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In the past year, the once-outre Arkestra has enjoyed institutional recognition that would boggle the mind of its prescient founder.

ZZ Top for over 50 years. Dusty and his ZZ Top amigos visited Maine 20 times in their careers. Getty Images   Dusty rocked Portland 13 times with ZZ Top over the years, from the very first concert at the CCCC in 1977 to the summer of 2016 on the Maine State Pier. There have also been ZZ Top shows in OOB, Bangor, Scarborough, and Augusta. But the first ZZ Top show in Maine was back in  1975 at the Central Maine Youth Center in Lewiston. ZZ TOP CONCERT POSTER FOR THEIR FIRST SHOW IN MAINE Herb Ivy The Stampeders played, and then Brownsville Station (remember the original "Smokin' In The Boys...

Since 1985, KUVO has provided a rare blend of music & news. We broadcast the best in Jazz, Latin Jazz & Blues in addition to 17 locally produced, culturally diverse programs.

Tishman Speyer leases store space to Rough Trade, the punk-era music purveyor that launched The Smiths and their ilk.

Bob Koester in the stacks at the Jazz Record Mart in 2009 Michael Jackson Bob Koester, who died May 12 at age 88, knew what he liked—and what you should like too. For nearly 70 years, he owned Chicago's Jazz Record Mart (and the Delmark label), and it was completely in character for him to snatch an album from the hands of an earnest young shopper. In 1968, that shopper was me—I'd picked up a copy of Muhal Richard Abrams's debut LP, Levels and Degrees of ...