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BACKTRACKING FORWARD: WHITE BOY BLUES
posted: September 3, 2009
When one thinks of blues music, images of cramped, smoke-filled bars and weathered black musicians belting out throaty songs as they fret on their worn guitars inevitably come to mind. The names Muddy Waters, Otis…
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HEY! YOU GOT ELECTRONICA IN MY ROCK MUSIC!
posted: September 2, 2009
Artists listing laptops as members of their group; bands inducing genre-tags such as “nintendocore” “ what could have possibly led to this? You may not believe it, but today’s electronica started back in the day.…
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Q&A … AND GENERAL CONVERSATION… WITH ?UESTLOVE
posted: September 1, 2009
Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson, drummer extraordinaire and co-founder of the hardest working hip hop band, The Roots, talks with OurStage during a break from taping the Jimmy Fallon Show. Beside touring all over the world, The…
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METAL MONDAY: WHY ARE TOOL FANS SO OBSESSED WITH TOOL?
posted: August 31, 2009
No matter what the genre, each music scene seems to have a band notorious for its overly obsessive fans. For the jam band crowd, Phish gets this accolade; for college rock, Dispatch might get the…
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OMNIVORE'S DELIGHT 2: DOUBLE DIPPING
posted: August 29, 2009
The last decade has seen a veritable spate of actors, seemingly driven by outsized egos strive for the coveted occupational / after their names”as in Actor / Sommelier / Perfumer turned Hip-Hop Artist/Pop Star/ MC/…
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BACKTRACKING FORWARD: WANTED ON WAX
posted: August 27, 2009
In my ideal world, everyone would have access to a vinyl press in their own backyard. Cutting discs would be as easy as ripping a CD. Until that happens, I will be digging each month…
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