Andrew Marcus
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11 years ago | Music News
Joe Ely was born along the Rock Island line in Amarillo, three blocks from Route 66. At age 6, he witnessed Jerry Lee Lewis pounding a piano on the back of a flatbed truck. In his early twenties, he picked up a hitchhiking Townes Van Zandt, the no...
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12 years ago | Local Wire
While it's tempting to compare the Hidden Cameras' Joel Gibb with other literate gay singer-songwriters, if Rufus Wainwright or Stephin Merritt were to sing about the joys of anal penetration or swallowing urine, it would be nothing short of hilar...
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12 years ago | Local Wire
The Clash may have scavenged the past for inspiration calypso, Beat poets, film idols, rockabilly, the Spanish civil war but never for the sake of nostalgia. And while boxed sets sometimes embalm history, this one suggests the spirit...
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12 years ago | Local Wire
We'll take the esteemed word of Vogue along with reports of Karl Lagerfeld's collection of 60,000 CDs as evidence that this two-disc comp of the iconic fashion designer's "favorite songs" isn't the product of a focus group. But there...
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12 years ago | Local Wire
The last time you encountered Native American music, you were probably in the middle of a deep-tissue massage. Long Winter Nights, on the other hand, should be blazing over the PA at a bustling pub. This is round dance music raw, joyous dru...
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12 years ago | Music News
In the 1997 Groovie Ghoulies song "Graveyard Girlfriend," bassist/vocalist Kepi sings, "One day I'll lay next to you in a beautiful coffin built for two." And sure enough, according to guitarist Roach, Kepi's graveyard girlfriend actually h...
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