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Joni Mitchell, then 26, was the consummate folk star and James Taylor, 22, the cool new kid on the block when the two toured together in the fall of 1970. There’s a great bootleg and some amazing YouTube videos of their late-October Royal Albert Hall show floating around. ...

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is slated to direct a movie based on Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston’s harrowing 2004 account of being trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon, where he was forced to amputate his own arm. ...

New Jersey’s second favorite arena rocker puts his money where his home is by investing millions of dollars in environmentally friendly LEED-certified affordable housing. ...

Everyone loves a poll, which is like an election only much less consequential. New York City public television station Channel Thirteen wants to know which musical artist had the greatest impact on history...

  Today’s required reading would be this very long London Times profile of Goldman Sachs and its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. Ominously titled, “I’m doing ‘God’s work’. Meet Mr Gol...

“When John and I were sort of talking about world peace and love and all that kind of thing, bed-ins, etc, you know people were just laughing at us,” Yoko Ono told Reuters recently. No one’s laughing anymore, fortunately. Ono ...

Folk music, politically inclined or not, tends to bring people together even if the words are describing something that’s tearing people apart. And even though the Monsters of Folk — Jim James (taking a break from longtime cohorts My Morning Jacket), M. Wa...

Eclectic Method – consisting of London audiovideo remixers Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen – have collaged the 99 slaughtered rejects of Phish’s Halloween set into four minutes and twenty seconds of thrilling classic-rock goodness. Ecl...

According to a 2004 study by CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement), 22% of 18-to-29-year-olds did not vote that year because they missed the registration deadline, and 10% of this group didn’t even know where or how to register to vote. ...