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New Romanticism Revisited: The Return Of Spandau Ballet and Posing Pals

Posted Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:26pm PDT
News of the reunion by '80s pop avatars Spandau Ballet prompts former Sounds staffer Beverly Glick--then writing under the pop nom de plume of Betty Page--to recall the glory days of New Romanticism...and the splendidly posy scene that orbited around More »
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Recollected In Tranquility: Woodstock

Posted Wed Apr 8, 2009 11:40am PDT
Not everyone buys into the myth of 1969's Woodstock festival as the zenith of the Sixties dream. Rolling Stone veteran David Dalton remembers it tersely as "a blatant display of greed, vanity, and gullibility"--arguably the death of the Sixties dream More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Dusty Springfield Takes Stock

Posted Fri Apr 3, 2009 12:21pm PDT
Dusty Springfield, the greatest blue-eyed soulstress Britain ever produced, would have been 70 this month. When Penny Valentine interviewed her for Disc and Music Echo in late October 1968, the lady already five years of diva glory behind her. In the More »
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barry

This Is The Song That Goes Like This: 40 Self-Referencing Lyrics For Your Amusement

Posted Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:22pm PDT
These are Songs About Songs, meta–compositions in which the singing subject refers to the words he's writing (about writing, about writing), in an infinite narcissistic loop. More »
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conflict

Scum Of The Earth: The 15 Best Critic-Bashing Songs!

Posted Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:05pm PDT
Musicians have long enjoyed fractious relationships with journalists. Here are some great examples of songs that vent rage--or hurt, or contempt--at music critics. More »
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flying burrito brothers

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Flying Burrito Brothers Patent Cosmic Country Rock

Posted Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:37pm PDT
It's an astonishing 40 years since Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman formed their massively influential Byrds spinoff the Flying Burrito Brothers. Let's track back to the making of their seminal 1969 debut--and its immediate aftermath. More »
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devo

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Devo Record Their Debut Album in Germany

Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:06pm PDT
With Devo back in the headlines, and wowing new generations at SXSW, let's revisit the dawn of De-evolution in this excerpt from an early 1978 profile by Sounds' Jon Savage. More »
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phish

Not The Dead: Dawn Of The Phish-Heads

Posted Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:43pm PDT
This year's Phish reunion takes me back to a night in 1996, with the Vermont quartet sequestered in Woodstock's legendary Bearsville studios and playing down the "new Dead" tag everyone wants to pin on them. Says drummer Jon Fishman, "there is no nex More »
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the libertines

Taking Libertines: Pete Doherty

Posted Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:39am PDT
Long before he achieved narcotic notoriety, Pete Doherty was in a cracking little Brit band called the Libertines. Dorian Lynskey met him on the threshold of infamy. More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Michael Jackson Speaks

Posted Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:35pm PDT
A year before he cut loose from his brothers and started work on the astounding Off The Wall, Michael Jackson spoke to NME's Cliff White about recording in Philly, the genius of Stevie Wonder...and hysterical female fans. More »
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Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going

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Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:03am PST

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