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The Prose of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

April 23, 2024May 24, 2024 Stephanie Hernandez 0 Comments Dylan Thomas, Florence and the Machine, Florence Welch, Matty Healy, Patti Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, William Wordsworth

For her 11th studio album, the Chairman of the Board delivers a lecture on the art of literary allusion 

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You Might Think: The Cars’ Heartbeat City Turns 40

March 13, 2024March 14, 2024 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Benjamin Orr, David Robinson, Def Leppard, Drive, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes, Heartbeat City, Magic, Ric Ocasek, Robert "Mutt" Lange, The Cars, You Might Think

Inside the Mutt Lange-produced powerhouse that brought the Boston band MTV glory

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The Allman Brothers Band Release Rare 1972 Live Album

January 12, 2024January 22, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1972, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Chuck Leavell, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Jaimoe, Manley Field House, Syracuse University, The Allman Brothers Band

The concert, captured at Syracuse University, offers a rare glimpse of the “Five-Man Band” era

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Kid Rock Crawls Back to Bud Light

December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 Ron Hart 1 Comment Anheuser-Busch, Beer, Bud Light, controversy, Dylan Mulvaney, Kid Rock, Tucker Carlson

MAGA star admits to supporting the beer again after months of a transphobic boycott

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Too Much Blood: The Rolling Stones’ Undercover at 40

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1983, 40th Anniversary, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Chris Kimsey, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, She Was Hot, The Rolling Stones, Undercover, Undercover (Of The Night)

Looking back on a hackneyed diamond in the band’s catalog

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Lets Submerge: X-Ray Spex’s Germfree Adolescents at 45

November 10, 2023November 13, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, Bikini Kill, Brixton, England, Germfree Adolescents, Identity, Kathleen Hanna, London, Oh Bondage Up Yours!, Poly Styrene, Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex

Looking back at an album that was anything but a cliché

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Every Body Count Album Ranked

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 Ben Apatoff 0 Comments Body Count, Common, D-Roc, Ernie C, Guns 'N' Roses, Ice-T, Jack Kevorkian, Jimi Hendrix, Mooseman, Motörhead, Raw Breed

Author Ben Apatoff assesses the catalog of Ice-T’s controversial metal band

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ALBUMS: The Heat Inc. Are Ready For America

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Asleep in the Ejector Seat, John Dodd, London, Marco Simoncelli, Maurizio Vitale, Nicolas Rigot, Punk Fox Records, The Heat Inc.

Check out the London band’s killer debut LP

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Sleaford Mods: GRIM and Bear It

April 7, 2023April 7, 2023 Kathy Fennessy 0 Comments Andrew Fearn, Jason Williamson, Mark E. Smith, Perry Farrell, Sleaford Mods, UK GRIM

What makes the Nottingham duo’s simplicity so succinct

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TV Movie: Pulp’s This Is Hardcore at 25

March 30, 2023August 10, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1998, 25th Anniversary, Candida Doyle, Douglas Sirk, England, Jarvis Cocker, Mark Webber, Nick Banks, Pulp, Sheffield, Steve Mackey, This Is Hardcore

Looking back on the British pop group’s cinematic sixth LP

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So Young: Suede at 30

March 29, 2023March 30, 2023 Justin Cober-Lake 1 Comment 1993, 30th Anniversary, Animal Nitrate, Bernard Butler., Brett Anderson, Metal Mickey, So Young, Suede, The Drowners, The London Suede

How the London band’s eponymous debut rebooted Britpop

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No Quarter: Led Zeppelin’s Houses Of The Holy at 50

March 28, 2023April 14, 2023 Craig Peters 1 Comment 1973, 50th anniversary, Atlantic Records, Dancing Days, Houses Of The Holy, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, No Quarter, Robert Plant, The Ocean, The Rain Song, The Song Remains The Same

A look back at the band’s farewell to Atlantic Records

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Old Friend: The Allman Brothers Band’s Hittin’ The Note Turns 20

March 21, 2023March 29, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 2003, Allman Brothers, Butch Trucks, Derek Trucks, Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman, Hittin' The Note, Jai Johahnay Johanson, Oteil Burbridge, Sanctuary Records, The Allman Brothers Band, Warren Haynes

The band’s last studio album ensured their legacy lived on

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A Case For Bob Weir’s Ace

January 16, 2023January 18, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1972, 50th anniversary, Ace, Bob Weir, Bobby Weir and the Wolf Bros., Don Was, Mexicali Blues, Radio City Music Hall, The Grateful Dead, Wolf Bros.

The Dead man’s solo debut gets a belated 50th anniversary revisit

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Glenn Tilbrook Squeezes Into 65

August 31, 2022September 1, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2015, 2022, 65th birthday, Argybargy, Babylon and On, Chris Difford, Cool For Cats, Cradle to the Grave, Glenn Tilbrook, interview, New Wave, Paul McCartney, Squeeze, The Beatles, The Deathray Davies, The Kinks

Read a previously unpublished interview with the New Wave legend

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