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Doug Gray doing fine fronting the Marshall Tucker Band

The Marshall Tucker Band lives outside prevailing musical trends and has lived a long time. “The Intimidator” was probably still listening to “Can’t You See,” which was only a year old when Dale Earnhardt Jr. was born in 1974.

Gary Numan has been a musical pioneer forever

Gary Numan’s reminiscing about one of the best Christmas presents he ever received, his voice now much deeper than it would have been in the mid-’60s, but no less kidlike, at least for the moment.

Five bands that kept on rockin’ with replacement singers

The announcement of Las Vegas dates by Queen with Adam Lambert prompts discussion of other bands that successfully replaced a lead singer, either through an untimely death or simply because everyone in the band wasn’t on the same page musically.

Punk rockers, pop duo sing Vegas

A new punk rock supergroup and a rising pop duo top the latest roundup of Vegas music releases:

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New CDs you need

Drive-By Truckers’ “English Oceans” is among a couple of new CDs we can recommend.

Cyrus dares audience to try and look away

As a sturdily constructed African-American lady in spandex and a little person in a tight red leather get-up with a cone-shaped brassiere pistoned their rear ends up and down like human crankshafts, the costumed primate in question did what you do at a Miley Cyrus performance: you dance, and look out for the purple shark doing the same.

Bill Murray raises dough, recalls eating some

I felt like I was watching Bill Murray resurrect his funny “SNL” character, Nick the lounge singer, on Thursday when he helped raise $544,000 to fight the illness that put his dear friend, Vegas chef Kerry Simon, in a wheelchair.

Las Vegas man to appear on ‘The Voice’

A Las Vegas man is hoping to hit the national stage this season on NBC’s “The Voice.”

More than a tribute, ‘Georgia on My Mind’ explores Ray Charles’ world

When it came time for the autobiography subtitled “Ray Charles’ Own Story,” Charles chose a down-to-earth name befitting a singer who belonged in any and every musical family: “Brother Ray.” Clearly, Ray Charles was — and is — a man for all musical seasons.

The Ataris revisiting their past

“Being grown up isn’t half as fun as growing up,” the Ataris once sang.

TICKETS: Lorde adds show

New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has added another show at the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on April 15. Tickets are $40 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com and Ticketmaster outlets.

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