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‘Idol’ winner rolling out debut album in July

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 4:20 pm

Candice Glover spent more time on season 12 of "American Idol" than she will on creating her debut album.

The 23-year-old, who won the Fox singing series last week after competing for four months, is set to release "Music Speaks" on July...

Music tip: "Fortyfied Nektar"

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 2:09 pm

Over the years, I've compiled about 812 studio, live and compilation albums by Nektar, the British psych/prog band. Somehow, I'd never gotten around to this double in-concert disc recorded five years ago on their 40th anniversary tour.

Heavy, man: Weedeater leads an El 'n' Gee bill

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler were seated around bog-fire on a recent full moon evening, listening to "And Justice for Y'all," the first album by North Carolina coma-metal band Weedeater.

Iommi got up first. "I can't...

Tift Merritt sings at the Kate

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

MERRITT SYSTEM

Give that singer an A grade! Well, an A-minus, but still - an Entertainment Weekly critic gave Tift Merritt's 2012 release "Traveling Alone" that grade and wrote, "The alt-country chanteuse strips...

Royal Southern Brotherhood plays the Hepburn Center

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

You can't really blame either the band or journalists for hyping the ancestry and roots of Royal Southern Brotherhood. For one thing, the name alone implies regal DNA and "brotherhood" is a pun on the group's connections to the Neville and...

Guitar world, with Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo at the Garde

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

Typically, any time you're invited to spend some time with Frank and Vinny, it's not good. Typically, you owe serious vigorish to Pinhead; remember feeling "20-grand-confident" the Broncos would cover in the Ravens playoff game?...

Erik Lamb celebrates new album

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

Erik Lamb has a shrewd marketing savvy - and a fine sense of "Hey, this could be fun!" timing. The local rapper celebrates the release of his latest album, "Guns Talk, Money Whispers," Friday at a Whalie Awards Pre-Party in New London's...

An evening of funk with George Clinton

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

Should Bootsie Collins run for mayor of New London? And, while we're at it (and not to be too morbid about it), perhaps we can have James Brown's tomb moved to southeastern Connecticut.

After all, Bernie Worrell played in Westerly last...

New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men begin tour at Mohegan Sun

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

The boys of summer - meaning the triumvirate of New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, and Boyz II Men - kick off their big 2013 tour at Mohegan Sun Arena this week.

It's actually three concerts in all, with each added when the first and...

Faltskog reflects on ABBA, releases new album

 May 19, 2013; Updated: 3:57 pm

For most of the last three decades, ABBA was but a memory for Agnetha Faltskog. She made concerted efforts to leave behind her past as one of two principal singers of the best-selling 1970s Swedish quartet, best known for the pop classic...

Bernie Worrell brings the funk to the Knick

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

The construction business is rife with generations-old demolition companies who could only hope to have Bernie Worrell's track record.

Do you know how many times Worrell's torn the roof off the sucker? Thousands - and still...

Texas Tenors sing at Foxwoods

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

The number of tenor groups continues to multiply!

Which brings is to the trio of male singers known as The Texas Tenors. Yes, they are a classical crossover group, as many of the tenor ensembles are. They made their biggest splash by...

Daphne Lee Martin in concert at New London’s 33

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

It's not fair that artists get to celebrate their own birthdays with performances. What am I going to do on my birthday? Write a blog?

Fortunately, it's not my birthday. Even more fortunately, it IS Daphne Lee Martin's birthday and, tonight...

John Fries: A bigger band

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Bluesy roots guitarist John Fries is busier than ever - and not just because he became a father. (Congrats!)

In addition, he's expanded his band. Along with drummer Michale Crivellone and bassist Corina Malbaurn, Fries has added...

Ronny Cox plays at Friday Night Folk

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

There are many curious iconic images with which certain musicians are associated.

Jim Morrison introducing the Oedipal section of "The End" for the first time at the Whisky A Go Go. Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey Pop...

Mötley Crüe plays Mohegan Sun

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Of all the genres in rock 'n' roll, glam metal is the one that works least with sobriety - and not just because it becomes infinitely more palatable if you're loaded.

Also consider it from the artist's standpoint. If watching VH1's...

Let the battles begin

 May 15, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

The Scorpion Bar Tequila Cantina at Foxwoods Resort Casino kicks off its annual Battle of the Bands competition on Memorial Day weekend. The competition will run throughout the summer with host Steven Tefft, owner of Connecticut tattoo shop chain...

Keyboardist Chick Corea to perform in Madison

 May 11, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Keyboardist Chick Corea performs a solo piano concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Madison's First Congregational Church, 26 Meetinghouse Lane. How much do you know about Corea's career?
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Carl Palmer brings ELP Legacy to the Kate

 May 10, 2013; Updated: 4:39 pm

You'd think playing for two historic, multiple-platinum bands - Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia - would pretty much fill your musical calendar. Plus, if you're the drummer for those progressive rock acts - and therefore required by...

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The Marcus Roberts Trio with Béla Fleck grace the Garde

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Artists such as Marcus Roberts and Béla Fleck routinely cast musical spells the rest of us could never have conceived - and instead gratefully devour.

And that's BEFORE they joined forces.

Fleck, of course, blew onto the world-music...

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Disc tip: "Owel"

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:42 pm

Owel
One hopes the name of this band isn't a calculatedly "clever" stunt wherein they left off a consonant when trying to spell "vowel" because that would be, like, hilarious. After...

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You're invited to the Ska Prom

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

The whole idea of a prom is pretty overwhelming, actually. It's a lot of work, is what it is. Plus, from a male perspective, what if the person you've dreamed of as a date turns you down? Then you've rented a powder blue tux for...

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Old Lyme Inn opens the SideDoor

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

If he'd never done anything else, the fact that George Wein founded the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival assuredly paves his way to heaven.

Don't overlook, though, that Wein is himself a sterling...

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Connecticut Lyric Opera stages "Don Giovanni"

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

No musical collaboration has had the staying power of Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The two men collaborated on three operas 250 years ago, and their popularity, if anything, keeps growing.

You can enjoy one Friday...

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Trying on the glass slipper

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Fairy-tale opera: Rossini's version of Cinderella - the opera "La Cenerentola" - will be on full Prince Charming and glass-slippered display when the Salt Marsh Opera performs it Sunday at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center.

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