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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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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Peter Hammill Plays Truth or Consequences
posted: June 27, 2012
What the hell is a Van der Graaf Generator anyway? That’s the question a lot of people were probably asking back in 1969, when the first album by a young British band of that name…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Boxing The English Beat With Dave Wakeling
posted: June 20, 2012
The late ˜70s and early ˜80s were a boom time for bands blending New Wave’s urgency and energy with the Jamaican rhythms of ska and reggae. The biggest-selling exponents of that musical merger were The…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Getting Drunk and Stupid With Dots Will Echo
posted: June 13, 2012
Dots Will Echo is a computer programming term and a duo from New Jersey. Dots Will Echo are melodic power-poppers and Crazy Horse-backing-Captain Beefheart sonic provocateurs. Dots Will Echo are a brand new band that’s…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: The Sufis Serve Up Some Southern Psych
posted: June 6, 2012
You don’t have to be stoned to be psychedelic. Sure, people tend to tag psychedelia as trippy, but that appellation has as much to do with the transporting quality of the best psychedelic music as…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Under the Covers With Counting Crows
posted: May 30, 2012
Counting Crows are a bunch of geeks…but in a good way. Granted, they found a way to connect with the mainstream successfully enough to become a multi-platinum band, but it’s always been pretty plain to…
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