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The Friday Mixtape: 5/01/09
Jeff Buckley – Kashmir from Live at l’Olympia (2001) The Tea Party – Save Me from Splendor Solis (1994) Orchestre National de Jazz – Black Dog from Close to Heaven: A Led Zeppelin Tribute
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: “Lie to Me”
Take a mid-list British actor — not a character actor exactly, but not traditional leading-man material either. Slap him with a permanently sour expression and a four-day beard, then cast him in a Fox
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Kirsty MacColl, “Kite”
In this week's installment of Popdose Flashback, Jack Feerick reminds us why no home should be without a copy of Kirsty MacColl's KiteRead More »
How Bad Can It Be?: “Nickelback: Live at Sturgis 2006″
Nickelback played the Sturgis bikers' rally in 2006, and now, a DVD commemorating the occasion is in stores. Jack Feerick asks the critical question: How bad can it be
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: Toward a New Jock-Rock Canon
The calendar may define it as March 21, but any baseball fan knows that Opening Day is the real first day of Spring. With a new season just kicking into gear, it’s time to
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: “Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration”
Rock ‘n’ roll and Gospel music have a long and contentious history, traditionally operating at odds to one another; and while it’s tempting to view that divide as entirely racial, that’s a needlessly reductive
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: “Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto”
Thank God for Ted Nugent. Seriously. The guy is a true patriot, and he has strong notions about America and what makes her great, which he lays out in his new(ish) book Ted, White,
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”
There’s a particular school of cultural critic — you know the kind — who are forever seeking signs that the world is going to hell in a bucket. One phenomenon that they decry with
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: “Live from Daryl’s House”
Let it be said, for starters, that Daryl Hall has a really nice house. It’s a rambling old place, somewhere in rural Pennsylvania. He needs to do something with the landscaping — the place
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