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Sound and Vision: Why Lana Del Rey Might Be the Most Important Thing to Happen in Pop Since Adele
posted: March 9, 2012
On the subject of short-lived stardom, Andy Warhol said it best: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” Surely in 1968, when Warhol uttered that soon-to-be immortal prediction, he couldn’t have foreseen the…
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Sound And Vision: Justin Timberlake as Elton John and Six Other Wish-List Music Biopics
posted: October 14, 2011
Every great screen biography of a music superstar needs three key ingredients to really sing: 1) An icon with the greatest story never told. 2) A talented lead actor or actress gunning for an Oscar nomination”singing…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Take A Trip With Jesse Sykes, White Hills And Wooden Shjips
posted: July 6, 2011
If you think modern-day psychedelic rock is all about paisley-bedecked revivalists stomping on fuzzboxes with their carefully maintained Beatle boots, forging facsimiles of every riff contained on the Nuggets box”not that there’s anything wrong with…
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