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On Nostalgia (In Sepia): Pete Yorn’s musicforthemorningafter

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By Rebecca A. Eckland Let me tell you a story: It was 2004 and I was 22 and I had finally found a time, a place and a people that...

Of Friendship, Sincerity, Moonlight, and “American Idol”

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by Thomas Cooney I know places like this very well, even when I’m visiting them for the first time.  How else to explain the calm as...

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Brandi Carlile set to launch her Hard Way Home Summer Convoy June 13

"There's just something about the way Brandi Carlile sings that can leave people rapt, spellbound by her bell-like tone and hanging on her gently effective turns of phrase," noted...

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Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina begins hunger strike

In February of 2012, the 11-member feminist punk band Pussy Riot staged a public protest of a major political figure.  As one band member explained to a correspondent from 60...

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Peter Murphy’s Lion on track for release in 2014

While Bauhaus has been officially finished since 2008’s Go Away in White, singer Peter Murphy is hard at work keeping his music going. He’s currently eyeing an...

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Laura Marling’s Once I Was An Eagle set for May 28 release; listen to full album

Laura Marling is set to release (May 28) what she’s called a more “plain” album in terms of her songwriting. However, plain isn’t the right word for Once I Was An...

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CITC’s Paul Gleason reacts to the death of Ray Manzarek

Friedrich Nietzsche – the great nineteenth-century German philosopher whom The Doors loved – wrote a book called The Birth of Tragedy, in which he argued that in...

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Philip Stevenson’s Wildflowers
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A column about records off the...