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The Mexican is currently inside a trunk trying to sneak back into the United States after the Christmas holiday. Meanwhile, here are some oldies-but-goldies:
A friend of...
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To the best of drummer Victor DeLorenzo's recollection, when the Violent Femmes unleashed their own peculiar strain of punk-inspired folk on the Milwaukee club scene of the...
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Driven to Despair
The story behind the story: I wanted to thank Paul Rubin for this wonderful article I just read ("Jump Street," December 14). As I started to read, I...
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Watching the members of Cream retrace their steps, from Eric Clapton talking Ginger Baker into letting Jack Bruce join the band in 1966 to their acclaimed reunion in 2005, you...
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Imitation is most definitely the sincerest form of flattery. For a perfect example, look no further than local ska group The 2 Tone Lizard Kings. The eight-member outfit,...
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If any good can be said to have come of what Elvis Costello refers to here as "a fearsome chain of events started out by a mean-tempered woman called Katrina and ably assisted...
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When Sgt. Pepper first came out, one reviewer called it "George Martin's finest hour." He's had several cracks at cheapening that high-water mark, from producing the...
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Long before morphing into a three-headed disco machine, the Brothers Gibb recorded some of the weirdest head albums ever made. Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices ranked Bee...
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It's hard to say why anyone would think to cover Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats, a cover-heavy oddity whose appeal is based more on the spirit of friendship and drunken abandon...
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The cover shot shows Nas about to drop a black rose into hip-hop's open grave. But this is more a wake-up call than a eulogy, as though he's saying hip-hop may be going down,...
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Gwen Stefani is still pushing the limits of ridiculousness on The Sweet Escape; after all, it takes a person quite secure in her self-confidence to bring back yodeling as a...
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Essentially an indie rock mix CD, the Fast Food Nation soundtrack can hardly be expected to convey the power or force behind filmmaker Richard Linklater and writer Eric...
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By the time My Morning Jacket dropped the reverb-laden Southern art-rock classic Z in late 2005, they'd reached the point where Rolling Stone could safely proclaim them...
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Tom VandenAvond embodies everything that makes alt-country awesome. He's got a surly, drank-too-much-last-night-and-now-I-gotta-perform attitude, a killer take-no-shit slogan...
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Y'all might be going to some fancy-ass party or hipster hootenanny on Sunday, December 31, but as for us, we're going to Hell. More specifically, Club Hell's nocturnal New...
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Thursday 28 AZ 88: Mr. P-Body (synth pop, electro)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Camus: KURRENT_affairs with Pablo Gomez (electronic, rock, pop, avant-garde)
Club Central:...
