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Headlines from the Web

The 'Forever 27' club

8/20/2008 9:26:39 AM

Source: Daily Telegraph, UK

Rosanne Cash says people who 'speak' for father shouldn't

8/20/2008 3:43:53 AM

Source: Nashville Tennessean

10 steps to Fall ‘08

8/20/2008 2:57:04 AM

Source: Independent, Ireland

Why do rock stars die aged 27?

8/19/2008 7:25:52 PM

Source: London Times

Stargazing | ‘Comic’ winner doesn’t worry about the woman thing

8/18/2008 11:24:45 PM

Source: Kansas City Star

20 worst cover songs ever

8/18/2008 2:59:16 AM

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Winner of onion-eating contest sets speed record

8/18/2008 2:28:04 AM

Source: The Times Herald-Record

A foot-stomping revival -- Joplin style

8/18/2008 12:23:41 AM

Source: The Fayetteville Observer

TV

8/17/2008 8:45:17 PM

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Meet unusual, entertaining Texans

8/17/2008 1:32:43 AM

Source: Abilene Reporter-News

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Mix ’n’ mashup

It Was the Best of Times triumph at the Rock Hunt
The 2008 WBRU Rock Hunt finals served up an entertainingly diverse lineup at the Living Room last week.
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Who brought the cool kid?

Ian MacKaye visits Tufts
“For me, punk is the new idea, always the new idea, forever the new idea. That’s why punk can never die. Because as long as there are people, there will be new ideas.”
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 15, 2008
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Trailing Ailey

The Groove at the Wang
Neither the Ailey company nor The Groove ’s choreographer, Camille A. Brown, acknowledged these roots.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 12, 2008

Pam Baker & the SGs

Music seen at the Frog + Turtle, January 4, 2008
Pam Baker & the SGs, Maine’s perpetual blues machine, were holding court in a fairly quiet room.
By TODD RICHARD  |  January 09, 2008
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King and Queens

Romance + Cigarettes , plus Salton Sea
In Romance & Cigarettes , which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square, Gandolfini has been dropped by writer/director John Turturro into drab, treeless, white-ethnic Queens.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 28, 2007
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In search of Kerouac

‘Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?’ . . . Lowell?!
Ashare drops me off, frantic Matt Ashare from my paper, swilling coffee in a ceramic mug at the wheel of his sulky-blue Saturn Ion and ranting about dogfighting.
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 29, 2007
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At home with home

Sara Cox arrives at domesticity with Crowded Is the New Lonely
Women may dominate the pop charts from time to time, but in the annals of acknowledged rock/pop greatness, they are few in number.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  May 30, 2007
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A Go-Go goes

The Milky Way gets sexadelic, plus Braun Bergundy
This Friday, January 26, your friendly neighborhood bowling alley/nightclub, the world-famous Milky Way Lounge and Lanes, transforms into a ’60s wonderland of go-go dancers, wild groove music, and the ubiquitous Brother Cleve. "Bossy (Drop Tha Beat remix)" (wma)
By DAVID DAY  |  January 23, 2007

Kurt Cobain

1967-1994
This article originally appeared in the April 15, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 14, 2006
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Dis-Respect

Dorothy Marcic’s musical journey
Toward the end of Respect: A Musical Journey, a revue bringing together some four dozen female-associated pop oldies, comes the big moment that’s supposed to represent American womanhood shaking off its shackles and stepping bravely into the future.
By BRETT MILANO  |  November 08, 2006
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Living Wage

Living Wage
I had a girlfriend once who claimed to experience actual orgasms every time Phish played “Chalkdust Torture.”
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  November 01, 2006
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Michelle Malone

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When Michelle Malone emerged from Atlanta with her band Drag the River at the end of the ’80s, she seemed neck-and-neck with Melissa Etheridge in the Janis Joplin stakes. "Down," Michelle Malone  (mp3) "Cypress Inn," Michelle Malone  (mp3)
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 30, 2006
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Those were the daze

Unearthing the Mad Peck’s psychedelic artifacts
He goes by the Mad Peck, Dr. Oldie, and a few other cheeky monikers, depending on his pursuit: making posters, writing record reviews, archiving comics, spinning discs, or selling rare recordings.
By BOB GULLA  |  October 17, 2006
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Moscoso and more

Hearing the ’60s through poster art
Victor Moscoso’s ’60s rock posters can get you all choked up about the shows. Slideshow: Posters from Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions: Victor Moscoso, Master of Psychedelic Posters & Comix
By GREG COOK  |  July 25, 2006
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Heidi and seek

Gloucester Stage honors Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles is very much reflective of a first feminist generation of women caught between what their mothers had taught them to desire and what they thought they wanted.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 20, 2006
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Force of nature

KT Tunstall takes the world by storm  
Tunstall aspires to be “a tomboy who can sing pretty if she wants to but has a really kick-ass, gnarly band.”
By KEN MICALLEF  |  March 02, 2006
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Catfish Haven

PLEASE COME BACK | Secretly Canadian
Ever wonder what it would sound like if the hypothetical lovechild of Sam Cooke and Janis Joplin wrote and sang a souped-up 21st-century version of his daddy’s “Bring It On Home to Me”?
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 07, 2006

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