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Twitter / fourstringheroWill they, or won’t they? It’s been a while since there’s been this much music biz speculation – the most recent brouhaha in regards to the release of the posthumous Michael Jackson concert video comes to mind – but everyone (or is it just journalists?) wants to know: will The Beatles catalogue ever be available [...]
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You know a singer must mean it – meaning, as The Oblivians sang years ago in “Live The Life”: ‘you’ve got to live the life that you sing about in your songs – when he asks his doctors to increase his defibrillator trigger’s heartbeats-per-minute from 192 BPMs because 192 is the rate at which one [...]
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Sebadoh was one of the bands that ushered indie rock into my life. The results of this usher-ence are mixed, but Sebadoh stuck with me. The triumvirate of Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock, Bubble & Scrape and Bakesale still stands pretty tall. Those first two records’ mixture of Eric Gaffney’s confusion/brilliance (Gaffney still [...]
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I’ve been immensely enjoying some jazz lately – something I don’t know much about – but I think the period that turns my crank the most must be the hard bop/free jazz/improv era between the late 50s and I guess the early 1970s? Although I’ve heard one Brantford Marsalis Quartet LP, The Beautiful Ones Are [...]
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I live in New York City, and right now the College Music Journal – simply, CMJ – music festival is in full throttle. This festival gives the stage to “imminent breakouts and moder-day heroes” and features, this year, 1,100 bands, according to the Times.
And yet, I don’t plan on attending a single show, conference, panel [...]
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I came across some Thomas Dolby footage on YouTube recently. How’d I get there? Well, I was writing about new Dolby 3D audio technology (Dolby the tech company, not Mr. Thomas) being developed for virtual worlds and online games, and I got to thinking, what happened to Thomas Dolby? Then of course I wikipedia-ed him, [...]
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For your listening ‘pleasure’, one of the most incendiary hardcore songs written:
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