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Sad to hear that the great Willy DeVille, of NYC punk-era r&b band Mink DeVille, has died of pancreatic cancer. Willy's was the first concert I saw in NYC back in the fall of 2006, when he was doing his "acoustic trio" material consisting of standards like "Let It Be Me," "Spanish Harlem," and his soulful take on "Billy The Kid," from Bob Dylan's soundtrack to the film Pat Garrett and Billy th...
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Al Sharpton knew the only way to save Michael Jackson's image in death was to get out there and start promoting him as a "black icon" the second he died (even though there is a lot of evidence to suggest that at best, Jackson was deeply conflicted about his racial identity). Sharpton was on MSNBC about 15 minutes after the death announcement was made doing just that. Afraid of being called "ra...
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Over the course of four albums, Los Angeles-based rockers The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have traversed a career path that sounds like a rock industry cliché: the impressive debut (self-titled) that garnered critical raves of the “saviors of rock” variety (lately bestowed upon the much less impressive Arctic Monkeys) and favorable comparisons to bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and Love &
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