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The Best Social Media Sites You Might Not Be On Yet
posted: February 10, 2012
Since you’re reading this post in a publication that is distributed through a music discovery Web site, there’s a good chance that you’re pretty familiar with the ins and out of the Internet. You’re on Facebook, maybe…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: 2011 in the Rearview Mirror
posted: December 14, 2011
You didn’t think RR&R would torture you with anything as tedious as another year-end Best-of list, did you? Granted, we do have a piece in the works that will inform you of some excellent albums…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Rockin' Holiday Gift Guide
posted: December 7, 2011
The holiday season is supposed to appeal to all of our finer instincts as sentient earthlings ”at least that’s the idea that’s been inculcated in us practically since birth. So why is its annual arrival…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Hank Williams III's Hankering For Metal
posted: September 21, 2011
Things could have been much easier for Shelton Hank Williams, better known as Hank Williams III, if only he was willing to play ball and give Nashville what it wanted from him. Just imagine the…
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The EditoriaList: Top Ten Singers-Turned-Actor
posted: September 8, 2011
Once you’re a hugely successful musician, with lots of people telling you how awesome you are, making the leap into acting (or painting, or politics, or baseball, or aviation, or molecular biology) must seem like…
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Vocal Points: Good Voice/Bad Voice
posted: August 21, 2011
In the music world, people toss around the term, “bad singer” pretty regularly. While artists in the public eye are familiar with public scrutiny, criticism as bold as “___ artist can’t sing”, can be tough to swallow. Obviously if…
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