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Gotta dance (Savannah Morning News)
When Little Richard was hip, so was dancing. When the Beatles invaded, they made us twist and shout. When the Bee Gees reigned, every night was boogie night. And with the popularity of Spandex in the 1980s came the rise of the Solid Gold Dancers.
With the Band (New York Times)
In Jonathan Lethem?s novel, an indie group is on the cusp of its first big hit.
Dispute rocks the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Asbury Park Press)
At tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in New York, revelry and reverence will attend the class of five acts entering a storied sanctum that claims such undeniable greats as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles and Fats Domino. Royal bloodlines have thinned since rock's heyday and the inaugural 1986 bash, when legends Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown and Little Richard were ripe for ...
10 Questions with Chris Colonna (Music-Critic.com)
We recently were lucky (?) enough to talk to Chris Colonna, the man behind Australian electronic / urban group Bumblebeez 81, to find out a bit more about the recent Stateside release (which they were unaware of) of The Printz . Read on...
Dispute rocks the hall (USA Today)
At tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in New York, revelry and reverence will attend the class of five acts entering a storied sanctum that claims such undeniable greats as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles and Fats Domino.
Rock Hall inducts a diverse class (Detroit Free Press)
NEW YORK ? Punk-poet Patti Smith, the onetime St. Clair Shores resident who made her name on New York's art-punk scene, was among five acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Monday.
01/09/77: Interview (Detroit Free Press)
Ann Arbor's Bob Seger: Behind the rock faade beats the heart of a nice, normal guy
Ageless Little Richard, We Hear You Rockin' (The Tampa Tribune)
PLANT CITY - The punk rock kids standing at the stage might have seemed out of place at a performance by a man easily old enough to be their grandfather.
Marshall Fine: Blame It on the (Three Dog) Night (HuffingtonPost)
I can pinpoint the moment when I realized that we baby-boomers were no longer the driving force of popular culture and that control had been taken over by Generation X - those who came of age in the Reagan Era, rather than the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon era. It was last week. And it was because of Three Dog Night. How, you may ask, could Three Dog Night - as irrelevant a rock band as ever ...
Of Montreal (Weekly Dig)
It always happens. You finally think you?ve got the world figured out and then? WHAM! ?you?re hit with some new piece of information so messed up it makes you call into question everything you thought you?d already figured out.