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Tag Archives: Hard Rock

Chris Duarte Group – Romp

With guitars and their wielding very much on my mind, I tossed the new Chris Duarte Group (Duarte, John Jordan – bass, Ed Miles – drums) CD on the player and let it rip, er romp. Romp is the hairy, Band O Gypsies-clad, Austin-based fret-feeler’s fourth album, and if you …

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Please Bear With Us

We are terribly sorry about the technical problems that caused the site to be down last night into this morning – we are updating the site now to bring it up to the present. We have been remarkably free of such things for some time. Again we apologize and ask …

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Where Oh Where Has My Helmet Gone?

I was just going through some of my old radio playlists from the early-to-mid ’90s, and I was startled how much I played a band that I have barely thought of since: Helmet. Talk about rocking the rectum! The very respectable and preppy-looking band led by Glenn Branca-alumnus Page Hamilton, …

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Ozzfest 2003

My son Chris wrote this review – I forgot to post it, like a douchebag. On Tuesday the 22nd of July I went to the concert event of the summer, Ozzfest, at Blossom near Cleveland. That was the greatest day in my 16 years of life. I had many new …

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The Black Keys – Long Walk Off a Shortlist

The 2003 Shortlist Finalists have been announced: Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Cody Chestnutt, Floetry, Interpol, Damien Rice, Sigur Ros, The Streets and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. INTERPOL, BRIGHT EYES, CAT POWER, DAMIEN RICE AND BLACK KEYS CONFIRMED TO PERFORM AT 2003 SHORTLIST CONCERT ON OCTOBER 5TH MTV2 TO BROADCAST …

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From Mountain to Molehill

An interesting aspect of the “rerelease everything we can get our paws on” CD era is the opportunity to hear music from the past with fresh ears. Some of it sounds about the same as it did back in the day, some of it has grown, and some has, um, …

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Ted Nugent: Anti-PC Crusader or Asshole?

Both I guess: Denver radio listeners and disc jockeys were shell-shocked Monday after rocker Ted Nugent used derogatory racial terms for Asians and blacks on live radio. The highly rated Lewis & Floorwax morning show on 103.5-FM The Fox quickly turned into a discussion of race relations after the ’70s …

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Get the Led On

Led Zeppelin: revered and vilified, sometimes by the same person – the personal, lyrical, and sometimes musical excesses (particularly live) are easy to ridicule, especially in retrospect, but there is ample reason why Led Zeppelin was THE best-selling rock band of the ’70s. Over a 10-year career from ’69-’79, Led …

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Rock the Mullet

A tiny sidebar to the story of the catastrophic death of nearly 100 people in the Rhode Island club disaster, was the fact that the great majority of the population had no idea that Great White was still a band. Big, chunky, ’80s hair metal refuses to go away: Bands …

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Critiquees – Reissues and Collections

Our picks for the Best Reissues and Collections of 2002: bonuses] 1) Best of 1990-2000 & B Sides by U2 2) The Velvet Underground & Nico, remastered by Velvet Underground 3) Elvis 30 #1 Hits by Elvis Presley 4) Nirvana by Nirvana 5) Forty Licks by The Rolling Stones 20 …

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