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After canceling two shows last week due to “medical reasons,” Aretha Franklin has announced she’s taking off the month of June and will resume her scheduled tour in July, according to Rolling Stone.

A spokesperson for Franklin said that the 71-year-old singer will reschedule her two dates from May 20th in Chicago and May 26th in Connecticut and pick up the remainder of her tour in July.

Franklin announced the canceled dates earlier this month to seek medical treatment under doctor’s recommendations for an unspecified health issue. This isn’t the first time the Queen of Soul had to postpone shows due to medical reasons in recent years. Franklin previously canceled a tour in 2010 to undergo surgery for a pain her side, which sparked rumors that she was seeking treatment for pancreatic cancer.

Though her health has posed some interference with shows in the past, Franklin has never been interested in divulging specific details of her health with the media. After her surgery in 2010, Franklin told Jet magazine that she doesn’t “talk about my health with anybody other than my doctors” and only revealed that “the problem has been resolved.”

Last week, Franklin appeared in good health when performing on the season finale of American Idol via satellite singing a medley of her greatest hits with the female finalists.

– Britt Bickel, K-EARTH Los Angeles

Giorgio Moroder DJs for the first time ever. (Matthew Ismael Ruiz for Radio.com)

A giddy old man is onstage, smiling from ear to ear. He’s spent the last few minutes retelling the soon-to-be familiar tale of how he became a musician — a truncated version of the three-hour interview he recorded for Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories, which dropped yesterday (May 21).

From the booth at Williamsburg, Brooklyn, nightclub Output, the 73-year-old spins a tale of recording “Love to Love You Baby” with Donna Summer, kicking everyone out of the studio and dimming the lights so she would feel inspired enough to moan just right.

And soon enough, he says the words that so many on the floor came to hear: “My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but you can call me Giorgio” (just slightly different than how he phrases it on the record). With that, the beat for Daft Punk’s “Giorgio by Moroder” drops, and the staggeringly brutal sound system at Output carries Giorgio Moroder into the future.

On the eve of Random Access Memories’ release, it seemed odd to be celebrating an Italian producer whose connection to the record was at most tangential, if influential. But his influence on disco and funk (and subsequently, Daft Punk) is undeniable, evidenced by the rousing cheers for his spin of the aforementioned Donna Summer classic.

The party that hosted Giorgio is called Deep Space, a Monday night jam hosted by Paradise Garage and Studio 54 veteran Francois K that’s become a fixture in Manhattan’s West Village. This particular event was put on by the Red Bull Music Academy, and the crowd skewed young — a room filled with twenty- and thirtysomethings gawking at a senior citizen who made the records their parents got wild to in the discotheques. The music had transcended generations.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will unveil its newest exhibit this Friday, May 24th.

Titled Rolling Stones: 50 Years Of Satisfaction, the exhibit will chronicle the band from the very beginning to present through artifacts from private collections and band members.

Carl Harp from our sister station WNCX in Cleveland took a tour of the exhibit earlier this week; here is his report:

“As visitors exit the escalator on the museum’s 4th floor, they are greeted by several video screens with around 100 still photos and music on a 9-minute loop.

The entrance to Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Satisfaction on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum’s 5th floor. (Photo Credit: Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX

Visitors then move up the stairs to the fifth floor, where a giant mouth with drapes for a tongue mark the entrance to the exhibit. Among other things, you’ll see vintage photos of Rolling Stones members, memorabilia from the band’s late keyboardist/road manager Ian Stewart, and records from Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters on display in the “roots section.”

MORE: See a full photo gallery from the Rolling Stones exhibit.

Digital installations are placed throughout the exhibit giving visitors the opportunity to interact and learn more about the band, their place in music history, and innovative impact. iPads programs enable you to dig deeper into the music, explaining Jagger/Richards’ songwriting approach and describes how the Stones were able to take popular techniques and styles of various time periods, like disco and funk, and convert them to their formula. During the press-only tour, the museum’s Director of Education, Jason Hanley, demonstrated the interactive iPads by showing off a video presentation and “Guitar Hero-like” graphics that dissect individual songs.

The Rolling Stones’ Mellotron on display in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum. (Photo Credit: Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX)

The items on display on the fifth floor move throughout the Stones’ early years, ending right around 1970. Visitors will see how the band transitioned from playing mostly cover music, to originals. Featured artifacts include signed merchandise like toy guitars, a Brian Jones dulcimer used on Aftermath‘s “Lady Jane” and “I Am Waiting”, a Sgt. Pepper-esque military jacket, the Mellotron (an early analog predecessor to the synthesizer) used on “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” drawings from the Stones’ drummer and art director Charlie Watts, the red shirt worn by Keith Richards when the band played Altamont, and a poem written by Jim Morrison following the death of Brian Jones.

Rehearsal song lists from the 2002-2003 Rolling Stones Licks Tour on display in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum. (Photo Credit: Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX)

As visitors move up the spiral staircase to the sixth floor, various takes on the “tongue and lip design” are pasted on the walls – one with spikes or thorns on the tongue, another with a nail driven through it, and the standard design are included. More memorabilia line the walls of the top floor where the exhibit starts where the fifth floor left off and moves to present day. You will see where Ronnie Wood was made a member of the band after the departure of Mick Taylor, the Lotus flower stage design from the 1975 tour, various clothing worn by Jagger and Richards, instruments, and even the rehearsal song lists on dry erase boards from the 2002-2003 Licks Tour.

Fans and visitors are asked to contribute to a fan-generated interactive exhibition through photos of memorabilia, artwork, Rolling Stones concerts and more. The content will populate a multimedia display in the Rolling Stones exhibit and online. You can contribute to the submission feed by uploading original photos and using the hashtag #rockhallsatisfaction on Twitter and Instagram.

The exhibit opens May 24th and runs through March 2014.

- Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX

If you have seen the movie Be Kind Rewind then you are familiar with the term sweded. If you haven’t seen the film, sweded basically means homemade.

Check out this sweded version of the Alien chestburster from Homemade movies above.

Check out this video below for a side-by-side comparison of the original scene and the sweded scene.

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Butt-dialing is never good and almost always embarrassing.

Two thieves were up to no good when one’s cell phone accidentally dialed 911. According to the Huffington Post, the dispatcher listened in for awhile when she got no answer but could still hear voices on the other end of the line. When the two thieves began talking about breaking into a car and where they could obtain drugs, she dispatched a police car to find the pair.

The dispatcher remained on the line until Nathan Teklemariam and Carson Rinehart, both 20, were arrested. On the phone, the two men can be heard wondering why a cop was following them.

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Thirsty and on the run? The police can wait a few while you grab a cold one.

A 21-year-old Andrew Fatzinger was caught early Sunday morning looting a home in Lighthouse Point, Florida and vandalizing it with graffiti and mustard. According to the Huffington Post, he’d also been filling a suitcase with laptops, medications, and other electronics. He fled when he spotted police, which turned into a ground and helicopter chase.

A deputy in the helicopter says he watched Fatzinger dart into a second house and come back out with two bottle of beer in hand. Sadly, he didn’t have time to drink them as he later discarded the beverages while trying to get away.

A K-9 eventually cornered the man, but he allegedly punched the dog. He was finally apprehended and charged with burglary, grand theft, striking a police dog, and resisting arrest with violence.

The owner of the pilfered beer bottles is also seeking to press charges.

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Carl Harp from sister station WNCX was at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame yesterday to view a preview of the soon-to-open Rolling Stones exhibit. But while he was there, he spoke to Howard Kramer, the Hall Of Fame’s Curatorial Director about the sudden passing of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.

Six years ago, to celebrate the Doors’ 40th anniversary, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum presented “Break on Through: The Lasting Legacy of the Doors,” which Kramer worked on. When asked about his initial thoughts about Ray’s passing, Kramer took a deep breath and said, “I was deeply saddened. I worked with Ray on the Doors exhibit and I spent a lot of time with him and his wife Dorothy. I went to their home, and I feel like I got to know him and his brother Rick.” He continued, “I had no idea he was sick and it really caught me by surprise.”

Certainly considered more than a friend, Howard dug deeper into his relationship with Manzarek and the influence of the Doors.

“Ray was really talented and insightful guy. I think the Doors are often lumped together with a lot of other groups from ‘67, or became popular in ’67, like the (Grateful) Dead or the (Jefferson) Airplane, and that sort of thing. But they were very different. They were rooted in blues and rhythm and blues a lot more than those other bands, their contemporaries, particularly the San Francisco bands. They were truly an product of Los Angeles, not a product of San Francisco. And that’s one of the reasons I think they stuck out.”

“Their music had a different type of root than the people who are considered their contemporaries.”

The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, when, for the first time, the ceremony was held in Los Angeles – the Doors’ hometown. Twenty-years later, Kramer recounted the ceremony, even though he has only seen video.

“I was a pretty interesting thing. It was one of the last times that the three surviving guys played together. Having Eddie Vedder there, who in many people’s estimation, certainly filled the mantle that Morrison had in terms of being a charismatic front man.”

Visitors to the Rock Hall can still see Manzarek’s VOX keyboard and a drum head cover from Rick & The Ravens, the band Manzarek played in prior to the Doors. A photograph and biography will be added in the “In Memoriam” section on the museum’s 4th floor.

– Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX

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Good Guy of the Year award should go to Zach Galifianakis. He took a woman that he rescued from homelessness as his date to the premiere of “The Hangover: Part 3″.

According to Huffington Post, Galifianakis  met Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist when he first moved to Los Angeles in the 90s. She was working in his local laundromat for tips. He befriended the woman, but it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that he learned that the 87-year-old woman was homeless.

He found her an apartment and began paying the bills. He even began taking her to his movie premieres, including the recent premiere of “The Hangover: Part 3.”

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If you want to know how to make your dog stop digging in the yard and freaking out every time it rains, be sure to check out dog whisperer Cesar Millan NEXT Thursday night at the Winspear Opera House!

You can look for those tickets right here.

And we’ll admit it, we HATED grunge for killing the ’80s rock scene!

We still cringe whenever we hear Skid Row followed by Nirvana on the radio…

But if we MUST do grunge, we do Soundgarden!!

We dug their music, but more importantly, we dug Chris Cornell!

See what we mean this weekend at the Palladium Ballroom as Soundgarden prepares to release a new album.

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If you checked out the Bluebonnet Festival down in Ennis and really liked it, you now have ANOTHER chance to party south of the Metroplex this Memorial Day weekend at the 47th annual National Polka Festival!

Just go here to find out more about it.

THIS band was heavily influenced by the Beatles and got their name after attending a Slade concert, where one of the guys commented the band used “every cheap trick in the book” as part of their act.

Yep, it’s Cheap Trick, and they’ll be at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie on June 21st!

That’s a Friday night, so you can stay out late!

Click on the player below to hear Tasha play “I Want You to Want Me” on the accordion:

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