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Soft Power Amps It Up for Upcoming Brooklyn Show
By Bene Riobó (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia CommonsSinger/guitarist Mary Timony is currently in her latest band Ex Hex. Here’s an interview...
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Queen Bio Sheds New Light on Freddie Mercury’s Rise to Fame and Tragic Death
(Hollywood Records) Originally published in Spinner, May 12, 2011 by David Chiu 2011 looks to be a very busy year for Queen and there is a special reason behind it: the group is celebrating its 40th...
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Liz Phair Continues To Do Things Her Way
(amazon.com) Originally published in AOL City’s Best, late 2010 Anyone who has followed Liz Phair in the last seven years has seen her career shift from an indie alternative rocker to a mainstream pop...
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Lizzy Mercier Descloux
(Photo by Seth Tillett) Lizzy Mercier Descloux: An Uncompromising French Bohemian Finally Gets Her Due by David Chiu If you caught Patti Smith during her tour last year that marked the 40th...
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Columbo the Crooner: Guitarist-author Lenny Kaye delves into a decades-old...
Originally published in LA Alternative Press in 2005 Lenny Kaye (publicity photo for ‘You Call It Madness’) by David Chiu I’m not that past-oriented,” begins Patti Smith guitarist/music journalist...
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Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick (Big Hassle) Originally published in The Jersey Journal: Pulling Out All the Trick(s): Legendary Rockers to Shake it Up at Liberty Park with ‘Power Pop‘ June 23, 2006 by David Chiu When...
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New Zealand Band the Shifting Sands Make Their East Coast Debut
The Shifting Sands If you happen to be on the East Coast for the rest of this month, it may be to your advantage to check out the Shifting Sands. No, it’s not the title of a foreign movie that takes...
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The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder Recalls Her Mother’s Terminal Illness...
A still from “A Matter of Time” (amatteroftimedoc.com) by David Chiu (Originally published in Medium) “She would be walking, and then she would trip for no reason,” Kathryn Calder, the keyboardist and...
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Suzanne Vega Talks About ‘99.9F°’ Turning 25 and Her New Carson McCullers Play
Suzanne Vega (George Holz) First published in The Huffington Post by David Chiu When Suzanne Vega released her fourth album, 99.9F°, back in 1992, it was generally perceived as the...
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Always Something There to Remind Us: An Interview with Pete Byrne of Naked Eyes
Pete Byrne of Naked Eyes (by Scott Roeben via Wikimedia Commons) Originally published in 2002. by David Chiu It seems like not a day goes by without hearing the familiar tune of “Always Something There...
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