Ever since Chrissie Hynde courageously engaged in that tremendous leap of faith it took to form the band Pretenders in 1978, she has consistently taken great pains not to indulge
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Zigzagging through the pedestrian traffic populating the much-maligned street construction of downtown Burlington, Vermont, there was a palpably convivial air under the near full moon on October 4th. And that
The efficiency of Bradley Morgan’s U2 Until The End of the World belies its heft. In the 240 pages of the 11″ by 9″ hardcover, the author provides a fairly
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With four decades of hindsight, it occurs that Stevie Ray Vaughan’s popularity might well have continued to ascend if he were not battling his demons so furiously when making his
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Not since the halcyon days of the Pure Jerry archival series of the early 2000s has there been a release so expansive as the six-CD box of Jerry Garcia Band:
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