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Nostalgic for Vintage Maroon 5

written by: Jason Radford on July 25, 2012

Songs About Jane was 2004′s album to be loved and shared and sung to ravenously. It was Maroon 5 before singer Adam Levine stamped his name after “ft.” on song after song. It was the thrill of “Harder To Breathe,”  “She Will Be Loved” and the infectious “This Love.” It was a little known band [...]

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Of Blues and Blackbirds

written by: Kim Manning on July 24, 2012

Whitmore swaps out his usual alt-country twinge for blues overtones, with respectable results.

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Robert Smith’s Magnum Opus: Disintegration

written by: Ian Dick Jones on July 13, 2012

“Sometimes you make me feel like I’m living at the edge of the world” Smith says to you, and bam, you’re in another universe for the next 70 minutes of Disintegration.

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From Beatle to Ram: McCartney’s Inner Animal Gets Unleashed Again

written by: Alex Bahler on July 6, 2012

The jaunty cry sounds like “piss off, yeah,” or possibly “kiss-off, hey!” Either would be appropriate. That’s Paul McCartney on “Too Many People,” the opening song on his first classic album without the Beatles. It was this period where he was smeared by critics and derided by his famous former songwriting partner.  This debut for  McCartney [...]

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Black Tambourine – Bright and Noisy

written by: Evan Brown on June 11, 2012

Most people think of Beck’s Guero when they hear “Black Tambourine,” but Black Tambourine was a band long before a song, and a musical anomaly at that. The four-piece of Pam Berry, Brian Nelson, Archie Moore and Michael Schulman formed in the greater Washington, D.C. area in 1989, recorded a total of 10 original songs, played four live shows and then [...]

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