Name: Thrasher
Weblog: thrashersblog.com
Articles: 34
First Published: Saturday, July 3, 2004
Last Published: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Currently listing articles 34-1:
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Neil Young: Heart of Gold Premieres at Sundance Film Festival— Last week, the concert movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The consensus thus far is that it is "a lasting, sensational film".
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Top 10 Albums of 2005— As 2005 draws to close, it's time for that insufferable ritual — Top 10's. Why do we do it? To justify re-reviewing our
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Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Most Essential Live Albums— ...
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The Neil Young Nation is Here— ...
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Neil Young Turns 60 Today: Long May You Run— ...
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Neil Young's "Prairie Wind": A Gentle Breeze Deceptively Lulls The Howls Of Loss— With all that has happened to Neil over the past year or so, it is no wonder that critics are zeroing on these incidents as
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Review: Son Volt's Okemah and the Melody of Riot - Jay Farrar Channels Woody Guthrie— Jay Farrar seems to be channeling Woody Guthrie's spirit on Son Volt's latest CD Okemah and the Melody of Riot.
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Concert Review: Wilco & My Morning Jacket at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA— A beautiful summer evening on the historic Philadelphia waterfront, with two great bands - Wilco and My Morning Jacket and a bunch of music loving
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Four Dead in Ohio— Thirty five years ago, on May 4, 1970, an anti-war student demonstration at Kent State University, Ohio left four students dead, one paralyzed, and eight
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Winnipeg Rocks! A Juno Awards Update— So why is the music scene in Winnipeg hot? How have artists connected to Manitoba, Canada sold more than 100 million records world-wide?
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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Remembered by Former Presidents and Distinguished Writers— Dr. Hunter S. Thompson was not a shallow, selfish schmuck.
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Neil Young's "Time Fades Away— It's been called the "missing link" of the "Ditch Trilogy". Neil Young's 1973 Time Fades Away is one of the most remarkable
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Hunter S. Thompson: Soundtrack Where the Buffalo Roam— ...
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Canada's Juno Awards Sellout, and Sellout Bachman— The good news is that the tickets for Juno Awards in Winnipeg sold out in 16 minutes. The bad news is the snub of
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Snubs for Canada's Juno Awards?— Now that the Grammy's are over with, we can now turn our eyes to Canada to find folks in an uproar over the Juno Awards
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Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst— So who is this "voice of his generation"? The "next Dylan"? "Indie heart-throb"?
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Wilco To Re-Release "A Ghost Is Born"— Wilco is re-releasing A Ghost Is Born with a bonus disc on March 7.
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Academy Awards Axes Original Musical Category— In a blow to independent filmmaking, according to a Hollywood Reporter article by Martin A. Grove, the Academy's Board of Governors voted
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Courtney Love: "Neil Young, you're God!"— How Neil Young's music helped Courtney Love in her darkest hours.
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Michael Moore Directs New Video for Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World"— The new video for Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" directed by filmmaker Michael Moore is now posted on the Warner Reprise site.
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Neil Young's Greatest Hits: The Greatest Ever?— Young's Greatest Hits undoubtably will cement his status in the singer-songwriter Hall of Fame.
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Bush & Skynyrd vs. Kerry & Young— Is it really possible to connect the dots between Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Kerry and George Bush?
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McCartney, Vedder, All Star Artists Wow Benefit Concert— The first night of the Bridge School Benefit concerts in Mountain View, CA on Saturday wowed the crowd with nearly 8 hours of All-Star music
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Crazy Horse's Billy Talbot Goes Solo— Crazy Horse's bass player, Billy Talbot has gone solo and released the CD Alive In The Spirit World. Talbot is most familiar in
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Bruce Palmer of Buffalo Springfield: 1946 - 2004— Bruce Palmer, bassist for the Buffalo Springfield, has died of a heart attack at age 58. "There's not a person who listened to the
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Paul McCartney Joining 18th Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert: Lineup Announced— ...
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Is Alt-Country Dead?— A provocative article from the Dallas Morning News on how alt-country became musical roadkill. Some interesting observations by the genre busting Alejandro
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Rick James, The Mynah Birds and Neil Young— While much is known about James' "Super Freak" period, relatively little is known about the period during the 1960's when he formed a band known
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The Origin of Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"— A very fascinating article in today's washingtonpost.com on the origins of the haunting shortwave radio effects used on Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album.
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Jay Farrar's "Stone, Steel & Bright Lights"— Jay Farrar's new album Stone, Steel & Bright Lights reveals the continuing evolution of his songwriting and performance style as he outgrows the "alt.country"
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Linda Ronstadt Ejected For Supporting Michael Moore— ...
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Cowboy Junkies & Shawn Colvin Concert Review - July 11, 2004— Last night at Wolf Trap Amphitheater, in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, DC, The Cowboy Junkies and Shawn Colvin split the bill, allowing for equal
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Pete Townshend, Michael Moore & Neil Young— ...
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Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" Lyrics Analysis— Neil Young's song "Rockin' In The Free World" is prominent in director Michael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' where it runs over the closing credits.

