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• What Would You Do if I Showed You the Chords...

  by Max Mobley•June 25, 2008•Comments (3)

  Paul McCartney said to me recently, “My god, you know more about our material than anyone else does simply because your work has been more recent.” (read more)

• Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

  by John Cavanagh•June 18, 2008•Comments (0)

  “My guess is that this was not even intentional. They are a lazy bunch and could never be bothered to practice, so they probably had to improvise to get away with it.” (read more)

• Riot on the Road to Ruin: The Ramones vs. The Queers

  by James Greene, Jr.•June 11, 2008•Comments (3)

  The Queers came together at the tail end of that period, forming in scenic Portsmouth, NH. King, the band’s original singer/guitarist, and his pals adopted the dark themes that hung over the earliest ‘Mones material and twisted them into absolutely sick, speedy hardcore blasts. The Ramones wanted to sniff glue; the Queers announced “We’d Have a Riot Doing Heroin.” The Ramones wanted to whack kids (read more)

• Seeking Grace: Iron & Wine vs. Paul Simon

  by Greg Gaston•May 28, 2008•Comments (0)

  Of course, Paul Simon has just a bit of touch as a lyric writer/poet himself. It’s one of his gifts, and plenty of examples underline that through every stage of his long career. But unlike Beam, his subject matter more often deals with urban alienation—alone and forsaken in the big city. Cool jazz sophistication, sometimes to a fault. His persona in song is often divorced, or at least entangled, in love’s lonely lessons. That’s why Graceland feels (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)

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