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| When I was a kid, I discovered Creem magazine at the tender age of 14 years. My family had just moved to Tennessee from Pennsylvania and I was feeling like somewhat of a loner. While in PA, I had neighborhood kids to play ball with, shoot model rockets towards the windows of kids we didn’t like, and drink the small, airplane-sized bottles of booze that my old man collected on his travels and stored in a big box underneath his workbench in the basement. ... |
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| I’ve written about my admiration for Motor City noisemakers Destroy All Monsters before on this blog, and was lucky enough to see the band in person back in 1979 or ’80 (my memory is foggy at this late date). I have a Destroy All Monsters CD that I found, by stroke of luck, in a Nashville used music store some years back and a handful of 45s that I bought new back in the day while living in Detroit, but to say that this legendary band’s recorded output is slim would be an understatement. Which is why I’m overjoyed to announce the release... |
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| Make no mistake about it, the Reverend is a crappy
musician…I can barely tap out “Smoke On The Water” or “Little Wing” on my
beat-up old Epi. But I love me some geetar gear, and I spend way too much on
gadgets and gimcrackery like Jellifish picks, stomp boxes and mini-pedals,
straps and accessories and, of course, guitars. Wandering around the NAMM
convention a couple of years ago in Nashville, gawking at all of the wonderful
instruments and electronics, I damn near passed out from euphoria as all of the
blood in my body rushed helter-skelter to my overloaded brainpan. Rest assured,
if your humble scribe ever hits ... |
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| Roger Friedman, celebrity columnist for Fox News, broke the news this week that Clear Channel Radio – the largest American radio broadcast chain – has issued an “edict” to its classic rock stations to basically ignore the new Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band album Magic, in spite of the fact that it has been number one on the charts for two of the last three weeks. ... |
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| Hey do you guys remember CBGBs, the infamous and legendary punk rock club located in the Bowery district of New York City? Remember when
Hilly Kristal, the club’s owner, was fighting with his landlords, a homeless advocacy group, over rent increases and stuff? The Reverend remembers that when
the group began eviction proceedings against CBGB, they said that they needed the space to provide services to the homeless. Remember that? |
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Singer, songwriter and punk rock icon Lance Hahn of beloved punk outfit J Church passed away on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at the too-young
age of 40 after a long illness caused by kidney disease....
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Chicken Little has been crying that the sky is falling on
the recording industry for quite some time now. Sure, sales have flagged a bit
from their 1999 peak of $14 billion (also known as the “Year of Napster”), but
the biz still rakes in better than $10 billion annually in the U.S. alone, and
as anybody in business will tell you, that ain’t chicken feed...
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You may not have noticed it, but there are a couple of new
recording formats that are sneaking into record stores across the country even
while you read these words. Sure, these new discs may look like a mundane,
garden-variety compact disc but they’re really…according to the labels…they’re
really so much more! |
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The score so far: RIAA one, consumers zero…zilch…nada. The first of roughly 20,000 RIAA lawsuits against music lovers went to trial this week and the music biz’s strongarm lobby ground up the hapless file trader and her lawyer like so much hamburger. In doing so, the jury’s decision sets a dangerous legal precedent for the industry’s assault on the consumer that will directly lead to hundreds, if not thousands of so-called “deterrent” lawsuits in the future.... |
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We talk about Music Video Distributors a lot ‘round these
parts, mostly because the company is undeniably on the front line of the indie
rock world, releasing daring and exciting CDs and DVDs from a wide range of
punk, metal and prog-rock artists. This latest deal they’ve made, however, may
be the company’s best move yet... |
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