June 10, 2011 - This year's Life is Good Festival has enlisted performers Ray LaMontagne, The Avett Brothers, Michael Franti and Spearhead and The Levon Helm Band to help raise money for kids facing life-threatening challenges.
June 2, 2011 - Ray LaMontagne's story isn't exactly a rags-to-riches tale, but since leaving his job in a Maine shoe factory to pursue his calling as a musician, he has released three studio albums and two live EPs, won awards and topped critics' polls internationally, and established himself as one of the most distinctive voices on the contemporary music scene.
March 9, 2011 - Details about first of four music festivals planned for this year by the Dave Matthews Band were unveiled Wednesday (3/9) during a press conference in Atlantic City, NJ, which will host the event June 24-26 at Bader Field, the former home of the Atlantic City Municipal Airport.
September 1, 2010 - With the nation's No. 1 single already secured, Katy Perry shoots straight to the top of the album-sales chart this week. Perry's "Teenage Dream" sold 192,000 copies during the week that ended Aug. 29, enough for her first No. 1 album, according to data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
August 25, 2010 - Veteran performers stormed the U.S. album-sales chart this week, though none posed much of a threat to Eminem's "Recovery," the only album to sell more than 100,000 copies in the week that ended Aug. 22.
April 2, 2010 - Singer/songwriters Ray Lamontagne and David Gray have lined up nearly a month's worth of summer co-headlining dates focusing on the amphitheater circuit.
This year's Life is Good Festival has enlisted performers Ray LaMontagne, The Avett Brothers, Michael Franti and Spearhead and The Levon Helm Band to help raise money for kids facing life-threatening challenges. 
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