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• Andy Topeka: The Rolling Stones Technician

  by Dinky Dawson•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  From day one, Andy led the crew, sometimes barely sleeping, though often sleeping leaning back in a chair near his workbench, cigarette dangling from his mouth. (read more)

• King of Rock 'n' Soul: Solomon Burke Gets Deep

  by Denise Sullivan•June 18, 2008•Comments (0)

  Most of what I know about Burke's history comes from Guaralnick's interviews with him. But what I felt when I talked to Burke myself was something else entirely—perhaps best described as spiritual refreshment—and it's something that I will carry with me from here. He's a Philadelphia native who loves country music and a former "wonderboy preacher," with 21 children, 89 grandchildren (read more)

• Sunset Boulevard: The Metal Years

  by Eric Weisbard•May 14, 2008•Comments (3)

  Use Your Illusion, then, arguably marked the end of rock in the weird shape it had taken when the sixties ended: Mass culture masquerading as oppositional culture (read more)

• Breeders, Dead Science, Vetiver, and Marco Benevento

  by C! Team•May 14, 2008•Comments (0)

  We work really hard just for you. Sometimes that means going to really cool shows all over town. This time around entailed Kim Deal singing sweetly to us. Woe is us. (read more)

• The Hollywood Binliner: LA Punk

  by Mick Farren•March 26, 2008•Comments (0)

  If India sank into the sea, the Los Angeles Times would probably run the story on page 34 at the bottom of column seven. That's about the measure of importance the Angelenos attach to the rest of the world. Southern California increasingly sees itself as an insulated Garden of Eden (read more)

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