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November 18-24 is National Fuck Awareness Week. What is your F.Q. (Fuck Quotient)? You owe it to yourself…
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7/11/77
For all intents and porpoises, the gigging juggernaut known as the Dark Star Orchestra has but one basic…
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Shit . . . another week and already SOMEONE IS DEAD. It’s Julius Hemphill, and it’s also Knuckles…
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Goatwhore
The word whore is a fine word, an awe-inspiringly OUTSTANDING word. Few words in English have as much…
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Rhymes With Seltzer
Bobby “Blue” Bland has been making records—fair to middlin’ to blitheringly great records—since 1951, which means (among other…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Coin toss in a binary universe. Heads, they’re fab. Tails, they ain’t. Heads it is! For refusing to…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Could there be a more versatile band, worldwide, than moe.? Not likely! They are the only group to…
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My Chemical Romance
A Tale of Two Cities, starring My Chemical Romance. It was the best of times and the worst…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Not a cover artist? Think again. During her Thanksgiving weekend residency at the Hoss Hide Corral (Rhinecliff, N.…
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In response to last week’s Rhymes With Seltzer, Koichi Koyama of Federal Way writes: “It was disturbing to…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Just got the prepublication proofs on as dandy, cool, and cookin’ a rock book as has passed this…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Midge DuPlessis, a cig club exec who’s done gangbusters galore with her MARLBORO OF CANADA FAN CLUB, du…
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Join any good clubs lately? Honoring the cigs smoked by artists who have cut records at Muscle Shoals…
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Jonny Lang
Whew. Finished. Eyes. Teeth. Four hours in a day! Days w/out wacking (the sap dries up). Evening the…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
As whole-cloth appropriations of ’40s/’50s “Negro culture” go—make that successful appropriations (monetarily speaking)—the musical oeuvre of Marc Anthony…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
I’m often asked, Have any practitioners of rocka-roll attended one or more semesters of college or university, and…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Has there ever been a hotter or hepper participle phrase band than Counting Crows? Let’s see. . .…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
Hey kids! Math and science are definitely kool, but they ain’t everything. A basic knowledge of geography is…
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Rhymes with Seltzer
It’s not often that an artist comes along with credentials as dazzling as Vixx Viyanillas of Transmissionary Six:…