Tim McGraw raises his 'Southern Voice' -- to blacks and whites

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As William Faulkner famously wrote in his novel "Requiem for a Nun": "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Rockers appear human in rock hall jams

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Each year when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stages its induction shindig, we rock fans get all giddy.

For Alice Cooper, life and music a Theatre of Death

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His Theatre of Death Tour comes Oct. 5 to Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach

It's shocking -- Alice isn't only extreme performer!

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When Alice Cooper birthed shock rock in the early 1970s, he certainly wasn't the first stage entertainer to go ghoul. (Google "Grand Guignol" to discover all the brain-drilling, throat-slashing, eye-stabbing antics that horrified Parisians in that theater during the 1890s and later).

Onslaught media invade America's gas pumps

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. used to say that he wrote novels in order to clean out all of the pop culture junk that had collected in and stuck to his brain.

Illness doesn't keep guitarist down

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In recent months, local musician Rick Simpson would take his guitar and perform for recovering stroke patients at a rehab center. Never mind that the 61-year-old Simpson was himself a client at the center, battling lymphoma and recovering from having a pacemaker put in him.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Danny Pittle

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Full-time musician and full-time Stetson University student.

Best Bets for Sept. 18, 2009

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SATURDAYNashville ax man picks on guitar expoLots of pickin' will be happening at this weekend's Guitar Tech Expo, including some by a protege of Chet Atkins. The expo will feature a workshop by Nashville guitarist Pat Bergeson, who performed on...

Cartoonist's 'No Towers' casts disturbing shadows

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One of the most curious scenes ever penned by cartoonist Art Spiegelman depicts a guy painting the Twin Towers -- New York City's World Trade Center -- engulfed in flames.

You must: Listen and watch

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Revolve with the Fab Four, Singer traps 'Lion' in Ghana and Put in time at "The Office"