The big festival news may have revolved around the muddy Austin City Limits, but there was another little show that drew a number of high profile veteran artists in San Francisco. The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is put on every year in Golden Gate Park, for FREE, by billionaire investment banker Warren Hellman. An estimated 500,000 attended this year to watch music on six stages over t...
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MUSIC NEWS - Led Zeppelin lead singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Robert Plant was made Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on Friday. Prince Charles bestowed the honor at Buckingham Palace on Plant, who now ranks higher than Led Zep bandmate, guitarist Jimmy Page on the Royal ranking order. Page received his Order of the British Empire (OBE) four years ago. Of the honor, Pl
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The Associated Press is reporting that Robert Plant received a royal honor from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on Friday, putting the former Led Zeppelin front man one notch above his old band mate Jimmy Page.But, Plant joked he and Page would not be fighting over rank, even though Plant's new Commander of the British Empire is a higher honor than Page's Order of the British Empire."If we ...
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Robert Plant received his Commander of the British Empire award from Prince Charles on Friday, given for his "services to popular music."Plant complimented past associates. "I owe everything to the musicians I work with. From the UK to Africa to Tennessee, it is their brilliance that I bounce off. Alone I'm nothing."The CBE is third in the five classes of the Order of the British Empire and is...
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Our weekly recap of veteran artists on the current music charts. Chart highlights:The Grammys have given a huge boost to their album of the year, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand. The album, in it's 62nd week on the charts, moved from 69 to 2, equaling the spot in which it debuted. It also went 10 to 2 on the Country, 23 to 1 on the Rock, 124 to 39 on the British and 79 to 8 on t...
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I know, I know. This album won a whole bunch of awards. Therefore, it has much to live up to and likely will dissapoint. But, I didn't hear about the album until I knew it won the awards. A Robert Plant/Alison Krauss duo simply hadn't been on my radar.First, the rhythm. I immediately latched onto it because of its similarity to another song I really love: There, There, by Radiohead. Listen clos...
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From the "This Just In Dept:...if you like Led Zeppelin and your love continues to spilleth over for Robert Plant, then you'll be pleased to know that "Brother Plant has a myspace":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=127044002 in support of his new box set Nine Lives...there's a couple of sweet cuts on his page (I'm partial to the cut "29 Palms, personally)...
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Uncle T wound up Day 2 at Austin City Limits with this dynamite duo and the legendary T-Bone Burnett on guitar. "Battle of Evermore!" Wowza! That's one of my favorite Led Zep songs.~alt-gramma~Robert Plant and Alison KraussI caught the last 30 minutes of this amazing set. They sounded magnificent; much more powerful than I'd anticipated. These guys went into a musical trance and took the hug...
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Sunday Mirror reports that Robert Plant has turned down an extra £100 million (approximately $200 million) fortune to take LED ZEPPELIN on a world tour.The rock legend wants to concentrate on his new partnership with country singer Alison Krauss... spelling the likely end of the famous band.A band source reportedly said: "Despite the enormous offer, the decision did not come down to money. They..
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So, on our return to pillage and regain control of the Mog Mothership we found uncertainty and confusion in our midsts, doubters of the power of music to pull it all together, still clinging to the black and white notions that there are dividing lines amongst us. These false notions will be dealt with accordingly.We also found an unexpected cache in the holds; untold of wealth that could indeed...
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From the "This Just In Dept:...if you like Led Zeppelin and your love continues to spilleth over for Robert Plant, then you'll be pleased to know that "Brother Plant has a myspace":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=127044002 in support of his new box set Nine Lives...there's a couple of sweet cuts on his page (I'm partial to the cut "29 Palms, personally)...
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...to this right about now, good stuff. Robert Plant's solo work is very underrated.
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