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The New Music Minute: Will Your Life Suck Without the New Kelly Clarkson Song?
Now that American Idol is back, you’re gonna see a lot of Idol-related artists and things poking their heads out to create some kind of synergy with the show, and lo and behold, Kelly Clarkson is back. Last we heard from Kelly, she and label head Clive Davis were at loggerheads over the direction of Kelly’s career. He found Kelly’s album My December (which really wasn’t bad) uncommercial, while Kelly was insulted by the fact […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #20: His & Hers Electric Chairs
THE M-80’SÂ “You’ve Been Told” b/w “What I’m After” (Get Hip Records #GH-118, 1989)
In their incendiary original (but very short-lived) lineup, Virginia garage-rock denizens The M-80’s will live forever in my Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Like The Ramones and AC/DC before them, this band was made up of a handful of suburban misfits and ne’er-do-wells, the kind you don’t bring home to mother, the kind who would’ve never lasted in a pedestrian covers-type bar band. Not merely a bunch of wannabes who formed […]