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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Fleshtones Are Too Wired To Retire
posted: June 15, 2011
These days, every other band with a fuzzbox and a copy of Nuggets can cop the garage-band tag; at this point, there’s plenty of precedent established for assimilating the spartan-but-searing sounds of ’60s garage rockers…
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Q&A With The Bouncing Souls
posted: May 17, 2011
There are plenty of ways to commemorate a successful career: compilation albums, tribute concerts, limited-edition merch…and if you aren’t a musician, probably an office party with ice cream cake. But the Bouncing Souls are one-upping…
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Neuman's Own: How Did Cancer Become Punk Rock?
posted: May 17, 2011
Ten years ago, a bed-stricken Joey Ramone, secretly suffering from complications from the lymphoma he had been battling since 1996, decided to plan a huge blowout for his 50th birthday. Sadly, Joey died a little…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Iggy Pop's Road Rage
posted: May 4, 2011
The attention-grabbing image on the front cover of the new Iggy Pop box set, Roadkill Rising, offers an apt”if a bit unsettling”visual metaphor for the punk patriarch’s career. It’s a pulp-horror-style illustration of an undead-looking…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: CBGB Survivor Ivan Julian And The Art Of Spleen Reveal
posted: March 30, 2011
Ivan Julian‘s name has been attached to so many high-profile projects over the last three-and-a-half decades, from Richard Hell & The Voidoids‘ milestone debut album, Blank Generation, to The Clash‘s Sandinista! and Matthew Sweet‘s Girlfriend,…
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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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