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In honor of their CD release concert at the Empty Glass, take a listen to the Carpenter Ants version of “He Saved My Soul,” by Claude Jeter of the Swan Silvertones.

The Berkely Springs-based band The Weber Brothers are back with a new Christmas tune, “I’ll Be Your Santa Baby.” The vampy piano tune sits squarely in that small but breathy genre of Christmas come-on tunes.

TheWebTheater of WestVirginiaVille.com, presents “Saint Stephen’s Dream: a Space Opera.” Coming Soon To A Computer Near You. Spring, say. Or maybe Summer.

The day every dictator fears. A song for the day after in Libya: “Dictator’s Day” by The Silent Gondoliers, official instrumental band of the Free State of WestVirginiaVille.

My favorite sculpture in all of West Virginia sits outside the Huntington Museum of Art. The slightest breath of wind sends this exquisitely balanced sculpture into motion as seen in a music video for a friend who has moved on unexpectedly.

This Friday, Huntington hosts the Save Our Sign Benefit Concert benefit to restore the Keith-Albee theater’s sign — knocked down earlier this year in a windstorm — to its dashing glory.

A dip into David Stephenson’s surreal “My Decision” short film, winner of the 2011 FestivALL Charleston Silent Film Contest. Only this version isn’t silent. But you can always turn your speakers off.

One fine Spring day in southern West Virginia, Albert Perrone began painting a piece of public artwork in downtown Princeton, W.Va. This one goes out to artists and those who would censor their work.

As we gaze at our single tattoo on our right bicep, which we wish, alas, was more magnificent (the bicep, that is), we have a question for you, our readers who are tattooed: How did you get your tattoo? And where? And why?

Take a listen to the sublime harmonies of Bare Bones as they sing the Charlie Rich song “Who Will the Next Fool Be” at the After Hours Cabaret at the recent FestivALL Charleston.

Here’s a sampler of three songs by Casandra at the After Hours Cabaret that followed a June 24, 2011 performance of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera.”

Here’s a quick music video from a rehearsal earlier today of “No Further Thought of Fame,” a sampling of one of the key songs in “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera.”

Bigtime wrestling superstar John Cena, Toots and the Maytals and Fcdeejay vs. Destino – what do these three acts have in common? Each has taken a stab at “Country Roads,” if not a broad axe.

From Malaysian line dancers to breathy chipmunks, “Take Me Home, Country Roads” has been sung around the world in multifarious, strange and wonderful ways. Part 1 in an ongoing Country Roads Compendium

Today’s Song of the Day is not quite new – actually, it’s more than a quarter-century old. In honor of Larry Groce’s turn as a headliner Saturday in Charleston, a taste of “Junk Food Junkie” and how it got to be a smash hit.

As Option 22 winds up a set one recent night at Boulevard Tavern in Charleston, W.Va., Washboard Dave gets up and joins them on a chest-rattling jam.

A homage in word and song to legendary folksinger Hazel Dickens, who passed away this Friday at age 75 at a Washington, D.C.. hospice and will be buried today in Mercer County, West Virginia.

FestivALL Charleston has added “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera” as an official event to this year’s citywide cultural event in late June. So what is a ‘space opera’ anyway?

Gabriel Redding of the Redding Brothers knows how to bring a crowd. Like the cops who came when he filmed a music video on an abandoned West Virginia bridge.