This week, Los Angeles celebrates venerable American songwriting champion Tom Petty via a pair of all-star tribute shows, on November 14th and 15th at the El Rey, and Stereogum’s happy to join The Best Fest and Jameson as a co-presenter. The participating artist list is comically long, including Fab and Nick from the Strokes, Patrick [...

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OULU, Finland (Reuters) - American Justin Howard, alias Nordic Thunder, was crowned world champion air guitar player late on Friday in the northern Finnish city of Oulu, narrowly ahead of his compatriot Matt Burns, or Airistotle. Howard, looking like a Viking warrior in his leather tunic, gave an energetic performance that including sliding acro...

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