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To a small, music-centric minority, a new trend in music – the album reissue – is threatening the significance of albums that once held deep personal meaning. An album reissue is the re-releasing of an album, usually as a part of a promotional campaign.

In early 2010, Spoon played New York's Radio City Music Hall with openers Deerhunter and Strange Boys. As YouTube footage records for posterity, Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner joined the Austin indie rockers on stage, helping out on Spoon's "I Saw the Light" and leading a howling

The Original Cafe Eleven at St. Augustine Beach is offering a summer lineup of live music --- with Lucero, Son of a Bad Man, River City Extension, and Man Man on the schedule. Go to originalcafe11.com for more information. See details below:LUCERO

Summer outdoor music festivals offer plentiful listening opportunities, fresh air and a chance to catch up with festival-only friends. Festival season's here from Old Sac's Memorial Day weekend fest to S.F.'s Hardly Strictly in fall,there are chances to tap, clap and even camp amid musical experiences

Three years have passed since M. Ward delivered a solo record.

Folk duo will take their new album 'The Lion's Roar' around the UK in November

Hear the Swedish sister act mix gorgeous harmonies and bittersweet lyrics live in the studio.

Tickets for the Aug. 7 performance go on sale next week. Alt-rocker band Goo Goo Dolls, which has had more than a dozen songs in the Top 10 of Billboard's adult rock chart over the past 15 years, will headline Bethlehem's Musikfest festival.

Oberst is scheduled to perform July 24.

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Do call it a comeback. Conor Oberst 's old punk band Desaparecidos will solidify the reunion they kicked off this month with a U.S. mini-tour in August. Oberst will also play a string of solo dates in May and July. This activity follows the reissues of Bright Eyes ' Fevers and Mirrors and There Is No Beginning to the Story EP this week.