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Common Promises 'Raw Hip-Hop' On Believer Album
mtv.com –
2009-10-13
After venturing left with a more dance-oriented sound for Universal Mind Control, Common is returning to his raw rap roots for his next album, The Believer. ... Full Article
Fiction review: 'A Gate at the Stairs'
oregonlive.com –
2009-09-03
Lorrie Moore has made a career of writing stories and novels that are mordant and wry, sardonic and cool. Her darkly comic tone often belies the grave morality at the tender heart of her fiction. ... Full Article
The last Radiohead songs ever?
eyeweekly.com –
2009-08-13
Prepare yourselves for a Twitter update: Radiohead have two new songs that might be their last - and no, they're not on the Twilight soundtrack. ... Full Article
London, Aug 11 : British alternative rock band Radiohead may never make another album, the band's lead singer Thom Yorke has said. "None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again...not straight off. ... Full Article
Yorke: Another album would kill us
msn.com –
2009-08-10
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said the band may not make another album, as they could not bear to go through the "creative hoo-ha" again. ... Full Article
In these turbulent times, in this foul year of our Lord 2009, Rhett Miller is dealing with the lousy economy and the death of his idol the only way he knows how: by writing songs. ... Full Article
Russia 88
variety.com –
2009-02-25
Shot entirely on a handheld rig, the pic purports to rep footage lensed by a mostly offscreen character, Abraham (Mikhail Polyakov), a half-Jewish teen who's joined a Muscovite neo-Nazi gang (shades of "The Believer") led by childhood friend Blade (Petr... ... Full Article
"I was lying in a burned-out basement with the full moon in my eyes," Neil Young sang in this same arena, almost exactly 30 years ago to the day, as his old Malibu home was burning to the ground just... ... Full Article
Oscar Villalon , NPR Biography
npr.org –
2008-07-08
Oscar Villalon is book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. A member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, he's also a long-time juror of the California Book Awards, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. ... Full Article
Chrome Dreams II (2007)
ew.com –
2007-10-11
Danny Clinch Neil Young has come up with some nutty album concepts over the years. (Remember when he sang most of 1982's electronic Trans through a vocoder?) ... Full Article