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EditoriaList: 10 Best And Worst Super Bowl Halftime Performances
posted: February 1, 2013
The Super Bowl Halftime Show is generally an overblown spectacle, with historically varying degrees of even the most basic acceptability. Let’s do this. Worst 2000: PHIL COLLINS, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, TONI BRAXTON I don’t…
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Exclusive Q and A: Free Energy Talk Irony, Romance, Rebellion
posted: January 8, 2013
Philly-based indie rock outfit Free Energy have been bringing classic rock riffs back since the mid 2000s, when three-fifths of their members were part of Minnesota hometown heroes Hockey Night. With Love Sign, the band’s follow-up…
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Your Country's Right Here: Lindi Ortega Talks 'Cigarettes and Truck Stops' yet Keeps her 'Little Red Boots' Firmly on the Ground
posted: October 4, 2012
Lindi Ortega’s sound has taken a long dip into the blues, but she’s still got the soul of a country girl. Talking by phone from her mother’s Toronto home, she talked about how her 2011…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Shoes Are Back on Their Feet Again
posted: July 4, 2012
When the rolls of power-pop royalty are read, before one can go back to early-˜70s ur-power-pop bands like Big Star and Badfinger, you have to hail the genre’s late-˜70s/early-˜80s heyday. Among the handful of acts…
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Dave Grohl To Direct And Produce 'Sound City'
posted: May 2, 2012
Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters is set to helm a documentary about the famed Sound City Studios located in Van Nyus, California. As reported by Variety, Grohl was inspired to make the film after…
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Sound And Vision: Strange Bedfellows — The Best of Music's Unlikely Collaborations
posted: December 16, 2011
“I get high with a little help from my friends,” Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles‘ 1967 classic. These days, so do many of music’s top stars. Two’s company, and so is three and sometimes…
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