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His music is instantly recognizable. Dick Dale, “The King of Surf Guitar,” has died. Read about his life and music.

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Interesting guests and compelling conversations about local issues. Sunday, March 17 5:30am – This week we’ll hear from a local grass-roots organization that serves as an emergency response unit to the homeless among us with babies. Star Lalario is the President and founder of Babies of Homelessness and Angela Harmon is the Vice-President. Babies of Homelessness work the streets in …

KIXI stepped on out to the SR 99 Step Forward event in Seattle, celebrating the opening of the new SR 99 tunnel! There was a fun run, vendors, food trucks, and the main attraction, the tunnel, which was open for everyone to take a stroll through and take a peek before it’s open for traffic. If you stopped by our …

Courtesy of Acoustic-4-a-CureThe lineup has been announced for the sixth annual edition of the Acoustic-4-a-Cure benefit concert, which Sammy Hagar co-founded with Metallica‘s James Hetfield in 2014. The show, which is scheduled for May 15 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, will feature performances by Hagar and his current band The Circle, plus The Doobie Brothers‘ Tom Johnston, Heart guitarist …

Concord RecordsThis past December, Carlos Santana revealed to ABC Radio that he and his band would be releasing a new studio album this year titled Africa Speaks, inspired by African music. Now the first single from that record has arrived. The song, titled “Los Invisibles” and featuring vocals by Spanish singer Buika, is available for purchase now digitally and via …

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThe self-titled 1969 studio album by the short-lived supergroup Blind Faith will be reissued as a half-speed-mastered, heavyweight vinyl LP on April 19. The record was remastered at London’s Abbey Road Studios by the facility’s engineer Miles Showell. Blind Faith was formed in 1969 by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood after the breakups of their respective bands, …

M. Caulfield/WireImage The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has removed three Michael Jackson exhibits from display in the wake of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland. A fedora and glove, both worn by Jackson onstage, were removed from public view, as was a signed Michael Jackson poster.  Jackson’s family is from Gary, Indiana, about two-and-a-half hours north of Indianapolis, on the Lake …

Credit: Jill Furmanovsky The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde has revealed that she will be releasing a long-in-the-works album this summer called Valve Bone Woe, which she recorded with award-winning producers and film score composers Marius de Vries and Eldad Guetta. Hynde will be showcasing tracks from the album at a special concert on July 6 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los …