and make it a good one
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.
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Cookin' in Mobile Robert Cray has always posed an interesting dichotomy in the blues world. On the one hand, he's capable of fiery guitar solos and can hold his own onstage with Buddy Guy or Eric Clapton. His concerts feature plenty of transcendent moments when he and his instrument appear to be in perfect sync. On the other, he can be a bit frustrating for guitar aficionados, seeming to settle ...
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Sounds: Robert Cray's 'Cookin'' leaves listener hungry
Our critics give you the lowdown on some local notable discs. Acoustic guitar virtuoso Darrin Kobetich has traveled quite a few miles both figuratively and literally since he first mixed folk and bluegrass with his metal back in the early aughts as a member of Amillion Pounds.
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Killer or Filler?
It's not every day that someone can rock on an electric guitar, dress like a chicken and dig for fossils hidden in chocolate chip cookies.
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Pro-Youth HEART staff members get hands-on training at La Joya Middle School in Visalia
Neil Young has never been one to stay on the beaten path. He's an iconoclast who follows nobody.
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Old, new songs forever Young
Former Chattanooga Times publisher Paul Neely visited me in 1994 and asked me to write this column. I said, I will try it for six months. If I like it and you like me, I will continue.
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A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence is joining the exhibit, America I AM: The African American Imprint, on Saturday at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inception" won a battle of superstar action thrillers over Angelina Jolie's "Salt" at the weekend box office.
Despite the long white dress of the bride and pale shirt and pants of the groom, the couple renewing their wedding vows on a beautiful sunny afternoon on the Hawaiian island of Kauai wore casual flip-flops on their feet.
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Vows renewal a resort staple
Hordes of police cruisers circled the Hollywood Palladium on Friday as Rage Against the Machine played its first hometown show in a decade to protest Arizona's new immigration law.
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Rage Against Machine energize fans at protest gig