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Keith Creighton
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Miss Kitten, aka: Caroline HervÁ© of Grenoble, France is the crushed red pepper of EDM (and before that, Electro Clash) — her seductive and delicious vocals spice up just about everything….
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With this, the fourth installment of our look at AM Gold: 1979, the Digging for Gold series comes to a close. Thanks to everyone for reading, listening, and mellowing with us!
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J.A. Bartlett
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Thanksgiving, the first American holiday and arguably the most unique, doesn’t get much respect anymore. It’s been reduced to a mere speed-bump on the way to Black Friday. Apart from…
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Keith Creighton
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I have no idea who I went to see at Hotel Cafe all those years ago, but it was impossible to forget the headline set by Kat Parsons. Impossibly gorgeous…
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Keith Creighton
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Imagine Roy Orbison fronting a band halfway between Arcade Fire and Delta Spirit and that lands you in the same zip code as upstart indie rockers Elim Bolt. “Farm Kid”…
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Keith Creighton
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Rain is the predominant metaphor on Susanna Hoffs’ stellar 2012 album, Someday, so it was only fitting that Seattle welcomed the Bangles star and her band with the year’s biggest…
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Zack Dennis
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We’re making a list. Help us check it twice! About eighteen months ago, we put together a list of (in our collective opinion) the 100 Greatest Cover Songs of All…
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Leslie Liberatore
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Perhaps one of the sexiest duets recorded. Diamond and Streisand are the definition of all that is chemistry.
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Mike Heyliger
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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Jam Master Jay’s death and a new compilation, Run-DMC gets the Jheri Curl Fridays treatment this week.
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Michael Parr
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It’s Friday, time to relax, hit shuffle, and play along with this week’s Friday Five!
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Dw. Dunphy
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A music reviewer learns a valuable lesson in not being a hypocrite.
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J.A. Bartlett
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Certain albums in this series present a particular challenge, as we’ve noted before: What can one say that’s fresh about some of the most famous albums ever recorded? For that,…
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Ken Shane
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The outstanding career of Bill Withers is finally getting some overdue recognition
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One more. Just one more installment of Digging for Gold after this week’s and our journey through Time-Life’s AM Gold series is at an end. Here we go with the third batch of tracks from AM Gold: 1979.
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Angela Zimmerman
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Only Leonard Cohen could transform a space as impersonal and corporately stamped as the HP Pavilion into a dazzling concert hall on a tired Wednesday night. Suburban yuppies filed in…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Don’t know Brainiac? That was as much a problem in the ’90s as it is now.
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Keith Creighton
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Men Without Women Live is a concert recording by one band, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, performing an under appreciated and longtime out-of-print album by another band, Little Steven…
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Dave Steed
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Hide your teenage daughters. R. Kelly’s paying a visit to Bottom Feeders this week.
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Leslie Liberatore
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Lust in time for Friday. Loungy, sexy Bitter:Sweet mingles in the hallway with Crowded House.
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Bob Cashill
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The Police’s guitarist walks the beat with an autobiographical documentary.
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Michael Parr
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Shuffle into the weekend with this week’s Friday Five!
J.A. Bartlett
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And now, a list of songs: “Everyday People” by Sly and the Family Stone “Dizzy” by Tommy Roe “Love Theme From ‘Romeo & Juliet’” by Henry Mancini “Sugar Sugar” by…
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In January of 2012, at the start of the War Poets project, producer Kevin Bowe and I met to discuss possible songs for the album. We bantered around a bunch…
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Thanks to this week’s “Digging for Gold,” in which we look at the second batch of songs from AM Gold: 1979, you can now cross the words “shriveled testicles” off the list of phrases you thought you wouldn’t read on the internet today.
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Keith Creighton
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Alexandra Starlight is so outlandishly beautiful, she could easily stand there, look pretty and become an international superstar. But when she struts onto the stage and unleashes that voice of…