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Tommy Stinson: Rebelliously Creative (INTERVIEW)

As bassist for 80s garage post punkers, The Replacements, Tommy Stinson helped forge the path for everyone from Wilco to Nirvana. Now he’s busy once again, this time with Guns ‘N Roses and another solo album – Village Gorilla Head

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Five Eight: Five Eight

Almost 20 years after forming, and with half a dozen records under their belts, Five Eight turns out a self-titled effort that is neither ground breaking nor a complete disappointment.

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ViV: Flawed

San Francisco’s ViV is growing as a band, and are coming into their own. The journey isn

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Brides Of Destruction : Here Come the Brides

Musically, Here Come the Brides rocks with all the swagger, inebriation and low IQ of the best hair rock. Like a drunk driver in a fast car on a curvy California road, the Brides play with the reckless abandon one would expect from 80s L.A. veterans

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Patterson Hood : Killers and Stars

Though it may appear these are milk and honey times for the Truckers, evidently they walked on egg shells, or broken glass as it may be, for a time at least, a couple years back. Killers and Stars was recorded in 2001 and in essence it chronicles these rotten and ambiguous times, at least from the perspective of one Patterson Hood, the principle song writer in the most important band in America.

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