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Sound And Vision: Six Artists I Love Although I Know I'm Not Supposed To
posted: October 7, 2011
Most of us probably would be loathe to admit it out loud, but we all have them: Singers and bands we love in spite of everybody else. They create music to our ears, while to…
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Sound And Vision: Rihanna Promises a New Album "This Fall" — Too Soon?
posted: September 30, 2011
As Benjamin Franklin once said (and I’m about to paraphrase dramatically), only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. Now we can add to that party of two another certainty: a new Rihanna…
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Sound And Vision: Can Florence + the Machine End 2011 Where Adele Started It (on Top)?
posted: September 23, 2011
Florence Welch must be in a state of extreme suspense right about now. And if she is, no one would understand how she feels better than Adele. At the dawn of 2011, Adele was in…
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Sound And Vision: It's the Same Old Song for Thespians Who Sing — and Chances Are It's Not a Hit!
posted: September 16, 2011
Though Susan Boyle helped make music’s mainstream safer for the mature crowd, her chart-life-begins-at-nearly fifty success story remains a rarity. But perhaps in the case of Jeff Bridges, who won an Oscar for playing an…
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Sound And Vision: Celebrity Feuds — Pop Is a Battlefield, World War II
posted: September 9, 2011
“Take back Vanessa Redgrave Take back Joe Piscopo Take back Eddie Murphy Give ’em all some place to go” ” Tom Petty, “Jammin’ Me” (1987) “Fuck Tom Petty!””Eddie Murphy Oh, those crazy stars! What will…
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Sound And Vision: Pop Goes the Previews — The Best and Worst of Fall Movie-Trailer Music
posted: September 2, 2011
Whoever invented the movie preview must be some kind of genius. Because of them, half the fun of seeing a movie on the big screen is getting there”to the main attraction, that is. It always…
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