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Ricky Skaggs' Opens His Musical "Treasure Chest"

posted: January 27, 2011

The multiple Grammy Award winner will play some of his biggest country hits for the first time in 14 years.
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Straight Shooters

posted: January 26, 2011

Some people might think that Noelle LeBlanc was crazy to walk away from her frontwoman duties for breakout Boston band Damone, just as things were starting to take off. But after hearing her new band,…
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Get Lyrical: Mason Proper's "Fog"

posted: January 26, 2011

Mason Proper is trying to trick you. The group’s catalog is full of songs that sound like they could be about romance. Tracks like Fog, Lock and Key, and Downpour seem to be bursting with…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Social Distortion's Mike Ness – Punk Survivor

posted: January 26, 2011

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Riffs, Rants & Rumors, a new weekly column where we’ll survey the sweet and the sour, the sublime and the ridiculous, the tragic and the triumphal, from all across…
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Lemmy Laughs Last: Heavy Metal Hero Revels In His Renaissance

posted: January 25, 2011

The flurry of activity currently surrounding legendary Motí¶rhead frontman/rock & roll survivor Lemmy (Ian Kilmister if you’re writing him a check) has lately put the man with the most famous mole and muttonchops in the…
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Cold War Kids: The Next Stage

posted: January 25, 2011

Just five years ago, the soul- and roots- influenced howl of Nathan Willett and his band Cold War Kids was a sound only heard by a tiny group of LA thrift-store in-kids. But in the…
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