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Way Out Wednesday: Rerun Rock
This week’s selections are from an album called Rerun Rock. The concept for this album is this: How would classic TV theme songs sound if they were performed by famous singers? The first one
Read More »Mix Six: “Hey, That Sounds Like …”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE One morning, Joe Satriani woke up to 40 text messages on his cell phone. After scrolling through 40 variations of “holy schet u got ripped off,” Joe texted back
Read More »The Friday Linkfest: 01/09/09
Boston.com’s Big Picture visits the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival; The Onion A.V. Club’s Hater returns to action; VH1′s remaining viewers have voted on the 100 greatest hard rock songs, and the
Read More »Listening Booth: The Gaslight Anthem, “The ’59 Sound”
Certain albums deserve to be heard outside the confines of small headphone speakers and cranked through the stereos of traveling cars speeding down the freeway. The ’59 Sound, the sophomore release from New Jersey’s
Read More »Danny
The news of Danny Federici’s death has sent my mind reeling back over the dozens of E Street Band shows that I’ve seen over the years. But the one I kept going back to
Read More »Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Ghosts, Phantoms and Spirits in the Night
Indianapolis, Indiana-Conseco Fieldhouse March 20, 2008 When I see a concert, I hope that the artist resonates in a way that moves you beyond the two or three hour performance. There are nights where
Read More »Farewell, Danny
The first thing thing that came to mind when I heard that Danny Federici had passed was the chorus of “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” This song, more than any other song in
Read More »Basement Songs, Long-Play Edition: Bruce Springsteen, “The Rising”
Bruce Springsteen released his 12th studio album, The Rising, at the tail end of July 2002. With the U.S. still reeling from the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks and stories of fallen soldiers in the headlines,
Read More »Lost MP3 of the Week: Bruce Springsteen, “Red Headed Woman”
The best thing about St. Patrick’s Day – aside from that whole drinking thing – is that it’s a day to be especially proud about redheadedness. A long time ago, the Seattle alternative weekly
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