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9/28/2010
Still not convinced that the Walkmen aren't your average rock band, sweating bullets in a windowless New York City basement in hopes of "making it"? Good, because we're not done charting their brief bu …
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9/28/2010
When critics declared Jonathan Fire*Eater the "future of rock 'n' roll" and consumers responded with a resounding "huh?," the band didn't fill their empty beer bottles to the brim with tears. They spli …
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9/28/2010
With his leather jacket, 501s, and week's worth of stubble, Bruce de-wussified the singer-songwriter, proving you don't have to plug in to rock out - and when you do plug in, you don't have to l …
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9/28/2010
Deflecting the light of his celebrity onto his partners, Springsteen rides shotgun on others' projects not just as a sidekick, but also as a musical evangelist. Bruce and Roy Orbison drip rockabilly de …
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9/28/2010
If there's one thing Gossip fans can agree on, it's the sheer knee-knocking raw power of the group's live shows, a bulldozer presentation built on the bare minimum setup of bassist/guitarist Brace Pain …
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9/28/2010
Few breakout indie acts have earned as many "do they deserve it or what?" comments as Gossip. While they've been major icons in garage-punk circles and the gay community for years now, the Arkansas nat …
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9/28/2010
"We learned more from a three-minute record," Bruce sings in "No Surrender," "than we ever learned in school." What he didn't mention is that the three-minute record was his school, and he's spe …
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Artist Essentials
9/28/2010
If "S**k" sounds familiar, it's because it was covered in a faster, frothier form on Nine Inch Nails' Wish EP. You see, Trent Reznor was once part of Pigface's revolving-door lineup, a supergrou …
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9/28/2010
For all the talk about Nine Inch Nails and Ministry in the scheme of industrial music's mainstream impact, few, if any, artists have remained as close to that subgenre's template of stuttering samples …
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