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The voters have spoken, and so has Clay Aiken

The singer uses his blog to call the recently elected Wake school board members "selfish idiots."
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The Jersey Boy croons on

The Four Seasons' backstory reads like the stuff of fiction - street toughs from New Jersey sing their way to the top without ever quite escaping their hardscrabble origins - and it seems ripe for dramatization.
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Six String Cafe's opening delayed

The reborn Six String Cafe was scheduled to open next week in its new location in Cary.
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Country music from another realm

Lambchop came to Merge Records the way a lot of the Triangle-based label's roster did, by personal connections.
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Country Picks

Bluegrass fans know mandolin player Ronnie and banjoist Rob McCoury as sidemen' to their famous father, Del.
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Opry, MySpace team up for Underwood performance

The Grand Ole Opry and MySpace are uniting to live stream an Opry performance with video for the first time this Saturday.
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Game Picks

By the time 2009 ends, seven variations on the "Guitar Hero"/"Rock Band" theme will have been released in this calendar year alone, all of which involve the four instruments that have pushed the music game genre into the mainstream: guitar, drums, bass, and vocals.
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Classical Picks

Harpsichord fans have a feast in store, with two free concerts from Aliénor (Elaine Funaro, Beverly Biggs and Rebecca Pechefsky): Accompanied by baroque string players, they perform concertos for two and three harpsichords by Bach, then go modern with sonatas by Chapel Hill composer Edwin McLean.
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