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Bruce Springsteen will headline a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Jon Bon Jovi of New Jersey and Billy Joel of Long Island are also scheduled to appear Nov. 2. (AP Photo) Nov 1, 2012

Springsteen headlines Sandy benefit on Friday

NEW YORK  — NBC will hold a benefit concert Friday for victims of Hurricane Sandy featuring some artists native to the areas hardest hit. Bruce …

Keith Miller is a former college and pro football athlete who transitioned to singing opera as a bass-baritone. (AP Photo) Oct 27, 2012

Singer makes journey from CU fullback to full-throated Figaro

"I thought, there must be more to life than cattle," says Miller, who went to Colorado on a football scholarship.

CD Review: Cafe Tacuba hits new mark with ‘El Objeto’ Oct 24, 2012

CD Review: Cafe Tacuba hits new mark with ‘El Objeto’

 Cafe Tacuba may be one of the most important rock bands alive. But unless you follow Spanish-language music, you’ve probably never heard of them. And …

Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Oct. 16, 2012. Mantel won the $80,000 prize. (AP Photo) Oct 16, 2012

Hilary Mantel wins 2nd Booker Prize for her Tudor saga

LONDON — British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time Tuesday with her blood-soaked Tudor saga “Bring Up the …

"Alice's Restaurant" singer Arlo Guthrie, right, announced that his wife Jackie, left, had died at age 68 of inoperable cancer in Sebastian, Fla. (AP Photo) Oct 16, 2012

Singer Arlo Guthrie’s ‘great love’ Jackie has died in Florida

Jackie Guthrie is survived by her four children with Arlo Guthrie; her daughter with singer David Crosby; and 10 grandchildren.

Beyonce Knowles will provide the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3, 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, La. (AP Photo) Oct 16, 2012

Beyonce set for Super Bowl halftime show

All the single ladies will be watching the upcoming Super Bowl along with football lovers. That’s because Beyonce is the halftime show performer. A source …

Martha Wainwright pays emotional tribute to her mom, Kate McGarrigle Oct 15, 2012

Martha Wainwright pays emotional tribute to her mom, Kate McGarrigle

2012 is the year of the Wainwrights. Rufus Wainwright gave us a smooth, poppy record with the Mark Ronson-produced “Out of the Game,” and now …

This Thursday, July 12, 2012 file photo shows, from left, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger, from the British Rock band, The Rolling Stones, as they arrive at a central London venue, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones first performance. The legendary band said Monday it would return to the stage this year with four concerts in New York and London. The shows mark the first time in five years at the Stones have performed live, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood all coming together once more. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short) Oct 15, 2012

Rocking at 50: Rolling Stones to tour again

The shows mark the first time in five years that the Stones have performed live, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood all coming together once more.

Elvis Costello, B.B. King and Ray Davies up for Songwriters Hall of Fame Oct 10, 2012

Elvis Costello, B.B. King and Ray Davies up for Songwriters Hall of Fame

Also nominated are Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, former Eurythmics bandmates Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Aeromsith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Bobby Womack and Foreigner's Lou Gramm and Mick Jones

Album Review: Clash-ed Wallflowers uneven on ‘Glad All Over’ Oct 8, 2012

Album Review: Clash-ed Wallflowers uneven on ‘Glad All Over’

“Glad All Over”  (Columbia), The Wallflowers’ first release in seven years, is an uneven return for the roots-rock band fronted by Jakob Dylan, the guy …