to sit in with the Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon and the Everyone Orchestra at the Fillmore, SF.  The John K.