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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:34:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ BY ROXANA HADADI / PHOTOS BY ADAM FRIED
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Think only women can be lushes? Then you've probably never seen Gogol
Bordello frontman Eugene H&uuml;tz.
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The man was in fine form - drunkenly and musically - Jan. 2
at the 9:30 Club, swigging one bottle of wine before the show, when he came
outside to check out the sold-out line curling around the side of the venue,
and chugging another during his group's nearly two-hour set in front of said
crowd. Didn't want to get splashed by the ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
BY JUD COST
  Looking as mean and trim as they ever did, X was the perfect bicarbonate of
soda for all that rich and greasy holiday food-not to mention a palliative for
last week's hellacious assault on the senses of unsuspecting fans by Mercury
Rev at San Fran's Independent club: a barrage of nonstop, industrial-strength
strobe lights coming at you from all angles in all colors and unpredictable
oscillations.
  X, on the other hand, stuck to their music in front of a packed ho ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
BY APRIL S. ENGRAM
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A sizzling series of pics from the recent M For Montreal
Festival, held Nov. 22-24 in Montreal.
To read our recap of the event, go HERE.
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All photos by April S. Engram except color image of Lioness,
which is by Sophie Samson.
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
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BY ANDY TENNILLE AND ALLIE GOOLRICK
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Looking back at
selected visual highlights from Christmas Jam past, we can only dream of what
Christmas Jam future will be like. Elsewhere on the BLURT site you can read
about the annual Haynes Jam - go HERE to read our interview with Haynes about
the event, and should you require a dose of his band Gov't Mule, go HERE. And
watch this space for our reviews of Christmas Jam present; soon as our ears
quit ringin' and our kidney' ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
BY JUD COST
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Every so often there comes a time when you've
had it up to here with clever melodies and breathtaking harmonies. A time when
only the mind-numbing guitars, caveman rhythms and searing vocals of Mudhoney
will do. When you get the chance to witness this pivotal Seattle band (they
ignited the grunge forest fire 20 years ago that made international heroes
of&nbsp; Nirvana and Pearl Jam and were the
outfit that put Sub Pop Records on the map) in the intimate sett ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
BY WYNDHAM LEWIS
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Mercury Rev was always well known for its drama.&nbsp; Having formed in film school, experienced
multiple personnel changes, released several great genre-stultifying records and
weathered many of rock's most enduring clich&eacute;s (drugs, artistic differences,
etc...) the band has always packed an arena's worth of drama into a cult sized
band.
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Their less well publicized trick is that - over the course
of the band's two decades of perfor ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
BY
JOSE MARTINEZ
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Award
shows usually make their official announcements at some God awful time early in
the morning (if you're on the West Coast anyway) where bleary-eyed journalists
go to some sterile hotel banquet room half awake and slowly come to life on
free coffee and pastries. This year the GRAMMYs opted to announce the nominees
for the 51st annual GRAMMY Awards, to be held Sunday, February 8 at
Staples Center in Los Angeles, on a weeknight during a live- ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY LEE ZIMMERMAN
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It's a sad fact, but inevitably all too true. Any concert by
Ray Davies, erstwhile leader of the Kinks and perhaps one of the greatest pop
composers of the 20th century, is bound to disappoint. Why? Because
for every classic he offers in live performance, and no matter how ample his
set, ultimately there will be several that he's forced to omit, much to the
chagrin of diehard devotees who have followed his prodigious career over the
course of so ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY MATTHEW RECCHIA
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Rumors follow bands like a dog chases its tail: It can
happen anytime, anywhere, and last for days if no one stops it.
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Days before their last southeastern concerts till next year,
an interview posted online with Sunny Ortiz, the mastermind behind the sounds
of chimes, djembes, and cowbells from the left side of the stage, made light of
the rumors of a year-long hiatus, making sure fans knew that the band was ready
and excited for next year. Wh ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY JIM ALLEN
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For some time now, one might have been forgiven for assuming
that roots-rock of the kind practiced in the &lsquo;80s by the Blasters and their
contemporaries was largely a thing of the past. While survivors like the
aforementioned Downey, CA cats still rock it out last-man-standing-style years
after the likes of the Beat Farmers and Jason &amp; the Scorchers went the way
of the Wooly Mammoth, in recent times it has seldom seemed like many new
flamek ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ BY STEVEN ROSEN
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A bit more than halfway through Todd Snider's sold-out show
here in Covington, just across the Ohio River
from Cincinnati,
it occurred to this writer that he had learned the lessons of the older Bob
Dylan - the Dylan of the 1990s and this decade - better than just about any
younger touring musician out there.
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His band, comprising members of Leftover Salmon and Yonder
Mountain String Band, while primarily (amped-up) acoustic, had played "hot ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY JOHN SCHACHT
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Quietly slipping in out of towns across America this year has been arguably one of the
best double-bills you didn't even know you missed - South San Gabriel and
Centro-matic, the two sonically schizophrenic facets of Denton, Texas'
prolific songwriter Will Johnson and friends.
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Chugging into Chapel Hill's cozy Local 506 venue with both
outfits in tow for the first time, Johnson and company delivered to a small but
soon-slackjawed crowd two ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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By ZACHARY HERRMANN
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Playing Rams Head Live in Baltimore is a thankless job in itself. The
venue calls to mind a refurbished factory space built to best maximize the bar
set up (they have five of them) rather than good acoustics. It's not a rock
club so much as a rock space.
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With all this in mind, it was surprising to hear Portland, Ore.'s
Blitzen Trapper (I'll be damned if the name doesn't call to mind a Nazi hunting
party) come out so strong at  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY MATTHEW RECCHIA
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The second annual Bear Creek Music Festival at the Spirit of
Suwanee Music Park brought out the tie-dyes, hemp necklaces, and bongos for one
more party to close out the 2008 music festival season. Paul Levine and Lyle
Williams, the main coordinators for this fantastic music community-building
platform, put together an amazing lineup featuring old-school and new-age
funksters alike, with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Yonder Mountain Strin ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY LEE
ZIMMERMAN
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Joe
Jackson has always occupied an upper strata in the world of rock, an artist
who's daringly dabbled in a variety of seemingly disparate genres and pulled
each off with convincing aplomb. He took flight in the New Wave world of the
late &lsquo;70s, one of a seemingly endless succession of angry young men -- a
fraternity whose roster also included the likes of Elvis Costello, Graham
Parker and Paul Weller of the Jam -- and while his early ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY MANDY RODGERS
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All in the same week, Butch Walker is celebrating a record
release, a birthday and performing in his home town of Atlanta. Much of his new album, Sycamore Meadows, revolves around the
past couple of years of his life and the theme of "coming home" to Atlanta. After a standout
show earlier this year, Walker
had a lot to live up to coming into this tour.
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In July, he cancelled much of his previously scheduled
concerts but still traveled to  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY APRIL S.
ENGRAM
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It took two
hours of driving through winding, rural roads to arrive at Cornell University.
White deer, Clydesdales, a horse and buggy and corn fields were a common sight;
who would've known that nestled in the middle of this country exterior rested Cornell
and its bustling village (plus a rockin' concert...). NYC's Walkmen enticed me to
take this drive, and it was not till later that I learned that the lead act was
The Decemberists... Christm ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY ROXANA HADADI
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Let it be known: Baltimore
hipster bands spoil shows.
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Case in point: While singer-songwriter William Elliott
Whitmore and band Murder By Death gave pretty much flawless performances at the
Ottobar in Baltimore Nov. 8, the band in between their respective sets -
J-Roddy Walston and the Business - ruined any chances of a perfect night,
instead interjecting nearly an hour of self-described "Southern weirdo rock"
that not only seemed wholly ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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BY LAVINIA JONES
WRIGHT
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So far it's been a triumphant return for badass texas
rockers Toadies. Since the recent release of "No Deliverance," the
long-awaited follow-up to 2001's "Hell Below/Stars Above," the band
has been reconnecting with fans who have waited years to hear their fiery tunes
live again.
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And as far as the crowds at their shows are concerned, the
new material is not "time to get another beer" or "can I sneak
to the bath ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
BY ROXANA HADADI
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Also on the bill: Kaki
King, Adam Ezra: Going into a Mountain Goats show with any expectations of
what to hear is like asking someone to thumb through hundreds of songs - from a
variety of different albums, rare releases, B-sides, whatever - and pick just
about 20 to play. As in literally, totally, exactly like that.
&nbsp;
So hearing John Darnielle and comrade Peter Hughes perform a
variety of tracks from both latest album Heretic
Pride and n ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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