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Featured Artist: Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over...
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Pink Floyd Keyboardist Rick Wright Dies At 65
Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, whose playing enriched some of the most popular songs in rock history, died today (Sept. 15) in Britain after a short battle with cancer. He was 65.
September 15, 2008
Gilmour Goes For Live Glory In 'Gdansk'
David Gilmour's upcoming concert set, "Live in Gdansk," turned out a little different than the Pink Floyd guitarist planned.
August 13, 2008
Classic Rock Hits The Road With 'Flashback' Tour
Music by Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Janis Joplin and Deep Purple, among others, will be performed live by the Mystic Orchestra as part of "Flashback -- the Classic Rock...
August 25, 2008
Jam-Heavy Rothbury Fest Gets Underway In Michigan
With a hearty "here we go, Rothbury '08" from String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth, the latest entry in the burgeoning U.S. concert festival scene got underway yesterday (July 3) in...
July 04, 2008
Bad Plus Cover Nirvana, Bee Gees On New Album
Jazz trio the Bad Plus offers more unique interpretations of pop and rock classics on "For All I Care," due Feb. 3 via Head's Up.
November 05, 2008
Chart Beat: 'All Summer Long,' Jennifer Hudson, Raheem DeVaughn
Fred discusses hot chart action from the song "All Summer Long," Jennifer Hudson, Raheem DeVaughn's "Woman" and more!
October 02, 2008
The Smashing Pumpkins / Nov. 6 and 7, 2008 / New York (United Palace Theater)
The Pumpkins promised to bring their A-game to New York for a duo of extravagant 20th anniversary concerts. In the end, the shows served as a sort of microcosm of the Pumpkins' career itself,...
November 11, 2008
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Dream Theater Debuts Atop Euro Chart
Europe welcomes a new bestseller on the composite European Top 100 Albums chart, as New York rock outfit Dream Theater's "Black Clouds and Silver Linings" (Roadrunner) opens its account at No. 1.
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