Thursday, July 29th, 2010
On its grainy, black-and-white surface, "The Blank Generation" (FOUR STARS out of four stars) is 50 minutes of silent, home movie-style images recorded on 16mm at the legendary New York punk club CBGB in the mid-1970s. Raw live recordings back the footage, and there's no effort to get the lips in sync.
More here: Michigan Theater screens remastered 'Blank Generation'
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerSinger-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, who is famous in Australia but little known here, performs Wednesday night at Le Poisson Rouge in New York. NEW YORK Even pop-savvy Americans dont know much about her. They ought to get wise....
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Kate Miller-Heidke is a fresh new voice from Down Under
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
NEW YORK -- If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Justin Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity - aka Stratford, Ontario - directly into the maw of the American music machine.
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Bieber doing it like a 'one-man Beatles'
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Marisa Miller finally makes her 'Guitar Hero'' debut.
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Grammy-winning artists Yes and Peter Frampton will play a double bill on June 11 at Beau Rivage in Biloxi.
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Yes and Peter Frampton coming to Biloxi
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Season nine has come down to this wonderful, homespun fairy tale of a finale: The Paint Salesman vs. The Single Mom. Two regular folks who like to sing in the shower and such and probably auditioned on a whim. The shy guy who already has released...
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The Watcher: 'Paint salesman' beats 'single mom'
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
In the mid-1970s, when it was easier to find a copy of "Raw Power" in record shop cut-out bins than on anyone's shelf, the idea of enshrining the Stooges' third album would have seemed nuts.
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'Raw Power' gets royal treatment Playlist
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Reviewer James Croot checks out the best shows and films on New Zealand television screens for the week of Tuesday, April 27 to Monday, May 3.
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A week on the box: April 27 - May 3
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Growing up in Buckhead, Kaki King took an interest in music at a young age, first as a guitarist, then as a drummer.
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Atlanta native Kaki King brings her guitar talents back home
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Faded riot grrrl Courtney Love is back at the helm of her band, Hole. Nobodys Daughter Hole (Mercury) Let us try to forget what a garishly drug-stupid, dysfunctional mother Courtney Love has been, how Kurt Cobain has surely spun in...
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