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There’s a particular scene in the award-winning 2000 Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. In that playful scene, “band aid,” Estrella Starr (played by Bijou Phillips) peers...
The latest offering from perennial American metal purveyors, Attika, drops via Pure Steel Records on February 26th — nearly 30 years after the release of the...
Oh sure, there was the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Cream, Zeppelin, Jimi and Janis — the elite golden gods of the glorious first wave of...
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An immediate TV ratings champ when it debuted on ABC in September 1970, was The Partridge Family. The show was based on a fictional pop group...
Prolific and irreverent, the loveable So-Cal douche bags already had dumped a buttload of garage-birthed LPs and EPs when punk surprisingly became embraced by the mainstream...
Of all the components that make Plush a potential contender, the least compelling is gender. Upon first spotting a promo pic of the group, it doesn’t...
Casey Kasem referred to him once as the “glam guru.” While the legendary American Top 40 radio host’s observation may have been accurate at the time,...
“If there ever was a musician who was an honorary member of San Francisco society, Mr. Peter Frampton!” The earnest intro from Winterland Ballroom general manager, Jerry...
What a trip, man! It seems like just yesterday when we all were being warned by the smart people about how civilization was set to come...
For those who weren’t fortunate to be around, the late ‘60s and early ‘70s were a wonderful time to be a young music fan. There was...
Prior to relocating to Knoxville, co-founding Black Eyed Soul singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Marcus, already had established himself as a sought-out collaborator and producer — with...