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Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 48
The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert's worth of Springsteen tunes.
Read More »CD Review: R.E.M., “Collapse Into Now”
With a new R.E.M. album in hand, Annie Zaleski tackles the difficult task of assessing the latest offering by her favorite band
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 10/22/10 — Peace and Love
Peace and love - they were meant to be together. With that in mind, Michael Fortes brings together a mix of 20 songs with "peace" and "love" in their titles
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: Gang War
Ed Murray is back with another chunk of lo-fi goodness, and this time, he's cranking up some live recordings from Wayne Kramer and Johnny Thunders' short-lived Gang War
Read More »Mix Six: “Spell It!”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE First off, let me say that “Y.M.C.A.” didn’t make the cut on this mix. Yeah, it’s a fun song, but chances are you’ve heard it a million times, and
Read More »Song-Off Jr.: Metaphorical Pie
“When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmmmmmmm, boy.” – Jack Handey Motley
Read More »Unsolicited Career Advice for… Michael Stipe
With this week's installment of Unsolicited Advice, Rob Smith's uncle Don Skwatzenschitz becomes the latest in a long line of people to try and figure out what's wrong with R.E.M.'s career
Read More »CD Review: Various Artists, “The Coolest Songs in the World! Vol. 8″
Various Artists – The Coolest Songs in the World! Vol. 8 (2009, Wicked Cool) Purchase this album (Amazon) Let us now praise famous do-rag-wearing guitarist/songwriter/deejay/record execs. Now, unless Clive Davis has a couple side
Read More »CD Review: Heartless Bastards, “The Mountain”
Erika Wennerstrom is a genuine force of nature. If you’re hearing her voice for the first time, you quickly realize that it qualifies as a revelation. If you’ve heard her before, you’ve been waiting
Read More »No Concessions: Seventies Highs — “Pineapple Express,” “Man on Wire,” and Patti Smith
If I ever run for office, and someone asks the drug-use question, I can honestly say I didn’t inhale. While pop-music critics are a Dionysian lot, snorting coke off groupies’ breasts, film critics are
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