HELIUM LEADER CRAFTS ‘RADIO-FRIENDLY’ RECORD WITH EX HEX
By Nick McGaw A common complaint leveled at left-field bands is that they never just settle down and write a great album. Experimentation is fine for courting critical acclaim and probably for stay...
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‘DRACULA UNTOLD’ SHOULD REMAIN UNWATCHED
By Greg Popil In the world of cinema, there are characters whose stories have been told, and there are well-mined characters, and then there is Count Dracula. As the Guinness Book of World Records-...
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HIGHWAY 81 REVISITED PRESENTS: MUSIC AND THE MEDIA PANEL DISCUSSION (PHOTOS)
Photos by Ken Jones Photographer Ken Jones captured some images of Highway 81 Revisited Presents: Music and the Media, a panel discussion held last Sunday at The V-Spot in Scranton as part of the E...
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MY BACK PAGES: PINK FLOYD
By Eric Gould When I was in my early teens, my music collection was filled with a mix of old school hip hop, Michael Jackson and late-’80s hair bands like Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Tesla and Poison...
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FINCHER WEAVES ‘GONE GIRL’ INTO A PULP MASTERPIECE
By Greg Popil A man, and a woman. A picturesque Missouri house, ripped from the pages of Better Homes and Gardens magazines. A marriage that seems like it should be the envy of the entire town. The...
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NEIL YOUNG TO RELEASE ‘STORYTONE’ IN NOVEMBER
Neil Young has announced that he will release his new studio album, "Storytone," on Nov. 9. The album was recorded live in the studio with a 92-piece orchestra. According to a press release: "He...
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‘BOXTROLLS’ IS A DARK, TWISTED DELIGHT
By Greg Popil If the modern-day animated studios were students in a high school, Disney animation would be the established, universally respected class president, and its cousin Pixar the driven, i...
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WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL: NEW ALBUM, VIDEO and PERFORMANCE AT THE BOG
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal -- the current musical project of Adam McIlwee, formerly of Tigers Jaw -- last week released a new album, "Passionate Yet," as well as video for the "Passionate Yet" track ...
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PRINCE’S 3RDEYEGIRL HITS AND MISSES ON DEBUT
By Emily Votaw Playing as Prince’s backing band is no small task. Over the past couple of years, 3rdeyegirl has served as Prince’s three-lady backing ensemble with an apparently encyclopedic knowle...
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PRINCE’S ZANY and CAPTIVATING RETURN WITH ‘ART OFFICIAL AGE’
Emily Votaw “Art Official Age” is the 33rd album that Prince (Rogers Nelson, of course) has released over the course of his almost four-decade-long recording career – but who’s counting? The record...
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