A new age for New Age music

07/01/11 Young bands including Animal Collective, Blues Control and others are incorporating sounds from the much disparaged genre. In late 2009, noise-pop group Animal Collective followed up its critics-poll-topping album "Merriweather Post Pavilion" with a stopgap EP, "Fall Be Kind." It generated buzz for featuring the first-ever licensed Grateful Dead sample, but what was more peculiar was a curlicue ...

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Forty years on: remembering the Lizard King

07/03/11 Morrison was ranked number 47 on the Rolling Stones '100 greatest singers of all time'.

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Phish Deliver 'Prime' Performance at 'Super Ball 9' Festival in New York

07/04/11 One of the biggest rock festivals of the summer took place this past weekend on a racetrack in Watkin's Glen, New York. The same site that, in 1973, hosted Summer Jam. That one-day festival became legendary for having a crowd far larger than Woodstock but for just three bands -- the Band , the Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead . Yeah, well, unlike Summer Jam, this past weekend's 'Super Ball ...

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