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Nirvana Celebrates HoF Induction With Surprise Club Performance
posted: April 11, 2014
The remaining members of Nirvana bolted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction as soon as it ended, heading over to Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus to play a 16-song set. Standing in for departed frontman…
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Low-Country Seduction
posted: November 28, 2011
Coles Whalen is a woman who makes things happen. When she wanted to jumpstart her music career she bought a pickup truck, toured the country and sold CDs out of the back. Then, when opportunity…
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The EditoriaList: Ten Totally Righteous Covers
posted: October 20, 2011
A friend of mine suggested some good ground rules for this one: You have to strip out covers of old blues tunes (sorry Stones and Beatles). Also strip out cover bands (sorry Joe Cocker and Nouvelle…
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The EditoriaList: Top Ten Fictional Music Movies
posted: July 21, 2011
The EditoriaList is the devious brainchild of one Scott Janovitz, who will use this space to summarize, in convenient list form, the best and worst of whatever occurs to him. Anything related to music, anyway.…
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Music As Marketing: Dialing Up Lady Gaga’s “Telephone"
posted: October 12, 2010
Q: If a Tweet falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? A: Who cares. Why debate philosophical malarkey while Justin Bieber is out there hogging…
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It's Serious
posted: August 18, 2010
Girl In A Coma came together in high school over a mutual love of the Smiths (thus the name), but it was arguably Joan Jett, not Morrissey, who sealed their fate by introducing them to…
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