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  1. Ellis Marsalis performs at a sunrise concert marking International Jazz Day in New Orleans, Monday, April 30, 2012. AP PHOTO

    U.S. celebrates International Jazz Day

    As the morning sun spilled over the New Orleans skyline, musicians kicked off International Jazz Day with a concert that included ritual drumming and a string of jazz performances.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  2. MC5 at the Grande Ballroom in 1971. Part of the documentary "Louder than Love." Charlie Auringer

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to show documentary on Detroit's Grande Ballroom

    “Louder Than Love,” the new documentary celebrating the fabled Detroit rock venue, will be shown May 16 at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  3. William Balfour is charged in the murders of the mother, brother and nephew of Oscar winner and singer Jennifer Hudson. Cook County Sheriff's Department/AP

    Judge releases tape of frantic 911 call from Jennifer Hudson's sister

    A judge in Chicago released the tape after a request by the Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times Media and the Associated Press. The tape was played in open court last week during the trial of William Balfour, who is accused of killing the actress' mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.

    • Apr. 30, 2012

  4. Pepsi partners with Twitter for online concerts

    Pepsi is tweeting to a new generation of music lovers. The No. 2 soda company is partnering with Twitter to provide streaming videos of live music concerts to Pepsi's followers on the social networking site.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  5. "The concertmaster is like the captain of the hockey team," says DSO music director Leonard Slatkin. 2010 photo by Steve Nesius/Associated Press

    Stakes are high as top concertmaster candidate prepares for weeklong trial with the DSO

    When the Detroit Symphony Orchestra takes the stage this week, a new violinist will be sitting in the prestigious concertmaster chair at the front of the violin section, just to the left of music director Leonard Slatkin.

    • Apr. 29, 2012
  6. Planet D Nonet performs during the 21st Annual Detroit Music Awards at the Filmore in downtown Detroit, Mich. on Friday, April 27, 2012. The awards ceremony featured a collection of Michigan’s top musical talent awarding over 75 individual and group honors. Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free Press

    Howling Diablos score big at Detroit Music Awards

    It was a big night for a veteran band at the Detroit Music Awards.

    • Apr. 28, 2012
  7. Rapper Black Milk is slated to perform at tonight's Detroit Music Awards. Mario (Khalif) Butterfield

    Hometown sounds to be honored at Detroit Music Awards

    Another round of hometown sounds will take the spotlight tonight at the Fillmore Detroit, where the Detroit Music Awards will recognize local performers in fields from country to classical.

    • Apr. 27, 2012
  8. Craig Owens ELAINE LOK

    Craig Owens back in Chiodos, band reunion touted

    Fans of the Davison group Chiodos have reason to celebrate this evening: Original vocalist Craig Owens is back in the band.

    • Apr. 26, 2012

  9. Fans, friends gather to say farewell to musician Levon Helm

    Thursday's public memorial is being staged at the place where Helm held his Saturday night Midnight Ramble barn concerts in New York's Hudson Valley. After a private funeral Friday, Helm will be buried in Woodstock Cemetery next to Rick Danko, The Band's singer and bassist who died in 1999.

    • Apr. 26, 2012
  10. Hot Chelle Rae will perform tonight at the Crofoot Ballroom.

    Five questions with Ryan Follesé, singer with pop band Hot Chelle Rae

    Hot Chelle Rae's name might recall a female mud-wrestling undercard or an adult film star, but the four fellas that make up the band put that idea to rest with the first bars of each of the 11 songs on their sophomore album, “Whatever. The only kinds of ladies you'll find in proximity to Hot Chelle Rae are of the tween persuasion, drawn like insulin-deprived moths to the oversweetened flame of relentless, bubblegum pop....

    • Apr. 26, 2012
  11. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will perform Saturday in a recital for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. Simon Fowler

    Chamber society recital to feature 2 stellar artists

    The Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents a dream-team art-song recital on Saturday featuring two of the world's finest musicians in the idiom, baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Moreover, the program consists of an unusual -- and unusually thoughtful -- selection of songs by Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich, composers who might seem to inhabit very different worlds of emotion and sound, but should find heightened meaning for being paired together.

    • Apr. 26, 2012
  12. School of Seven Bells will perform Monday at the Magic Stick. From left: Ben Curtis and Alley Deheza. Justin Hollar

    Five questions with Ben Curtis, guitarist for School of Seven Bells

    Abandoning a good thing for uncertainty is never an easy choice, but luckily for devotees of School of Seven Bells, Ben Curtis was willing to take the leap back in 2007.

    • Apr. 26, 2012

  13. Upcoming big shows: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mayer Hawthorne and the County

    Pop Evil: 7 p.m. May 3. Emerald Theatre, $15. Eleanor Friedberger: 8 p.m. May 3. The Magic Bag, $12. Pat Travers Band: 8 p.m. May 4. The Magic Bag, $20. Spiritualized: 8 p.m. May 4. Majestic Theatre, $20, $22.

    • Apr. 25, 2012
  14. Detroit rapper Danny Brown will perform Saturday at the Emerald Theatre. Doug Coombe

    Brian McCollum's big gigs: Hot Chelle Rae, Gladys Knight, Steel Panther

    THURSDAY

    • Apr. 25, 2012

  15. More live music: Top club picks

    CASINOS GREEKTOWN CASINO: 555 E. Lafayette, Detroit. 888-771-4386. Asteria: Howard Glazer Band, 8 p.m. Fri. Pete (Big Dog) Fetters, 8 p.m. Sat. Eclipz: David Gerald Band, 9:30 p.m. Fri. Ikhonz, 9:30 p.m. Sat.

    • Apr. 25, 2012

  16. Dlectricity, a nighttime outdoor arts festival, planned for Midtown Detroit

    A new nighttime outdoor contemporary arts festival is planned for Midtown Detroit that promises to light up the Woodward corridor next fall with site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and video projections.

    • Apr. 23, 2012

  17. University Musical Society announces 134th season lineup heavy on tradition

    The University of Michigan presenter’s 134th season includes appearances by such venerable brand names as the New York Philharmonic and conductor Alan Gilbert, Chicago Symphony and conductor Riccardo Muti, Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg and conductor Valery Gergiev. Also on board are starry soloists and chamber ensembles such as pianist Murray Perahia, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Takacs Quartet.

    • Apr. 24, 2012
  18. From left: Hiran Deraniyagala, Tony Asta, Kyle Gunther, Don Slater, Mike Kreger. Roy Warner

    Detroit metal band Battlecross to tour this summer

    Up-and-coming Detroit metal band Battlecross announced Tuesday that it will be a part of the Trespass America summer tour featuring several top national metal acts, including Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Pop Evil (another Michigan band), Emmure and God Forbid.

    • Apr. 24, 2012

  19. Remaining Jackson brothers to perform at the Fox in June

    The Jacksons’ Unity Tour 2012, which includes a June 23 stop at the Fox, will feature brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Tito Jackson performing hits from their classic catalog. Only late brother Michael will be missing from the definitive Jacksons lineup, which was last on the road for 1984’s Victory Tour.

    • Apr. 24, 2012

  20. Jack White adds matinee performance in Detroit to his May schedule

    In a typically old-school rock flourish, the Detroit-born rocker will play a 2 p.m. matinee show May 24 at the Masonic Temple’s Scottish Rite Theater, hours before his already announced performance there that evening.

    • Apr. 23, 2012
  21. Angaleena Presley, second from left, Miranda Lambert, second from right, and Ashley Monroe, right, of Pistol Annies are interviewed backstage at the All for the Hall concert on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. The group, and Lambert as a solo artist, are nominated for CMT Music Awards. WADE PAYNE/AP

    Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert lead CMT nominations

    Carrie Underwood earned five CMT Music Awards nominations, Miranda Lambert has four as a solo artist and as part of her trio Pistol Annies, and Taylor Swift led a contingent of stars earning three apiece for the 11th annual video awards show. Nominations were announced Monday morning on the "Today" show.

    • Apr. 23, 2012
  22. Fans dance as Nero performs in the Sahara tent on Sunday, April 22, 2012, during the last day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival's second weekend at Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. Crystal Chatham, The Desert Sun / AP

    Hot or cold, Coachella keeps music -- and guests -- playing

    Even though weekend two of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was touted as being close to identical to weekend one, the musicians displayed an obvious reluctance to perform the same sets (or showcase the same surprise guests).

    • Apr. 23, 2012

  23. On 'Dancing With the Stars,' Motown takes center stage

    Motown music got a prime-time spot on the ultimate dancing machine tonight.

    • Apr. 23, 2012

  24. DSO tackles Beethoven, Bolcom works with dynamic results

    Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy" for piano, chorus and orchestra doesn't get performed much, partly because it's not essential Beethoven and partly because hiring a solo pianist and chorus requires a significant investment of resources for a rather muted artistic payoff.

    • Apr. 22, 2012

  25. William Bolcom’s ominous ‘Prometheus’ proves riveting next to little-heard Beethoven piece

    Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy” for piano, chorus and orchestra doesn’t get performed much. But the enterprising pianist Jeffrey Biegel came up with a creative idea.

    • Apr. 21, 2012

  26. Zeds Dead added to Movement festival

    Hot dubsteb duo Zeds Dead has been added to the bill for May's Movement electronic music festival, organizers are set to announce.

    • Apr. 20, 2012
  27. Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J of Insane Clown Posse at the 4500 square foot ICP warehouse in Farmington Hills in 2009. Kathleen Galligan/Detroit Free Press

    New video: ICP pays homage to pop classics, rap heroes

    Insane Clown Posse is aiming for triple impact: Covers of songs by Christina Aguilera and Michael Jackson, collaborations with acts such as the Geto Boys, and a 64-minute cover of Too Short’s “Freaky Tales” are in the cards for the Detroit duo’s next album project.

    • Apr. 20, 2012
  28. Levon Helm in late 2007. Richard Drew/Associated Press

    Drummer Levon Helm backed Bob Dylan, sang on the Band's key hits

    Levon Helm came to fame in a rootsy rock group that featured three extraordinary voices. But you could always tell which was his: It was the sound of the lusty wildcat, the stern Southern preacher, the depleted Confederate soldier, the dirt farmer at the end of his day.

    • Apr. 20, 2012
  29. Men At Work members Colin Hay and Greg Ham. Tony Mahoney

    Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead at 58

    Victoria state police confirmed that the deceased was the 58-year-old resident of the house but did not identify him by name, in keeping with local practice. Ham was 58 and neighbors said he was the lone occupant of the house.

    • Apr. 19, 2012
  30. Dick Clark, surrounded by his teenage audience on "American Bandstand." He hosted the show from the late 1950s until 1989. ABC

    Dick Clark rang in our New Year's and introduced us to rock 'n' roll

    Dick Clark, the TV personality who introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the nation on "American Bandstand" and for four decades was the first and last voice many Americans heard each year with his New Year's Eve countdowns, died Wednesday. He was 82.

    • Apr. 19, 2012
  31. Josh Epstein, above, and Daniel Zott, below, are Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Images from the video "We Almost Lost Detroit"

    Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.'s new video a shout-out to the D

    The members of local pop-rock duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. have never been shy about their love for their hometown, a fact that is rarely overlooked by an ever-enthusiastic national music press that positively adores the layered, catchy sounds of the band's Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott.

    • Apr. 19, 2012
  32. Ted Nugent's remarks about Barack Obama caught the attention of the Secret Service. GENE J. PUSKAR/Associated Press

    Ted Nugent on meeting with Secret Service: Couldn’t have gone better

    Nugent says he met with “two fine, professional Secret Service agents” in Oklahoma – he’s playing Thursday at the 2 Frogs Grill in Ardmore – and called it a “good, solid, professional meeting concluding that I have never made any threats of violence towards anyone. The meeting could not have gone better.” The Secret Service declined comment.

    • Apr. 19, 2012
  33. Azar Lawrence will perform tonight and Friday at Jazz Café at Music Hall. His career includes work with Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner and Marvin Gaye. Music Hall

    Saxophonist Azar Lawrence to lead quintet at Jazz Café

    For a long time, tenor saxophonist Azar Lawrence, who leads a quintet at the Jazz Café at Music Hall tonight and Friday, was one of those musicians whose name prompted the question: "Whatever happened to?"

    • Apr. 19, 2012

  34. Events for singles

    Bethany East: www.bethanysemi.org. Cards and games. 7-10 p.m. Fri. St. Martin de Porres Social Hall, 31515 Hoover, Warren. $6. Pat: 586-739-6885.

    • Apr. 19, 2012
  35. Stacy Jo Scott is one of three members of the Craft Mystery Cult, a collective of artists at Cranbrook Academy of art. Their work will be on display at Cranbrook's annual Graduate Degree Exhibition, which opens Sunday. Kelly Kennedy/Cranbrook Academy of Art

    Cranbrook graduate exhibit to include rare look at artist studios

    The Cranbrook Academy of Art's annual Graduate Degree Exhibition has always been a chance to see what the next generation of artists is up to.

    • Apr. 19, 2012

  36. More live music: Top club picks

    CASINOS GREEKTOWN CASINO: 555 E. Lafayette, Detroit. 888-771-4386. Eclipz: David Gerald Band, 9:30 p.m. Fri. The Hips, 9:30 p.m. Sat. MOTORCITY CASINO: 2901 Grand River, Detroit. 313-237-7711.

    • Apr. 18, 2012
  37. Fountains of Wayne will perform Wednesday at the Magic Bag. From left: Chris Collingwood, Brian Young, Adam Schlesinger and Jody Porter. Violeta Alvarez

    Brian McCollum's big gigs: Snow Patrol, Fountains of Wayne

    FRIDAY

    • Apr. 18, 2012
  38. Gladys Knight will be at Caesars Windsor on April 28. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

    Upcoming big shows: Gladys Knight, Theory of a Deadman

    Set It Off: with Divided by Friday, 6 p.m. April 26. The Pike Room, $10. Hot Chelle Rae: with Electric Touch, 6:30 p.m. April 26. The Crofoot Ballroom, $15, $18. Saliva: with 12 Stones and Royal Bliss, 7 p.m. April 26. Emerald Theatre, $15.

    • Apr. 18, 2012

  39. Rocker Patti Smith to play Detroit Film Theatre June 1 at DIA

    Iconic proto-punk rocker Patti Smith will perform a special concert on June 1 at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The 7:30 p.m. performance comes on the opening day of "Patti Smith: Camera Solo," an exhibition of Smith's photography that will run through Sept. 2 at the museum.

    • Apr. 18, 2012

  40. Justin Bieber impersonator accused of abusing NJ girl online

    Authorities allege he threatened to harm the girl's family to force her to perform sex acts online. It's unclear if Moir used photos of Bieber on his Facebook page, but authorities say the girl realized it wasn't the pop star during the video chat.

    • Apr. 18, 2012

  41. With videos: Dick Clark with Detroit artists through the years

    After hearing news of Dick Clark's passing, the Detroit Free Press took a stroll through YouTube looking for some examples of his interactions with Detroit artists over the years.

    • Apr. 18, 2012
  42. Dick Clark ABC

    Dick Clark helped shape modern music

    It had to happen sometime, but it still seems hard to believe: Dick Clark, the man who for so many years never seemed to get old, has died.

    • Apr. 18, 2012

  43. Dick Clark championed Detroit musicians, records

    From Aretha Franklin to the Romantics, Dick Clark was a reliable — and crucial — conduit for Detroit music through the decades.

    • Apr. 18, 2012

  44. Jazz Festival might move to all-riverfront event

    Ford Auditorium was once home to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. But could the site of the demolished riverfront venue soon become a home for jazz?

    • Apr. 18, 2012
  45. Eddie Van Halen performs at Madison Square Garden in New York. AP PHOTO

    Eddie Van Halen says dad fueled his drinking

    Eddie Van Halen puts some of the blame on his father for his long struggle with alcohol. His father gave him a shot of vodka and a cigarette to ease his nerves before performing in front of people, and that started Van Halen on a near lifetime of drinking.

    • Apr. 17, 2012

  46. Van Halen to perform July 19 at Joe Louis Arena

    Van Halen will play Joe Louis Arena on July 19, the band announced this evening. Tickets will go on sale May 5 for the downtown show, which follows the group’s February performance at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Prices and other details will be available in coming days, said promoter Live Nation.

    • Apr. 17, 2012

  47. MOT has raised $5 million with goal of adding $3 million more

    The fund-raising comes as negotiations between MOT and the bank consortium that holds its $18 million in debt on the opera house and garage have entered the homestretch.

    • Apr. 16, 2012

  48. Jack White to stream concert, Gary Oldman to direct

    Jack White will kick off the release of his first solo album with a concert streamed live online, to be directed by Gary Oldman.

    • Apr. 16, 2012

  49. Jazz festival coming to Grand Rapids

    The daylong festival is to feature Michigan-based jazz artists.

    • Apr. 16, 2012

  50. Full list of artists to be announced at the Detroit Jazz Festival

    While the Free Press already broke the news of the major national headliners for this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival — a list that includes Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea — a number of other acts will be announced Tuesday.

    • Apr. 16, 2012

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