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Interesting story on the band Particle, which has played in front of as many as 20,000 people, and plays 140 dates a year without the benefit of a single recording: Particle, a Los Angeles band that plays disco-flavored, instrumental jam music, has done just that, building a devoted following strictly …

The new Fox series Wonderfalls debuts this Friday, March 12, at 9pm ET. It’s another “what if freaky weird stuff happened in everyday life” kind of thing: What if one day inanimate animal objects began talking to you? If that seems crazy, just imagine how Jaye Tyler feels! Set against …

Amnon Rubinstein sees cracks in the wall of lockstep anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda in the Arab press: Media outlets in the Arab world are a unique phenomenon – hatred and defamation are a staple, anti-Semitic propaganda recalls that of Goebbels, and what masquerades as fact is in fact a figment …

Ben Ratliff’s EP “Misplaced Desire” is a double-barrelled blues shotgun, powered equally by Ratliff’s icy baritone vocals and his and Jeff Winter’s chunky guitar riffs, with support from a solid rhythm section and production that strikes a good balance between clean and moody. Ratliff’s raw, rootsy sound comes out of …

Nudists + Guy in A Gorilla Suit = Fun!

The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in festive Aspen concluded on Saturday: Sofia Coppola’s observation of two Americans marooned in Tokyo won the audience, performance (Bill Murray), first-time director and screenplay prizes at the festival’s second annual Comedy Film Honors. Last Sunday, Coppola won the Academy Award for her original screenplay. …

The NAACP “honors projects and individuals who have demonstrated exemplary works by and for people of color” with the annual Image Awards. The 35th annual awards were handed out Saturday night in Los Angeles: [Luther] Vandross is recovering from a stroke and was not at Universal Amphitheatre to pick up …

Man, this one sounds juicy, stanky and ugly in all the right ways – at a bowling alley, no less! THIRD ANNUAL PONDEROSA STOMP ROOTS ROMP SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 27-28 AT NEW ORLEANS’ ROCK ‘N’ BOWL MID-CITY LANES Two-Day Festival Promises Cavalcade of Unsung Blues, R&B, Rockabilly, Swamp Pop and …

Jury members say they felt sorry for Martha, but not sorry enough to acquit her: “I choked up and I felt my eyes tearing and I was very relieved that the judge read the verdict, because I wasn’t sure if I would have to do that,” jury forewoman Rosemary McMahon …

Tom Hanks really is an amazing actor: after building a career on goofy romantic comedy, Hanks has gone on to successfully play an array of roles and genres so wide, and his portrayals are so convincing and embodying, that it is easy to forget it was actually HIM in Philadelphia, …