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It's A Good Life, After All....
Artists mentioned:When you’re the son of a bona fide Americana music legend, and named after one of greatest songwriters of the genre (Townes Van Zandt), expectations are high. With his full-length debut, The Good Life, Justin Townes Earle delivers everything expected of him in spades. Not content to merely mimic his...(read full post)
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The Mooney Suzuki live at CBGB!
Artists mentioned:Well kiddies, that whole garage rock thing from the early-00s seems to be just about dead-and-buried, so perhaps it's time to let go of its stinkin' corpse and pronounce T-O-D, already. Just sayin'…hell, the White Stripes are the only band with legs to survive the glut, and they were always...(read full post)
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Flyin' High With Drivin-N-Cryin
Artists mentioned:In the wake of the mid-80s explosion of a new Southern rock paradigm spearheaded by R.E.M. and including bands like Jason & the Scorchers, Pylon, Guadalcanal Diary, the B-52s and other diverse tonemasters, the onus was on Drivin-N-Cryin to deliver. Sporting a unique sound, a Georgia zip code, and frontman...(read full post)
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Nick Lowe Is The Jesus Of Cool!
Artists mentioned:Nick Lowe has been making great music for so long that we often take him for granted. Over a career that has spanned nearly forty years, Lowe has released around a dozen albums of consistently entertaining and adventurous songs that venture into sounds of pop, rock, country, and all things...(read full post)
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Ringo's Stroll Down Memory Lane...
Artists mentioned:Ringo Starr's music is oddly comfortable – like a chewed-up old pair of slippers or a ragged favorite jacket. As the odd man out in the Beatles, Starr's charisma and talent was too often overshadowed by the genius of John Lennon, the pop mastery of Paul McCartney, or the instrumental...(read full post)
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Run Over by the Waco Express!
Artists mentioned:What began essentially as a flight of fancy back in 1995 – “when it started, the whole purpose of this band was to get beer and money,” Waco Brothers frontman Jon Langford told No Depression magazine in 1997 – has, better than a decade down the road, become an influential...(read full post)
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Dan Kennedy's Rock On
Artists mentioned:There is a moment described by author Dan Kennedy in his brilliant music biz memoir Rock On that reminds me of an almost-surreal experience from my own jaded past. Back in the early-90s, before the worldwide web had become this endless string of billboards and rest stops on the much-vaunted...(read full post)
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Punk Rawk Shock & Awe from CBGB!
Artists mentioned:We're so excited about this news from our Ryan Adams Sucks blog that we had to share it here in TMQ! The Reverend reported back in October that our friends at Music Video Distributors had worked out a deal with the legendary punk club CBGB to release performances from the...(read full post)
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Reconsidering Cactus
Artists mentioned:Life often doesn’t take us where we expect it to go. For bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, after the break-up of their band Vanilla Fudge, they planned to form a Cream-styled supergroup with flash Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. When Beck took his motorcycle over the edge – a...(read full post)
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The Jesus of Cool returns!
Artists mentioned:A member of seminal early-70s pub-rock pioneers Brinsley Schwarz, Nick Lowe earned a reputation as a snappy songwriter with a skill for turning a phrase. That band’s roots-rock sound never caught on far beyond the streets of London and Camden Town, however, and Brinsley Schwarz broke up in 1975 after...(read full post)
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Obsessed with the Stones on Silver Mountain
Artists mentioned:The Reverend has many theories about music, several of which include charts, various graphs, and even semi-dangerous laboratory experiments involving beakers and Bunsen burners. Curiously enough, few of these theories involve the use of actual instruments like guitar, drums or didgeridoo. Regardless, here’s a current pet hypothesis, as of yet...(read full post)
