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  Don Felder Checks Out of the Hotel California and Into the Dosey Doe for Two Intimate Shows

  December 5 at 4 a.m.

  The title of Don Felder’s most recent solo album is pretty straightforward: American Rock ‘n’ Roll. In the leadoff title track, the singer/guitarist gives a bit of a history lesson on the genre with namecheck sampling ranging from Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Aerosmith, and Bob Seger to Tommy Lee, Slash,...

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  1973: It Was a Very Good Year for Rock...and Other Genres

  December 2 at 4 a.m.

  1973: Rock at the Crossroads By Andrew Grant Jackson 448 pp. $29.99 Thomas Dunne Books Andrew Grant Jackson has a thing for dates. His previous rock book, 1965, argued how that trip around the sun was just as important in music as its closer and more celebrated cousins 1966 and...

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  Kansas Returns to the Point of Know Return

  November 22 at 4 a.m.

  Kansas guitarist Rich Williams vividly remembers a certain day in 1977 that still has an impact on his life and career in 2019. His band had just finished playing a show in Chicago when they headed for a studio which had been set up for them to be filmed miming...

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  New Bio is the Last Word on Wailing Texas Siren Janis Joplin

  November 12 at 5 a.m.

  Janis: Her Life and Music By Holly George-Warren 400 pp. Simon & Schuster $28.99 Rock’s first female superstar has already been the subject of a numerous biographies, memoirs by those who loved and worked with her, documentaries, and even a musical play. But nearly 50 years after Janis Joplin died...

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  The 2019 Buzzfest Lineup Ranked by Each Act's Biggest Song

  October 25 at 5:30 a.m.

  When it comes to radio festivals, you mostly take what you get. Lineups are formed not unlike the megazords from Power Rangers, with different tours mashed together for an afternoon, the connections between them being mostly limited to airplay on the host station. Credit to Buzzfest for consistently putting together...

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  Joe Walsh Hits Houston with All-Star VetsAid 2019 Mega Concert

  October 18 at 4 a.m.

  Throughout his decades-long career in rock and roll, Joe Walsh has been all over the world. And there may indeed be no place like home. But on this October morning in 2019, Joe Walsh wants to be somewhere else. “Well, Bob, I’m in Colorado and yesterday we woke up to...