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New Robert Plant Solo LP 0
- Music, Music Review, Review
- July 3, 2014
Led Zep legend brings in members of Massive Attack, Portishead Robert Plant has undergone an incredible career renaissance ever since his 2007 LP with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, sold millions of copies and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. With his new solo LP, the Led Zeppelin singer certainly sounds energised, bringing in an
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Twilight of the Nerd Frontier 0
- Movies, Review
- July 2, 2014
Why the geeks of ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ are the new American bros Tech-geek nostalgia seems to be in the air, from the circa-1983 engineers of AMC’s excellent Halt and Catch Fire to the circa-2014 app hustlers of Mike Judge’s breakout HBO comedy hit Silicon Valley. They’re totally different on many levels: Silicon is a
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John Oliver Steps Up 0
- Movies and TV, Music TV Review, Review
- July 1, 2014
The comedian’s brilliant new show lets his rants go deeper and hit much harder Any man who can make Right Said Fred politically resonant is clearly doing something right. And John Oliver is such a man. He certainly dreamed up a novel way to trash Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on his HBO show, Last Week Tonight With
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Original Voices 0
- Music, Review
- June 30, 2014
Cat Power, Willy Mason and Sarah Blasko perform in Cape Town. The upcoming Rolling Stone Original Voices festival in Cape Town gives Mother City music lovers the chance to experience Cat Power, Willy Mason and Sarah Blasko before the trio head inland to play Oppikoppi. Presented by Hilltop Live and taking place at the (warmer,
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Jack White 0
- Albums Reviews, Music, Review
- June 25, 2014
Jack White makes heavy, turbulent modern-blues records the same way he pursues his other passion, furniture restoration: with a decisive attention to contour, colour scheme and cagey, durable detail. “Three Women,” the opening rumble on Lazaretto, is based (with a co-writing credit) on Blind Willie McTell’s 1928 recording “Three Women Blues.” But White’s spin on McTell’s
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Bob Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ Lyrics Sell for $2 Million 0
- Music, Music Review, Review
- June 25, 2014
Four-sheet draft includes scratched-out ideas, rhymes and doodles A draft of Bob Dylan’s lyrics for his groundbreaking 1965 song “Like a Rolling Stone” sold for $2.045 million at auction Tuesday afternoon. 10 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs: Bono on “Like a Rolling Stone” The lyrics were sold to an unidentified bidder at auction house Sotheby’s, who called the
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