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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Chris Barron – The Spin Doctor Is In
posted: October 19, 2011
1991 was a strange year in the mainstream rock & roll world. The hair-metal sounds that had dominated radio and MTV since the late ˜80s were on their way out, but the grunge revolution had…
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Soundcheck: 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards: Scathing Cyphers, Political Points, and Missing Winners
posted: October 18, 2011
The 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards was filmed in Atlanta on October 1 and aired on BET last week. Packed with powerful performances and full of surprises, the show offered the world a glimpse of…
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Ten Artists to Watch at CMJ 2011… Based Solely on Their Names
posted: October 18, 2011
There are lots of things we love about indie artists here on OurStage. Their ambition, will-power and outright determination to do whatever it takes to make it are some of the things we admire most.…
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Artists-In-Occupation: Musicians And #OccupyWallStreet
posted: October 17, 2011
The tradition of protest music has a long, rich tradition in America. From nascent beginnings in the early twentieth century and the labor movement to the great civil rights protest songs of the ’60s to…
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Discourse & Dischord
posted: October 14, 2011
The Good Super Bass sensation Sophia Grace meets Ms. Minaj If yours isn’t one of the 7 million-plus views of Sophie Grace Brownlee’s rendition of Super Bass on YouTube, well, shame on you. The 8-year-old…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Daryl Hall Puts the Soul in Solo
posted: October 12, 2011
Right off the bat, the most difficult thing to get past is the impossibly youthful visage. Daryl Hall is, after all, now sixty-five years of age. In some lines of work, he might be looking…
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