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Rock Preview: Lettuce — Stirring up a “Witches Stew” at the House of Blues

January 7, 2019
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“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”

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Rock, Pop, and Folk Feature: Favorite Albums of 2018 — The Delightful Dozen

January 5, 2019
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Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.

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Rock Feature: Celebrating “The Wall” — Pink Floyd’s Version

January 4, 2019
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“Five hundred years from now, people will come to that album the way that people come to Wagner and Beethoven. This is a classical piece from our era.”

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Music Year End Feature: The Dead Lives! — In So Many Ways

December 27, 2018
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The Grateful Dead’s music is moving forward with the help of musicians who are OK with the occasional look back over their shoulders.

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Folk CD Review: Mountain Man’s “Magic Ship” — There’s Magic in Them Thar Hills!

December 9, 2018
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When Vermont’s Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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CD Review: “Boosie Blues Cafe” — Rap Reaches Back to the Past

December 1, 2018
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How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?

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Concert Review: Tenacious D Returns

November 23, 2018
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass were happily living out their nerdy, rockstar dreams — and their fans were loving it.

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Rock CD Review: “Joe Strummer 001” — He Never Rested on His Laurels

October 22, 2018
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What the box set makes adamantly, abundantly clear is how egalitarian Joe Strummer’s musical vision truly was. If you don’t already know his solo work, you should.

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Rock Concert Review: The The — Deconstructed

September 16, 2018
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In every meaningful way, The The’s return to the States, the band’s first tour in 16 years, was generous.

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Concert Review: David Byrne’s “American Utopia” — Live

September 15, 2018
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Conceptual and abstract as David Byrne can often be, he’s one art schooler who isn’t afraid to get down.

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