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The Hold Steady’s arrived at an interesting moment in the progression of their smart-guy bar rock. As we’ve mentioned, album five is the first since the departure of Franz Nicolay, the one member you’d assume was a rock star if you passed the guys on the street. Tad Kubler is taking care of the keyboards in [...]
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Hot Chip: New Music: Hot Chip: "Transmission" (Joy Division cover) [Stream]
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War Child's Heroes charity comp is a covers collection on which veteran bands nominated artists from a younger generation to take a stab at one of their classic cuts (yesterday there was Lily Allen's take on the Clash). There are a few of no-brainers included in the set (see the Hold Steady doing Springsteen's "Atlantic City") but there is somet...
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Counting Crows: Hold Steady / Counting Crows Tour Is Still Happening
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Are the Counting Crows cooler than any of us realized? First the Gaslight Anthem quote Adam Duritz's "wish I looked like Elvis" line on their ridiculously great song "High Lonesome", and then the long-maligned dreaded-up dorm-rockers announced that they'd be bringing the Hold Steady on tour with them in the UK and Ireland.We reported t...
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Counting Crows: and The Hold Steady announce UK and Irish tour
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Counting Crows have announced a tour of the UK and Ireland this May - with support on nine of the 13 dates coming from The Hold Steady.
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Lily Allen: Covers The Clash Song "Paper Planes" Sampled
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Or, in words your parents will understand: Lily Allen did a cover of the Clash's "Straight To Hell" with the original's co-writer Mick Jones, no less. Originally released in 1982 as the third single from Combat Rock, "Straight To Hell" returned to the spotlight last year after its familiar opening riff was sampled on M.I.A.'s ubiquitous "Paper P...
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Sonic Youth: Twitter About Their Recording Process
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While I was at last weekend's Jemina Pearl show in Brooklyn, some enthusiastic stoner randomly tapped me on the shoulder. "Dude," he said, "I think that's Kim Gordon over there-- she's so hot!" Indeed, it was Kim Gordon. And yes, she looks great. (Thurston Moore, who also looks pretty incredible, was also at the gig.) These two do not grow old, ...
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