Music
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Tori Amos delivers her best album in over a decade with “Unrepentant Geraldines”
It struck me while listening to Unrepentant Geraldines, Tori Amos’ first non-orchestral studio album in five years, that children born when her solo debut Little...
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Prince: Ranking His Albums, Bottom to Top
Thirty years ago this month, in May 1984, Prince was readying the release of the first single from his upcoming album and film, Purple Rain....
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Classic album revisited: The Cure’s “Disintegration” turns 25
By the end of the ‘80s, The Cure was poised for success in America. Their 1987 double-album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me sold well,...
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Guitar Queen
“What can I do with just 10 fingers that will wow people?” Years after Rolling Stone heralded her one of its “New Guitar Gods” and...
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Johnny Indovina explains inspiration behind new album “Trials of the Writer”
“He sees certain sadness in the wake of yesterdays, and he writes it all down.” So begins Trials of the Writer, the first solo album...
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Flashback: Top 10 singles this week 30 Years Ago
The Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week 30 years ago featured a classic mix of R&B, pop and new wave hits. From...
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The LGBTQ Academy of Recording Arts Announces Upcoming Documentary
The LGBTQ Academy of Recording Arts (LARA), which presents the yearly OUTMUSIC Awards, has announced the production of a new full-length documentary. For Which WE...
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Dan Haseltine, front-man of Christian band Jars of Clay, takes to Twitter to support gay marriage
Contemporary Christian music isn’t a format where one might think to look for vocal supporters of same-sex marriage, but as with anything else times are...
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Prince ends long feud with Warner Bros. and drops new single
Prince’s acrimonious two-decade long battle with Warner Bros. Records, the label for which he recorded all of his ‘80s classics and a couple ‘90s releases...
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Hi Lo-Fang
Matthew Hemerlein will perform as Lo-Fang at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue next weekend, for a concert not two months since the pop musician’s debut...
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Flashback: Top 15 singles this week in 1986
The Billboard Hot 100 for this week 28 years ago, in the edition published on April 5, 1986, was a particularly good one. Nine of...
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50 Best Alternative Albums of the ’90s
April 5th marked the 20th anniversary of former Nirvana vocalist Kurt Cobain’s death, and coincidentally last week Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll...
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Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” 30 Years Later
If anybody had told me when I was 12 years old and listening to Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual incessantly on my bedroom turntable that...
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German Engineering
Sonia Rutstein recently met a man in Germany who inquired about her name. ”Oh, ‘Rutstein.’ This is a German name. Are you German?” she recalls...
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Why Kate Bush’s Return to the Stage is Music History
On Friday, March 21, 2014, British musical icon Kate Bush made a casual announcement on her website that caused shockwaves of disbelief and feverish anticipation...
