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18 hrs ago | Eugene Weekly

Music Shorts

Yeah, I'm a bit jaded. When you write about music, you have to actually listen to it.

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Related Topix: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Grunge, Punk, Social Distortion

Wed Jul 08, 2009

WKDU-FM Philadelphia

Soup Is Good Food on Tue

Unity w/ Horns Unreleased Energy Husker Du Something I Learned Today Zen Arcade Sticks & Stones Less Than Free The Strike and Times D1 Transistor Transistor Black Cat Erase All Names and Likeness Dear Landlord I Live in Hell Dream Homes Hot Water Music Rooftops No Division The Menzingers Sir Yes Sir The Falcon Unicorn Odyssey Unicornography ...

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Related Topix: Punk, Sticks & Stones, Pop/Rock, Wire, Citizen Fish

Fri Jun 26, 2009

WRNX-FM Holyoke

Can't Hardly Wait - Replacements

The Replacements initially formed in 1979, when Paul Westerberg joined a garage punk band formed by brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Replacements, Punk

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Aversion

Vintage Video - Sugar

As unlikely as it seems now, there was a brief time when Bob Mould's music was getting big-time attention from the mainstream.

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Related Topix: Sugar, Pop/Rock, Punk

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Eugene Weekly

Music Shorts

Someday, when everything in the world is right, Ed Cole's pop will be the world standard.

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Related Topix: Punk, Minutemen, Eureka, CA, The Smiths, Pop/Rock

Mon Jun 15, 2009

BetaNews

The age of egregious Auto-tuning: 1998-2009

When Antares Audio Technologies founder Andy Hildebrand filed for the patent for his digital pitch correction technology more than ten years ago, I wonder if he ever thought that it would be such an inescapable and controversial part of modern music.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Believe, Punk

Sat Jun 13, 2009

WEGW-FM Wheeling

Backwater - Meat Puppets

Out of all of the bands that made SST Records a towering force in the American underground during the mid-'80s, the Meat Puppets lasted the longest, surviving where other bands fell apart.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Meat Puppets, Punk

Wed Jun 10, 2009

EDGEprovidence.com Nightlife Feed

BLOWOFF redefines the circuit party

Circuit parties have a vicious connotation to them. The words meat market, pretentious and having a focus on the young and pretty boys are all things people sometimes think of when looking at circuit parties.

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Related Topix: Punk

Tue Jun 09, 2009

Ultimate-guitar.com

Husker Du: Flip Your Wig [Reviews]

Released: Sep 1985 Genre: Alternative Rock Label: SST Records Number Of Tracks: 14 Flip Your Wig is a 1985 album by the American punk rock band, Husker Du, and their last release on SST Records.

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Related Topix: Punk

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Augusta Chronicle

A Passel of Wrasslin'

I'm not a wrestling guy. It's never been my thing and, in all honesty, probably never will be.

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Related Topix: Punk, University of South Carolina Aiken, South Carolina

Mon Jun 01, 2009

WTKS-FM Maitland

Wishing Well - Bob Mould

Guitarist/singer/songwriter Bob Mould was initially a member of Husker Du, one of the most influential American bands of the '80s. Husker Du was a post-hardcore punk band that helped define the sound and ideals of alternative rock.

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Related Topix: Bob Mould, Pop/Rock, Punk

Sat May 30, 2009

Buffalo News

Club Chatter

This week, we were blessed with a concert announcement sure to please fans of the brilliantly bizarre.

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Related Topix: Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Punk

Thu May 28, 2009

The Gazette

Live in the Clubs: Grant Hart doesn't mix music and politics in obvious ways

Grant Hart has never been a political songwriter - at least not in an obvious way.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Grant Hart, Punk, Minneapolis Metro, Nova Mob, Alternative, George Bush

Sat May 23, 2009

The Gazette

Getting the band back together

This week, while interviewing yet another of my punk rock heroes, the legendary Grant Hart of Minneapolis punk-poppers Husker Du, the conversation turned to the inevitable: will there be a Husker Du reunion? You can read next week's Live in the Clubs story to find out the answer to this question, although the following quote from him, about band ...

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Related Topix: Punk, Dead Kennedys

Thu May 21, 2009

Democrat & Chronicle

New shows, hot tickets

Brad Paisley's 7:30 p.m. Aug. 14 show at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, previously available as part of the Country Megaticket package, is now on sale as a single show.

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Related Topix: Country, Brad Paisley, Kodak, TN, Theater, Arts, Punk

Fri May 15, 2009

Columbus Dispatch

CD Review | 21st Century Breakdown: Latest album a rock-opera triumph

Perhaps the only thing more unlikely than releasing a rock opera in 2009 is unveiling a rock opera written and recorded by Green Day.

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Related Topix: Green Day, Punk

Wed May 13, 2009

Deseret News

New Green Day a rock opera triumph

Perhaps the only thing more unlikely than releasing a rock opera in 2009 is that it's a rock opera written and recorded by Green Day.

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Related Topix: Green Day, Punk, Media Players, iPod, Minutemen

Mon May 11, 2009

The Gazette

Short CD reviews

Here are some CDs I recently acquired. The Hold Steady: "Almost Killed Me" I've become a fan of The Hold Steady during the past year, but the only album I've heard in its entirety is the band's most recent album, "Stay Positive." "Almost Killed Me" is the band's first album, and it was recorded live.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Replacements, Punk, Center Sandwich, NH, Gogol Bordello

LBC 97.3

Have you heard Benny and Bjorn from Abba?

Bob Mould from Husker Du isn't happy with gay music taste. . . Tonight I was joined by Ruth Barnes to talk music and Britain's Got Talent.

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Related Topix: Punk

Thu May 07, 2009

Now Toronto

Dinosaurs of 1990s Alt Rock

A couple of citizens of the nation formerly known as Alternative Rock have remerged at time when 90s music could be getting its second wind.

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Related Topix: Punk, Bob Mould, Pop/Rock, Dinosaur Jr.

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