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Results for Midnight OilMidnight Oil was a 1980s rock band with a driving political message couched in 'isms': environmentalism, pacifism, anti-imperialism and proletarianism. The Australian group never quite achieved the fame of contemporaries U2 and INXS, but had several hits throughout the '80s and '90s. Their politically heated songs ranged from "Beds Are Burning," an anthem about Aboriginal land rights, to "Diesel and Dust," a hit that evolved out of an '86 odyssey Midnight Oil took through the most remote outback settlements with Aboriginal rockers, The Warumpi Band. In addition to using lyrics to drive social issues, Midnight Oil was known for hands-on activism that included frontman Peter Garrett's run for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket. Oil's classic-guitar-rock-meets-bleeding-heart-social-issues style appealed more to the liberal rocking sort than to the average MTV viewer....more
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by Denise Sullivan•October 24, 2007•
There comes a time in a music lover's life when one must ask a most fateful question: the Grateful Dead… do I or don't I? My fellows promised me that one day it would all come down to this
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by Sarah Flynn•October 10, 2007•
And while we’ve busied ourselves with pleasant surprise over the arrival of Architecture in Helsinki, we’re still woefully unaware of a band who released an album that unfolds like the best of literary efforts. It begins with a prelude
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4/16/2008
the 10,000 MANIACS show, I saw that, it was part of the New Music Seminar, they were on a bill at the Ritz that...
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11/7/2007
[quote user="santa claus"]Enough of the Guess Who requests please.[/quote]
Santa, what happened to the rest of your...
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12/6/2006
How about adding or adding more -- AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Scorpions, Alice In Chains, Bad Company, BTO, Bauhaus, Blue...
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