Robert Plant to Speak, Play at South by Southwest
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Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant will deliver the keynote address at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin on March 17.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash says the group is planning a significantly shorter turnaround for its third album.
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Pearl Jam has announced it will play the FleetCenter on Sept. 28. The show is a warmup performance before the band joins the all-star Vote for Change tour, but the group stressed that it is not part of that tour.
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The coalition of the willing-to-rock is growing. Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson and Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash have joined the nearly 20 other musicians trying to unseat President Bush in November.
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Reunified rockers Van Halen  complete with former frontman Sammy Hagar  are circling our city for a Saddledome show at the end of October, Sun sources say.
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New York will play host later this year to a new edition of Farm Aid, a benefit concert to help family farms, singer Willie Nelson announced on Monday.
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Music documentaries like CompaÃ±eras and Dirty Country premiering at SXSW will gain a wider audience through rapid DVD release. Plus: Web design for Flash vs. Ajax and more from SXSW in Listening Post.
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Pearl Jam, Metallica, Kanye West, B. B. King, Jack Johnson and Alison Krauss and Robert Plant (both below) will be among the more than 100 acts at the seventh annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival this year, the organizers announced. Taking place from June 12 to 15 at its regular spot, a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., south of Nashville, the festival will also include Willie Nelson, Phil Lesh, the Mars Volta, Sigur Ros, Jack Whiteâs Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Levon Helm and the list goes on. Bonnaroo was one of the first rock festivals to specialize in broad, eclectic programming, but along with Coachella in California, it has faced stiffer competition as similar events have sprung up around the country.
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Fans of Bob Dylan, the songwriter who  has been called the conscience of the 1960s generation, will be  able to see items from the artist's early career and listen to  rare recordings at an exhibit opening in Seattle this weekend.
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There is speculation that members of the legendary rock group Led Zeppelin might go on a reunion tour.
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John Mellencamp will bring his "Words &amp; Music" to cities across the United States this spring on his first headlining tour in three years.
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Led Zeppelin say they could write new songs on the back of their reunion concert in November.
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Broadening the scope of Eric Clapton's recent album of Robert Johnson interpretations, "Me and Mr. Johnson," the guitarist will unveil the CD/DVD package "Sessions for Robert J." on Dec. 7.
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Pearl Jam will play a private show  for fan club members in Chicago on August 2, three days before  its headlining stint at the city&#39;s Lollapalooza festival, the  rock group said on Tuesday.
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris'  June 28 performance at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheatre is the  subject of a CD/DVD set due in stores November 14
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Georgia rockers R.E.M. and the Black  Crowes have joined the lineup of the South by Southwest music  festival and conference in Austin (March 12-16).
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Mandolin virtuoso Sam Bush will  cover some serious mileage this summer in support of his new  Sugar Hill album, "Laps in Seven."