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Pink Spiders’ Tapped Kegs, Spread Legs and Fertilized Eggs Tour
Pink Spiders will kick off their headlining tour, the Tapped Kegs, Spread Legs and Fertilized Eggs Tour, on Monday, June 9th. Their latest album Sweat It Out is reported to be “coming soon,†but the band has no specific release date yet....
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All Points West Expands
The inaugural edition of the All Points West Music & Arts Festival was already shaping out to be one of the unmissible events of the summer featuring Underworld, Kings of Leon, New Pornographers, Radiohead and Jack Johnson. The 3-day fest in New...
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Under Byen - Siamesisk
Emotional LandscapesIn order for a live album to work, the songs must be able to transport the listener to somewhere that he or she wouldn’t be able to go on the studio album. With a group like Danish post-whatever rockers Under Byen,...
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Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
The Cool Is HotOne of the noteworthy albums of 2007, Chitown rapper Lupe Fiasco's The Cool features cameos from Snoop Dogg and GemStones among others, and a remarkably cohesive audio identity with production from Soundtrakk, Fall Out Boy's Patrick...
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Mastodon Get Creepy on New Album
Metal wonderboys Mastodon are roughly 5 songs into their follow-up to 2006's highly acclaimed Blood Mountain. They're in the midst of recording the album in Atlanta with Brendan O'Brien producing and, according to drummber Brann Dailor, "Everything...
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Goodbye to the Man With the Rectangle Axe
Rock and Roll has lost yet another pioneer. At 79, Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel - better known as Bo Diddley - passed away while surrounded by family and loved ones at his Archer, FL home on Monday, June 2. He is survived by 4 children, 15...
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Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
Rock OnIt would seem that switching from producer Don Gilmore (who has worked with the likes of Avril Lavigne and Duran Duran) to Rick Rubin (who has worked with artists like Johnny Cash and Slayer) had an impact on how Minutes to Midnight, Linkin...
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