On Stage: Venerable acts headline locally this weekend

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor The Legendary Pink Dots There are five musical acts playing around the Delaware Valley on October 12 that are very, very different musically but have one major aspect in common – longevity. The Legendary Pink Dots – an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in 1980 – have found a genre all their own. Although far outside the mainstream, LPD have...

On Stage: Getting out of that country rut

Aubrie Sellers and Carrie Rodriguez breaking the mold By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times Aubrie Sellers Country music these days has a glut of bland artists singing clichéd songs written in cookie-cutter style by Nashville songwriters and delivered onstage with predictable results. Thankfully, there are artists such as Aubrie Sellers and Carrie Rodriguez who are not afraid to break the mold...