Our intrepret young reporter Marie Lynn went to Nashville and posted this review of the Country Music Festival 2009 As […]

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It’s a good question and the answer is maybe. It is certainly accessible enough, by Bjork’s standards even more than

ANOTHER KIND OF HERO

Have you ever seen the Britcom “Goodnight Sweetheart”? A man finds a pothole between London in the 1990s and 1942

I mentioned yesterday I thought the New York Times music pages were the best in the business and not just

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I loved the movie though i can understand why people may have had problems with it. And I think “The

It is one of gods’ great jokes that on the first song of the first side of his first album

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In the letter from the editor for the Kings Of Leon Rolling Stone cover story, the editor Will Dana brags

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I don’t suffer from social nostalgia. I don’t believe the past was better than today, I know it was worse.

Sound City was my local record store in Long island City till I stopped frequenting the place a couple of

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Have you ever known a person who seem perfectly nice and everybody thinks he is just wonderful but for some

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I actually found a list on The Onion of 8 song about sexual mishaps and they are quite right –

2009 appears to have awaken from its winter slumber with the third good week in a row. Not great, mind

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At first glance Olivia Newton-John’s career trajectory appears to be a refraction on the Sandy charecter she played in the

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As my good friend Anonymous kindly corrected me, I asininely referred to Leonard Cohen as a tenor in my live

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I checked out the folks who hate me at leonardcohenforum.com . The actual review by Patricia Zohn is very good

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From today’s New York Times

It is June 1997 and Lil Kim is a mess -I know this because she is performing at a great

One day after writing the obituary of the album, I bought the album of the year and first runner up.

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“Before there was Elvis there was nothing.” -John Lennon The last time I wrote about Elvis Presley I was a

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Together Through This – Bob Dylan 11 Songs:1 Pointless studio rehearsal of “Lay lady Lay”.1 Middling Berry knock off (Chuck,

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