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New Kids On The Block: Willow Smith and Diggy Simmons
posted: October 22, 2010
Move over Bieber¦there’s a new batch of fresh-faced, super-kids coming for your crown, and they’re packing some serious street cred. In addition to breakout internet stars like The Astronomical Kid (14-year-old Brooklynite Brian Bradley), two…
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Discourse & Dischord
posted: October 22, 2010
The Good Gordon Pinsent reads excerpts from Justin Bieber memoir Get your LOLs right here, folks. First up, a memoir written by a 16-year-old. Ha! And, it’s entitled First Step 2 Forever. The laughs don’t…
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The Theatrical Hip-Hop Revolution
posted: October 21, 2010
Despite signs that the revolution is under way, cultural elitists scoff audibly at the mention of hip hop vis-í -vis theater, musical theater and opera. In fact, the revolution began long ago”some say with the Greeks…
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Kings of Leon 'Come Around Sundown'
posted: October 21, 2010
Evolution can be a very languorous process. Except when it comes to Kings of Leon. The band’s fifth studio album hit stores Tuesday, coming off the heels of their smash Only By The Night, which…
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Smokeout Festival 2010: Music, Politics, Higher Learning
posted: October 19, 2010
The San Bernardino hills were alive with the sound of music (and the smell of some serious ganja) for the eleventh annual Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival, presented by Guerilla Union, this past Saturday. Forty thousand…
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Even Better Than The Real Thing, Baby: Tribute Bands for the Irony Age
posted: October 18, 2010
Once the domain of super-serious, straight-up cover bands like Sticky Fingers (The Stones), Crystal Ship (The Doors) and the thousands of Beatles covers bands who flourished after the Broadway musical Beatlemania made it cool to…
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