The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH, announced this year's inductees to the hall. First ballot inductees include The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G., and T.Rex. Other inductees Depeche Mode (3rd year) and Nine Inch Nails (3rd) round out this year's class. Rock Hall's 2020 Ahmet Ertegun Award - an award for industry...

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January 11/12 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - Chords of Fame

1) "Swing on a Star" by Dave Van Ronk & The Hudson Dusters
2) "Alcohol & Pills" by Fred Eaglesmith
3) "Get It While You Can" by Janis Joplin
4) "Chords of Fame" by Phil Ochs
5) "Friend" by Roger McGuinn
6) "Farewell Never Never Land" by Tom Russell
7) "The Death of Ukulele...

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January 11/12 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - BBC Archives: Folk 2

1) "Solid Air" by John Martyn
2) "L Ballade" by Shawn Phillips
3) "Jesus Was a Crossmaker" by Judee Sill
4) "Lady of the Sea" by Seth Lakeman with BBC Concert Orchestra
5) "How Can I Tell You" by Cat Stevens
6) "You Know What I Mean" by Leonard Cohen
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Authorities believe that a propane leak may have caused a house to explode in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, on Tuesday morning, 1/14. It happened around 9:30 a.m. on the 4300 block of Biddeford Road. Neighbors heard and felt the explosion, some from a couple of miles away. When they looked outside they saw the home had been leveled and debris was scattered about the neighborhood. The...

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Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a man wanted for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl last month in Chester County. 41-year-old Erick Becerril-Perez is accused of raping the girl inside her home in London Grove Township on December 28, 2019. He is also accused of inappropriately touching the girl multiple times over the past two years. The December assault was reported to police...

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Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced on Monday, 1/13, that he was suspending his campaign for president. The senator thanked his supporters in a tweet. Booker failed to qualify for the December primary debate and also did not meet the polling requirements for Tuesday's debate in Iowa. His campaign could not raise enough funds to keep up with the other presidential...

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An 18-month-old was injured in a double shooting in Germantown on Sunday afternoon, 1/12. It happened shortly before 5 p.m. on the 100 block of East Pastorius Street. A 26-year-old man standing outside a home was holding his young nephew when a car pulled up. A gunman opened fire. At least four shots were fired. The boy suffered a graze wound to his head and the man was hit in the right...

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A 23-year-old man fell to his death while jumping between rooftops in Philadelphia's Callowhill neighborhood early Saturday morning, 1/11. It happened just before 2 a.m. on the 1200 block of Buttonwood Street. The victim and two other men, who all happen to be students at Drexel University College of Medicine, were jumping between rooftops when the victim missed a jump and fell two stories...

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A 16-year-old girl was killed in an accident involving a school bus and a passenger car in New Castle County, Delaware, on Thursday, 1/9. It happened around 3:40 p.m. near Memorial and Karlyn Drives. The bus was on Memorial Drive having just left Eisenberg Elementary School carrying approximately 20 children. It struck a passenger car with four 16-year-old girls. The car's driver, Jordan...

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Philadelphia Police say that a man has been killed during a shootout with SWAT after barricading himself in a home in the Frankford neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, 1/9. It started just after 1 p.m. on the 4600 block of Hawthorne Street. Parole officers attempted to serve a warrant for parole violations when the man barricaded himself in his apartment and began firing at officers from...

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