Because we’re going to be looking at one of my all-time favorite bands, Pearl Jam, for 100best at the end of this month, I thought Grunge might be a good topic to introduce our new monthly feature. For you little people who are too young to remember the year that Grunge hit, I’m sure it’s [...]
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Heee’s baaack. After much hoo-ha and spectulation in recent years, Chinese Democracy will finally rain down on waiting Guns N’ Roses fans beginning November 23. To carry the weight of the much-anticipated release – the first from the mega-band since Use Your Illusion in 1991 – Rolling Stone had David Fricke write the Chinese Democracy [...]
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It’s hard to believe that “Venus In Furs” was recorded as early as 1967, it feels like it should be at least a decade later than that. It’s hardly an original opinion, but The Velvet Underground were so far ahead of their time, it’s like they were from a different world. In fact, “Venus In [...]
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“Damn” was the “Can’t Let You Go” single’s B-side and was the single that prompted me to get Street Dreams, the critically slagged but commerically successful second album put out by Brooklyn-born Fabolous. “Damn” isn’t much more than your standard hip-hop boastfest and we don’t have to backtrack but five years. That said, I still [...]
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