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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Gary Numan
posted: January 4, 2012
“For me it’s the machine that works best,” says Gary Numan of the synthesizer, the instrument whose use in rock he helped to revolutionize back in the late ’70s. It’s an axe that has certainly…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Best Albums You Didn't Hear This Year
posted: December 28, 2011
As we’ve noted previously, the music press”both print and online”is so overloaded with year-end best-of lists that it almost seems more worthwhile to come up with a worst-of list, just for the sake of doing…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: From 'Sunfield' to 'Citizen' with Damien Youth
posted: December 21, 2011
In the murky, mysterious world of musical cult heroes, terms like “well-kept secret,” “hidden treasure” and the like are as common as logorrheics in a debate club; they’ve become so ubiquitous that they lose all…
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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: Can's Crowning Krautrock Moment
posted: November 30, 2011
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. So goes the famous maxim popularized by Vladimir Bartol‘s 1938 novel, Alamut, and attributed to eleventh century Persian revolutionary Hassan-i Sabbah. If there’s any album falling even nominally under…
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