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American songwriter Bob Dylan wins Nobel in literature

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, who first burst on the scene singing in Greenwich Village coffeehouses in the 1960s. The Swedish A...

DATE: Oct 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Nearly six months later, Prince superfans still mourning

NEW YORK – Have you ever missed someone so much that even the thought of them made you burst into tears? Now imagine that feeling drenched in purple rain. Nearly six mo...

DATE: Oct 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

A founder of the New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups dies

NEW YORK – Joan Marie Johnson, one of the founding members of the New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups, who had a No. 1 hit in 1964 with “Chapel of Love,” has died at a hospice in New Orlea...

DATE: Oct 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Tonight’s the knight: Rod Stewart becomes Sir Rod at palace

LONDON – Sir Rod, you wear it well. Rocker Rod Stewart wore tartan trousers – a nod to his Scottish heritage – and a scarlet-trimmed military-style tunic to be knighted by Prince ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Randy Newman’s first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin

A new Randy Newman song doesn’t come around every day. He’s notoriously slow in the studio, a master craftsman who has only released four studio albums in the past 36 years. But w...

DATE: Oct 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Jay Z, Serena Williams, Kendrick help Beyoncé wrap up tour

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Beyoncé wrapped up her “Formation World Tour” with onstage assists from Kendrick Lamar, Serena Williams and Jay Z, whom she kissed passionately at the end of their pe...

DATE: Oct 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Karla Bonoff coming to Durango

Singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff has packed a lot into a career that started when she was a teenager: She’s been in a band; her songs have been recorded by the likes of Linda Ronstadt and Wyno...

DATE: Oct 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

‘Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies in London at 66

LONDON – Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics “Thriller,” “Rock With You” and many other hits, has ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Demi Lovato ‘taking a break’ after slamming Taylor Swift

Demi Lovato has announced that she’s “taking a break from music and the spotlight” in the wake of criticism of her comments about Taylor Swift in a magazine interview. In a recent...

DATE: Oct 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Lady Gaga picks dive bars over arenas to introduce album

LOS ANGELES – Lady Gaga is choosing the intimacy of dive bars over arenas to showcase songs from her new album, “Joanne.” She’ll appear at a handful of bars beginning this week a...

DATE: Oct 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

‘Folksong Festival’ radio host Oscar Brand dies at 96

LOS ANGELES – Oscar Brand, a longtime force on the American folk scene whose radio program “Folksong Festival” showcased Woody Guthrie and a young Bob Dylan among music greats and newcomers,...

DATE: Oct 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit - now he’s getting revenge

NEW YORK - Grandmaster Caz, clutching a mic as the bus rambles toward Harlem, remembers when he and his buddies decided to act. It was the late 1970s and disco had taken over. Patti LaBelle....

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

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