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This CD is like an old, crusty friend who jams safety pins through his nostril, shaves his pubic hair into an anarchy symbol, and makes coffee with the water from hot dog...
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Candy Nobody Wants
Coward of the county: Funny column by The Bird on Andy Thomas. I can't believe this guy was cowering inside his office under armed guards during the...
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Tramps & Thieves' first full-length release (with a whopping 16 tracks) is a lot more rockin' than the band's 2004 Mill Avenue Cowboys EP, with fewer acoustic moments and more...
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Bad Religion singer Greg Graffin gets old-timey on Cold As the Clay, an unplugged sophomore solo LP that mixes original songs with similar Deadwood-era tunes like the...
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"We ain't no Harajuku Girls/We just straight-up rock 'n' roll," Puffy AmiYumi sings on "Call Me What You Like," the opening track from their eighth studio album. The song...
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You could do a lot worse than to listen to this trio of DJ/producers from Holland all summer. After a string of sought-after 12-inch singles on London's Jalapeno Records,...
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As a teenager, John Lee Hooker Jr. was a featured player in John Lee Sr.'s road show, and then spent the next 20 years fighting the demons of drugs, drink, divorce, and jail....
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India.Arie has always sounded a little too much like the musical equivalent of Oprah. The singer-songwriter's music (best exemplified by her debut, Acoustic Soul) has always...
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The first time Tom Petty decided to cut a solo record with Jeff Lynne of ELO producing, it ended up being his biggest collection of pop hits since Damn the Torpedoes. While...
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Anthony Hamilton hasn't had an easy time of it. His first release was shelved when Uptown Records hit the skids. And then, after proving himself a critical darling with sales...
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Second only to the fabled Sports Illustrated cover jinx is the curse of Winona Ryder, whereby most musicians who date the actress Dave Pirner, Adam Duritz, Evan Dando,...
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Of all the labels to be unfairly saddled with, the oxymoronic "Christian punk" tag has dogged this Pacific Northwest trio for more than a decade. Sure, these fine,...
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When Social Distortion first started cranking out punkabilly anthems like "Mommy's Little Monster" in the early '80s, punk hadn't yet pogo'd into the realm of pop-culture...
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Caleb Engstrom is old enough for you to buy him a drink, but young enough for you to still feel guilty about it. This 21-year-old Iowa City boy is living the dream. He dropped...
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The turntable scene here in the PHX seems pretty fucking fickle sometimes, as DJs repeatedly relocate their record-spinning gigs from club to club or pull the plug on...
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Thursday 27Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40)
Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with DJ Jeremy (goth, industrial)
Baja Tilly's: DJs Richy Rich and Big...
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1. The Format, Dog Problems (Nettwerk Records)
2. Rise Against, Sufferer and the Witness (Geffen Records)
3. Thom Yorke, The Eraser (XL Recordings)
4. Hinder, Extreme...