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• It's Richie Havens' World

  by Denise Sullivan•September 10, 2008•Comments (4)

  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. (read more)

• A Grand Ol' Timeously With Baby Gramps

  by Denise Sullivan•August 13, 2008•Comments (5)

  Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and teller of tall tales, Gramps has spent a lifetime plundering the treasures of the old world, told and untold, ever since he was a young man—probably the youngest person on the planet to have ever gone by the sobriquet Gramps (that's where the Baby comes in). These days, as back then, he keeps alive early 20th century standards like "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "St. James Infirmary", and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" along with lesser-known (read more)

• Ramones Roadie George Tabb Goes Ape

  by James Greene, Jr.•July 30, 2008•Comments (2)

  The field of Ramones roadies turned authors turned healthcare advocates named George is relatively small. As far as I know, it’s made up of entirely one guy—George Tabb. When he wasn’t lugging gear for the fearsome Queens foursome or penning hilarious columns for Maximum RocknRoll, Tabb was laying down fierce punk jams in groups like Roach Motel and Furious George. (read more)

• The Best Books on Music of the Last Six Months

  by C! Team•June 25, 2008•Comments (7)

  There's something about summer reading lists. They almost always contain must-reads, but they are also supposed to contain page-turners... books that, while not being the most challenging literary content you've feasted your eyes on, are highly entertaining without being too heavy on the thinking. It's summer for crissakes, and that means taking a standard break from life. (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)

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