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Arlington, VA
News
Musicians Push Congress To Stop Corporate Radio From Dodging Royalties
Hundreds of music legends and rising stars are calling on Congress to make major radio companies equitably pay artists when their songs are played on air. Popular 90s R&B group Boyz II Men met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for the American Music Fairness Act, a bill aiming to require corporate radio stations to compensate performers while protecting small, local broadcasters. The meeting happened on Thursday, Feb. 13 to coincide with World Radio Day. The Philadelphia-based singers of the hit song "End of the Road" spoke with three leaders in the House of Represent…
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
Love In A Boston Elevator Lands Couple With Warrants In Prison: Police
A couple of love birds decided to get hot and heavy in an elevator at the State Street MBTA Station Monday night, Oct. 16, transit police said, but that wasn't what got them locked up. Transit police received a call of two people *ahem* going down in an elevator around 10 p.m. Police caught the couple in the act, but after running their information, officers realized they were wanted for a slew of other crimes outside of living out the lyrics to a late 1980s B-tier Aerosmith jam. The two had warrants for assault with a dangerous weapon, breaking and entering, and assault on a po…
Ridgewood, NJ
Lifestyle
Meet Songwriter Holly Knight In Ridgewood
"Rag Doll." "Love is a Battlefield. "The Best." Holly Knight wrote them all. The acclaimed songwriter will be signing copies of her book "I Am The Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the MTV Eighties" at Bookends in Ridgewood on Sunday, Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. The memoir discusses Knight rise to fame in the music industry and how she found herself writing for Tina Turner, Aerosmith and Pat Benatar at the birth of MTV, according to a synopsis. The book also touches on her difficult relationship with her mother, along with the usual assortment of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, ac…
Lancaster, PA
Lifestyle
Aerosmith Frontman Steven Tyler Spotted In Unlikely PA Store Ahead Of Concert (
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Just shy of two weeks before Aerosmith's upcoming Philadelphia concert, the band's frontman was spotted in Pennsylvania — at a hardware store of all places. Steven Tyler dropped by Bomberger's Ace Hardware, currently decorated in Ace Buckets as part of the company's national Children's Hospital Network fundraiser. Ace stores across the country participated in our Miracle Bucket Display Contest to benefit Children's Miracle Network... Posted by Ace Hardware on Monday, August 14, 2023 Doriann O'Connell, a mom of 10 and a huge fan of Aerosmith didn't 'Want To Miss A Thing' and rushed to t…
Middletown, NJ
Sports
Frightful
Scene
: TV Cameraman From Jersey Shore Hit In Face With Thrown Ball In Yankee Game
The crowd at Yankee Stadium went silent and then erupted in cheers Wednesday when a cameraman who was hit square in the face with a misthrown ball raised his hand while being carted off. Pete Stendel of Long Branch, NJ, was in the camera well next to the Yankee dugout when the Baltimore Orioles tried to turn a double play off a ground ball by rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe in the fifth inning of the July 5 night game. The ball hit Stendel, 68, flush and he immediately fell backward. Everything stopped for nearly 15 minutes before he was carried onto the field from the Yankee dugout on a s…
Cambridge, MA
Events
Iconic Blues Musician Bringing Kick-Ass Shows To Massachusetts This Spring
A New England Music Hall of Fame inductee is bringing his signature sound to several shows in Massachusetts later this year, and you better have the stamina to keep up with the 73-year-old James Montgomery has been performing and making blues music for several decades, and the New England musician is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. "People should know that they're going to see an energetic show played by some of the best musicians on the planet," the Detroit, MI, native said in an interview with Daily Voice. "Everybody I have with my band has played with some of the biggest…
