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MUSIC festival announced its return to Bucks countryside location this summer.

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Brooklyn-based musician, record executive and author Nabil Ayers on Thursday evening will stop in Lawrence as part of his current book tour to share his powerful story navigating life with an absent father, who is also a famous musician.

Nabil Ayers was in his mid-thirties before he had a proper sit-down

Born Herbert Jay Solomon to Brooklyn, Herbie Mann became a jazz artist with massive crossover appeal while alienating critics left and right.

At times it feels more powerful than an homage to the duo’s inspirations, as if asking, ‘What might it be like if James Brown, Al Green or Curtis Mayfield had a big Vegas show back in the day?’

Blige's new “Good Morning Gorgeous” follows a protracted and painful divorce. “I had to do it,” she says of making the album, “to live another day.”

But Yellow splits off into its own lane thanks in part to Thackray’s overarching lysergic bliss. She says she approached the record “by trying to simulate a life-changing psychedelic experience,” which explains a lot: Yellow is fascinating and profoundly befuddling, a voyage deep into nowhere in particular. Just when you think you’ve got your bearings—when you’ve got “Sun” pegged as a kind of disco number, for example—Thackray throws in an impetuou...