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Artist:The Green Hour Band
A young Canadian band shows remarkable prowess in honoring their influences.
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Review: The Green Hour Band - The Green Hour Band
Album Streams: Belle and Sebastian, Tom Jones, more
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These free album streams are available from AOL/Spinner through Sunday, November 23, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. Note: AOL/Spinner still call these "full" album streams despite the fact that they rarely stream the entire album anymore,...
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The Last Picture Show: Final Photos of Famous People
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This image is the last known photo of Elvis Presley, taken at 12:28 Am on August 16, 1977, hours before he was found dead at Graceland. It's part of an interesting collection of "10 Fascinating Last Pictures" and features a...
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Nerd World's "Hottest Female Guitarists"
Yet another stupid internet list... Jeez, as if the chronic masturbators at Guitar World weren't dorky enough. Now they've come up with a list of the Top 20 Hottest Female Guitarists!!! And just to marginalize women musicians even more and...
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Ten Songs By Musicians Who Died Too Soon
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Track:Halleluja
Great topic of debate here at Matadornights: Ten Songs By Musicians Who Died Too Soon. Their list includes: Elliot Smith "Needle In The Hay" Metallica "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth" (featuring the late Cliff Burton) Jeff Buckley "Halleluja (live at Sin-e)" Nirvana...
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McCartney wants to release Beatles' "Carnival of Light"
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Track:Carnival of Light
According to an interview on BBC Radio 4, Paul McCartney wants world to hear 'lost' Beatles epic, "Carnival of Light," a 13-minute, 48-second track recorded on January 5, 1967: The piece was inspired, McCartney says, by the works of composers...
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Backstage Riders: Rage, Bjork, more
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The Smoking Gun has added a bunch of new backstage riders to its already impressive collection. You can tell a lot about a person by what they like to drink. Or, in this case, what kind of champagne they demand:...
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Whatever happened to the Chicago Alternative Class of 1993
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Chicago Sun-Times pop music critic Jim DeRogatis takes a look back to the promising music scene in Chicago in the mid-90s: The curse of alternative nostalgia: What the heck happened to the Class of '93? For those of you too...
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White Album #5 On eBay
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The lowest numbered copy of the Beatles' White Album has been posted on eBay. According to the posting: Some years ago, this album was taken into the collectors shop named 'Vinyl Revival Records' in Newbury, Berkshire, England by a musician...
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Download Live Mountain Goats
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The always awesome nyctaper is offering a couple of recent Mountain Goats shows for download: November 8, 2008, Music Hall of Williamsburg, and November 9, 2008, Webster Hall. The sets include several tracks from the tour-only Kaki King-collaboration Black Pear...
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Album Streams: Smiths, New Order, Cheap Trick, more
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These free album streams are available from AOL's Spinner through Sunday, November 16, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. Note: AOL/Spinner still call these "full" album streams despite the fact that they rarely stream the entire album...
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Review: The Sound of the Smiths
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Under the Influence Vinyl Singles
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Track:The Freshman
Suburban Home/Vinyl Collective has announced its new Under The Influence Series where they've asked several bands to record cover songs that have influenced their songwriting. They're being released as split 7" singles that will include coupons to download mp3s. Cool...
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Will Barack Obama Change Hip Hop?
The Chicago Tribune calls Barack Obama "The first hip-hop president" in an article that examines the President-Elect's sometimes reluctant love of the genre. We've heard plenty about the forthcoming changes in economic policy and foreign relations, but we haven't...
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