Source: The Huffington Post
My Name is Val and I'm a rock-star-memoir addict. It all started with Philip Norman's seminal biography of The Beatles, Shout . I was on a years-long break between sophomore and junior year of college and had just left my job as a record company receptio ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post
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Source: Slate
Darius Rucker performs onstage during 2013 Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival on April 28 in Indio, Calif. This may come as a surprise to you, but I don’t typically think much about Hootie ...
Full article at: Slate
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Source: The KEXP Blog
Musician, songwriter, author, actor, producer... in whatever he does, country rock living legend Steve Earle is uncompromisingly in his art and an outspoken critic of what’s wrong in our country. On his many albu ...
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More like this May 16 2013, 10:43am CDT
Source: James V. Brown Library
Nationally known singer- songwriter Ellis Paul will perform a special free family show on Saturday, June 8 at 1 PM in the Moltz Rotunda Reading Room. Since emerging from the Boston music scene, Ellis Paul’s music has been consistent ...
Full article at: James V. Brown Library
More like this May 16 2013, 10:16am CDT
Source: Brandish
Simon Poulter of What Would David Bowie Do? salutes the barnstorming return to form that is Primal Scream’s new album More Light These are bleak and desperate times, people. We know this because we keep being told they are. As if ...
Full article at: Brandish
More like this May 16 2013, 9:32am CDT
Source: Northumberland Gazette
It is April and I have toured some of Switzerland in the snow and cold then Texas in the sun and the heat, so hot I could not take a deep breath. When flying home seeing the Easter snow was not something I was exp ...
Full article at: Northumberland Gazette
More like this May 16 2013, 4:46am CDT
Source: London Review of Books
In Karl Miller’s comments and the compendium of snippets about Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important aspects of her ministry goes unmentioned (LRB, 25 April). It was her onslaught on local councils, thro ...
Full article at: London Review of Books
More like this May 15 2013, 7:23am CDT
Source: MLive.com
DOWAGIAC, MI -- Arlo Guthrie played to a packed audience at Dowagiac's Dogwood Fine Arts Festival in 2008. He's coming back, and he's bringing the songs of his father with him. He did "In Times Like These," a 2007 song inspired by the Katrin ...
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More like this May 14 2013, 1:38pm CDT
Source: Todays Trucking
I am not 100-percent certain but I am pretty confident that I have never in all my years on this planet been so very far off the mark as I was when, before meeting him, I prejudged Peter Worthington. He had been a s ...
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Source: The Bay Bridged
On Sunday night, May 12, Jim James floated onto the Fillmore stage looking like he had just been electrocuted. His mess of hair and beard frizzed wildly in every direction and his crazy-eyed stare poured into ...
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