2007

CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dies

Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking

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Gogol Bordello Super Size Tour

Gogol Bordello will make another pass through the U.S. and Canada before heading back to Europe to finish out the year. The new slate of North American dates kicked off

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Briefly: Fall is the Season of Springsteen

We’ve got big news for fans of The Boss (no, Papa Steinbrenner’s not dead yet). Bruce Springsteen today announced an extensive fall tour that will once again reunite him with the badass E Street Band. The Boss also announced that Radio Nowhere, the first single from his new album, will be available exclusively as a free track on iTunes for the next week. Full dates listed after the jump…

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G’Morning: Underestimating Groin Kicks

Scotty usually throws out an oversized post full’a music-related links every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But it’s a light day out there, I’m already semi-bored at work, and I thought

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Elvis Presley – : Viva Las Vegas

ith a title like Viva Las Vegas, I suspect many people's expectations are very low, associating this with the lounge lizard Elvis. However, that turns out to be an off-base assumption. The truth is this album captures Elvis during his second-wind. True, the young, hungry singer from the days before the Army and the movies is gone, but he still had an awful lot of performance left in him and these 16 tracks, all but one recorded live between 1970 and 1972, find his great voice backed by a much bigger sound.

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Talib Kweli: The Brickhouse, Phoenix, AZ 8/10/07

The Brickhouse in downtown Phoenix was more like an oven on a recent Friday night.  Many people cleared the room before the headliner Talib Kweli even entered the stage, as the temperature rose well past 100 degrees.  Yet Kweli, with his predictably smooth rhymes and easy backbeats, managed to pull off a compelling show despite the elements and those who stayed were lyrically impressed.

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