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• Wayne Kramer: Mad for the Racket and Not Near Done

  by Denise Sullivan•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  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 (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)

• Teddy Thompson

  by Steve Matteo•June 18, 2008•Comments (0)

  "Sweetened rockabilly and ballpark organ pop give the music a subtle grandeur" (read more)

• Life After Whiskeytown: Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary

  by Geoffrey Himes•June 11, 2008•Comments (1)

  It may be true that Adams has more talent. He is able to mimic almost any rock star of the past 40 years—not only as a singer and guitarist but also as a songwriter—and he is astonishingly prolific. He certainly has more charisma. With his tousled hair, leather clothes, legendary drinking bouts, grainy voice, and heavy-lidded insouciance, Adams has impressed (read more)

• Cover This: What Makes for a Definitive Version?

  by Denise Sullivan•March 12, 2008•Comments (12)

  When I set out to take on the matter of cover songs, I thought I'd be seeking uncomplicated answers to simple questions like: Is there such a thing as a definitive version of a song? Who decides these things? And why do we care? (read more)

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