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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Mike Watt – From Minutemen to Rock Opera
posted: February 9, 2011
Like almost everything else Mike Watt does, even his way of answering the phone is full of endearingly offbeat humor and quirky charisma; the first ring is barely over when the alt-rock icon picks up…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Henry Rollins Hits 50
posted: February 2, 2011
For Henry Rollins, 2.13.61 is a loaded number. Being his birthdate, it means he’s about to hit the half-century mark. It’s also the name of the indie operation he started back when he was fronting…
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Q&A With Anti-Flag
posted: February 1, 2011
With songs like You’ve Got To Die For Your Government, Bring Out Your Dead, and Free Nation?, Anti-Flag has represented their anti-war stance and left-leaning politics since the band was founded in 1988. They also…
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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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Metal Monday: Metal For Pirates, By Pirates
posted: January 24, 2011
While there have been many genres of music that specifically target one group of people as their audience” be it goth, punks or scene”no genre of music has quite done it like pirate metal (not…
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