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Well, it’s no X Factor, but American Idol will finally have a winner tonight; either Freddie Mercury-wannabe Adam Lambert or Arkansas crooner Kris Allen. While Adam resurrected his cover of Gary Jules’ cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World” and turned in a forceful version of Sam

On a damp and balmy Friday night at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, the five men of Gomez seem exultant, finally wrapping up an exhausting couple of weeks on a promotional US tour of 13 gigs – including Austin’s SXSW – plus a laundry list of press, radio and television obligations. While a noticeably relaxed,…

Given the throngs of determined Radiohead acolytes who came by ferry and light rail to genuflect before the quintet at Friday’s All Points West Music & Arts festival in New Jersey, a more fitting name for the event would have been All Points To That Oxfordshire Band. For this three day, 47-band extravaganza, Radiohead headlined on Friday and Saturday while Sunday’s mainstage draw was Jack Johnson….

The Cure played a mammoth 3 hour set on Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York and Kara Manning was on hand to witness a stunning show.