Results for The Imperials
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by Denise Sullivan•September 10, 2008•
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.
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by James Greene, Jr.•July 9, 2008•
White Zombie’s landmark 1992 album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 certainly seemed like the type of sample-heavy rock freak-out that would align perfectly with a wild, outer space adventure starring Mark Hamill. Also, I figured it would be pretty cool watching Darth Vader parade around to all those bad-ass metal riffs. That alone might keep me from dozing off in the middle of said experiment. The following evening
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by Jennn Fusion•November 14, 2007•
Serj Tankian is best known as the frontman for System of a Down—a band that shocked many American music fans with its intensity, weirdness, and honest social commentary. These days Tankian works solo, approaching his material
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by Adam Bunch•August 8, 2007•
So how did it happen? How did we go from a counterculture that produced four-piece guitar bands playing sour grunge rock to sprawling indie pop collectives with kaleidoscopic instrumentation?
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