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Change is good. Imagine a world in which we’re grooving to the likes of the Tea Set, the Salty Peppers and the Weak Heart Drops »
There’s something playfully snobby about the name Champagne Superchillin’ yet also kind of innocent, as though a French person trying to explain her culture to »
Halftime for American Football lasted almost 15 years. For 15 years after the 1999 release of their self-titled full-length debut, the emo trio from Urbana, »
Burlesque runs the gamut of outlandish ideas in its dedication to keeping an audience rapt and celebrating the seductiveness of the female form. Some troupes »
KC and the Sunshine Band have a history made for the movies: Blue eyed-soul singer from the mean streets of Hialeah finds a kindred spirit »
Noise rock is gloriously difficult to describe. Take the Melvins, Cows, Jesus Lizard and Butthole Surfers — now try to explain what they sound like »
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 »
