Results for John Sinclair
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by Denise Sullivan•June 26, 2009•
"Life on the road, going from reservation to reservation, city to city, and country to country, is just perfect for me."
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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•January 9, 2008•
One man, a guitar, and a serious message: That would describe Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and Joe Strummer; their sisters in arms include Joan Baez and Ani DiFranco, among others. But when it comes to ‘60s folkman Phil Ochs and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello
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by Jason Thomas•July 25, 2007•
Most of the complaints I have about the state of things in the music world these days have to do with the legacy industry, the old corporate record labels, and all the things that go along with them. After all, the times are changing
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by Denise Sullivan•July 18, 2007•
Not everyone can claim to have had a song written for him by John Lennon, but John Sinclair, poet, activist and former manager of Detroit rockers the MC5, can.
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