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Four barrels, four speeds, dual exhausts — the pervasive rumble of the American muscle car embodies a bygone era of can-do dispositions, no-dream-is-too-small spirits and »
Rock ’n’ roll is a bastard beast and it is nothing new for musicians to tap into its innermost troubled childhood and mine for more. »
How many times have the British invaded America? From Beatlemania and the Stones, on through Bowie, Elton John, the Spice Girls and Oasis, the Brits »
Poison is a band whose members’ work in reality television may surpass their musical output in silliness, but only by a hair. Yet the legend »
“You in a band?” is a question just about every eccentric over 20 fields while navigating the supposedly real world on any given weekday. It’s »
Guava: a tasty fruit staple of many tropical diets. “Tron,” a 1982 Disney foray into sci-fi action-adventure and imminent human-computer conflict. Guavatron: a West Palm »
A funny thing about perseverance is how powerful it looks in hindsight. For Erasure, two Brits navigating a chaotic mid-’80s scene that was part punk »
By the end of the ’70s people knew they were living in a moment. Its markers in New York were the Ramones, Blondie, Talking »
The film industry barely exists in South Florida. Crews drop in and shoot lots of sunny exterior B-roll, but it’s a tiny subset that puts »
Oscar Wilde is famously misquoted as saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … ” Because he added, “ … that mediocrity can pay »
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that too much of a good thing is bad. Peter Hook and The Light are a perfect example. For »
Full disclosure: I was a kid in the 1980s. I’m young enough today to remember some of the decade’s output fondly, and old enough to »
