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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Tedeschi Trucks Band – Happily Wedded Wailers
posted: June 8, 2011
There have been a fair number of musical husband-and-wife rockers out there over the years, but how many can you name who already had successful solo careers before they started storming stages and studios in…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Burlap To Cashmere Bounces Back
posted: June 1, 2011
It’s not insignificant that Burlap to Cashmere‘s second album is self-titled. It’s usually a band’s debut album that bears this distinction, but in many ways, this seems like the maiden voyage of a new band.…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Joe Jackson Loves It Live
posted: May 25, 2011
For a guy like Joe Jackson, who’s got a trail of great songs that go all the way back to the late ’70s, it must be tough to strike a balance in his shows between…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumours: Battles Slim Down And Shine On 'Gloss Drop'
posted: May 18, 2011
When Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton quit the band about a year and a half ago to concentrate on his solo career, leaving behind an and-then-there-were-three scenario, it was certainly reasonable to assume that the move…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Ex-Bad Seed Mick Harvey Brings 'The Book Of The Dead'
posted: May 11, 2011
Over the last three decades, Mick Harvey has midwifed some of the most singular, striking works of the initial UK post-punk explosion and its subsequent aftershock waves. The Australian rocker is one of those bothersome…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Iggy Pop's Road Rage
posted: May 4, 2011
The attention-grabbing image on the front cover of the new Iggy Pop box set, Roadkill Rising, offers an apt”if a bit unsettling”visual metaphor for the punk patriarch’s career. It’s a pulp-horror-style illustration of an undead-looking…
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