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  Elvis Costello and the Roots Made a 'Brilliant' Album Together

  January 23, 2013 – First came the 2013 Roots Picnic lineup announcement, then the D'Angelo album news, and now the bombshell report that the band has finished recording a secret album with none other than Elvis Costello. …
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  The Shins Return, Lennon Lyrics on Auction + More

  April 14, 2011 – The Shins have been added to this year's Outside Lands festival, marking the band's return to live performance for the first time since 2009. James Mercer and Co. will join previously announced headliners Arcade Fire, Muse, and Phish. The festival takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park from August 12-14. …
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  Elvis Costello, 'National Ransom' (Hear Music)

  October 27, 2010 – With livelier playing and more memorable tunes, Costello's second straight collaboration with producer T Bone Burnett is a major improvement over last year's ho-hum Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. Here, the new-wave legend flexes his trademark sneer in a handful of hurtling, rootsy rave-ups about corporate crooks (check Marc Ribot's electric-guitar stabs on the title track). …
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  Buffalo Springfield, Pearl Jam Shine at Bridge School

  October 25, 2010 – Organized by Neil Young and his wife Pegi, the Bridge School Benefit -- begun in 1986 and held each year since 1988 in Mountain View, California -- is one of the world's few music festivals with a mission, sound, and vibe truly like no other. …
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  Best of Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

  October 25, 2010 –  …
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  Elvis Costello Talks Rootsy New Album

  September 29, 2010 – For his new disc National Ransom, Elvis Costello reteamed with iconic producer T Bone Burnett on a set of rootsy tunes that prove Costello is still making vital music thirty-three years after his landmark 1977 debut, My Aim Is True. …
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  New Beck, M. Ward Tunes on 'True Blood' Soundtrack

  May 20, 2010 – It must be something extra special in their blood, because vampires are highly attracted to talented musicians. First came the star-studded Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack. And now, here's another blood-drenched gem: Beck, M. Ward, Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams, and the Band's Robbie Robertson all recorded new songs for the soundtrack to the second season of HBO's True Blood. …
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  Them Crooked Vultures, Pearl Jam on TV

  September 25, 2009 – Music fans, warm up your TIVOs: The 35th season of PBS' acclaimed concert series Austin City Limits returns Oct. 2 with the Dave Matthews Band. See the complete schedule below. Subsequent episodes feature Pearl Jam, Andrew Bird, M. Ward, and new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, starring Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, and QOTSA's Josh Homme. …
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  Elvis Costello Brings Nashville to New York

  June 11, 2009 – If you closed your eyes during the Elvis Costello & the Sugarcanes show Wednesday night, you might have thought you were at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry -- instead of New York City's newly glitzified Beacon Theater. Costello and his six-piece band of country virtuosos -- including Jerry Douglas on Dobro and Jim Lauderdale on backing vocals – began by ripping through Merle Haggard's "Tonight, the Bottle Let Me Down," Costello's " …
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  Elvis Costello: 'Secret & Profane' in NYC

  June 3, 2009 – Elvis Costello celebrated the release of his new album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, Tuesday night with a rare solo acoustic show at an Irish dive bar in lower Manhattan for a liquored-up crowd of 150 or so radio contest winners and adoring fans. The New Wave era's most talented and prolific songwriter set the tone for his 10-tune set by quoting advice his bandleader father gave him many years ago: "He said to imagine your name on  …
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