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The only thing white about this particular Christmas celebration will be the tan lines.
Wearing an incredulous grin and a skull-festooned T-shirt, Michael Gordon recalls the time he accidentally broke a dude’s nose.
The porcupine-haired punk named Johnny, an exclamation point incarnate, sounded as if he had a bullhorn for a larynx as he voiced the question of the evening.
The new Myspace.com was unveiled Wednesday, revealing a site focused on entertainment that combines social networking with streaming music. There are new features aimed at helping musicians, writers and other artists connect with their followers, an app and a radio function.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
They know their history; it’s gospel to them.
They drop names like Thomas Dorsey, the father of black gospel, or Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the first to combine church hymns with rock and roll — long before Elvis Presley swiveled on scene.
It was after being busted for drinking champagne in a parking lot outside of prom when she was 15 years old that Grace Potter came to realize that she might have a career in music.
They’ve got a song on their latest record titled “Yayaya,” which neatly encapsulates the breezy appeal of Strfkr’s urbane electro pop.
They’ve long envisioned a future so bleak it hardly qualifies as a future at all.
Rockers Bon Jovi return to the MGM Grand Garden arena on Oct. 12. Tickets are $59.50, $99.50, $125, $179.50 and $229.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ticketmaster outlets.
The last time Frankie Moreno performed at Winchester Cultural Center, he encountered a few obstacles.