Results for Fred Neil
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by Jocelyn Hoppa•March 17, 2009•
"A gorgeously human record that sees Doiron using lo-fi, distortion, and slight-of-hand wordplay as imaginatively as ever."
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by Denise Sullivan•October 1, 2008•
If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped
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by Denise Sullivan•September 10, 2008•
Like a new age beatnik who broadcasts the subterranean news through his songs, poems, artwork, and stories that reach across generations (his latest album is No One Left to Crown), Havens fits Jack Kerouac's description of Beats as "characters of a special spirituality." A self-proclaimed "song singer" and "all-around expressionist," he was not only present, but he participated in the cultural shift that began with the Beats and carried over into a mass movement in the ’60s.
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by Denise Sullivan•November 28, 2007•
I'm looking at a picture of Mr. David Viner that features him with a wild-eyed look. Gaunt and pale, he looks a bit scared (or maybe it's scary), as if he could be related to one of the children in Margaret Keane's early paintings of big-eyed people who live at the dark end of the street.
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by Denise Sullivan•July 25, 2007•
A band’s van can reveal a thing or two about the musicians who travel in it, so I decided to ask Pearlene’s soul-filled singer, songwriter and guitarist, Reuben Glaser...
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