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Hard work and a fortuitous choice of licensing companies have started to pay off for rockers Luna Halo. (More)

It's not often that rock musicians have the forethought to offer a reporter freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and Perrier on ice for an interview. (More)

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Although he's not yet 30 years old, jazz vibraphonist Christian Tamburr, who performs this weekend on Hilton Head Island, has already amasseda number of career highlights. (More)

A little bit of Nashville will come to the Lowcountry when singer-songwriter Branan Logan performs an intimate acoustic show Sunday night at Stages. (More)

Ten minutes before Kid Rock is due to call, an old joke comes to mind: How do you know Kid Rock isn't really hip-hop? His shows start on time. (More)

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is an area well known for its lively Celtic culture, which has produced an unusual percentage of world-renowned fiddlers. (More)

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Jazz singer. It's a description charged with history and preconceptions:smoky clubs, torch songs, a rasp in the voice that signals a life spent on the road in every kind of room before every kind of crowd. There are some performers who sound like that, and some who don't. (More)

Kevn Kinney -- no "i" in there -- the frontman for Southern rockers Drivin' n' Cryin', has spent the last 10 years out on his own, and he performs this weekend as part of Stages' new Sunday night singer-songwriters' evening. (More)

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Craig Morgan believes that even those who don't live in the country can relate to his latest Top 10 hit, "International Harvester." (More)

Now approaching his sixth decade of being regarded as a walking jazz legend, the legendary king of cool Mose Allison returns to the Jazz Corner at the Village at Wexford on Hilton Head Island at 8 p.m. Monday. (More)

Let me be the first to say that the closest I have ever come to owning a Britney Spears CD was taking Mariah Carey's "Daydream" album for a spin circa 1995. I was 13, impressionable and told by my mother that it would be inappropriate to purchase Green Day's "Dookie" instead. So there. Don't judge me. (More)

Island music fans generally know Angie Aparo for one of two reasons: 1. He's been a regular face on the local scene throughout the past decade or so, or 2. He penned the ballad "Cry," which country singer Faith Hill turned into a monster radio behemoth in 2002. (More)

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Art Garfunkel loves to walk. His own two feet have carried him (albeit in 40 trips) across the entire United States, from his apartment in Manhattan to the mouth of the Columbia River at the lip of the blue Pacific in Washington state. (More)

Clarence Greenwood already had developed his musical alter ego, Citizen Cope, when he went out on tour as a DJ with the Washington D.C. hip-hop artist Basehead in the late '90s. (More)

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Yes, singer Freddy Cole is Nat's brother and Natalie's uncle, and no, that's nowhere near the end of the story.In fact, the New York Times has called Cole "the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive." (More)

CHICAGO -- Mavis Staples was at a session in Los Angeles with the Freedom Singers last year recording her extraordinary new album, "We'll Never Turn Back." The air-conditioned studio seemed far removed from the world Staples and the Freedom Singers -- Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett and Bettie-Mae Fikes -- had known in the early '60s, she says. (More)

Rumors are swirling on the Internet about a reunion of early-'90s boy band New Kids on the Block; a cryptic video on www.nkotb.com certainly hints as much. (More)

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Mike Doughty has a lot on his plate these days. The formerSoul Coughing frontman is also a blogger, traveler, photographer, storyteller, comeback story and poet, among other things. He's also a solo singer-songwriter and will appear Tuesday in Jacksonville for a show at which he'll premiere tracks from his new record, "Golden Delicious," due Feb. 19. Doughty, 37, took a few minutes for some e-mail chit-chat ahead of that show. (More)