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Riff, Rants & Rumors: The Smithereens Strike Back
posted: April 6, 2011
There are few clichés in the rock world as hoary and dust-laden as the return to form, a phrase that’s most often employed by artists well past their expiration date desperately trying to recapture their…
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Neuman's Own: Baseball Recordings No Longer Inside Baseball
posted: March 28, 2011
No sport has a sacred soundtrack like baseball. Baseball has inspired a litany of songs that go back to the origins of the game itself. To be sure, other sports have inspired music, but so…
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Sound And Vision: Can R.E.M. Rock The Charts Again With "Collapse Into Now"?
posted: March 4, 2011
If you read the title, and you’re still with me, maybe there’s hope. R.E.M.’s publicity machine might be working. Twenty years ago, for a brief window in the early ’90s before grunge took over, the…
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Thursday, March 3, 2010
posted: March 3, 2011
Lil Wayne gets caught in a dream Britney Spears promises: “The bitch is back and better than ever!” Keith Richards’ daughter arrested for drugs, guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the hard partying tree…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Cars Are Coming Back!
posted: February 16, 2011
Look, this is 2011 after all”you’d think it would be safe to assume that every ’80s band with an inclination to reunite would have done so by now. After all, over the last year we’ve…
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Viewer Discretion Advised: La Blogotheque – The Take Away Shows
posted: August 12, 2010
No doubt about it, the Internet provides hours upon hours of mind-numbing entertainment. And while I’ve personally never been one of those people who becomes absorbed in watching coordinated dance moves or dads getting hit…
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