August 10, 2009

Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Jump Into Sleater-Kinney

Last month, former Sleater-Kinney guitarist turned NPR blogger Carrie Brownstein dedicated a week’s worth of posts on Monitor Mix to discovering the music of Phish. Brownstein dove right into the

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Televised Tune: On the Tube This Week

VH1 Classic airs the Janis Joplin documentary JANIS on Tuesday at 9PM. The film looks at Joplin on and off stage and features footage from throughout her career, including the 1967

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Hockey Delivers Mind Chaos

Capitol Records breakthrough dance-rock band Hockey have been making impressive first impressions with music fans, bloggers and mainstream media around the globe with a non-stop touring schedule leading up to

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Tenacious D Headlining Outside Lands

The self-proclaimed "Greatest Band in the World," Tenacious D, is joining the world’s greatest lineup of artists for the 2nd annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, taking place August

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Medeski, Martin & Wood : Radiolarians III

Never let it be said that Medeski Martin and Wood repeat themselves but the trio's Radiolarians Series, in its ingenious concept of writing touring then recording all new material in quick succession, represents a willful effort to avoid the predictable.

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Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Poison: Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA 7/12/09

Cheap Trick.  Poison.  Def Leppard.  It's an odd billing to be sure.  Poison and Def Leppard seem reasonable enough, with careers that rode the hair metal explosion of the 80s to multi-platinum success, but Cheap Trick, an 80s power ballad aside, were churning out power pop gems (that continue to influence bands today) five to ten years earlier than their tour mates.  Oddly enough, the tour's oldest band chronologically is its youngest spiritually and that is part of the magic that still makes Cheap Trick matter.

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