Regardless of who actually pioneers a new innovation, it's the one who breaks into the mainstream who becomes synonymous with ...

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The Telluride Bluegrass Festival launched in 1974 as an out-of-the-way town party for locals on the Fourth of July. A year ...

American singer Oliver Tree was listed among the six passengers in a deadly helicopter crash in Brazil. NBC News' George Solis reports.

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Dennis Bovell’s youthful exuberance belies a long and distinguished career taking in some surprisingly far-flung corners of the music industry. Responsible for more or less inventing the lovers rock ...