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May 25, 2012
100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album
I've never been happier to be wrong about something. Two weeks ago, the last line of my column read: "Probably won't happen. But wouldn't it be fun if it did?" The event I didn't think could happen was Adam Lambert scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with his second disc, Trespas ... More >>
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May 22, 2012
Butch Vig On Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Garbage, And His History Of Shaping Alternative Rock As We Know It
If you don't think Butch Vig's almost singlehandedly invented two decades of alternative rock as we know it, just look at his resumé: Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, AFI. That's without mentioning his membership in the still-cool Garbage or the fact he prod ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Live: Green Day Get A Little Less Serious At The Studio At Webster Hall
by Joshua Kurp Nadia ChaudhuryGreen Day The Studio at Webster Hall Thursday, October 27 Better Than: Hearing blink-182 play "Hybrid Moments" three times. "We're gonna do an older song," Billie Joe Armstrong, dressed as Jack Skellington, told the packed-tight audience at the Studio at Webst ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources
Blue Note's cover art: Also an inspiration. (Original on the left, homage on the right.)Hip-hop artists have never been shy about sampling songs from the vaults of the Blue Note jazz label, and few have pilfered with as much creativity and gusto as A Tribe Called Quest's one-time de facto lea ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
The 10 Best Guesses To The Suddenly Pressing Question, "Who Are The Modern Weepers?"
Yesterday Brooklyn Vegan posted a query about about British act playing Mercury Lounge on May 27; the act goes by the name the Modern Weepers, and the Merc site claims that the Mancunian act is "well travelled and well known in their native England" and "thrill[s] audiences and critics alike ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
What's Your Favorite Old "Story Song"?
I used to love those kitschy story songs that filled my youthful eardrums. You know, the elaborate ditties with cheesy, involved narratives--basically shlock short stories set to irresistibly catchy pop music. Among the classics of the genre are: "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" s ... More >>
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September 13, 2009
The Ecstasy, the Agony: Live Blogging the MTV VMAs
In honor of 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, we've invited SOTC buddies and pop savants Sean Fennessey and Ryan Dombal to lend a certain wisdom and perspective to these sure-to-be completely dignified proceedings. Gentleman? John Shearer 9:00pm Sean: We're coming to you live from one or two or ... More >>
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March 10, 2009
YouTube Treasure: Ode To Bobbie Gentry
Country cultists will remember that Bobbie Gentry is the sultry Mississippi-born singer of story songs like "Ode To Billie Joe" and "Fancy," a woman of great curves and fabulous notes, even when emitting glorified nonsense syllables. Well, here she is on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour performin ... More >>
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October 24, 2006
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January 25, 2005
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December 2, 2003
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October 17, 2000
Ina Dancehall Groove—Finally
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October 3, 2000
Rubbers Full of Soul
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June 6, 2000
Plumb Tired
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March 14, 2000
All Ears
Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years
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February 1, 2000
So Much Difference
The Adorableness of Asian Alphabet Pop
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March 30, 1999
Rock's Living End
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100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album

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Butch Vig On Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Garbage, And His History Of Shaping Alternative Rock As We Know It

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Live: Green Day Get A Little Less Serious At The Studio At Webster Hall

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Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources

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The 10 Best Guesses To The Suddenly Pressing Question, "Who Are The Modern Weepers?"

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What's Your Favorite Old "Story Song"?

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The Ecstasy, the Agony: Live Blogging the MTV VMAs

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YouTube Treasure: Ode To Bobbie Gentry

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