SXSW (short for South By Southwest) is an annual music industry event that takes place every spring in Austin, Texas. What began in the late eighties as a music industry conference drawing a few hundred record executives, radio programmers, and scenesters has grown into one of the largest music festivals …
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Spring Idol Worship and Post-Grunge Midlife Crisis.
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Jeff Beck's week long residency at the London nightclub is captured up close and personal on a great concert DVD.
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Maybe I just think too much.
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Watchmen is a 1987 graphic novel created by writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons that has since become universally recognized as one of the best of the comic book medium. Magazines such as Time have gone so far as to rate Watchmen one of the 100 best novels of …
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The new solo album from Wilco's guitarist is not easy listening, nor is it intended to be.
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Rush Limbaugh is a national conservative talk radio host whose daily program is heard on stations across the country, making him one of the nation's top broadcasters. To many, Rush Limbaugh is a leading voice for the Republican party and conservative politics. He is also considered a pioneer and the …
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It's Super U2esday!
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You always knew Nash wrote a fair amount of great songs -- but who knew there were this many of them?
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NWOBHM is an acronym which stands for New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, a phenomenon which helped breathe new life into heavy metal during the mid-eighties. Although metal has been around as a rock sub-genre dating back to the sixties, many fans had turned away from it by the eighties …
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