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Bury Me With It: Modest Mouse |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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In the winter/spring of 2003 things were not going well for
lead singer and guitarist Isaac Brock and his band Modest Mouse. Struggling
to keep the band together, Brock was also struggling to write the material
that would, with many delays, become the band’s hugely successful new
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TOM MARSHALL AND THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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While
working on his recent feature [Relix, Nov ‘04], Jack Chester had the
unique opportunity to correspond with Phish's lyricist in several different
settings after Coventry. |
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Brian Wilson Can Still Smile |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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It’s
not easy being Brian Wilson. Despite being the mastermind behind The Beach Boys’
Pet Sounds, an album considered by many as one of the greatest records
of the last century, and oodles of other accomplishments, his life has been
less than charmed. |
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Phish: New Thoughts and Old Feelings |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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After 21 years together, Phish has decided to formally part ways. Following Phish's performance in Coventry, VT this August, the famed quartet will end its tenure as a band. |
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Kicking in Politics with the MC5's Wayne Kramer |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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When the MC5’s first album, Kick Out the
Jams, hit in 1969, it packed a punch like nothing else before it. Recorded
live, its eight songs were delivered with white-knuckled, pedal pressed-through-the-floor
energy that called on equal parts free jazz, British invasion, R-n-B and ‘50s
instrumental rock. |
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ANI DIFRANCO: RIGHTEOUS RAGE |
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Written by Jack Chester
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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Singer/songwriter
Ani DiFranco has been doing it on her own since she started making recordings
at 18. Her Righteous Babe Records, still based in Buffalo, NY, has released
16 of Ani’s own albums and about a dozen others by hand-picked artists,
including Arto Lindsay, Drums & Tuba, Bitch And Animal and Hammell On
Trial. |
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Rita Marley, First Lady of Reggae |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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If there’s
an unofficial matriarch of reggae music, it’s Rita Marley. Though her
courtship with Bob Marley began in 1966, it wasn’t until she was part
of the I-Threes, alongside Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, that she first
backed her husband’s band on the single “Jah Live,” written
immediately after Haile Selassie’s death in 1975. |
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Todd is Still God |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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If there
was a multiple choice question about who Todd Rundgren is, you’d be
correct if you picked the answer at the bottom of the long list: all of the
above. |
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Edie Brickell |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
I saw your Housing Works show here in New York last summer. It was the first time you had played solo in front of an audience, ever, right? Is there anything you remember about that night or is it more of a blur?
I just
remember how well the audience listened, it was so quiet that I could feel
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