2007

Pullin’ Tubes: Rerun’s Favorite Band

I’ve got a saying that I tend to live by: If “Phat” Freddie Stubbs loves a band, then I too must love that band. That’s right, folks, everything I’ve ever learned

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Van Halen To Tour in October…Maybe

Will the third time be a charm for the Van Halen reunion tour? Please? We started to get excited in 1996 after the original members of Van Halen appeared at

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Singer/Songwriter Lee Hazlewood Dies at 78

Famed singer/songwriter Lee Hazlewood, best known for writing Nancy Sinatra’s signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walking," died Saturday (Aug. 4) in Henderson, Nev., after a three-year battle with

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Trey Anastasio: The Horseshoe Curve

After a couple of less than stellar solo albums (hear: Shine, Bar 17), some rather underwhelming tours and one Photoshop destined mug shot, Trey Anastasio has been cementing his legacy with more head shaking than nodding. With The Horseshoe Curve, the former Phish frontman tries on a familiar concept – the instrumental big band, courtesy of his Trey Anastasio Band that toured between 2002 and 2004. Revisiting the works of that highly regarded dectet, it comes to no surprise that now is the perfect time for Anastasio to play it safe.

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I Love Bad Music: Show Me That Smile Again

HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he may or may not share with us a love for Growing Pains, which is pretty cool.

Who would have guessed that the guy who penned the theme to Wheel Of Fortune would [literally] produce one of the hottest R&B stars of 2007?

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After a long, bumpy road during which his career garnered critical buzz domestically but never truly broke through commercially (although he scored hits abroad), Robin Thicke has become a bona fide R&B star. Having entered into the sparsely-populated club of White American urban music writer/performers in 2000 — writing songs for artists like Mya and Christina Aguilera — Thicke finally released his own solo album in 2002, and quickly became a mainstay on my Discman.

Read on after the jump for more rationalization of why Eliot loves bad music and whether or not Thicke’s also a mainstay in Eliot’s masturbatory thoughts…

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