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Dw. Dunphy On… The Easy Way Out
Dw. Dunphy has returned with a new column -- and as it turns out, he's all fired up about these damn kids, with their Rock Band, and their fancy knobs and buttons and whatnot
Read More »Caught on Tape: Slash and Burn
The interview is set for 2:00 PM. At a quarter ‘til, the black hat, cascading curls, and nose ring saunter through the management office’s front doors. The receptionist raises eyes from a computer monitor
Read More »Caught on Tape: Jimmy Page and the Plane Truth
In this week's edition of Caught on Tape, Steven Rosen journeys back to 1977, and his time spent in the eye of the Led Zeppelin hurricane
Read More »Live Music: Akron/Family @ Union Pool, 3/29/09
“Everyone is guilty,” Akron/Family sang at their second gig at Union Pool, but if their performance was any indication, that fact isn’t getting to them. The bi-city band, based in New York as well
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: John Cephas, 1930-2009
Last summer, I gave y’alls a Cephas & Wiggins Cold Shot that had no news peg, no current-events hook that made it relevant to that time, just a nice little cut to get you
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Los Lobos, “That Train Don’t Stop Here”
Los Lobos‘ 1992 album Kiko is nothing short of fabulous. A tour de force of primitive rhythms, Latino percussion, gorgeous acoustic and muddy electric guitars, and melodic variance of epic Sgt. Pepper scale. Oh,
Read More »Mix Six: “Oh So Middle School”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Do you remember you middle school years? For old codgers like me, middle school was called “junior high” and yes, it was also den of conflicting emotions, big changes
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