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Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson Steps Out
posted: May 23, 2012
Scottish indie-pop icons Belle and Sebastian have never exactly been publicity hounds. They’ve continually avoided putting their photos on their album covers and even routinely leave their names out of their album credits. But their…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Gregg Allman's Triumphs and Trip-Ups
posted: May 16, 2012
In Gregg Allman‘s new autobiography, My Cross To Bear, the man who has helmed The Allman Brothers Band since their inception in 1969 reflects on the wins, losses and draws he has experienced in his…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Glenn Tilbrook's Squeeze Play
posted: May 9, 2012
In the late ’70s, Squeeze was a quirky crew of new wave weirdos with a string of strange hits (“Take Me, I’m Yours,” “Cool For Cats,” “Slap and Tickle”) in England and low-key cult-hero status…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Can Rewrites Krautrock History
posted: May 2, 2012
It’s hard to tell now whether the term “krautrock””originally concocted by the British music weeklies as a catch-all for the experimentally-minded bands coming out of Germany in the beards-and-bellbottoms era ”was intended derisively or not,…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: The dB's Amp It Up Again
posted: April 25, 2012
It only took Francis Ford Coppola two years to follow The Godfather with Godfather II. Even less time separated Charles Dickens’ last serialized installment of David Copperfield and his first for Bleak House. Sometimes artists…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Is fun. Having Fun Yet?
posted: April 18, 2012
First things first”while the official spelling of the band’s name is fun., with a lowercase “f” and a period at the end, the New York trio can not be held entirely accountable for the highly…
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