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DEEDS: If Van Halen actually rocks, there is hope for us all

It’s been tough to rally up much enthusiasm for the new Van Halen album, “A Different Kind of Truth,” which arrives Feb. 7.

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Deeds: Road trip! Rock out at Whiskey Jacques’ in Ketchum

KETCHUM — It’s Friday night at Whiskey Jacques’, and a local, bespectacled man has just armed himself with an acoustic guitar on stage in front of the buzzing crowd.

119 days ago
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Deeds: New event center plans concert Revolution

Before he traded his backstage pass for a less-glamorous detour as a land developer, promoter Creston Thornton, the public face of Bravo Entertainment and The Big Easy Concert House, had spent a decade revolutionizing the Treasure Valley music scene.

126 days ago
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Deeds: TV news: In space, no one can hear you scream

If you’re still scratching your head about KTRV Channel 12’s decision to dump local news programming last month, you might want to eyeball the November 2011 sweeps ratings.

133 days ago
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New pub, The Taphouse, to open in Downtown Boise

There’s no such thing as too much beer. That’s the philosophy behind The Taphouse, a 44-tap brewpub planning to open in February in the former Lobby space at 760 W. Main St.

140 days ago
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Deeds: Looking back at Boise in ‘11 — and forward to ‘12

There was no overarching entertainment trend in the Treasure Valley this year. (Guiltily penny pinching while spending your hard-earned dough on fun?) So instead of manufacturing trends, let’s just take a scatterbrained look backward — and forward — at the stuff that stood out:

147 days ago
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Deeds: Treefort, SXSW are good signs for Boise music

Like setting out milk and cookies for Santa, ragging on Boise’s music scene is a beloved, longstanding tradition among local fans and musicians.

154 days ago
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Deeds: Local musicians deliver second Christmas CD

If you’re looking for an inexpensive gift that is charitable, cool and useful, you can’t beat the local-music compilation CD “IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java.”

168 days ago
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Deeds: 100 greatest guitarists! The list we love to hate

Rolling Stone has to be feeling pretty good about life right now.

175 days ago
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Deeds: Boise State’s blue turf shows up in hip-hop song

F ile this under the category of Just When You Thought Things Couldn’t Get More Depressing For Boise State …

189 days ago
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Deeds: After ASCAP dust-up, music stops at TableRock – for now

After an ASCAP representative visited TableRock Brewpub last week, concerned local musicians are firing emails back and forth like Judas Priest guitarists exchanging hot licks.

196 days ago