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To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... Perhaps what you...
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Some albums are just too good to let slip away beneath the sands of time, so each week Bill Melville pulls one out, dusts it off and offers it up for your renewed consideration ... The mental meltdown and decades-long...
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By some weird coincidence, just days after publicly admitting I've been on a bit of a Bowie kick lately, I walk into my local Borders store to find a magazine called Lemon Heroes. Actually the magazine is called Lemon and...
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Notable names and events in this week's rock and roll news, ladies style (with links to more information): Former Playboy Bunny and electric bikini-wearing singer Dale Bozzio was jailed for animal abuse. Mariah Carey wasn't jailed but probably should be...
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To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... The Smothers Brothers...
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Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers are a band out of Massachusetts who have been around in form or another since 2003. Kellogg, who looks a little like Kenny Loggins, is the leader of the gang but the magic is how...
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Still haven't figured out how to celebrate the New Year? Maybe you and your best buddies should catch a flight to Peru and hang with Metallica. The band that made metal accessible to your mother has announced they'll be joining...
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Metallica
Imagine the number of hits we'll get from women in Arizona googling "free silicone"! Sorry to disappoint you on that one. This is about music. Clash fans know the band's guitarist, Mick Jones,has been banging around the world for the...
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John Paul Jones
To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... Originally recorded by...
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George Harrison
Beatles
Rock music has a robust history, so every Wednesday, J.A. Bartlett of the Hits Just Keep On Comin' talks about the biggest and most intriguing moments from years past... This week in 2003, Apple released Let It Be ... Naked,...
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Paul McCartney
I was introduced to Talking Heads in 1980, my first year in my first college (which happened to have been located on the ice floe known as University Hill in Syracuse). I was paging through the bins at the University...
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To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... Take a trip...
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Originally known as Bob Keene's Del-Fi Records Studio, which was where Ritchie Valens recorded La Bamba and Bobby Fuller cut I Fought The Law, it became Mystic Sound Studio in 1969. Led Zeppelin cut Whole Lotta Love at Mystic.
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Led Zeppelin
Not everyone is a rock expert, so here is your weekly primer on the events and happenings that shaped Rock and Roll from J.A. Bartlett of the Hits Just Keep On Comin'... The other day on my personal blog, I...
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Elvis Costello
Seems that Dublin's favorite sons, U2, held no currency with the city's fathers recently. In fact, they had to give up the currency to the tune of $53,000 for noise violations during a recent concert stand in the city's Croke...
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To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... Geddy Lee once...
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Rush
Geddy Lee
Tom Morello
I've been on a bit of a David Bowie kick lately. Aladdin Sane is in particularly hot rotation these days. It wasn't a record that I connected with when it was released in 1973; when it came to multi-sexual glammers,...
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Every Monday, Alex Young of Consequence of Sound delivers a sneak preview of the top albums being released for the week... 2009 isn't really justifying the long-held notion that the end of a calendar year is rather barren of new...
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John Paul Jones
We're cashing in our 401k's and reinvesting all our retirement money in rock and roll memorabilia, particularly those related to body parts or functions (or body parts and functions). Why? 'Cuz Homer Gill Gilleland, Elvis' barber for 20 years, recently...