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Frankly, this is one of the worst albums I've ever heard—a sonic travesty even by my forgiving '80s metal standards. Every washed-up member [...]

Along with Paul Butterfiled, Mississipi-born, Memphis-rasied harpist Charlie Musselwhite can be credited for giving the so-called white blues movement of the '60s a [...]

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By Divine Right are Canada's answer to Ohio's Guided By Voices, both in terms of having a former band member roster well into [...]

Let's get the obvious out of the way right up front: Yeah, it's his real name. And yes, his lineage can be traced [...]

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Alibi Spring Crawl 2004, our 10th in the Crawl series that began with the inaugural Fall Crawl back in 1999, is another one [...]

Being about as far from a modern expert as any human being could possibly get, it's rare that I write about forms of [...]

Back in the mid-'70s, a New York band called KISS distinguished Michigan's largest metropolis from all the other cities in the country by [...]