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We already know you’re having a party for Halloween. We know you’ve covered your home in spider webs, candles, blacklight-reactant posters and ghouley, ghosty things from Rite Aid. Before you do anything else brilliant, we’re here to make extra sure you’re prepared to give your guests the creep fest they’re looking for ... read more |
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Yes that Glen Campbell. On his comeback album, the sixties and seventies country crossover giant offers his takes on the songs of modern artists like Tom Petty, The Replacements, and U2. This is what a great Glen Campbell album is actually supposed to sound like in 2008. It’s damn fine listening
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The thing that makes me want to break a large window is the reminder that as small pieces of old music are gradually transformed into hoaky, pop-friendly caricatures of themselves, the ignoramus human population forgets there was ever an original, and the intended message is squashed like the front row at Hilary Duff ... read more |
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This is almost a landmark, and it should probably be handled carefully. What a nightmare if some Lamborghini-driving playboy snagged it to throw keggers there, or some charity organization threw down for it, only to put it back up a piece at a time to fund the Save-The-Sad-Eyed-Children-With-Flulike-Symptoms campaign ... read more |
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As a pretty serious music fan, it seems odd I’d only have eight rap songs (nine if you let me count “Hey Ya” by Outkast) on my iPod. Sure, I only have one techno song, but wide-pupiled pseudo-hippy bozos with glow sticks and stashes of ecstasy hardly wield the same cultural relevance as an entire generation of disenchanted, fast-talking urban youths ... read more |
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Three times a year I’m exposed to a country music awards show, or, at the very least, constant advertisements for said awards show, like I’m some ridiculous rube who wants to celebrate this weird-ass culture by watching all my favorite girls ‘n’ boys dressed up in some of their most fancy clothin.’ Count it, ladies and gentleman, three times ... read more |
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Music has the ability to polarize our moods. It can serve as the catalyst to get our blood boiling or even pumping in certain South of the border directions. I’ll be honest: I’ve never been in a fight. I just don’t have the vindictive, alpha male characteristics required to chuck fists at another man, but even still, I’ll occasionally be in a fiery, hot-tempered mood and certain songs will push me near the edge, jeopardizing my good vibes equilibrium ... read more |
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A special fortieth anniversary concert was scheduled for Sunday, but it’s been scrapped due to internal fighting between the warden and concert organizer. What the fuck? Prisoners have nothing to look forward to. They live a tedious life of monotony and shiv wrestling. You can’t dangle a concert in front of them and back out at the last second. That’s poor form–the exact type of law enforcement poor form Johnny Cash railed against his entire life ... read more |
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Cash's music has been heavily influential and often covered, but a Snoop Dogg version would mark the first high profile (if not first in general) rap or hip hop artist taking a stab. Country music is unilaterally dominated by white people, so a black rapper covering a country song, regardless of what quality the end result, is nothing short of a revolutionary idea ... read more |
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Anyone who loves music, I mean really loves music, can’t get enough of mixtapes. From a collection of road trip anthems for an extended drive to a chorus of I love you songs for a cute girl, the mixtape can service all of your needs, providing a happy beginning, middle, and end. I’ve made dozens of absurd mish-mashes in my life, and I figured I’d share some of my favorites with you in a series of unknown length called Mixtape Madness ... read more |
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