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by Cat Conway
Tears for Fears have apparently got back.»
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by Cat Conway
Because Kelly Jones is under the impression that someone’s gotta be The Fly.»
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by Cat Conway
"Hollaback Girl" sees Gwen Stefani getting a big lick off the Neptunes flavour at the Hot Producer Baskin-Robbins, delivering vocals that sound like she needs a Sudafed. Pharell Williams farts another number one.»
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by Cat Conway
In winter the indie singles come out to be massive chart hits....»
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by Cat Conway
It's like mixing Blur, Pulp, The Specials, and Zane Lowe in a blender then pouring it through a sieve to remove the interesting bits.»
In Depth by Cat Conway
Those poor sods in Busted just can't catch a break. They finally get their chance to break America but after watching the final episode in MTV's documentary series America or Busted, two things become screamingly clear: they have what it takes to break the world's number one market but their label never gave them a chance.»
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by Cat Conway
Fourth single from the epynomonous fifth album. If there is a way this song could rock harder I don't know what it is.»
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by Cat Conway
Does the world really need a Stacey Q revival?
No. It does not.»
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by Cat Conway
Tori Amos revises her history with new best-of compilation.»
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by Cat Conway
Duran Duran marked a triumphant return to form at London's Kentish Town Forum last night, a surprise gig announced a week ago that sold in less than five minutes.»
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by Cat Conway
Disappointing biography by Mark Paytress. Forward by Shirley Manson.»
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by Cat Conway
The third release from Vancouver-based indie publisher Smart Cookie explores the nature of fandom in this essay collection.»
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by Cat Conway
First volume of Satrapi's graphic memoir of life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.»
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by Cat Conway
They call it Songbook in the U.S.»
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by Cat Conway
The music fan’s library is ironic. While the
music collection is a pristine archive of only the best and most pure specimens
of whatever artists comprise the fan’s taste, books amassed on the subject are
sometimes of poor quality, contradictory, or little more than ghostwritten»
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by Cat Conway
"If you can’t find any well-known Barrett tale here, then it probably didn’t happen, or is too trivial to mention."
Thanks for coming out, Tim.»
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by Cat Conway
On my first visit to Liverpool, my friends and I espied The Beatles Story on Albert Dock, and began the questioning: Where's the Echo and the Bunnymen Story? Where's the Lightning Seeds Story? Where's the Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark Story?
Where's the Frankie Goes to Hollywood Story? Ha ha ha. But the qu»
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by Cat Conway
From the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events comes The Basic Eight, yet another installment of gifted young adults getting away with murder (see Heathers, The Secret History). The book is structured on two levels: first, as protagonist Flannery Culp’s journal, read simultaneously as it is originally written, revis»
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by Cat Conway
For a few short years, in the aftermath of the second World War, America surrendered its identity as the centre of cool to what became known as Swinging London, the international hotspot for music, fashion, art, and film. The Sixties, as anyone over the age of fifty incessantly bangs into our skulls, was the moment whe»