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Mick Jagger

The 25 Best Work Songs For Labor Day

Posted Sat 30 Aug 2008 5:45AM NZST
When we saw Labor Day coming up on the calendar, we knew it was time to wheel out the work songs. Not the old, smelly work songs that musicologists once discovered in the hands of the workingman, but the ones written and performed by rich rock stars More »
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Cream

The 25 Best Blues Rock Bands

Posted Sat 23 Aug 2008 9:22AM NZST
North Hollywood Shootout is the new Blues Traveler album. Since they have the word "Blues" in their title, we have to take them at their word and assume they are a ‘blues rock' band. Certainly, they wouldn't lie. It's been proven--mathematically!-- More »
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Drive-By-Truckers

The Top Ten Post-Southern Rock Era Generation

Posted Thu 14 Aug 2008 11:15AM NZST
For our purposes here--mostly to keep my sanity--I'm sticking to bands that in some way conjure up the tradition that's been handed down by the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd. If a band somehow reflects that influence, they were entitled to More »
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Lynyrd Skynyrd

The 10 Best Southern Rock Bands

Posted Thu 14 Aug 2008 11:14AM NZST
FYI, Black Stone Cherry are releasing their second album and they're what we could call a modern Southern Rock band, which means it's time to look at ALL southern rock bands. More »
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Mark-Kozelek

The 25 Best Singer-Songwriters Currently Working

Posted Tue 12 Aug 2008 8:01AM NZST
My criteria here was a little weird. You could be old but not too old. You had to be active, but you might not have made an album in some time. You could be pop, but you couldn't be too pop. Or you could be. I stuck to these relatively unsuccessful p More »
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BBC Sessions

The Top 25 All-Time Best Rock Live Albums

Posted Sat 9 Aug 2008 9:04AM NZST
Nothing says entertainment like the sound of a thousand hands clapping--out of time. Oddly, however, rock n’ roll does yield many great live albums. Tim Hardin, a doomsayer like Nico and a country guy by the name of Johnny Cash--Hendrix aside, has More »
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alice cooper

The 25 Best Summer Songs

Posted Wed 6 Aug 2008 12:44PM NZST
Here are twenty-five songs guaranteed to give you a sunburn if you don't wear your sunblock. And don't pick at it, you'll just make it worse, son. More »
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Grateful Dead

10 Musical Acts You Associate With Marijuana

Posted Sat 2 Aug 2008 12:29PM NZST
Is it any surprise that a tour bus with Snoop Dogg would yield a few marijuana tokers? It's happened before. While the drug is still illegal in the United States, it has a long history of support in the musical community and there are many musicians More »
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Bob-Dylan

The 25 Best Rock Documentaries

Posted Fri 1 Aug 2008 12:02PM NZST
Ironically, the best music documentaries, much like the best music books, often render the music beside the point anyhow. The director's skill, the quality of the available clips, the complexity of the characters at hand, the story that unfolds decid More »
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