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Bush Baby: How Kate Bush Burst On The Scene 30 Years Ago

Posted Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:25am PST
"Wuthering Heights" was at No. 1 in the UK singles chart. The interview was the usual record company set-up, in the EMI Board Room. Bush seemed strangely unique for somebody that everybody perceived was the archetypal one-hit wonder. More »
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ETTAJAMES7yearitch

Etta James At 70: Mama Tells Us All About It

Posted Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:14am PST
The woman born Jamesetta Hawkins 70 years ago in Los Angeles is one tough mama-- More »
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SEXPISTOLS

The Sex Pistols At Winterland, San Francisco

Posted Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:02pm PST
Did San Francisco's punks get the feeling they'd been cheated at the final Pistols gig there 30 years ago? British journo Mark Cooper was there to find out… More »
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ALLENTOUSSAINT

Allen Toussaint: Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky

Posted Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:41pm PST
As a tribute to Allen Toussaint, who turns 70 this week, here is MM's Rob Partridge meeting the diffident genius of New Orleans R&B and soul as he prepares to step out of the shadows and perform for the first time as a solo artist. More »
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Poison The Hood: Niggaz With Attitude

Posted Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:35pm PST
It's 20 years since LA's Niggaz With Attitude tasered the world with their fiercely uncompromising debut platter Straight Outta Compton. West Coast gangsta rap--make that hip hop, period--was never the same again. More »
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RADIOHEADokcomputer

Radiohead Retrouvé: A Return to OK Computer

Posted Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:23pm PST
With Radiohead all the rage again with In Rainbows, we take the opportunity to revisit the release of their pivotal, career-defining masterwork OK Computer--in this excerpt from a brilliantly eccentric review by UK rock-crit legend/bete noire Paul Mo More »
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NEWYORKNOISE

Walking On The Wild Side: Paula Cort's New York Noise

Posted Thu Jan 3, 2008 4:55pm PST
Perusing the wealth of multi-disciplinary artistic talent beaming out of the 400 black and white images in New York Noise (Soul Jazz Publishing), it's hard to avoid two thoughts. More »
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Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going

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Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:03am PST

AP - Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins. It's all part of his job. Most nights, after he snuffs out his menthol cigarette, Perkins slides onto the piano bench in some club and … More »

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