The Best Goddamn Musical Group of All Time... OF ALL TIME: Foreigner In Lewiston, NY [Review]
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Posted to Music on Sun Aug 29, 2010 at 10:29:15 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.
"This concert rocked, and you suck for not having been there."
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Black Eyed Peas: The Best Concert Ever (except for Foreigner)
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Posted to Music on Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 07:24:20 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Gushing reviews by the Buffalo News labeled the Black Eyed Peas' Wednesday night concert in Buffalo, NY "shallow fun" full of "frankly speaking, at times trite and boring pop tunes."
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Gold Motel - Summer House [Review]
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Posted to Music on Sun Jun 13, 2010 at 09:40:03 AM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.
If Dominique Durand had a cousin who grew up in the US Midwest, and that cousin decided to front a band as the 60s jangle rock version of Ivy, it would sound just like Greta Morgan's Gold Motel.
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The Best Music Of 2009 (Terribly Belated Remix Version)
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Posted to Music on Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 08:04:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
2010 already? Damn. Well, inquiring minds want to know what tripped your musical triggers in 2009?
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Mamma Mia! ABBA, other groups to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
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Posted to Music on Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 08:00:30 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Beating out musical rockers such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Swedish sensation ABBA will join Genesis, the Hollies and others as the newest members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next year.
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Everybody in the club: evacuate the dance floor!
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Posted to Music on Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 08:20:31 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
109 people were killed in a nightclub in Russia's deadliest fire since the end of the USSR.
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When does the Top 40 hit list become torture?
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Posted to Music on Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 08:15:36 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What do songs by the Bee Gees, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, James Taylor, Queen, Rage against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Sesame street theme all have in common? Their repetitive and loud usage was admittedly (pdf) used, some would say as torture, on prisoners at the military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Now that the above songs have been linked to Gitmo operations by government admission or guard/prisoner testimony other bands are demanding that the US inform them if their acts were used during the interrogation process.
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The 20-oughts top 20
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Posted to Music on Thu Oct 08, 2009 at 09:20:25 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Tunes, baby! The Oughts are almost over, which means it is time to make long boring lists of pop cultural crap produced during the last decade. Today's list is The 200 Best Albums of the 2000's, as chosen by Pitchfork magazine.
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Eddie Money: A performance that was so money [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 02:00:16 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What better way to kick off the Hudson River Quadricentennial Celebration and 3rd Annual ChowderFest than by spending an evening watching Eddie "The Money Man" Money?
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Kanye West doesn't care about country music
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Posted to Music on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 06:59:37 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Kanye West is back in the spotlight again after a bizarre incident at the MTV sponsored annual "VMA music awards" show wherein he charged on stage and stole the microphone from country starlet Taylor Swift. The gist of his message was that he was aggrieved about Beyonce's music video "Single Ladies" not being chosen for best music video.
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Featured Diary: RIP Jim Carroll. One More Person Has Died, Died.
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Posted to Music on Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 04:44:09 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Poet, Punk, Singer, Writer, Diarist, Basketball Player, Junkie and Artist Jim Carroll has died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Carroll was most famous for being the subject of the film The Basketball Diaries, which chronicled his youth as a junkie, poet and high school basketball star in 1960s Manhattan. Prior to that, Carroll's big claim to fame was a hit single with The Jim Carroll Band: People Who Died.
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Regicide!
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Posted to Music on Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 07:44:54 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's office has officially declared the death of the King of Pop to be a homicide.
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