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Both artists will feature on the rapper's new album 'Key To The Kuffs'

UPPER DARBY — From the jaunty chorus of “Friend Like Me,” sung with gusto by students from the Highland Park Elementary School cast of “Aladdin Jr.,” to the applause given to the members of the Marple Newtown Community Band, and even to the green, blue and purple balloons bobbing over Brad Schoener’s headstone in the cemetery across the street, everything about Saturday’s Brad Schoener Memorial ...

Band will warm up for their Hyde Park show with four UK dates

Band will warm up for their Hyde Park show with four UK dates

Blur will play four venues across August before their Hyde Park Olympics gig.

Band Will Play Three Dates

"The City of Lost Children" and "La Haine"; "Specials" and "This Is Happening"; "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" and "The Prisoner of Sex"

Singer also labels this summer's Olympics as 'too corporate'

Skatalites bass player Brevett Washington Post Copyright 2012 Washington Post. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:03 p.m., Sunday, May 6, 2012 According to Jamaican news reports, Brevett had suffered a stroke in March, two weeks after his 32-year-old son, Okeene, was shot to death outside the family's home in Kingston ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Lloyd Brevett , a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band The Skatalites , died Thursday at age 80. Family spokeswoman and close friend Maxine Stowe said Brevett died shortly before dawn at a Kingston hospital where he was being treated for seizures and complications from a recent stroke ...

Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band The Skatalites, died Thursday at age 80.