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TULSA — Pretty Lights dazzled the Brady Theater Friday night.

Derek Vincent Smith, the mastermind behind the increasingly popular electronic music project Pretty Lights, made good on his promise to create a massive multi-sensory concert experience. His more than two-hour set blended classic rock samples with synthesized noise, shimmering colors with vivid lights, and sheer sonic power with impressive aural sophistication.

With his two-month fall tour drawing to a close and Oct. 31 drawing closer, Smith brought a Halloween-theme show to the Brady Arts District. More than 2,100 fans eagerly got into the seasonal spirit, with a good third of them donning costumes ranging from angels and devils to construction workers and ballerinas. T Read full post…

Speculation surrounding a Black Sabbath reunion including Ozzy Osbourne arose in August, when a newspaper reported that Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi said the original lineup was writing new material together.

Speaking with Billboard regarding his second book, “Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy,” Osbourne also touched on the swirling Sabbath reunion rumors. “Yes, it’s a very, very strong possibility,” he said of getting the old heavy metal band back together. “It’s in the very early stages, so we haven’t recorded anything yet. If it works out, it’ll work out. If it doesn’t, I’ll keep doing my thing.”

Osbourne’s founding group might be taking it slow, but it doesn’t mean the “Bark at the Moon” singer is.

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Growing up in a musical family made Liza Colby determined to do something else, but escaping wasn’t that easy.

Colby, 27, an Avon native whose father John Colby composed the theme for “Sports Center” on ESPN and whose mother Beverly Colby sang with the Persuasions, was in college studying to be a corporate event planner when it dawned on her how much she missed music.

“Being away from constant music and creative people in a creative environment because of my parents made me realize this was something I had to do,” she says by phone from New York, where she lives know, before returning to Hartford for a performance tonight with her band, the Liza Colby Sound.

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Q: How do you know that hip hop is dead?

A: When a dork like me finds a video of an eleven year old rapping on youtube.

This rap battle occurred about two months ago on www.kotdc.com between Xotix, a female rapper, versus Universe, a rapper that is eleven years of age. The battle happened in a chatroom rap league with others being judges while listening.

Universe clearly won this battle. You have to see the video for yourself because he won it off of his first bar of the first round. After he started rapping, it was absolutely over. The lyrics are extremely funny.

LOS ANGELES — Ricki Lake celebrated her top-scoring 23 points and 12 inches of weight loss; Rob Kardashian celebrated being a better dancer than his sister Kim; and Chaz Bono celebrated just getting through his routine on “Dancing With the Stars.”

“My knees just hurt so much,” Bono said before landing in last place Monday night. The author and activist is counting on viewer votes to carry him through Tuesday’s episode, when a second celebrity will be eliminated from the hit ABC show.

Judges’ scores are combined with viewer votes to determine who is ousted each week. B

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