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Notes From The Underground

written by: Brian Anderson on February 8, 2011

On Friday January 14, at New York City’s Highland Ballroom, Camper Van Beethoven reunited once again. That next night, ending a 12 year hiatus, Archers Of Loaf did the same at the Cat’s Cradle in Carboro, North Carolina. Separated by 24 hours and 700 miles, both events drew water from the same well. Like the […]

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Top 25 British Invasion Albums (21-25)

written by: Brian Anderson on January 27, 2011

How could a country with a population one-sixth the size of America have so many amazing bands? The British Invasion was the most important period in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. It eclipsed everything it preceded and spawned everything that succeeded it.

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Michael Jackson: The Shelf-Life of the Muse

written by: Brian Anderson on January 6, 2011

In no other area of the arts is the creativity of its practitioners so fleeting as of those who create music. Writers, visual artists, filmmakers, photographers all watch their skills diminish within their lifetimes, but seldom become parodies of themselves.

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