Less filthy but still furious - The Age


The Age
Less filthy but still furious
The Age
''I'm not a sell-out,'' growls Glen Matlock, founding member of the stroppiest and most influential punk band of them all, the Sex Pistols. ''I've stuck to my guns, all my life.'' That's not how it looked last week, when news broke that Matlock was ...

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Less filthy but still furious - Sydney Morning Herald


Sydney Morning Herald
Less filthy but still furious
Sydney Morning Herald
''I'm not a sell-out,'' growls Glen Matlock, founding member of the stroppiest and most influential punk band of them all, the Sex Pistols. ''I've stuck to my guns, all my life.'' That's not how it looked last week, when news broke that Matlock was ...

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REBEL Gears Up for Release of Their New EP Locations at Green Room - Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)


Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)
REBEL Gears Up for Release of Their New EP Locations at Green Room
Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)
Locations, the boys tell us, moves the band in a different direction, it "tells a lot about our mature new sound." Influenced by bands like Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, The Strokes, and Tears For Fears, REBEL is a mix of hardcore '80s, experimental, ...

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Catching Up With Lower Dens - Paste Magazine

Catching Up With Lower Dens
Paste Magazine
Hunter: “Brains” is a song about the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, this fascination that we have with them and also the kind of deep, primal fear that we have of machines taking over all of us. Musically, it was a definitely ...

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J. Tillman on Becoming Father John Misty: "My Music Was a Bigger Deal to Me ... - SF Weekly (blog)


SF Weekly (blog)
J. Tillman on Becoming Father John Misty: "My Music Was a Bigger Deal to Me ...
SF Weekly (blog)
I just sucked at being in a band. On a scale of overwhelming sense of freedom to paralyzing fear, how do you feel about striking out on your own? I've always been on my own. It's not a big change of pace for me at all. There's a thread of continuity ...

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Claps and chaos on Tuesday with Delta Spirit - The Sacramento Press

Claps and chaos on Tuesday with Delta Spirit
The Sacramento Press
Folks were out all about town basking in one of our first legit summer evenings, but it didn't seem like anyone was paying mind to the frenzy of rock and roll that was about to fire up inside AOS, prompting fears that Delta Spirit would be playing to a ...

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Mitt Romney's Dove Trap - New York Magazine


New York Magazine
Mitt Romney's Dove Trap
New York Magazine
And the reason Democrats, and many members of the media, expressed indignation over Bush's use of 9/11 was that he employed primal fear in the place of any policy argument. Here is one famous ad, “Wolves,” that Bush used against Kerry in 2004.

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Can's Irmin Schmidt Sheds Light on his Band's Intensity and Turmoil - RollingStone.com


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Can's Irmin Schmidt Sheds Light on his Band's Intensity and Turmoil
RollingStone.com
But the spirit of his music with Can – one of Krautrock's key groups and an influence on pioneering bands from the Sex Pistols to Radiohead – remains eternally young. While relaxing with a pot of tea on the back patio of his San Francisco hosts, ...

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12 of the best college movies and what we learned from them - Guyism


Guyism
12 of the best college movies and what we learned from them
Guyism
The Plot: A retarded dude channels years of abuse into primal rage, which he then uses to propel a backwards-ass hick school into college football glory. Also, he has an odd relationship with his mother. Oh, and he hates haughty professors.

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The 50 Best festivals - The Independent

The 50 Best festivals
The Independent
Details: 5-27 May, from £7.50 (brightonfestival.org) The Great Escape Scattered across more than 30 of Brighton's venues, Great Escape is like the south coast's SXSW – brimming with music industry folk, it features over 300 new bands alongside ...

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