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Before punk and new wave erupted in New York City in the late '70s, female pop singers were like carefully crafted charms dangled from a bracelet; they were chanteuses whose sexuality was packaged as the ultimate pop commodity. When the tokenism of '60s rock finally gave way to the rebel yell of late '70s and early '80s punk, female singers pushed a brazen, me-first attitude...
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Let's get this out of the way, up front -- She Wants Revenge is not the second coming of Ian Curtis, the band is nothing like Interpol, and the titular "She" is not based on an actual person who Wants Revenge on Justin Warfield and Adam Bravin. Is this really everything music journalists could possibly dig up about a band that keeps no secrets? I...
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Cary Brothers may not be a household name just yet, but hes well on his way. He first hit the spotlight when his song Blue Eyes appeared in the smash indie film Garden State. Currently touring in promotion of his debut album, Who You Are, Brothers has long been a staple of the Los Angeles based singer/songwriter community. His tunes waver between beautiful love songs...
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One of the biggest hits at this year's Toronto fest, "Lars and the Real Girl" is a love story played razor-straight, between a 27-year-old shut-in and the "anatomically correct" life-sized doll he buys off the Internet. As played by Ryan Gosling, Lars is an emotional non-entity, living in a small house next door to his brother and sister-in-law and communicating with no one else except...
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For Ville Valo, life as a musician is very surreal, or very "Dali-esque" as he might say, and he's not referring to the painter's infamous mustache. In some ways Valo is still waiting for the day when he wakes up and finds out it's all been a giant LSD experiment in the Finnish military, where institutional illusions of grandeur and dreamlike oddities smash artistic ambition...
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In the year leading up to Kurt Cobain's death, the Nirvana frontman sat down with writer Michael Azerrad and told him the story of his life. From December 1992 to March 1993, the two conversed into the early morning hours in the kitchen of Cobain's Lake Washington home, recording over 25 hours of audio tape laden with stories that spanned from Cobain's childhood in Aberdeen,...
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Originally from Long Island, New York, Dave Attonito has been tattooing since 1993. He is the owner of Good Clean Fun Tattoo Studio, with locations in Snellville and Stockbridge, Georgia. Prior to tattooing, Dave worked in advertising and as a freelance illustrator. He holds a BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Before opening Good Clean Fun, Dave worked at...
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Interviewing Tony Kaye by phone can make you sweat, if you're not prepared for what to expect. The famously eccentric director has a noticeable stammer. Earlier in life, it was so crippling that he would pass himself off as a non-English speaker in certain situations to avoid talking, and during an interview he will wrestle to get certain words out and occasionally stop speaking completely...
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Queens of the Stone Age frontman and the most rockin' man in showbiz, Josh Homme, had an early morning call with me after a late night of partying to talk about life on the road, midgets, and his new naughty video for the single 3s and 7s that premiered on SuicideGirls,

Try to keep up with our stream of consciousness while streaming QOTSA's new album,...
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