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Let's start with the present and work backwards: Deep Purple's 2004 calendar is blocked out for a five-month, sold-out tour of Europe, North America, Russia and Great Britain; today's version of the band is only a slight variation on the line-up from their 1984 reconstitution; a string of huge successes and massive popularity led members to the brink of emotional and physical fatigue and a bust-up in '74; most of the guys in this band were born in the late '40s. Viewed from this angle, Deep Purple jumps from anomaly to institution, and a remarkably durable and pertinent one at that. The present line-up of Gillan, Glover, Paice, Morse [a youngster born in '54] and Airey [in for Jon Lord in 2001] builds and refines the band's reputation on the early session work of Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, Rod Evans and Nick Simper. This is a band for whom "... The music comes first," and from "Shades of Deep Purple" in '68 and "Machine Head" in '72 to "Slaves and Masters" in '90 and "Bananas" in 2003, the music and the men have matured....more

  • The Smiths: Meat Is Murder

    by Joe PerniceJuly 23, 2008Comments (0)

    In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter’s last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a smoky-clear cassette:  “Smiths: Meat.” (read more)

  • Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

    by Mike ConklinApril 2, 2008Comments (1)

    It's been a pretty weird month for the music industry. Artists sued record labels, bands continued to release records in unusual new ways, giant soft-drink companies taunted dinosaur rock acts, one of the world's biggest bands signed a revolutionary new contract (read more)

  • Mirah, Shaky Hands, Chores, Against Me!, and Black Mountain

    by Howard Wyman, Angela Zimmerman, and Jocelyn HoppaFebruary 6, 2008Comments (0)

    We are well back into the swing of things, and this segment of our live show reviews features a varied assortment of acts at venues small and divey, like Thee Parkside, to massive and random, like Oakland Coliseum Arena. (read more)

  • Black Mountain

    by Jocelyn HoppaJanuary 23, 2008Comments (0)

    "endlessly fascinating and oftentimes brilliant" (read more)

  • Punks in the Beerlight: Nuggets vs. Pebbles

    by Emma DennisDecember 19, 2007Comments (6)

    I used to have a very certain idea of what punk was. For a while there, I had it in my mind that real punk rock was a particular sound from a particular era. It was the Clash, the Sex Pistols, and the Stooges, with their pinned on patches, military boots, and slightly intimidating form of musical expressionism and political activism. (read more)

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